Dynasty
It's from 1981, before you were born.
- Network
- ABC
- Genre
- Primetime soap
- Premiered
- 1981
- Known for
- glamour & catfights
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About
As of 2026, it's 45 years old.
Dynasty looked at Dallas's wealthy backstabbing and said 'hold my champagne,' cranking the glamour, shoulder pads, and catfights to operatic heights. It was a primetime soap about absurdly rich people in absurdly expensive clothes scheming, slapping, and falling into the occasional lily pond mid-brawl.
It became the decade's shorthand for '80s excess, where the gowns were enormous, the feuds were eternal, and no fortune was ever safe from a long-lost relative arriving to ruin everything.
Lavish, vicious, and gloriously over-the-top, Dynasty is the soap that dressed petty revenge in couture and made it appointment viewing.
Dynasty season by season
Dynasty ran for 9 seasons (1981–1988) across 220 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
