Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:33pm

... will be broadcast Tomorrow Night, 1/2 at 9PM EST.

Before Desperate Housewives, ABC-TV had one of the original guilty pleasures -- Dynasty, the phenomenally successful show which ran from 1981-1989 and reflected the Reagan years of excess and glamour. The ABC Premiere Event, Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, is a two-hour dramatization with a behind-the-scenes look at the hit '80s primetime soap opera.

Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure offers a satirical yet poignant look at how Dynasty, the television series, evolved.

The show did not begin as an instant hit. In fact its creators, Esther and Richard Shapiro, initially set out on a noble mission to explore the effect of wealth on the American family and other important social issues.

But despite an inauspicious start, the series eventually dazzled audiences around the world with one of TV history's most notoriously wicked female characters, Alexis Carrington; revolutionized the term "cat fight," as Alexis and Krystle went at it through lily pond and mud puddle; inspired millions of women to beef up their shoulder pads; and allowed people to forget about their own ordinary lives and drink in the champagne and caviar existence of a TV family dripping in jewels, but a little short on basic morality.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:37pm

What a lovely essay, Mary_Ethel. Can we assume you wrote it yourself? We'd hate to think you're submitting someone else's work as your own.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:38pm

LoL..you should read what most of the original cast has to say about this piece of garbage - - -it's hilarious.

theres a scene where linda evans (played by melora hardin) welcomes joan collins (played by alice krige) to the set with a basket of fresh baked brownies(!) the real evans laughed this off.
the thought that this actually "happened" is preposterous and is just one of the many concoted events in this movie.

mind you, dynasty never claimed to be shakespeare but this delusional-tell-all-movie makes it look like shakespeare.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:38pm

...and gave Joan Collins another chance after her triumphant movie "The B*tch"

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:41pm

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:43pm

I refuse to believe that Linda Evans did not bake those brownies.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:44pm

well she denies it..LOL
they also have a scene where she brings fresh baked oatmeal cookies onto the set...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:47pm

Now THAT I believe.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:47pm

here's a link to the actual article.
Dynasty Stars Disinherit Film Updated On: 1/1/05 at 03:47 PM

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:48pm

THANKS for that great Ad, Marquise!


I see Stephen #1 (Al Corley) represented--but WHAT -- NO Stephen #2 (Jack Coleman)???

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:49pm

That was an ad from the Series Premiere Jack Coleman wasn't on the show then.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:49pm

It's most likely because that ad was promoting the premiere, so there was not yet a Steven #2 Mary_Ethel.

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:53pm

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:54pm

The accused brownie baker in all her glory Updated On: 1/1/05 at 03:54 PM

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:56pm

Remember when the show was going to be called OIL! and George Peppard walk off the set after he was cast as Blake because he couldn't stomach the trashy dialogue they wanted him to say... ?

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:57pm

Emma WHO?!!!!

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:58pm

Jack WHO?!!?

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm

The first BLACK BITCH on television

[etoile]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm

Good to hear that Peppard saved himself for something classier like The A-Team.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm

I already have my VCR set for this....

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:00pm

ugh..she was reaaaallly pathetic

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:02pm

SAMMY JO ROCKED MY SOX!

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:04pm

KIRBY - Another pathetic twit

Kirby (to Alexis): You Bitch!

Alexis: If I'm a bitch take lessons, you may need them later in life! Updated On: 1/1/05 at 04:04 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:05pm

We used to call Pamela Bellwood "Pamela Bellevue" since her character was such a loon. Ah, the '80's...

[Marquise]

Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:06pm

BITCH PERSONIFIED...did anyone else here think that she looked an awful lot like "The Joker" from "Batman"?!!!