my grandpa is moving, and in clearing out his house we found more Dallas DVD's, meaning I now have 10 seasons
if there is a Dallas fandom on this app now is the time for me to find it
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In the final scene of the 1979-80 season of Dallas, JR Ewing (Larry Hagman) hears a noise outside his office, walks out to the corridor to look, and is shot twice by an unseen assailant. The episode, titled “A House Divided,” was broadcast on March 21, 1980, and was written by Rena Down and directed by Leonard Katzman. Viewers had to wait all summer to learn whether JR would survive, and which of his many enemies was responsible.
JR was a villain on the series who regularly double-crossed business associates, plotted against his own family, called wife Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) a “slut,” and had her committed to a sanatorium so he could take custody of their infant son.
Ultimately, in the “Who Done It?’ episode which aired November 21, 1980, the shooter was revealed to be Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby). Kristin was JR’s scheming sister in law and mistress who shot him in a fit of anger. JR did not press charges, as Kristin claimed she was pregnant with his child as a result of their affair.
“Who Done It?” was, at the time, the highest-rated television episode in US history. It had a Nielsen rating of 53.3 and a 76% share, and it was estimated that 83 million people watched the episode, more than the number of voters in that year’s presidential election. The previous record for a TV episode had been the 1967 finale for the The Fugitive. “Who Done It?” now sits second on the list, beaten in 1983 by the final episode of MASH. The “Who Done It?” episode was an international event, with more than 350 million people tuning in to find out who shot JR. A session of the Turkish parliament was suspended to allow legislators a chance to get home in time to view the conclusion of the cliffhanger.
Text is from the Wikipedia entry for “Who Shot JR?”. My italics.
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The cast of “Dallas” in a 1979 promotional photo. Front row, from left: Charlene Tilton, Jim Davis and Linda Gray. Back row, from left: Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman.Credit...CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
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tbh Linda Grey as Sue Ellen Ewing is transition goals
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Thought it might ammuse you my brain parsed “ Palladium” as “ Philadelphia” for a second
(With reference to this post here.)
I'm not aware that there was ever a tabletop RPG adaptation of Philadelphia, but there was definitely one of Dallas.
(For all that it resembles a parody of contemporary niche-audience indie games, this one came out way back in 1980, and was only the second tabletop RPG based on a licensed IP, after Heritage Models' 1978 tabletop RPG adaptation of Star Trek. Interestingly, it's very possibly the first tabletop RPG ever to include a robust "social combat" system, anticipating the later popularity of such mechanics by some twenty years. Its publication bombed so hard that it's been cited as one of the reasons its publisher went broke two years later.)
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Jock Ewing. The Ewing patriarch.
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