The only time Smackdown wasn't blatantly the B-Show was probably 2002-03. When they had The Rock, and later on Brock Lesnar, they were definitely making an attempt at establishing it as an equal.
With Brock there, it may have even been the A-Show in a lot of ways.
That didn't last very long though. Since then it's clearly been secondary when it comes to priority. Not in quality though, it's still had some great runs where it was even better than Raw.
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