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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 208560" data-attributes="member: 102">Yeah, that's a good description. They were relatively successful for the time, but they weren't truly mainstream. I don't know how mainstream a show could get these days because of all the reasons you listed. I googled how many people watched the Game Of Thrones finale and I had to laugh when I saw the question "Is Game Of Thrones the most watched show ever"? It apparently had about 20 million viewers which was a record for HBO. That's an impressive number for a premium channel, but in the 80s, for network show 20 million viewers would have been just alright; it wasn't exceptional. Conundrum had an audience of 33 million and that was a finale for a show far, far past its peak of popularity. We've got a larger populace now too, so 20 million today is a smaller percentage of the population than it was when Dallas aired. Dallas got 90 million viewers for their most watched episode and 360 million worldwide.</blockquote>