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For her role as Angela Channing, Wyman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award five times ( for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and for Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time Serial ), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1983 and 1984.

Her 1984 Golden Globe nomination resulted in a win for Wyman, who took home the award for Best Performance By an Actress in a TV Series.

Later in the show's run, Wyman suffered several health problems.

In 1986, she had abdominal surgery which caused her to miss two episodes ( her character simply " disappeared " under mysterious circumstances ).

In 1988, she missed another episode due to ill-health and was told by her doctors to avoid work.

However, she wanted to continue working and she completed the rest of the 1988-1989 season while her health was still deteriorating.

Months later in 1989, Wyman collapsed on the set and was hospitalized due to problems with diabetes and a liver ailment.

Her doctors told her that she should end her acting career.

Wyman was absent for most of the ninth and final season of Falcon Crest in 1989-1990 ( her character was written out of the series by being comatose in a hospital bed following an attempted murder ).

Going against her doctor's advice, she returned for the final three episodes in 1990, even writing a soliloquy for the series finale.

Wyman ultimately appeared in almost every episode up until the beginning of the ninth and final season, for a total of 208 of the show's 227 episodes.