Hotel (1983)

Genre

soap opera

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 115 episodes

Rated

6

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a primetime soap opera set in a fancy San Francisco hotel. Each episode follows the hotel staff and the guests who pass through. It focuses on their personal dramas and professional lives.

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What happens

Hotel is an American primetime soap opera series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1983, to May 5, 1988, in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name (which had also inspired a 1967 feature film), the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco (changed from the New Orleans setting of the novel and film). Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of the Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Some interiors for the pilot episode were also filmed inside the Fairmont; when the series was picked up, a three-quarter-scale replica of the lobby was built at Warner Bros. Studios Burbank. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff. The distribution rights to the series were originally owned by Warner Bros. Television Distribution, until 2006 when CBS Paramount Network Television bought the television libraries and properties of Spelling Entertainment Inc. from Paramount Pictures Domestic Distribution and Viacom Enterprises. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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