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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.
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.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
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