 The series featured high production values, including lavish "haute couture" gowns by leading costume designer Bob Mackie, a main cast including Carol Burnett, Teri Garr, Charles Grodin and Dabney Coleman, and supporting cast including Charles Keating, Pat Corley, Louise Latham, Tom Poston and Henry Darrow.It was noted at the time as being the first American satirical TV comedy to be made in the then-popular miniseries format.Parodying popular prime time soap operas of the era such as "Dallas", "Dynasty", "Falcon Crest" and "Knots Landing", "Fresno" chronicles the struggle of matriarch Charlotte Kensington (Burnett) to keep control of her dysfunctional family and defend their declining raisin empire against their arch-rival, the villainous Tyler Cane (Dabney Coleman).