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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 430309" data-attributes="member: 57984">By the end of the &#039;80s, KNOTS was doing better than DALLAS and DYNASTY. Slightly.But the ratings listed above saw KNOTS in a slump because LA LAW, new on NBC in 1986, was scheduled against it on Thursday nights at 10pm. Then CBS attempted to counter-program by moving KNOTS up an hour to compete with Season 2 of THE COLBYS and, most disastrously, CHEERS (in the Top 5 and part of NBC&#039;s impenetrable Thursday sitcom line-up.CBS soon moved KNOTS back to 10pm.KNOTS maintained quality, while DALLAS, DYNASTY, and FALCON CREST just slid into pedestrian, soapy crap (except for Season 9 of DYNASTY, which was actually good -- but the audience was already gone, the show also shoved off into Thursday night to kill it by ABC).KNOTS deserved to last longer than the others. And did. Also, the perception that it was &quot;middle class&quot; when the glitz fad of the &#039;80s was on its last legs, as the ROSEANNE-esque sensibilities of the &#039;90s were taking hold, probably kept KNOTS off the chopping block for a while longer.<img src="https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.0JUYWWaTYkAPk_EiF6FbDwHaEK?cb=12&amp;rs=1&amp;pid=ImgDetMain&amp;o=7&amp;rm=3" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 764px" /><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuhYZYqXwAAD3ld.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 830px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 430309, member: 57984"] By the end of the '80s, KNOTS was doing better than DALLAS and DYNASTY. Slightly. But the ratings listed above saw KNOTS in a slump because LA LAW, new on NBC in 1986, was scheduled against it on Thursday nights at 10pm. Then CBS attempted to counter-program by moving KNOTS up an hour to compete with Season 2 of THE COLBYS and, most disastrously, CHEERS (in the Top 5 and part of NBC's impenetrable Thursday sitcom line-up. CBS soon moved KNOTS back to 10pm. KNOTS maintained quality, while DALLAS, DYNASTY, and FALCON CREST just slid into pedestrian, soapy crap (except for Season 9 of DYNASTY, which was actually good -- but the audience was already gone, the show also shoved off into Thursday night to kill it by ABC). KNOTS deserved to last longer than the others. And did. Also, the perception that it was "middle class" when the glitz fad of the '80s was on its last legs, as the ROSEANNE-esque sensibilities of the '90s were taking hold, probably kept KNOTS off the chopping block for a while longer. [IMG width="764px"]https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.0JUYWWaTYkAPk_EiF6FbDwHaEK?cb=12&rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3[/IMG][IMG width="830px"]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FuhYZYqXwAAD3ld.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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