Dynasty
Oil (1)
TV Flash files “Oil (1)” as the hour the catalog opens — Dynasty (1981–1989) on ABC, season 1, episode 1, aired 1981-01-12, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 220 in the Dynasty guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 1981-01-12 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Oil (2)” (S01E02).
Oil as a three-part launch. The mansion is already a fitting room; the silhouette of the war is still arriving.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As Krystle Grant Jennings prepares to marry wealthy oil tycoon Blake Carrington, Matthew Blaisdel, a former lover, returns to town and causes her second thoughts. Blake's estranged son Steven returns home for the ceremony, as does rebellious daughter Fallon, who objects to the union.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Oil (1) sit in the Dynasty guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 220 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Dynasty S01E01 air?
Oil (1) aired 1981-01-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start — season one or Alexis?
Sample the Oil premiere for the mansion contract, then go straight to Enter Alexis. The look — and the war — begins when Joan Collins arrives. Season one is the fitting; season two is the show.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it as a nine-season fitting room: Joan Collins’s entrance, Carrington-versus-Colby seating charts, and cliffhangers styled like premieres. Excess is the method. The shoulder pads are not a joke — they are the argument, and the look still photographs.
The shoulder pads arrive before the argument. ABC, January 1981, a Denver mansion dressed like a jewelry advertisement, Linda Evans in cream that photographs as virtue, John Forsythe in boardroom navy that photographs as money. Dynasty did not invent the prime-time soap. It invented the soap as a look book. Richard and Esther Shapiro built the Carringtons; Aaron Spelling produced the temperature. The first season is oil and marriage and a palette still finding its nerve. Then Joan Collins walks in, and the series…
Filed against
- John Forsythe as Blake Carrington
John Forsythe voiced unseen boss Charlie on Charlie’s Angels and later ruled Dynasty as Blake Carrington — oil, shoulder pads, and primetime soap power. Speakerphone glamour became Denver boardroom navy. On TV Flash he is the…
- Linda Evans as Krystle Carrington
Linda Evans’s Krystle Carrington is Dynasty in cream that photographs as virtue — blond calm as a costume of innocence against Joan Collins’s prosecution in silk. Denver oil money as a fitting room. On TV Flash she is primetime-soap…
- Joan Collins as Alexis Colby
Joan Collins’s Alexis Colby is Dynasty as a hard launch in silk — not a guest villain, a two-woman carpet versus Linda Evans, catfights as choreography, shoulder pads as a moral binary. Oil and spoiler culture became national…
- Pamela Sue Martin as Fallon Carrington
Pamela Sue Martin’s Fallon Carrington was Dynasty before the shoulder pads fully declared war — Denver oil money’s restless heir, a hemline with its own press kit, Carrington versus Colby as a seating chart. ABC sold excess as method. TV…
- John James as Jeff Colby
John James’s Jeff Colby is Dynasty’s other oil surname — Carrington-versus-Colby seating charts in a nine-season fitting room. Denver money, shoulder pads, cliffhangers styled like premieres. On TV Flash he is primetime-soap heir energy…
- Heather Locklear as Sammy Jo Carrington
Heather Locklear’s Sammy Jo Carrington is Dynasty as a younger, sharper blade — oil-adjacent glamour that could cut the mansion from inside the family. ABC’s shoulder-pad soap sold catfights as national infrastructure. On TV Flash she is…