Michael Hester soooo true, I was in my early 20s and some of the stuff Blake was saying I never heard, however I learn something from this and I’m glad. This scene was deep. 😵😵😵😵😵
Sadly this was all too timely, even then we hid gay people and pushed them aside. Men were men and women were objects in the 70s and it took 50 years for us to get back to this time again where people want it to go back that way.
Season 1 was the best in writing. Too bad they had to change it because the network felt the viewers wanted to see more of a rich family drama than anything else.
Hard to believe that in the very early 1980s this was essentially the only gay character on TV. Steven Carrington was no role model, the writers (probably under pressure from the network) kept making him go straight, get married to a woman, etc. then do this back and forth for the length of the series. Men, women, men, women, etc. Still, the gay community would watch an entire episode for 30 seconds of seeing Steven. It was representation and visibility, no matter how flawed.
AtomSmash ironically Al Corley wanted the character to explore his sexuality but pressure from conservative and religious groups prevented that so eventually Sammy Jo was brought in to try and “turn him straight.”
Attitudes towards homosexuality have changed since the 1980s. I see nothing wrong with it and if men and women are happy with people of the same gender that's grand.
I agree that this was so ahead of its time! I mean this was filmed in the early 80ies! This was prime time American television exported all across the world! I remember watching this as a teenager and it made the scales fall from my eyes.....
tony smith this was the very early 80s so it was revolutionary to have an openly gay character on prime time television that wasn’t a stereotype and it was brave considered this was around the time of AIDS.
@DannyM71 I NEVER accepted Jack Coleman, like I NEVER accepted Emma Samms as Fallon. I love Dynasty with Al & Pamela Sue. You look too young to have watched Dynasty when it was in prime time.
4:07! That is brutal. Folks only remember the catfights and the shoulder pads, but season 1 was quite exceptional and Blake Carrington looked old and quite the villain.
emerybayblues season 1 was originally supposed to be about the trials and tribulations of running Denver Carrington but when the show wasn’t doing so well in the ratings, they brought in Joan. Her role as a female “JR Ewing” really helped to increase viewership.
yes the first season of Dynasty was a serious drama... and it was supposed to be about how the rich (Carringtons and Colbys) take advantage of the working / middle classes (Blaisdels and Lankershems). And Blake was quite awful to his family (he raped Krystle when he found out she was taking birth control pills' ; humiliated his gay son etc). But the ratings were bad and they brought in evil Alexis (Joan Collins) and softened Blake up (visually and the way the character was written)... them it became camp.
This was way ahead of its time. Quite controversial. But considering the time and Blake's age, it's understandable that he is shocked and needs some time to accept it.
If only they had kept the writing/acting on this show as good as it was in the first season, instead of making each season more ridiculous and outrageous.
I think the reason Forsythe looks younger as the season's progress was an attempt by the producers to soften Blake's image. In the 1st season, Blake was not a likeable character (raped his wife, was cruel to his gay son, manipulated the working class = Matthew, stuck his dobermans on people, etc.) All of which was great... BUT as the years (the 80s) went on, Blake (read: rich oil baron) become "heroic" and the screen makeup reflected this image...
@@SidJustice1 yes they started lighting him less garishly... he still had his moments; but by season 4 he was just the benevolent rich guy being tormented by his evil ex-wife Alexis.
Dynasty was the FIRST Prime time soap to have a gay charater. They were cutting edge in the 1980's I watched them EVERY week Of course I did I was a young gay kid. I wasn't alone!
So many people still think the way the character of Blake does. I feel badly for the children of parents like him, hopefully the become stronger by such rejection. It is possible.
I don't think it's easy for parents but if you want your children in your life and hope to see them have a chance at love then you come to a level of acceptance with your child or you may lose them.
Wow, it's amazing how far we've come in 43 years. When phillip chancellor IV aka "Chance" spoke with his Father Phillip Chancellor III who explained about his homosexuality, it was heavy but so factual. In the 1980's there was no Gay Pride then the way it is now. If you told Blake how Gay Friendly society was going to be in the future, he wouldn't have believed.
Al Corley who plays Steven is a prolific 1980s pop singer with hits "Square Rooms" and "Cold Dresses" happens to be heterosexual or straight in real life. I must admit I was obsessed with him back in the day. He was almost a perfect celebrity.
This is the strength and conviction Steven should have kept with. He was written so oddly in future seasons. I'm gay and Steven was my first exposure to homosexuality. I was in 5th grade when I started watching Dynasty and by then the new Steven was in place with Luke. Steven was so self hating that he was a very poor example. I watched the first five episodes of the new Dynasty. I didn't care for it at all but they did get Steven right. He was powerful and knew who he was. A far cry from the Steven of the past. It shows how far we have really come. The new Steven was having sex with the male Sammy Joe. They were kissing on TV. The old Steven got a few awkward hugs from Luke or Bart. There was no kissing and no intimacy. Still Dynasty was the first in the 80's to show any representation. It's a dinosaur view now but still important in it's own way.
He felt that Steven was spoiled, yet Blake was responsible. He never made Steven work at Denver Carrington or any other Job and he made it too easy to have anything. It kind of parallels Gino Santangelo finding out his son Dario was Gay in the 1977 Bestseller Chances by Jackie Collins. Yet Steven came into his own as a Successful Businessman but Dario had no head for business.
I don't get how Steven was any more "spolied" than his other children. Steven eventually worked at a "blue-collar" jobs and was willing to "make it" on his own. Fallon got things handed to her with very little fuss.
@@jonathanwashington6083 It was Blake's Company that he worked at. Then a couple of years later, Blake invites Luke Fuller to Dinner. I'm sure because of that scene alot of folks did their best to accept their child's alternative lifestyle.
@@laminage He worked for Matthew Blasdel and then worked overseas on an oil rig. He didn't actually work for Blake and Alexis until the "new" Steven came back in season 3.
Was this the first soap to have a gay story line to have a character who was homosexual. I had forgotten all about the gay story lines in Dynasty. I don't think there were many soaps like Dallas or Knottslanding that had samesex relationship storylines.
This scene of the pilot episode was actually a reshoot. Original scene was with Al Corley as Steven and George Pappard as Blake. George Pappard was fired during the filming of the pilot so all the Blake scenes has to be refilmed including this one.
This scene was filmed in the studio in Los Angeles actually. What happened was that the original of this scene with George Peppard as Blake was filmed at Filoli in May but then George was fired 21 days during the filming. They planned to reshoot with John Forsythe during the summer, but the strike happened in Hollywood so they couldn't resume filming until November. By then they already build a studio Filoli house in Los Angeles and this scene was reshot there.
Doesn't surprise me that the tv station played this. it doesn't really take a stand on who's right and wrong? it just lays out the facts. It doesn't make the father look right or wrong, just confused, same as steven. I think it's the safest way you can show an issue, without taking a stance. it's still daring and I give them that.
clintrock the whole thing between him and his son was powerful , I think it help create conversations wether you agreed or disagree more often between people. Just my thoughts.🤔
Gay people are real people. Stereotypes are just a product of ignorance and even hatred. Everyone on this planet is different and if we can't see that or accept that we end up feeling the way you do. It is your problem that you are not accepting of others and as for Modern Family, just stop watching it and go watch something else.
To even allude to homosexuality on TV in the early 80s was gutsy, but what was so stunning about Dynasty was that the writers treated the subject seriously and cast Steven and not Blake as the sympathetic character in this scene. In the US during the 80s (and even the 90s), the accepted image of gay men was a perverted deviant mother-obsessed sex-fiend having anonymous sex every night and seducing and converting schoolboys during the day. Dynasty completely avoided that, and they even had Blake - macho Blake Carrington! - express a casual tolerance of same-sex relations (at 3:00). I still can't believe this made it to TV in 1981! But I recall Dynasty played with a lot of US taboos during its first several seasons (women's sexuality, mental illness, casual drug use, etc.). Made the show fascinating.
Just get funds for the video games and for 🍕 and tell him you love him and tell him I'm trying to go to school and I'm your good freind and l need a place to stay a loving environment
I've searched and found no video footage at all of Peppard in the role. There are however a lot of still pictures out there of him in recognizable scenes from the pilot
My grandma used to record this on her VCR when she was a lot younger, she would have me watch the taps with her a lot. I think I've just about every episode. I may not know who all the actors were back then but I know who a lot of them are/were now.
People post some crazy stuff in these Steven Carrington video threads. They are romanticizing the past. Being closeted is not fun; Blake was MESSED up. Liking his character does not excuse his deep homophobia. Just deal with why you overlooked it at the time.
Blake was a product of his time, with all the flaws (and some strengths) of his generation. Remember, this year depicted is 1981 so Blake would have been about 60 years old (or so he looks) meaning birth date 1921. Full of the prejudices & preconceptions of his generation, influenced by the generation of his parents. What I *really* like about this scene is that it pulls no punches. People used those insulting words. It makes it very true and thus very powerful. If a writer and filmmaker tried to recreate this scene today (and set it in 1981) they would probably "PC" it, and it wouldn't have half the power.
I'm gay and have always had a crush on Dex Dexter in this series. Alexis was so lucky that she got to kiss that pretty little mouth of his all the time.
...Here's an earlier episodic nighttime melodrama, co-produced by Aaron Spelling depicting recurring themes regarding homosexuality; if not regular gay characters within its cast. Both Kristy McNichol and Meredith Baxter, from the cast of Family (1976); went on to successful careers & later came out publicly as lesbians. The following two episodes of Family deal with a gay young man and a lesbian woman seeking understanding & tolerance in a then largely unsympathetic culture. Although many strides were made beginning with the activism of the Stonewall Inn Riots and even before, it wasn't until the 1990's that gay men and women were regularly depicted in television and movies beyond stereotypical comic relief, or one-dimensional tragic characters...with few exceptions. ruclips.net/video/jj_YkWZNxZk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/FE411hHQeU0/видео.html
You've got to look at this with some degree of humor. Yeah, Blake is a homophobe, but what do you expect? He's a cranky, bad-tempered, paranoid, hypermasculine boor. He never laughs even once in the entire series.
Couldn't care less whether Steven is gay or straight. His sanctimonious, pretentious preaching about the plight of the working class is what would sicken me.
When this was on television I had to do a history report on the Robber Barons. I was in the 7th grade. My parents also got a really good deal on a used Lincoln Towncar because gas prices were so high. My dad would have mopped the floor with me if I would have spoken to him that way. We had record high gas prices when this was going on. The Middle East had just as much to do with the high prices.
This was powerful stuff for TV 35 years ago!
Im telling you it was atomic
Yes. Blake loved him.
@@hithere1590 Steven learned how to work though!
For those of us in the community, it was massive.
This is so far ahead of its time. Amazing!
Michael Hester soooo true, I was in my early 20s and some of the stuff Blake was saying I never heard, however I learn something from this and I’m glad. This scene was deep. 😵😵😵😵😵
epic moment carved in the books of television history !
Sadly this was all too timely, even then we hid gay people and pushed them aside. Men were men and women were objects in the 70s and it took 50 years for us to get back to this time again where people want it to go back that way.
FANTASTIC CLIP. Fantaaaastic. Everyone seems to have forgotten that Dynasty was ONCE a fantastically written, terrific social commentary series.
Season 1 was the best in writing. Too bad they had to change it because the network felt the viewers wanted to see more of a rich family drama than anything else.
Hard to believe that in the very early 1980s this was essentially the only gay character on TV. Steven Carrington was no role model, the writers (probably under pressure from the network) kept making him go straight, get married to a woman, etc. then do this back and forth for the length of the series. Men, women, men, women, etc. Still, the gay community would watch an entire episode for 30 seconds of seeing Steven. It was representation and visibility, no matter how flawed.
AtomSmash ironically Al Corley wanted the character to explore his sexuality but pressure from conservative and religious groups prevented that so eventually Sammy Jo was brought in to try and “turn him straight.”
Bert & Ernie
Well written.
but you shouldn´t forget the part of the LGBTQ+ community who enjoys all scenes with Joan Collins until today ;).
I loved watching Al Corley and John Forsythe play father and son. You really felt it.
100%.
Al Corley was fucking ACES in this role
Al Corley was excellent as Steven in the early seasons of Dynasty. Good actor.
Jack Coleman was good too. He and Al Corley looked similar
Attitudes towards homosexuality have changed since the 1980s. I see nothing wrong with it and if men and women are happy with people of the same gender that's grand.
"Excuse me, I've got to go and get married". Savage.
I used to LOVE Dynasty. When I was about 7yrs old, I used to record every single episode on VHS. To think nobody thought I was gay! lol
We knew
@@jimlahey5354 You know this guy?
They did
Al Corley was great in this role. Such a shame the writers and producers messed around with the character and Al left.
You are so right !👏
Legendary scene
100%. Thank you.
1981. 40 years ago this was notable for having a gay character on prime time tv.
It's remarkable how Blake made a 180 on this in later seasons, eventually inviting Stephen's "friend" to a family dinner.
Brilliant acting, from both.
the first season has the best dialogues, the best story lines
Dont tell that to Joan collins
I agree that this was so ahead of its time! I mean this was filmed in the early 80ies! This was prime time American television exported all across the world! I remember watching this as a teenager and it made the scales fall from my eyes.....
How was this ahead of it's time? Gay and lesbian issues were explored on television during the 80s.
tony smith this was the very early 80s so it was revolutionary to have an openly gay character on prime time television that wasn’t a stereotype and it was brave considered this was around the time of AIDS.
Hadi Hatab, exactly.
@@tonysmith2426 Dynasty premiered in January, 1981, so most anything else came later in the 80s
My God Al Corely was so beautiful!
Does he put the p in your paulettes???😂🤣😄
@DannyM71 I NEVER accepted Jack Coleman, like I NEVER accepted Emma Samms as Fallon. I love Dynasty with Al & Pamela Sue. You look too young to have watched Dynasty when it was in prime time.
Today he's just as beautiful.
@@spencerpierce1251 Her name is Emma Samms.
@@tj.espygil4544 haha, thanks. Auto correct.
Forever, those responsible for this production, in all capacities, they helped far more people than they may have ever known.
Al Corley was really great in this role
Dynasty, as socially relevant in 2020 as it was in 1980. Just amazing.
"I don't steal and I don't rob from the people of this country by artificially pushing up the price of gasoline" - Is this what is happening today?
Shhh! Careful, someone might find out......
Since first oil spurt out of ground and every day since.
Or today?! Lol
4:07! That is brutal. Folks only remember the catfights and the shoulder pads, but season 1 was quite exceptional and Blake Carrington looked old and quite the villain.
emerybayblues season 1 was originally supposed to be about the trials and tribulations of running Denver Carrington but when the show wasn’t doing so well in the ratings, they brought in Joan. Her role as a female “JR Ewing” really helped to increase viewership.
yes the first season of Dynasty was a serious drama... and it was supposed to be about how the rich (Carringtons and Colbys) take advantage of the working / middle classes (Blaisdels and Lankershems). And Blake was quite awful to his family (he raped Krystle when he found out she was taking birth control pills' ; humiliated his gay son etc). But the ratings were bad and they brought in evil Alexis (Joan Collins) and softened Blake up (visually and the way the character was written)... them it became camp.
Blake as a villain was Great.
Al Corley was sooo good as Steven .
Very good scene - well written and very well acted.
I remember this episode so well great acting years ahead of its time
This Steven was so handsome to me 😌
Me too
Mee too
the first season, Dynasty was a serious drama about class struggles... it became campy as the seasons progressed
This was way ahead of its time. Quite controversial. But considering the time and Blake's age, it's understandable that he is shocked and needs some time to accept it.
Now excuse me I have got to go get married. So ironic and classic.
Way more nuanced like reality.
If only they had kept the writing/acting on this show as good as it was in the first season, instead of making each season more ridiculous and outrageous.
Pretty tough scene. Epic writing for sure!
100%.
Blake and Steven fought, but I do believe Blake did love his son deep down inside.
Conditionally yes .. is that love though??
Ahh the season 1 ❤ Long vista shots of the Mansion gardens and pauses within scenes. Interesting dialogue, real characters and genuine issues
No way Blake would be able to make those kinds of comments on primetime network television today.
Woah! I forget sometimes what it was like back then, even though I lived it.
These scene was sooooo emotional, Blake was so hard on Steven😭😭😭😭... it’s amazing how they were dealing with this issue....
Al Corley is so convincingly here..playing a gay one but isn' t really.... That's great play - acting .Why isn't he better known?
Steven Carrington was the first openly gay character on prime time television. Al Corley played the role well with John Forsythe as Blake
Dallas had a Gay character in an early episode
Lucy's boyfriend Kit Mainwaring III
@@patricknaughton2422 yes very true . He was in it before dynasty if I remember rightly....bit only for a couple of episodes
@@sylvesterquast5832 Jody Dallas on 'Soap' , late 70s
I think the reason Forsythe looks younger as the season's progress was an attempt by the producers to soften Blake's image. In the 1st season, Blake was not a likeable character (raped his wife, was cruel to his gay son, manipulated the working class = Matthew, stuck his dobermans on people, etc.) All of which was great... BUT as the years (the 80s) went on, Blake (read: rich oil baron) become "heroic" and the screen makeup reflected this image...
Farhad Z, great observation. I thought Blake looked a bit "old" here as opposed to later seasons.
@@SidJustice1 yes they started lighting him less garishly... he still had his moments; but by season 4 he was just the benevolent rich guy being tormented by his evil ex-wife Alexis.
Yes, here is looking aged and unsympathetic
Thanks for the Upload 👍 !! Nice to see Al Corley came back in the 1991 Reunited movie !! XD
A gay man named Stephen. Checks out.
Al Corley did a good job in the role of Steven. also he was sexy.😍🔥
Dynasty was the FIRST Prime time soap to have a gay charater. They were cutting edge in the 1980's I watched them EVERY week Of course I did I was a young gay kid. I wasn't alone!
No dallas did it first. Kit maywearing.
@Lance Lanny the Dallas episode was in 79 and it wasn’t a recurring character though
It would, have been good, if they'd kept it. @@Emick1978
Blake brought 2 children in to the of wealth and Phil age and mocks his son for it. They had some great writers in the beginning.
Doesn't John Forsyte looks younger and younger as the show progressed??They definitely had a very good make up team!
But he did work. For at least a year for Matthew Blaisdel and really seemed to do well
Father's and son's....Blake blamed Alexis for Steven's homosexuality, b/c she coddled him n made him a mama's boy....
His father is so unyeilding.
The show was good..
So many people still think the way the character of Blake does. I feel badly for the children of parents like him, hopefully the become stronger by such rejection. It is possible.
I don't think it's easy for parents but if you want your children in your life and hope to see them have a chance at love then you come to a level of acceptance with your child or you may lose them.
Dynasty definitely dealt with a lot of interesting topics, especially homosexuality.
Wow, it's amazing how far we've come in 43 years. When phillip chancellor IV aka "Chance" spoke with his Father Phillip Chancellor III who explained about his homosexuality, it was heavy but so factual. In the 1980's there was no Gay Pride then the way it is now. If you told Blake how Gay Friendly society was going to be in the future, he wouldn't have believed.
1981 to 2020 !!! 😇
The first season, Blake was a ruthlessly ass. During season two, the villain tables changed. It worked better that way.
They should had let Steven be gay
Al Corley who plays Steven is a prolific 1980s pop singer with hits "Square Rooms" and "Cold Dresses" happens to be heterosexual or straight in real life. I must admit I was obsessed with him back in the day. He was almost a perfect celebrity.
Say what you want about the show "DYNASTY" THE SHOW WAS AHEAD OF ITS TIME abt HOMOSEXUALITY in the FAMILY on PRIMETIME TV ⏰🤨🤔 !!!!!
This is the strength and conviction Steven should have kept with. He was written so oddly in future seasons. I'm gay and Steven was my first exposure to homosexuality. I was in 5th grade when I started watching Dynasty and by then the new Steven was in place with Luke. Steven was so self hating that he was a very poor example. I watched the first five episodes of the new Dynasty. I didn't care for it at all but they did get Steven right. He was powerful and knew who he was. A far cry from the Steven of the past. It shows how far we have really come. The new Steven was having sex with the male Sammy Joe. They were kissing on TV. The old Steven got a few awkward hugs from Luke or Bart. There was no kissing and no intimacy. Still Dynasty was the first in the 80's to show any representation. It's a dinosaur view now but still important in it's own way.
Ugh, all the gay characters were so conservative on TV. They all wear shirts and sweaters, like some kind of dress code.
He felt that Steven was spoiled, yet Blake was responsible. He never made Steven work at Denver Carrington or any other Job and he made it too easy to have anything. It kind of parallels Gino Santangelo finding out his son Dario was Gay in the 1977 Bestseller Chances by Jackie Collins. Yet Steven came into his own as a Successful Businessman but Dario had no head for business.
And in the Santangelo family, it turns out the daughter, Lucky, was the one with balls, kind of like Fallon.
I don't get how Steven was any more "spolied" than his other children. Steven eventually worked at a "blue-collar" jobs and was willing to "make it" on his own. Fallon got things handed to her with very little fuss.
@@jonathanwashington6083 It was Blake's Company that he worked at. Then a couple of years later, Blake invites Luke Fuller to Dinner. I'm sure because of that scene alot of folks did their best to accept their child's alternative lifestyle.
@@laminage He worked for Matthew Blasdel and then worked overseas on an oil rig. He didn't actually work for Blake and Alexis until the "new" Steven came back in season 3.
Was this the first soap to have a gay story line to have a character who was homosexual. I had forgotten all about the gay story lines in Dynasty. I don't think there were many soaps like Dallas or Knottslanding that had samesex relationship storylines.
Yes unless you count the show Soap that is
@@AaronRodgersIsHot Doesn't count. ;-)
Al corley was the best just like pamela sue martin the replacements after their departures mediocre actors..
This scene of the pilot episode was actually a reshoot. Original scene was with Al Corley as Steven and George Pappard as Blake. George Pappard was fired during the filming of the pilot so all the Blake scenes has to be refilmed including this one.
Blake became more likable during the series.
deb310red Because the writers wrote Blake to fit John Forsythe's personality.
@@maxysurvivorsucks And Forsythe lobbied heavily, maybe even insisted, that his character be made more likeable than the bastard he was in season 1
yeah i went to the Filoli house and now i'm on youtube looking up some show that was filmed there.
This scene was filmed in the studio in Los Angeles actually. What happened was that the original of this scene with George Peppard as Blake was filmed at Filoli in May but then George was fired 21 days during the filming. They planned to reshoot with John Forsythe during the summer, but the strike happened in Hollywood so they couldn't resume filming until November. By then they already build a studio Filoli house in Los Angeles and this scene was reshot there.
Doesn't surprise me that the tv station played this. it doesn't really take a stand on who's right and wrong? it just lays out the facts. It doesn't make the father look right or wrong, just confused, same as steven. I think it's the safest way you can show an issue, without taking a stance. it's still daring and I give them that.
Sorry, being antigay is not "right" - at all. It's prehistoric religious crap.
clintrock the whole thing between him and his son was powerful , I think it help create conversations wether you agreed or disagree more often between people. Just my thoughts.🤔
Liked Al Corly playing Steven so much better!
Steven I would had walked out and left told him to shove it
I love you steven
I wish they still portrayed gay men as real people....not flouncing stereotypes like on Modern Family.
omg ikr
yessssss
Gay people are real people. Stereotypes are just a product of ignorance and even hatred. Everyone on this planet is different and if we can't see that or accept that we end up feeling the way you do. It is your problem that you are not accepting of others and as for Modern Family, just stop watching it and go watch something else.
dean b Er...can ANYONE on Dynasty actually be described as "real people."
some of us are flouncers.
To even allude to homosexuality on TV in the early 80s was gutsy, but what was so stunning about Dynasty was that the writers treated the subject seriously and cast Steven and not Blake as the sympathetic character in this scene. In the US during the 80s (and even the 90s), the accepted image of gay men was a perverted deviant mother-obsessed sex-fiend having anonymous sex every night and seducing and converting schoolboys during the day. Dynasty completely avoided that, and they even had Blake - macho Blake Carrington! - express a casual tolerance of same-sex relations (at 3:00). I still can't believe this made it to TV in 1981! But I recall Dynasty played with a lot of US taboos during its first several seasons (women's sexuality, mental illness, casual drug use, etc.). Made the show fascinating.
So proud of John Forsythe's speech. Superb!
Gasohol? He sounds like Mr. Burns.
That's what they called it back in 1981!
The show lost its quality when Alexis arrived. It became trashy escapism.
Just get funds for the video games and for 🍕 and tell him you love him and tell him I'm trying to go to school and I'm your good freind and l need a place to stay a loving environment
Blake Carrington's misogynistic ways are totally unacceptable!
Powerful in 2024, unimaginable in the 80’s. Terrible of course, but the impact that must have had on
Release this scene with George Peppard as Blake.
I've searched and found no video footage at all of Peppard in the role. There are however a lot of still pictures out there of him in recognizable scenes from the pilot
@@bkynbiker19 that's because if they were to be out, they would have to pay george peppard's estate a lot of money.
My grandma used to record this on her VCR when she was a lot younger, she would have me watch the taps with her a lot. I think I've just about every episode. I may not know who all the actors were back then but I know who a lot of them are/were now.
Is this the story of Bruce Gender?
People post some crazy stuff in these Steven Carrington video threads. They are romanticizing the past. Being closeted is not fun; Blake was MESSED up. Liking his character does not excuse his deep homophobia. Just deal with why you overlooked it at the time.
Right on! 👍
Blake was a product of his time, with all the flaws (and some strengths) of his generation. Remember, this year depicted is 1981 so Blake would have been about 60 years old (or so he looks) meaning birth date 1921. Full of the prejudices & preconceptions of his generation, influenced by the generation of his parents.
What I *really* like about this scene is that it pulls no punches. People used those insulting words. It makes it very true and thus very powerful. If a writer and filmmaker tried to recreate this scene today (and set it in 1981) they would probably "PC" it, and it wouldn't have half the power.
@@susanmorano405 Exactly!!!!
I'm gay and have always had a crush on Dex Dexter in this series. Alexis was so lucky that she got to kiss that pretty little mouth of his all the time.
I know, pleassssssssse!!
...Here's an earlier episodic nighttime melodrama, co-produced by Aaron Spelling depicting recurring themes regarding homosexuality; if not regular gay characters within its cast. Both Kristy McNichol and Meredith Baxter, from the cast of Family (1976); went on to successful careers & later came out publicly as lesbians. The following two episodes of Family deal with a gay young man and a lesbian woman seeking understanding & tolerance in a then largely unsympathetic culture. Although many strides were made beginning with the activism of the Stonewall Inn Riots and even before, it wasn't until the 1990's that gay men and women were regularly depicted in television and movies beyond stereotypical comic relief, or one-dimensional tragic characters...with few exceptions. ruclips.net/video/jj_YkWZNxZk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/FE411hHQeU0/видео.html
I wanna' go to that Institute.
mm weird..
Het is omdat je een link naar mijn profiel hebt denk ik.
This video was related to my video's! I'm not sure what that means!
EoHendriks ...... LMFAO 😂😁😀
Personally I don't believe homosexuallity is exactly or strictly innate or personal choice, I believe its of a matter of personal expierence.
And what do you base your "belief" on?
And the award of the most stupid comment goes to.... You!
What an a-hole Blake was. He was very cruel and ignorant.
He was a queen, of course he had soft hands and loved signing credit cards!
Sounds more like the SJWs of today, spouting off "social justice" with absolutely no experience in the real world.
Blake 💯%
😭🏳️🌈💋
You've got to look at this with some degree of humor.
Yeah, Blake is a homophobe, but what do you expect? He's a cranky, bad-tempered, paranoid, hypermasculine boor. He never laughs even once in the entire series.
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Couldn't care less whether Steven is gay or straight. His sanctimonious, pretentious preaching about the plight of the working class is what would sicken me.
When this was on television I had to do a history report on the Robber Barons. I was in the 7th grade. My parents also got a really good deal on a used Lincoln Towncar because gas prices were so high. My dad would have mopped the floor with me if I would have spoken to him that way. We had record high gas prices when this was going on. The Middle East had just as much to do with the high prices.