60 minSeason 9 • Episode 22
LatestAs Richard and Lauren enjoy their wedding at the winery, Richard agrees to sell Falcon Crest back to Angela on the condition that half will go to his sons in the event of her death. Lance, however, will receive ten percent now and the remainder after Angela's death. As the wedding reception draws to a close, Angela recalls all the people who passed through Tuscany Valley during the last decade and toasts the future of Falcon Crest.
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.
Acting
Jane Wyman's Angela: the blueprint for TV matriarch villainy.
Production
Napa Valley glamour that made wine country look like Shakespearean battleground.
Writing
Nine seasons of escalating grudges and spectacularly unhinged plot twists.
Creator
Earl Hamner, Jr.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jane Wyman was Ronald Reagan's ex-wife, making her America's most famous divorcee playing its most terrifying widow.
Creator Earl Hamner Jr. also created The Waltons—imagine going from Depression-era virtue to wine-soaked backstabbing in one career.
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