Eileen Pollock and Robert Mason Pollock are married American

United States

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 television screenwriter

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s and producer

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s best known as writers on the long-running 1980s series Dynasty

Dynasty (TV series)

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, its spin-off

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 series The Colbys

The Colbys

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 and the 1991

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 miniseries

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 Dynasty: The Reunion

Dynasty: The Reunion

Dynasty: The Reunion is a 1991 miniseries reuniting the characters from the American prime time television soap opera Dynasty, a series which aired on ABC from 1981 to 1989 and was the highest-rated U.S. series in 1985. The miniseries, like the series, revolves around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil...

.

The second-season additions of the Pollocks and Joan Collins

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 (in the role of Alexis

Alexis Colby

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) are generally credited with Dynastys subsequent rise in the ratings

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; the series eventually became #1 in 1985. The Pollocks "soft-pedaled the business angle" of the show and "bombarded viewers with every soap opera

Soap opera

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 staple in the book, presented at such a fast clip that a new tragedy seemed to befall the Carrington family

Carrington family

The Carringtons are the core family of the American prime time soap opera Dynasty, which aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 11, 1989.-Meet the Carringtons:...

 every five minutes."

The Pollocks also brought the daytime series The Doctors its highest ratings in the early 1970s.