Members Gray Bunny Posted October 29, 2018 Members Share Posted October 29, 2018 I thought Dolly had started out strong? I hope down the line you'll get the December 1988 Nielsens for the week CBS aired "A Very Brady Christmas." Apparently it was the highest rated made-for-TV movie that year, prompting CBS to bring them back as the short-lived bomb, "The Bradys." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted October 29, 2018 Members Share Posted October 29, 2018 The next season will have a direct correlation to this current season - Roseanne and Murphy Brown both premiered in the 88-89 season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 30, 2018 Author Members Share Posted October 30, 2018 Will definitely be posting those weeks. Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted November 2, 2018 Members Share Posted November 2, 2018 @Paul Raven Thanks for posting the most recent one from week 20 of 1987-1988 season. Love that Dallas was still the top soap amongst the rest. Dynasty and FC were fading fast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 2, 2018 Author Members Share Posted November 2, 2018 (edited) Wk 26 We are now in mid March 88 and mid season replacements are showing up. ABC debuted Wonder Years @ Tues .8.30 ,moved Growing Pains to Wed @8 and Perfect Strangers to Fri @ 8. also debuted Family Man Fri @ 9.30. Supercarrier was slotted in Sun @8 replacing Spencer for Hire and the Sunday movie was back to fill 2 hours vacated by Dolly and Buck James. Probe was slotted Thurs @ 8. CBS decided to go comedy from 8-10 Tues -- Trial & Error, My Sister Sam, Coming of Age and Frank's Place. It was a disaster and I think they were dumped after a couple of weeks. Eisenhower & Lutz went into the Mon 8.30 slot. NBC had success with In The Heat of the Night Tues @ 9 challenging the slumping Moonlighting. Aaron's Way was slotted Wed @8 28.2/43 N Cosby Show 25.2/39 N Different World 22.8/38 C 60 Minutes 22.5/38 N Golden Girls 22.3/34 A Who's the Boss? 22.0/35 N Cheers 21.4/32 A Wonder Years 20.9/33 N Night Court 20.8/31 C Murder, She Wrote 19.2/30 A Growing Pains 19.1/29 N ALF 18.5/28 N Matlock 18.1/31 N Amen 18.0/29 N Inherit the Wind 17.9/28 N In the Heat of the Night 17.9/27 N Valerie's Family 17.5/27 C Newhart 16.9/26. A Head of the Class 16.9/28. ABC Monday Movie 16.6/29 N L.A. Law 16.4/26 N Family lies 16.3/25 N Aaron's Way . 16.3/31 N Hunter 15.4/23 A MacGyver 15.4/23 N Day by Day 15.3/27 C Knots Landing 15.1/26 N My Two Dads Special 14.7/23 A Moonlighting 14.6/24 C Dallas 14.4/23 N Highway to Heaven 14.2/22 C Eisenhower and Lutz 14.1/22 CBS Sunday Movie 14.0/21 C Kate and Allie 14.0/25 N Facts of Life 13.7/22 A Hooperman 13.7/23 N Miami Vice 13.6/24 . A Dynasty 13.5/21 C Jake and the Fatman 13.5/24 C Equalizer 13.3/22 N NBC Monday Movie 13.0/20 C Eisenhower & Lutz Spec 12.8/23 A Thirtysomething 12.7/21 A ABC Sunday Movie 12.7/20 C Simon and Simon 12.5/19 A Supercarrier 12.4/22 A Perfect Strangers 12.1 /22 C Falcon Crest 12.1/22 N Sonny Spoon Detective 12.0/21 A Full House 12.0/22 A 20/20 11.8/21 C Cagney and Lacey 11.8/21 C Beauty and the Beast 11.8/18 C Snoopy's Getting Married 11.7/19 A Slap Maxwell Story 11.6/19 A Mr. Belvedere 11.4/21 N Crime Story 11.3/20 A Dolly 11.1/17 C Garfield Goes Hollywood 11.0/17 C Coming of Age" 10.7/19 N Year in the Life 10.5/18 C Tour of Duty 10.4/18 N Highwayman 10.2/19 A Spenser: For Hire 10.1/17 C Wiseguy 9.9/15 C 48 Hours 9.9/16 C Frank's Place 9.8/17 C High Mountain Rangers 9.5/16 A Family Man* 9.3/16 N Place at the Table 9.2/14 A Probe 8.7/15 A Disney Sunday Movie 8.7/16 C West 57th 8.5/14 A Ohara 7.4/12 A Hotel 7.3/11 C My Sister Sam 6.5/11 A Buck James 6.5/10 C Trial and Error Edited November 2, 2018 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted November 2, 2018 Members Share Posted November 2, 2018 Thanks for your continued postings @Paul Raven Us numbers nerds appreciate it. I have a very fat Primetime Television book that covers the Top 30 in primetime ratings from the golden age up until 2007, but it's always nice to see the weekly numbers, especially for the entire lineups. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted November 3, 2018 Members Share Posted November 3, 2018 Family ties was still in a good position...and knots landing never regained lost ground from the brief move in the 86 to 87 season to an hour earlier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted November 5, 2018 Members Share Posted November 5, 2018 It’s remarkable that Knots is doing as well as it does when you consider just how much attention L.A. Law was getting. The actors hosted SNL, they were on all the major talk shows. They were nominated for awards, they definently got a lot of pop culture exposure and love. I was a kid but I remember just how often we saw Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey and the rest of the cast on magazine covers. Not so much with the cast of Knots at that point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wendy Posted November 5, 2018 Members Share Posted November 5, 2018 What's jarring is seeing the ratings for the shows at the bottom rung of the ladder, so to speak, and realizing they are still triple (or greater) the current numbers that constitute a "hit" on broadcast TV today! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted November 5, 2018 Members Share Posted November 5, 2018 Dallas was at #29 with only 4 episodes left in the season. I believe the cliffhanger didn't even make the top 20. That was the first year that a Dallas cliffhanger didn't make the top 20. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 6, 2018 Author Members Share Posted November 6, 2018 (edited) Mid May - Season finale of Dallas, Falcon Crest, Knots Landing Lower ratings all round as official season is over and more repeats in the schedule. 1. 22.63 N NBC Sunday Movie 'Perry Mason' 2. 21.7/40 N Cosby Show 8-9 3. 20.3/32 A ABC Sunday Movie 'Beverly Hills Cop' 4. 20.3/35 N Cheers 5. 20.0/32 A Barbara Walters Special Wed @9 6. 19.9/33 N Night Court 7. 19.7/37 N Golden Girls 8. 19.0/29 N NBC Monday Movie 'Something Is Out There Pt2' 9. 18.5/29 A ABC Monday Movie 'The Bourne Identity Pt 2' 10. 18.3/33 A Whos the Boss? 11.17.8/31 C Knots Landing 12. 17.313 C Murder. She Wrote 13. 17.3/30 C Dallas 14. 17.2/29 A Just the Ten of Us 15. 17.2/34 C 60 Minutes 16. 16.3/27 N ALF 17. 14.8/25 N L.A. Law 18. 14.7/26 C Falcon Crest 19. 14.6/25 A Head of the Class 20. 14.4/23 N My Two Dads Special 21. 14.3/27 A Growing Pains 22. 14.3/23 A MacGyver 23. 14.2/29 N 227 24. 14.0/24 A China Beach 25. 13.8/27 N Hunter 26. 13.4/23 N Matlock 8- 10 27. 13.3/20 C Newhart 28. 13.0/23 A 20/20 29. 12.6/22 A Thirtysomething 30. 12.4/21 N St. Elsewhere 31. 12.0/20 N Day by Day 32. 11.9/21 N Aaron's Way 33. 11.8/26 N Facts of Life 34. 11.7/19 A Moonlighting 35. 11.7/20 N Crime Story 36. 11.5/18 C Designing Women 37. 11.2/18 C CBS Spec. Movie Wed 'Rocky IV' 38. 11.2/18 C Cagney and Lacey 39. 11.1/19 C CBS Tuesday Movie 'Who Gets The Friends?' 40. 10.9/16 C Eisenhower and Lutz 41. 10.9/18 N Highway to Heaven 42. 10.7/18 C Kate and Allie 43. 10.6/17 N Decision '88 44. 10.4/18 A Captain EO Backstage 45. 10.4/20 C Beauty and the Beast \ 46. 10.4/16 C CBS Sunday Movie 47. 10.4/19 N Family Ties 48. 10.3/17 C Simon and Simon 49. 10.1/18 N Miami Vice 50. 9.9/20 A Spenser: For Hire 51. 9.7/17 A Koppel Report Thurs @10 52. 9.7/18 A Full House 53. 9.6/20 A Perfect Strangers 54. 9.4/18 A Disney Sunday Movie 55. 9.4/17 N NBC Friday Movie Spec 'Annie' 56. 9.3/16 A Mr. Belvedere 57. 9.1/16 C Smothers Brothers 58. 8.5/15 A I Married Dora 59. 8.4/16 C Tour of Duty 60. 8.1/14 A ABC Thursday Movie 'Uncommom Valor' 61. 7.7/ C Nest 57th 62. 7.5/16 15 C High Mountain Rangers 63. 7.3/14 C 48 Hours 64. 7.1/14 N Aaron's Way Special 65. 6.9/12 C Houston Knights 66. 6.8/13 A Ohara 67. 6.3/13 A Supercarrier Special Edited November 6, 2018 by Paul Raven 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted November 6, 2018 Members Share Posted November 6, 2018 Random thought: I wonder if there's a way to find out ratings for first-run syndication shows. For instance, Baywatch was a monster of a hit in the 90's that aired at all sorts of time slots on any given independent station or local affiliate throughout the USA. Same with all those first-run syndicated sitcoms of the 80's like Small Wonder, and I think Webster, Silver Spoons, and others (I could be wrong on some titles) had their last year or two ran in first-run syndication instead of a network. It'd be interested to see how those fared. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted November 7, 2018 Author Members Share Posted November 7, 2018 Will search out some syndicated ratings. Next post will be the beginning of 88/89 season. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted November 7, 2018 Members Share Posted November 7, 2018 11.17.8/31 C Knots Landing 13. 17.3/30 C Dallas 18. 14.7/26 C Falcon Crest For some reason I thought none but especially Dallas had placed in the top 20 with their cliffhanger. But first time a Dallas cliffhanger did not rank in the top 5 and it also got beaten by KL. Dallas cliffhanger was Sue Ellen shooting JR. Anyone recall what the KL and FC cliffhangers were? And what about Dynasty? Do you have it's cliffhanger numbers for the week before? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted November 7, 2018 Members Share Posted November 7, 2018 If this is the end of 1987 to 1988.. than KL's cliffhanger was Jill Bennett forcing Val to take pill and making it look like a suicide. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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