Hollywood Royalty: Ep. 7: Ellis Island/Christopher Columbus
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Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, and Peter Strauss in the 1976 miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man".
It wasn't the first miniseries, but it was the first megahit miniseries.
The saga "Rich Man, Poor Man" premiered 50 years ago, airing Feb-Mar 1976.
Peter Strauss must have tied with Richard Chamberlain as the "king of the miniseries" in the years that followed!
#retrotv #miniseries #classictv
Thank you! There are so many great miniseries.
N-Y Times Promo ad for Jacqueline Susann's ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH.
This one was optioned for a miniseries and I don't know why it wasn't made - it would have been perfect!
Faye Dunaway lounging by pool in lingerie. Oscar on table, newspapers strewn about ground.
Pose as described in first pic, except Dunaway is perched on side of table.
Hollywood History: OTD 3/29/1977
One of filmdom's most iconic post-Oscar shoots occurred poolside at Beverly Hills Hotel at 5am.
Faye Dunaway, celebrating win for NETWORK preceding night, met photographer Terry O'Neill (her partner & future hubby). Brilliant!
#filmsky 📽
TV Guide cover from March 1986 featuring Madolyn Smth in the miniseries "If Tomorrow Comes"
40 years ago this week, the miniseries "If Tomorrow Comes" premiered - my favourite of the many Sidney Sheldon adaptations. Exciting and romantic with glam locations and fun performances by Madolyn Smth and Tom Berenger. It's very '80s, very enjoyable escapism.
#retroTV #miniseries #sidneysheldon
Gorgeous cover
Rocky Horror vibes :-)
I liked the miniseries, but it was quite different to the book!
My new video essay about the glamorous 1986 Joan Collins miniseries "Sins" is now available to watch.
youtu.be/isjdkueYyRU?...
Print advertisement for the miniseries "Peter the Great", Feb 3, 1986
I recently watched the historical epic miniseries "Peter the Great" for the first time. I find these miniseries a great form of escapism in troubling times. This one first aired Feb 2-5, 1986. It has an amazing cast, was filmed on location in Russia (then the Soviet Union), and had an epic budget!
I love the cover
Cover of the book "Kane and Abel" by Jeffrey Archer
Forty years this week since the miniseries version of "Kane and Abel" premiered, on November 17, 1985.
This is a very melodramatic miniseries and therefore it's right up my alley!
The story follows a decades-long rivalry between two men born on the same day but into very different circumstances.
The world is a duller place without the witty Jilly Cooper, last of the OG bonkbuster queens. So glad she got to bask in the recent success of the excellent TV adaptation of "Rivals".
#jillycooper
How wonderful!
No, but I think there will be some kind of publication coming out of it eventually :-)
The miracle of Zoom :-)
Absolutely!
DVD cover for the miniseries "Deceptions" (1985)
This week is the 40th anniversary of the terrific miniseries, "Deceptions". It's a glamorous, fast-paced romantic melodrama, filmed in England and Venice, about identical twins who trade places. Starting Stefanie Powers and Barry Bostwick, it has everything that was wonderful about escapist '80s TV.
❤️
I think I'll have to find a copy of the book.
I think it had a manufacture on demand release, possibly Warner Archive
Yes! The look in the car after the wedding, but also the smug triumph in the courtroom bathroom
Print advertisement for the miniseries A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA, May 12, 1985.
There were many juicy roles for the ex-Charlie’s Angels during the 1980s, and one of Cheryl Ladd’s most complex (and unusual) was the true story miniseries A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA, co-starring Sam Elliott. It’s compelling, but not an easy watch. It first aired May 12-13 1985.
Actors Madolyn Smith and Michael Biehn in the 1985 miniseries, DEADLY INTENTIONS
DEADLY INTENTIONS aired May 19-20, 1985. Michael Biehn is a psychopathic doctor who torments and tries to kill his wife Madolyn Smith.
There was a quasi-fictionalized 1991 sequel, with Harry Hamlin playing the doctor. It has a scene of Hamlin watching Biehn play him in the miniseries. Very meta!
Deborah Raffin and Phoebe Cates in the miniseries LACE II (1985)
It's 40 years this week since the miniseries LACE II first aired.
Quite an interesting case study in '80s era melodramatic miniseries for several reasons, but mostly because it proved how difficult it is to make lightning strike twice.
It's boring when people watch stuff to belittle it, but in recent years I have actually found myself not quite "hate" watching, but definitely watching stuff I don't like - & I don't know why! Almost exclusively these are reboots of older shows I liked. I'd never ridicule them publicly though :-)
My YouTube essay about twins in melodrama and more specifically the 1985 miniseries "Deceptions" is up now.
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I have this edition too. I feel fairly certain though that this picture of Victoria Tennant comes from Voice of the Heart.