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The first season of Dynasty was "modestly popular" among viewers, [14] ranking #28 with a 19.0 Nielsen rating, while #1 series Dallas achieved a 31.8 rating that season. [15] ABC reran season one in summer 1981 at 10:00 PM on Wednesdays, the new time slot for season two, and initiated a media blitz to promote the series.
Filmed in 1980, the pilot was among many delayed due to a strike precipitated by animosity between the television networks and the partnership of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Dynasty finally premiered on ABC as a three-hour event on January 12, 1981. [2]
Dynasty was conceived as ABC's competitor to CBS's prime time series Dallas. [1] [2] Ratings for the show's first season were unimpressive, but a revamp for the second season that included the arrival of Collins as scheming Alexis saw ratings enter the top 20. [1] [3] [4] [5] By the fall of 1982, it was a top 10 show, and by the spring of 1985 ...
In 1980, The Dallas Family Album written by Robert Massello was published by Bantam Books. In 1980, The Southworth Connection was an unofficial magazine story by Phoenix Publications detailing Brannigan Southworth's attempt to shoot J.R. Ewing. In 1980, Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game was released by Simulations Publications, Inc. (SPI).
The Shapiros created and produced the prime time soap opera Dynasty, which debuted in 1981. [4] Written as the Shapiros' creative response to the 1979 oil crisis, [5] and intended by ABC to be a competitor for CBS's Dallas, [6] the series ranked #28 its first season. [7] Ratings steadily grew, with Dynasty reaching #1 for the 1984–85 season.
Krystle Carrington (also Grant and Jennings) is a fictional character from the 1980s American TV series Dynasty, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro.Portrayed by Linda Evans, the character was introduced in the 1981 pilot episode.
John Forsythe and the female cast of Dynasty season six (1985–1986) Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981, to May 11, 1989. The series, created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling , revolves around the Carringtons , a wealthy family residing in Denver, Colorado .
The Dallas cast continued to make occasional appearance in spinoff series Knots Landing, which was on its second year: J.R. (Larry Hagman) appeared in A Family Matter (airing on January 22, 1981) and Designs (March 26, 1981); Bobby (Patrick Duffy) in The Loudest Word (February 19, 1981); and Kristin (Mary Crosby) in Kristin (December 18, 1980 ...