Filthy Rich

Filthy Rich was a 1982 television series starring Dixie Carter and Delta Burke. Although short-lived, the show brought Carter and Burke together with writer/creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. The three would later work together on the popular sitcom Designing Women. The series was set in Memphis at a fictional mansion called Toad Hall, which was owned by one Big Guy Beck, a land baron. He had recently died of an illness, and before he was cryogen... more

Filthy Rich was a 1982 television series starring Dixie Carter and Delta Burke. Although short-lived, the show brought Carter and Burke together with writer/creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. The three would later work together on the popular sitcom Designing Women. The series was set in Memphis at a fictional mansion called Toad Hall, which was owned by one Big Guy Beck, a land baron. He had recently died of an illness, and before he was cryogenically frozen, he had made out a videotaped will, a piece of which was played every week, by his lawyer, George Wilhoit. The will's terms were harshest on Big Guy's oldest son, the snobbish Marshall Beck (Michael Lombard) and his equally snobbish wife Carlotta (Dixie Carter). They wouldn't be able to collect a dime of the money unless they accepted Big Guy's illegitimate son, Wild Bill Westchester (Jerry Hardin) and his goodnatured but ditzy wife Bootsie (Ann Wedgeworth) into their family. Many of the situations stemmed from the conniving... less