Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep25 – Devil’s Harvest First Aired: 12 April 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela takes over Lance’s position as publisher of The New Globe following his sentencing. Angela works out that if Falcon Crest agrees to a contract with Helios Foods, Richard and Chase will end up being in a large amount of debt and she will have the chance to be the sole owner of Falcon Crest once again. Chase turns down his wife’s request that he sells his part of Falcon Crest. Robin makes a play for Cole and tells him he could give Melissa the child she wants.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep4 – Justice for All First Aired: 29 March 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Cole isn’t happy with Connie’s interference in the champagne operation. Chase is able to convince her not to quit and she enjoys spending time with him. When the jury are unable to reach a verdict in Lance’s trial the judges orders them to deliberate once again. When Maggie sees Richard talking with the judge she is determined to find out what is going on between the two of them. Robin sees Melissa’s search for a surrogate mother as a chance to get closer to Cole. Richard and Cole are used by Damon and Cassandra. Lance ends up being found guilty and the judge sentences him to seven years in jail.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep23 – The Trial First Aired: 15 March 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: The judge in Lance’s trial is bribed by Richard. Cole and Melissa think about finding a surrogate mother to carry them a child. Connie is employed by Chase to help Cole with their champagne production. Cassandra and Damon plan their revenge on Angela. Cassandra has to make sure that Richard doesn’t find out about the plan who finds her intriguing. When Melissa’s cousin, Robin, shows up for a visit she sets her sights on Cole.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep22 – House Divided First Aired: 8 March 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Cole and Melissa spend their honeymoon in Tahiti. Connie Giannini is convinced by Chase not to sell the land she has inherited to Angela. Pamela thinks Richard is making a mistake rejecting Lorraine when she needs him the most. Richard turns down Lorraine’s efforts to reconcile and she finds life tough living at Falcon Crest. Lance and Lorraine learn that his trial will start next week.
“I’m here,” says Simon MacCorkindale, “to offer something different.” He says this standing against the backdrop of Los Angeles, the twinkling lights of the city spread below him like so many Christmas trees, A slight, self-deprecating smile humbles the theatricality of the moment. “There are only a few English actors who can capture an American accent and pull it off. Peter Ustinov is one, I’m another. But if I used an American accent, I’d be just another American actor. So, I’m holding onto the English accent. At least for now.” It should serve him in good stead. As Boston-bred, English-educated lawyer-on-the-rise, Greg Reardon, Simon is currently appearing as one of the newest and more continental additions to the wicked wine country of “Falcon Crest.”
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep21 – Recriminations First Aired: 22 February 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: A furious Melissa confronts Angela blaming her for Cole walking out on her. Cole and Melissa are able to sort out their problems and are finally married. Lance asks Lorraine to marry him. Angela lets Richard know about the engagement and pregnancy before Lorraine has the chance to tell him. A furious Richard throws Lorraine out and tells her in his eyes she is now dead.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep20 – Forsaking All Others First Aired: 15 February 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Lance is shocked to see his mother at Falcon Crest. Julia will spend the rest of her sentence at a convent in Oregon after Angela and Greg are able to get a judge to agree to it. Angela makes plans to purchase Sam’s estate. Richard meets with Cassandra Wilder. Greg still refuses to give up on Melissa. Melissa finds it impossible to tell Cole that she can’t have anymore children and Angela takes great pleasure in breaking the news to him. Feeling like that Melissa has been lying to him, Cole ends up jilting Melissa.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep19 – Retribution First Aired: 8 February 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela comes face to face with her daughter at Riebmann’s house. Chase, Richard and Greg come up with a plan to rescue her. Riebmann ends up being followed by Richard into an old mineshaft where the treasure has been hidden. Chase, Pamela and Chao-Li are forced to watch on in horror as the mineshaft begins to give way. Gustav and Renee end up being buried with the treasure after Richard manages to escape. Lance tries to convince Lorraine not to abort the baby. Melissa and Cole learn they might not be able to get married for two years as her annulment with Lance could take that long. Instead they decide to have a civil ceremony.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep18 – The Showdown First Aired: 1 February 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: The lorry delivering the first shipment of Francesca’s wine for bottling is hijacked. Richard thinks Chase is responsible and confronts him. Chase believes that Riebmann and the cartel are responsible. Riebmann listens in and realizes he has to act fast after learning just how much Chase knows. Lorraine finds out that she is going to have Lance’s baby. A gun is pointed at Angela.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep17 – Acid Tests First Aired: 25 January 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Chase and Cole are forced to dump all the tainted champagne as Richard and Angela watch on. Chase believes that one of them poisoned it. Maggie decides to quit her job at the radio station following Richard’s determination to see Lance brought down. Maggie heads to Los Angeles to find her mother after she disappears. Chase meets with his step father, Alexander Nicola and learns more about his mother’s connections with the Cartel. Chase is determined to find out why Riebmann wants to control the valley. Judge Holder decides that Lance will stand trial for attempting to murder Angela.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep16 – Insult and Injury First Aired: 11 January 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Lance hopes that Maggie will be able to prove his innocent. When Maggie shows Angela the evidence she ends up believing Lance. Angela tells Lance if he stops seeing Lorraine she will get Greg to represent him in court. Lance and Lorraine split up but make plans to get back together following his court case. Maggie is upset when she finds out her pearls have gone missing. Riebmann decides to court Emma after he learns of Angela’s latest plan. Cole and Chase find out about the plan to undermine the production of champagne they are hoping to produce.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S5Ep14 – Conundrum First Aired: 10 January 1986 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Lance is told by Angela to bribe the pickers not to work for Chase. Lance decides to take Father Christopher along so he can show him how devious Angela can be. Christopher later confronts Angela about what she has done. Chase is able to turn the tables on Angela after finding out what she is up to. After signing a prenuptial agreement, Richard and Terry become husband and wife. Apollonia leaves to go on her tour and Emma persuades Lance to go after her. Jordan’s mother discovers the reason her daughter hates her father. Peter’s daughter tries to get his briefcase out of Angela’s clutches. Robin disappears with the baby after Melissa and Cole give her the money.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep15 – Vicious Circle First Aired: 4 January 1985 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela refuses to bail Lance out of jail. Lorraine isn’t happy when she hears Richard asking Maggie to report on what has happened with Lance. Chase improves the security at the house and he also buys a gun. Chase also finds out from Herb Boutilier in Washington that Ben never worked for the government. Charlotte meets up with a former gambling partner and loses big time at the race track. In order to keep him away from Terry, Richard sends Joel to a drug rehabilitation facility. Angela disinherits Lance again despite his claims he was set up. Lance ends up moving in with Lorraine.
SIMON MacCORKINDALE, the British actor/ director, rose to international prominence for his portrayal of Simon Doyle, the smoothly avaricious young murderer in the star-studded DEATH ON THE NILE and is currently seen regularly as lawyer Greg Reardon on the CBS series FALCON CREST. Long an established leading actor on the British stage and television, MacCorkindale made his professional stage debut at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, England as Captain Blackwood in A BEQUEST TO THE NATION. In 1974 he made his London West End debut in the highly acclaimed production of PYGMALION.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep14 – Suitable for Framing First Aired: 28 December 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Melissa offers Joel $50,000 to discredit Lance in Angela’s eyes after she is furious at being written out of the will. Joel locks Lance in a warehouse and then dresses up like him and tries to run Angela off the road. After Lance is released from the warehouse he is arrested for the attempted murder of his grandmother. Spheeris is told by Gustav to tail Chase and Ben. Ben is killed after he and Chase are set up. Charlotte finds her gambling habit kicking in again.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep13 – Winner Take All First Aired: 21 December 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Lance is reinstated as as Angela’s sole heir after she removes Melissa out of the will. Gustav poses as a psychiatrist to gain Julia’s trust. Chase looks around Falcon Crest with Ben for surveillance devices. Gustav hears them talking about Henri DeNault with Angela and he instructs Spheeris to investigate Ben. Cole wonders if he can trust Melissa as Greg continues to make a play for her. Joel gives Terry back the necklace he stole and asks her to marry him. Angela tries to make Charlotte gamble again at the Turf Club. Chase decides not to tell Maggie about his plan to go to Europe with Ben to look for Johann.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep12 – The Triumvirate First Aired: 14 December 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Richard lets Terry know that he knows she is being blackmailed by Joel and promises to help her get rid of him if she sells her harvest to him. Spheeris and Riebmann continue to turn Julia against Angela by telling her that she has granted them permission to perform a lobotomy on her. Ben Landale, shows up at Falcon Crest claiming to work for the U.S. Government with the orders to look for Johann Riebmann. Melissa agrees to become Cole’s wife following her divorce from Lance. Angela manages to locate Maggie’s mother, Charlotte Pershing and has her taken to the radio station. Greg learns from Angela that Charlotte has gambling problems which will cause problems from Maggie and Chase.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep11 – Going Once, Going Twice First Aired: 7 December 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Julia is taken to Reibmann’s estate, where she is locked in a room which looks like a hospital room. She is told by a nurse that Lucas has been arrested for hiding a criminal. When the television is turned on she sees a news report which covers her arrest. Julia wonders how anyone knew she survived the fire. She becomes upset when a doctor tells her Angela found out she was calling Emma and turned her in. Reibmann who has been watching from behind a two-way mirror is pleased with Julia’s reaction. Angela isn’t happy when she finds out that Francesca has left and that the agreement is missing as well. Chase is determined to see Angela brought to justice for trying to frame him for causing the accident. Terry pulls a gun on Joel after he wants more money from her. The judge decides that Francesca is entitled to a third of Falcon Crest and orders a redistribution of all the company’s land. Francesca decides to return to Italy and announces she will sell her share to the highest bidder. Reibmann ends up being the highest bidder but Francesca ends up deciding not sell to him as he is stranger. Angela is shocked when she finds out that Francesca is selling her share to Richard
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep10 – Tarantella First Aired: 30 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: When Chase finds out Jasper’s will is being re-opened, he confronts Angela. Chase finds out that Francesca is selling her third of Falcon Crest to Angela in an effort to save her Italian vineyards. He also learns from Francesca that Angela told her he would be pleased she is selling to Angela. Cole moves in with Melissa despite his parent’s misgivings. After Richard is unable to keep Lorraine and Lance apart he warns Lance not to hurt her. Francesca manages to get her hands on the agreement she signed to sell her share of Falcon Crest to Angela. Gustav’s men manage to kidnap Julia.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep9 – The Trump Card First Aired: 23 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Senator Silverlake is confronted by Chase with the evidence that he was bribed into faking the F.A.A. reports. After he admits the truth, Chase is cleared of being responsible for the crash. Lorraine isn’t happy after Lance reports that Richard is involved with the criminal underworld. Lorraine resists Lance’s advances when he makes a play for her. Gustav and Richard both try and get closer to Francesca so they can get their hands on her share of Falcon Crest. Angela is still able to out maneuver them and get Francesca to sell to her. Maggie learns that her birth father died during the second world war. Greg remains determined to pursue a relationship with Melissa after she tells him she can’t see him anymore.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep8 – Pain and Pleasure First Aired: 16 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Angela is shocked when she finds out that Francesca has evidence that she is Angela’s half-sister and is entitled to a third of Falcon Crest. Angela tries to make a deal with Francesca to buy her share. Julia shares her concerns with Lucas and when she tries to turn herself in the police refuses to believe she is who she says she is. Chase is helped by Emma get the proof that Buzz Whitehead was bribed into lying to the F.A.A. investigator. Greg is determined to stop Melissa and Cole from getting back together.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep7 – The Intruder First Aired: 9 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Chase, Maggie and Cole learn that Sam Giannini has been murdered. Lance exploits Sam’s murder in the newspaper. Maggie gets a job at Richard’s new radio station. Stephanie arrives in the valley and tells her daughter, Lorraine more about Richard’s past actions. Gustav threatens Mary Giannini and tells her she will end up dead like her husband if she doesn’t sell the property to him. Chase is furious that somebody is trying to frame him for causing the plane crash. Francesca Gioberti arrives in the valley.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep6 – Lord of the Valley First Aired: 2 November 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: When Sam Giannini refuses to sell his land to Gustav, he has Spheeris pay Sam another visit that night. Richard buys the radio station KRDC and makes Frank Taggert the new general manager after firing all the current staff. Chase and Maggie head to New York so they can try and learn more about her real parents. Joel shows Terry the proof that they are still married, and she is forced to hand over another $10,000 to buy his silence. Lorraine Prescott, Richard’s stepdaughter, arrives in the valley. Julia appears to Emma again and asks her for money but also insists she doesn’t tell anyone she has seen her.
Falcon Crest” star Simon MacCorkindale and actress Susan George shocked guests by showing up at their Hollywood wedding shower — and announcing they were already married!
The happy lovebirds had eloped several days earlier — jetting off to the romantic South Sea island of Fiji where they were wed October 5 by a local minister with only the island’s natives looking on.
Series: Falcon Crest Episode: S4Ep5 – Shadows First Aired: 26 October 1984 Character: Greg Reardon
Description: Pamela learns that Richard’s attacker is Padgett. Padgett tries to leave town after failing to eliminate Richard and Gustav is furious that Richard is still alive. Lance becomes publisher at the newspaper. Chase loses his position as head of the airport authority. Maggie is mugged by Joel who needs money to pay his his drugs habit. Joel later gets a job from Cole as the new transportation foreman for the vineyards. Emma thinks she has heard Julia calling her.
