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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chris2" data-source="post: 435650" data-attributes="member: 495">I don’t like calling the spring 1978 season a “miniseries” because in the US at the time, miniseries were generally multipart presentations with a continuing story, with each episode being two hours long. “Dallas”, OTOH, had five self-contained, hour-long episodes. It wasn’t unusual for show’s to have short spring tryout seasons back then (see “Three’s Company”, “Family” and others).”Dallas” was unusual in that there was no single pilot episode shot separately as a test for the network, with the other episodes shot later. All five episodes of the spring 1978 season were shot consecutively. So it was really a five-episode pilot. Very unusual. And the intent was always to try to get a full season order for the fall of 1978. It wasn’t ever intended to be one and done.</blockquote>