The Subpoenas

Once again, what I think of the story, or, rather, the shambles that is left of it, isn't of much concern to me. I am a fan of the young starlets of this show, Heather Locklear and Catherine Oxenberg. Gee, Heather must still have been busy cleaning up on her other regular job as T.J. HOOKER's Stacey Sheridan, because she is notably absent from this episode, having been on apparent leave since just before 'last week's' masquerade party, despite a seemingly sparked romantic interest having budded in that one. But Catherine Oxenberg still wears her flapper/GREAT GATSBY fancy dress outfit. That's quite nice, except for yarrghh! that ratty wig. Okay, I'm exaggerating, of course it's not ratty, but compared to the real thing, the glory that is European beauty daughter-of-a-Princess Catherine's real head of hair, that wig is an affront to behold, and much, much relief when it is finally discarded for that tearful scene where witchy old Alexis rejects her daughter's plaintive attempts at reconciliation. Amanda is just jaw- droppingly beautiful. Fake vs. Real, man-made vs. Nature, there is just no contest. Of course, she has a most beautiful, angelic face with soulful eyes that couldn't be marred even by that stiff-looking coarse hair-sprayed thing. But just look at her there in Alexis's office. The soft look, the forerunner of the Nineties look. You can just still hear the collective sighs running across the length and breadth of the U.S. of A. from every young teenage girl, "I wanna look like that...!"

She is one of the prettiest girls ever on film, it all happened donkey years ago, this particular episode is thirty years ago, but the significance of both her and Heather Locklear is that their style served as inspiration to an upcoming next generation. Farrah Fawcett-Majors in the mid-Seventies, these two during the DYNASTY years, later it would be Jennifer Aniston during the Nineties.

So, thirty years old or not, it helped shape the sense of style during the mid-Eighties.

If only the line of the script was as good as their choice of young starlet love interests... That would be asking too much though. :)