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On 2/10/2026 at 10:21 AM, Soapsuds said:

tTV Ratings January 16-22, 1984

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The following week ending Jan 29th

Airwolf from #11 to #37 in its first regular timeslot outing opposite Love Boat #8

Webster had another good week remaining at #14 with Benson jumping to #13 Dukes of Hazzard was #36

Fall Guy from #10 to #19

Dallas up to #2 from #4

A Team up from #6 to #5

No Dynasty, Knots Landing or Falcon Crest that week.

  1. TV Bloopers NBC Mon 8-9 up #11

  2. Riptide NBC Tues 9-10 prempted

  3. Seduction of Gina CBS Tuesday Movie 9-11

  4. Foul Ups, Bleeps and Blunders ABC Tues 8-8.30 down #21

  5. Cheers NBC Thurs 9-9.30 same

  6. Benson ABC Fri 8-8.30 up #13

  7. Silver Spoons NBC Sat 8.30-9 down #27

  8. Matt Houston ABC Fri 10-11 down #25

  9. Scarecrow & Mrs King CBS Mon 8-9 pre-empted

  10. Hill St Blues NBC Thurs 10-11 down #32

  11. Dukes of Hazzard CBS Fri 8-9 down #36

  12. AfterMASH CBS Mon 9-9.30 up #16

  13. Fantasy Island ABC Sat 10-11 down #34

  14. Diamonds Are Forever ABC Sunday Movie 9-11

  15. Newhart CBS Mon 9.30-10 up #18


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No Dallas that week -Knots aired Fri at 10.

Peoples Choice aired Thurs 9-11 pre-empting Barnaby Jones & Knots.

Tenspeed & Brown shoe was heavily promoted and the 2 hr premiere did well Sun 8-10 but the ratings immediately dropped as Archie Bunker/One Day at a Time dominated.

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Allegedly, "Tenspeed" is former president Bill Clinton's favorite show.

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8 hours ago, Khan said:

Allegedly, "Tenspeed" is former president Bill Clinton's favorite show.

Well they only made a handful of episodes so he has possibly seen them hundreds of times if he likes to revisit.

Tenspeed had to fill Sunday @8 after ABC made the foolish decision to move Mork & Mindy to Sunday in it's second season. And give it crappy sitcoms as a lead in and team it with an incompatible new sitcom The Associates. After an initial strong start, Mork started to be beaten by Archie Bunker and even NBC's Big Event so ABC admitted defeat and returned it to Thursday where it did better but never reached the kind of numbers it scored in S1.

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5 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Tenspeed had to fill Sunday @8 after ABC made the foolish decision to move Mork & Mindy to Sunday in it's second season. And give it crappy sitcoms as a lead in and team it with an incompatible new sitcom The Associates. After an initial strong start, Mork started to be beaten by Archie Bunker and even NBC's Big Event so ABC admitted defeat and returned it to Thursday where it did better but never reached the kind of numbers it scored in S1.

Producers also made changes to "Mork" - dropping two regular characters, adding others - that hurt the show creatively. Between that and the time slot change, "Mork" became a textbook example of what happens when you mess with success.

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The Winds of war was huge for ABC. It aired every night except Saturday.

Mon was 3 hrs #2. NBC aired a 2 hr Little House special which hit a season low.

CBS went with Mash/Newhart which had season lows and a movie special 'Packin' It In which had a 19 share.

Tues

WOW #4 . It aired 9-11 Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley won the lead in hour.

NBC did OK with the first episode of A Team-a sign of things to come but St Elsewhere @10 had an awful 10 share

CBS did well also @8 with Walt Disney

Wed

WOW #3

CBS went with a repeat of the movie The In Laws which hit a season low as did Quincy on NBC @10

Thurs

WOW #5 .ABC used the momentum to premiere Amanda's @ 8 and Condo @8.30 and viewers tuned in with them close to Magnum. But Simon & Simon and Knots Landing hit season lows. KL did beat Hill St Blues which had a 19 share.

Fri

WOW #6 for 3 hours

On CBS Falcon Crest hit a season low -22 share.

Sat

No Winds of War but ABC had TJ Hooker win @8 with a season high. Love Boat and Fantasy Island also won their slots.

But Diff'rent Strokes on NBC had a season high and CBS did an OK 29 share from the movie The Hunter.

Sun

WOW finale #1

All of CBS ' comedies bar Jeffersons had season lows.

NBC went with Smurfs 19 share /Family Circus Valentines 21 share, a Bob Denver pilot movie 'Invisible Woman' that ranked 27th and outrated the CBS comedies and then another pilot 'Highway Honeys ' which had a 14 share.

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A little over a month after The Winds of War, ABC would broadcast The Thorn Birds and that scored even higher.

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