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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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Knots Landing was a primetime soap opera that aired from 1979 to 1993 on CBS. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles, and centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. By the time of its conclusion, Knots Landing had become one of the longest-running primetime dramas on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Bonanza.

In 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part mini-series entitled Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 2005, they reunited again for the non-fiction special Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again in which the cast reminisced about their time on the show. Dallas itself was revived in 2012, with characters from Knots Landing appearing in its second season. (Wikipedia)

Above: Joan Van Ark, Ted Shackelford, Donna Mills, Kevin Dobson and Michele Lee.

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