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I like that tune although again, it’s not really in keeping with the image I had of SFT. There’s a run of late ‘82 to early ‘83 episodes that’s pretty intact that I will get stuck into at some point.
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And of course there was the Good....
the BAD.....
(not an ad, but MF's Jennifer was SUCH a bad girl!)
and the Ugly....
the BAD.....
(not an ad, but MF's Jennifer was SUCH a bad girl!)
and the Ugly....
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This one kind of implies that Henderson is about to be struck by a tidal wave but my understanding is that it was actually a flood that hit town?
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Yes, it was forever known as 'the Henderson Flood'. NBC splashed out (ha!) a lot of money to stage this whole event, complete with actors struggling in giant water tanks and industrial-sized water sprayers blasting everyone from across the room. It allowed them to destroy a lot of old sets to "rebuild the town," also. They never did say where Henderson was, but it was firmly in the interior Midwest, so a tidal wave would certainly have been a "choice".
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Back to the 80’s and these are two that I featured over on the primetime thread, as they had their debuts in primetime, ahead of them starting in their regular daytime slots.
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Home Viewer (younger me): "Ooh, I wonder if it's any good."
Narrator: The show was not any good.
It was ambitious for WTBS to attempt a daily soap, though.
Narrator: The show was not any good.
It was ambitious for WTBS to attempt a daily soap, though.
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Lloyd Bochner... ?
Two actors from Dynasty (P.M Richman and Paul Burke) played Capwell and he was none of them...
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Paul Burke later went onto Hotshots, which came from the same production company as Night Heat. (Both shows aired on CTV in Canada, who had a hand in production, as well as on CBS Late Night).
He played the editor of the tabloid magazine the main 2 characters, played by Booth Savage and Dorothy Parke, worked for. (Crime World Magazine).
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Gail Ramsey out of that cast was later on the NBC sitcom California Dreams, until she was written out in a revamp of the show, where under pressure from NBC execs, the focus shifted from the Garrison family onto the band.
(She and Michael Cutt, who played her husband, were dropped to recurring before being written out, while Heidi Lenhart and Ryan O'Neil were written out entirely. Only Brent Gore remained until he left in 1994).
Peter Engel interestingly executive produced California Dreams, and he later executive produced Hang Time, where after the first season, most of the cast were eliminated except for a few. (Two of those who survived the cast shake up from the first season, Daniella Deutscher and Megan Parlen, would be there for the entire run)
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Was this timeslot for the premiere?
The City's official timeslot was 12.30pm Eastern, which would have been 11.30am in the Central time zone.
The Pacific Time Zone stations tended to go off Central Time for daytime programmes, hence why Y&R goes out at 11.30am and B&B at 12.30pm in LA. When Katie Couric's talk show aired, GH went out at 1pm in L.A. (as 2pm in the Eastern Time Zone).
(The City would no doubt have had to face Y&R as a result).
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Apparently Generations wasn't originally written as having black leads and that was an element added to stand out. People who've watched it claim that you can tell, perhaps also an issue with not having black writers involved (which seems to be a no-brainer).
The City (along with Sunset Beach) was just bizarre to place in the noon slot. I know it inherited Loving's timeslot (for obvious reasons), but it was so heavily marketed towards that 18-34 demographic that the Fox soaps ruled in, so airing it when none of that demographic would be home was... a choice.
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It appears to be the regular timeslot in Los Angeles / California. If you look at the listings for December 1996 in the link below, The City airs at 11am followed by news then All My Children at midday. So they’ve switched up The City and the news, whereas other markets had the news first. The ad I posted is for a Palm Springs station and I’ve seen an LA Times article mention that it would air at 11am, so that’s obviously just the way it was scheduled in that part of the country. Interestingly, I see that the local CBS station was airing Guiding Light at 9am while Geraldo aired in the 3pm slot that GL occupied elsewhere in the country.
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Yes, considering The City was essentially Melrose in New York, lumping it in such an early timeslot made no sense. Sunset Beach aired in morning / early afternoon slots here but what made it a cult hit was the Saturday afternoon omnibus on the UK’s Channel 5. I don’t think US soaps ever did the omnibus thing in the same way that the UK soaps did but if NBC had any sense, they would’ve seen the success it was enjoying in the UK and tried to adjust the timeslot accordingly (although I’m not sure if they could as their later afternoon slots appear to have been given over to local programming by then).
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It's nothing written in stone, but it feels as if the lower-rated (and generally newer) soaps were the ones who got shuffled off into odd slots, or at least suffered at the whims of local stations who would air them whenever they wanted (or just not air them at all). The high ratings grabbers were rarely moved far from the slot that the network wanted them aired.
* For several years in the 1990s, my local affiliate aired GL at 4pm rather than the traditional 3pm. Oprah Winfrey was airing at 4pm on another channel, and GL was moved opposite Oprah to cut into that popular program....and from what I remember, it worked! They moved it back to 3pm only when Oprah was moved to a morning slot.
I would suggest (with little to back it up) that VCR's had become so commonplace---and an essential tool for the soap fan---that the programmers had started to care less about the time slot and more about actual carriage (airing) of these new entries in order for the soap to survive. Noon became (and still is) the death slot for any network-produced fare, which is why they eventually gave up and ceded the slot to the affiliates. The only hope for anything offered in the noon slot was that the affiliate would time-shift it. All three networks were doing it to some extent. As mentioned, Guiding Light (on CBS) got pushed around by individual stations as early as the 1990s*, and NBC's Sunset Beach similarly got moved around in local stations' efforts to maximize ratings (either for SB or for its other shows).
* For several years in the 1990s, my local affiliate aired GL at 4pm rather than the traditional 3pm. Oprah Winfrey was airing at 4pm on another channel, and GL was moved opposite Oprah to cut into that popular program....and from what I remember, it worked! They moved it back to 3pm only when Oprah was moved to a morning slot.