Dynasty Season Four Announced - Page 4

I rec'd my copy today from Amazon UK and my copy had a sparkling red glittery slipcover.

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Originally Posted by Powell&Pressburger 

I rec'd my copy today from Amazon UK and my copy had a sparkling red glittery slipcover.

Must be isolated cases (pardon the pun). Had thought CBS/P's UK branch might have cut production costs by not using a cardboard slipcase over the plastic DVD case with the seven discs inside.

Post some comments when you can about the episodes in the seventh season set.

Hopefully the eighth season will be released in January 2013 (assuming it's released in Europe before the end of this year).

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Originally Posted by Ethan Riley 


My interest was waning at this time too. The whole 7th/8th season era was pretty dull, IMO. Season 6 was stupid, but at least it has its camp appeal. Seasons 7 & 8 were bogged down with storylines that seemed similar to ones we'd seen before, redundant characters (did the world really need Leslie, Dana or Sean?) and stupid daytime soap-type stories such as Krystina's sudden heart problems and the resultant kidnapping by (stupid) Sarah. I also think the Adam/Dana connection bogged down the storylines, and the exits of Claudia, Amanda, and Dominique did nothing for the show. Season 9, while still kinda stupid, was at least a breath of fresh air. They weren't afraid to inject a little black comedy into the mix now and then (just try to forget sick but hilarious Krystle's plate-throwing episode) and the return of popular cast members like Sable and Monica. It could have led into a good, solid Season 10, but no--the damage had already been done.
I always wondered, though--who do you think the "lady in the limo" was going to turn out to be in the final episode? Legend has it that it would have marked the (welcome) return of Dominique. The show needed her, if Joan Collins was leaving. Some believe that it was going to be Claudia--(we never actually saw her burn up in the fire. Notice that there's a weird edit in the Season 6 finale, right after Claudia freaks out and moving onto the shot of the fire alarm going off. Looks like they cut something out. Maybe Claudia actually ran off and survived that fire?) Others think it was either Dana, Lindsay or Leslie. My fondest wish was that it would have been Pamela Sue Martin in that limo--coming back to Denver to expose that imposter Fallon that had been hanging around for the past 5 seasons!
But enough--what in the world will it take to have the rest of Dynasty released in the United States? I can't believe they're already two seasons ahead in Britain. Come on, Paramount--catch us up.

Regarding the final episode of Dynasty (not the reunion mini-series), can remember the shooting in the Carrington mansion, the balcony fall and the cave collapse, but not the "lady in the limo" at all from the final episode. Wish the characters Dominque and Garrett could have reunited, as there was mileage left in the character of Dominque. Disappointed when Ben left the series. What would have been an interesting contrast after he joined the good side, was to have some scenes with Alexis, after previously being in cahoots with her, plotting against Blake.

Also, didn't care much for Dana, Leslie (whose absence was never explained) and Sean either.

About the rest of Dynasty being released in the US, maybe it has been selling better in Europe and the UK? Hopefully the sixth season will be released before the end of this year.

P & P, hat would be the reason for some copies of Dynasty: The Seventh Season from Amazon UK having no slipcases, when there appeared to be no problem with the fifth and sixth season Region 2 sets?

Have watched up to halfway through disc 2, and so far the picture/print quality is an improvement on the sixth season R2 set of Dynasty. Whilst you can tell some of the sets and storylines are re-used, the show is still very watchable. Ricardo Montalban's second of two appearances in the next few episodes.

TVShowsOnDVD news article, posted on their website last week (April 5th) about Dynasty: The Sixth Season - Volumes One and Two on Region 1, including final 3D front cover artwork for both volumes:

Dynasty: The Sixth Season - Volumes One and Two - TVShowsOnDVD.com news article

The eighth season of Dynasty has a possible Region 2 release date of Monday 30th July. A listing is on Amazon UK for the set, but it isn't available for DVD pre-order yet. So take this with a grain of salt (or a bag of salt), as there was a listing on Amazon UK for the third season of The Streets of San Francisco which never happened (the date isn't on there now, but it was going to be released in September 2010). If this July release is correct, then the eighth season is being released six months earlier than when I thought it would be released (January next year).

Dynasty: The Eighth Season is now available for DVD pre-order on Amazon UK, HMV.com and Play.com with a release date of Monday 30th July. Hopefully the front cover artwork will be up on these websites soon.

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Dynasty: The Eighth Season is now available for DVD pre-order on Amazon UK, HMV.com and Play.com with a release date of Monday 30th July. Hopefully the front cover artwork will be up on these websites soon.

Thanks for that Update Pre-ordering for sure! 

Hopefully the Fallon UFO flashback scenes are intact (when UK Gold showed the eighth season many years ago, the UFO scenes were cut).

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Originally Posted by Ethan Riley 


So far, neither the UK or US dvds have featured any episodes that were cut for syndication. Nor has there been any music replacement, as far as anyone's noticed. Those UFO scenes may have been cut because they were too referential to the Colbys series and may have been misunderstood if you were just watching Dynasty alone. I think the dvd producers are wise enough to leave them in, especially since some of us have been pining away for a Colbys dvd release as well

I have only watched the show since the first Season was released when was it 50 years ago lol Feels like it with how slow it takes... however when I read a while back about the Fallon UFO storyline I was thinking Really WTF? It almost sounded made up! the whole Fallon character got lost on me when she was replaced. No one can replace the original Fallon IMO, however I will say after many season Fallon lost her fire, not just in character but in her fashion sense and what the hell were they doing to her hair! I mean come on her character was so awesome from the start! I still loved her once she became closer to Krystal. I think the powers that be made her look frumpy etc and they ran her character off the show so to speak. 

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Originally Posted by Ethan Riley 


So far, neither the UK or US dvds have featured any episodes that were cut for syndication. Nor has there been any music replacement, as far as anyone's noticed. Those UFO scenes may have been cut because they were too referential to the Colbys series and may have been misunderstood if you were just watching Dynasty alone. I think the dvd producers are wise enough to leave them in, especially since some of us have been pining away for a Colbys dvd release as well

Liked how you worded that.

The recap shown at the beginning of the eighth season premiere showed a clip from the end scene of The Colbys' series finale, with what was shown across the first few episodes of Dynasty's eighth season being brand new footage. At the moment, unless The Colbys does get a DVD release, these UFO flashbacks are all we're going to get of The Colbys at the moment, in terms of a taster of that cliffhanger ending. Having re-watched The Colbys recently, they really should have brought the show back for a third season. Even if it was going to be explained as a figment of Fallon's imagination (read it here or on another TV forum, along with Bliss and Zach being dropped and Dominque becoming a regular cast member), The Colbys got better as it went on and should have been brought back. The Carrington-Colby pipeline was still being mentioned from time, but the focus had shifted to the IMOS Project and a mysterious character called Hoyt Parker.

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Of course, all four Carrington children were recast at some point in the series, and it never really worked out. Does anyone prefer, for example Jack Coleman as Steven? He had little spark to him either. He was actually a better actor than Al Corley, but he still seemed wooden, and he played the character much longer. We won't even get into Karen Cellini and Robin Sachs...gah!!!!

It just wasn't the same with Robin Sachs as Adam in Dynasty: The Reunion (hopefully this will be included with the ninth season set and not released separately), compared to Gordon Thomson's portrayal. Used to love his scenes with Jeff (John James) on both Dynasty and The Colbys. And remember when they brought back Al Corley for the reunion mini-series? Did Steven have plastic surgery again?

Ben's daughter Leslie started off having a good storyline in the seventh season, but then she disappeared with no explanation come the ninth season. Would have liked to have seen Christopher Cazenove stay on for the eighth season, or appear on The Colbys as a recurring character, had it been renewed for a third season.

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I have only watched the show since the first Season was released when was it 50 years ago lol Feels like it with how slow it takes... however when I read a while back about the Fallon UFO storyline I was thinking Really WTF? It almost sounded made up! the whole Fallon character got lost on me when she was replaced. No one can replace the original Fallon IMO, however I will say after many season Fallon lost her fire, not just in character but in her fashion sense and what the hell were they doing to her hair! I mean come on her character was so awesome from the start! I still loved her once she became closer to Krystal. I think the powers that be made her look frumpy etc and they ran her character off the show so to speak. 

Having watched the cliffhanger of The Colbys again, even though I'd seen it before, I still couldn't believe my eyes. Mulder and Scully were only six years away after this episode premiered on CBS. That would have been a neat homage to the UFO storyline, if they'd mentioned on The X Files about a woman who was abducted by a UFO with her car found by a crossroads, followed by her family telling her it was all in her head.

That would have made an interesting comparison, seeing Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon on The Colbys.

I would love to see THE COLBY's released on DVD also. They should just honestly release a Two Season Set and get it released. I love Stephanie Beecham and have never seen any of the Colby's except the crossover DYNASTY eps. I recall Stephanie from my childhood staple film Troop Beverly Hill$

The TV series Stephanie Beacham made before The Colbys, Connie, will hopefully will get released in July by Network. Unless it's release gets pushed back again. Vaguely remember it from it's original transmission when shown on ITV.

Also, regarding the beginning of the eighth season of Dynasty....how much time passed between Jeff's last scene in The Colbys' series finale to when he's searching for Fallon with the police in the Mojave desert?

Jack, did you start watching Dynasty with it's ninth season? From what I remember, the last season (as with the seventh and eighth seasons) had a lot of scenes shot on the studio set. The murder storyline was quite good and the show seemed better.

With regards to the complete series set of Connie, have no idea if it's music replacement issues or something else which is holding up the release. Network have substituted music tracks on their releases of Heartbeat (the most obvious substitutions being of tracks by The Beatles). What you don't see now on the front covers round the circle picture (inside of which it says how many discs are in a boxset), is "all episodes complete and uncut". Along the top of each Network TV show release is "The Complete _____ Series", but (and this was said on here a long while ago) this just means all the episodes in a season of a show are in the boxset.

Front cover artwork for the Region 2 UK release of Dynasty: The Eighth Season (source: Amazon UK):