Dynasty - Enter Alexis

On the 1st January 1983 the U.K. got their first glimpse of Dame Joan Collins in Dynasty with the premiere of Season 2 on BBC1 and the episode “Enter Alexis” - the series was never the same again and an iconic character was born.

[@greggriffin8020]

"I'm glad to see that your father had your teeth fixed---if not your tongue." The writers really did come up with some great material for Alexis.

[@Cosford869]

And so excellently delivered by Joan!

[@Chillednfunked]

Dame Joan used to ad elements to the script occasionally as she made the dialogue “more English and cutting”

[@tamaraknox2185]

Now that's shade

[@HausofLuciana]

Damn 😁🤣😂😅

[@kurtsnyder4752]

@@tamaraknox2185 Wait til she's not Pamela Sue Martin, but Emma Samms!

[@chazarcola7639]

The exact moment when DYNASTY was born.

[@wendellstewart627]

Joan Collins saved Dynasty.

[@DIETRICHCICCONE]

Joan Collins made that show 🔥

[@carmie9400]

I love how deliciously evil Alexis is - Joan Collins played her to the hilt! 🤣

[@theshypersistence]

The 80's; when you could take the stand in a veiled hat and oversized sunglasses 😎💅

[@monmothma3358]

You could? Or just on TV? :)

[@aliceseger7108]

😂😂

[@mariadeleon9695]

Alexis was just about the best character on this show! Beautiful, classy & of course always scheming! But she sure loved her children. 🥰

[@anthonylagano2371]

Joan Collins was Dynasty. She put the show on the map . It was on the verge of cancellation until she arrived . Self righteous John Forsythe was very jealous of her popularity when he should have been thanking her instead . Entire cast and crew owes her a huge amount of gratitude. I only watched the show because of her . Great actress …great role …

[@Nicciolai]

Did you see her interview on the Graham Norton Show recently when she said that she hates the double standards of Hollywood, and whenever the press would point out hers and Linda Evans ages, she'd remind them of Forsythe's? He hated it. Love her.

[@anthonylagano2371]

@@Nicciolai No I missed it . Thanks for letting me know . Totally agree about the double standard with age in film/television business . Good for Joan to remind them .

[@LegionIvory]

Luckily, Linda Evans and Diahann Caroll both loved her dearly. They remained friends for years.

[@rdsims8809]

SHE WAS BORN FOR THAT ROLE, AND SHE PLAYED IT TO THE HILT!!! The NERVE OF NANCY DREW TALKING LIKE THAT TO DAME JOAN!!! 😉😘

[@Jenny-jn1cx]

To think Joan was 48 here she looked incredible ! Xxx

[@cookie_dough_hangover]

Joan Collins was literally born for this role.

[@blakelockridge6145]

Outfits of Alexis and Dominique Deveraud and Chrystal were just fabulous, classy, elegant.

[@erique_k]

@@jdpatrick1106 i thik it was a typo, d is right above x.

[@erique_k]

@@jdpatrick1106 oh I adore Dominique, just trying to be considerate of the op!

[@timothymoore6341]

Sable Colby wore great clothes on Dynasty during Season 9 as well.

[@goawayleavemealone2880]

The 80's was simultaneously very chic, stylish and also ugly as sin.

[@naturale_appeal2790]

The shade!!! Strut Alexis strut! 🤣

[@kerigridley6195]

The best part was when Alexis walked into the courtroom. All the drama she brought with herself was amazing!! ❤❤😂😂

[@en6278]

Lotta people dont know thatJoan collins/Alexis joined season 2 & basically made the show the #1 TV show in america after the first season had flopped hard. She is the only character that matters. Just like JR was Dallas.

[@redbird9000]

“If not your tongue “. The shade was always subtle and lethal at the same time.😂🤣😁

[@en6278]

Im sure teh writers started to make Alexis more like Joan as the years went on. Joans wit & sexiness came through more & more. But in real life Joan has far more friends & far more of a jetset life than Alexis ever did. If you follwo her on Instagram she is always off round the world having endless parties & dinners with her huge groups of friends in UK & the US. She is still working too. She's has a great family, husband Percy & an amazing work ethic. she has had the fullest life of any celeb I can think of.

[@DavidChow]

The legend that is Brian Dennehy cross examining!

[@debbielundberg9379]

The brilliant Alexis .

[@ccth22]

So true

[@laminage]

@@ccth22 She made that show the success story it became. Also so much History. Brian Denehy was also on Dallas who took the Carrington Family hostage. His Daughter Elizabeth played Blake Lindsey #2 on Guiding Light. I heard that when "Alexis" walked into The Courtroom it wasn't Joan Collins but someone else. Al Corley looks so much UK Soap Actor Ryan Hawley who played Robert Sugden #3 on Emmerdale.

[@mjremy2605]

1980's - the Era of Big Hair and Big Egos! What delicious cattiness from Alexis. Love her character. Chrystal looks boring next to her.

[@decodolly1535]

And shoulder pads, don't forget the big shoulder pads!

[@anthonylagano2371]

Krystle was as dull as dish water next to Alexis .

[@rosycandyhaven]

An amoeba is more exciting than soppy Krystal

[@haimbenavraham1502]

She was a masterpiece.

[@rebels42wynn83]

Gorgeous entrance!!!! Joan Collins had rocked that.

[@jimdursosingersongwriter9470]

These 2 were on fire together.

[@Italman45]

What a magnificent beauty ...... "I'm glad to see that your father had your teeth fixed, (then the tilt of the head and a look that could kill) if not your tongue" ! She was masterful at playing Alexis !

[@mikep5335]

Its pretty amazing another actress played her in the season cliffhanger

[@agmiller7156]

The good old days of TV... Not a thousand channels but shows that you waited to see each week on the major stations... Miss it

[@rick0e295]

Joan was magnificent! Did you know that before this scene, the season finale showed a heavily veiled 👰‍♀ woman walking to the court room? They had not yet cast Alexis. The veil added a sense of mystery AND gave time to choose. Choice was superb 👌 DYNASTY was so OTT 1980s wickedly and excessively DELICIOUS 😋!

[@shaunwakefield9793]

They had asked Sofia Loren to play Alexis and Angie Dickinson to play Crystal who both turned it down. I liked Linda Evans as Crystal but would've loved to have seen Angie play the part of Crystal along side Joan's Alexis.

[@Patibens]

Several others turned down the part before it went to Joan but, have you noticed that the woman at the end of season one has more or less the same body frame as Joan?

[@rick0e295]

@@Patibens I was told that a friend of Candy Spelling (non actress) was the mysterious figure, since they had not yet cast Alexis .

[@London1869]

Oh my, a young Brian Dennehy!

[@Kevin-1969]

Perfect casting, thank god them other actresses turned this part down, only Joan could play it.

[@johnflynn9619]

Joan is Magnificent and Always Will Be.

[@strikeleather6503]

There is a reason that DameJoan Collins is world famous. And this is it! She made Dynasty the no.1 TV show in over 50 countries. Just like Larry Hagman did with Dallas. No one else can play this role but her. The whole scene in the courtroom shows off her true acting skills. If she had had better offers/directors in Hollywood in the 1950s, her full potential would have been realised.

[@maestroclassico5801]

Not long ago ...like say in 2022, some paparazzi saw Joan and they were asking her what she thought of ME TOO and how everything went down with Weinstein and if she ever knew anyone like that back in her day...she replies coquettishly, "Oh Gosh, I really couldn't say!", then puts her hand over the side of her mouth and whispers "Zanuck" . Much to the laughter of everyone. Yeah Zanuck when he was head of 20th century Fox, probably would've let Joan play Cleopatra if she had given him sex. She'd have cost much less than Liz Taylor. At 90, Joan has still got it.

[@strikeleather6503]

​@@maestroclassico5801You are absolutely right. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn Darryl Zanuck was a casting couch creep. They had complete power and control over actors, epecially over the younger actresses. Only women like Bette Davis really stood up to them. Joan didn't compromise, perhaps to the cost of her film career, but success came later for her thankfully.

[@maestroclassico5801]

@@strikeleather6503 Him and Louis B Mayer.....Moguls who would've been canceled now ...Walt Disney was a bit of a creep too! 😀

[@rayoflight6505]

Joan and Pamela together was 💥

[@magkatcar]

Joan and Pamela did have a great acting chemistry. She had really good chemistry with Al as well. They had the most tender mother and son relationship.

[@kimakotrotman6860]

She made a grand entrance.

[@oiooi6460]

She was ravishingly beautiful

[@Chillednfunked]

She was and is beautiful

[@mukunimulundika5359]

Take that Fallon.... Ouch 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 She tried it

[@sylviamasri4532]

No one compares.

[@magkatcar]

This was a huge moment in my 80's life! I loved Joan from jump.

[@fraiser3330]

I was too young when this was on… love to see it all today!

[@user-mb1sy9uz6z]

Nolan Miller clothes & shoes!! Greatest tv designer of the '80's!! My fondest fashion moment was when my mom allowed me to break in her $100.00 Nokan Miller designer shoes!! I was the envy of every girl in junior high!!❤

[@claudecrosatto669]

Une classe folle , ça c est une STAR avec un grand S fabuleuse Joan Collins

[@adamcarrington2818]

Sensational. TV history in the making. Television and its popular depiction and definition of women in particular, would never be the same again.

[@boboyaya1463]

I watched this episode a longtime ago. Childhood memories 💜💖

[@efiaahimah3713]

The video quality is on point ☝️☝️👑👑💐🤝

[@edmundsishange3608]

Didn't know she could pull an American accent so well

[@jorgeomar8443]

JOAN LEGEND

[@petervanherp6691]

Brian Dennehy in Dynastiy! Wow!!

[@The80sQuadrant]

Legend.

[@carmie9400]

He was a fantastic actor…

[@brianstratton8767]

Yep, also quite scary as Gacy:0.

[@frankbooth5150]

Brian Dennehy ! Yes!

[@ThesySurface]

When she takes her sunglasses off 😉

[@alexismarquez3674]

MY NAME WAS DERIVED FROM THE SERIES CALLED "DYNASTY". MY NAME IS ALEXIS :)

[@shanfarco1574]

well her daughter definitely got her mothers eyes

[@evilzzzability]

She's right up there with Michael Corleone and Darth Vader

[@TomRipley7350]

Poor Alexis, she didn’t know whether she was coming or going her children’s faces changed that much.

[@renganime2151]

she looks incredible in just 50 years old

[@hectormanuel9793]

Costumes have always helped in developing a character in any film, and here, Joan's was slightly in place by Nolan Miller and the circumstances that left us in the cliffhanger. If, Sofia Loren had taken the part, she would have gotten away with it, too!

[@zachw225]

11/4/1981(US)

[@KmT81]

Brian Denehy !Lawyer!

[@Mister_Listener]

She wore orange colored lipstick a lot. Once in awhile Diahann would have orange lips too. Theyre nice.

[@buzzkincaid5521]

Venomous & beautiful go together like peanut 🥜 and jelly sandwiches 🥪

[@Brian-yw2yb]

Crazy to find out that could’ve been Sophia Loren!

[@archiehudspeth2656]

Alexis was the female version of JR on Dallas............

[@andonamin]

Ahí fue cuando dinastía se puso buenísima y fue cuando la empecé a ver

[@alyzu4755]

Is that Brian Dennehy?!?!?

[@The80sQuadrant]

Indeed 🙌😁

[@vc1278]

Elaine Hendrix does her JUSTICE✨✨

[@Chillednfunked]

Who?

[@pam0626]

Here’s a question…why wasn’t Joan Collins ever cast as a lead in another show after Dynasty? She still has such star power.

[@ImanniShows]

She has. In the late 80s she was the lead role in SINS. Amazing series.

[@PungiFungi]

This marked the descent of Dynasty into bitchery camp. You can also see that Fallon’s position as head snark is being usurped by her mother.

[@alexismarquez3674]

MY NAME IS ALEXIS LOPEZ-VITO MARQUEZ :) MY NAME WAS DERIVED FROM THE ORIGINAL DYNASTY SERIES OF THE 80'S

[@The80sQuadrant]

That’s cool 🙌🙌

[@westarsatelliteservices2428]

Brian Dennehy before he was a sheriff in Jerkwater USA in FIrst Blood.

[@nielsthomsen3243]

After.

[@nativenewlondoner]

0:50 the five o’clock shadow on Joan.

[@almatirkey7748]

Her style reminds me of Lady Diana

[@jetblack.7186]

Only worth watching for her.

[@matta8931]

Blake was on trial for murder, she was trying to get him convicted. We all know it was accidental. However, Alexis was the ultimate black widow. She screwed Cecil to death. Almost every man she was involved got killed in one way or another Mark, Rowan, Joesph, even Rasid almost every man she became involved died in one way or another. She pretty much killed Krystal and Blakes baby and almost Krystal. On purpose. She almost never paid for any of this. I guess that is why we loved Dynasty so much and Alexis.

[@chingizzhylkybayev8575]

Hide your diamonds Hide your exes

[@billhosko7723]

I was watching for the Steven character's scenes...

[@Fairland3]

Somehow Fallon got her hair cut from the time her mother entered the courtroom to when she took the stand. 😂😂😂

[@sexobscura]

*Alexis was just mad that she didn't get to front Culture Club …*

[@soxs8902]

Who else could have been a better choice. This woman was “The Bitch”

[@jlouis4407]

She had the best lines

[@jasonmessick4689]

Actually when she walked into the court room it was not Joan collins it wasn’t until this episode Joan was chosen for the role

[@nielsthomsen3243]

Alexis questioned by Will Teasle.

[@mikeheard4859]

That’s where lve seen that hat before, so where is the mic hidden then 😂😂😂😂

[@Salmiyaguy1]

the men show up for jury duty in three-piece suits??? 😆😆

[@h.l.asolomonov7674]

I always wasted to be her

[@realazduffman]

Show up in court with that hat and those glasses, see what happens.

[@joesila3105]

who is the lawyer ??

[@The80sQuadrant]

Brian Dennehy

[@brendagilson934]

​@@The80sQuadrant❤

[@omegabeth1773]

Alexis vs Meghan Markle.

[@goldcherries]

Why does even the ex-husband look confused? And so she hasn’t bothered talking to her kids all this time?

[@viantzpradz4771]

I think the foundation and the face powder is to bright and to ashy on her tanned warm skin...

[@1cugine359]

As a kid i thought Alexis was Hot