GET IT, AMC!

Pretty damn good for no publicity on ABC besides for The View special.

For some reason I think OLTL will get between 3-3.5 millions as well. The ONLY disadvantage they have is the fact that once they end they will be right back up. So it's not going to be much of a cliffhanger.

Y&R

AMC

B&B

OLTL

GH

DAYS

Y&R No. 1, AMC No. 2.... how very early-90's

Those were the days I still remember I used to buy a few SODs each year, and around '95 or so I was SHOCKED to see AMC was no longer number two, lol.

All My damn Children! Go 'head, Pine Valley!

Dayum! You go AMC!!!!!

Those were the days I still remember I used to buy a few SODs each year, and around '95 or so I was SHOCKED to see AMC was no longer number two, lol.

A lot of people forget that if we were to average up the yearly ratings of the 90's, AMC would be the #2 rated soap of the decade behind Y&R.

A lot assume it's DAYS, since they had that big surge in the mid 90's.

Dayum! You go AMC!!!!!

Sending pounds and pounds of crow your way, little Miss 2.5

A lot of people forget that if we were to average up the yearly ratings of the 90's, AMC would be the #2 rated soap of the decade behind Y&R.

A lot assume it's DAYS, since they had that big surge in the mid 90's.

AMC had 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and the a close majority of 1995. When did DAYS lose #2 to B&B?

Sending pounds and pounds of crow your way, little Miss 2.5

Ha I can admit when I'm wrong

AMC had 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and the a close majority of 1995. When did DAYS lose #2 to B&B?

Sometime after SSM joined. i dont think it was too much Longer after JER Left. I know by the time Lagan got there Days lost out to B&B

Since my memory is shameful does anyone remember how GL did it's final week? I know the last episode spiked but what about the entire week?

I knew GL was low rated, but I had no idea it was pulling in 1.5s etc before its final week. Wow.

Thanks aMLC, I'm looking at Jason47's archives. You're right, DAYS lost the strong-hold in late 1998. A little over 3 years in the #2 slot in the 1990s.

Random question: Has One Life to Live ever been No. 1 in the ratings, even for just one week? It seems every long-time soap-- except B&B-- has held the No. 1 spot at least once during its lifespan.

Several soap books that are fairly reliable (Schemering's Encyclopedia, etc) said that the week of Karen's testimony (which was in '79) it climbed to number one. (It had climbed to number two for the first time in late '78 according to the same sources during the start of the story that set off the trial). Not bad considering that OLTL started off relatively well, but by the mid 70s kinda settled in the middle/lower range. After that trial for a while it was always in the top 3, till a brief drop around '83 when the show went through that weird, brief, writer merry go round--and under Rauch moved back up to constantly being in the top 3, sometimes above AMC, until the downfall of the Rauch era. Under the often brilliant Malone/Gottlieb era it did well but was always fairly middle ranked (unfairly).

I know somebody was predicting 3 million plus for OLTL...

Toups just passed on to me that AMC was the #1 ABC soap for that week.