Talk:Falcon Crest

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Contents 1 Personal Opinion Needs to Go 2 Lana Turner gossip 3 The Uncorking 4 Trivia 5 Richard Channing's favorite beverage 6 DVD piracy?

[edit] Personal Opinion Needs to Go

Part of this article reads like a personal opinion blog of a fan instead of an encyclopedic entry. Statements such as:

Melissa was written off by way of committing suicide, instead of continuing the fun-filled battle with Angela over Falcon Crest the fans came to love and enjoy week after week. Seasons eight and nine lacked the strong plot and character devlopement of pervious years, but was still fun to watch. [Emphasis added]

are entirely inappropriate. The use of "fans" in this instance constitutes a weasel word as well.

[edit] Lana Turner gossip

The story that Lana Turner and Jane Wyman filmed their scenes separately is ludricuous. They were clearly in many of the same shots and there were many publicity photos of the two actresses together. It may be true Lana's role was short-lived as not to threaten star Jane Wyman but there was no real hostility there.

Is this still a stub? Seems as complete as the subject deserves to me Pqdave 18:36, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Uncorking

I removed an earlier version of the following phrase in my last copyedit because the sentence made no grammatical sense. This restored version is fine but I still don't understand what it means:

It was also certain that Angela herself wouldn't be moving into her nephew's own land,

Is this meant to convey that Angela wouldn't be inheriting the land Jason left to Chase, or what? I guess it's the "moving" part that confuses me. TAnthony 15:54, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I removed this sentence cause I could not find a citation plus it is derogatory: Hamner proceeded to deliberately write what he viewed as trashy, turgid melodrama ^{[citation needed]}. 02:58, 14 April 2007 (UTC)Pepper17

[edit] Trivia

The following "trivia" is either redundant, not significant, or unreferenced and not significant enough to include without a source. Silly minutae like Emma's greeting are clogging the article. I'll leave the information here in case it can be later salvaged in some way; I'll attempt to merge much of what's left in the article into appropriate sections.

• At first, Falcon Crest was originally supposed to be a family dramatic series. By its first season, it was considered to be a serial, but thanks to good scripts and ratings, beginning with the second season, CBS suggested to creator Earl Hamner to make these storylines more serialized, self-contained and abandoned to become yet another prime-time soap opera, next to Dallas, and its spin-off series, Knots Landing, and Dynasty.
• When David Selby came to Falcon Crest during the second season, he told Earl Hamner that he wanted to create the character's name of: Richard Denault Channing, who was the former staff member of Lorimar named: Edward O. Denault, in real-life.
• On the first season of Falcon Crest, Lorenzo Lamas's "Valentino look" was the result of his nearsightedness; he insisted that his acting coach Jane Wyman made him wore contact lenses to solve the problem.
• Emma Channing's usual greeting whenever she saw her mother Angela was "How's tricks?"
• Falcon Crest reunited two minor co-stars from the smash hit 1978 movie comedy Grease, Eve Arden, who joined the cast as of season 7, and Lorenzo Lamas.
• A couple of years after the series ended, Lorenzo Lamas and Abby Dalton's real-life daughter Kathleen Kinmont (currently Lamas' ex-wife) co-starred in the popular 1990s crime drama, Renegade, for syndication, created by Stephen J. Cannell.
• During the 1988-89 season, creator Earl Hamner was originally going to have Jane Wyman cross-over to Dallas and Larry Hagman to cross-over to Falcon Crest, but the idea never came to fruition.
• In the episode "Home Again", neither Margaret Ladd (Emma) nor Rod Taylor (Frank) came back for the series finale due to budget restrictions. In this episode, Angela told her family that she received a letter from Emma, who had had a new baby named Angela. Angela also received a phone call from her ex-husband, Frank, stating that he would be released from jail.
• On the second episode of the ninth and final season, Susan Sullivan left the series. Prior to her departure, two new characters were introduced (portrayed by Gregory Harrison and Wendy Phillips), but neither of these characters ever matched the popularity of Sullivan's Maggie.
• The majority of seasons were screened in the United Kingdom by the ITV Network. 13 of the 14 ITV contractors opted for the Thames Television preferred 8pm Tuesday slot. The show was never networked simultaneously because Yorkshire Television chose to screen Murder, She Wrote in the Tuesday slot and selected a 1.30pm slot on Wednesday afternoons instead. Most other regions screened A Country Practice in the Wednesday slot.

[edit] Richard Channing's favorite beverage

Anybody ever wondered why David Selby's character Richard Channing is seen only drinking milk? Jungworld.com 23:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DVD piracy?

Is the DVD collection newly-referenced in the article a licensed publication or upscale piracy? It is only available on one site and has no copyright specifics. Pirated DVDs should not be referenced here. TAnthony 18:08, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's a pirate copy. That company sell DVD sets that have been copied from television recordings. I've removed the information for legal reasons. MassassiUK 16:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)