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Dallas - Season Three
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1979
The show's central character is John Ross "J.R." Ewing Jr., a greedy, scheming oil baron played by Larry Hagman (a Fort Worth native). J.R. was only intended to be a supporting character when the show premiered, as the series was originally based around J.R.'s brother Bobby and his new bride, Pam. However, J.R.'s machinations became popular with viewers and he quickly became the focus of the series.
Dallas - Season Four
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1980
Creator David Jacobs originated the idea for a drama series about four married couples (which would later become the spinoff series Knots Landing), but CBS wanted a glitzy "saga-like" show. Jacobs therefore created Dallas, a series about a wealthy family in the oil business. When Dallas proved to be a hit, CBS reconsidered Jacobs' original idea and turned Knots Landing into a spin-off of Dallas in late 1979.
Dallas - Season Five
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1981
The Dallas miniseries that started in April 1978 was shot entirely on location in Dallas, Texas, and at the Cloyce Box Ranch in Frisco, Texas. Later, most interiors for the show were shot at the MGM studios in Hollywood, with some exteriors being shot at the Southfork Ranch in Parker, Texas, and other sections of Dallas, until 1989, when rising production costs led to all filming being relocated to California. Typically the cast and crew would spend six to eight weeks filming on-location sequences in the Dallas area during the summer prior to the season, then film the remainder of the season in the Los Angeles area; less than half of the epis...
Dallas - Season Six
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1981
The show is known for its wealth, sex, intrigue, and power struggles. When the series began, the founder of Ewing Oil and patriarch of the Ewing family was John Ross "Jock" Ewing, Sr. (Jim Davis), a ruthless oil tycoon who had allegedly cheated his one-time partner, Willard "Digger" Barnes (David Wayne, later replaced by Keenan Wynn) out of his share of the company as well as Digger's only love, Eleanor "Ellie" Southworth (Barbara Bel Geddes). Later, the offspring of Jock's brother would claim that their father was integral to the oil boom that created the Ewing dynasty, and sued the estate.
Dallas - Season Seven
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1982
Jock and Miss Ellie raised three sons, J.R. (Larry Hagman), Gary (David Ackroyd and later Ted Shackelford) and Bobby (Patrick Duffy). J.R., the eldest Ewing son, unscrupulous and unhappily married to a former Miss Texas, Sue Ellen Shepard Ewing (Linda Gray), was frequently at odds with his youngest brother, Bobby, who had the morals and integrity that their daddy's namesake lacked. Middle son Gary was Ellie's favorite as he displayed Southworth (her side of the family) traits. Gary was in disfavor with both Jock and JR, and dismissed as a weak link, though Gary maintained a warm relationship with the other Ewings. Gary married a former waitre...
Dallas - Season Eight
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1983
Ray had previously engaged in a short fling with Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), who was (later revealed to be) Digger Barnes' (David Wayne) stepdaughter and Cliff's (Ken Kercheval) half-sister. However, Pam loved Bobby Ewing and the two married. J.R., who loathed the Barnes family, was not happy with Pam living at Southfork and constantly tried to undermine her marriage to Bobby. The feeling of acrimony was mutual from Cliff and he too tried to undermine their marriage, but in time he grew to accept it and Bobby as his brother in law.
Dallas - Season Nine
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1984
Ray had previously engaged in a short fling with Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), who was (later revealed to be) Digger Barnes' (David Wayne) stepdaughter and Cliff's (Ken Kercheval) half-sister. However, Pam loved Bobby Ewing and the two married. J.R., who loathed the Barnes family, was not happy with Pam living at Southfork and constantly tried to undermine her marriage to Bobby. The feeling of acrimony was mutual from Cliff and he too tried to undermine their marriage, but in time he grew to accept it and Bobby as his brother in law.
Dallas - Season Ten
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1985
The series ended most of its seasons with ratings-grabbing cliffhangers. Some notable cliffhangers included the landmark "Who shot J.R.?" episode (which TV Guide ranked #69 on its list of "TV's Top 100 Episodes of All Time"), an unidentified floating female corpse in the Southfork swimming pool, and a blazing house fire.
Dallas - Season Eleven
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1986
Dallas was notable for its cliffhangers. Throughout the series' run, nearly every season ended with some sort of cliffhanging ending designed to drive ratings up for the season premiere later in the year.
Dallas - Season Twelve
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1987
Miniseries cliffhanger: Although this really was not a cliffhanger, the end of the fifth episode of the original Dallas miniseries saw J.R. go up to the loft of the barn to talk to Pam, who had gone up there to find Lucy, who she believed was up there having a tryst with ranch foreman Ray. J.R., intoxicated, tries to convince her to tell Bobby not to leave the ranch. However, she does not want to be bothered, and, in trying to escape J.R., she falls from the loft, landing square on her stomach. Pam, who is pregnant, miscarries her unborn child. Later, Sue Ellen questions J.R. as to whether it was really an accident or did he mean for Pam to f...
Dallas - Season Thirteen
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1988
After finally losing Ewing Oil to Cliff Barnes, control of Southfork to Bobby, and being abandoned by his wife and children, a drunk and despondent J.R. begins walking around the ranch alone with a loaded gun wishing he had never been born. A gunshot is later fired in J.R.'s bedroom as Bobby returns to Southfork, and he rushes up to J.R.'s room and gasps, saying "Oh, my God!" as the series ends. (See below for more information.)
Dallas - Season One
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1978
Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing. The show also starred stage/screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes as family matriarch Miss Ellie, and movie Western actor Jim Davis in his last role as Ewing patriarch Jock Ewing before his death in 1981.
Dallas - Season Two
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1978
The show debuted in April 1978 as a five-part miniseries on the CBS network, and then was subsequently broadcast for thirteen seasons from April 2, 1978 to May 3, 1991. Dallas was included in Time magazine's 2007 list of "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." The show was also famous for its cliffhangers, including the "Who shot J.R.?" mystery, and the "Dream Season", in which the entirety of season eight was revealed to have been a dream of one of the characters.
Dallas - Season Fourteen
Genres: Drama
Starring: Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Larry Hagman
Directors: David Jacobs
Country: USA
Year: 1979
In 2010, TNT (sister company to Warner Bros. Television who are the current copyright owners of the series) announced they were producing a new, updated series of Dallas. The new series is a continuation of the original series and will primarily center around J.R. Ewing's son John Ross Ewing III, and Bobby Ewing's adopted son Christopher Ewing, though various stars of the original series will be reprising their roles. The new series is due to air on the TNT channel in mid-2012.