From Joan Collins's shoulder pads to Michael Praed's pants: Dynasty in pictures

In your face, dowdy Dallas. In. Your. Face. The glamorous cast included Sammy Jo (Heather Locklear), Claudia (Pamela Bellwood), Krystle (Linda Evans), Blake (John Forsythe), Alexis (Joan Collins) and Fallon (Pamela Sue Martin) Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext

Blake loved the 80s. If you had good enough hair, you could wrap brunettes in Bacofoil, put blondes on castors and they couldn’t touch you for it. What a decade Photograph: c.ABC Inc/Everett/Rex Features

Few knew that Joan Collins had started life as a harlequin transsexual called Ivan Photograph: A Spelling/Everett/Rex Features

The hair! The earrings! The shoulder pads! The hair! The matchy-matchy! The hair! The cheekbones! The hair! The towering absurdity of it all! Krystle, we love you! We always have! We always will! Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

No, 'tis not the bad angel trying to fire the good one out, but the Carrington butler trying to roast his employer’s various wives in their cabin at the end of season. Alas, they and the beret survived Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature

The catfight in the lily pond. Don’t say Aaron Spelling never gave you anything Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature

The first, finest, feathered Fallon. Soon to collide with a truck and have an entire face and body transplant, leaving her looking uncannily like Emma Samms. Liminal times, my friends, liminal times Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext

Blake and Krystle at their holiday home in Ferrero Rocher. When your curtains are as splendid as your hair, you know you’ve made it Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Kohl-poisoning was an occupational hazard for businesswomen of the time Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature

Fallon II. Even better breasts than Victoria Principal, but alas she forgets to write her name on either of them before she is amnesiacked in a car crash in season five, leading to Much Agony and Complication. She does sort out her hair though, so hurrah! Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar

Ah, Michael Praed and Catherine Oxenberg! Together they made almost one whole actor, you know. We knew him first as Robin 'the Hooded Man' Hood but then he donned these special underpants to become... the Prince of Moldavia. In real life, Catherine Oxenberg (playing Amanda Carrington) was the eldest daughter of Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, but it was 1984 by then and we took such blurring of our televisual boundaries in our stride Photograph: Images / Rex Features

Amanda Carrington’s wedding was singlehandedly responsible for North America’s Great Cravat Bubble of 1985. No, not really! But this is the day of the great Moldavian massacre, viewed by over 60 million people, not one of whom was overimpressed with Alexis’s outfit. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature

It’s how we shall always remember them – glittering with diamante and dreams and all planning to throw Krystle down the stairs the very next chance they get Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar