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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 349300" data-attributes="member: 19949">I get why those bad soap ratings forced CBS to try something new on Friday (Whoopi Goldberg's Bagdad Cafe and another sitcom taking over Dallas timeslot & Dallas moving into Falcon Crest's timeslot), but it was sad for the loyal FC fans who missed the last four episodes because they didn't get the news that Falcon Crest was going to be burned off against Cheers.These are the ratings for the last four episodes in the original timeslot: 9.5-10.2-9.1-8.6.These are the ratings for the final four episodes against Cheers: 8.1-8.0-9.3-9.3.In case you're wondering why there's a jump between episodes 20 and 21, Cheers had ended its season and FC only faced Cheers reruns in the last two episodes. Still, I wonder why there was no ratings improvement for the finale. The other CBS soaps had a big jump to the finale compared to the penultimate episode (Dallas from 11.8 to 22.0 and Knots Landing from 11.7 to 13.9), but with Falcon Crest there was nothing. Was there no promotion for the finale or did those viewers who had turned off in previous seasons just not care how Falcon Crest would end?</blockquote>

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