Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera that in the United States in 1981 made his debut on the CBStelevision network. The first three seasons of the series were in Netherlands in the 80 's broadcast on TROS. [1]  Late 90 's was the complete series also in the afternoons on RTL 4 to follow.

The series was created by producer Earl Hamner, who previously took part in the successful television series The Waltons. He wanted to create a family drama set on avineyard, but the bosses of CBS wanted a series similar to Dallas. Hamner also did to their wishes, making the series in America after Dallas was broadcast at ten o'clock in the evening. It was a great success. The opening theme, composed by Bill Conti, was considered as memorable. The series took place on a vineyard in the North of San Francisco and focused on the rival families Channing and Gioberti.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The series revolves around Angela Channing, the corrupt and imperious family head who is the owner of several vineyards in Falcon Crest. Her decent nephew Chase Gioberti is new in the area and coming to Falcon Crest for a number of vineyards that he inherited from his father Jason Gioberti (who was killed during the pilot episode).The professional Angela and newcomer Chase grow soon became intense rivals.
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Angela's heir is the masher Lance Cumson. He loves money and power, but has never heard of discipline and determination. Angela's perseverance, however, results in that he is the editor of The newspaper The San Francisco Globe is. As Angela realizes that Chase his vineyards never will give up to her, she tries to expand her ability by Lance in a marriage to heiress Melissa Agretti to force. Melissa will also inherit once a large part of the vineyards, but Angela does not know that they also a intrigante and problem maker is.

The series also follows Angela's daughter Julia, the head of the wine producers and mother of Lance. She is the sister of Emma, a person whose life is controlled by her emotions and becomes friends with Maggie and Victoria. Maggie is the wife of Chase and works as a freelance writer. Her son is called Cole, a now adult male who is in love with Melissa. However, later she points him off for a future with Lance. Maggie also has a daughter, the free-spirited student Vickie.

Angela gets competition again when Richard Channing arrives in the city. Richard is originally a powerful editor of a newspaper, but is interested also in the vineyards industry. He is the son of Angela's ex-husband Douglas and his mistress Jacqueline (the mother of Chase). There was also many vineyards outside the rivalry. So competed Lance and Cole constantly to hand out Melissa.

During the course of the series, there are several notable storylines for. The series made use of exuberant cliffhangers at the end of the season. So was the murder of Carlo Agretti a great mystery in the second season.In the final episode of the season, all defendants were present at the wedding of Vicky and Nick Hogan. To everyone's surprise it turned out to be Julia the offender. At the end of the third season, there was a plane crash, involving three main characters died. In the last episode of season 4 was an all-threatening bomb explosion Central. In the fifth season was it was an earthquake, in which two characters were killed. At the beginning of the seventh year was learned that Chase was drowned in the San Francisco Bay. In the same season came a storyline that revolved around The Thirteen, a dangerous group of businessmen who wanted to destroy the American economy. Later it was also learned that Richard had died, while he really was alive.

Another feature of Falcon Crest was the use of known guest roles. Thus did Lana Turner, Gina Lollobrigida, Cesar Romero, Robert Stack, Cliff Robertson, Celeste Holm, Leslie Caron, Ursula Andress, Lauren Hutton,Eddie Albert, Eve Arden, Roscoe Lee Browne and Dana Andrews all guest appearances. ==Cast[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Main Characters<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===