However, what everyone did not know was that Claude had fathered Constance with Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens), the owner of a bar-bordello in Truro. He slept around himself, due to Constance's rampant cheating on him, with reporter Sandy Swanson (Cynthia Sikes) and others. The family was comprised of Claude (Kevin McCarthy) his naive wife, Eudora (Barbara Rush) his daughter, Constance (Morgan Fairchild) and his son, Skipper (Woody Brown).Ĭonstance was the town's home wrecker, sleeping with pretty much every male in Truro (excepting her brother and father), despite her marriage to her high school sweetheart, Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a former deputy of Titus Semple, who was a State Senator.įield, as he was known, was no saint, either. One of the more wealthier families in town was the Weldon family, who ran the local paper mill, and lived on Flamingo Road. He was a long-time law enforcer who was thoroughly corrupt (having committed many crimes while being the community's chief law enforcement officer) and pretty much got his way in everything. Running the town with an iron fist was County Sheriff Titus Semple (Howard Duff). Truro was located inside a corner of the Florida Panhandle and was very steamy for such a small community. Unlike the film, the sexual suggestiveness was frank (as it had been in the novel), and the show was set in Florida, and not in an abstract Southern state.įlamingo Road takes its name from the fictitious road, the ritziest street, in the equally fictional community of Truro, Florida.
Flamingo road movie#
The show was based on the 1949 Joan Crawford movie which, in turn, was based on a novel by Robert Wilder. It was first seen as a made-for-TV movie in 1980. Flamingo Road was a prime time soap opera that ran on NBC from 1980 to 1982.
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