A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
Lindsay Wagner
as Callie Lord
Jameson Parker
as Randy Bordeaux
Dabney Coleman
as Randall Bordeaux
Joy Garrett
as Jeannie
Michelle Pfeiffer
as Sue Lynn Bordeaux
James Sloyan
as Bubba Wrench
John Harkins
as Arthur Cotham
Andrew Prine
as Kimball Smythe
Richard McKenzie
as Donohue
Macon McCalman
as Deacon
Ed Call
as Willie Chips
Jim Calvert
as Randy at Age 12