DALLAS
HEADLINES
This news was broken to
the UK in May 1986 in the News of the World paper the day
after Bobby returned on American screens. for that season.
Dallas
Star Bobby Back in a Flash(News of the World May 1986)
Millions
of American TV viewers were in shock yesterday as actor Patrick
Duffy returned to Dallas.....stark naked.
Duffy apparently killed off as "goody goody" Bobby
Ewing in the last series, popped up in his widow Pam's shower.
Soap fans watched as Pam awoke from
her wedding night - she had just married long time suitor
Mark Graison- to find her new husband gone.
She wanders into the bathroom as romantic
music plays gently, slides back the shower door and there
is Duffy lathering up in his birthday suit. "Good morning"
he says as the credits roll. Lorimar, the ailing show's producers,
had one final tease up their sleeves. Duffy appeared in the
ratings like this Patrick Duffy as......... So viewers still
do not know if Bobby, mown down by a jealous woman's car,
has returned from the grave or if Duffy has a new part.
Dallas has slumped from second place
to No. 17 in the U.S. ratings.
Lorimar chiefs are convinced Duffy's
return will push them back up the viewing league when Dallas
returns in September.
This news was broken to the UK in September
1986 in the News of the World paper. The original plan was
to have Steve Forest actually be Jock but with the return
of Patrick Duffy it was felt that one return from the dead
was enough for that season.
JR's
dad back from the dad(News of the World September 1986)
The JR's dad is returning from the
grave to boost the sagging viewing figures of TV's Dallas.
Jock Ewing was killed off in the South American helicopter
crash five years ago when Jim Davies died. Now viewers will
be told Jock survived and after spent years in in a mission
hospital having plastic surgery. The new Jock will be played
by Steve Forest.
