Scruples

1980

Scruples

6.4 | en | Drama

The title of the bestselling 1978 novel by Judith Krantz is the name of an ultra-chic Bevery Hills boutique that rags-to-riches Billy Ikehorn (Lindsay Wagner) established to fill the void left in her life by the illness of her elderly tycoon husband (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and his subsequent death. To help make Scruples what it has become, Billy had brought in top fashion photographer Spider Elliott (Barry Bostwick) and fashion designer Valentine O'Neill (Marie-France Pisier), and it is the intertwined lives and romances that propel this sumptuous but sudsy saga.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP3 Episode 3

Feb. 27,1980

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EP2 Episode 2

Feb. 26,1980

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EP1 Episode 1

Feb. 25,1980

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6.4 | en | Drama | More Info

Released: 1980-02-25 | Released Producted By: Warner Bros. Television , Lou Step Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Lindsay Wagner , Barry Bostwick , Marie-France Pisier

Director

James Hassinger

Producted By

Warner Bros. Television , Lou Step Productions

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Cast

Lindsay Wagner

as Billy Ikehorn

Christmas at the Ranch Christmas on the Range Mingle All the Way Samson Love Finds You in Valentine The Thanksgiving House Four Extraordinary Women Thicker Than Water A Light in the Forest

Barry Bostwick

as Spider Elliott

Outlaw Johnny Black Single All the Way Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules Molly Robber 3 from Hell Grand-Daddy Day Care The Field A Christmas Miracle

Marie-France Pisier

as Valentine O'Neill

The Hunter Bacon on the Side Paid In Paris Why Not Me? Time Regained The Blue Note The Prize of Peril Ace of Aces

Reviews

JonathanWalford Filmed in 1979, this is great to watch for the high fashions but otherwise, this is truly awful from start to finish. Obviously created to take advantage of the success of the burgeoning nighttime prime-time soap opera movement of the late 70s that Dallas had tapped, Scruples looks rushed into production with an especially bad script and director. I'm not sure what is worst - characters falling in love at the drop of a hat or a murderous male nurse who the main character refuses to help the police capture... Most puzzling is the title - scruples, which implies there are moral dilemmas for the characters to contend with. If there is I don't know what those were... but watch it for the clothes - they're great!

robert okeefe This is a brilliant programme, OK i'm biased to a degree, Lindsay Wagner is a childhood crush i've never grown out of.OK this may not be documentary film making but it isn't what i'm looking for when i decide to watch this type of show. The story arc is interesting and appeals to that part of us that live in hope of a happy ending.Barry Bostwick shows the early promise that has developed into his career today, Kim Cattrall (Pre "Sex in the City") is spookily convincing as the "FRUITCAKE" actress, and the other supporting characters are to a man better that 80% of todays television output.Watch it give it a fair chance and see what YOU THINK

gonnabechef This movie is truly, truly awful at times - but has flashes of brilliance. On the plus side, Barry Bostwick's performance is, more often than not, fun to watch. There are scenes that are so well written, you'll swear the production team included a competent (and, sadly, part-time) script doctor. You can also laugh heartily at the incredibly earnest way in which the characters continually fall in love at the drop of a hat. On the not-so-good side: The first African-American actor shows up after about an hour and a half, and he's a waiter serving drinks at a party. Ouch. Also, this film has the dubious distinction of containing the worst car chase I have ever seen.When the writing is good, it's pretty good; when it's bad, it's amazingly bad. Scruples is amazingly bad about 90% of the time. The American Dairy Association would save a fortune if it could harness the power of this much cheese.

dreba Oh my goodness!!!! The Bionic Woman was a much more believable role for Lindsay Wagner than this. She plays Billie Winthrop Ikehorn, a character that morphs from a chubby teenager to an elegant woman in her mid- to late-thirties. If it weren't for the fact that she has ENORMOUS legs, she would not have looked like a fat girl, which is the only part of her character that she nails. Barry Bostwick is a dream, as usual, with his tremendous head of hair and some very tight jeans. Marie-France Pisier is probably a jam-up actress in France, but she does not translate well to English. She played the luckless yet conniving Noelle Page in "The Other Side of Midnight." She played both characters identically,with the two emotions she posesses; blank and pissy. The book was much much better than this miniseries. At least with a book, you can use your imagination and put faces on the characters that make sense to you. Nothing about this makes sense. >