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Dallas Styles: Bobby’s Leather Jacket
‘Digger’s Daughter’ Bobby Ewing’s leather motorcross jacket isn’t as well known as J.R.’s Stetsons or Miss Ellie’s sack dresses, but it’s every bit as durable. Patrick Duffy is sporting the...
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Pam Ewing, Prime-Time Pioneer
O, pioneer! If re-watching “Dallas’s” first season taught me anything, it’s this: Pam Ewing is one of prime-time television’s pioneering women. No, really. When “Dallas” begins, Pam isn’t the Miss...
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Critique: Dallas Episode 13 – ‘Election’
Smear campaign If ever anyone questioned the politics of “Dallas’s” first families, “Election” should clear things up. Cliff runs for state senate on a pro-environment, anti-corruption platform. Martin...
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Drill Bits: TNT’s Dallas Wrangles Big Audience
Reason to celebrate The June 13 debut of TNT’s “Dallas” drew 6.9 million viewers, becoming the year’s most-watched premiere of a cable drama or comedy. The audience included a healthy 1.9 million...
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TNT’s Dallas Styles: Bobby’s Leather Coat
Full leather jacket Bobby wears a brown leather coat in “The Last Hurrah,” but it’s not the same jacket he sported throughout the original “Dallas’s” 14-season run. On the old show, Bobby rocked a...
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The Best & Worst of Dallas: Season 1
“Dallas’s” first season is comprised of just five episodes, but there’s no shortage of things to cheer and jeer. Performances Own it, honey Sorry Mr. Hagman, but Victoria Principal owns Season 1. The...
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Dallas Parallels: Welcome to the Family
Introducing “Dallas Parallels,” a periodic feature that showcases connections between TNT’s “Dallas” and the original series. Quite appropriately, TNT’s “Dallas” pilot, “Changing of the Guard,” is...
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The Dal-List: 15 Great ‘Dallas’ Scenes Featuring Larry Hagman
Once and future king Larry Hagman made magic every time he appeared on “Dallas,” so coming up with a definitive list of his greatest scenes feels like an impossible task. Instead, let’s just call this...
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Critique: Dallas Episode 92 – ‘Head of the Family’
Down and out, but not for long In “Head of the Family,” J.R. is depressed over Jock’s death and getting drunk in his bedroom when Bobby barges in and tells him to snap out of it. J.R. all but ignores...
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The Dal-List: 10 Classic Clashes Between J.R. and Pam
2 for 2? The confrontation between J.R. and Pamela (Larry Hagman, Julie Gonzalo) in “Venomous Creatures,” one of this week’s new “Dallas” episodes on TNT, was an instant classic. The scene demonstrated...
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Critique: Dallas Episode 122 — ‘Legacy’
Into darkness “Legacy” opens with Pam, having decided to separate from Bobby, packing up her Porsche and driving away with little Christopher. It’s a landmark moment in the life of the series....
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Critique: Dallas Episode 132 — ‘The Road Back’
What hath they wrought? With “The Road Back,” “Dallas” delivers the first hour of its seventh season and the most thrilling opening in its history. It begins with a nighttime shot of Southfork, which...
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Dallas Parallels: Foxes in the Henhouse
It’s one of the new “Dallas’s” greatest moments: Soon after Rebecca Sutter Ewing reveals that she’s actually Pamela Rebecca Barnes, she receives a visit from J.R. Ewing. He vows to run her out of...
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Critique: Dallas Episode 148 — ‘Eye of the Beholder’
The natural At the end of “Eye of the Beholder,” Miss Ellie tearfully tells Clayton that she had breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy years earlier. It’s another moving performance from Barbara Bel...
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Goodbye, Dallas!
Into that good night Saying goodbye to “Dallas” isn’t hard because I never got used to the show being back in the first place. Like many fans, I grew up with the original series, watching it with my...
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The Dal-List: 37 Reasons to Love ‘Dallas’
Love to love them “Dallas” debuted 37 years ago today. Here’s why we still love the Ewings. Drive us crazy 37. “Digger’s Daughter.” Bobby marries Pam, Lucy and Ray take a roll in the hay and Jock calls...
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Critique: ‘Dallas’ Episode 166 — ‘Family’
Welcome to the family I want to like Jamie Ewing. Really, I do. She arrives at Southfork at the end of the eighth-season episode “Jamie,” but we don’t get to know her until the following installment,...
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Critique: Dallas Episode 193 — ‘Rock Bottom’
Bottom’s up “Dallas” fans will always remember Sue Ellen drinking with the bag lady and winos at the end of “Rock Bottom.” Like J.R.’s shooting and Bobby’s “death,” this is a scene that sticks with us...
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