Epitomising the glamour and decadence of 1980s Reagan-era America DYNASTY was essentially a prime-time soap opera and was characterized by campy melodramatic plotlines as well as Joan Collins’s magnetic performance as the conniving Alexis Colby. She is divorced from Blake Carrington (John Forsythe) a fabulously wealthy oil magnate who marries his secretary Krystle Jennings (Linda Evans) at the show’s inception; the jealous Alexis schemes to do everything she can to destroy their union. The rest of the cast includes Blake and Alexis’s children–the promiscuous amnesiac Fallon and the sexually ambivalent Steven–as well as resident geologist Matthew Blaisdel and his psychotic wife Claudia. During the third season Blake’s long-lost son Adam comes knocking Alexis wrests control of a rival oil firm and a freak explosion causes Steven to have extensive plastic surgery supplying him with a new face (that of actor Jack Coleman).
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