Bare Essence

Bare Essence
Genre Soap opera
Starring Genie Francis
Jennifer O'Neill
Jessica Walter
John Dehner
Ian McShane
Michael Woods
Jonathan Frakes
Wendy Fulton
Jaime Lyn Bauer
Al Corley
Susan French
Michael Nader
Country of origin USA
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 11
Production
Executive producer(s) Philip Saltzman
Running time 60 min.
Production company(s) Warner Bros. Television
Release
Original network NBC
Original release February 15 – June 13, 1983

Bare Essence is an American television soap opera which aired on the NBC network during the 1982–1983 season.

Bare Essence starred Genie Francis and dealt with the intrigues of the perfume industry. (The movie version was directed by Walter Grauman and written by Robert Hamilton.)

Initially, the show started its life as a two-part 4-1/2 hour TV mini series shown over two nights on October 4 and 5, 1982 on CBS with Linda Evans and Donna Mills, as well as Lee Grant and Bruce Boxleitner. The mini series garnered excellent ratings but CBS passed on a proposed series, which NBC picked up. By the time the series went to air in February 1983, the roles which had been played in the mini series by Evans, Mills, Grant, and Boxleitner were taken over respectively by Jennifer O'Neill, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jessica Walter and Al Corley. Genie Francis reprised the lead role in the new series.

The series revolved around Tyger Hayes' (Francis) efforts to succeed in the business world. In the first episode, her new husband Chase Marshall (Corley) is killed in a racing car accident. Chase's father Hadden (John Dehner) opposes Tyger's efforts to join the family business, Kellico, but she is encouraged by Hadden's sister Margaret (Susan French) to try her hand with a new line of perfumes. Ava (Walter), the widow of Hadden's other son, is concerned that any success Tyger might have will undermine her son Marcus' (Jonathan Frakes) position in the company. Both Ava and Marcus' wife Muffin (Wendy Fulton) plotted to undermine Tyger's success. To this end, Ava eventually seduces and marries Hadden. Tyger's mother, Lady Bobbi Rowan (O'Neill), falls in love with a Greek millionaire, Niko Theopolous (Ian McShane), who wants to exact revenge on the Marshalls.[1]

Despite a great deal of promotion (with commercials like "Love her. Use her. Or destroy her. Everyone wants a piece of Tyger Hayes."),[2] the show was not a success and was cancelled at the end of the season with cliffhangers left unresolved. A total of 11 episodes were produced, plus the TV movie pilot.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ [Mary Ann Copeland, Soap Opera History, Mallard Press, 1991]
  2. ↑ [Christopher Schemering, The Soap Opera Encyclopedia, Ballantine Books, 1985]

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