DVD Review: Dynasty - The Fourth Season, Volume One - Page 4

The midseason cliffhanger serves as an inferior and disappointing finale to this first volume of season four. Someone seems determined to wrest Claudia’s sanity away from her again by sending her violets in her dead husband’s name the way he used to do.

This collection includes an appearance by President Gerald Ford and first lady Betty, along with Henry Kissinger in a charity ball scene.

The transfer to DVD is crystal clear, as is the sound. The collection contains few extras in order to squeeze fourteen episodes onto only three discs. They consist of choices of English or dubbed Spanish soundtracks with English or Spanish subtitles.

I confess to not being a fan of the recent trend of breaking up series collections into two or more volumes. The majority of studios present classic TV shows as a convenient one-piece six-disc collection. The practice of breaking them up gives the impression that an effort is being made to harvest as much cash as possible out of the fans by charging them a little less than twice as much as what they’d normally pay for only one season.

I found the series very enjoyable to watch again, if only for the nostalgia and would recommend it to any fan of the show.

Cast:

• John Forsythe - Blake Carrington
• Linda Evans - Krystle Carrington
• Joan Collins - Alexis Carrington Colby
• John James - Jeff Colby
• Pamela Sue Martin - Fallon Carrington Colby
• Jack Coleman - Steven Carrington
• Gordon Thomson - Adam Carrington
• Michael Nader - Dex Dexter
• Heather Locklear - Sammy Jo Carrington
• Pamela Bellwood - Claudia Blaisdel
• Geoffrey Scott - Mark Jennings

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