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Jamey Giddens of ''[[Daytime Confidential]]'' called Angela "the most cunning, lethal, downright venomous one of them all" among prime time soap opera villainesses from the 1980s, and described her as "the indominable Angela, a woman wouldn't think twice about stabbing her own children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews in the back if it meant maintaining control of her grandfather's legacy, Falcon Crest."<ref name="DC"/> Angela runs the winery and her family "with the precision of a drill sergeant", and is "feared, loathed and respected" by everyone in the Tuscany Valley.<ref name="121 Shows">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qOUyBwAAQBAJ&q=angela+channing+villain&pg=PA133|title=The American Family on Television: A Chronology of 121 Shows, 1948–2004|first=Marla|last=Brooks|date=March 12, 2015|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|via=Google Books|pages=132–135|isbn=9781476606903|accessdate=April 15, 2020}}</ref> According to her nemesis [[Richard Channing]] ([[David Selby]]), Angela tells more lies "than the devil himself".<ref name="121 Shows"/>
From the very first episode, in which Angela makes the accidental death of her brother [[Jason Gioberti]] ([[Harry Townes]]) seem less suspicious to preserve her stake in the Falcon Crest vineyard,<ref name="TVHS"/><ref name="Quirk"/> she schemes against her nephew [[Chase Gioberti]] ([[Robert Foxworth]]),<ref name="DC"/> who has inherited enough of the vineyard from his father Jason's will to be a threat to Angela's interests.<ref name="TVHS"/><ref name="Quirk"/> Refusing to accept any loss of control over Falcon Crest or the Tuscany Valley itself, she first attempts to buy Chase out, but must then resort to deceit, coercion, and all manner of underhanded tactics to thwart Chase's rising power.<ref name="TVHS"/><ref name="Quirk"/>
Angela is a dominating force even at home,<ref name="121 Shows"/> grooming her grandson [[Lance Cumson]] ([[Lorenzo Lamas]]) to eventually take over the business, and seeking to control every aspect of his life in the meantime.<ref name="TVHS"/><ref name="Quirk"/> She plots for Lance to marry [[Melissa Agretti]] ([[Ana Alicia]]), the fiery heiress to valuable vineyards Angela covets, but finds only a "formidable foe" in Melissa, who pits Lance and Chase's son, [[Cole Gioberti]] ([[William R. Moses]]), against each other and repeatedly crosses Angela.<ref name="DC"/>
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