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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 396673" data-attributes="member: 57984">I remember someone saying in the fall of 1985, "the '80s are over." And you knew immediately what they meant -- the "'80s" had only existed for about 4 years by then (and the uber-'80s for two) but there was a depletion of energy by the latter-half of 1985 that was also reflected in the soaps themselves: all four of the "big" ones felt beige-y and cluttered for the 85/86 season.  And the '80s were so self-conscious as a decade that everybody referred endlessly, giddily, to it as "the '80s," as if the decade was still brand new, all the way up to 31 December 1989. It was weird, actually. Most decades just aren't that way.Esther says they'd wanted to do a DYNASTY II for a couple of years before it happened. (And I'm glad, too, that PSM refused to do the hotelier spin-off -- her absence would have further robbed DYNASTY of what it still had in S3 and S4). But there seemed no real appetite for a THE COLBYS before it started in 1985 (and who knows how an earlier start-date might've extended its run?). I would have been fine with it starting when it did. And a better timeslot might have helped it eke out another couple of seasons.... But then, I always wanted the Colbys characters to pepper DYNASTY for several months before it spun off -- which might've encouraged the DYNASTY audience to follow the Californians back to Los Angeles more than they did.But I wouldn't want anything to get in the way of Sable returning to Denver for Season 9 in 1988.<img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/6c/c8/48/6cc8486dfd7aa7c5525a07b77fb95efe--sable.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 725px" /></blockquote>

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