Dynasty: Season Five Two Pack

"The Full Year!"
Paramount has just announced the entire fifth season of "Dynasty" will be released on July 5, 2011. The set can be purchased in two individual sets (with Volume 1 featuring the first 15 episodes and Volume 2 the last 14) or in this two pack edition.

Season 5 was "Dynasty's" best and would mark the year the series became the #1 show in North America as well as globally, being seen by an estimated 150 million people.

During the 1984-1985 television season a series of guest-stars would pop up to fill the gap left by Pamela Sue Martin who quit her role as Fallon Carrington. Among those who made appearances that year would be George Hamilton, Ali McGraw, and Rock Hudson (in his last acting role).

The stories that year dealt with the Carrington's grieving the loss of Fallon (it was discovered she died in a plane crash), Blake and Krystle becoming parents finally, Alexis getting married to sexy Dex Dexter, Sammy Jo trying to gain money from the...

Catherine Oxenberg, the Moldavian Massacre, Rock Hudson and more in DYNASTY's fifth year
The ABC Network's answer to the hugely-popular primetime soap "Dallas", DYNASTY was created by Esther and Richard Shapiro to be the most flamboyant, daring and outrageous of all night-time drama series. The lives of Denver's oil-rich Carrington family unfolded each and every week to the fascination of viewers all over the world, who couldn't get enough of their scandalous private affairs.

The fifth season is one of my personal favourites, although in true DYNASTY style, it has divided fans for years. Producers brought in a new supervising writer, Camille Marchetta (who'd previously worked on the first few *good* years of "Dallas", including the J.R. shooting storyline) and Marchetta gave the characters bold and exciting new directions in some of DYNASTY's best stories to date. Not content to keep the action squarely in Denver, in this season the characters travel everywhere from Bolivia, Acapulco, London and Paris. The gamble paid off, and DYNASTY was rating through the...

The Last Good Season
Dynasty started out as a mild competitor to Dallas, then zoomed upward when Joan Collins joined the cast in season 2 as Alexis. The story lines got more and more contrived as time went on, but was still a watchable show, at least up until the Moldavian wedding massacre which closed out season 5. This incident coincided with Dynasty becoming the number 1 show on the air at that time. The wedding massacre itself was rather exciting to watch, but the follow-up at the beginning of season 6 was not up to par. Changing cast members and new writers and producers did nothing to ultimately save the show. It limped along in mediocrity until it fizzled out at the end of season 9. A "reunion" two years later did tie some loose ends up somewhat, but poor casting choices and missing main characters diluted this show's impact. CBS/Paramount has not helped sales of this show by issuing it in expensive, half-season sets in a fitful release schedule. As I have little use for seasons 6 thru 9, I have...

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