Emerald Point N.A.S.

Did You Know?

• The series was created by Richard and Esther Shapiro, the same team behind Dynasty.
• The show was cancelled after exactly 22 weeks on the air.
• The final episode aired on March 12, 1984, and ended with an unresolved cliffhanger involving Leslie's possible parentage and Maggie's kidnapping.

Cast and characters

The show's central character is Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory, a military hero and the commanding officer of the Emerald Point N.A.S. He is a widower and father to three daughters: Celia Warren (Susan Dey), who is unhappily married to JAG lawyer Jack Warren (Charles Frank); Kay (Stephanie Dunnam), who is involved in a love triangle with Lieutenant Glenn Matthews (Andrew Stevens) and his scheming fiancée Hilary Adams (Sela Ward); and Leslie (Doran Clark), a recent graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the first female of the family to serve in the U.S. Navy.

Thomas enters a relationship with Maggie Farrell (Maud Adams), a representative on the Military Affairs Council of the Chamber of Commerce, and a Navy wife whose husband has been missing in action for over ten years. Other main characters include Lieutenant Simon Adams (Richard Dean Anderson), Hilary's brother, who eventually marries Celia after her divorce from Jack; villainous industrialist Harlan Adams (Patrick O'Neal, then Robert Vaughn), Tom's rival and father of Hilary and Simon; and Deanna Kincaid (Jill St. John), Thomas' unscrupulous former sister-in-law, who becomes involved with Russian KGB agent Yuri Bukharin (Robert Loggia).

The show ended with an unresolved cliffhanger, with the revelation that Leslie is the possible daughter of Harlan, due to his rape of her mother (as witnessed by Celia), and with Maggie being kidnapped on her wedding day to Tom by maniac David Marquette (Michael Brandon).