''Emerald Point N.A.S'' is an American primetime

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created by ''

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''s Richard and Esther Shapiro which premiered on CBS on Monday, September 26,

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. The series revolved around the lives of personnel stationed on a naval air station somewhere in the Southern

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, and combined military and espionage-based storylines with romance and family intrigue. Its theme song was composed by

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, who had previously written the music for other primetime soaps such as ''Dynasty'' and ''

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''. ''Emerald Point N.A.S'' was cancelled after 22 weeks, with its final episode airing March 12,

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Cast and characters

Rear Admiral Thomas Mallory, a military hero and the commanding officer of the Emerald Point N.A.S., is the show's central character. He is a widower and father to three daughters, Celia Warren (

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), who is unhappy married to JAG lawyer Jack Warren (

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), Kay (Stephanie Dunnam), who is involved in a love triangle with Lieutenant Glenn Matthews (

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) and his scheming fiancée Hilary Adams (

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), and Leslie ( Doran Clark), an recent graduate of the

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and the first female of the family to serve in the U.S. Navy. Thomas enters a relationship with Maggie Farrell (

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), a representative on the Military Affairs Council of the Chamber of Commerce, and a Navy wife whose husband has been missing in action for over ten years. Other main characters include Lieutenant Simon Adams (

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), Hilary's brother, who eventually marries Celia after her divorce from Jack, villainous industrialist Harlan Adams ( Patrick O'Neal, then

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), Tom's rival and father of Hilary and Simon, and Deanna Kincaid (

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), Thomas' unscrupulous former sister-in-law, who becomes involved with Russian

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agent Yuri Bukharin (

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). The show ended with an unresolved cliffhanger, with the revelation that Leslie is the possible daughter of Harlan, due to his rape of her mother (as witnessed by Celia), and with Maggie being kidnapped on her wedding day to Tom by maniac David Marquette (

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Episodes

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* {{IMDb title, 0085012, Emerald Point N.A.S. 1983 American television series debuts 1984 American television series endings American television soap operas CBS original programming Television series by 20th Century Fox Television American military television series Aviation television series English-language television shows Television shows set in California