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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Angela Chilling" data-source="post: 241774" data-attributes="member: 33">29. When did you become a fan of Dallas? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] I watched it from the start (yes, I'm really that old). It was screened on BBC1 on Tuesdays at 8.10 pm when I was in junior school and my favourite show at the time was Fantasy Island which was on ITV at 8.00 pm on the same day. I was watching Fantasy Island and my mum said she wanted to watch this new show called Dallas and as I hogged the TV and it was the only thing she wanted to watch I relented and we watched it together. I'm not sure why I immediately liked the show but I think a lot of it was due to it being one of the few shows that I would watch with my mum. 30. What is your fav episode (my guess you will say Swan Song/ yes / no / lol) [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] Yes it's Swan Song, I think I said many times that it is my favourite episode. In many ways it's the perfect episode of Dallas from the emotional highs of Bobby proposing the Pam, to the horror of him being mowed down by Katherine to his death bed scene with the family around him. If I had to chose an episode that wasn't a season finale, I would choose Things Ain’t Goin’ Too Good at Southfork (such a well constructed episode starting with Sue Ellen starting drinking again and ending with her crashing her car with Mickey in it) and Ellie Saves The Day. 31. Which character would you like to be on Dallas if you could play anyone? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] Clayton Farlow because he always seemed to be a decent person. Although I found JR and Cliff may more interesting to watch, I wouldn't want to live their lives.32. What was your favourite episode of FC? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] Desperation, the episode in which Angela discovers that Richard Channing is her son. I always describe it as one of the best and most unexpected twists I've seen in any TV show and the way they pulled it off using footage of Jane Wyman in her film The Blue Veil gave it a lot of credibility. A close second is Climax, the episode in which Julia is revealed as Carlo Agretti's killer and then she shoots a kills someone but we don't find out who until the next season. This cliffhanger was every bit as gripping as Who Shot JR.33. Asides from Johnny Belinda (one of my mums fav JW films) what other films of Jane Wyman do you like? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] The Blue Veil (1951). A real weepy in which Jane Wyman plays a woman who miscarries her child and becomes a nanny and devotes her life to looking after a boy and when she is old he return the favour. All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Magnificent Obsession (1954) are my next favourites. 34. Falcon Crest never seemd to get the same publicity as Dallas or even Dysentry (ugh) (in the words of late great Terry Wogan,) why do you think that is? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] I'm convinced it was because it was an ITV show. ITV never promoted it and even though it got good ratings at first they never gave the show the respect it deserved. After the first 2 seasons, different TV regions showed it at different times and on different days so it was hard to build an audience. Thames TV moved it from prime time because they knew that repeats of Minder, their most popular show at the time, would get a bigger audience in Falcon Crest's prime time slot. Had Falcon Crest been on BBC1 I feel it would have been as popular as Dallas and Dynasty in the UK.35. If you could live through any period in history, what would you choose and why? [USER=21]@Barbara Fan[/USER] I wouldn't want to go too far back in time but to the 2 decades before I was born, the 1950s and 1960s as that era fascinates me because it was a time of great social change and liberation.</blockquote>

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