Falcon Crest(1981)

series - first aired/released 1981-12-04 - audience 5.5

Soap, Drama, Family

Directed by Alan J. Levi, Bill Duke, Charles Correll, Dennis Donnelly, Ernest Pintoff, Fernando Lamas, George Kaczender, Gwen Arner, Harry Harris, Jack Bender, Jeff Freilich, Jeffrey Hayden, Jerome Courtland, Jerry Thorpe, Joseph L. Scanlan, Joseph Manduke, Larry Elikann, Lorraine Senna, Mel Ferrer, Michael A. Hoey, Michael Preece, Peter Ellis, Philip Leacock, Reza Badiyi, Robert Foxworth, Robert Scheerer, Roy Campanella II, Simon MacCorkindale, Stan Lathan, Tim Hunter

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.