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<blockquote data-quote="Kenny Coyote" data-source="post: 160516" data-attributes="member: 102">I know someone who did just that. She never watched Dallas again after that and she can&#039;t be the only one.&nbsp;Season 9 had 10% less viewers than season 8 and you don&#039;t think losing arguably the best liked star on the show had a lot to do with that drop?People don&#039;t like it when characters they like leave a show. Victoria and Deborah left after season 10 and ratings fell from 18.8 to 154.&nbsp; That makes the drop from 18.8in season 9&nbsp; to 18.6&nbsp; in season 10 when the audience found out season 9 was just a dream look pretty good in comparison.Losing one of the most popular stars of a show isn&#039;t what I&#039;d call a shot in the arm. Jock&#039;s death was unique in that it set up the contest for Ewing Oil - one of the best liked storylines in Dallas history. Still, the show suffered a significant drop in ratings from season 4 (Jock&#039;s last season and the highest rated season in Dallas ever) to season 5<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_4_(1980%E2%80%9381)" target="_blank">4</a> 23 November 7, 1980 May 1, 1981 #1 27.6<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_5_(1981%E2%80%9382)" target="_blank">5</a> 26 October 9, 1981 April 9, 1982 #1 23.2A drop of 4,4 points doesn&#039;t indicate the other viewers saw it as a shot in the arm either. 4.4 is higher than the total ratings of a lot of today&#039;s shows!Pam may as well have been dead since the viewers never saw her again.. Should that have been another shot in the arm that Dallas mishandled as well?I think the lesson to be learned from the ratings here is that significant portions of the audience leave when the characters they like leave the show!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kenny Coyote, post: 160516, member: 102"] I know someone who did just that. She never watched Dallas again after that and she can't be the only one. Season 9 had 10% less viewers than season 8 and you don't think losing arguably the best liked star on the show had a lot to do with that drop? People don't like it when characters they like leave a show. Victoria and Deborah left after season 10 and ratings fell from 18.8 to 154. That makes the drop from 18.8in season 9 to 18.6 in season 10 when the audience found out season 9 was just a dream look pretty good in comparison. Losing one of the most popular stars of a show isn't what I'd call a shot in the arm. Jock's death was unique in that it set up the contest for Ewing Oil - one of the best liked storylines in Dallas history. Still, the show suffered a significant drop in ratings from season 4 (Jock's last season and the highest rated season in Dallas ever) to season 5 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_4_(1980%E2%80%9381)']4[/URL] 23 November 7, 1980 May 1, 1981 [B]#1[/B] [B]27.6[/B] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dallas_(1978_TV_series)_episodes#Season_5_(1981%E2%80%9382)']5[/URL] 26 October 9, 1981 April 9, 1982 [B]#1[/B] [B]23.2[/B] A drop of 4,4 points doesn't indicate the other viewers saw it as a shot in the arm either. 4.4 is higher than the total ratings of a lot of today's shows! Pam may as well have been dead since the viewers never saw her again.. Should that have been another shot in the arm that Dallas mishandled as well? I think the lesson to be learned from the ratings here is that significant portions of the audience leave when the characters they like leave the show! [/QUOTE]

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