When She Left after the 4th season…
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Sjbradford — 18 years ago(June 15, 2007 05:24 PM)
The producers kept her role open for a year after she left, hoping that she would return. When she didn't, they hired Emma Samms (although Martin was asked to return several times even after Samms was hired).
Although Martin was excellent in the role, I can't blame Samms too much - the writers wrote the character completely differently once she took over. For the last season, the writers finally began to write the role as if Martin were playing her, but it was too late. -
rinahammon88 — 16 years ago(April 22, 2009 04:15 AM)
Though I liked Emma Samms, she was not right to play fallon. Whoever decided to cast her as the new fallon made a huge mistake. The character was never the same once Pamela sue martin left. They should have cast somebody with the qualities as Pamela Sue Martin or just wrote the character off completly. Emma Samms was NO FALLON
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aquafresh001 — 16 years ago(June 25, 2009 12:15 AM)
Yes, Emma Samms was wrong for the role. Pamela Sue Martin was asked to return for season 9 (after the whole UFO thing that Emma Samms did), but she declined. I wanted her to return, and she would've been great in it!
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PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(August 10, 2015 11:48 AM)
Reportedly, Martin didn't like the juggernaut fame DYNASTY was bringing them, she didn't like how DYNASTY had gone from being a witty satire of the rich-and-famous to a lame celebration of the rich-and-famous (and indeed it had!) and she had hepatitis or something.
They asked her to come back two or three times, but she never did.
DYNASTY had quickly become a complete creative mess, and Martin no doubt understood that. (Although I do wish they'd had her back for Season 9, which had a new producer and was good).
Emma Samms is likeable, but she just wasn't Fallon. But the DYNASTY producers never seemed to learn from their mistakes, and kept recasting the grown Carrington children even though it never worked.
I just can't blame her.
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Noirdame79 — 9 years ago(May 27, 2016 08:03 PM)
Pamela Sue Martin is the only Fallon as far as I'm concerned, and Emma Samms really had an uphill battle from the start when she took over the role. It just wasn't the same and I think the many cast changes, along with inferior writing, changing of the times etc, ended up hurting
Dynasty
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Pamela Sue Martin had great chemistry with John James and I appreciated that the writers reunited Fallon and Jeff before Pamela left. It would have been interesting if she had returned at some point.