1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Okay I have this note:

The 1981 Writer's strike was only 3 months long. From Apr 11 to Jul 12, 1981 & during that time period GH lost 2 mil viewers.

Does anyone have such a note about '88? 

Not sure about lost viewers, but the 1988 writers strike lasted from March 7-August 7, 1988. I'd love to know when the first post-strike material was being written or started airing. Speaking of the '88 strike and GH, it's pretty clear that someone rented Fatal Attraction, because entire plot elements from that movie were repeated for Olivia/Duke/Anna.

9 hours ago, watson71 said:

This is getting ready to air in November and December. Originally AW was to film scenes in Egypt and had to transfer to Arizona quickly after the the Achille Lauro ocean liner hijacking took place in early October when the ship was hijacked off the coast of Egypt by four men from the Palestine Liberation Front.   It was in the news at the time that the safety of the cast and crew did not warrant the trip to Egypt.  It was jarring onscreen that Carl Hutchins buried an Egyptian treasure in the Arizona desert.

I don’t blame them for changing their plans lol 

I wonder if anything else in that storyline was re-written because of that, or was it just the location that changed 

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15 hours ago, Franko said:

Not sure about lost viewers, but the 1988 writers strike lasted from March 7-August 7, 1988. I'd love to know when the first post-strike material was being written or started airing. Speaking of the '88 strike and GH, it's pretty clear that someone rented Fatal Attraction, because entire plot elements from that movie were repeated for Olivia/Duke/Anna.

Santa Barbara was the first show to list their writers after the strike. The writers were listed by the end of August and in the credits, they said Welcome Back!!!! after the writers were listed.

Wild to see Loving so competitive at this stage, coming so close to beat AW, especially knowing how this truly is as good as it's gonna get for them. Were the stories really that strong at the time, or was it just them being buoyed by the uptick of ABCD in general?

1 hour ago, beebs said:

Wild to see Loving so competitive at this stage, coming so close to beat AW, especially knowing how this truly is as good as it's gonna get for them. Were the stories really that strong at the time, or was it just them being buoyed by the uptick of ABCD in general?

Agnes Nixon returned as HW in June 1985 and the stories got stronger for a time. This probably explains the small bounce.

I know what it was always low rated but what year did Santa Barbara get into its groove? Was that closer to 1988 with their claiming the Emmy’s? 

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1 hour ago, soapfave06 said:

I know what it was always low rated but what year did Santa Barbara get into its groove? Was that closer to 1988 with their claiming the Emmy’s? 

They won Best Show 3 consecutive years so we probably have to consider that time a "groove". 

43 minutes ago, soapfave06 said:

I know what it was always low rated but what year did Santa Barbara get into its groove? Was that closer to 1988 with their claiming the Emmy’s? 

Plus in that same era (1988-1990) Santa Barbara had a bit of a run at the SOD Awards. I don't think they ever finished higher than 10th in the annual ratings though.

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

Plus in that same era (1988-1990) Santa Barbara had a bit of a run at the SOD Awards. I don't think they ever finished higher than 10th in the annual ratings though.

Didn't they have trouble with clearances? Nope, they don't seem in trouble that way! 

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12 hours ago, soapfave06 said:

I know what it was always low rated but what year did Santa Barbara get into its groove? Was that closer to 1988 with their claiming the Emmy’s? 

I remember reading in an article at the time that someone from the show said that the ratings were on a roll until they killed off Mary Duvall (Harley Jane Kozak) and then they never recovered. Creatively, the show was definitely firing on all cylinders for that first half of 1986, so to me at least on that level it seems plausible. She died in the July 14, 1986 episode so it'll be interesting to see soon if this winds up being true or not!

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26 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

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Wow, the beginning of Y&Rs permanent climb to number 1 it looks like! 

What to look forward to 1986:

Y&R at its zenith during the first half of 1986 with the big storylines culminating. There will be some #1 weeks during the year and Y&R moves up to 2nd in the annual ratings.

Marland era As the World Turns starts showing growth. 

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