Jump to content
Email System Update

Ratings from the 80's

Paul Raven

By Paul Raven
in DTS: Cancelled Soaps

 Share

Recommended Posts

VanessaReardon Newbie

VanessaReardon

Posted
Posted

Week ending 3/27/1987.

B&B’s premiere week. ATWT moved back half an hour to 2 pm to compete head to head with OLTL and AW. OLTL had Viki going to heaven for 2 weeks and bringing back many former actors. ATWT’s big shocker was marrying John and Lucinda. AW had Crystal Gayle as a guest star. 
 

GH 8.3

Y&R 7.6

OLTL 7.2

DOOL 6.9

AMC 6.5

ATWT 6.4

B&B 5.6

GL 5.5

AW 5.1

SB 4.1

LOV 3.5

RH 2.3

 

4/3/1987

Y&R 8.1

GH 8.0

OLTL 7.6

DOOL 7

ATWT 6.8

AMC 6.7

GL 6

B&B 5.6

AW 5

SB 4.4

LOV 3.9

RH 2.9

 

4/10/1987

GH 7.9

OLTL 7.4

Y&R 7.1

ATWT 6.6

AMC 6.5

DOOL 6.4

GL 6

B&B 5.4

AW 4.7

SB 4.2

LOV 3.3

RH 2.4

 

4/17/1987

Y&R 7.6

GH 7.3

DOOL and OLTL 7.1

AMC 6.8

ATWT 6.6

GL 5.9

B&B 5.6

AW 4.8

SB 4.4

LOV 3.6

RH 2.5

 

4/24/1987

GH 7.7

Y&R 7.4

OLTL 7.3

AMC 6.9

DOOL 6.7

ATWT 6.6

GL 5.5

B&B 5.3

AW 5

SB 4.7

LOV 3.7

RH 2.6

 

 

0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 2.2k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Posted Images

VanessaReardon Newbie

VanessaReardon

Posted
Posted (edited)

5/1/1987

GH 7.4

OLTL 7.3

Y&R 7.1

AMC 7

ATWT 6.2

DOOL 6.1

B&B and GL 5.3

AW 4.3

SB 4

LOV 3.6

RH 2.3

 

5/8/1987

GH 7.4

Y&R 7

OLTL 6.9

AMC 6.5

ATWT 6.3

DOOL 6.1

B&B 5.6

GL 5.3

AW 4.7

SB 4.1

LOV 3.2

RH 2.3

 

5/15/1987

GH 7.4

Y&R and OLTL 7.2

AMC 6.6

ATWT and DOOL 6.2

B&B 5.4

GL 5.2

AW 4.5

SB 3.8

LOV 3.5

RH 2.3

 

5/22/1987

GH 7.4

OLTL 7

Y&R and AMC 6.8

DOOL 6.2

ATWT 6

GL 5.5

B&B 5.3

AW 4.7

SB 4.2
LOV 3.6

RH 2.5

 

5/29/1987

AMC and GH 7.7

Y&R 7.6

OLTL 7.3

DOOL 6.4

ATWT 5.8

GL 5.4

AW 5.1

B&B 5

SB 4.4

LOV 4.2

RH 2.8

 

6/5/1987

GH 7.6

Y&R 7.4

OLTL 7

AMC 6.7

ATWT and DOOL 6.2

GL 6

B&B 5.1

AW 4.7

SB 4.1

LOV 3.6

RH 2,6

 

6/12/1987

Y&R 8

GH 7.5

AMC 7.1

OLTL and ATWT 6.9 

DOOL 6.7

GL 6

B&B 5.7

AW 5

SB 4

LOV 3.7

RH 2.7

 

6/19/1987

Y&R 8.3

GH 7.3

DOOL 7.1

AMC 7

ATWT and OLTL 6.9

GL 6.3

B&B 5.8

AW 5.1

SB 4.1

LOV3.6

RH 3

 

6/26/1987

Y&R 8.2

GH 7.4

ATWT, OLTL, AMC 7.2

DOOL 6.9

GL 6.2

B&B 5.9

AW 4.7

SB 4.3

LOV 4

RH 2.9

 

7/3/1987

Y&R 8.1

ATWT 7.2

GH 7.0

AMC and OLTL 6.8

DOOL 6.6

GL 6.2

B&B 5.8

AW 4.3

LOV and SB 3.8

RH 2.6

 

 

Edited by VanessaReardon
0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
VanessaReardon Newbie

VanessaReardon

Posted
Posted

We interrupt our regularly scheduled ratings because of the Iran- Conta hearings. Ironic that we are going through the exact same thing now with our soaps being interrupted. 
 

The week of 7/6 to 7/10/1987 has to be taken with a grain of salt because Y&R aired only on Monday that week and there were massive pre emptions. AMC, DOOL,LOV and RH had the least pre-emptions.

 

Y&R 9.2/34 (only aired on Monday)

GH 7.6

OLTL and ATWT 7.1

B&B 6.3

AMC 6.2

DOOL 5.8

GL 5.6

AW 4.7

LOV 4

SB 3.8

RH 3.1

 

7/17/1987

still massive pre emptions

GH 6.4

ATWT and OLTL and AMC 6.3

DOOL 6.1

Y&R 6 obviously affected by pre emptions

B&B 5.2

GL 5.1

AW 5

SB 4.3

LOV 3.7

RH 2.6

 

7/24/1987

The hearings started rotating between networks

Y&R 7

OLTL 6.9

DOOL and GH 6.8

AMC 6.7

ATWT 6.5

GL 5.4

AW 5.3

B&B 5.2

SB 4.9

LOV 3.6

RH 3.1

 

7/31/1987

Hearings ongoing

Y&R 7.8

ATWT 7.1

AMC 6.7

DOOL 6.5

GL and GH 6.4

OLTL 6

B&B 5.6

AW 5.4

SB 5

LOV 3.6

RH 2.2

 

 

0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
Soapsuds Grand Master

Soapsuds

Posted
  • Members
Posted

ATWT had some great stuff.....Lily finding out Iva was her mother and not Lucinda and that Josh was her father and he had raped Iva. Craig was missing. Margo and Hal slept together creating Adam. Meg and Tonio got married. 

 

I think at this time Gregg Marx had left as Tom and Scott Holmes was about to make his debut as Tom.

 

B&B and GL were stinking up the place in June and most of July. B&B even dropped to 9th and was beaten by AW. 

0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
will81 Mentor

will81

Posted
  • Members
Posted (edited)

Wow May and June 87 are interesting. In May AMC is gaining which I guess wreaked havoc for Y&R, especially with a stronger OLTL. What was happening on AMC to get it to a shared #1 at the end of May only for it drop again in June? Y&R is then suddenly #1 for most of June. The ratings were a lot more interesting back then. 

 

This seems to back up Brenda Dickson's claim that Y&R was #1 when she left

Edited by will81
0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
BetterForgotten Veteran

BetterForgotten

Posted
  • Members
Posted (edited)

I do wonder if ABC ever wondered why or were dumbfounded why AMC wasn't able to succeed GH as the #1 rated soap when the later started to run of of steam in the late 80's. 

 

Looking at these ratings, it seems Y&R's #1 status was becoming inevitable, even if other soaps were sometimes nipping at its heels. They really held up throughout the 80's and cut right through the ABC dominance, to the point where they would topple GH completely by the end of the decade. 

Edited by BetterForgotten
0
Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Members
kalbir Grand Master

kalbir

Posted
  • Members
Posted (edited)

 

 

1987-1989 Y&R was in a bit of a transition. There was the EP change from H. Wesley Kenney to Ed Scott, and three major cast departures (Brenda Dickson, Eileen Davidson, Terry Lester). While all this was happening off screen, Cricket was eating the show onscreen. Yet Y&R still managed to reach #1 and stay there until today. 

 

Having The Price is Right as it's lead in probably played a big part in Y&R's rise to and staying at #1. Bob Barker once said about TPiR being the lead-in for Y&R that "without us Young and Restless would be Old and Lethargic".

Edited by kalbir
0
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.


  • Recent Posts

    • Taoboi
      BTG: History, Behind the Scenes Articles & Photos

      By Taoboi · Posted

      Hope springs. Fingers crossed.  
    • prefab1
      GH: May 2025 Discussion Thread

      By prefab1 · Posted

      I know some of y'all really like Brooke Kerr, and so I've tried to give her a shot, despite her frequent flat line readings and distracted "did I leave the front door unlocked?" facial expressions. But lord, she is so bad at playing a tough-talking badass that I was actually rooting for Brad today to spill the beans to Drew. 
    • Broderick
      Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)

      By Broderick · Posted

      Googling does tend to ruin it.  For those of us who were teens in the late 1970s and early 1980s, you can't imagine how much fun it was to watch the show in the afternoons.  (It came on right after school.)  There weren't any "spoilers" at the time.  We would always try to anticipate how each crime and each mystery would be resolved, and we were ALWAYS wrong, because the stories are filled with so many weird twists and turns.   The head writer (Henry Slesar) and his dialogue writer (Steve Lehrman) invariably toss genuine clues directly into your face in the most unlikely ways, but then they provide a host of "red herrings" to completely confuse you and send you off on the wrong path.  Once the story reaches its conclusion, all you can think is Why didn't I figure that out weeks ago?  lol
    • fivethej
      Y&R: Old Articles

      By fivethej · Posted

      Does the vault have the original scene and not the short flashback?
    • Paul Raven
      All My Children Tribute Thread

      By Paul Raven · Posted

      I appreciate that you are using AI with the knowledge of it's limitations. Some posters take everything it produces as fact.
    • Paul Raven
      ALL: Drag/Crossdressing Disguises in Soap Operas?

      By Paul Raven · Posted

      And of course Mama Ru herself appeared on All My Children.
    • Paul Raven
      The Golden Girls 30 years later

      By Paul Raven · Posted

      The Saturday 8pm slot usually had the lowest rating of the NBC 4 sitcom lineup for some reason. NBC let Saturday night fizzle, They used 9.30 pm to launch 227 and Amen, both of which moved to earlier in the evening but they  kept Empty Nest following GG for several seasons.  Empty Nest should have moved to 8pm with their strongest new sitcom at 9.30, anticipating that GG would eventually falter. Instead they left them there and stretching the sitcom pool too thinly on other nights. When Grand talk over at 9.30 Thurs maybe Night Court and Wings could have been used on Saturday.
    • DRW50
      Another World Discussion Thread

      By DRW50 · Posted

      @Maxim Great to see your mini-reviews again. There are a number of clips on Youtube of Janice's slow mental breakdown, especially as we go into January 1980. Christine Jones is just superb. She played the hell out of that role. Something which isn't referenced as much later on is how Mitch pushed Janice's doubts and mental instability for his own ends...until suddenly he didn't want to anymore (I guess he caught on with the audience and the show became wary). I don't want to post a bunch of clips, but this one has a very good confrontation between Rachel and Janice.

      Please register in order to view this content

      This has a good scene around 7 minutes in where you can see Janice struggling internally with her need to identify herself so much by the men around her, all of which helps lead to her crackup.  
    • Broderick
      Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)

      By Broderick · Posted

      It really made Oscar the Doorman seem like an imbecile.   I think the show's unusual format & subject manner is what makes EON often seem less "dated" and "old-fashioned" than other shows from that time period.  It never attempted to be especially "trendy" or "modern" -- and its film noir style is pretty timeless.  
    • Paul Raven
      Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

      By Paul Raven · Posted

      Dallas, Dynasty, Knots and Falcon Crest all had good runs but by 85 they had seen better days. I think they were a victim of the format. After several seasons seeing the same characters front and center viewers were bored. What was once fascinating grew predictable. JR, Alexis etc had to be front and center and after a while their schemes and shtick grew repetitive. JR remarrying Sue Ellen, Alexis constantly trying to get he better of Blake etc Unlike daytime, there wasn't the flexibility to bring in other stories and characters and maybe let the likes JR go backburner. That same mentality also invaded daytime with characters like  Sonny and Victor still peddling the same stuff after decades. I guess the same could be said for MSW eg every week Jessica encounters a crime and solves it,but I think viewers come to that format with a different mindset.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

  I accept