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Amazon.com Aaron Spelling s addictive primetime soap opera Dynasty ran for nine seasons on ABC a saga of the rich and super-rich family feuds and betrayals class conflicts revenge corruption and power. The 13 episodes included in this first-season boxed set introduce a wide range of characters (quite a few dispensed by season 2) in the orbit of oil empire Denver Carrington and its acquisitive stop-at-nothing CEO Blake Carrington (John Forsythe who was simultaneously providing the off-screen voice of Charlie in Spelling s Charlie s Angels). Of particular interest is the way Blake and Denver Carrington s business problems--a groundswell of anti-American sentiment in oil-rich Arab nations the recent energy shortage in the U.S. disagreement about developing alternative fuel sources with tax dollars--are a window onto real-world events when Dynasty debuted in 1981. But drama ripped from yesterday s headlines is not what the show is about and it isn t long before Blake s conflicts with well