Members dragonflies Posted March 19, 2022 Members Share Posted March 19, 2022 Shows nowadays can't even crack those types of #'s for their top rated shows LOL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members kalbir Posted March 19, 2022 Members Share Posted March 19, 2022 (edited) CBS’s identity crisis in the second half of the 1990s was bad, but the decline of its primetime lineup in the second half of the 1980s was worse. 1985/86 CBS’s Top 10 shows were Murder She Wrote (#3, its highest finish ever), 60 Minutes (#4), Dallas (#6), and its Top 30 shows were CBS Sunday Movie (#12), Kate & Allie (#14), Newhart (#16), Knots Landing (#17), Falcon Crest (#24), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (#28), Simon & Simon (#29). CBS's new fall shows that returned in 1986/87 were The Equalizer and The Twilight Zone and their only midseason show to return in 1986/87 was West 57th. 1985/86 was also the final seasons for Airwolf, Crazy Like a Fox; Trapper John, M.D. 1986/87 CBS’s Top 10 shows were Murder She Wrote (#4) and 60 Minutes (#6), and its Top 30 shows were Dallas (#11), Newhart (#12), CBS Sunday Movie (#15), Kate & Allie (#19), My Sister Sam (#21, first season), Falcon Crest (#23), Knots Landing (#26). CBS's new fall shows that returned in 1987/88 were Designing Women and My Sister Sam and their midseason/summer shows to return in 1987/88 were The Cavanaughs, CBS Summer Playhouse, Houston Knights. 1986/87 was also the final seasons for Scarecrow and Mrs. King and The Twilight Zone. 1987/88 CBS's Top 10 shows were 60 Minutes (#8) and Murder She Wrote (#9), and its Top 30 shows were CBS Sunday Night Movie (#18), Dallas (#22), Newhart (#25). CBS’s new fall shows that returned in 1988/89 were Beauty and the Beast, Jake and the Fatman, Tour of Duty, Wiseguy, and their midseason/summer shows to return in 1988/89 were 48 Hours, Coming of Age, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. 1987/88 was also the final seasons for Cagney & Lacey, Houston Knights, Magnum, P.I.; My Sister Sam. CBS's primetime lineup really tanked this season, and they fell to 3rd place. 1988/89 was the writer’s strike delayed season and CBS’s Top 10 shows were 60 Minutes (#5) and Murder She Wrote (#8), and its Top 30 shows were Knots Landing (#27), CBS Sunday Night Movie (#27), Dallas (#29). CBS’s new fall shows that returned in 1989/90 were Murphy Brown and Paradise, and their only midseason/summer show to return in 1989/90 was Doctor Doctor. 1988/89 was also the final seasons for The Cavanaughs, CBS Summer Playhouse, Coming of Age, The Equalizer, Kate & Allie, Simon & Simon, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, West 57th. 1989/90 CBS’s only Top 10 show was 60 Minutes (#7), and its Top 30 shows were Murder She Wrote (#13), Designing Women (#22), CBS Sunday Movie (#24), Murphy Brown (#27). CBS’s new fall shows that returned in 1990/91 were Major Dad and Rescue 911 and their midseason/summer shows to return in 1990/91 were Bagdad Cafe, Northern Exposure, Top Cops. 1989/90 was also the final seasons for Beauty and the Beast, Falcon Crest, Newhart, Tour of Duty. 1989/90 was the low point I'd say and things were really looking bad heading into 1990/91 season. To think that just a decade earlier CBS was riding high w/ Who Shot JR mania. Edited March 24, 2022 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted March 21, 2022 Members Share Posted March 21, 2022 1986-1987 season The week before the official start of the season. Some shows had season premieres a week early like Knots Landing to name one. Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted March 22, 2022 Members Share Posted March 22, 2022 Going back to the writer's strike delayed 1988/89 season, the breakout hit of that season was Roseanne, and it was the first show to threaten The Cosby Show's dominance. 1989/90 would see Roseanne tie The Cosby Show for #1. The first two seasons of Roseanne also overlapped with the Top 10 fallouts of family sitcoms Growing Pains, ALF, Who's the Boss. It was a sign that sitcom tastes were changing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 22, 2022 Author Members Share Posted March 22, 2022 And I think that Roseanne was the first sitcom ever to move to a lead slot-in this case 9 pm- in its first season. Moonlighting was fading at 9pm and having all the bts drama, so ABC moved Roseanne from 8.30 to 9 and created a sitcom block. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted March 25, 2022 Members Share Posted March 25, 2022 CBS was really trying to grab the female audience with this promo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 25, 2022 Members Share Posted March 25, 2022 Okay, who told Lorenzo Lamas to pretend he was a Chippendales dancer for that promo? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted March 25, 2022 Members Share Posted March 25, 2022 (edited) OMG @Khan you are killing me Please register in order to view this content Just think, if that promo was made a decade later it would have Urkel and two decades later it would have Shemar Moore Edited March 25, 2022 by kalbir 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 25, 2022 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2022 Those weird looks from David Selby, Bob Newhart and Patrick Duffy... Tom Poston was one of the biggest hunks of the time. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted March 25, 2022 Members Share Posted March 25, 2022 I'm so done right now Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted March 26, 2022 Members Share Posted March 26, 2022 You had the eye candy (Lorenzo and Patrick Duffy) and the funny and adorable (Bob Newhart). I think it was an effective promo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted March 26, 2022 Members Share Posted March 26, 2022 Who didn't want to be in that shower scene with Patrick Duffy? I remember the black Speedos he would wear on the show too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FrenchBug82 Posted March 26, 2022 Members Share Posted March 26, 2022 I generally try not to discuss the looks of actors because I wouldn't want the reverse but fourty years later I feel I can bring it up. Am I the only one who... didn't really find Bobby that attractive? I mean I can see why a lot of people did and all - not my thing but sure - but his hair always looked like a wig to me and I used to find it so distracting. It was such a heavy unflattering hairstyle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted March 26, 2022 Author Members Share Posted March 26, 2022 Bobby didn't do it for me so you are not alone. But I can't think of one Dallas actor who was attractive to me. As far as the hair goes, it was more the style of the time. Even today, I see guys with thick wavy hear that I'd love to take some shears to and style into something more flattering. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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