Thank you
@Angela Channing for arranging this game for us. It's been fun.
I look forward to see where the world cup ends up next and cross my fingers for Dynasty or Knots Landing...
A small part but a mighty actress who breathed a life, heart and soul into the character she played and made you care
GO MOMMA!!
Hear, hear, except for one thing. I don't think she had a small part. She was a leading character on the show and was a part of the opening credits. I do think Dallas was an ensemble show and every single character that was in the opening credits contributed something unique to the show that made it into the success it was.
May I ask Karin how that came about?
Of course. I think I have explained that before but in case you have missed it or forgotten about it, I'll go into it again.
The reason I watched the final four seasons of Dallas first is because of my age and nationality. I am Swedish and in Sweden Dallas first came on TV in January 1981. At that time I was only 10 months old so naturally I didn't watch it. My parents did however so Dallas is the first TV theme song I ever learnt to recognize. I remember asking my parents to let me watch the show with them when I was a young child but I always got the same reply which was "no it's not a children's show".
In Sweden we don't dub the voices of foreign TV shows. Instead we have the original language and subtitles. So since my mother tongue is Swedish and I only began to learn English at the age of 10 (except for a few words earlier on) I couldn't understand the show unless someone read the subtitles to me. I learnt to read when I was 7. But it took me years before I could read fast enough to read the whole subtitle before it was changed.
Anyway I watched my first Dallas episode at a friend's house when I was about 9. It must have been season 8 (DVD) since my friend was waiting for Bobby and Pam to get back together again. However I didn't understand much of the show and wasn't hooked until 1 ½ years later when my mom was watching the season finale of Dallas at the breakfast table and I watched a little with her when I suddenly saw this beautiful woman drive into a truck and her car caught fire. That moment hooked me since I wanted to find out if she would survive. I wanted her to survive. So I asked my parents if I could watch the next episode with them later that night, at the time I was 11, so they said yes and I was so happy that I was finally allowed to watch the grown up show that my parents watched!
By the time I knew that Pam would survive I had gotten hooked on the show so I kept watching and within a year it was my favorite TV-series that I couldn't miss. I was glued to the TV set every Saturday night and I used to discuss the show with a friend at school on mondays.
As I child I was puzzled about why Pam left. I couldn't understand how she could abandoned her son and according to an old diary entry I thought that she had sent Lisa Alden to keep an eye on Christopher and Bobby for her!
Anyway I kept up with the show until the very end, which came in December, 1993 here in Sweden. Then on March 8th, 1994 another TV channel here in Sweden began broadcasting the show from the very beginning in reruns that went monday-friday with a break for summer until January 1996 when they had broadcast it all and the show went off the air. So that's why I watched the final four seasons of the show first!