Wicked Wicked Games

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Wicked Wicked Games
Wicked Wicked Games title card
Genre	Telenovela
Starring	Tatum O'Neal Clive Robertson Jack Krizmanich David Smith Jessie Ward Kate French
Opening theme	Think Again by Blond Mafia
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	66
Production
Location	San Diego, California, USA
Broadcast
Original channel	MyNetworkTV
Original run	December 6, 2006 – March 6, 2007
Chronology
Related shows	Desire
Links
Official website
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Wicked Wicked Games was a telenovela that debuted on December 6, 2006 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 65 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial was directed by Terry Cunningham, Dennis Dimster, P. David Ebersole, Jeff Hare and Jeremy Stanford. It focused on a bitter, obsessed woman's vendetta against her former lover.

1 Story
2 Production Notes
3 Cast
4 External Links

[edit] Story

This romantic melodrama starred Tatum O'Neal as Blythe Hunter, a beautiful scorned woman, whose boyfriend Theodore Crawford (Clive Robertson) left her twenty-five years ago to marry someone else. As revenge, she decides to destroy him by grooming her two sons to marry his two daughters and take over The Tides, a racetrack in Del Mar, California. She wreaks havoc on the Crawfords, but soon discovers unexpected consequences.

Wicked Wicked Games also starred David Smith and Jack Krizmanich as Blythe's sons, Josh and Aaron, respectively. Josh is a doctor who gets manipulated into Blythe's schemes by the more "wicked" son Aaron. Jessie Ward and Kate French played Emma and Brooke respectively, the Crawford daughters.

Emma, who is engaged to another man, is the down-to-earth sister while Brooke plays a party girl who quickly falls for Aaron under his alias "Daniel Karol." Unfortunately for Blythe, she needs Aaron to marry Emma instead because she's the one inheriting the money, and only Aaron "can be trusted." Meanwhile, a mysterious figure known as "The Boss" seems to know all of Blythe's plans.

[edit] Production Notes

This serial was derived from a 1998 Venezuelan series called Aunque me Cueste la Vida (Though It Might Cost Me My Life). In it, Julie Restifo played the venegeful mother, who was named Belgica Michelena.
Production began in July, 2006 and continued for six days a week over four months. Tatum O'Neal openly complained about the grueling schedule.[1]
The show was originally intended to run in syndication as Art of Betrayal under the Desire umbrella title. The Desire logo appeared during the opening credits and MyNetworkTV's Web site listed the serial as "part of the Desire series."
Sean Young and Gordon Thomson were originally signed for the lead roles played by O'Neal and Robertson.
The theme song for this series is Think Again by Blond Mafia.
Actress Jessie Ward played Penelope Sayers on another MyNetworkTV serial, Desire.
Recap shows originally aired on Saturdays but were replaced by movies on February 3, 2007.
Harper Entertainment announced plans to publish a book called Wicked, Wicked Games: The Diary of Blythe Hunter, but it has not been released.
The Del Mar Racetrack was used for race track location shooting.[2]

[edit] Cast

Actor	Role
Tatum O'Neal	Blythe Hunter
Clive Robertson	Theodore Crawford
Debbe Dunning	Hope Lorca
Jack Krizmanich	Aaron Spencer
Jessie Ward	Emma Crawford
Kate French	Brooke Crawford
David Smith	Josh Spencer
Serena Scott Thomas	Madeline
Azie Tesfai	Cherry Milton
Femi Emiola	Lani Walker
Tanja Reichert	Jennifer
Kim Porter	Violet Walker
Joan Severance	Anna Whitman