The '80s soap opera that dared ask: can you have too many shoulder pads?
Sequel to the 1980 mini-series, taking up the plot where it -- and Judith Krantz's source novel -- left off. Billy Ikehorn (Shelley Smith) is the owner of a chic Beverly Hills boutique against which romantic, corporate and political power plays unfold in the classic soap opera tradition. It was the pilot to a prospective series.
Costume
Peak early '80s fashion excess in every frame.
Production
Beverly Hills boutique sets that scream aspirational fantasy.
Director
Robert Day
Shelley Smith
Billy Ikehorn
Priscilla Barnes
Melanie Adams
Dirk Benedict
Spider Elliott
Olga Karlatos
Valentine O'Neill
Jim McMullan
Greg Dunne
Laraine Stephens
Eliza Dunne
Roy Thinnes
Bennett Hall
Jessica Walter
Maggie McGregor
James Darren
Vito Orsini
Sandy McPeak
Josh Hillman
Vonetta McGee
Francine
Henry Polic II
Mark Stiner
Kale Browne
Kenny Higgins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This failed pilot killed the Scruples franchise dead—ABC passed, and Judith Krantz's empire moved to other adaptations.
Dirk Benedict was still riding his Battlestar Galactica fame here, cast purely for smoldering potential in a turtleneck.
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