Dynasty premiered on ABC on January 12, 1981,[1] starring John Forsythe as millionaire oil tycoon Blake Carrington for the entire run of the series.

Steven befriends Krystle, who is adjusting to life at the mansion despite chilly receptions from Fallon and the Carrington majordomo, Joseph Anders (Lee Bergere).

Steven leaves town that year and is presumed dead in an oil rig explosion in 1982; he turns up alive and returns (portrayed by Jack Coleman) in 1983.

At the same time, chanteuse Dominique Deveraux (Diahann Carroll) comes to Denver and soon makes a shocking claim: she is the daughter of Blake's father Tom Carrington (Harry Andrews) and his longtime mistress.

In 2017, wealthy siblings Steven (James Mackay) and Fallon Carrington (Elizabeth Gillies) arrive in Atlanta to meet their father's fiancée, Cristal Flores (Nathalie Kelley).

In the 2018 episode "I Answer to No Man", Blake (Grant Show) reveals to Cristal that he and his first wife had another son, Adam, who was kidnapped at six months old and never returned.

Blake's ex-wife Alexis (Nicollette Sheridan), Steven and Fallon's mother, reappears in the "Poor Little Rich Girl" after an extended exile.

Blake welcomes Adam back in "Trashy Little Tramp", not knowing that Hank is actually Alexis' lover with whom she is conspiring to amass enough Carrington Atlantic shares to seize control of the company.

Fallon visits her cousin Juliette Carrington (Mathilde Warnier), the French daughter of Blake's disinherited brother Benjamin.

Blake's half-sister and Jeff and Monica's mother, now going by the name Dominique Deveraux (Michael Michele), arrives in "New Lady in Town".

Fallon becomes engaged to Liam Ridley (Adam Huber), heir to the infamous Van Kirks, a wealthy family based in New York.

It is revealed that Fallon is infertile due to her gunshot wound, so the couple seek out a surrogate, Stacey Moore (Samantha Massell), to carry their child.