Rating:
6/10 by 10 users
The Powers That Be
Courtesy of TV Guide: Tyronne tries to gain Field's support by showing him how easily he can ruin his political career; and Claude wants to put Eudora in a mental hospital
Writing:
- Rita Lakin
- Robert Wilder
Release Date:
Tue, Jan 06, 1981
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Stella Stevens
Lute-Mae Sanders
Morgan Fairchild
Constance Weldon Semple Carlyle
Season 2:
Courtesy of TV Guide: The second season picks up where the first left off: Constance may never walk again after falling from the second-floor landing of Lute-Mae's.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Titus is reluctant to investigate when Lute-Mae is raped by the son of an influential Truro family.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Field campaigns aggressively to renovate the barrio- until he learns the identity of the slum-lord.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Sam battles a ruthless tycoon who wants him out of the bidding for a valuable section of waterfront property; and Claude catches Field in a restaurant with another woman.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Lane is distressed by the appearance of her long-lost father; Tyronne plans to buy- then demolish- the Cuban barrio.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Tyronne tries to gain Field's support by showing him how easily he can ruin his political career; and Claude wants to put Eudora in a mental hospital
Courtesy of TV Guide: On Christmas Eve in Truro, Tyronne wants Titus to evict the Cubans from his newly acquired barrio property; and Constance seeks the attention of Julio.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Angry over losing the barrio, Tyronne buys the local bank and forecloses on Claude's paper mill.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Titus faces tough competition for re-election when Elmo throws his hat into the ring; and Constance has a tryst with Julio.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Field has the mill's books audited; Constance travels to Tallahassee to meet with prospective casino investors and rendezvous with Julio; Tyronne learns that Lute-Mae is Constance's natural mother; and Alicia invites Skipper to dinner.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Julio is arrested for the theft of Constance's jewelry; Lane pressures Sam to marry; and Tyronne takes Lute-Mae to the race track.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Titus decides to silence Elmo's newspaper before Skipper's editorials ruin his plans for legalized gambling in Truro. Meanwhile, Sam and Lane elope.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Sam marries Lane; Skipper's blindness could be permanent; and Titus frames Elmo for the explosion in the newspaper office.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Eudora smothers Skipper with maternal care; Constance has Julio spy on Field; and Lane and Sam honeymoon in the Caribbean.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Julio proclaims his love for Constance to Field; Alicia eludes Eudora's guard and sees Skipper; and Titus and Tyronne plot Truro's future in gambling.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Field gets the upperhand on Titus when he is given a record of the sheriff's crooked dealings; and Tyronne's real reason for being in Truro is revealed.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Tyronne moves to secure Field's support as the gambling bill nears a vote; Sande is depressed about her role as Field's mistress; and Skipper and Alicia take a big step forward in their relationship.
A plane carrying Sam and Field crashes in the Everglades under suspicious circumstances- they were returning from a fact-finding mission concerning Tyronne's private dealings in Nassau.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Tyronne uses voodoo to begin his destruction of the people of Truro- starting with his sister.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Lute-Mae goes gunning for Tyronne; and Field makes a surprising political move to stop the gambling bill.
Courtesy of TV Guide: Tyronne plots to drive Titus insane; Constance learns an awful truth; and gangsters are gunning for Sam.
Courtesy of TV Guide: There's a surfeit of suspects when someone takes a shot at Tyronne.
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