Falcon Crest
Season 1
18 listed hours · 1981–1990 · CBS
From the desk
How this season is filed
Wyman's late-career TV domination — matriarchal soap craft with vineyard chic. Angela Channing pours wine and coups in Tuscany Valley while Lorenzo Lamas supplies heartthrob Lance. Essential if you're completing the 1980s prime-time soap trifecta with Dallas and Knots. Shoulder pads met terroir. Vintage villainy, weekly.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Falcon Crest (1981–1990) on CBS as the first listed season of 9 — 18 listed hours, 1981-12-04–1982-04-16 from “In His Father's House” (S01E01) to “Ultimate Answers” (S01E18). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 In His Father's House
In His Father's House is Angela Channing's pour: matriarchal soap craft, vineyard chic, Wyman's late-career domination already in the glass.
- S01E03 The Tangled Vines
The Tangled Vines maps Tuscany Valley coups: Lorenzo Lamas's Lance as heartthrob inventory, the winery already a weekly plot engine.
- S01E01
In His Father's House
In the first episode of this serial drama about power, passion and money in California's wine industry, winery owner Angela Channing begrudges her nephew his birthright.
- S01E02
A Time for Saboteurs
Chase's friend romances Julia in an attempt to get a loan from Angela.
- S01E03
The Tangled Vines
Angela and a rival vie for the rights to Chase's grape harvest.
- S01E04
The Harvest
Lance tries to sabotage Chase's harvest; and Angela, disappointed in her grandson, decides to groom Cole to be her heir.
- S01E05
Tony Comes Home
Julia's estranged husband wants to reconcile; Angela tries to split the Giobertis by arranging a job interview for Maggie in San Francisco.
- S01E06
Kindred Spirits
Chase is forced to depend on Lance to bring help to a seriously injured Cole; and Angela blames Victoria when Emma disappears.
- S01E07
The Extortionist
Emma's lost love returns, threatening Angela with his knowledge of Jason's death; Maggie's possible pregnancy angers Vickie.
- S01E08
Lord of the Manor
Lance plots to double-cross a crooked wine distributor; Douglas pursues Angela at a wine competition in Rome.
- S01E09
Dark Journey
Lance encourages Vickie to make her own life in San Francisco; Angela uses an old flame to keep one burning in Douglas.
- S01E10
Victims
Chase and Maggie discover that their fieldworkers are being blackmailed.
- S01E11
For Love or Money
Chase finds his father's writings; Lance's sudden romance threatens Angela's plans for an arranged marriage.
- S01E12
Family Reunion
A visit from Chase's estranged mother unnerves Angela.
- S01E13
The Candidate
Angela's control of county water rights is threatened when a member of the Board of Supervisors is murdered.
- S01E14
House of Cards
Lance decides to move to San Francisco; Julia learns the threat that Emma poses.
- S01E15
Heir Apparent
Angela and her lawyer scheme to jeopardize Lance's inheritance and to block a coroner's inquest into Jason's death.
- S01E16
The Good, the Bad and the Profane
Lance proposes to Melissa, who continues to see Cole; Mario and Vickie decide to live together.
- S01E17
Penultimate Questions
Chase asks the DA for a coroner's inquest into Jason's death.
- S01E18
Ultimate Answers
Angela plots to discredit Chase, who is accused of pursuing the inquest for financial gain.
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