“Dallas” aired on CBS from 1978 until 1991 and became one of the world’s most popular TV shows. Tracing the stories of the feuding Ewing and Barnes families against the backdrop of the Texas oil industry, the show featured an ensemble cast. Larry Hagman starred as ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing.
After a slow start, the show became a Top 10 ratings hit, and was the top-rated prime-time show in the U.S. for three years in the 1980s. Here’s a clip of a “Dallas” episode open in 1984, as aired on KCTV in Kansas City:
“Dallas” was famous for cliffhanger episodes to close its seasons, guaranteeing a big audience at the start of the next season. It’s 1980 “Who Done It” episode, which revealed who shot J.R. Ewing (the question became a cultural phenomenon), remains the second-highest rated single television broadcast in U.S. history.
“Dallas” lead to a spinoff series (”Knots Landing”), a prequel TV movie, two TV movies that aired after the series was canceled, and a 2012 TV revival that ran for three seasons on TNT.
George Harris Kennedy, Jr. (February 18, 1925 – February 28, 2016) Academy Award winning actor who appeared in more than two hundred film and television productions.
In 2003 he made a comeback to television in the soap operaThe Young and the Restless, playing the character Albert Miller, the biological father to legendary character Victor Newman. (Wikipedia).
Knots Landing was a primetime soap opera that aired from 1979 to 1993 on CBS. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles, and centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. By the time of its conclusion, Knots Landing had become one of the longest-running primetime dramas on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Bonanza.
In 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part mini-series entitled Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 2005, they reunited again for the non-fiction special Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again in which the cast reminisced about their time on the show. Dallas itself was revived in 2012, with characters from Knots Landing appearing in its second season. (Wikipedia)
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