Original Characters and their Reboot Counterparts

This page is about Dynasty (1981), the original show that inspired the reboot, and the differences between those two.

The reboot is actually in this third season and characters from the original series haven't been (or may not been) introduced yet to the show. Some original characters have been morphed with others.
See below a list of the original characters, storylines, locations and businesses and their differences in the reboot.

## General

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Blake and Krystle Carrington are the lead characters of the series, with Alexis introduces in the second season as the main villain.
* The main location is Denver, Colorado, the scene of the oil battle between the companies Denver Carrington and ColbyCo.

- Fallon Carrington is the lead character of the series, with Jeff Colby as the main villain.

- The main location is Atlanta, Georgia, scene for the global energy battle between Carrington Atlantic, Morell Green Energy Corporation and the ColbyCo.

## The Carrington Family

* Original Series
* Reboot

* When the series begins, the Carrington family consists of Blake Carrington, CEO of Denver Carrington, his two grown children Fallon and Steven, and Krystle, his new wife and former secretary. Alexis, Blake's ex-wife and mother of his children, first appears at the end of the first season, and soon causes some troubles in their life.
* Two other children of Blake and Alexis are introduced later, respectively in the third and fifth season : Adam, their first born son, who was kidnapped as an infant and never recovered, and Amanda, born after their spilt.
	+ The addition of those two characters occurs after the departures of original portrayers of Steven and Fallon, who were both supposed dead before returning after a recast.
* Fallon marries and divorces both times Jeff Colby and they have two children: Little Blake (nicknamed "LB") and Lauren.
* Steven has a son Steven Daniel Jr (nicknamed "Danny") with Krystle's niece Sammy Jo, while Krystle has her own child Krystina with Blake.
* At the end of the fourth season, Dominique Deveraux comes to Denver and is soon revealed to be Blake's illegitimate half-sister. Blake and Alexis estranged siblings Ben Carrington and Caress Morell, come to town in sixth season for revenge while Leslie (Ben's daughter) and Jackie (Dominique's daughter) later complete the family. However, by the end of the series, none of these five characters are still on the show.

- The new Carrington family consists of Blake Carrington, CEO of Carrington Atlantic, his grown children Steven and Fallon, and Cristal, his new wife and COO of the company.

- Blake's estranged father Tom Carrington appears both times for family events before dying with some secrets. After being regularly mentioned, Alexis Carrington, Blake's ex-wife and mother his children, first appears at his funeral in the sixteenth episode.

- Adam Carrington was mentioned several times as the first-born son of the Carringtons, kidnapped as a child and never returned to them. After multiple cons attempted by Alexis, Adam finally returned home with evident mental issues and began to manipulate the entire family.

- Steven marries Cristal's nephew Sam Jones in the first season finale.

- By the end of the season, Jeff Colby and Monica Colby are revealed as Carringtons, children of Millie Colby, the illegitimate daughter of Tom Carrington.
	* Unaware of their blood-relation at the time, Fallon and Jeff date, have sex and almost marry before it is revealed that Fallon is already married to Liam Ridley, which annuls her marriage to Jeff.

### Blake and Krystle

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Blake is the only character to appear in all episodes of the series and the mini-series Reunion. He also guest stars in the first season of the spin-off.
* Krystle appears from the Pilot to the beginning of the last season and later returns for the Reunion.
* Blake Carrington was born and raised in Pennsylvania with his younger bother Ben. He learned the oil business from below, working as a rigger, and later moved to Denver, Colorado, where he found his own oil company Denver Carrington. He married a young British woman Alexis Morell but despite the birth of their children, they divorced and Blake drove her out of the town and their lives.
* Krystle Grant was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, in a working-class family with her older sister Iris. She married Mark Jennings, a tennis pro, but their marriage was short-lived due to his drinking problems. She then moved to Denver, Colorado, where she became a secretary at Denver Carrington. After an affair with married man Matthew Blaisdel, geologist at Denver Carrington, she started dating her boss Blake Carrington. After fifteen years as a bachelor raising alone his two grown children Fallon and Steven, Blake proposed to Krystle and she accepted.
* Blake and Krystle marry in the pilot of the series but she receives a icy reception from both Fallon and Blake's majordomo Joseph. However, she makes friend with Steven. Blake struggles with Fallon's promiscuity and Steven's homosexuality but is also jealous of Matthew, who still has feelings for Krystle. Catching his son in an embrace with his former lover Ted Dinard, Blake pushes them apart. Ted falls, hits his head and dies. Blake is arrested and charged with murder. During his trial, Alexis returns to Denver after sixteen years away and testifies against him. He is found guilty but given a suspended sentence.
* Krystle is pregnant but loses her baby in a horse riding accident caused by Alexis. She confronts her rival and they have the first one of numerous catfights. After her miscarriage, Krystle starts a therapy with Nick Toscanni. In the meantime, Krystle welcomes her young niece Sammy Jo, who soon marries Steven before leaving town with money from Alexis. Temporary blind after the explosion of his car, Blake suspects Krystle is having an affair with Nick. After his sight returns, he feigns blindness to spy her. Blake confronts his rival and they fight. Blake is left unconscious but rescued Krystle, who hasn't been unfaithful, while Nick disappears.
* When their grandson Little Blake was kidnapped, Blake and Alexis make a public confession that their firstborn son Adam had been kidnapped as a baby and never recovered. Traumatized by the event, they had hidden his existence from their other children. Weeks later, Michael Torrance claims to be Adam and is welcomed in his birth family. Around the same time, Alexis found Mark Jennings, Krystle's ex-husband, who soon reveals that their divorce was never official. Blake and Krystle separate while Mark hopes to have her back. However, Krystle pays support to Blake when Steven is missing and presumed dead in a oil rig explosion in Java Sea. Sammy Jo then reappears with Steven's baby's Danny and Blake offers her to keep the child in exchange for money. Steven is finally reveals alive and returns to Denver. Krystle is heartbroken to give up Danny. She then meets Alexis at a remote cabin to talk about the situation and the women fight when the building is set on fire. Mark rescues them and agrees to divorce.
* Blake and Krystle remarry and she goes to work for Denver Carrington in PR, where she has to deal with ambitious Tracy Kendall, who was hoping for the job and tries to seduce Blake for revenge. Blake then mourns the loss of his beloved daughter Fallon in a car accident. He successively learns that he has an illegitimate half-sister Dominique Deveraux, whom he accepts after his father admits his paternity on his deathbed, and that he had a second daughter with Alexis : Amanda, born after their spilt. Soon after those revelations, Krystle gave birth to their fragile baby girl Krystina. Krystle then encounters a man from her past, Daniel Reece, who turns out to be Sammy Jo's father. Blake grows jealous while his friend Lady Ashley Mitchell attempts to seduce him. Despite the fact that they share some kisses with them, Blake and Krystle declare their love for each other and reconcilie.
* Blake learns that Fallon is still alive, but suffering amnesia. In the meantime, his health starts to deteriorate and it turns out that Krystle has been kidnapped and replaced by a look-alike Rita Lesley, who has been slowly poisoning him. Sammy Jo has hired her to help gain control of her inheritance, which is overseen by her aunt, but was unaware of the changing plot set up by Rita's lover to kill Blake. Sammy Jo makes amend when Blake is hospitalized and rescues Krystle while Rita disappears. During that time, Blake also has to fight with his estranged brother Ben, who returns to Denver and teams up with Alexis to sue his share of their late father's estate. He loses both the house and his holdings.
* Blake finally regains his empire with the help of his sister Dominique and reconcilies with Ben. During a business trip, an oil rig catches on fire and Blake is saved before the rig explodes but awakens in the hospital with no memories of the last 25 years. Alexis convinces him that they are still married. Days later, Krystle finds them and Blake's memories return. Soon after, Krystina falls ill and needs a heart transplant. A donor is found and Krystina saved but the donor's mother kidnaps her. However, she is found unharmed.
* Krystle's presumed-dead ex-lover Matthew Blaisel takes the Carrington family hostage. After several days of captivity, Steven stabs him and the family is freed. Blake then runs for governor and is opposite to Alexis. Krystle takes active role in the campaign but the two lose office. Soon after, Krystle is diagnosed with a serious brain tumor, a result of her horse riding accident causing her first miscarriage, and must have risky surgery. Blake and Krystle fly to Switzerland, where the surgery is successful but Krystle left in a coma.
* The dead body of Roger Grimes, Alexis's former lover, who had been dead for over 20 years, is found at the bottom of a lake on the Carrington property. Ultimately, it is revealed that 8-year-old Fallon had shot him after finding him beating her mother and Blake's late father had hidden the body in a mine under the lake to protect her. The situation is complicated when a nazi treasure is also found in the mine and the corrupted police captain in charge of the murder investigation behind the search of the treasure. Blake attempts to force confession. The policeman pulls a gun and they both shoot.
* Three years later, Blake is released from jail for the murder of Captain Handler. He regains control of his empire and also reunites with Krystle, who has recovers from her coma.

- Blake Carrington is the wealthy and powerful CEO of Carrington Atlantic. He is an influent man with many connections. Judge Daniels granted him the custody of his children when he divorced and Blake later supported him when he ran a Senate position. Policeman Aaron Stansfield framed Cecil Colby to jail for drug trafficking and Blake helped him worked way up to Chief of the Police. But his most reliable ally over the years has always been is majordomo Joseph Anders, who has taken part in numerous of his schemes. Despite his influence, Blake is also a man deeply hurt by his estranged relationship with his father and the kidnapping of his oldest son Adam when he was still a baby. His marriage with Alexis didn’t resist of Adam’s disappearance and it ended in a stormy divorce when he exiled her away from their two other children Steven and Fallon.

- In season 2 he's widowed and starts up a budding relationship with Cristal Jennings.

- Celia Machado was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. After accidentally killed her abusing brother-in-law Alejandro to protect her sister Iris and her nephew Sam, she escaped to Atlanta and changed her name to Cristal Flores. She then became a Public Relations at Carrington Atlantic and had an affair with geologist Matthew Blaisdel, but he was a married man who couldn’t leave his sick wife Claudia. Despite her feelings for Matthew, Cristal began dating Blake Carrington and soon marries him. She is named COO of the company but has to fights with her new stepdaughter Fallon, who was hoping to have her position at Carrington Atlantic. On their wedding day, Blake and Cristal also have to face with Matthew’s death and the scandal that splashes the family. Claudia Blaisdel then takes the Carringtons hostages and reveals that she accidentally killed her husband who wanted to leave her for Cristal.

- In the meantime, Cristal is blackmailed about her shady past and realizes that her own sister is extorting money with the help of Alejandro, who is still alive. When Alejandro kidnaps Fallon and tries to kill Cristal, Iris kills him to protect her sister. Cristal then takes charge for his murder while Iris leaves the country. In the following months, Cristal realizes how manipulative her husband can be and the return of Alexis in their life separate them a little more. When Michael Culhane’s father dies of leukemia, Cristal learns that his family lives in Clarke County, a place touched by a health scandal which she covered up when she was PR of Carrington Atlantic. and confesses her involvement.

- Cristal is finally unable to support more of her husband’s schemes and files for divorce but he blackmails her about her past and her crimes to keep her under his control. On the day of her nephew Sam's wedding with her stepson Steven, Cristal discovers that Alexis’ long lost son Adam is actually her lover. The two Mrs Carringtons have a cat fight and Alexis locks her in her art studio. A few minutes later, Cristal comes face to face with Claudia Blaisdel, who shoots her. When the Carringtons’ property is set on fire, Alexis finally returns to lock Cristal on and tries to saves her with Culhane’s help when she finds her inanimate. Cristal is dead at the scene and is cremated. The news of her death leads Cristal Jennings into the Carringtons lives seeing as they were acquainted and where they basically swapped each other identities years ago prior to the series. Eventually Blake strikes up a romantic relationship with the new Cristal.

### Alexis

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Alexis is the main villain of the series. She is first seen, veiled and with no lines, in the first season finale. She then appears from the second season to the series finale and in the mini-series Reunion.
* British born Alexis Morell was a very young woman when she married Blake Carrington but their marriage started to deteriote after their first born son Adam was kidnapped as a baby and never recovered. Traumatized by the event, they hid his existence from their two other children Fallon and Steven. Feeling lonely with Blake spending a lot of time to build his oil empire at Denver Carrington, Alexis had an affair with estate manager Roger Grimes. When he discovered this, Blake beat up his rival and drove Alexis away from Fallon and Steven, then 8 and 7, and settled down in Acapulco living a 250 000 $-a-year-trust fund from him.
* Sixteen years later, Alexis returns to Denver and testifies against Blake during his trial for the murder of Ted Dinard revealing his violent temper. Blake is found guilty but given a suspended sentence. After the trial, Alexis moves in her former art studio, which she stills owns in the Carringtons property. She then reveals that Fallon is not Blake's daughter but her father is really Blake's business rival Cecil Colby but blood tests soon confirm Blake's paternity. In the meantime, Alexis makes an enemy with Blake's new wife Krystle when she purposefully fires a shotgun to make Krystle's horse throw her and losing the baby she cares. In parallel of trying to regain the love of her children, Alexis becomes romantically involved with Cecil Colby but he has a heart attack while in bed with her. They marry at the hospital on his deathbed and Cecil exacting a promise from Alexis that she will use his company ColbyCo to ruin Blake. And she will apply to do it.
* When their baby grandson LB is kidnapped, Blake and Alexis confess about the existence of Adam. In the meantime, armed with items from Adam Carrington's baby carriage, Michael Torrence comes from Billings, Montana, to Denver and is eventually accepted as the long lost Carrington heir. Alexis recruits him at ColbyCo but he soon reveals his devious nature when he has Jeff's office painted with toxic paint and Jeff's behavior becomes increasingly erratic causing his divorce with Fallon. Suspicious about her son, Alexis travels to Montana to investigate his backgroud and learns that he had experimented drugs as teen and suffered a psychotic breakdown.
* Alexis becomes romantically involved with Dex Dexter, son of an old friend of Blake's, and their relationship is passionate but they are unfaithful on each part. When Alexis is arrested for the murder of Mark Jennings and found guilty after Steven testified against her, Dex and Adam try to clear her name and they eventually uncover that Neal McVane (dressed as Alexis) was the real killer. Alexis and Dex reconcilie but she has to face with a secret from her past when Amanda, the daughter she had with Blake after their spilt and she had hidden, comes to Denver. Desperately attracted, Dex and Amanda have a one-night-stand just before he marries Alexis. She soon becomes suspicious of something between her husband and her daughter and tries to keep Amanda out from Dex by marrying her with Pince Michael of Moldavia, son of King Galen that she had known years ago.
* During the Royal Wedding celebration in Moldavia, terrorists interrupt the ceremony in an attempt to kill the King and spray the chapel with gunfire. The King is missing and presumed dead however Alexis convinces Dex to help her rescue him and they found him alive but paralyzed. Galen comes to Denver to recuperate but Dex correctly suspects him to feign his paralysis and tries to force him to walk when Alexis rushes to his defense. Dex then catches Alexis imagining herself as the Queen of Moldavia. Heartbroken and drunken, Dex finds Amanda and they make love again only to be caught in the act by Alexis, who has finally discovers Galen's lies. Alexis flies to St. Thomas for a quick divorce. Dex realizes that his relationship with Amanda has no future and breaks with her for good and tries to have Alexis forgives him.
* In the meantime, Alexis' younger sister Caress Morell is released from a Caracas, Venezuela prison, having been incarcerated years before after an incident involving Alexis, and comes to Denver to make fortune by writing a book about her sister and exposing her darkest secrets. Alexis finds out the book and buys the publishing company to scuttle the project. Alexis throws her sister out and flies to Australia to encourage Blake's brother Ben to claim his share of his late father's estate. Alexis commits perjury on the stand and helps Ben to win over Blake during his trial. Thanks to Alexis and Ben, Blake looses both his house and his holdings but finally succeeds to have them back and reconcilies with his brother.
* During a business trip, an oil rig catches on fire and Blake is saved before the rig explodes but awakens in the hospital with no memories of the last 25 years. Alexis convinces him they are still married but, days later, Krystle finds them and Blake's memories return. Dex accuses Alexis of being still in love with Blake and they fight. Alexis then has a car accident and drowns in a river. She is saved by a handsome stranger Sean Rowan. They quickly marry and he soon insinuates himself into her business. Dex grows suspicious about him and tries to warn Alexis, who dismisses his warning as jealousy. It is then revealed that Sean is actually the son of former Carrington majordomo Joseph and is bent on avenging his father and sister Kirby who had been ill-treated by Alexis. Sean is ultimately killed by Dex after he attempts to murder Alexis. Alexis and Dex briefly reconcilie and make love but he soon starts secretly dating Sable Colby, who comes to Denver for revenge against her cousin Alexis, who had slept with her husband years ago.
* The dead body of Roger Grimes, Alexis' former lover, who had been dead for over 20 years, is found at the bottom of a lake on the Carrington property and Alexis unsuccessfully tries to use it against Blake when it is revealed that 8-year-old Fallon had shot him after finding him beating her mother. In the meantime, Dex learns that Sable is pregnant with his child but she doesn't want him to be a part of his life. Tired of being Alexis' pawn (and now Sable's), Dex confronts them on the balcony of the Carlton Hotel with Adam as a witness. A fight starts between the two men and Dex falls backward into Alexis, sending them both crashing through and falling off the balcony.
* Years later, it seems that Alexis lands on top of Dex (whose fate is unclear). She meets a new business partner Jeremy Van Dorn, who convinces her she needs to diversify her business. Alexis soon decides to end their partnership and he tries to kill her but she gets saved at the last minute by her son Steven.

- Alexis Carrington is Blake’s ex-wife and the mother of Adam, Steven and Fallon. Despite Blake’s tense relationship with his father, Alexis has always been a favorite of Tom Carrington, who treated her as his own daughter. Blake and Alexis’ marriage was destroyed after Adam’s kidnapping and disappearance and she cheated on him. When Fallon was still in her sophomore year in High School, Blake and Alexis divorced and he gave her a lot of money to stay away from their children’s life. The only contacts she had with Steven and Fallon in the following years were limited to birthday gifts and letters. Alexis finally lost her money in the unsuccessful searchings of her son Adam.

- Years later, she secretly reconnected with Steven and finally returns in the Carringtons’ life after Tom Carrington’s death. Fallon coldly welcomes her and even more when she discovers that she has reconnected with Steven and not her. Alexis attends the reading of Grandpa’s will and inherits the Carrington House but Fallon succeeds to annule the codicil and Alexis finally moves in her former art studio next to the barn, which was a property of her own family. Alexis soon reveals to Steven the existence of his brother and he continues her searchings. He successfully finds Adam in the person of Hank Sullivan but he is soon revealed to be Alexis’ lover and they plan to sell Carrington Atlantic with the help of Jeff and Monica Colby. Cristal finally discovers their affair and treats to reveal her real face to the family. They have a cat fight and Alexis locks her off in her studio. When the barn is set on fire, Alexis tries to save Cristal however she's dead at the scene.

- In Season 2 Alexis is secretly dealing with the repercussions of having Hank pretend to be her and Blake's son which comes back to bite when the real Adam returns and realizes she faked the blood test for Hank. He retaliates against by pushing her face first into a open fire and blackmails her. She then gets her daughter face (Elizabeth Giles pulled a double role as both mother and daughter) until she leaves for Europe to get a new face although not before warning Fallon that Adam's dangerous and he's the reason they look identical.

### Fallon and Jeff Colby

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Fallon and Jeff Colby are the only characters to appear in all the seasons of the series in addition to the two seasons of its spin-off and the mini-series Reunion.
* Fallon is the older of the two (later second of the four) children of Blake and Alexis. In the Pilot, she returns from Greece to Denver to attend the wedding of her father with Krystle, whom she instantly dislikes, and resumes her past affair with Blake’s chauffeur Michael Culhane. She also flirts with Cecil Colby, her father’s business rival… Jeff has been raised by his uncle Cecil and has a fling with childhood friend Fallon. In order to secure Cecil’s assistance when Denver Carrington runs into financial trouble, Fallon agrees to marry Jeff but he soon realizes that she doesn’t love him and that their marriage is just a business deal. During Blake’s trial for murder, Fallon lies on the witness stand in attempt to protect him but it fails when her mother Alexis returns in their life after sixteen years away and testifies against him.
* Fallon learns that she is pregnant and thinks of having an abortion but, despite their wasted marriage, Jeff convinces her to keep the baby. During her pregnancy, Fallon has an affair with Nick Toscanni, who also has an eye on Krystle, and thinks of divorcing to marry him but she realizes that he has only been toying with her. In the meantime, Jeff cheats with Claudia Blaisdel, only to learn that she is spying on Denver Carrington for his uncle. While driving, Fallon argues with Alexis, who reveals that she is Cecil’s daughter. A horrified Fallon crashes her car, goes into premature labor and delivers a baby boy, Blake Carrington Colby (nicknamed Little Blake or LB for short) but he is kidnapped by Alfred Grimes, the father of Alexis’ former lover Roger Grimes. LB is returned unharmed. Blake demands a blood test which provers that he, not Cecil, is Fallon’s daughter.
* When Cecil died after a quickly marriage with Alexis, Jeff to work at ColbyCo while Fallon asks Blake to turn over control of his struggling hotel. She spends long time to remodels it and she names it La Mirage. It is an instantly success. When Steven is presumed dead after the explosion of a oil-rig, Krystle is devastated and Fallon then realizes that her stepmother truly loves Blake and isn’t the gold-digger she suspected her of being. They finally become good friends. At La Mirage, Fallon flirts with a handsome stranger, Michael Torrance, and they share a kiss but she is horrified when Alexis introduces him to her as Adam, her long lost brother. Fallon and Adam’s relationship is strained forever after that. Adam goes to work with their mother at ColbyCo and soon after, Jeff’s behavior becomes more erratic and violent and he attacks Fallon, who files for divorce. In the meantime, she hires Krystle’s ex-husband Mark Jennings as tennis instructor in her hotel and Joseph’s daughter Kirby to be LB’s nanny. Not knowing he is also Alexis’ lover, Fallon begins an affair with Mark while Jeff marries Kirby on the rebound. She then learns that Jeff’s odd behavior was caused by inhaling mercuric-oxide which was used to paint his office and suspects Adam but she is unable to punish him.
* Fallon breaks with Mark when she learns that he is also Alexis’ lover and meets European tycoon Peter de Vilbis. They get engaged but she realizes that Peter set to extort money from Blake. Upset and confused, Fallon accidentally runs in front of a car and suffers a severe head injury after being hit. She is also temporarily paralyzed. Although she is able to walk again, Fallon is plagued by painful headaches. In the meantime, Jeff learns that Kirby is pregnant with Adam’s child and divorces. Fallon and Jeff reconcile and they soon decide to remarry but, on the eve of the wedding, she suffers a severe headache and runs away. Jeff discovers the wreckage of Fallon’s car but no sign of her and investigates. He then learns that Peter de Vilbis has died in a plane crash and that the badly burned remains of a woman were found with him. Jeff recognizes Fallon’s rig but refuses to believe she has died too. He has a brief affair with Peter’s widow Nicole Simpson and then becomes romantically involved with Lady Ashley Mitchell. They are among the guests of the Moldavian wedding but she dramatically dies when the ceremony turns terrorist attack.
* Back in Denver, Jeff gets a surprise visit from his aunt Constance, who has decided to give him her controlling interests in Colby Enterprises, the Los Angeles-based company she owns with her brother Jason, who enters a business deal with Blake. In the meantime, an amnesic Fallon calling herself Randall Adams goes to Los Angeles and meets Miles Colby, who is Jason’s son and Jeff’s cousin. Blake invites the Colbys of California to celebrate their business deal in Denver but when Miles and Randall arrive at the Carrington Mansion, she becomes hysterical. Jeff sees her in the courtyard with his cousin and decides to follow her in California, where he moves permanently after accepting his aunt’s shares of Colby Enterprises. On their return to L.A., Miles and Randall elope and he introduces his new wife to his family, including his cousin Jeff, whom she doesn’t recognize. She later meets Blake with a similar lack of recognition. However, when she meets her son LB, she realizes that she is Fallon. When Adam comes to L.A., she becomes hysterical and accuses him of raping her the night she was to remarry Jeff. She later remembers that she merely argued with him on the wedding night. The doctor diagnoses that she never fully accepted that she almost had sex with Adam when she knew him as Michael, that strain combined with her head injury had led to her amnesia.
* During their time in L.A., Jeff reconnects with his estranged mother Francesca, who has a past with Jason, and learns that he is his biological father. Despite being now half-brothers, Jeff and Miles openly compete for Fallon’s affections. Fallon and Jeff grow closer when their son falls ill which upsets Miles. In a fit of drunken anger, he rapes Fallon. Fallon keeps the rape secret, annules her marriage with Miles and remarries with Jeff at the Colby Mansion. She then learns that she is pregnant but when she realizes that her pregnancy is farther that she first thought, she worries that the child could be Miles’. Miles marries Channing Carter, who quickly becomes jealous of Fallon. When she learns her secret, Channing reveals to the family that Miles could be the father of Fallon’s upcoming baby. After an argument with Channing, Fallon falls down of stairs and goes into premature labor. The baby girl Lauren survives and turns out to be Jeff’s, much to their joy. Soon after, Jeff’s parents Jason and Francesca prepare to marry but the ceremony is interrupted when Phillip, his long lost legal father who was presumed dead, shows himself among the guests. He kidnaps Francesca and Jason and Jeff chase them in a helicopter causing Phillip’s car to crash. Francesca is severely injured but Phillip is missing. Following her fall, Fallon is troubled by headaches again. One night, while driving down a deserted road, she leaves her car and sees a UFO. She enters the ship, which takes off.
* The next day, Jeff finds Fallon miles from her car and her shoes show no signs of wear. They decide to return in Denver, far from the Colbys, and she eventually confides to Jeff but his disbelief causes them to drift apart. Their marriage is further strained when Jeff breaks his confidence telling Blake and her cousin Leslie about her UFO encounter. Jeff also has a one-night-stand with Leslie and Fallon files for divorce. After their divorce, Jeff starts dating Krystle’s niece Sammy Jo but he finally has a one-night-stand with Fallon on the same day that Sammy Jo accepts his marriage proposal. Sammy Jo breaks up with Jeff and finally becomes close friend with Fallon. When the dead body of Roger Grimes, Alexis’ former lover, who had been dead for over 20 years, is found at the bottom of a lake on the Carrington property, Fallon becomes romantically involved with John Zorelli, the policeman investigating the case. Ultimately, it is revealed that 8-year-old Fallon had shot him and finding him beating her mother and Blake's late father had hidden the body in a mine under the lake to protect her. Fallon learns that her half-sister Krystina has found an alternate entrance to the mine. They go there and stumble upon a treasure, but are followed by the son of Roger Grimes and soon trapped by a cave-in.
* Three years later, Fallon is living with Miles in California. However, she decides again to leave him and reconcile with Jeff.

### Fallon

* Fallon is the ambitious daughter of millionaire Blake Carrington, CEO of Carrington Atlantic, and works as the Head of Acquisitions in the company. She hopes for a promotion as COO but Blake finally gives « her » promotion to his new wife and former Public Relations Cristal Flores. The two ladies become rivals and Fallon does her best to destroy her reputation. Fallon teams up with Jeff Colby, her father’s enemy, who offers her financial backing to be CEO of her own company, Morell Green Energy Corporation. Months later, Blake fires his wife and Fallon finally becomes the COO of the company, which absorbs Morell Corp. Fallon then succeeds to fire her father and is named CEO but the sale of Carrington Atlantic is voted soon after.
* Far from business and her rivalry with her stepmother, Fallon is very close to her older brother Steven, who defends her when she was tormented by majordomo Joseph Anders’ daughter Kirby during their childhood. When she was still in her sophomore year in High School, Fallon’s parents divorced and her mother exiled far away from Atlanta. When Alexis finally returns after eleven years, Fallon coldly welcomes her and becomes closer to Cristal as they have now a common enemy. In the meantime, her long time relationship with Monica Colby doesn’t resist of the rivalry of their two families and it’s still tense when they finally learn that they are cousins. Fallon also develops a friendship with her assistant Sam Jones, who is also Cristal’s nephew and Steven’s fiancé (and then husband).
* Her mother’s absence left Fallon insecure and she hides it in a veil of stony hardness. Therefore, her love’s life is very chaotic as she is afraid of being abandoned. She had an affair with her chauffeur Michael Culhane but he finally breaks off after four years of a hidden relationship. Still in love with him, Fallon finally dates Jeff Colby but he manipulates her into a marriage to obtain half of her Carrington Atlantic’s shares. She succeeds to annule their marriage by marrying another man Liam Ridley. Fallon tries to forget Culhane by dating her faux husband only to learn that Liam is an author who writes a book about a rich family. She then becomes closer to Culhane after his father’s death and declares her love to him but he announces his intentions to leave Atlanta. Then returns Liam, who declares his love and that he never writes a book about her but about his own rich family. Soon after, the Carringtons are trapped in their barn on fire after Steven and Sam’s wedding. Fallon manages to get out but Culhane enters in the blaze to rescue the rest of her family.
* In season 2 Fallon gets engaged to Culhane but however pretends to be still be marry to Liam to get a business deal from his family until they amicably publicly 'divorce' leaving Fallon to forward with her wedding plans however she calls it off upon learning he lied to her.Fallon realized that her romantic feelings for Liam were real and many obstacles finally gets together for real with him by the end of season 2.

### Jeff Colby

* As a teenager, Jeff had a crush on Fallon but her parents did their best to separate them. Soon after, Jeff’s father Cecil Colby was sent in prison for drug trafficking and Blake Carrington became his mentor. He hired Jeff at Carrington Atlantic, where he worked in I.T.. Jeff developed a software for his own profits, then earned his first billion dollars, found his company ColbyCo and became Blake’s enemy. Despite her father’s disapproval, Fallon remained friend with Jeff and his sister Monica. However, when Jeff learned that his father had been framed to jail by Blake Carrington, he prepared his revenge and decided to be close to the Carringtons to ruin them.
* Jeff gives Fallon his financial support to become the CEO of her own company, Morell Green Energy Corporation, and they soon become romantically involved but their relationship is short-lived. She wants him to redeem his shares of Morell Corp. However, Monica, who is now aware and up of Jeff’s revenge, convinces her to give her brother a second chance. Soon after, Jeff proposes to Fallon and she accepts, but, in the meantime, she learns about his plot of revenge and secretly turns the tables at her advantage. Just after the ceremony, newly weds sign contracts : Fallon gives him 25 % shares of CA while Jeff gives her 25 % of ColbyCo and the full ownership of Morell Corp. Fallon then reveals that her shares transfert agreement is voided because she has married another man on the eve of the wedding. Jeff publicly accuses Fallon of fraud. Weeks later, Jeff and Monica’s mother is revealed to be the secret half-sister of Blake Carrington. Using their new power, they vote for the sale of Carrington Atlantic.

### Steven

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Steven appears from season one to eight and in the mini-series Reunion. He also guest stars in the spin-off.
* Steven is the younger of the two (later third of the four) children of Blake and Alexis. He is very close to his sister Fallon but, unlike her, he didn’t care much for the wealth. Getting older, Steven found himself different than the other boys and understood and accepted himself as gay. But his father couldn’t tolerate it and Steven turned out quiet and shy. He graduated from Princeton and lived in New York for a while before coming back to Denver for Blake’s wedding with Krystle, whom he quickly befriends.
* Taking his distances with the family empire, Steven goes to work with his geologist old friend Matthew Blaisdel, Blake’s former employee who had previously been involved with Krystle. Matthew defends him against the homophobic glares of other oil rig workers. Steven befriends with Matthew’s wife Claudia, who is trying to put her life back together after a mental breakdown and they have a brief affair before he finally decides to work for Blake at Denver Carrington. He then spends the night with his former boyfriend Ted Dinard before deciding he must break it off with both Ted and Claudia. Blake then catches Steven and Ted in a chaste embrace and put them apart. Ted falls, hits his head and dies. Blake is arrested and charged with murder During his trial, Alexis returns to Denver after sixteen years away and testifies against him, who is found guilty but given a suspended sentence.
* Alexis soon suggests that Steven should get married and he begins dating Krystle’s niece Sammy Jo although he is unable at first to make love to her. They quickly elope but the marriage is short-lived. Alexis pays Sammy Jo to leave Steven, who then confronts his entire family, berating them for their intolerance and stating that he is gay and unashamed. Vowing to live his own life on his own terms, he leaves the mansion and goes to work on an oil-rig in Java Sea. Months later, Fallon receives a letter from her brother, when the oil rig explodes, leaving him presumed dead. In the meantime, Sammy Jo reappears with Steven’s baby son Steven Daniel (nicknamed Danny) announcing her desire to seek fame as a model in New York City and leaves her baby to Blake and Krystle. Meanwhile, Steven is found alive in a Singapore hospital, his face bandaged after extensive cosmetic surgery. When his bandages are removed, he considers letting his family continue to believe in this death but his doctor contacts Blake. Despite the surgery, Blake recognizes his son and convinces him to return to Denver by telling him about Danny. Steven returns to the Carrington Mansion and meets his long lost brother Adam and Danny for the first time. Adam becomes immediately jealous of his brother while Blake is dismayed when Steven accepts a job at ColbyCo and decides to move out the mansion with his son. Steven then travels to New York to see Sammy Jo and suggests that they remarry but she refuses.
* When Blake learns that Steven is living with his attorney Chris Deegan, he decides to sue him for the custody of Danny. Chris represents Steven at the custody trial where each part argues against the other. Steven then flies to Reno with Claudia Blaisdel and marries her. They are awarded custody Danny, reconcilie with Blake and move back to the mansion. Steven is soon concerned about Claudia’s fragile emotional state when she starts receiving flowers, gifts and phone calls from her presumed dead husband Matthew but they soon learn that this was Sammy Jo who harasses them. When Sammy Jo returns to Denver and kidnaps Danny in exchange for money, Claudia convinces Adam to help get Danny back and Sammy Jo returns to New York defeated. Around the same time, Alexis is arrested for the murder Mark Jennings and Steven is forced to testify that he saw her pushing Mark off her balcony. It is finally revealed that the real killer was disguised as Alexis to frame her. At ColbyCo, Steven co-works with Luke Fuller, who is attracted to him, but their relationship stays platonic. However, Claudia, troubled by the growing friendship between them and manipulated by Adam, has an extramarital affair. Steven then sleeps with Luke but decides to save his marriage. Meanwhile, prompted by Adam, Claudia flies to Mexico to divorce. Steven’s affair with Luke strains again his relationship with Blake when he invites his lover to be his escort to the Moldavian wedding. After the wedding ceremony, Luke is killed in the terrorist attack, leaving Steven heartbroken.
* Back in Denver, Steven teams up with Sammy Jo to save Blake from Rita Lesley, the lookalike of Krystle, and goes to work for Denver Carrington. He then works with state senator Bart Fallmont who does not agree with pipeline project partnership between the Colbys and the Carringtons. They develop a romantic interest towards each other but decide to not pursue it as Bart hasn’t come out as gay. Adam leaks to the press that Bart is a closeted gay man, and, in the mist of the scandal, he is removed from the state senate. Soon after, Steven and Sammy Jo agree to put aside their differences and decide to live together platonically in an attempt to give Danny a normal home life. However, they give into romantic feelings and make love. Once again, Steven is conflicted over his emotions and sexuality and decides to move out, leaving Danny with his mother. He then announces that he leaves Denver but a not-so-dead Matthew Blaisdel crashes the Carrington Mansion and takes the family hostage. After several days of captivity, Steven manages to overpower Matthew and stabs him to death. The incident leaves him emotionally scarred and he is encouraged to seek psychiatric help. Months later, struggling with the uncertainly in his life, Steven leaves Denver for good. He pens a letter to his father explaining his need for distance but Adam burns the letter before Blake finds or reads it.
* Years later, Steven is an environmental lobbyist in Washington D.C. He reconcilies with Blake, who formally accepts his committed relationship with his boyfriend Bart Fallmont.

- Steven Carrington is the openly gay son of Blake and Alexis and Fallon’s older brother. While he was working at Carrington Atlantic, Steven was involved in a oil rig accident which causes an engineer’s death but the accident was covered up by his father and Police Chief Stansfield. Unaware of the accident, Steven chose to stay away from the family business and became an environmental activist, which regularly causes tensions with his father. Steven then had relationship with his coworker Ted Dinard, which led him to abuse cocaine. After they broke up, Steven worked hard to be sober. Soon after, he secretly reconnected with his mother Alexis, who was forced to exile Atlanta by his father.

- Steven first meets Sam Jones in a bar and they spontaneously hook up in a hotel room. They meet again soon after when he befriends with his new stepmother Cristal after her wedding to his father and she introduces him to her nephew Sam, whom she nicknames Sammy Jo. Sam then moves in the Carrington Mansion and they start dating but after some disputable choices, Steven chooses to put their relationship of a break. Before Christmas, Steven learns that he was responsible of Dominic Ortega’s death in the oil rig accident and feels guilty. She flies for New York where he resume his past relationship with Ted and with his former addiction to cocaine. He finally returns to Atlanta for Christmas and convinces Sam to move out the Mansion. They become roommates. Steven then decides to enters in campaign for the City Council and meets Ted to inform him that their past relationship and cocaine abuse will be on the headlines. Ted misunderstands him and thinks they can restart again only to discover that he now lives with Sam. Jealous and stoned, Ted visits Sam and snatches one of his earrings before jumping through the window.

- With Ted unconscious at the hospital, Steven and Sam get closer and share a kiss. To ward off suspicion of Sam, Steven says he was with Ted when he attempted suicide and acts as a tearful widow at Ted’s bedside. When Ted recovers, Steven informs Sam that they can’t have a public relationship. Sam moves out and returns to the Carrington Mansion but they finally reconcilie again. When Tom Carrington sees his grandson Steven sharing a kiss with Sam, he calls the immigration. Steven then asks Melissa Daniels, with whom he had a brief affair ten years earlier, for her help to prevent Sam’s eviction and agrees to sleep again with her in exchange. Soon after, at his grandfather’s funeral, Steven proposes to Sam. But in the meantime, Alexis returns in her children’s life and soon decides that Sam is not good for her son. She does her best to separate them but fails. She then reveals to Steven the existence of his long lost brother and he secretly goes away to continue her searchings. He finally returns to the Carrington Mansion with Hank Sullivan, the one that is supposed to be Adam. Later, on his wedding day, Steven learns that Melissa is pregnant with his child. He stays quiet and is later separate from his husband when the Carrington property is set on fire.

- He is reunited with Sam, but the family suffers a lost with the death of Cristal. After Steven finds out his paternity has been a lie and he's not going be the father to Melissa Daniels. Steven goes and tries to find himself through his relief work leaving Sam back in Atlantic. However it's revealed he never did his relief work and instead found himself in Europe unknowingly accompany by Adam who used the alias George to emotionally gaslight him into thinking he was relapsing and having a nervous breakdown in which Sam and Fallon truly though was happening. Steven voluntary checks himself into a mental hospital, but after saying goodbye to his family. 'George' appears and confesses everything to Steven indicating that He's the real Carrington while Steven isn't before injecting with something unknown making Steven's fate unknown as Adam plans on becoming Blake's male heir.

### Adam

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Adam appears from season three to nine and in the mini-series Reunion. He also guest stars in the spin-off.
* Adam is the oldest child of Blake and Alexis. As a baby, he was kidnapped by Kate Torrance after her son, daughter-in-law and grandson all three died in a car accident. She then raised Adam as her grandson Michael Torrance in Billings, Montana. Adam was also involved in drug and alcohol abuse during his teenage years, causing a nervous breakdown when he was in High School. The effect on his brain made him an agressive and unpredictable man. He then worked his way through Yale and became a lawyer.
* On her deathbed, Kate tells Adam about his true identity and proves it with a silver rattle monogrammed with the initials of Adam Carrington, which had been in the carriage when she kidnapped him. Still using Michael Torrance name, Adam travels to Denver and checks into La Mirage hotel where he meets Fallon. They flirt and share a kiss but she playfully refuses to tell him her name. In the meantime, Adam meets with his parents and proves his identity. When Alexis introduces Adam to Fallon, they are shocked and their relationship remains strained forever after that. Adam also develops a jealousy with both his brother Steven and Jeff Colby, whom Blake considers as his son.
* When Adam goes to work at ColbyCo, he reveals his devious nature by painting Jeff’s office with toxic paint and, gradually, Jeff’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic and violent. During that time, Adam is madly attracted to Jeff’s wife Kirby and rapes her. Months later, Kirby reveals that she is pregnant with Adam’s child and divorces Jeff. Adam makes amend to Kirby. She accepts his proposal but breaks off their engagement and moves to Paris after her miscarriage. Becoming very close to his mother, Adam defends her when she is charged for the murder of Mark Jennings. After the real killer found, Adam grows closer to Steven’s wife Claudia and manipulates her to think Steven has an affair with Luke Fuller. He encourages her to divorce and marries her. A furious Blake disowns Adam and cuts him out of his will.
* As part of his work on the pipeline project between the Carringtons and the Colbys, Adam travels to California for a meeting and he encounters Fallon who was presumed dead but finally alive and suffering from amnesia. Fallon becomes hysterical upon meeting Adam and accuses him of raping her. Jeff is ready to believe her accusation but upon a further counseling, Fallon realizes that her unresolved conflict over her sexual attraction to Adam when they first met was what triggered her mental breakdown, disappearance and amnesia. Working on the pipeline project in Denver, Adam attempts to bribe state senator Bart Fallmont. When Bart refuses, Adam investigates and learns that he is a closeted gay man and leaks stories to the press that Bart is sleeping with Steven, which infuriates his family and ultimately causes Bart to resign. Soon after, Claudia pressures Adam to help her acquire the Lankershim-Blaisdel oil well from Blake that she believes is rightfully hers. In the meantime, Adam takes advantage of Blake’s health problem to trick him into signing a power of attorney. Claudia has been increasingly obsessed with regaining her oil well from Blake and reveals him that Blake took advantage of his illness. Later, while ruminate her resentment against the Carringtons, Claudia accidentally sets fire to her hotel room at La Mirage. Adam escapes the hotel fire but is devastated to learn that Claudia has perished in the blaze.
* Working for Alexis at ColbyCo, Adam attempts to seduce his father’s assistant Dana Waring, who is furious when she learns he has used her. Adam convinces her that his feelings are true. He proposes and Dana accepts. During their engagement, Adam learns that the real Adam Carrington baby died during his kidnapping. Adam confesses to Blake and Alexis, who legally adopt him, only to discover that the information about Adam’s death is false and that he is really the Carrington heir. After their marriage, Adam wants to start a family with Dana but she confesses that she cannot have children due to an abortion during her teenage years. Dana was then a student at Adam’s high school in Billings and they had a one-night-stand during a drunken blackout but she has no memory of the incident. She was obsessed with him which is what ultimately led her to Denver. Adam is stunned by the news but they soon decide to hire a surrogate mother, Karen Atkinson. Soon after, Karen reunites with her husband Jesse, throwing the surrogacy into question. Adam attempts to bribe him to leave town but Jesse stays. After the baby is born, Karen tells Adam that she want to keep the baby. During the trial, custody is awarded to the Atkinsons. Dana then leaves Adam and moves away from Denver.
* Adam continues his manipulative ways, attempting to double-cross Jeff at work, and also seduces Krystle’s cousin Virginia but when he learns that she was a prostitute, he humiliates her into leaving Denver. Adam then flirts with Joanna Sills, Sable Colby’s vice president of mergers and acquisitions, in an attempt to help his mother with her vendetta against her cousin, and offers her a job when Sable fires her. In the meantime, Adam and Alexis investigate a mysterious mine of the Carrington property where Roger Grimes’s dead body was found, and learn that the mine holds stolen nazi treasure and artwork. In the series finale, Adam starts a fight with Dex on the balcony of the Carlton Hotel when Dex falls backward into Alexis, sending them both crashing through and falling off the balcony. Years later, he is still working for Alexis and reconciles with Blake when he is released from jail. A remorseful Adam also reunites with Kirby and proposes to her.

- Adam is the oldest child of Blake and Alexis. He was kidnapped when he was 6 months old and never recovered. His disappearance open up the gap between his parents which escalated over the decades : Alexis still hoping he was alive while Blake chose to believe in his death but they agreed to keep Adam's existence a secret to their other children Steven and Fallon.

- Blake first mentioned Adam in the eleventh episode when Fallon is kidnapped after her golden birthday party. Steven finally finds his older brother, who makes his entrance in the Carrington family in the penultimate episode of the first season but he is soon revealed to be Alexis' lover, who was hired to play his role as a scheme to sell Carrington Atlantic.

- Until the middle of the second season the real Adam's fate was unknown until he showed up at the house and introduced himself to his parents and sister who were unaware what he had did Steven in Paris.

### Amanda

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Amanda appears from season five to season seven.
* Amanda is the youngest child of Blake and Alexis. Born after their spilt, she was raised in England as Amanda Bedford by Alexis’ cousin Rosalind Bedford. When she learns that Alexis is her mother, Amanda moves to Denver, Colorado, and it’s eventually reveals that Blake is her father. Her arrival gives her parents some support after Fallon’s presumed death but she is finally accepts as herself. Amanda is soon attracted to Alexis’ fiancé Dex Dexter and attempts to seduce him. When they find themselves snowed in together in a remote cabin, they make love but immediately afterwards, Dex regrets and announces that he will marry Alexis. A depressed Amanda is invited by her parents to a conference in Acapulco where she meets the handsome Prince Michael of Moldavia. Alexis, who had known Michael’s father King Galen years ago, encourages the relationship and, despite her lingering feelings for her stepfather, Amanda accepts Michael’s proposal.
* During their engagement, Amanda is almost kidnapped by Moldavian rebels but rescued by Dex. Soon after in Moldavia, the royal wedding is interrupted by the terrorists who spray the chapel with gunfire in an attempt to kill the King. Galen is missing and presumed dead and his rightful heir Michael in forced to leave his country. Exile puts a strain on Amanda and Michael’s marriage. In the meantime, Alexis convinces Dex to help her rescue Galen and they found him alive but paralyzed. Galen comes to Denver to recuperate but Dex correctly suspects him to feign his paralysis. Amanda catches her husband in a compromising position with her former fiancée Elena, a Moldavian Duchess. She finds a drunken Dex heartbroken after seeing Alexis imagining herself as the Queen of Moldavia, and they make love only to be caught in the act by Alexis, who has finally discovered that King Galen has been manipulating her. A furious Alexis files for divorce and Amanda too while the King and the Prince leave Denver. Estranged from her mother after that, Amanda is devastated when Dex does not want to pursue a relationship with her.
* Feeling isolated from her family, Amanda attempts suicide and reconciles with her mother. She then romances Clay Fallmont but has to compete with Sammy Jo for his affections. The two women fight in the swimming pool of La Mirage hotel while a fire is raging the hotel. Amanda is trampled in the chaos surrounding the fire but rescued by a mysterious stranger who turns out to be Michael Culhane, her father’s former chauffeur who had been fired for having an affair with Fallon. Grateful to Michael, Blake offers his job back but disapproves when he starts dating Amanda. Despite Fallon’s warnings, Amanda goes through her family and refuses to leave Michael. Weeks after, Amanda learns that Michael has become wealthy and is using her to get his revenge on Blake. Upset and confused, she returns to England to think about her life and never appears or is mentioned again (her parents only mention three children) during the series.

- Amanda is indirectly referenced by Fallon after the revelation of the existence of their long lost brother Adam and she asks Steven if he’s been *Sleuthing for more siblings and found a sister*.

### Sammy Jo

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Sammy Jo appears from season two to nine and in the mini-series Reunion.
* Samantha Josephine Dean (nicknamed Sammy Jo) is Krystle’s niece, daughter of her deceased sister Iris. Iris had an affair with Daniel Reece but he left her unaware of her pregnancy so she married Frank Dean. Sammy Jo grew up believing she was his daughter and after Iris’ death, Frank poorly raised her. They traveled the amateur race car circuit until he announced that he is taking her to live in Denver with her aunt Krystle, who had recently married millionaire Blake Carrington.
* Sammy Jo becomes romantically involved with Blake’s son Steven, who has been struggling with his sexuality. They elope and it becomes clear that she is a gold-digger, buying expensive clothes and charging them to Blake. She then accepts a check from Alexis and leaves Denver to Hollywood, where Steven chases her but she rejects him. Becoming a selfish and rude girl, she does a great number of bad actions through the years which create a wall of hatred between her and the Carringtons. First time, when Steven goes missing and is presumed dead, she returns to Denver with their baby boy Steven Daniel Jr (nicknamed Danny) and leaves him with Blake and Krystle before moving to New York to pursue a modeling career but she soon has to sleep for eventually posing nude in cheap magazines. When Steven turns alive, he goes to New York and suggests that they remarry but she refuses. Second time, Sammy Jo harasses Steven’s emotionally fragile new wife Claudia using her presumed dead husband Matthew name to send her gifts and call her. Third time, Sammy Jo returns to Denver and announces that she will fight for custody of Danny before kidnapping him and using him for money, only to return to New York, defeated.
* Months later, Krystle comes to New York and introduces Sammy Jo to her biological father Daniel Reece, who dies soon after. Daniel leaves his wealth to Sammy Jo but Krystle, as executor of his will, must approve all the purchases of her niece. Furious, Sammy Jo swears revenge. Coincidentally, Sammy Jo befriends her actress flatmate Rita Lesley, who is a perfect doppelgänger of her aunt, and plans to use her to impersonate Krystle to trick the bank into releasing her inheritance. But Sammy Jo loses control of her plan when Rita’s lover Joel Abrigore takes over the scheme. He kidnapped Krystle and Rita takes her place in the Carrington Mansion to embezzle as much money as possible. Sammy Jo becomes uncomfortable with the plan when she suspects they are poisoning Blake and confesses to Steven, who saves his father from Rita while Sammy Jo frees her aunt from captivity. Blake and Krystle agree not to press charges against her in return for her cooperation with the police search for Joel and Rita. Sammy Jo realizes what she had done to her family and then becomes a grown up and responsible woman, getting involved in the horse business after inheriting her father’s ranch Delta Rho. She also reconnects with her son Danny.
* Sammy Jo then becomes romantically involved with Clay Fallmont and she soon learns that she is pregnant. They marry but the marriage is soon annulled when she learns that her pregnancy was false. Sammy Jo and Steven then agree to put aside their differences for Danny’s benefit and decide to live together platonically in an attempt to give him a normal home life. However, they give into romantic feelings and make love. Once again, Steven is conflicted over his emotions and sexuality and he decides to move out of Sammy Jo’s ranch and leaves Danny with his mother. Months later, Sammy Jo becomes romantically involved with quarterback Josh Harris but she is unaware of his addiction to cocaine. When he proposes and she refuses, Josh overdoses and dies. She then starts dating Jeff Colby but has to compete with Fallon, who has recently divorced him but is always the mother of his children. After weeks of relationship, Jeff proposes to Sammy Jo and she accepts, not knowing that he’s been sleeping with Fallon. When she learns about their one-night-stand, Sammy Jo fights with Fallon but they soon realize than neither one of them wants Jeff and become close friends. She then briefly dates with Tanner McBride, who is a Catholic priest, before returning to her modeling career in New York. After an affair with her married boss, she gets fired and returns to Denver, where she is welcomed back into her family.

- Samuel Josiah Jones is the openly gay nephew of Cristal Carrington, who nicknames him Sammy Jo. He first meets her stepson Steven at a bar and they spontaneously hook up in a hotel room where Sam steals him money before being officially introduces to each other during the wedding of Cristal with Steven’s father Blake Carrington. Sam then moves in the Carrington Mansion and enjoys its luxury while he starts dating Steven. Sam then steals some of Blake’s valuables to help his mother who is still in Venezuela and confesses to Steven that he is the burglar. When Sam sleeps with Steven’s ex Ted Dinard, Steven decides it’s enough for him and he puts their relationship on a break. During the Thanksgiving dinner, Sam is trapped on the basement with the majordomo Joseph Anders while Claudia Blaisdel held hostage the Carrington family. As different as they are, Sam and Joseph develop a friendship.

- On the Christmas eve, Sam welcomes his mother Iris from Venezuela and is shocked to learn that Cristal killed his father years ago. He finally learns that his father is still alive and realizes the true colors of his parents, who have blackmailed Cristal for weeks. Sam helps Cristal to deal with them and reconcilies with her. After Christmas, Sam and Steven decide to leave the Carrington Mansion and they become roommates. He also befriends with Fallon and becomes her assistant. Ted then returns in Sam and Steven’s life. Jealous and stoned, he snatches Sam’s earrings before jumping through the window of their apartment. While Ted in unconscious and to ward off suspicion of Sam, Steven says he was with Ted when he attempted suicide. Steven and Sam grow closer and share a kiss but, after Ted’s recovery, Steven informs Sam that they must have to wait for a public relationship. Sam moves out and returns to the Carrington Mansion.

- At Fallon’s wedding, Sam has a date with one of her friends Liam Ridley and succeeds to make Steven jealous. After the revelation that Liam is in fact Fallon’s husband, Steven and Sam reconcilie again but when he sees them kiss, Steven’s grandfather calls the immigration before passing soon after. Sam receives an eviction letter from ICE and Joseph set him up with an immigration lawyer while Steven uses his contacts. Steven then proposes to Sam and he accepts but then Alexis returns in her children’s life. Sam becomes his first target and she tries to separate him from her son but she fails with the help of Fallon. Weeks later, Joseph celebrate Steven and Sam’s wedding. Sam invites his estranged daughter as a gift for his friend. Then, Sam realizes that Steven strangely acts. He is about to tell him something important when the Carrington property is set on fire and separate them.

- He is reunited with Steven, but loses his aunt. After Steven finds out his paternity has been a lie and he's not going be the father to Melissa Daniels's child. Steven goes and tries to find himself through his relief work leaving Sam back in Atlantic. They later divorce due to Adam's long term plan of deception after successfully gas-lighting Steven

### Dominique Deveraux

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Dominique appears from the penultimate episode of the fourth season to the seventh season finale and is also a recurring character of the spin-off *The Colbys*.
* Born Millie Cox, she is the illegitimate daughter of Tom Carrington and his secret black lover Laura. As an adult, she changed her name to Dominique Deveraux and started a musical career. She had a brief affair with married lawyer Garrett Boydston and secretly gave birth to their daughter Jackie. Shen then married record executive Brady Lloyd and together, they found the Deveraux Group, becoming one the powerful couple in the entertainment industry. During one of her tours, she stops at La Mirage Hotel in Denver.
* Dominique chooses to remain in Denver and, following Fallon's memorial service, makes the shocking claim that she is Blake's paternal half-sister. Furious that Dominique didn't confide in him earlier, Brady leaves her and files for divorce. As a wealthy woman, Dominique helps Blake saves his oil company and they become business partners, making her an enemy of Alexis, who has been scheming to take control of her ex-husband's holdings. When Tom Carrington denies being Dominique's father, she is furious and instigates a lawsuit against Blake for misappropriation of company funds after he uses her money to prevent losing his mansion.
* Blake and Dominique visit Tom Carrington on his deathbed and she convinces him to accept her just before dying. Blake acknowledges her too as his sister and she dropped her lawsuit against him. As a revenge, Alexis attempts to take over Dominique's company but Brady refuses to sell her his shares of Deveraux Group. Blake's relationship with his sister grows closer when she collapses after a show and needs heart surgery. She pulls through her illness and briefly dates Jonathan Lake, a state department employee, but their relationship is short-lived because he fights against a pipeline project of Denver Carrington with the Colbys.
* In the meantime, Dominique encounters a man from her past : Garrett Boydston, who is now Jason Colby's lawyer, tries to rekindle their romance but she is resistant. However, they regularly date in Denver or Los Angeles, where she travels frequently for work : she hires Monica Colby to help her run her California-based record company Titania Records and opens her own club *Dominique's*. Back in Denver, Dominique is visited by her daughter Jackie, who asks to stay instead of returning finishing school in Switzerland. After weeks of speculations on each part, Dominique tells Garrett and Jackie that they are father and daughter. Dominique and Garrett soon decide to marry.
* During their engagement party at La Mirage, Alexis reveals to her rival that Garrett was never married before and lied in order to avoid a long-term relationship. Dominique confronts Garrett, who admits his lies. Stunned, Dominique breaks off the engagement while a fire is raging the hotel. Jackie is badly burned and leaves Denver for a state-of-art treatment. During her absence, Dominique helps Blake to fight Alexis who has taken over his company with the assistance of their estranged brother Ben. She travels a last time to Los Angeles to sell Titania Records and her club. She then becomes romantically involved with geologist Nick Kimball but she is restrained about their relationship and briefly dates Alexis' ex-husband Dex Dexter. Weeks later, Nick returns to Denver and he proposes. Jackie refuses to give her approval as she still wants to see her parents back together. Dominique states her that she will not get back with Garrett, accepts Nick's proposal and the two leave Denver.

- Millie is the estranged mother of Jeff and Monica who lives in New York. She is first mentioned by her husband (*or ex-husband*) Cecil Colby, who thinks she had an affair with Blake Carrington, which is the premise of the feud between the Carringtons and the Colbys as Blake denies his allegations. Just before dying, Tom Carrington makes the revelation that he is guilty and Blake protects him and it happens that he was actually Millie's lover. However, as a favorite of the old man, Alexis Carrington knows his darkest secrets and finally clears the situation by revealing to Jeff and Monica that they are Carringtons. Their grandmother confirms she was sexually harassed by Tom Carrington when she was his secretary and that Millie is their secret daughter. As Tom Carrington's grandchildren, Jeff and Monica claim their part of the Carrington empire as revenge for the years they passed in the background.

- In the episode New Lady in Town she finally comes back to town and making her adult children think she's genuine in terms of how to reconnect, but wasn't how sure to do it. She later reveals on the phone to a unknown man that they fell for it and asked him to tell the kids she'l be back soon. Heavily implying she started a new family.
	* This is later confirmed in Season 3 with the introduction of her stepdaughter Vanessa.

### Other Relatives

#### Tom Carrington

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Tom only appears in one episode in the fifth season but is involved in the last season story lines.
* Thomas Fitzsimmons Carrington married Ellen in Pennsylvania and they had two sons Blake and Ben before moving to Colorado. Tom then had an affair with his African-American housekeeper Laura Cox but, when she became pregnant, he refused to acknowledge the baby. Years later, Ellen perished in the fire of the Carrington home and Tom held Ben responsible because he was supposed to take care of his illed mother. Father and son never saw each other again. Tom then began a shipping business. He transported Nazi war criminals and was paid with a stolen Nazi treasure which he buried in the abandoned mines of his property.
* Years later, during renovations of the Carrington estate, Alexis’ architect lover Roger Grimes uncovered the treasure and stole several pieces. He wanted to run away with her but she refused to leave her children. Fallon, who was only 8 at the time, then saw Roger beating her mother who was left unconscious and shot him. Tom found Fallon with a gun and convinced her it was all a bad dream. She repressed her memory while her grandfather hid Roger’s body in the abandoned mines. Tom then retired to Sumatra and remained estranged from his family until Blake last visited him twenty years later with Dominique Devereaux. On his deathbed, Tom confesses that she is his daughter and died soon after. Some years later, Roger Grimes’ dead body is found at the bottom of the lake of the Carrington property.

- Thomas Fitzsimmons Carrington was the former CEO of Carrington Atlantic, which is now in his son Blake’s hands. Racist and homophobic, Tom has a strained relationship with his son and grandchildren but Alexis has also been his favorite. He was absent at Blake and Cristal’s wedding but finally comes to spend Christmas with his family. After a brief rocky visit, Tom leaves the house without a goodbye to his son or his grandchildren.

- Tom is later invited by Cristal at Fallon and Jeff’s wedding, which is finally annulled. During the wedding party, Tom calls the immigration services to report Sam’s illegal situation and later has a fatal heart attack in Blake’s study. Weeks later, Alexis reveals one of Tom’s darkest secret to Jeff and Monica Colby. He had an affair with their maternal grandmother and they are his grandchildren. The Colby siblings soon use their new power to sell Carrington Atlantic.

#### Dex Dexter

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Dex appears from season four to season nine.
* Fransworth Dexter *(Dex for short)*, is Alexis' third husband and her on and off lover after their divorce, which is partially caused by Dex's brief affair with Alexis' daughter Amanda. Despite being involved with his ex-wife and enemy, Dex becomes a close friend of Blake and of the entire Carrington family over the years. At the end of the series, Dex becomes romantically involved with Alexis' cousin Sable, who is pregnant with his child. In the finale episode, he falls down through a balcony of the Carlton Hotel with Alexis and his fate remains unclear.

- Alexis has no known other husband. Her only known lover is Hank Sullivan, who impersonated her son Adam.

#### Mark Jennings

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Mark appears in seasons three and four.
* Mark Jennings was Krystle's ex-husband and the lover of Fallon and Alexis. When he was killed, Alexis was charged for murder but her name was finally cleared when the real killer (dressed as Alexis) was arrested.

- Cristal has no known other husband. She had two known affairs before her marriage with Blake : the first with Matthew Blaisdel and the other with journalist Rick Morales when she was working as PR in Carrington Atlantic.

- However the woman she switch identities with later married and divorced a man called Mark Jennings who was stated to be a former soccer star.

#### Ben, Caress, Iris, Jackie, Leslie

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Ben and Caress appear in seasons six and seven, respectively as Blake's brother and Alexis' sister. Estranged from their sibling, they come to Denver for revenge. Ben risks his own life to save Blake's. They reconcilie and Ben leaves town soon after. Caress leaves town without fixing her relation with her sister but with Blake's money.
* Iris is Krystle's older deceased sister and Sammy Jo's mother. She had an affair with Daniel Reece but he left her unaware of her pregnancy. Sammy Jo was raised by her stepfather Frank Dean and finally met her biological father soon before he died. She inherited his Delta Rho ranch.
* Jackie appears in seasons six and seven. She is the illegitimate daughter of Dominique and Garrett Boydston. After their break off, Jackie unsuccessfully tries to reconcile them and leaves town with her mother.
* Leslie appears in seasons seven and eight as Ben's daughter and Blake's niece. She unsuccessfully tries to walk in Alexis' shoes in some schemes and using men as pawns but each times fails. She has affairs with Clay Fallmont, Michael Culhane and Sean Rowan and a one-night-stand with Jeff Colby, which costs his second marriage with Fallon. She disappears without explanation after the eighth season finale.

- Blake and Alexis had no known siblings until the revelation that Cecil Colby's ex-wife Millie is the illegitimate daughter of Tom Carrington and therefore Blake's half-sister. Millie and Cecil have two children : Jeff and Monica.

- In Parisian Legend Has It... it's revealed that just like in the original series Blake has a disowned brother named Benjamin who moved to Paris and married a French Heiress having a daughter with her.

- Cristal was born and raised as Celia Machado in Caracas, Venezuela, and lived with her older sister Iris and her family. After killing Iris' abusing husband Alejandro to protect her, Celia left Caracas and changed her name to Cristal Flores. Becoming adult, Iris' son Sam left Caracas, came to Atlanta and reunited with his aunt. Years later, Iris is reunited with her family for Christmas at the Carrington Mansion and forces Cristal to reveal that she killed Alejandro. In a final twist, Alejandro is revealed to be alive, working with Iris to blackmail the newly rich Cristal. After kidnapping Fallon, Alejandro tries to kill Cristal and Iris kills him to protect her.

#### The young generation

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Little Blake Carrington-Colby (nicknamed LB) is the son of Fallon and Jeff born in the second season.
* Steven Daniel Carrington Jr (nicknamed Danny) is the son of Steven and Sammy Jo born in the third season.
* Krystina Carrington is the daughter of Blake and Krystle. Born in the fifth season, she is younger than her nephews LB and Danny.
* Lauren Colby is the daughter of Fallon and Jeff born in the second season of the spin-off.

- In the first season finale, Melissa Daniels reveals to Steven that she is pregnant with his child.

- In The Butler Did It, Melissa reveals that her baby's father is actually her OB/Gyno. Although given her history of lying it's really debatable.

- Blake JR Carrington known as 'LB' (birth name Matthew Jr Blaisdel) would almost been Steven and Sam's adopted son after being left in the family's care by Hank. However after finding out who the birth mother was Sam selflessly sent him to be raised by his parental grandparents.

- Later on Cristal Jennings becomes pregnant who is later determined to be Blake's unborn child however she miscarries after watching her ex husband died when Alexis was trying to shoot Christal after Alexis changed her mind about suicide when she saw Cristal. According to Cristal the damage that was done to her is going making having another baby in the future near impossible.

## The Colby family

* Original Series
* Reboot

* When the series begins, the Colby family consists of Jeff Colby and his uncle Cecil Colby, CEO of Denver Carrington's rival company ColbyCo, who has raised him.
* Philip Colby is briefly mentioned as Jeff's father and Cecil's younger brother, who had died during the Vietnam war. No others living relatives are mentioned and Jeff remains the sole member of the family after Cecil's death.
* Things change in season six with the launch of the spin-off *The Colbys*. A complete family living in Los Angeles is then introduced and Cecil is rewritten as the black sheep of the family, who had been disinherited by his father before leaving for Denver and built his own empire.
* Cecil's older siblings Jason and Connie equally share Colby Enterprises and live together in the family mansion with Jason's own family.
* Jason is married to Alexis' cousin Sable and they have three grown children : twins Miles and Monica and the younger daughter Bliss.
* As a premise of the spin-off, Connie gives her controlling interests to Jeff leading him to leave Denver for L.A., where he reunites with his amnesiac and presumed dead ex-wife Fallon Carrington, who is now married to his cousin Miles.
* After his arrival in L.A., Jeff also reunites with his estranged mother Francesca, who is also Sable's sister who has a past with Jason (who is soon revealed to be Jeff's biological father).
* Connie only appears in the first season and dies in season two while Philip Colby turns alive at the end of the second and last season.
* After the cancellation of the spin-off, Jeff and Fallon, and later Sable, Monica and Miles, are reintroduced in Dynasty.

- The African-American Colby family consists of siblings Jeff and Monica with their inmate father Cecil Colby later introduced as Blake's arch enemy.

- Jeff and Monica's estranged mother Millie is regularly mentioned as the premise of the feud between the Carringtons and the Colbys. She is believed to be Blake's lover and later his father Tom's before being revealed to be Blake's half-sister.

- Cousin Bobbi Johnson is the Police Chief of Atlanta and appears in one episode when Fallon is kidnapped.

- Millie's mother appears in the penultimate episode of the first season to confirm her past with Tom Carrington.

* Original Series
* Spin-off
* Reboot

### Cecil

* Cecil appears from the Pilot to the beginning of the third season. He never appears in the spin-off.
* Cecil Colby was the third of the four children of Andrew Colby and was a scheming and manipulative son, brother and businessman. Written out of his father’s will, Cecil moved to Denver where he built his oil company ColbyCo and his own empire. He befriended with Blake Carrington, who was just starting out in the oil business and was his best man when he married Alexis. But, while Blake spent long nights and days working to build Denver Carrington, Cecil betrayed their friendship by having a brief affair with his beautiful and lonely wife. Soon after, Cecil’s younger brother Philip died in Vietnam and, to help his widow Francesca, Cecil agreed to raised her young son Jeff as his heir. Cecil raised Jeff at his large estate, next door to the Carringtons, and they remained estranged from their Californian relatives. Although ColbyCo was still bigger, Denver Carrington started to catch up and Cecil turned into Blake’s bitter enemy.
* Flirting with Blake’s daughter Fallon, Cecil sees Jeff’s interests when she asks for his financial support to Denver Carrington and, in exchange of his help, she agrees to marry his nephew. When Alexis returns to Denver, they resume their relationship and they become allies against Blake. He goes as far as arranging the bomb explosion which temporarily cost Blake his eyesight. Cecil then learns that he could be Fallon’s father but a blood test proves that not him, but Blake is. Just before his planned wedding to Alexis, Cecil has a heart attack and they finally marry in the hospital. He dies minutes later and his last prayer was that Alexis will use his health and power to destroy Blake. Becoming the richest woman of Colorado, Alexis keeps her promise better than Cecil could expect.

### Sable

* Sable guest stars in the backdoor pilot of *The Colbys* in the sixth season, then moves to the spin-off for two seasons and later returns in the ninth and last season of *Dynasty*.
* Sabella Scott, better known as Sable, was born in London. She has an older sister Francesca and they are the cousins of Alexis and Caress but Sable never became close to one of them. Becoming adults, Francesca married Philip Colby and Sable married his older brother Jason Colby, who was twenty years her senior. Shorty after their marriage, Sable was raped by an unknown assailant and kept it secret. She gave birth to twins Miles and Monica and later to a third child Bliss, but Miles was always her favorite. Despite a tense relationship with Jason’s beloved sister Connie, who lived with them in the Californian Colby family mansion, Sable’s marriage was happy. She became involved in charity works, got interests in art and founded the Colby Collection.
* After nearly thirty years, Sable’s marriage breaks down when Connie gives her controlling interests in Colby Enterprises to her nephew Jeff. Sable then schemes against Connie and Jeff and does her best to keep him away from the family and from Miles’ legacy. When she discovers that Jason was in love with her sister Francesca and fathered her son Jeff, Sable becomes romantically involved with his arch enemy Zach Powers and they team up against Colby Enterprises. Sable and Jason finally divorce and he plans to remarry with Francesca. Soon after, Sable learns that her cousin Alexis had a one-night-stand with Jason and attacks her. Alexis then reveals to Jason that Sable was raped soon after their marriage and he is not the father of Miles and Monica. Jason cuts them off.
* Sable then moves to Denver for revenge against Alexis and buys her Carlton Hotel. She soon has a brief affair with Alexis’ ex-husband (and on an off lover) Dex Dexter and becomes a close friend with Blake and Krystle, as well as the rest of the Carringtons. When Alexis threatens to send Blake to prison for killing her former lover Roger Grimes, Sable supports him. She has come the closest to completely destroy Alexis when they finally come to an agreement. But in the meantime, Sable learns that she is pregnant with Dex’s child. The fate of this unborn baby remains unknown as nor Sable or Dex appear in the mini-series Reunion.

### Miles

* Miles is a recurring character in the sixth season, then moves to the spin-off for two seasons and later returns for the mini-series *Reunion*.
* Miles is the son of Sable and Jason Colby, as well as Monica’s twin brother and Bliss’ older brother. He had always been the favorite child of his mother unlike his relationship with his father which had always been unpleasant and tense. As an adult, Miles entered in the family business, became an international polo champion and forged himself a playboy reputation.
* Miles falls deeply in love with Randall Adams and quickly marries her, only to discover that she is in fact Fallon Carrington suffering from amnesia. He then starts fighting with Jeff for her. Torn between his love for Fallon, his aversions for Jeff who is revealed to be his half-brother and the influence of his mother, a drunken Miles loses control and rapes Fallon, who asks for the annulment of their marriage and remarries Jeff. Miles then marries Channing Carter, who quickly becomes jealous of Fallon and even more when she learns that Miles could be the father of her upcoming baby. After an argument with Channing, Fallon falls down of stairs and goes to premature labor. Her baby girl Lauren survives and turns out to be Jeff’s. Miles then tries to save his marriage with Channing but she leaves him after revealing that she is pregnant and will have an abortion.
* Soon after, Miles is cut off to Jason, who turns his back of him without an explanation and leaves the family mansion. Learning that Fallon had divorced Jeff, Miles manages to rebuild their relationship but he finally realizes that Jeff and Fallon are meant for each other. He reconcilies with Jeff and leaves them to rebuild their family.

### Monica

* Monica guest stars in the backdoor pilot of *The Colbys* in the sixth season, then moves to the spin-off for two seasons and is later a recurring character in the last season of *Dynasty.*.
* Monica is the daughter of Sable and Jason Colby, as well as Miles’ twin sister and Bliss’ older sister. She had always been the favorite child of her father and successfully studied law at Harvard. During her studies, she had an affair with married State Senator Cash Cassidy in Washington, which resulted in a pregnancy. With the help of her aunt Connie, Monica secretly gave birth to a son, which she immediately gave for adoption. She then became one of the 12 Colby Enterprises’ vice presidents.
* Monica chooses to leave Colby Enterprises to become the manager of Dominique Deveraux’s firm Titania Records and has an affair with her co-worker Neil Kittredge, only to learn that he is a married man. When Dominique has to sell Titania, Monica returns to Colby Enterprises as a successor of lawyer Garrett Boydston and then has to work with Cash Cassidy. They soon resume their relationship and she learns that he adopted their son Scott with his wife Adrienne. Scott finally learns the truth and is torn between his two mothers. For the sake of her son, Monica chooses to take her distance and breaks off with Cash. Soon after, Monica is cut off to Jason, who turns his back of her without an explanation. Monica then moves to Denver and reunites with her mother. She soon learns that she is not Jason’s biological daughter and that Alexis revealed him Sable’s rape. A furious Monica then helps her mother fighting against Alexis.

### Cecil's siblings : Connie, Jason and Philip

* Jason and Connie guest star in sixth season and then move to the spin-off. He stays for its entire run while she only stars in its first season. They never reappear in *Dynasty*. Philip appears in the last episodes of the spin-off but never in *Dynasty*.
* Constance and Jason inherited Colby Enterprises with equally shares after their father cut off their younger brothers Cecil and Philip out of his will.
* Constance Colby Patterson, better known as Connie, was the oldest of Andrew Colby’s four children and Jason’s beloved sister. She was the only one who defended Philip against their father and she even tried to stay in contact with Cecil. Jason has never been so close to both of his brothers and had a brief affair with Philip’s widow Francesca, which resulted in the birth of Jeff, whom everybody thought was Philip’s son. He then married Francesca’s sister Sable and they had three children : twins Miles and Monica, and Bliss. Despite a tense relationship with Sable, childless widow Connie had a close relationship with her children and never really forgotten Philip’s son Jeff, whom she gave her 50 % share of Colby Enterprises in order to make up the family’s indifference towards him through the years. Connie also brought Francesca back in California to support him. Jason’s marriage with Sable was a happy one but he had a one-night-stand with her cousin Alexis, which he managed to keep a secret.
* Philip Colby was the youngest of Andrew Colby’s children. He started drinking to much when he was still young and his marriage with Francesca Scott didn’t change anything about his lifestyle. He finally gambled and embezzled money from Colby Enterprises. Disinherited by his father, they agreed that it would be better for Philip to leave for a while and he decided over night to got to Vietnam, leaving his 18yo wife with his family in California. The couple only saw each other three more times during the following months and she wrote to him that she was pregnant. Philip knew that she had cheated on him since he had found that he was sterile and decided to never return to California. He took the identity of his late comrade Hoyt Parker and started running guns for living while his family believed he was dead.
* When Connie brings Francesca back in the family, Jason soon realizes that he is still in love with her and things start getting out of control when it is revealed that he is Jeff’s biological father. Jason’s lovely wife Sable turns to a scheming woman who teams up up with his worst enemy Zach Powers to destroy him. Jason asks for divorce and plans to remarry with Francesca. In the meantime, far from the family affairs, Connie was involved with Hutch Corrigan, a former rodeo rider, and they went on a trip to India during which they ran into Philip, who was still alive but in serious financial trouble. She gave him the money he owed to some dangerous acquaintances, who had already arranged for his death. Due to an unlucky coincidence, Connie and Hutch died in a plane crash that had been meant for Philip. At this point, Philip decided to go back to California and secretly bought some Colby Enterprises stock and attacked Jason and Frankie anonymously with a gun before making a shocking back from death entrance and interrupt their wedding ceremony.
* When he found out that Philip was Hoyt Parker, Jason blames him for Connie’s death and becomes suspicious that he could be the anonymous assaillant who shot Francesca and him. Apart from that, Philip is determined to get Frankie back and even succeeds in seducing her but they are caught in flagranti by Jason, who finally can prove that he had tried to kill them before. Philip then kidnaps Frankie and they are finally tracked down by Jeff and Jason and suffered a serious car accident, after which Philip disappears again. Soon after, Jason runs off with Francesca. Alexis then enters in the Colbys game and reveals to Sable that she had a one-night-stand with Jason years ago. She also makes the shocking revelation that Miles and Monica are not Jason’s biological children but the result of a rape. Hurt and angry about Sable, Jason cut them off and turns his back of them.

### Frankie

* Francesca in one of the lead characters of the spin-off for its entire run but never appears on *Dynasty*.
* Francesca (nicknamed Frankie) is Sable’s older sister and Jeff’s mother. At the age of 17, she married Philip Colby who soon had to go to Vietnam, where he disappeared and was presumed dead. Lonely and bored, she felt in love with his brother Jason Colby and they had a brief affair, which resulted in the birth of Jeff, whom she believed was Philip’s son. Her other brother-in-law Cecil then offered to take Jeff to Denver and give him every privilege he deserved. They agreed on this deal and, while Jason married her sister Sable, Francesca married diplomat Peter Hamilton. As she traveled around the world with her husband, contacts with Jeff in the twenty following years was limited to birthday gifts and letters. Her second marriage was brought to an abrupt end when Peter was killed in Beirut. Two years later, Frankie accepted Connie’s invitation to move back to California to be with Jeff but it took some time until they rebuild a mother-son relationship.
* Seeing Jason is hard to Frankie as she realizes that she is still in love with him. She chooses to ignore her feelings and moves out to England, where she marries her diplomat friend Roger Langdon. During a trial Miles and Sable had filed against Jeff after Philip’s doctor revealed that he was sterile, Frankie is forced to reveal that she had an affair with Jason and that Jeff is his biological son. The scandal breaks down her marriage with Roger and turns her sister into enemy. Frankie and Jason then resume their relationship and plan to marry but their wedding ceremony is interrupted by Philip, who turns out to be alive. Unable to choose between the two men, Frankie attempts suicide. Soon after, Philip kidnaps her and she is badly injured in a tragic accident. Alexis later mentions in the last season of Dynasty that Frankie runs off with Jason so it can be assumed that they finally marry.

### Bliss

* Bliss guest stars in the backdoor pilot of *The Colbys* in the sixth season, then moves to the spin-off. She never reappears in *Dynasty*.
* Bliss is the youngest child of Sable and Jason Colby and always felt she was less important that her siblings. This feeling drove her into the arms of Sean McAllister and Spiro Koralis, who are respectively the nephew and the stepson of her father worst enemy Zach Powers. She finally takes a job as PR manager of Sable’s ballet group and meets the one who give her the feeling to exist for herself in the person of the Russian dancer Nikolai « Kolya » Rostov. They fall deeply in love and Bliss fights for him when she understands that Kolya and her sister Anna are under the constant eye of their choreographer Sacha Malenkov, a KGB agent. To stay close to Bliss, Kolya asks for political asylum while his sister is sent back to Russia. Bliss and Kolya then leave California for New York where they plan to marry.

### Zach Powers

* Zach is the main villain of the spin-off and cross-overs in two episodes of *Dynasty* (one in the sixth season and the other in its seventh).
* Pablo Zacharias was still a young boy when his father Salvador committed suicide after being ruined by Colby Enterprises. Pablo, his mother and his sister had hard times but he survived without losing his pride and swore to avenge his father’s death one day. As a young man, Pablo got a job as a mate on one of Jason Colby’s yachts and entered a cabin just at the moment when Jason’s young wife Sable dropped her dress. He was fired by Jason for this incident but kept Sable’s image in his heart from that day towards. Pablo then worked hard and not only on legal and fair means to build his own shipping enterprise and changed his name as Zachary Powers.
* Zach had an affair with both the Morell sisters Alexis and Caress and married a rich Greek widow for her money. When his wife died mysteriously in an accident on sea, Zach and Alexis let Caress take the fall for them in the circumstances linked to her death and she was sent to prison in Caracas, Venezuela. When her sister fell ill and needed permanent care, Zach looked after her son Sean McAllister and tried to use his relationship with Bliss Colby in order to fight Jason. Zach then got involved with Sable but she didn’t share his deep passion. Furthermore, Zach has connection with Michael Culhane, who had gained a lot of money since he had been fired by Blake Carrington.

- Monica is Jeff’s sister and Fallon’s best friend. When Fallon begins dating Jeff, Monica feels jealous of her best friend stealing her brother and has a brief affair with Michael Culhane as a stab in the back. The two friends finally settle their differences and Monica has scruples to use Fallon’s feelings when she teams up with her brother and father to get revenge against the Carringtons. After Fallon finally wins a battle by annuling her marriage with Jeff, Monica takes her distances with her brother and becomes the guardian of her father, who is still in probation. Things finally change when Monica learns that she is a Carrington. She realizes that she loves money and teams up with Jeff to sell Carrington Atlantic.

- Cecil Colby is the father of Jeff and Monica, making him the merged counterpart of the three Colby brothers. After trying to kill Blake Carrington, he was framed for drug trafficking, sent in prison and estranged from his children for the eleven following years. After his release from jail, Cecil reunites with Jeff and Monica and they attempt to get revenge against the Carringtons. Cecil refuses to assist at Jeff and Fallon’s wedding but finally, he goes to the Carrington Mansion to kill Blake. He goes in Blake’s office and finally, it’s Tom Carrington who makes a heart attack when he sees him with a gun. After the annulment of the marriage, Cecil is placed in the guardianship of his daughter.

- Millie is the mother of Jeff and Monica as well as Blake's half-sister, making her the merged counterpart of Frankie, Sable as well as Dominique Deveraux.

- Bobbi Johnson is the cousin of Jeff and Monica and a Police Chief of Atlanta. She is the sole member of the Carrington/Colby families created especially for the reboot.

## The Blaisdels

### Claudia and Matthew Blaisdel

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Claudia appears from seasons one to six.
* Matthew appears in season one, and then guest stars in the seventh season finale and in the 2part eighth season premiere.
* Claudia Barrows and Matthew Blaisdel were respectively 16 and 19 when they got pregnant and married. Matthew worked hard over the years to support his wife and their daughter Lindsay and made a career for himself as geologist in the fields of Denver Carrington. His job often forced him to be away from his family for weeks working all over the world. This way of living almost destroyed the marriage and brought Claudia on a mental institution after a nervous breakdown. Matthew then embarked on a brief but passionate affair with Krystle Jennings, secretary at Denver Carrington. To pay Claudia’s hospital expenses, Matthew took a more high paying overseas assignment in the Mideast and left Lindsay in the care of his mother.
* He returns to Denver in the pilot of the series, only to find that Claudia has been released as an outpatient after 18 months of treatment and that Krystle is set to marry Blake Carrington. Matthew reunites his family and tries to keep his feelings for Krystle secret but Claudia becomes suspicious when he quits Denver Carrington to work as a wildcatter with his old friend Walter Lankershim. The Matthew and Blake rivalry over Krystle transforms into a fierce rivalry over oil and the two friends soon have to face several obstacles in their oil rig while they hire Blake’s son Steven Carrington and learns him the work through the bottom. During that time, Claudia has hard times to rebuild a relationship with her teenage daughter and befriends Steven. They soon have an affair but Steven is still struggling with his sexuality and breaks off. During the Ted Dinard murder trial, Steven and Claudia’s affair is exposed and Matthew holds Blake responsible for his humiliation. Knowing that her marriage is now over, Claudia attempts to run away with Lindsay but they have a car crash. Lindsay is uninjured and Matthew finally takes his daughter. They leave Denver for South America.
* Claudia wakes up alone in the hospital and tries to kill herself with sleeping pills. She then accepts Blake’s offer to convalesce at the Carrington Mansion and begins a therapy. Weeks later, she leaves the mansion and takes a job for Denver Carrington. Cecil Colby then offers her to help find Lindsay if she agrees to spy on Blake. She reluctantly agrees and goes as far as sleeping with Jeff Colby to make a copy of his key. When Jeff learns her duplicity, he finally blames his uncle. Claudia then intercepts a telex relating to Matthew’s crashed jeep has been found in South America with no signs of life. Realizing that Cecil has already known that Matthew and Lindsay are dead, Claudia plans to kill Cecil but is interrupted by Krystle, who attempts to take her gun. In the struggle, Claudia is shot and convalesces again in the mansion, where she becomes obsessed with the infant son of Jeff and Fallon and calling him « Lindsay ». When the baby is kidnapped and Claudia herself disappears from the mansion, she becomes the prime suspect. Cornered on a roof by the police and the Carringtons, Claudia refuses to give her baby back but they soon realize that the baby is just a doll. Jeff and Fallon’s son is finally recovered from the real kidnapper and Claudia returns to the sanitarium.
* One year later, Claudia is released from the sanitarium while Steven is battling his father over the custody of his son Danny. Claudia and Steven marries and they are awarded custody of Danny. They move to the mansion and she takes a job as assistant manager at La Mirage Hotel. Claudia then begins receiving flowers, gifts and phone calls that appeared to be from Matthew. It is finally revealed that Matthew’s mother revenges against Claudia for the deaths of her son and granddaughter and deals with Sammy Jo, who has decided to fight for custody of Danny. Later, Claudia and Steven’s marriage is strained when she suspects that Steven is having an affair with his coworker Luke Fuller and his brother Adam reinforces her doubts. Claudia then has a brief affair with Dean Caldwell and confesses to Steven. They divorce but remain friends and she turns to Adam for support. Claudia and Adam then marry without Blake’s consent. When Claudia is informed of the death of Matthew’s former business partner Walter Lankershim and inherits his oil well Lankershim Blaisdel, she dreams of financial independence but learns that Denver Carrington had absorbed the oil rig years before. She urges Adam to trick an ailing Blake into signing a power of attorney in order to reclaim ownership. When the well turns out to be dry and worthless, Claudia snaps and reveals Adam’s duplicity to Blake. She then leaves her husband and takes a room at La Mirage.
* While obsessed about the Carringtons, who have lied and betrayed her over the years, she accidentally sets her room on fire and dies in the blaze. At the time of her own death, she still believes in Matthew’s death but he finally resurfaces in Denver as a now rich powerful man who plans for revenge against Blake. Mentally unstable after the losses he had to endure and armed with a group of South American thus, he takes the Carringtons and their household hostage in an attempt to save his beloved Krystle from their influence. Steven finally saves his family and stabs Matthew to death.

- In 2016, after finding out that Matthew was planning to leave her to live with his lover Cristal Flores, Claudia experienced a car accident and began to fake a brain injury with fake pills prescription in an effort to keep her husband taking care of her.

- Despite her feelings for Matthew, Cristal accepts Blake Carrington’s proposal and they planned to marry. Cristal then meets Matthew and they share a kiss in his car, which her stepdaughter-to-be Fallon had Michael Culhane photograph and send to Blake. As a result, Blake offers Matthew a large amount of money to relocate to China and stay away from Cristal, but he refuses. In the meantime, Claudia uses her engineering skills to create a malfunction on a land purchased by Fallon and Jeff with machinery operated by Carrington Atlantic. While working of the land, Matthew is killed by an explosion. Police Chief Aaron Stansfield then pins his murder on Willy Santiago in an effort to close the case as to not incriminate himself for stealing Matthew’s cellphone from evidence. Willy commits suicide, or what it seems to be a suicide.

- After Matthew’s death, Claudia blames the Carringtons and tries to act innocent while also convincing herself that they forced her into what she did. She continues to fake her brain injury as way to get sympathy from Cristal, who takes her in as a houseguest at the Carrington Mansion. Soon after, Sam finds out that the pills she’s taking have different contents that the label shows, which lead Cristal to find out that she is faking her symptoms. At the Carringtons’ Thanksgiving dinner, Claudia locks Sam and Joseph in the basement to prevent them from intervening in her plan to kill the Carringtons. Aiming the family with a gun, she then reveals that she caused the explosion that killed Matthew but admits that she only wanted to hurt him. She also admits faking her mental illness. Blake finally profits for a moment of distraction when Sam and Joseph escape to take the gun. She is arrested by Stansfield and finally places in a mental institution.

- Months later, having hallucinations and conversations with her dead husband, Claudia escapes from the mental institution and goes to the Carrington Mansion where she confronts Cristal with a gun. Matthew then appears in front of Cristal to protect her. She shoots at him but soon realizes that she had, in fact, shot Cristal. Claudia then escapes the mansion when someone sets the barn on fire with the Carrington family locked inside.

- Claudia's role in Cristal's death was eventually revealed after she confessed which got her sent to jail after being under the radar for a few months.

### Lindsay

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Lindsay only appears in the first season.
* As a teenage, Lindsay Blaisdel was left alone in the care of her grandmother after Claudia’s breakdown and Matthew left to work overseas to pay her hospital expenses. When their parents return, it takes time to the teenager to rebuild a relationship with them. Feared that Matthew would take Lindsay away from her after the revelation of her affair with Steven, Claudia leaves town with Lindsay but they have a car accident and are transported to hospital. Lindsay is uninjured and it’s finally Matthew who takes her and they leave town for South America. Shortly after, Lindsay dies in a car accident in Peru, leaving both of her parents mentally unstable.

- After the fire of the season 1 finale Claudia has an son instead named Matthew Jr. born sometime between Season 1 and Season 2 after her late husband.

- His parental grandparents currently have custody and are raising him as Claudia was imprisoned for her countless crimes.

## Carrington Staff

### Joseph Anders

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Joseph appears from the first season to the beginning of the fourth.
* Joseph Anders was Blake’s majordomo since his master occupied the Carrington mansion. Privly to all the secrets of the family, he was rewarded a life-long position with Carringtons for his silence. Joseph was married to Alicia and they had three children Sean, Victoria and Kirby and they owned a house in Denver, but after his wife’s death and with his children growing up, Joseph moved into the Carrington mansion. He was initially very cold towards Blake’s new wife Krystle but, over time, they both grew up to respect each other.
* When Blake exiled Alexis from Denver, Joseph followed her life through the many tabloids reports her affairs but, as many secrets he knew about her, she knew his darkest : his wife was a murdering adultress and committed suicide in jail. When Alexis returns, she soon reminds him that she held a trump card. When Kirby returns to Denver and marries Jeff Colby, Joseph is displeased to become his daughter’s servant. Alexis’ continuing harassment then sends Joseph over the edge : he traps her in a cabin and sets fire to it in order to keep her quiet. He later commits suicide and dies in Blake’s arms.
* Years later, Joseph’s son Sean Rowan enters in Alexis’ life to get revenge for his father’s death with a sinister agenda. He quickly marries her and soon insinuates himself into her business at ColbyCo with the help of his lover Leslie Carrington. When his real identity is discovered, Sean is ultimately killed by Dex after he attempts to murder Alexis.

- Joseph Anders is Blake Carrington’s majordomo since his father’s era. Aware of all the family secrets, he is an active member in some of his master’s schemes like pushing out cocaine addicted Ted Dinard away from Steven’s life or bribes a prison guard to stage an attack intended to prevent Cecil Colby from being paroled. He is initially very cold towards Cristal and her nephew Sam but, over time, he finally accepts them. He helps Cristal when she had to pay off someone from her past and he is one that discover that her sister Iris was behind the extortion plot. He befriends Sam and sets him up with an immigration lawyer when he learns that he is in the country illegally and he eventually helps Alexis to reconnect with her children when she returns after many years away. Little is known about his private life until he reveals to Sam the existence of his estranged daughter Kirby living in Australia with her mother. As a gift for his friend, who officiates at his wedding with Steven, Sam invites her to reconnect with her father but soon realizes his mistake when he learns that she is a psycho who tormented Fallon during her childhood.

- Joseph fathered Steven from a drunken one night stand with Alexis after they grieved over Adam's disappearance.

#### Kirby

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Kirby appears in seasons three and four and later returns in the mini-series Reunion.
* Kirby is Joseph’s daughter. While living with her father at the Carrington mansion, she spent her childhood with Fallon, Steven and Jeff. Joseph later sent her away to study at La Sorbonne, where she fell in love with Jean-Paul Cadot, only to learn that he is married and uses her. She then returns to Denver and Fallon hires her as nanny for LB. When Jeff and Fallon divorce, Kirby, who had a crush on him since childhood, marries Jeff. In the meantime, Adam, who has fallen madly in love for Kirby, rapes her.
* Months later, Kirby reveals that she is pregnant with Adam’s child and divorces Jeff. Adam makes amend to Kirby and, despite her miscarriage, they fall in love. She accepts his proposal but Alexis then reveals to her that her mother was a murdering adulteress who committed suicide in prison. Kirby realizes that this secret drove her father to suicide and she prepares to kill Alexis with a handgun but her attempt fails. However, Alexis threatens to tell the police if Kirby doesn’t leave Adam. Kirby then leaves Denver without explanation and stays out of touch with Carringtons. Years later, Kirby reunites with Adam and accepts his proposal.

- Joseph first mentions his daughter during a conversation with Sam and reveals that she lives with her mother in Australia. Anders later called her but rang off before talking. Soon after, Sam marries Steven and invites Kirby as a gift for his friend but realizes his mistake when Steven and Fallon tell him that Kirby used to live with the Carringtons when she was a child and tormented Fallon, citing the emblazed of her dolls as example. Face unseen and smoking a cigarette, Kirby later appears at the Carrington mansion and greets her father just after someone set the barn on fire with the grooms and their family locked inside.

- Kirby is main character by Season 2 and her story is bit more sympathetic background story Alexis framed her for a fire in order to send her away to Australia when she was 12.

### Michael Culhane

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Michael appears in seasons one and seven.
* Michael Culhane was the ambitious chauffeur of Blake Carrington who had an affair with Fallon. He tries to use secrets he has learned on Cecil Colby and Blake Carrington but he deals too much and he is driven out of Denver. Michael then connects with Zach Powers and has a brief affair with Leslie Carrington.
* Five years after his banishment, Michael returns to Denver as a millionaire and rescues Amanda from the burning La Mirage Hotel. Grateful for saving his daughter’s life, Blake offers him his old job. Hiding that he is now a wealthy man, Michael accepts. In the meantime, and despite the warnings of her father and sister, Amanda falls in love with her savior, only to learn that he is duping her and only using her to approach Blake for business. She leaves Denver and Michael later disappears without any explanation.

- Michael Culhane is the African-American chauffeur of the Carringtons but lies to his parents about his real function and lets them believe that he is a vice president at Carrington Atlantic. Culhane is also Fallon’s lover for four years but is frustrated to hide their love and decides to break off only to learn that Anders, Steven and even Blake were aware of their relationship and have nothing wrong to say about that. He becomes involved with Kori Rucks but the relationship implodes over his lingering feelings for Fallon. He then has a brief affair with Fallon’s best friend Monica Colby.

- When Fallon discovers that Jeff and Monica manipulate her into marriage for nefarious reasons, Michael agrees to help Fallon turns the tables on the Colbys. On the eve of her faux wedding to Jeff, Fallon tells Culhane she loves him and asks him to marry her but he refuses, not wanting something so important to be a part of a Carrington plot. Culhane then learns that his father is seriously ill and resigns. Cristal soon connects his father’s leukemia diagnosis to a Carrington Atlantic coverup. When his father dies, the coverup is exposed to the press and Cristal hires Culhane in Carrington Atlantic as a last act as COO before being fired by her husband. Fallon is now COO of Carrington and Culhane urges her to do the right choice. She finds incriminating information on Blake and reunites the Carrington Atlantic Board of Members to name her CEO in her father’s place. Fallon then professes her love for Culhane but he announces his intention to leave Atlanta. After Sam and Steven wedding, Culhane comes to rescue the Carrington family trapped into the burning barn of their property.

- He survives and gets engaged to Fallon, but that got broken off upon she learn that he continue to lie to her.

- He fully turns against after being told the orchestrated robbery at his mom's house.

### Other members of the Staff

* Original Series
* Reboot

* Jeanette Robbins is one of the few characters to appear in every season and in the mini-series Reunion. She is the Chief Housekeeper of the Carrington Mansion and has a close relationship with Krystle.
* Gérard appears from seasons four to nine and in the mini-series Reunion. He was a butler at the Carrington Mansion and is promoted majordomo after Joseph's death. When they are held hostages by Matthew Blaisdel with the Carrington family, Gérard admits his feelings for Jeanette.
* Hilda Gunnerson appears from the first season to the eighth season premiere and later returns in the mini-series Reunion. She is the Carringtons' Chef.

- Jeanette and Mrs Gunnerson are regulary mentioned by Anders as members of the Staff. They finally appear in the eighteenth episode but Mrs Gunnerson is the only one of the two ladies who has a speaking role.

## Trivia

### General

* Blake, Krystle, Alexis, Fallon, Jeff and Jeanette are the only characters to appear in every seasons of the series as well as in the mini-series *Reunion*.
	+ However, Alexis' presence in the first season finale is only an uncredited cameo.
	+ In addition, Fallon and Jeff are the only characters to appear in every seasons of the series, in the two seasons of its spin-off and in the *Reunion*.
* When Dominique (aka Millie Cox) is introduced in the series, several plots have been considered. She is supposed to be Kirby's mother or Cecil Colby's ex-wife before being finally revealed to be Blake's half-sister.
	+ In the Reboot, Millie is Cecil Colby's ex-wife as well as Blake's half-sister.
* Fallon and Jeff are married (twice, and twice divorced), but they are also second cousins (*their mothers are cousins*).
	+ In the Reboot, their marriage is annulled before they learn that they are actually half-cousins (*Jeff's mother is the half-sister of Fallon's father*).

### Blake and Alexis' children

* Blake and Alexis originally have only two children Fallon and Steven.
	+ The first born son Adam is introduced after Steven's departure (and then presumed death).
	+ The youngest daughter Amanda is introduced in the same way after Fallon's apparent death.
* The four siblings never appear all together in the series. Fallon and Amanda formally meet (*on screen*) only once.
* Despite Fallon's less presence from seasons five to seven, she is the only one of the fours to appear in every seasons of the series, in the two seasons of its spin-off and in the mini-series Reunion.
* Amanda is the only one of the fours who doesn't appear in the spin-off nor in the Reunion.
* Adam is the only one of the fours who never departs from the series after his entrance.
* Steven is the only one of the fours who departs twice.
* Adam, Fallon and Steven marry at least twice and become parents. Amanda marries only once and never becomes a mother.
* The four characters have been recasted with a different portrayer.
	+ Steven and Fallon have been absent for several episodes (nearly a complete season in Fallon's case) before being recasted.
	+ Adam and Amanda have been recasted from an episode to another without explanation or absence. In Adam's case, it happens during the two years hiatus between the end of the series and the Reunion.
* Steven is the only one of the fours whose recast has been justified in the story with a plastic surgery.
	+ However, he is also the only one with the original portrayer reprises the role without any explanation.
* Emma Samms (*the second Fallon*) is the only actress who shares some billed credits with both portrayers of her three fictional siblings.

### Weddings

* Despite her second marriage with Cecil Colby being the shortest of her fours, Alexis remains known as Mrs Colby for the major part of the series and takes back the Colby surname after the end of her third and fourth marriages.
* Claudia remains known by the Carrington surname from her marriage with Steven, and then Adam, to her death. However, both of those marriages are later invalided by her presumed deceased husband Matthew Blaisdel being alive.
* Blake and Krystle celebrate their marriage three times during the series. Each time, it takes place at the Carrington Mansion.
	+ First time, in the Pilot. But their union is later revealed to be illegal because of Krystle's divorce from her first husband has never been finalized.
	+ Second time, for good.
	+ Third time, they renew their vows in the last season of the series before Krystle falls in a coma.
* In addition to Blake and Krystle, Adam is the only character to celebrate one of his marriage (*with Dana*) at the Carrington Mansion during the course of the series.
	+ However, Fallon and Jeff were supposed to celebrate their second marriage at the Mansion before she run away.

### Births and Pregnancies

* Both of Fallon's children are born premature. She has a car accident which brings to LB's birth and falls down the stairs before Lauren's birth.
* Blake and Krystle's daughter Krystina Carrington is also born premature.

## References

1. ↑ Alexis hired Hank Sullivan to pretend to be Adam in order to get shares in the company ("Trashy Little Tramp").
2. ↑ The events of Parisian Legend Has It... & Motherly Overprotectiveness.