Flamingo Road (TV series)

Flamingo Road
The cast of Flamingo Road
GenreSoap opera
Developed byRita Lakin
StarringJohn Beck
Woody Brown
Peter Donat
Howard Duff
Morgan Fairchild
Mark Harmon
Kevin McCarthy
Cristina Raines
Barbara Rush
Stella Stevens
Theme music composerGerald Fried
Opening theme"Flamingo Road"
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes38 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producersMichael Filerman
Lee Rich
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesMichael Filerman Productions
Lorimar Productions
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseMay 12, 1980 (1980-05-12) –
May 4, 1982 (1982-05-04)
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Flamingo Road is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on NBC. It premiered as a television film on May 12, 1980, and as a series on January 6, 1981, after a rebroadcast of the pilot on December 30, 1980.[1] The show was based on a 1942 Robert Wilder novel of the same name and the 1949 movie scripted by Wilder and starring Joan Crawford.

The show was created by Lorimar Productions, who was producing CBS's Dallas and Knots Landing at the same time. Set in the present-day fictional town of Truro, Florida, Flamingo Road centered on the wealthy Weldon family, who made their fortune running the town paper mill.[2][3]

  1. ^ Schemering, Christopher (1987). The Soap Opera Encyclopedia (2nd ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-345-35344-7.
  2. ^ Copeland, Mary Ann (1991). Soap Opera History. Publications International. pp. 132–133. ISBN 0-88176-933-9.
  3. ^ Eastman, Janet (January 1981). "Morgan". Orange Coast. 7 (1): 19.