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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 357824" data-attributes="member: 23">Yes, you're right. Technically it was a week or so short of being months. It felt longer than that at the time because of the uncertainty, with no definite date for a return while it went on.It was certainly the longest, but for me it felt less noticeable or problematic than the mid-season one. I was accustomed to waiting for many months for a new season, but for a serial to be taken off the air without notice mid-season flew in the face of nature for me and that's the one that had the bigger, capital-lettered impact on me.I'd say U.S. soap mania hit a natural peak in the mid-Eighties after which interest simply waned as they aged and became less and less original. However, they were still big news in 1985.  And the popularity of the BBC's own Howards' Way - dubbed "Dallas-on-sea" - which began in September 1985 (ironically, during that big gap between Dallas seasons) suggests that audiences and the BBC were still interested in the glossier stuff on either side of the pond.Those who wanted grounded drama could - and did - get that back in 1978 when Dallas began with Corrie, Emmerdale Farm and Crossroads. They were two different genres of television that happily coexisted all the way through to 1985 and continued to do so afterwards. I don't feel one has a bearing on the other.</blockquote>