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| - Flamingo Road was a prime time soap opera that ran on NBC from 1980 to 1982. It was first seen as a made-for-TV movie in 1980. The show was based on the 1949 Joan Crawford movie which, in turn, was based on a novel by Robert Wilder. Unlike the film, the sexual suggestiveness was frank (as it had been in the novel), and the show was set in Florida, and not in an abstract Southern state. One of the more wealthier families in town was the Weldon family, who ran the local paper mill, and lived on Flamingo Road.
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| - Flamingo Road was a prime time soap opera that ran on NBC from 1980 to 1982. It was first seen as a made-for-TV movie in 1980. The show was based on the 1949 Joan Crawford movie which, in turn, was based on a novel by Robert Wilder. Unlike the film, the sexual suggestiveness was frank (as it had been in the novel), and the show was set in Florida, and not in an abstract Southern state. Flamingo Road takes its name from the fictitious road, the ritziest street, in the equally fictional community of Truro, Florida. Truro was located inside a corner of the Florida Panhandle and was very steamy for such a small community. Running the town was County Sheriff Titus Semple (Howard Duff). He was a long-time law enforcer who was thoroughly corrupt (having committed many crimes while being the community's chief law enforcement officer) and pretty much got his way in everything. One of the more wealthier families in town was the Weldon family, who ran the local paper mill, and lived on Flamingo Road. The family was comprised of Claude (Kevin McCarthy); his wife, Eudora (Barbara Rush); his daughter, Constance (Morgan Fairchild) and his son, Skipper (Woody Brown). Constance was the town's best known home wrecker, sleeping with pretty much every male in Truro, despite her marriage to her high school sweetheart, Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a former deputy of Titus Semple, who was a State Senator. Field, as he was known, was no saint, either. He slept around himself, due to Constance's cheating on him, with reporter Sandy Swanson (Cynthia Sikes); and others. However, what everyone did not know was that Claude had fathered Constance with Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens), the owner of a bar-bordello in Truro. She was also known for her friendship with streetwise singer, Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines, who played the Joan Crawford movie role, but in the series she was younger and she had been softened considerably), who worked for her, and her later husband, construction company owner, Sam Curtis (John Beck). Eudora had a secret admirer in newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Peter Donat), who had always loved her and bowed out when she married Claude. Eudora also befriended Lute-Mae, despite her not knowing that the latter was the real mother of Constance. However, no troublemaker came close to the antics committed by the mysterious and troublesome Michael Tyronne (David Selby). The handsome but devious Michael was a businessman and a former ally of Field Carlyle, who had a huge grudge against Titus Semple, for him destroying his father. To get his way in things, he would use many means, up to and including voodoo, to rid himself of his enemies. Between him and Constance, they bedded pretty much everyone in Truro. He drove Titus crazy, and even went so far as to reveal who Constance's real parents were (as noted, her father was Claude Weldon, but her mother was Lute-Mae). However, someone killed him. It was revealed that Lute-Mae had killed him, but later it was proven he hadn't died. The suspect list, though, was pretty much a who's who of the cast. Almost everyone in town had a reason to kill the evil Michael Tyronne. The series ended with Michael's spirit coming out of a barn, and there were clues that he wasn't really killed but alive. It was revealed that he was taken to a monastery, which meant Lute-Mae had not killed him.
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