List of Falcon Crest episodes

When Angela couldn't tolerate Lance's irresponsible behavior, she prevents her grandson from becoming the proud owner of Falcon Crest, therefore, she kicks him out, much to her contempt. Discovering from him of his grandmother's feelings towards him, he tries to please Angela by blowing up Chase's pump house and cause a fight in the springhouse, and later gets arrested, before he gets grounded by Angela, not Julia (though she told Lance, her mother was under the impression, who also gave Lance to him, away from Julia, as a little boy)! Once grape harvesting begins, Lance tries to please Angela, again, by paying off Chase's staff, afterwards, to make Lance jealous, Angela escorts Cole into becoming the new heir of Falcon Crest, who straightens out with his father about Chase's staff losing pickers. Cole learned about this, he takes the keys and the car back to Angela, returning to his parents' house. Lance told Angela about his actions, and the staff, before Chase confronts Angela about her doings with Cole and about Chase's staff being gone and demanded that the staff returns, early in the morning.

Chase and Cole accompany Lance on a trip to examine a remote piece of property that Angela is contemplating buying. As the wilderness property is only accessible by horse, Cole is injured in a riding accident. Chase stays with Cole, while Lance goes for help. After running into some problems, Lance finally leads a rescue team to Cole. After Vicky makes an innocent remark regarding a mental health clinic, Emma runs away from home, believing that she is going to be sent away because people think she's crazy. When Vicky discovers Emma hiding in an old springhouse, she befriends Emma, and ultimately persuades her to return home. Worried, Douglas Channing stays by Angela's side until Emma is found.

After a bitter argument with Angela regarding plans for him to marry Melissa Agretti, the wine empire heiress, Lance leaves in a fury. After he nearly runs over a girl, he falls in love with her and decides to move to San Francisco to be close to the girl. However, when Angela attempts to stop him, Lance succumbs and leaves the love of his life. In an old room that Jason had walled up, Chase finds some writings, which lead him to believe that Angela may have been involved in crippling a girl forty years ago. Confronted with the evidence, Angela turns the tables on Chase, playing a small excerpt of a recording that leaves Chase believing that his father hated him.

Angela, angry that Lance is working for his grandfather's newspaper in San Francisco and determined that he will marry Melissa Agretti (Ana-Alicia), plans to destroy Melissa's budding romance with Cole. Chase and Maggie, concerned about Emma's instability, persuade Julia to take her sister to a local psychiatric clinic. When Angela finds out, she tells Julia the truth about Emma killing Uncle Jason, which turns Julia against Chase and Maggie. At the same time, Chase uses his influence as a county supervisor to discover the real cause of his father's death.

When Douglas is buried, Angela tries to keep Emma sedated to prevent her from testifying. Angela could lose Falcon Crest to Chase if his attorney can prove that Jason died under suspicious circumstances. When the coroner's inquest resumes, the D.A. mounts a circumstantial case that is easily rebutted by Philip when Emma is unable to testify. Defying her mother, Emma manages to escape from Falcon Crest and arrives to take the stand, confessing how she accidentally pushed Jason to his death while he fought with Turner Bates. The jury rules that Jason "died at the hands of another," thereby giving Chase control of Falcon Crest, but he magnanimously offers fifty percent of the vineyard to Angela. Though Angela detests the thought of sharing Falcon Crest with anyone, she has no choice and accepts. Another threat looms as Angela learns of Douglas's illegitimate son, Richard Channing, who has inherited fifty percent of The Globe.

At Falcon Crest, Angela withstand Chase's offer to half ownership. Feeling bitter over the prospect of sharing Melissa; Lance's inheritance, he is more than happy to present Chase from coming into the vineyard property. For Angela to take over The New Globe, Richard Channing, Angela's illegitimate son of her late husband, plans to take control; as the new Chairman of the Board. The small portion of the newspaper of the big portfolio names "The Company," held by Henri Denault (E.G. Marshall). Having been adopted, nearly all his life, Richard recognizes his mother's identity which transferred him from New York to California. Cole comes to Melissa's father, Carlo Agretti (Carlos Romero), and that Cole wanted to state that Melissa admits that she's carrying his child... not Lance's, Carlo slaps him in the face. When Gus dies in a gas explosion, Chase gives Angela an affidavit; jeopardizing and accusing her of Gus's death. Angela must agree in sharing Falcon Crest with Chase.

The Channings and The Giobertis attend the funeral at the Tuscany Valley Cemetery, where their lives will affect everybody while in San Francisco. Julia admits to the murder of Carlo Agretti, and then pull a gun to shoot her cousin, Chase, but to murder her aunt Jacqueline. Dr. Michael Ranson (Cliff Robertson), another of Chase's cousins, appears at Jacqueline's funeral, who gets completely taken in to the Gioberti house. Julia determines Angela's attempts to help her prove her innocence, thinking prison is better than living under Angela's manipulative behavior. Lance excitingly gives Melissa back to him, who is very devastated that his mother had shot Melissa's father. Julia has made a strong commitment that she will never forgive any of the Channings. In the hospital, Chase is in a coma, but at the very last minute comes out of it, only to find out his bullet lodged in his spine, leaving him paralyzed.

Chase is in a public feud with Richard, who wants to build a racetrack that could demolish the entire wine industry, however, the final say is when the residents who are planning to vote after scandalous campaigns of men. Angela strongly promises that she wouldn't allow Chase to run Falcon Crest without her and thwarts his goals to obtain the accounting records. Lance threatens Vince over Joseph's paternity suit, Vince suffers a heart attack soon after being threatened. In spite of The Gioberti's warning that Terry is dangerous, she moves in with Michael.

Michael must face his fears from the past, as he operates Sheriff Robbins to save his life. In the operating room, Michael cannot perform the surgery, who later admits to Terry about the guilt he's felt, the day he lost his wife. Terry arranges to become the new wife of Michael, after she spies on Maggie for Angela. While a gangster attacks Richard, Angela plans to crush Chase, with the encouragement of Calvin Kleeger, who's the wine distributor of Falcon Crest. Kleeger lets Chase know that Angela is no longer in the running of Falcon Crest, he won't serve as distributor, until Chase offers the winery as collateral.

Thanks to Phillip, Melissa has no choice other than to sell her Agretti land to him. Richard is nearly run down by a hit man, as the cartel was bound to take over his racetrack. Maggie also finds Jacqueline had an affair with Johann Riebmann, who was the head of the Nazi Gestapo. Cole came back home, only to find out Melissa was waiting for him seductively posed in bed. He kicks her out of the house, prior to Linda coming back.

When Joseph's custody battle goes to court, Lance and Melissa resort to blackmail. Cole punches Lance in front of a witness, who comes to court, all bodily bruised claiming that Cole had assaulted him. After hearing the story of the blackmailed witness, the case of Cole and Linda had been dismissed. Maggie and Chase notices that Jacqueline's relationship with Johann Riebmann and Henri Denault, led her into being a war criminal. Prior to Maggie, who chooses not to submit her article at The New Globe, Emma, who plays second-fiddle to her mother and brother, Angela and Richard, into being evil, that she has the story written on the front page behind Richard's and Maggie's back. Thanks to Emma's underlying schemes, the cartels were not pleased about that story and Richard would be knocked out.

Lance and Emma finds out Julia is in the springhouse with Joseph, who's being held hostage by her. Terry lies, constantly to Michael, when she receives a letter about the dark past. After Angela reads a letter in which Julia had left her, while she was in college, she regrets in not being a very good mother to her, due to her busy career. The house is surrounded by police officers, when Angela enters in trading for Joseph. Angela admits that she has failed in becoming a mother to Julia, and finally gets Julia to listen to what her mother has to say, about Angela loving her. Julia hands Angela the gun, the deputy sheriff ends up shooting, which sets the kerosene lamp and house on fire. Chase and Lance scramble to locate Angela and Julia, towards their safety, when Lance is knocked out, and has to be rescued by the fire, as did Angela, he is being saved by Chase, and the springhouse explodes.

The springhouse is on fire, the coroners inspecting a ring and bone fragments, they're all identifies the cremation of Julia's. In the letter to Lance, the final request from Julia was to have her ashes scattered in Italy. Angela asks both The Channings and The Giobertis to travel to Italy, in hoping that Julia's death can reunite the family together again. Richard believes that Pamela may be alive in Europe, a hostage of Norton Crane, and sends Padgett there to find her. Lance is told by Melissa, that she will be moved out of Falcon Crest, and back to her father's house when he returns from Italy. Angela already knows Melissa has filed for divorce, and can't have children of her own. Melissa pays one of the Falcon Crest employees to stage an accident at the winery so that Cole will have to stay behind with her. As Chase, Richard, and his pilot, Jack, leave to check possible travel routes to Italy, Spheeris enters the hangar posing as a mechanic, and heads toward Richard's plane carrying a toolbox and smiling. Angela, Philip, Lance, Emma, Richard, Maggie, Michael, Terry, Linda and Joseph, all take off in a plane, one of its engines catches fire and Chase suspects sabotage, the plane dives perilously and goes down in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Range, leaving everyone's lives hanging in the balance.

As Melissa and Cole wait at the rescue site where the helicopters arrive with the remaining survivors of the plane crash. As Angela leaves the plane, she says to her family that Phillip is dead, as well as Chase's co-pilot and Terry's husband, Michael. Richard has brought up the fact that the cartel was responsible for the crash, while Chase maintains it's a wreck. Angela blames Chase and has vowed to force him into paying. At the hospital, Linda is in critical condition where Cole visits her and makes plans for her future. Before she passes away, she tells Cole how much she loves him. Terry learns that she's a rich woman. In Buenos Aires, The Cartel meets where reveals that the ultimate goal is to reclaim a valuable Third Reich treasure buried under Falcon Crest.

Chase continues to have nightmares about the crash and is concerned that whatever it was than he could've done just to land safely. Greg Reardon is offered a job as a lawyer, much due to Angela's surprise, to fill the void for Phillip, who died. She also promises to help launch his political career, the following year, if he accepts it. Maggie and Cole pack up Linda's things. As Richard heads into the limousine, Spheeris levels a pistol at him, who also refuses to buy the property, made especially for the members of the cartels. In planning a fuel leak story that will eventually blame chase for the crash, Angela, Lance and Alan Caldwell of the F.A.A., detailed about it. In Buenos Aires, Johann steps into his limousine, it immediately explodes while Gustav stands by, pleasing watching his father die.

Pamela learns that Richard's attacker is Padgett, who pulls back the covers only to find the pillows where Richard's body was supposed to have been. While Padgett attempts to flee from town, Richard hasn't been knocking out property, Gustav is very furious. At The New Globe, Lance was hired as publisher much to the dismay of many of his new staff. Chase has been removed as the Head of the airport authority by the Board of Supervisors. Joel (Parker Stevenson), broke and desperate to support his drug abuse attacks Maggie at Tuscany Downs. She rarely see him, and later, Cole unhappily hires Joel as the new transportation foreman for the vineyards. Julia has been called out by Emma in the vineyards, where Angela shows up, Julia disappears again.

Being angry about written out of Angela's will, Melissa begs Joel's help by bestowing him $50,000 to disgrace Lance in Angela's eyes. Joel uses Lance into having a private meeting, and locks him up in a deserted warehouse. Pretending to be Lance, he uses Lance's Porsche to drive Angela off the road. While the real Lance is released from the warehouse, he is arrested immediately for his grandmother's murder. Angela acknowledges her plot to Greg to ally with Richard in order to get Chase to stop his champagne business. Gustav commands to follow Chase and Ben to Paris, where the two search for clues leading to Johann's whereabouts. While Ben and Chase are caught in a set-up, Ben is dead. Charlotte loses her temper over her gambling impulses at Richard's racetrack.

At Falcon Crest, Lance is dumbfounded when he sees Julia appear on the stairs. Greg and Angela manage to persuade Judge Leeds to transfer Julia's sentence to a convent in Oregon. Meanwhile, Angela plans to buy Sam Giannini's estate. Richard meets Cassandra Wilder, who attracts both Richard and his advertising account for Francesca wine. Greg continues to pursue Melissa until the day of the wedding. Dr. Mitchell informs Melissa that her auto accident has rendered her unable to bear any more children and Melissa fails to build the courage to tell Cole, who wants more children. However, Cole learns this in the worst possible way, through Angela. Feeling that Melissa has deceived him, Cole decides at the last minute that he cannot go through with the wedding and abandons Melissa at the altar in tears.

A forlorn Lorraine misses her Lance, all the while having lost her baby. In jail, Lance acknowledges Angela about his worries of Lorraine's survival. Angela encourages him and promises that Greg is working on his release. Pamela delivers Maggie a cassette tape, at The New Globe, describing all the conversations that Richard had taped. Both Maggie and Greg play the tape, hearing Richard and Judge Holder scheme against Lance. Cole receives word from Melissa that Joel is framing Lance. Then, striking back, Cole informs her that her surrogate mother's plan worked because Robin is pregnant. Judge Holder has no choice other than to release Lance, due to the overwhelming evidence against him. Happy, Lance hurries himself to the hospital, where the judge marries him and Lorraine.

For Angela to assume Chase and Richard to go bankrupt, after a competitor to win his bid, her scheme is to regain control of Falcon Crest will fall through. She has no idea about Cassandra Wilder, who holds the liens on their shares. Her mother, Anna Rossini, arrives for her much anticipated vengeance against Angela, because her daughter owns two-thirds of Falcon Crest. Chase is accepted by Connie to become a partner in Giannini Winery, while working at the winery. Maggie enters in and catches them in a celebratory embrace. Furious, she'll also be moving out that evening, and Chase vehemently tells her to go, eventually. Testifying on Melissa's half is Angela, which gives Melissa a permissive 60-day sentence in jail, in return for the Agretti land. Before Lorraine dies, Lance must sign the release paper for her to remove Lorraine off life-support, prior to her condition, growing increasingly worse, due to brain damage. Maggie and Richard comforts each other, one evening, until an explosion rips through his house, trapping them.

Maggie has amnesia, despite her and Chase surviving the explosion. To rebuild their marriage, Chase takes Maggie home. Angela has to reveal a long-kept secret in her fight to save her wine empire from the encroachments of a vengeful mother and daughter to plan to take over the estate.

The manor was set on fire, where Lance rescues Angela and Emma. Cassandra notices her mother was behind in both fires. Despite Maggie suffering from amnesia, Chase talks Maggie into renewing their marriage vows with another wedding. On that day, Angela pours her own brand of vitriol on the ceremony by bringing up Chase's relationship with Connie Gianinni. The unknown assassin of Richard's tries again, he's trapped. Father Christopher gives some hard facts of life, learning that she's an aspiring singer, once a cocktail singer, named Apollonia (Apollonia Kotero), whom Lance rescues.

Angela takes Julia home for a visit, in an attempt to bring calm to Mrs. Channing's family. her attempt to get her daughter influence Father Christopher backfire when Julia becomes disobedient towards her mother. A nationwide search is beginning for Robin and the baby, Hope is completely vain, until Robin and the Maggie for money and admits that Cole is not the father of that baby. Richard wants to bleed his new wife of, all because of her assets, he also learns Terry isn't gullible. Dwayne tries to elope with Emma, who invites him for dinner with her family, much to Angela's displeasure.

Jordan finds Greg for solace, while developing a split personality to hide from reality; hence, the guilt from her father's death built up nightmares, herself. Dwayne teases Angela; and brings Emma home from the hospital. Lance leaves San Francisco for Europe; in pursuit of searching for Peter. Angela is very happy to have an opportunity to strike back at Melissa; prior to Robin consulting her (Angela), for help in keeping her daughter. Chase and Richard agree to work together, challenging Angela by opening Terry's winery.

Angela disappears and the residents of Falcon Crest were all concerned about her, esp. Dwayne, who's more concerned for Emma. They all know Angela is about to be arrested for attempting to hijack Chase's wine shipment. After Sheriff Gilmore, he has trouble finding Angela and Peter. Cole moves back home, after Robin takes Hope from Melissa and Cole. Jeff travels with Maggie, all across the country. Richard and Chase refuse to agree (together) to deal with methods of purchasing more vineyards. Terry hires a private detective to spy on Jordan, prior to her needing Greg's help. Lance make sure whereabouts of his grandmother's disappearance; whereas Peter returns with her power of attorney.

Lance is very aware that Peter has been so secretive from the rest of the family. Angela had a good mind and a good reason not to give control of Falcon Crest to an outsider. While Emma reconciles with Dwayne, Maggie turns down Jeff's romances, when he's already obsessed with her. Richard hires a detective to look after Jordan, after she gave clues about Richard's and Chase's hidden business plans. Eric takes Melissa dancing, whilst enjoying his campaign. Greg is fired when he failed to follow Peter's instructions to withdraw $30 million of Falcon Crest funds for him.

Angela comes back and learns the havoc Peter has wrecked during her absence, who promised very strongly to take vengeance on him. Before Angela would come back, Greg gets a temporary order to stay at Peter's hand at Falcon Crest, when it's too late. Not only Peter is gone, her $30 million is gone, as well. In addition to Richard, who learns that Jordan's revealing his financial problems to Terry, but he also learns about Peter purchasing the mortgage at Tuscany Downs. When Maggie's tour has concluded, Jeff's determined to win her over, by taking her to Tuscany Valley. Melissa attempts to talk Eric to form a partnership with her.

Despite Angela marrying Peter, she learns he took her $30 million to prevent her for being prosecuted for arranging the hijacked Chase's wine. Angela puts herself away, who still must serve time in jail, until the $50,000 bail can be paid. While Jordan offers Maggie some professional help for her problems, Jeff's appearances in Tuscany Valley annoys her. Angela learns that Peter has made her Richard's partner in Tuscany Downs. Not only Angela is shocked to hear that Dwayne had moved into her house; but also to find that Lance and Jordan are sleeping together.

Chase gets shot by Jeff and is rushed to the hospital, where he learns he has hermorrhage, who must undergo surgery. Angela and Lance close the winery down, who both break Melissa's and Eric's friendship by forging Melissa's signature. Greg and Harriet learns Jordan's split personality, Monica, is in control, after Greg and Harriet bail Jordan out of jail. Dr. Kramer and Harriet help Jordan face the personality behind for which she has kept it a secret, for all that she had been suffering. While searching for Cassandra, Richard arrives in England, at her grave. Cassandra had died, prior to giving birth and Damon Rosini disappeared with her baby boy, afterwards, Sabrina Cross shows up with his son, Michael. The season finale concluded with an earthquake, rippling through Tuscany Valley, leaving the many people being injured in the wake.

San Francisco dealt with the aftermath of the earthquake, which struggle to deal with the loss of property and loved ones, when aftershocks rock the region and the people, even Dwayne & Terry, who died. After the earthquake, Peter was struggling to find Angela, until he heard her, and got her up. Angela even got Lance to call the paramedics on Julia, only to find that all telephone connections were down, hence, she was transferred to a church that Father Bob transformed it into a field hospital for earthquake victims, along with the information center for concerned family and friends, before she was transferred to a different Tuscany Valley hospital, where she lays in a coma, not too far from where Chase's has been treated for his gunshot wound, where Maggie and Cole awaits. Maggie has nightmares about Wainwright, whom Angela brings up to Maggie, when Angela doesn't know anything about what's going on in these nightmares.

Thanks to Vickie, who needs protection, from her father, who's uncertain about this, Maggie also needs protection, from her husband, as Chase hires a private detective. Lance fires kit, who's being denunciated by Dan Fixx (Brett Cullen). Angela makes plans to have Lance compete against Dan. Julia reminds the family about an unexpected decision. Ms. Jones has fallen for Richard's scheme and 2 fishermen suspect they have caught the big one. Richard also traps Angela to bail him out of their racetrack. Lance and Melissa comes back after their wedding and Dan becomes doubtful of Kit's mysterious stunts. Wainwright trying to receive feelings from Vickie.

The Giobertis are in a crisis; Maggie's strong concern about her problems of her children, primarily her baby, after Chase buries himself in his business deal and his political campaign. Meanwhile, Cole releases his disappointments out on his family, Vickie becomes totally fond of Dan Fixx. Chase and Tony learn that their vines are damaging. Angela and Lance argue over their own associations. Richard's been seduced by Meredith, for the first time. Lance makes secret plans with Karlotti (Marjoe Gortner) to buy out Emma's stock certificates in The New Globe. Through Kit's disguise, a hit man approaches.

Despite Maggie, which estranged her from her family, no matter the consequences, has determined to keep her baby. Cole is uncompromised about leading his life away from his family, and Maggie must give him her blessing. He leaves Falcon Crest for Australia. Vickie sees Dan Fixx, whose parents aren't very happy. Chase accepts his wife's situation on her future motherhood. Angela attends Karlotti's séance, which is a big asset in bestowing Lance control of Emma's holdings. Chase and Tony learn vineyards tainted from the dumping of Tuscany Downs, containing evidence pointing to Angela's secret plan to destroy her rivals. Dan confides in Vickie. Lance works at The New Globe.

While Maggie battles her isolation, Chase has trouble saving his vineyards and Angela attempts to have her own independence. Vickie lets her parent's problems to influence her relationship with Dan Fixx. Chase's marital problems contemplate on his campaign for county supervisor, he and Maggie confront themselves about their rocky marriage. Peter faithfully stands by Angela, especially when he is troubled over Angela's innocence or guilt. Richard is bound to defeat Lance's attempt at a takeover of The New Globe as the ghost of Ms. Jones, starts to haunt him. Kit dies to Tony's charm, who is horrified by Stafford.

Emma learns how great her husband really is, hers and Karlotti's church wedding ends. While the couple stands up before Father Bob for their nuptials, Karlotti's reputation as a lover has improved. For somebody to try to bring Lance back home, Angela intimidates Melissa in front of Lance, Richard and Dan. Maggie and Chase looks for clues to find their baby in Boston. When Lance finds out about the whereabouts of Kit's, he plans to block her in his quest to help Tony. D.A. Wilkerson comes to Angela, with the fact that he's got Tony "nailed to the wall". Vickie and Eric comes back from their escapade.

Melissa's hopeless try to retain the baby effects in a car chase that is over when the car carrying her, as Chase, Maggie, Richard and Dan plunges into San Francisco Bay. Angela's child ,thought to have died in childbirth, is alive and ready to come back to plague her; she finds out about this. Peter faces charges of murder, fleeing with Kit, after Angela and Peter reconcile, and she tries to buy his freedom. Chao-Li falls off at the top of the stairs, as if Angela wasn't aware of that.

Angela still finds the truth about her supposedly deceased child. The lives of Melissa's, Chase's, Richard's, Dan's and Maggie's were all endangered after the car chase. They all know that Chase is presumed dead. Chao-Li, who fell off at the top of the stairs, Angela calls the ambulance. Disappointed with her mother's interference, Emma stands on top of the front veranda of the Falcon Crest roof, who threatens to jump, when Lance jumps instead, and Emma must rescue him. In San Francisco, after Richard and Maggie placed their baby in a bag, he calms her down, for a while, until Angela shows up celebrating a triumph over Chase's presumed death, who will talk to the mayor's officer, who in turn would try to give her nephew the decent burial, after finding his body. Richard kicks Angela out of their hotel suite, for wearing her welcome out.

Angela comes to Dan to be in charge of her winery and find somebody else to run the spa, as unsuccessful in tempting Lance back to her side. However, Melissa, much to Angela's dismay, creates a successful nightclub for the Del Oro, when Dan has Melissa to be in charge of the spa. In Las Vegas, Richard wins Eric's Nevada land and plans to create a town called Channing, on a turn of a single card. Nicole harasses Maggie constantly, until Angela enters the fray, after Maggie is more than happy not to press charges against Melissa.

Richard Channing and John Remick (Ed Marinaro) try to help Maggie pay off Angela, both of them play dirty in hoping that he will be the only one to whom she is forever grateful. Angela is too late, when she sends Lance and Dan to investigate Emma's new job. Not only Vickie tells Maggie that she is pregnant, but admits about Eric's gambling mania. Dina (Robin Greer) and Lance are both involved in a car accident, with Dina being seriously injured. Maggie and Richard are unaware that they are under surveillance, prior to them visit his new Nevada property. As a result, they return home to face Angela's demand for payment.

Angela and Richard are both placed in precarious positions, after they individually plot to meet the men who's responsible for the mysterious activity in Tuscany Valley. Maggie doesn't seem to understand Richard's reluctance to trust the police. Angela makes Wilkinson (Dick O'Neill) to reveal Richard's ownership of lake property in Nevada. Emma, who's happy to write her autobiography, hires a ghostwriter and personal manager, who heads for Los Angeles. While Lance learns that somebody did damage to his car, Vickie finds herself, among the homeless. An explosion destroys the Gioberti home.

Prior to Angela and Richard introducing the mysterious Carlton Travis (Eddie Albert), Angela plots with Travis to bring Richard down. Richard knows that even Travis is a man who refuses to listen to anything, except just to listen to Angela. In spite of all the cut backs on Hollywood offers, Emma works on her screenplay. Melissa goes with Dan to Australia to visit Cole and Joseph. With Frank Stan's help, Dina's nurse works on her patient to disgrace Lance. Angela and Carlton learn that they have a history.

Travis kidnaps Richard and Angela, after Richard declines his offer of a truce. Angela brings a puppy as a gift to the party, after Maggie hires an old friend to plan a birthday party for Richard's son. Dina's nurse has her to sign Lance's half-million-dollar check over to her. Lance doubts that Frank Starr damaged his car.

Angela must open old wounds, prior to herself searching into the past to save Richard from Travis. Angela sees the wife of a Supreme Court justice and one of Washington's most celebrated hostesses (Eve Arden) to persuade help in protecting her son. Melissa becomes Lance's assistant, prior to his arrest for murder. A man who Dan finds is a criminal turns out to be his father. As Lance falls asleep, he is injected with a toxin that is going to kill him within 24 hours.

Lance is determined to clear his name and nail the actual murderer to just, jeopardizes his own life. Tony dictates that Lance, who's under the weather, check into a hospital. When however, Lance, in spite of the poison coming through his veins, sends Nurse Chadway (Salome Jens) to justice. Richard helps out the daughter of an old friend (Lauren Hutton) and becomes responsible for helping her protect her ball team. Angela attempts to demolish Melissa's new vineyards. Richard proposes Maggie to marry him.

Maggie leaves San Francisco to be with Vickie in Monte Carlo, who's upset with Richard's affair with Liz and cannot decide for a proposal. Maggie refuses her trust on Richard's protection, when a mysterious and an eerie assassin figure barges Liz. Angela attacks with a plot that boomerangs, after Melissa gives Angela a hard time. In a contest, Maggie enters her new wine, who wins second place. Angela finds out that Dan's father (Robert Donner) has another family. Emma begins writing an advice column for The New Globe, after Lance rescues from her would-be-producers.

Prior to Maggie returning to San Francisco with Vickie and Eric, she discovers that Richard and Liz have been traveling together. Eric notices that his gambling debts are approaching him and that he must pay more money to escape others. Melissa's world begins falling apart, all the while, she embarks to experience unusual phenomena due to Angela's hired illusionist Foster Glenn (Buck Henry). Emma's successful writers annoys Angela, who goes to Father Bob for advice about her family.

After learning that Maggie has finally taken Richard back in, Angela and Emma throw a surprise engagement party. Wearing only a bathrobe, Melissa makes her entrance, during the party. Lance finds out that the charming stranger that he has befriended knows secrets that could directly influence him. Liz announces that exasperates Angela, and pleases Maggie. Melissa eavesdrops Angela talking about her plot to drive her crazy and have her committed. Richard prevents Eric from making a mistake.

As Angela proves immaterial supportive, Maggie and Richard choose to try again. Angela happily greets Lance with the news that Carly will be staying at Falcon Crest, for a few days, prior to him moving back to his grandmother house. In a misleading tryout to help Emma, Curtis (Gary Imhoff) dishes the dirt on Richard. Melissa comes into a complicated masquerade to save Emma, at Lance's provocation. Richard takes on some risky help, in his attempt to break the codicil to Chase's will. When Gabrielle (Cindy Morgan) returns to Tuscany Valley on the anniversary of Chase's death, she gives Maggie some encouraging news.

Maggie's disappointments combined with Richard's hardheaded behavior began taking her on the trail of self-destruction. Richard refuses to settle with Maggie on situations that are vitally important in her new role of wife and mother, combined with Angela's visits with her grandson and Garth's well-being in their house. Upon the reasoning of Emma's, Lance continue to investigate the current deaths at the manor house. Vickie and Eric learn that they have understated Richard. Angela awakens Melissa's curiosity about Frank's peculiar activities.

Angela gains visitation rights to her grandson, Michael, following a court hearing with Judge Ambrose, that angers Richard. Vickie and Eric delivers gives Maggie reassuring cards, that let her know that both of them are alright. Lance gets a warning that he might be in danger, as he finds an ally within the Justice Department to help pursue his investigation of Richard. Carly and Angela has a surprise party, orchestrated by Carly, herself, until Richard barges in, interrupts the party and vehemently confronts to Angela about losing her younger grandson, while in the store. Angela knows from Maggie that she has a drinking problem. Especially when Frank saves Melissa from disaster, he still pays.

Richard searches for professional help, when he begins to notice about the problems he and Maggie face. Angela directs Carly to come to Melissa, when Angela places a spy in Maggie's and Richard's house, and thinks of a suit for custody of Michael. Dan refuses an offering loan from Angela, who looks for financing with his trucking company. Lance discovers that he isn't getting the kind of help that he wanted from Kathryn (Daphne Ashbrook), while Lance and Kathryn travel to Africa in pursuit of Remick. Richard expands a movie studio to his newspaper and television holdings.

Maggie will look for professional help, herself, only when she will submit to her family's demands. To please Richard, she starts packing to go to a sanitarium, who's being mystified by her children's response, who also takes the first step by solving her problems for consulting Dr. Everdene (Mary Ann Mobley). Richard faces up to Lance and Kathryn, when Lance protects Kathryn from the anger of The Thirteen. To prevent Frank's legacy from approaching Angela, Melissa looks for help in Richard.

Maggie's fight in overcoming her alcohol addiction becomes a lot impossible, after she learns Richard's role in Vickie's absence. Maggie urges that she must face withdrawal, her way, a self-satisfied letter from Vickie forces her view Richard's loving care as false. Melissa and Carly try to believe Dan against this, hence, Dan offers a chance at making enough money to start his trucking company by facing a dangerous dilemma. Angela attempts to talk Melissa into allowing for a dangerous surgery for Frank. Richard tries to find a way out of his treacherous association with The Thirteen, while Angela faces Rosemont (Roscoe Lee Browne) and makes a worst enemy.

The final explanation to Chase's will bequeaths to Melissa, "the key" to Angela, at Falcon Crest. Concerned, Angela guides Lance to find out the secret to "the key", which she's afraid might lead to the demolition of her and her family. Maggie's more than happy to receive an invitation from Angela to stay at Falcon Crest, until she can come clean with her problems with Richard. Carly learns that Dan's priority to make money is more treacherous than she had noticed. Richard is disappointed in his attempts to retain Vickie's and Eric's release from Switzerland. Richard might be in trouble than he notices, as Melissa makes a decision about Frank's surgery.

Richard's understatement of The Thirteen and their influence puts him highly in jeopardy, all the while, he urges on testifying before the investigating committee. Madame Malec toughen up her web around Eric, that creates more harm between him and his wife. Dan refuses to make up with Melissa, when he gets his trucking business. While Angela recommences her campaign to bring Lance and Melissa together again, to get the belonging of the key that could demolish the Gioberti fortune, Lance helps Melissa in her quest of Uncle Frank's treasure.

Angela is informed by Richard of Melissa's plans, while Lance and Melissa have been rescued from the cave. Eric shoots Angela, wounding her, when The Thirteen gets Eric to murder Angela and Richard, who, on the brink that Maggie and his children are to be all alone, is happy when Eric is allowed to murder Richard. After his funeral, Maggie says to Vickie, "He knew, somehow he knew." Melissa seizes Falcon Crest from Angela, and loses Lances and Frank, afterwards, thanks to a newly discovered deed. A few months later, Angela approaches a bearded man in the shadows of the church and asks him, "Isn't it about time Maggie knew you were alive?"

As Angela shocks her family and friends with her calm retirement over losing control of the winery domain, Maggie's nightmares over Richard's death has been haunted, whereas Melissa worthlessly exercises her established power over everybody within her empire, down to the field hands and household help. While Maggie tries to deal with the anguish of his murder by the underground group, The Thirteen, she must take control over Richard's vast financial domain. After leaving for many years, after an argument with her family, Pilar Ortega, who is not only the daughter of the vineyard foreman at Falcon Crest, but is now a bank vice-president, comes back to egg on severe interest throughout the valley. Richard comes back (from the dead) and Maggie slaps him.

Angela chooses to stay in Tuscany Valley and battle over her family's land, after Maggie is shocked by the return of her supposedly deceased husband, Richard, who gives out startling news about The Thirteen, the underground group, that was supposed to murder him, especially the son of Peter Stavros, Maggie can't figure out why she wasn't supposed to find out if Richard was alive or not. Also, Angela starts a new legal attack on Melissa for control of the Falcon Crest vineyards. Melissa's volatile behavior concerns her family, especially Lance, who gets slapped by her, before setting the Falcon Crest mansion on fire. Carly plans on leaving Tuscany Valley, while Emma begins to write an article about an enigmatic mystery writer.

The Falcon Crest mansion is on fire, where outside, Angela must rely on Lance to plunge desperately into the flames to try to save Melissa, who is caught up inside. The aftermath of the fire has shocking results for the residents of Tuscany Valley. She was taken to the hospital and dies, and Lance flips out. Later, Angela privately arranges a meeting between Frank and his long-lost son, Nick, and grandson, Ben, (Brandon Douglas). Richard nervously embarks on a search to discover who was responsible for the assassination of The Thirteen. In search of an exclusive story, Emma secures a job typing for a private writer, R.D. Young, and later, meets his partner, Cabot (Allan Young).

Senator Ryder is planning on shooting Richard, whilst kidnapping his wife, Maggie. Aware that Senate Ryder's brother, John is behind the assassination of The Thirteen, Richard learns the secret method of which Ryder and John could keep in touch with each other. When Richard waits in a park for John, he has no idea that the senator has already murdered his brother, while at Richard's house.

District Attorney Field angrily refuses to receives Angela's help for the governorship, in exchange for dropping all murder charges against Lance, when Richard tries to hire Field's leukemic son to join the staff of The New Globe, Fields agrees to his deal. Lance, however, is ungrateful, he wanted to plead his innocence in court. Despite not charged with any crime, Maggie's conscious is guilty when she indeed murdered Senator Ryder, especially when she did that in order to save her husband's life. After Nick is pleased when he suspects Pilar swimming nude, Angela relays to him that she has gained knowledgeable information he's not supposed to be released, recognizing that the price for keeping the secret is Falcon Crest itself.

Nick yields Falcon Crest to Angela, when she blackmails Nick with incriminating clues about his past life. As Angela arranges to rebuild the entire house, Nick makes a mistake about his respect towards her and cautions that he will not bend from then on. Nick has to tell Ben the truth about his mother, that angers him. Richard's newspaper prints the truth that Melissa had placed a phone call after Lance's exit, meaning that Lance is innocent of her death. Richard cautions Pilar not to allow her affair with Lance interfere with Richard's taking over the valley. When Frank's old friend, Libby comes back, Nick and Ben are stunned. Libby asks Frank to join her in Columbia to dig up for emeralds, that is the offer that bothers Angela. As Emma and Cabot begin a serious relationship, Cabot asks her true identity.

Pilar is pressured when she is to sign paper allowing Mercedes and her husband to adopt Lisa. However, Pilar notices that Mercedes is the only mother the child has ever known, the thought of the last, legal adoption is more than Pilar can bear. Pilar finds Lance with an attractive young lady, after she goes to Lance for comfort. Angela is bound to learn who is responsible for the consortium, after she is outfoxed for the purchase of a bottling company. Emma learns that Cabot has been lying to her relating to his true identity, after Maggie's newspaper office is mysteriously discarded, a few days before the first edition.

Angela's anticipated approach to Emma's imminent wedding may prove fruitless when the bride and groom call the festivities off. When Angela receives word from her daughter, Emma, that the wedding is off, her forthcoming bridgegroom, R.D. Young, apologizes for his behavior and announces that the wedding is on schedule again. During the wedding rehearsals, Young's anxieties elevates and he encourages Emma to elope. Lance's & Pilar's romances resumes, after Pilar accepted Lance's apology about Cookie Nash. Nick unsuccessfully suggests to Ben, that he curtail his relations with the Cellini Family, despite cautioning him that the family is dangerous. An unexpected visitor causes a crisis at Tuscany Valley.

The Ortegas are in a crisis, when they learn Gabriel has epilepsy, right after the accident that he suffered a head injury. Anna (in desperation) tries to encourages Frank and Nick to help her pain be over, prior to growing increasingly weaker. Stating his true feelings for Maggie, Tommy consoles her, after Maggie breaks down into tears, after a phone conversation with Michael. When Lance has been meaning to call Angela, about the Glenbraddoch meeting (when all the phone lines were down), Angela calls Lance, instead, and asks him to plant the Chardonnay, before the week is over and it could be too late, because of the changing weather. Also, on the same business trip that Angela is away, Richard approaches a beautiful young lady who is the dead ringer for Melissa Agretti. Pretending that it'll help an ailing Angela, Richard encourages his new invasion, Samantha Ross, to comeback to San Francisco, while impersonating Melissa. After Richard approves to pay her a heavy price, the deal is mutual.

For Angela to marry Frank Agretti, she had triumphantly disappointed Richard's plans, she also returns to Falcon Crest, where her family gathers to her side and plans have come up for Richard's complete downfall. Richard tells Samantha to lose their partnership or she'll have to pay the consequences, all the while Samantha returns from Paris to Chicago. However, when Samantha finally goes to Falcon Crest, she gives proof that Richard was responsible for Angela's kidnapping, right at the same time, Angela and Pilar work with the S.E.C. to make smooth of Richard's financial ruin. Kelly, hearing the many lies from Tommy about his relationship with Maggie, she breaks him up, tries to rescue her, who then drowns in the lake. The season ended, when Angela confronts Richard about putting his mother in the psychiatric ward, hence, she calls the police, who has him arrested.

As Angela prepares to travel to Greece, she leaves her grandson Lance in charge, though under the strict supervision of her reliable foreman, Frank Agretti. Since Daniel, an unsuccessful author, has turned to gambling, drinking and brutality, Emma has become a battered wife. To escape her troubles, Emma turns to another man, Charley, for much-needed affection. In an effort to get out of prison, Richard decides to testify against his co-conspirator, Michael Sharpe. Richard evades an attempt on his life meant to stop his testimony. Accidentally getting her finger stuck in a pool drain, Maggie drowns. Angela hires a private investigator to tail Pilar.

Emma's old friend Charley (Mark Lindsay Chapman) arrives just in time for Maggie's funeral, where, Charley removed Maggie's wedding ring. Even when Angela disapproves of Charley and changes her vacation plans, Emma stands by Charley despite Angela's interference. Michael Sharpe takes his revenge on Richard for his testimony against him by having Richard's children removed from his custody. Aware that Angela is trying to break up his relationship with Emma, Charley places a pillow over Angela's face and suffocates her.

After Chao-Li returns from vacation, he went up to Angela's room, where she was found unconscious. The Channings are in a crisis where Angela was rushed into a hospital, only to be slipped in a coma. Lance has a hard time managing Falcon Crest without Angela, especially when business associates urge on negotiating with his grandmother; but fortunately, Pilar is happy to help Lance with Ned Vogel (David Spielberg). Richard learns that Michael was an asset in Richard's custody loss over his own children, who delivered them to Walker (Robert Ginty) and Lauren Daniels, the emotional couple who lost their own children. When Charley exploded the back-up generator in the hospital basement, The Channings have no choice other than to pull the plug on Angela's life-support. Richard still mourns for Maggie, and must keep all of his promises that have been made by her.

With his continued influence over Emma, Charley upsets the family. After the bank calls in its loan, Richard saves Falcon Crest from Michael Sharpe. Encouraged by his sister-in-law, Genele Ericson (Andrea Thompson), Frank Agretti goes to the bank with the power of attorney which Angela had given him prior to her aborted trip to Europe and takes over operation of Falcon Crest.

Due to Richard's testimony, the S.E.C. slaps Michael Sharpe with the largest fine in history. Lauren and Walker confront Michael about his schemes and their custody of Richard's children. Frank's obsession with the treacherous Genele escalates. Charley is relieved to hear that Emma's husband has apparently committed suicide, since his death removes the last obstacle for Charley to marry Emma. When the court gives control of Falcon Crest to Emma, she is overwhelmed by the notion of running the business. Emma's new husband Charley, however, has many ideas about running Falcon Crest.

Charley hires his brother Ian and his young, childlike wife, Sidney (Carla Gugino), to help run the winery. Since the new arrivals put Charley at odds with Lance, the two fight. After Lance soundly beats Charley, Charley immediately fires him. Richard is still grieving for Maggie, and says he lost everything, especially Falcon Crest. When Michael was questioning Lauren about Richard getting his kids back, Walker wanted Michael out of their house and put his back against the wall. Michael doesn't care about anybody, except for himself, even when he brought Lauren, even more pain. After rescuing his sons, Richard learns that they liked Walker's wife and returns them to Lauren's care, despite the fact that she is Sharpe's sister. Pilar and Lance confront Emma about Charley, he throws a bacchanal party, which is crashed by bikers. Ned Vogel, who has taped evidence of Pilar securing his distribution contract through sexual favors, blackmails her. At Angela's bedside, Emma thinks she hears her comatose mother command her to get rid of Charley, but Emma isn't sure whether or not she imagined it.

As Michael Sharpe arranges for Richard to be killed, the contract eventually goes to Sal, Richard's acquaintance from prison. Instead of killing Richard, Sal offers to help him get back at Sharpe, but later pays with his life when Sharpe learns that Sal double-crossed him. After Sydney defies her husband and befriends Emma, Ian beats her. In order to get rid of Lance, Charley shows him a videotape of Pilar's liaison with Ned Vogel. Despite Pilar's pleas, Lance leaves enraged, just as Charley had hoped.

Michael Sharpe convinces Ian and Charley to sell Falcon Crest to him, but Emma backs out. When Sharpe informs Ian and Charley that he has information on them that could put them in jail, Charley agrees to kill Emma and forge her signature. Charley is stopped in his tracks, however, when an unsuspecting Emma informs him that she is pregnant. Lance becomes embroiled in a deadly game of Russian roulette involving scorpions.

Charley keeps the pressure on Emma to sell to Sharpe, despite the fact that she is pregnant. After Charley tells Ian about Sydney's affair with Chris Agretti at the winery, the two brothers agree to kill their wives for deceiving them. Lauren gives Walker permission to sleep with her, then, later, she nearly slaps him, after taking out all that anger on her. Richard lets Lauren know how much she means to him. After Frank sees Sydney and Ian in a struggle, he tries to help, but when Ian gets the upper hand, Sydney saves Frank by killing Ian with a letter opener. Charley chases after Emma, but Emma shoots him in the chest.

With a bullet wound in the chest, Charley disappears from Falcon Crest. Because Chris Agretti is missing, Sydney worries that Ian and Charley might have killed him. Sharpe gains control of Falcon Crest by threatening to press criminal charges against Emma for authorizing the release of tainted wine, she leaves Falcon Crest to live in peace. Sharpe's son Danny (David Sheinkopf) provides his father with crucial evidence, which he found while on a date with Sydney. Richard suspects that Lauren's marital situation is worsening, while Lance resists renewing a sexual relationship with Pilar.

As payback for Jace Sampson's cooperation in Sharpe's takeover of Falcon Crest, Richard talks Jace into making an investment after which Jace loses all his money. Pilar and Lance's estrangement worsens. After Walker catches Richard and Lauren kissing, he confronts them with dynamite strapped to his chest, which is set to go off when the timer runs out. Rather than kill Lauren and the boys along with Richard, Walker runs outside just as the dynamite explodes, as is Walker.

When Genele forces Frank out of his own home in order to entertain her lover Sharpe, Frank delivers the remains of Genele's sister and Frank's ex-wife Renee to the police, informing them that Genele killed her ten years before. Sydney tries to push Pilar and Lance back together. Sharpe is displeased when Lauren moves in with Richard after her ordeal with Walker. Sharpe tries to act as a business mentor for Danny.

Haunted by the memory of her husband's death, Lauren moves out of Richard's place and in with Genele. When Danny invites Sydney for a romantic night on his father's yacht, Sydney maneuvers to put Lance and Pilar on the boat together instead. When Sharpe uses sensitive information about Richard's business dealings, he makes $300 million and Richard loses $52 million. Richard wrongfully accuses Lauren of leaking the information. After showing up at Richard's door, Genele removes her clothes.

Danny fights Sharpe's attempts to control his life and to make him break up with Sydney. After Sydney brings them back together, Lance and Pilar make plans to retake control of Falcon Crest. When Richard learns through Pilar that Genele was responsible for delivering his business secrets to Sharpe, he throws Genele out and attempts to reconcile with Lauren. Realizing that her brother's affection for her is more than just brotherly, Lauren decides she has to leave Sharpe's house.

Richard and Sharpe search for Lauren, who had grown tired of their fighting and ran off to work as a waitress in a diner. Sharpe attempts to convince Danny to drop Sydney, who wants Falcon Crest to return to the Channing's. When Lance and Pilar ask Sharpe what it would take for him to sell them Falcon Crest, Sharpe tells them to break up Sydney and Danny. When Lauren returns to Richard and the boys, she has to deal with Richard's continuing obsession with his dead wife Maggie.

After Genele intercepts stolen bonds that Sharpe is trafficking, she arranges for Richard to cash them. Lance, Pilar and Danny believe that things are finally turning around for the winery. Genele has to pay hush money to a witness, but Richard has decided to keep all the money as revenge for Genele's past deceit. When Richard has the bonds cashed under the name Sharpe, Sharpe assumes his son Danny did it under Sydney's influence. After Sharpe tampers with Sydney's car, Danny happens to borrow her car and ends up in an accident.

Danny has a severe head injury as a result of crashing Sydney's car, which Sharpe had tampered with to get at Sydney. Danny's mother, Anne Bowen, and Sharpe decide to approve a dangerous operation to remove a bone shard from Danny's spinal cord. Discouraged by the bad luck she seems to bring to all her boyfriends, Sydney leaves Falcon Crest. Suspecting that Sharpe was behind the car accident, Richard and Lance track down the auto mechanic, Sacco, who did the tampering. Alerted to Richard and Lance's involvement, Sharpe sends his chauffeur Nick to ensure that Sacco doesn't talk.

Lauren tries to persuade Anne to reconcile with Sharpe. Anne and Lauren work to create an understanding between Sharpe and Richard, but once the women leave, Sharpe and Richard each vow to find the mechanic Sharpe hired to tamper with Sydney's car. Pilar disguises herself as a homeless woman to win the trust of Sacco's girlfriend, who leads Pilar to Sacco. Sharpe's henchman, Nick, follows both of them. However, when Nick is about to shoot Sacco, Lance disarms him from behind. With the informant they need to wrest Falcon Crest from Sharpe, Pilar and Lance call Richard.

Richard knows that Sharpe was behind the sabotage that almost killed his son, Danny, and he has Johnny Sacco, the mechanic paid to tamper with Sydney's car, to prove it. In order to keep Danny and his estranged wife Anne from knowing his involvement in the accident, Sharpe transfers ownership of Falcon Crest to Richard. After Anne agrees to give her marriage with Sharpe a second chance, she changes her mind when Johnny Sacco arrives intoxicated at the Sharpe residence and tells Anne everything. Anne lets Sharpe in on a secret she's kept for 21 years: Richard is Danny's real father. After several months in a coma, Angela revives.

Richard is determined to become the owner of Falcon Crest, who used Lance and Pilar to get everything back, and tosses them aside. Richard has a conversation with his nephew about Lance managing the place, while his uncle owns it, who says if Lance doesn't like the arrangement, Richard has to find somebody else, who does. Tired of Richard's slamming down orders in front of them, Lance and Pilar were on their way to pay a visit to see his grandmother, when, in Mrs. Channing's hospital room, the bed was empty, after the nurse and the orderly cleaned up, a week ago, as they both received word from the nurse that Angela woke up from her coma. Sharpe reels from the news that his hated rival Richard is Danny's father. Richard's plans to run the winery with Lauren run into a snag when Angela returns to Falcon Crest, after a year long hospitalization. When Richard informs Angela that she has no legal claim to the winery, Angela pretends to give in, but she is secretly planning to block Richard's marriage to Lauren with the help of Michael Sharpe.