Happy Birthday Dallas 44 years old today

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April 2nd celebrates the 44th anniversary/birthday of Dallas TV show made by Lorimar Productions and its scary to think where the years have gone and the money I have spent on it over the years, so I wont!!
Im glad I am the age I am to have enjoyed it and grown up with it from day 1. And i never thought that I would still be talking Dallas when I first watched it in 1978.

1980 will always be the Special year for Dallas as it was the year that JR got shot and it dominated the headlines and news for that year with speculation , intrigue and it really did put Dallas on the map and made Larry Hagman above anyone else a huge global star. it was the year i turned from a viewer into a fan - no make that addict.

Dallas (original) has dominated my life and Im not sure of thats a good thing with hindsight but i treaure my Dallas memories like no other TV show and Im grateful to have got on the Dallas set in 1983 and to have met s lot of the cast then, and since then. Its also been great to have met so any Dallas fans at events over the past few decades

To the cast members no longer here, you will never be forgottten, and thanks to DVD you will live on in our hearts and memories.

And to a wee blonde lady called Barbara from NY, I didnt get to meet you and will always regret that, so maybe in my next life!! PLEASE!! And I still live in hope of meeting Victoria Principal, the one star Id love to meet and wished I looked like as a teenager.

When I think of Dallas, I think of this photo first and foremost, What reminds you of Dallas and what are your top 5 scenes from the show


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A shout out to a series which came into my life just when I needed it.
At one stage I cared more about this dysfunctional family than my own.
I dreamt - and still do - I could/can live the life of a Ewing...the millions of course, not the drama.
If you're listening I just wish to say a huge thanks to Jim, Barbara Bel, Larry & others who have since passed.
To Patrick, Linda, Victoria, Charlene, Steve, Susan, Priscilla, Morgan & others who came into my life...thank you.

Of course how can we not mention Ewing Oil and Southfork. I love that ranch.

I'll quote something famous here...live long and prosper

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Dallas is truly a special, groundbreaking TV series. The first episode I watched was the B-B-Q when Jock's helicopter crashed in a 90s rerun. But for most episodes I had to wait for the DVDs.

Dallas is really special to me. It mirrors real life in a way that's hard to describe. I love these silent scenes where you get soaked into a character (e.g. SE finding JR with Holly Harwood).

There are many real life experiences where I can appreciate the character work and the sense of family they have put into the series.

On Christmas Eve my mother died (suddenly, without any indications) with my brother and myself at her bedside. (We brought our father home because we didn't know how long it would take.) After she passed away, we left the hospital to our parents' house to give dad the news. I felt like the Ewing boys - when they told Miss Ellie the news about their unsuccessful search for Jock.
Standing there, not able to digest the events myself and having to tell the sad truth.

Six weeks later our father died. Suddenly and unexpected again, my brother and myself at his bedside. After that I fell apart, like JR after Jock died. It took me weeks to function the way I do now. Just like JR who found new motivation.

The people in charge of Dallas created something unique. And although it's only fiction, it helped me. The values Dallas portrays are timeless - family, passion, love.
 
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Dallas is truly a special, groundbreaking TV series. The first episode I watched was the B-B-Q when Jock's helicopter crashed in a 90s rerun. But for most episodes I had to wait for the DVDs.

Dallas is really special to me. It mirrors real life in a way that's hard to describe. I love these silent scenes where you get soaked into a character (e.g. SE finding JR with Holly Harwood).

There are many real life experiences where I can appreciate the character work and the sense of family they have put into the series.

On Christmas Eve my mother died (suddenly, without any indications) with my brother and myself at her bedside. (We brought our father home because we didn't know how long it would take.) After she passed away, we left the hospital to our parents' house to give dad the news. I felt like the Ewing boys - when they told Miss Ellie the news about their unsuccessful search for Jock.
Standing there, not able to digest the events myself and having to tell the sad truth.

Six weeks later our father died. Suddenly and unexpected again, my brother and myself at his bedside. After that I fell apart, like JR after Jock died. It took me weeks to function the way I do now. Just like JR who found new motivation.

The people in charge of Dallas created something unique. And although it's only fiction, it helped me. The values Dallas portrays are timeless - family, passion, love.
I am so very sorry for your loss of both of your parents. My dad died two weeks before Christmas, so I am navigating my grief journey along with you. A wonderful book called Healing After Loss by Martha Hickman has really been comforting to me, and I feel my dad's presence when I listen to a flash drive he made of his favorite songs while I am driving in my car. Sending you hugs and comfort.
 

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Steve Kanaly replied and said

I was a young actor, recently married...the idea of five episodes working for Lorimar and CBS spelled financial relief. I never imagined the show would continue. It was too different, not like anything on the air at that time. My film career was put on hold and I became part of the most watched series in television history. Grateful for all my blessings and for all of your support.

and Morgan Brittany said

Thank you! You are keeping the dream alive!

Long live ORIGINAL Dallas and cast
 

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I've just watched the first 4-5 seasons all the way through for the first time and was so impressed by how many stories and events they had already packed in before the iconic Who Shot Jr story.
I had seen odd episodes from these early seasons, but not the whole thing. I only started buying season sets from the post Jock years, starrting with the Southfork fire season as I could remember watching that the first time round. Now to see those early years all the way through I realize how much I missed - the hugely dysfunctional relationship between JR and Sue-Ellen, Pam's feistiness that she seems to lose as the show goes on, and the frequent battles MIss Ellie had with Jock as well as with JR. I can also see just how influential the stories in the early years were on the the other soaps to come. Not just Dynasty becoming a main rival, but character arcs like Afton becoming a singer well before Ciji on Knots, or Lucy falling in love with that gay guy and all the stigma, which was ahead of its time.
Cliff as a lawyer and then running for senate has some parallels with the Greg character in Knots, and all that double dealing JR does post- Jock's will, he had already been doing just as deviously years before.

I used to think the mid-period of this show was its best period overall, but now I've changed my mind. I now think it is those classic early years with the raw, grittier production and playful seventies vibe that were its most fertile and memorable period - Dallas may have bcome more polished, glamorous and had bigger budgets by the mid 80s, but those first few years when the show was still new and different have become my favorite era now.
 
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44 years old, that certainly ages those of us who watched it during its original run.

I'll be 53 years old this year, so you can work out what age I was when I started watching Dallas!!

It's still a brilliant show right to this day. There's never a day goes by that I don't have the Dallas theme music playing in my mind. :)
 

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I'll be 53 years old this year, so you can work out what age I was when I started watching Dallas!!

It's still a brilliant show right to this day. There's never a day goes by that I don't have the Dallas theme music playing in my mind. :)
There are a lot of us on this forum that are around your age. I think it's a combination of being the right age for when Dallas was first screened and for when internet forums were all the rage. Dallas fans who are about 10 years or more younger wouldn't have watched it on its first run and those that are around 10 years older or more were probably outside the age group who most likely to contribute to online forums when they were most popular.
 

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There are a lot of us on this forum that are around your age. I think it's a combination of being the right age for when Dallas was first screened and for when internet forums were all the rage. Dallas fans who are about 10 years or more younger wouldn't have watched it on its first run and those that are around 10 years older or more were probably outside the age group who most likely to contribute to online forums when they were most popular.

All I can say is I'm glad I was around the right age because I can't imagine a life without Dallas in it. :bl2:
 

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And what a show it was.

It was the right show at the right time.

And even today, decades after Dallas finished it stands proud as the greatest American drama series of all time. :)
 

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DALLAS is 20 years older than I am!

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