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Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
This 1980 miniseries version of the Judith Krantz bestseller was produced at the height of the TV miniseries era, when no story was too long, no cast too diverse, and no production too bloated. Lindsay Wagner stars in this soap opera about the fashion and film industries, and her costars include Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier, Robert Reed and Connie Stevens. It’s rarely televised, and only partly because of its length. (It occupies prime time tonight on Encore, and concludes tomorrow.) But it’s an interesting TV curiosity. Think of it as Lifetime before there was a Lifetime.