CURIOSITIES

TRIVIA

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Capitol started in Spain on Thursday, 18th June 1987, just three months after its cancellation in the USA. It was scheduled only 130 episodes in UHF ( the second Spanish channel at the time). Capitol was shown daily from Monday to Friday at 19.00 p.m. Watch the clippings of the first episode!!!!!

There was a case of art imitating life. Todd Curtis, who played playboy Jordy Clegg, was severely disfigured in a car accident. Rather than take time off from work, Curtis asked the producers to let him recover onscreen. So Jordy Clegg was written into a car accident similar to the one in which Curtis had been involved. During the storyline, the make-up people added fake scars and scrapes to Curtis's face for dramatic effect.

Capitol devoted an entire episode to facilitate the romance between Prince Ali and Sloane. Their episode-long love scene in a tent was picked by Soap Opera Digest as the year's most romantic scene.

Jess Walton, who'd taken over the role of Kelly Harper was widelypraised for her performance as a drug-addict, and later went public about her own real-life battle with drugs and alcohol.

The show ended with the same cliffhanger that the primetime serial sitcom Soap had used to end its final episode some six years before.

One of TVs finest moments on Capitol, according to John Conboy, was anything with the pomp of Washington. For exemple, Trey and Sloane wedding. There were 62 full dress Marines at the Jefferson Memorial.

All the main members of the Clegg family were recast or replaced, with only one exception: Trey Clegg ( Nicholas Walker). There were three Myrnas, four Brendas, two Julies, two Sams, three Jordis and only one Trey!

A lot of actors from Capitol will star some time later on Santa Barbara, Nicholas Walker ( Trey, Capitol; Frank Goodman, SB), Bill Beyers ( Wally, Capitol; Jeremy, SB), Marj Dusay ( Myrna #3, Capitol; Pamela Capwell, SB), Dane Whiterspoon (Tyler # 2, Capitol; Joe Perkins # 1, SB), Wolf Muser ( Kurt Voightlander,Capitol; Marcello Armonti, SB), Tawny Kitaen ( Meredith Ross, Capitol; Lisa DiNapoli # 1, SB), Cheryl-Ann Wilson, aka Miranda Wilson ( Kate Wells, Capitol; Sandra Mills, SB), Janis Paige (Lauren Clegg/Margaret Hansen, Capitol; Minx Lockridge # 2, SB) and Kimberlin Brown ( Danny, Capitol; Candy, SB).