They were mini-series.
I remember mostly how horrible the actress was who played Swayzes obnoxious sister.
Also how self-consciously defiant the mixed-race Kirstie Allie romance was.
Allie’s character was not mixed race but she eloped with a black man. Her character was a holds no bar ardent abolitionist.
When Kirstie Alley died last year, I commented on a thread about all the marriages that took place between individuals who met during the filming of the series. Kirstie married Parker Stevenson. Genie Francis married Jonathan Frakes. Wendy Kilbourne married James Read. Terri Garber who played Ashton Main, married Christopher Martin “Chris” Hager who worked on the set. Lesley-Anne Down married Don E. FauntLeRoy, Cinematographer on the series. Francis and Frakes, Kilbourne and Read, and Down and FauntLeRoy are all still married.
“I remember mostly how horrible the actress was who played Swayzes obnoxious sister.”
I loved watching her. She was gorgeous and could make me laugh with her instant turning on and off her Southern charm. She could twist any man around her little finger in an instant. But she got hers in the end as a whore in some Western town and then marrying some barroom guy and plotting her comeback to the old plantation back. Her acting was over the top, but I loved it. I wonder what she was like in real life.
I just watched “All About Eve” for the first time and the young Eve in the movie is a conniving, scheming, pretty bitch a lot like the girl in North and South.