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Titans

Edie70

Edie70

Telly Talk Fan
Awww, this thread brings back so many memories. I was only ten years old when this show aired and I loved it. Yasmine Bleeth was deliciously twisty, Casper Van Dien in his prime, very young Kevin Zegers and John Barrowman, Victoria Principal's last acting job. It was amazingly trashy. Too bad it got cancelled so soon.
 
Victoriafan3

Victoriafan3

Telly Talk Addict
I loved seeing VP on screen again. I didn’t mind this show. Gwen was snappy and mod. Shame it didn’t take off. Thanks for posting episode 13 that didnt air at the time. I think VP was also disappointed they killed off perry king’s character (so early on) as she enjoyed working with him and he was one of the reasons she took the role. Rumour has it Aaron spelling had asked heather Locklear to be his bad girl again, had there been a second season. The ratings of the first episode seemed quite promising, but sadly it went quite Down in the ratings after that. Now Jaclyn Smith is one of the very, very few people who could play Victoria Principal’s sister. She’s gorgeous and lovely :)
 
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Carrie Fairchild

Carrie Fairchild

Telly Talk Star
In part two of my "dragging past threads up from the depths of the forums" series, this Fall TV season marks 20 years since Titans came and went from our lives so quickly. To commemorate this hot mess, here's some print ads that haven't been posted here before.

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Carrie Fairchild

Carrie Fairchild

Telly Talk Star
One other thing I noticed about the promos at the time was the inconsistent branding. I know it's probably not unusual to change styles in promo material but the second font below was used so often, you'd have presumed it would've been the title card but instead we got the rather pedstrian looking third option below.

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Werewillie Oleson

Werewillie Oleson

Telly Talk Schemer
Carrie Fairchild said:
once it was announced that he was being written out, he was very much sidelined & Wagner was pushed as the patriarch figure.
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And that was mistake #1 since Perry King has so much more screen presence than Jack Wagner and a soap opera needs a strong ensemble cast.
I don't mind the death-of-patriarch catalyst - a story has to start somewhere - but I would have preferred a Big Hollywood Name for the patriarch and Perry King as the younger brother.
The schizophrenic and incoherent scripts, combined with utterly bland characters is probably what killed the Titan soap.
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In part two of my "dragging past threads up from the depths of the forums" series
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Ha! Should we dread part three: the resurrection of the Dark Mansions thread?
 
Carrie Fairchild

Carrie Fairchild

Telly Talk Star
Willie Oleson said:
Ha! Should we dread part three: the resurrection of the Dark Mansions thread?
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Maybe a return trip to Hyperion Bay :oops:

Regarding Perry King, I didn't really get the "we needed darker characters on the show" excuse for getting rid of him. I remember seeing him playing mean in Roxanne: The Prize Pulitzer, so he was capable and the character could've been rewritten. As discussed before, I think NBC didn't really want the show to begin with and the producers didn't know what they wanted to make, so this is why it became the mess that it did.
 
tommie

tommie

Telly Talk Hero
Titans made sense on paper - as the promos said, both Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 had gone off the air, so launching a new prime time soap opera for the new millennium made sense - after all Beverly Hills 90210 started in 1990 as the other prime time soaps were dying and while both Melrose and BH90210 were limping in the overall rankings, they still consistently did well in the 18-49 demographic, even towards the end.

The main problem can be summed up with Charles Pratt Jr. Why, oh why did Spelling think it was a good idea to sell a prime time soap by him? Models Inc had been a mess a few years earlier and while Pratt might have a few fun ideas here and there, he absolutely can't plan something long-term (which Models Inc showed). The fact that Titans got a "re-tool" five episodes in by killing Perry King (something that wasn't the plan from the get-go) says it all. In a way I wonder how it would've developed if it got a full 22 episode season, or even worse, a 32 episode one a la Melrose Place!
 
tommie

tommie

Telly Talk Hero
I mean, in theory, a scene like this is gold:


Maybe it's the writing, maybe the fact that Yasmine was (self-admittingly) on a shit-ton of coke at the time or maybe that Victoria Principal just looks younger than her nemesis. Maybe TellyTalk aspiring writers could write a better scene where they acknowledge the Principal Secret of this scene.
 
Crimson

Crimson

Telly Talk Star
I've sometimes wondered if TITANS had been more successful, if Harold Robbins would have sued for plagiarism. The premise of the show -- an aviation tycoon married to the much younger ex-girlfriend of his son -- is conspicuously similar to the starting point of Robbins' novel THE CARPETBAGGERS.

Like others, I was pretty excited for this show but, like so many of the attempted soaps of the time, it fizzled almost instantly. Pretty sure I quit watching once the focus shifted to Jack Wagner. I thought he was bland on MELROSE PLACE and had little desire to watch him again.
 
Alison Carr

Alison Carr

Telly Talk Active Member
i don't think the final couple of episodes were ever screened were they? i just kind of remember it all endeing suddenly and the last one I saw did not seem like a season finale, how should it end?
 
tommie

tommie

Telly Talk Hero
Darren Chivers said:
i don't think the final couple of episodes were ever screened were they? i just kind of remember it all endeing suddenly and the last one I saw did not seem like a season finale, how should it end?
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Episodes 12 and 13 were left unaired in the US, but even if you watch it to episode 13 it just ends abruptly. There was some hope that moving it to Monday would help ratings and NBC would order a full season, but pretty much the day after the Monday debut it was cancelled due to low ratings.
 
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