Editing George Peppard (section)

===''Dynasty''===
In 1980, Peppard was offered, and accepted, the role of [[Blake Carrington]] in the television series ''[[Dynasty (1981 TV series)|Dynasty]]''. During the filming of the pilot episode, which also featured [[Linda Evans]] and [[Bo Hopkins]], Peppard repeatedly clashed with the show's producers, [[Richard and Esther Shapiro]]; among other things, he felt that his role was too similar to that of [[J. R. Ewing]] in the series ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]''. Three weeks later, before filming of additional episodes was set to begin, Peppard was fired and the part was offered to [[John Forsythe]]; the scenes with Peppard were re-shot and Forsythe became the permanent star of the show.<ref>{{cite web |first=Mike |last=Pingel |title=Bo Hopkins Remembers Dynasty! |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050806083533/http://www.hollywoodfyi.com/bo_hopkins_dynasty.htm |work=hollywoodfyi.com |archive-date=August 6, 2005 |access-date=July 18, 2010 |url=http://www.hollywoodfyi.com/bo_hopkins_dynasty.htm}}</ref> [[Joan Collins]] says she was pleased he didn't get the role as she "hated him" following an alleged sexual assault incident.<ref>{{cite news |title=Joan Collins on love, loss and lust at 90: 'You have to eat life or life will eat you!' |website=[[TheGuardian.com]] |date=September 25, 2023 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/25/joan-collins-on-love-loss-and-lust-at-90-you-have-to-eat-life-or-life-will-eat-you? |access-date=September 25, 2023 |last1=Hattenstone |first1=Simon }}</ref>

"It was a big blow," Peppard noted subsequently, adding he felt Forsythe ultimately did "a better job (as Blake Carrington) than I could have done."<ref name="george"/> Ironically, this led to his being available to be cast in NBC's ''The A-Team'', the number one rated television show in its first season in 1982.

"I'm so glad I wasn't drinking", he said later, having stopped in 1979. "I bet a lot of people thought when I did certain things, I had been drinking and now they found out it wasn't the booze at all. It was me."<ref>{{cite news |last=MacDonald |first=Jim |date=August 25, 1985 |title=Missed 'Dynasty' Role |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-orlando-sentinel-missed-dynasty-ro/171314561/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |page=A2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

During that same period, Peppard also had a role as a cowboy in the science fiction film ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' (1980). He travelled to Canada to make ''[[Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid]]'' (1981) with Richard Harris, to New Zealand for ''[[Race for the Yankee Zephyr]]'' (1982) and Spain for ''Hit Man'' (1982).

"I almost disappeared for awhile, between ages 45 and 55", he later reflected. "Nobody wants to work with someone who quits three series. They think you're insane to quit a series with all the millions of dollars to be made there. It gets to be like crossing the mob. You find out some people you thought were your friends aren't really."<ref name="sees">{{cite news| title=When Peppard sees Doakey, he sees himself| first=Thomas D.| last=Elias| agency=Scripps Howard Service| newspaper=The Windsor Star| date=December 8, 1989| page=C8}}</ref>