Combine heavyweight producers with heavyweight actors and a heavyweight script and you end up with something very special. The paradox is that this show never found a following. Likely because all the characters, Bacon especially, are unrelentingly awful people. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))