Emerald Point N.A.S.

"Emerald Point N.A.S" is an American television drama that premiered on CBS in 1983. It was cancelled in 1984 after only one season.

Created by Richard and Esther Shapiro, who had previously devised "Dynasty", the series was set at a Naval Air Station (the N.A.S. of the title) somewhere in the American South and dealt with the lives of the personnel stationed there. Combining military and espionage-based storylines with plots revolving around family intrigue, romance and scheming for power, "Emerald Point N.A.S" was a conventional soap opera.

Cast

The major cast members of the series included: Dennis Weaver (Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory, the commanding officer of the N.A.S), Robert Vaughn (scheming industrialist Harlan Adams, he took over from Patrick O'Neal, who played Harlan in the pilot), Sela Ward (Hilary Adams, Harlan's equally scheming daughter and engaged to a man her best friend loves), Maud Adams (Maggie Farrell, Admiral Mallory's love interest and the liaison between the town's military affairs council and the Naval Air Station), Jill St. John (Thomas' unscrupulous former sister in-law, Deanna Kinkaid, who can outvixen scheming Hilary), Richard Dean Anderson (Lt. Simon Adams, Harlan's son, highly regarded by the Admiral, who was not as conniving as his father and sister were, he eventually marries into the Mallory family), Susan Dey (Thomas' oldest daughter, Celia Warren, who dislikes the Navy, but changes her mind, when she marries Simon Adams, after her divorce), Andrew Stevens (Lt. Glenn Matthews, torn between the affections of two girls and also under suspicion for another man's murder), Robert Loggia (Yuri Bukharin, a Russian KGB agent whom Deanna was mixed up with), Michael Brandon (David Marquette, a maniac who kidnapped Maggie Farrell on her wedding day to Thomas Mallory, when the show was cancelled, nobody knew what happened), Doran Clark (Ensign Leslie Mallory, Thomas' youngest daughter who recently graduated from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and loves the Navy to his delight), Charles Frank (Jack Warren, a Naval lawyer, married to Celia, who divorces him to marry Simon Adams) and Stephanie Dunnam (Kay Mallory, Thomas' middle daughter who marries Glenn Matthews to her former best friend, Hilary's anger).

The series' theme tune was composed by Bill Conti, who had previously written the music for other prime-time dramas such as "Dynasty", "Falcon Crest" and "Cagney and Lacey".

External links

* [http://rdanderson.com/film/emerald.htm Unofficial site]
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