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As CBS enjoyed huge success with its prime-time soap opera “Dallas” in the early 1980s, ABC responded with its own prime-time soap.  

The Aaron Spelling-produced series “Dynasty” debuted in 1981, featuring the drama surrounding the Carringtons, a wealthy Denver family. John Forsythe and Linda Evans starred in the show and Joan Collins joined the cast in the second season.

After weak ratings in the first season, the producers revamped the series and it became the top-rated show by the 1984 season. Ratings declined steadily thereafter, and the show was canceled at the end of its ninth season in 1989. As the prime-time soap genre died, the ratings for “Dallas” also collapsed. It was canceled in 1991.  

Source: Wikipedia (”Dynasty”)

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“The Six Million Dollar Man” was an ABC-TV series that ran from 1974 to 1978.  Lee Majors played Steve Austin, an astronaut who is injured in an accident and rebuilt using bionic parts.  The new parts give him strength, vision and speed beyond human capabilities.

The series led to a spin-off, “The Bionic Woman,” which ran on ABC and then NBC from 1976 to 1978.  

Source: Wikipedia (“The Six Million Dollar Man”)