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Flamingo Road

1981 · 2 seasons · 1h per episode · Soap, Drama

The lives and trials of the residents of Truro, Florida.

Flamingo Road is an American prime time soap opera that aired on NBC. It was first seen as a TV movie on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 30, 1980. The show is based on the 1949 movie starring Joan Crawford, which is, in turn, based on the novel by Robert Wilder. Flamingo Road was created to compete against CBS's Dallas and Knots Landing, nighttime dramas that were inspired by the daily afternoon soap operas that had been a staple of TV for years. The character of Constance Weldon ranked at #16 on E!'s list of The 50 Most Wicked Women in Primetime.

Seasons

• Season 1 — 15 episodes (January 6, 1981)
• Season 2 — 22 episodes (November 3, 1981)

Cast

• John Beck as Sam Curtis
• Woody Brown as Skipper Weldon
• Howard Duff as Titus Semple
• Morgan Fairchild as Constance Carlyle
• Mark Harmon as Field Carlyle
• Kevin McCarthy as Claude Weldon
• Cristina Raines as Lane Ballou Curtis
• Barbara Rush as Eudora Flowers
• Stella Stevens as Lute-Mae Sanders
• Peter Donat as Elmo Tyson

Details

Created by

Rita Lakin and Robert Wilder

First aired

January 6, 1981

Episodes

37

Genres

Soap, Drama

Network

NBC

Status

Ended

TMDB score

6.3 / 10 from 12 votes