Hotel (American TV series)

Hotel is an American primetime soap opera series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983, to May 5, 1988, in the timeslot following Dynasty.

Hotel
Season 1 DVD cover
Created by	Aaron Spelling
Developed by	John Furia Jr. Barry Oringer
Starring	Anne Baxter James Brolin Connie Sellecca Shea Farrell Nathan Cook Michael Spound Heidi Bohay Shari Belafonte
Music by	Henry Mancini
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	114 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	48–49 minutes
Production company	Aaron Spelling Productions
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 21, 1983 (1983-09-21) – May 5, 1988 (1988-05-05)

Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name (which had also inspired a 1967 feature film), the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco (changed from the New Orleans setting of the novel and film). Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of the Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal and professional lives of the hotel staff.

The distribution rights to the series were originally owned by Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution, until 2006 when CBS Paramount Network Television bought the television libraries and properties of Spelling Entertainment Inc. from Paramount Pictures Domestic Distribution and Viacom Enterprises.^{[citation needed]}