Flamingo Road (TV series)
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. 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.
| Flamingo Road | |
|---|---|
The cast of Flamingo Road | |
| Genre | Soap opera |
| Developed by | Rita Lakin |
| Starring | John Beck Woody Brown Peter Donat Howard Duff Morgan Fairchild Mark Harmon Kevin McCarthy Cristina Raines Barbara Rush Stella Stevens |
| Theme music composer | Gerald Fried |
| Opening theme | "Flamingo Road" |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 38 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Michael Filerman Lee Rich |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production companies | Michael Filerman Productions Lorimar Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | May 12, 1980 – May 4, 1982 |
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.
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