7.2 /10 1 Votes
6.6/10 TV Starring See cast list Final episode date 30 July 1997 | 7.7/10 IMDb Theme music composer Dan Foliart Network FOX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Created by Diane Messina StanleyJames Stanley Written by Heather ConkiePeter DunneJoel J. FeigenbaumCarla KettnerLynn Marie LathamDiane Messina StanleyJames Stanley Directed by Gabrielle BeaumontChip ChalmersMel DamskiRichard DenaultLes LandauRichard LangEleanor LindoCharles Pratt, Jr.David SemelLes SheldonJames Whitmore, Jr. Cast | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pacific palisades
Pacific Palisades is an American soap opera that aired on Fox during prime time from April to July 1997. Produced by Aaron Spelling, the show was cancelled after thirteen episodes despite a last-minute attempt to increase ratings by casting Joan Collins as Laura's mother.
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The show was originally supposed to be a vehicle for Erika Eleniak. She was due to play the Laura Sinclair role which was eventually given to Kimberley Davies.
Kimberley davies pacific palisades 1997
Plot summary
Set in the Los Angeles suburb of the same name, the series follows the lives of young professionals who have it all, but haven't paid for it yet, on the Southern California fast track to fame, fortune, scandal and ruin. The cast of characters includes Joanna (Michelle Stafford) and Nick Hadley (Jarrod Emick), a young married couple who left their native Midwest for the Pacific Coast where Nick has landed a job as an architect; Joanna's troubled teenage sister Rachel Whittaker (Natalia Cigliuti)- later discovered to be her illegitimate daughter at the end of the series; Rachel's friends Ashley (Jennifer Banko) & Michael (J. Trevor Edmond) who excel in sneakiness; Robert (Greg Evigan) and Kate Russo (Finola Hughes), whose sterling life is beginning to tarnish; Jessica Mitchell (Jocelyn Seagrave), a rising professional whose choice of men leads to trouble; Matt Dunning (Lucky Vanous), a construction businessman with a dark side; Laura Sinclair (Kimberley Davies), a real estate agent who does whatever it takes to close a deal; Cory Robbins (Dylan Neal), a promising but manipulative plastic surgeon; and beautiful Beth Hooper (Brittney Powell), who rents an apartment from Laura and is being romanced by Cory.