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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gabriel Maxwell" data-source="post: 4709" data-attributes="member: 121"><img src="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/25/250B6E0600000578-2925695-image-m-26_1422206917612.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Finally, I added several items I initially missed from the early development, as well as post-cancellation reports:1985:An early March 1985 report announced the casting of Emma Samms in the role of Fallon. GENERAL HOSPITAL star Samms already appeared in an early 1984 episode of Aaron Spelling's HOTEL, romancing her DYNASTY mom Joan Collins' MAKING OF A MALE MODEL co-star Jon-Erik Hexum, who tragically died on the set of his new show COVER-UP in October 1984. Just days after THE COLBYS was first announced in the press in late February, negotiations with Pamela Sue Martin fell through and the producers quickly looked elsewhere. They were in a hurry to film a couple of Fallon scenes for late season 5 of DYNASTY - the Moldavian massacre was being filmed in late March and they needed someone to play Fallon before they wrapped production.1986:Charlton Heston's late December letter to co-star Maxwell Caulfield (which he sent to ABC management and Aaron Spelling and the entire cast) was prompted when the BEN HUR star got irritated by Caulfield jogging on the rooftop of the studio where he was trying to film a scene. Caulfield was often late on the set and reportedly a tad too self-confident, so the jogging incident may have simply been the last straw.1987:On April 22, Charlton Heston said there just aren't many good roles for "grown-ups" in today's teen-dominated movies. ... "Every night, every week in THE COLBYS, which is not even a top-rated show, in terms of the audience, more people see it than saw BEN HUR in theaters."On August 2, Emma Samms said DYNASTY producers would not use the dream device to solve the UFO cliffhanger from THE COLBYS series finale, when she and John James return to the original series.On August 30, Charlton Heston said that he was a little disappointed when THE COLBYSwas canceled. "We were coming closer to what we had in mind originally for the show," he says. He and executive producers Esther and Richard Shapiro wanted to make THE COLBYS as different from the Shapiro's DYNASTY as possible. "We wanted to make it less baroque," Heston says. Though he had a great deal of input into the scripts, he says he had nothing to do with the season's final episode in which Emma Samm's had an UFO encounter. 3 weeks earlier he told the reporters that he would consider making another TV series, now that THE COLBYS had been canceled. 1988:On May 24, 1988 it was reported that: "...next season on ABC's "DYNASTY," Stephanie Beacham will resurrect her COLBYS character, Sable Colby. The British actress, who played nasty Sable on the defunct series, will portray that nasty woman on DYNASTY too. She'll go head- to-head with DYNASTY Alexis, played by another Brit, Joan Collins."On June 3 it was confirmed that Beacham had signed to a full-time DYNASTY contract for next season. John Forsythe had an every-episode contract, but ABC was committed to only 13 1988-89 episodes of 37th-ranked Dynasty (the show got a full 22-episode season before Christmas).On November 16 as the final season of DYNASTY got under way, Joan Collins was quoted as saying: "Stephanie Beacham, who returned this season, ''is a really good bitch. We go at each other hammer and tongs.'" 1989:On February 1 it was reported that Tracy Scoggins would join the cast of ABC's DYNASTY later this month, reviving her character Monica from the failed Dynasty spin-off THE COLBYS.On May 16, 1989 NBC announced its fall line-up, saying Stephanie Beacham will star in freshman sitcom SISTER KATE. The press speculated that probably means the end of DYNASTY because Linda Evans left, Joan Collins is on the way out, and John Forsythe is said to be not very enthusiastic about continuing.On May 23, 1989, ABC canceled DYNASTY when they announced their fall 1989 schedule.On October 1, it was reported that British actress Stephanie Beacham had purchased a beach-view house in Malibu. The hacienda-style home, with 3000 square feet and two sun decks, went for just over $1 million.According to a ratings report published on October 5, "in spite of a cushy preview on Saturday night and another outing on Thursday night (two strong nights for NBC), Stephanie Beacham's sitcom has finished 69th and 70th in its regular time period the past two weeks."Finally, on October 8, Stephanie Beacham who stars in NBC's SISTER KATE says: "If DYNASTY had not been canceled I would have stayed with that show. I think NBC checked with DYNASTY producers Aaron Spelling and Esther Shapiro before making a deal with me for SISTER KATE.</blockquote>

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