Flamingo Road (1980)
- Genre
- soap opera
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 2 seasons, 37 episodes
- Rated
- 13
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 12 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A wealthy family runs a paper mill in a small Florida town. The story follows their personal conflicts and power struggles with other local residents.
dramaticglossysoapyschemingglamoroustenseemotionally chargedfamily-driven
What happens
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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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