The minor characters you would keep

[Artur]

She was the sexy chick working with machines on the field with Dex in season 6. She didn’t give a damn about her boss Alexis. She could have become Alexis daughter-in-law by marrying Adam. She would have been kind-hearted like Dana but tough at the same time, capable of breaking Adam’s and Alexis’ ass from time to time.

 

[Willie Oleson]

She didn’t give a damn about her boss Alexis. She could have become Alexis daughter-in-law by marrying Adam.

Let's All Marry Adam (L.A.M.A.) is going to be the name of my new fanboysband.

Instead of pitting Adam's new wife against Alexis (which is what the soap always did anyway) she could accuse Blake of sexual harassment (sort of "almost rape").
Initially, Alexis would consider this an unexpected and very welcome trump card, but later she realises that a) it isn't her scheme and b) the young woman is so convincing that the situation becomes too ambiguous to predict its outcome in a way that would fit Alexis' own narrative.
In other words, it could become a situation that is beyond manipulation and that's why Alexis - albeit reluctantly - has to be the one to sabotage the accusation while still pretending to support her son's new wife.

Meanwhile, Krystle's growing suspicious because there are some details in Blake's self-defence that don't make sense (his alibi would be a most secret rendezvous with dangerous people in order to destroy ColbyCo, a fact he prefers to keep from Krystle, except that we-the-audience never actually witnessed said rendezvous therefore we're still none the wiser).
Nevertheless, Krystle feels obligated to accuse Alexis of orchestrating the accusation of the sexual harassment but Alexis can't reveal anything about her plan to make the problem go away.
I imagine a very beautiful, poignant and ironic scene (with beautiful score and cinematography!) that shows that these two iconic nemeses are unknowingly on the same wavelength.
Then Dex shows up and immediately supports Krystle and this angers Alexis so much that it looks like she's going to help her daughter-in-law anyway, and to hell with the consequences.

Then the camera shows Caress on the other side of the door, overhearing the conversations and monologues, and a devilish smile on her face tells us....absolutely nothing, and that's why we have to come back to find out.

 

[Monzo]

I would have liked to have seen Christine Belford stay longer as Susan Farragut. She was in five episodes, but she didn't have much to do.

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

Simon MacCorkindale in season 3 as Fallon’s hotel architect. She should have slept with him at least once. It was a strange cameo and wasted potential (season 3)

 

[Artur]

I would have liked to have seen Christine Belford stay longer as Susan Farragut. She was in five episodes, but she didn't have much to do.

I wonder if they cut her final dialogue with Fallon when she was fired. I wouldn’t be suprised of that because they deleted so many scenes with PSM in season 3. Probably that’s why Fallon seems to be more like a filler that year.

 

[Artur]

Simon MacCorkindale in season 3 as Fallon’s hotel architect. She should have slept with him at least once. It was a strange cameo and wasted potential (season 3)
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If Al Corley was still around I would see this architect as a bixexual man, who attracts both Steven and Fallon.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Andrew Laird, Blake's lawyer, ( or "consigliere," as Fallon called him) should have stayed around. He knew the Carringtons and Alexis for a long time so he was a good link to their past. Laird could bring uo lots a interesting tid bits from their history.

 

[colbyco]

Simon MacCorkindale in season 3 as Fallon’s hotel architect. She should have slept with him at least once. It was a strange cameo and wasted potential (season 3)
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he was great and so handsome how you could see later on "Falcon Crest"
he should have stayed .... maybe he could have made the role of Peter De Vilbis a fan favorit.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Simon MacCorkindale certainly was around for a short time; I, too, thought he'd be around longer but was gone in a flash.

I always tend to think that France Benard's Count du Chalon (from the La Mirage grand opening) who knew Kirby from Paris, could have stuck around longer -- perhaps replace or supplant PeeWee Devilbus (yes, I agree repugnant Helmut Berger was perfect as a slice of opportunistic EuroTrash -- but only if the show were better produced; as it was, Berger's casting just comes off as yet another bungle). And later, Count Pierre would have some lineage association with the Moldavian royals.

Grant Goodeve's gay lawyer, Chris Deegan, should have been around longer, too. I have, in my head, a Season 8 story arc in which Chris is diagnosed with H.I.V., and Steven immediately becomes concerned about his own health because, as it turns out, Chris was the late Ted Dinard's lover before Ted started dating Steven in the late-'70s... The family (probably because of evil Adam) finds out, and Steven is reluctant to take a blood test; Blake, fearing he may soon lose his youngest son, warms up to Steven; Alexis, curiously, shuts down to him (temporarily), afraid of the loss. Ultimately, Deegan winds up in a hospice, deteriorates and passes away before the end of the season, and Steven is revealed to be H.I.V. negative, and then he (and whoever his lover is by that point -- I really don't want Bart to be it) leaves for Washington, DC to be a lobbyist).

The Duchess of Brown Out would have been a player in Season 6, and then I might spin her off with THE COLBYS (which would happen later in Season 6 than it did). Two or three Moldavians would follow the spin-off, perhaps including King Galen (whom I would blend with Zach Powers' character, with Montalban cast from the very beginning).

Believe it or not, I would have kept slimy Nicole Simpson around for the remainder of Season 5 (Jeff, much like Bobby Ewing, always needs a lot of stalkers) who follows hm to Europe and is killed in the massacre.

I'm not sure if this is completely on-topic, but I'd combine Lady Ashley's character with Frankie Scott's character -- and perhaps make her Blake's former fiancé whom a teenaged Alexis once shoved out of the way back in the '50s (although Alexis claims nonsensically it was in the '70s). And if Lady Frankie perchance survives the massacre, she could use her Georgetown connections to act as a political mentor for Blake during the gubernatorial race in Season 8.

Obviously, after Caress Morell disappears (along with most of the Fallmonts) during the avalanche cliffhanger which closes Season 7, she would pop back up in phantom Season 10, and would be revealed to be the shadowy figure who'd pulled Sable into her Season 9 search for The Collection after Jason finally dumped her (based on an envelope-of-stuff Agatha Scott, the mother of Sable and Frankie, gave Caress during Season 6).

Then, of course, The Monster Bitch of Season 10, Mother Blaisdel, intent on destroying the Carringtons once and for all, whom she blames for the semi-deaths of her son and granddaughter. (Mother Blaisdel is probably best buds with Eva Braun anyway).

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

I had forgotten about mother Blaisdel
She should have conspired with Alexis to take down Claudia in season 4.
Peter should have stuck around until the end of season 4, married Fallon then their plane disappeared en route to their honeymoon, his sudden awkward departure then Fallon falling in love with Jeff out of the blue was stupid.
Caress should have had the real goods on Alexis to take her down, not that dumb sister dearest crap that the audience already had seen on camera, but some dark secret like Alexis letting her sister take the blame for Zach Powers wife falling overboard on their yacht after a drunken night of debauchery.ie Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood but set in South America .Why else would Alexis have been freaking out that she got released from jail early
She also should have been played by the talented Samantha Eggar, I can’t believe she wasn’t on the producers radar at the time for that role, they really looked like sisters
Kate O’Mara played it too comical, Caress should have been cold as ice after spending 5 years in some shit hole Venezuelan prison while her sister got rich.


As for the Dutchess of whoever, no!
Bug eyed actress with a weird accent
The Moldavians all should have been Eastern European with heavy accents , think Melonoma or count Chocula

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

he also should have been played by the talented Samantha Eggar, I can’t believe she wasn’t on the producers radar at the time for that role, they really looked like sisters
Kate O’Mara played it too comical, Caress should have been cold as ice after spending 5 years in some shit hole Venezuelan prison while her sister got rich.

Samantha Eggar is a lovely performer, but Caress needed to be played by a feral actress like Kate O'Mara (just as did the actress who played Sable) and one who could look as if Joan might be her sister and Gloria Swanson their mother.

Eggar wouldn't fit into that. Besides, she once convinced Joanie to file for unemployment, which forced Miss Collins to show up at the government office in L.A. in a mink coat... Could Samantha be trusted after that?

As for the Dutchess of whoever, no!
Bug eyed actress with a weird accent
The Moldavians all should have been Eastern European with heavy accents , think Melonoma or count Chocula

My God, she was the best of the bunch, Duchess Elena.

 

[Toni]

Hilda and shirtless Tony should have been recurring at the very least.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Hilda and shirtless Tony should have been recurring at the very least.

As a romantic couple:

 

[Willie Oleson]

The fat phantom in white, haunting Alexis' apartment.

And more of Sam Dexter instead of Daniel Reece or Fallmont.
And Sam's mother, the evil Desdemona played by Gene Tierney who has a lifelong feud with Peter's mother, Lucrezia De Vilbis played by Hildegard Knef.
Naturally, they both hate Constance Colby.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

 

[Lankershim Blasdel 1]

I’d have kept the Moldavian assassins around a while.
If first you don’t succeed……
The writers didn’t put too too much thought in the character of Caress did they,
Lazy take on Jackie Collins and the character had no direction or purpose.
I bought the publishing company Cassie, that was why and what was the point
The biggest mystery wasn’t what happened on Zack Powers yacht that was never answered but how did she get into Alexis’ apartment and why were there opened bottles of champagne and caviar lying around going flat and rancid while nobody was home

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I’d have kept the Moldavian assassins around a while.
If first you don’t succeed……

The survivors are shipped back to Colorado, the massacre explained as the result of impoverished local peasant rage over the Carringtons and Colbys exploiting the natural resources of Moldavia while the citizenry lives in squalor. (That's never happened before). By mid-Season 6, Alexis has funded and facilitated a reverse-coup and is placed on the throne beside her king.

Until, after two or three episodes, it all happens again. A few episodes later, Stanwyck dies and in her video will, played for both families, she reveals she helped organize the coups d'etat against Alexis -- because she just hates her!!

The marriage between Alexis and Galen falls apart, they divorce, and he's sent to Los Angeles in the form of Zach Powers (but he's still the king, just because...) in THE COLBYS... Then, in mid-season 7, King Galen/ Zachary Powers begins trying to woo Alexis once again, attempting to get her to finance yet another coup, even taking her to the outskirts of Moldavia under cover of night, traveling down via mule into a deep cavern where he shows her the massive, buried treasure his country has secretly held for decades. [I came up with this idea two years before Paulsen did the nazi collection story in Season 9, so there's no reason not to combine the two things --- besides, much of that nazi loot was also buried under the Tuscany Valley and Southfork's Section 40 as well!]. But this story arc would be very brief.

Ultimately, Alexis refuses to participate in the king's latest plan to re-take Moldavia, and he disappears, planning from the shadows his revenge against his former queen.

By Season 8, the king is revealed to be involved in orchestrating the assassination attempt on Alexis during the gubernatorial debate, and thus ends the final crumbs along the path of the Moldavian narrative.

 

[Willie Oleson]

It's exactly the Western-baroque interior I had in mind for the Dexter Clan ranch.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but Gordon Wales could have been slightly more prominent during the series' entire run, well, at least from the moment he shows up.
Not as a big mover & shaker à la Cliff Barnes, but as a recurring supporting character whose actions could complicate situations in a fascinating way.
Or, as an outsider, provide some objective or even radical observations about the Dynasty shenanigans, especially since most of critcism was replaced with shameless glorification by 1980s demand.
Weren't the Carringtons supposed to be "in the picture" anyway?

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

It's exactly the Western-baroque interior I had in mind for the Dexter Clan ranch.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before but Gordon Wales could have been slightly more prominent during the series' entire run, well, at least from the moment he shows up.
Not as a big mover & shaker à la Cliff Barnes, but as a recurring supporting character whose actions could complicate situations in a fascinating way.
Or, as an outsider, provide some objective or even radical observations about the Dynasty shenanigans, especially since most of critcism was replaced with shameless glorification by 1980s demand.
Weren't the Carringtons supposed to be "in the picture" anyway?

Yes, Gordon Wales should have been a semi-regular. DYNASTY never really had recognizable citizens of Denver as DALLAS did of Dallas.

PS: someone pointed out that Gene Tierney's background might be from the Titanic... so Desdemona may have drowned.

 

[Tony]

Simon MacCorkindale in season 3 as Fallon’s hotel architect. She should have slept with him at least once. It was a strange cameo and wasted potential (season 3)
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I read in an interview with Simon that he was supposed to stay on longer and romance both Fallon and Alexis, but then he was offered Jaws 3 so took that instead thinking a movie was a better option. The headline was "I turned down Joan Collins for Jaws!"

He may have regretted his decision as Jaws 3 flopped, but then he got a role on Falcon Crest. The Dynasty producers gave his plot line to Geoffrey Scott as Mark. I wonder if there's any mention of Simon's character in the Season 3 Bible @GillesDenver