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THE BAYTOWN SUN Sunday, May 8, 1983 'Dynasty' Earns ABC Top Spot LOS ANGELES (AP) The season's last episode of ABC's -'Dynasty" left stars Krystle and Alexis in clanger, but their misfortune was good news for the net- in the television ratings. The prime-time soap opera was top-rated show for the week lending April 24, helping give ABC another network victory in the iA.C. Nielsen Co. ratings. "Dynasty," which focuses on troubles of Denver oil baron 'Blake Carrington and his family, a rating of 27.7, far above the rating of CBS' second-place Astro-Graph J.R.

Ewing and his family had "the week off, since CBS' "Dallas," which is "Dynasty's" "arch-rival as most popular soap opera, was pre-empted week. "Dynasty" ended its third year a cllffhanger that left Krystle Carrington and Alexis Carr- 'ington trapped in a burning cabin. Linda Evans stars as Krystle, Carrlngton's wife, and Joan Collins is Alexis, his trouble- Baking former wife. ABC won the week with a rating -of 16.0. The networks say this -means that in an average prime- time minute 16.0 percent of homes with television were tuned to CBS was second with 14.9 and NBC was third with 13.6.

Viewership at both ABC and was down from the previous week which was the final week of the ratings season. The networks split the Top 10: CBS had four shows and ABC and NBC had three each. NBC's new hit, "The A-Team," achieved its highest rank of its with third place. The action-adventure series was the only new show to end the season in the Top 10. Fourth place went to CBS' "Magnum, P.I.,", and CBS' "The rJeffersons" was fifth.

CBS' "60 Minutes" was sixth, Bob Hope's special on NBC was seventh, ABC's "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat" tied for eighth, and NBC's "The Facts of Life" I was tenth. Here are the Top 10: "Dynas; ty," 27.3 rating or 22.7 million households, ABC; "Alice," 22.5 or 18.7 million, CBS; "The Team," 22.3 or 18.5 million, NBC; P. 21.9 or IB. 2 million, CBS; "The Jeffersons," 21.6 or 17.9 million, CBS; "60 21.1 or 17.5 million, CBS; "Bob Hope: Who Makes the World Laugh," 20.9 or 17.4 million, NBC; "Fantasy Island" and "The Love Boat," 20.7 or 17.2 million, tied, both ABC; "Facts of Life," 19.9 or 16.5 million, NBC. Here are the next 10: "Ryan's Four," 19.5 or 16.2 million, ABC; "Simon Simon," 19.4 or 16.1 million, CBS; "Goodnight, Beantown," 19.2 or 15.99 million, CBS; CBS' "Trapper John, M.D." and ABC's "The Fall Guy," 19.1 or 15.91 million, tied; "Three's Company," 18.9 or 15.7 million, ABC; "Newhart," 18.3 or 15.2 million, CBS; "That's Incredible," 18.2 or 15.1 million, ABC; "Remington Steele." 17.9 or 14.9 million, NBC; "Hart to Hart," 17.8 or 14.8 million, ABC.

Here are the five lowest-rated shows: "Square Pegs," CBS; CBS Saturday Night Movie, "Matilda," CBS; "Sawyer Finn," NBC; NBC News Report, "Banking on the Brink," NBC; CBS News Report, "Nuclear Arms Debate," CBS. Rick Nelson's Daughter Is On Television Show By DICK KLEINER NEA Correspondent DEAR DICK: My sister and I bet a can of tennis balls on this one. Is Tracy Nelson Jennifer on "Square Pegs" the daughter of Rick Nelson? Also, who is the girl who played LaDonna on that same show? J.B.F., Kalamazoo, Mich. Yes, Tracy is Rick's daughter. LaDonna is played by an actress named Claudette Wells.

DEAR DICK: Please name the singer and song closed "The Executioner's Song" movie. K.G., Ventura, Calif. That was Wayion -Jennings and "Defying Gravity." DEAR DICK: On the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," there is a fellow named Chris, played by Josh Taylor. Is he a son or brother of the movie star Rod Taylor? J.C., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

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Bridge NORTH 5-07-83 10932 10953 2 Q32 WEST EAST K86 4754 SOUTH AQ VAK A KJ 10 AK 10 Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South West North East Pass Pass 6 NT Pass South 5 NT Pass Opening lead: By Oswald Jaeoby and James Jaeoby Paul Lukas is undoubtedly the world's leading composer of single dummy bridge problems. In this type of problem you must try to find either a certainty against any combination of adverse cards or the play most likely to succeed if "a sure thing play is not available. We have given many of his problems from the Bridge World magazine in this column. Here is one of his first and a real bit of bridge whimsv. We have filled in the East- West hands, but they really make no difference.

South has a sure thing play. South wins the club and must play his queen of spades. If West takes his king. South can claim with four spades, two hearts, two diamonds and four clubs so West must duck. Now South leads his jack of hearts.

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