Julia in prison on Falcon Crest

[niv-1]

Thougt id revisit because of OITNB. Dalton was great!

[Jagger1966]

Abby Dalton was so good in that role. It's unfortunate she was eventually written off for good, but she was a killer so it's kind of amazing she stayed as long as she did.

[niv-1]

Abby Dalton was so good in that role. It's unfortunate she was eventually written off for good, but she was a killer so it's kind of amazing she stayed as long as she did.

It is too bad she was written off! As Lance's mother there was tons that could have been done. But now I am reminded all Gioberti's were written off. Lol. The entire main original family.

[GuidingLite]

I think that was one of the reasons the show didn't last any longer than it did.....with Chase, Maggie, Melissa, Vicki, Cole, Emma, and Julia all having left, and Jane Wyman's health issues keeping Angela out of the show for most of the last season.....the show was mostly a bunch of newbies at the end....there was still Richard, Ciao Li, and Lance, but.....it wasn't enough to sustain interest in the show....

[knotsfan]

According to Soap Opera Digest at the time, Julia was supposed to take over the Cartel, which had previously been run by Jacqueline Perrault, Chase's mother, but the show changed their mind. I always figured it was because the audience would have had a hard time buying Julia's transformation from a simpering, whiny, unlucky in love victim to an evil business woman.

[jujubees]

I think that was one of the reasons the show didn't last any longer than it did.....with Chase, Maggie, Melissa, Vicki, Cole, Emma, and Julia all having left, and Jane Wyman's health issues keeping Angela out of the show for most of the last season.....the show was mostly a bunch of newbies at the end....there was still Richard, Ciao Li, and Lance, but.....it wasn't enough to sustain interest in the show....

I was able to accept Chase Gioberti"s death, but when they killed off Maggie (fired Susan Sullivan) I stopped watching. Still haven"t seen the following seasons and still have no interest in doing so.

No i am wrong. Susan wasn"t fired.....robert foxworth was fired. I am remembering things now. Susan left the show then returned i think in the ninth season. The writing was not as good after the 4-5th season.
seasons 1-3 were fantastic.

[jujubees]

I loved Abby Dalton. Julia Channing. So unlike Angela Channing

[GuidingLite]

I would love to see Falcon Crest get a reboot - not an updated retread of the original as is being done with Dynasty - but a continuation of the original....Robert Foxworth, David Selby, Abby Dalton, Margaret Ladd, Lorenzo Lamas, Jamie Rose, William Moses; they're all still alive...the only major original cast member to have passed is Jane Wyman - and yes, she was central to the original show and not just a secondary player, but when you've got so many original cast members still living....do a four hour mini-series and see what the numbers are like...if they warrant it, do a revival show. The 'next generation' is built in with Joseph Gioberti, Kevin and Michael Channing, Emma's daughter Angela that was mentioned in the series finale - Lance could easily have had a child - Richard could have had one with Lauren in the years since the show ended - a mini-series could bring Chase back from the dead, alive and living in seclusion for the past twenty-five years, until Angela's recent passing brings him back to Falcon Crest to reclaim his ownership from Lance and Richard - an attempt on Chase's life is made, everyone assumes it's Julia, since Lance's 'birthright' is again being threatened...Chase survives the attempt on his life, and in the end the culprit is caught and Chase settles back in to the Tuscany Valley to start again, offering Lance and Richard each 33% of the winery, with him retaining 34% of it and controlling interest. If the ratings are good, then the show picks up from there.;0)