Dynasty(1981)

series - first aired/released 1981-01-12 - audience 6.5

Soap, Drama

Directed by Alan Myerson, Alf Kjellin, Bob Sweeney, Bruce Bilson, Burt Brinckerhoff, Curtis Harrington, Don Medford, Dwight Adair, Gabrielle Beaumont, Georg Stanford Brown, Glynn Turman, Gwen Arner, Harry Falk, Irving J. Moore, Jeff Bleckner, Jerome Courtland, Jerry Jameson, John Patterson, Kim Friedman, Lawrence Dobkin, Lorraine Senna, Michael Lange, Michel Hugo, Nancy Malone, Philip Leacock, Ralph Senensky, Ray Danton, Richard Kinon, Robert C. Thompson, Robert Scheerer

The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.