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List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $28.99 You Save: $10.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Extra tracks • Full Screen • Subtitled • Box set • NTSC In Theaters : 12 January, 1981 DVD Release : 19 April, 2005 |
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Dynasty - Season 1 description Aaron Spelling's addictive primetime soap opera, Dynasty, ran for nine seasons on ABC, a saga of the rich and super-rich, family feuds and betrayals, class conflicts, revenge, corruption, and power. The 13 episodes included in this first-season boxed set introduce a wide range of characters (quite a few dispensed by season 2) in the orbit of oil empire Denver Carrington and its acquisitive, stop-at-nothing CEO, Blake Carrington (John Forsythe, who was simultaneously providing the off-screen voice of Charlie in Spelling's Charlie's Angels). Of particular interest is the way Blake and Denver Carrington's business problems--a groundswell of anti-American sentiment in oil-rich Arab nations, the recent energy shortage in the U.S., disagreement about developing alternative fuel sources with tax dollars--are a window onto real-world events when Dynasty debuted in 1981. But drama ripped from yesterday's headlines is not what the show is about, and it isn't long before Blake's conflicts with, well, just about everyone move to center stage. Above all is his pending marriage to former secretary Krystle Grant Jennings (Linda Evans), who loves Blake but worries that he sees her as a possession to be charmed or bullied into compliance with his tyrannical worldview. Complicating matters is Krsytle's old romance with a Denver Carrington geologist, Matthew Blaisdel (Bo Hopkins, leaning hard on his soulful, James Dean impression), who is struggling to make his marriage to the mentally ill Claudia (Pamela Bellwood) work out. Meanwhile, two of Blake's grownup kids, Fallon (Pamela Sue Martin) and Steven (Al Corley), are home for the wedding but at serious odds with dear old dad. (Blake wants Fallon to marry a competitor's son in the interest of preserving Denver Carrington. He also refuses to speak with Steven after discovering the latter has been in a gay relationship.) On the horizon is Blake's troublesome former wife, Alexis, who wasn't cast yet (she's eventually portrayed by Joan Collins in season 2), but who makes a veiled appearance (played by another actress) at a particularly inauspicious moment for poor Blake in the season finale. There's more: industrial sabotage, Fallon's affair with a chauffeur, an unexpected bond between Steven and Claudia. Dynasty wouldn't be as much fun without its endless cascade of broken hearts and dire circumstances, and it reminds us that wealth can sometimes be a peculiar kind of hell. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Another series known for latecomers, good storylines, writing |
| I'd only started collecting TV shows on DVD this year. I realized just about any show is now available in this format, which has been the highlight of '07 for me. I wondered what show I'd like to have, and Dynasty came to mind. Imagine my delight when I realized the first season has been released. However, I didn't buy it yet as I remembered Dynasty started late in its first season, like Dallas, Fantasy Island, Grey's Anatomy, to name some. I decided to wait until Season 2 is released, to see if 2-packs for both seasons might be available. You know the rest; someone else here stated it's cheaper and I finally ordered the 2-pack. They arrived within a week and a half in good condition. I really appreciate the company for bundling them together; that's what I'd do for every show that starts late if I'm in charge of DVD releases.
Some actors had yet to appear that'd put this series on the map, like Joan Collins and Heather Locklear, to name two. If Dynasty did fare well at any time in the ratings during the first season, it must've been strictly by an episode or two as the series didn't make the top 25 overall for the season. Those expecting to see the aforementioned actors here will be disappointed as they didn't arrive until the sophomore season; if good writing is expected or if you'd like to know what started it all that got us Dynasty fans yakking about at the water cooler on Thursdays, then do check this one out. I'd say it's worth a look. Actually, I'd never watched Dynasty until its 6th season when I was in college. Some friends told me how great it was and they kept telling me I should check it out. I didn't care but decided to give it a try, but sure enough I got hooked. Wednesday nights became Dynasty nights for me. One friend told me she's practically dead to the world when it's on--she ignores the phone, the door, etc. everything and everyone that breathes until the closing credits roll. I also remember this show being described as larger than life. Anyway, I'd watch the show for a while until I had to focus some more on my studies, when I'd lost interest in it altogether, or when I noticed the catfights seemed to finally become a thing of the past. What a time we had to enjoy the beauties that defined devastatingly wealthy excess for us. I'd already finished watching Season 1. I had mixed feelings about this one at first given its early storylines but told myself to hang in there until the hiss-worthy Alexis finally charms her way into our DVD players, to put it somewhat questionably. It's been a wait but worth it. Enjoy... |
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