TNT announce new Dallas pilot episode. JR Ewing is back

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• bill hewitt

  2011/02/19 at 10:14 am

  i cant wait for this to happen i watched all 14 seasons back to back a few months ago i love jr i hope he acts the same bring it jr.

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  • Bobby

    2011/03/02 at 2:18 am

    Theres a rumor that, David J Dalzell will be cast in the pilot of the new Dallas!

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• Wayne

  2011/02/08 at 1:33 pm

  Is everyone looking forward to seeing what the opening credits will be like…? I really am hoping that they decide to ressurect the original style with the sliding sequence and the actors presented using the 3-way-split with the same font.. and bang up to date Dallas theme. If they choose to modify the final 2 seasons ala Lesley-Anne Down, Kimberly Foster, Sasha Mitchell etc opening style it will be a little disappointing.. The credits will be a big part of making an impact..!!!

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  • BRETT P. PEDROIA

    2011/02/10 at 10:21 pm

    THEY NEED TO BRING PACK PAM EWING & HER SISTER KATHRINE WENTWORTH AND CLIFF BARNES.

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  • Pepper Ann

    2011/02/18 at 5:03 am

    I am lost here….
    Did the series start?
    Did I Miss it by a week?
    I just moved around the corner from the real Dallas Ranch in Parker and did the tour and it was cool to see behind the scenes and loved watching it as a kid.

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• Alan

  2011/02/08 at 1:55 am

  Bring it on!!! I’ve been waiting and wanting this for years.

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• Karine

  2011/02/06 at 6:14 pm

  Fantastic! Will Cally Harper Ewing’s baby feature? Did JR ever get out of the mental hospital?

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• Sue

  2011/02/04 at 1:24 am

  I think it’s great!! I will be watching for sure!!

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• Tan

  2011/02/02 at 1:57 pm

  Great news! Have been waiting for a new Dallas series. I think it’s well overdue! Hope they show it on the BBC here in England rather than Sky…

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• Julie

  2011/01/13 at 11:03 pm

  I love Dallas, I am so happy that they are cominf back on. I was disappointed when they took the reruns off of soapnet. I wish they would put the reruns on as well as the new show.

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• crystal

  2011/01/01 at 5:51 am

  Dallas was a good show I would love to see the show in reruns when they try to remake show they do not do a good job. Leave an great show alone. Reruns only.

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• Raz

  2010/12/28 at 1:50 am

  Great! I’ll watch if VP (Pam) will be in it too. I want a more realistic and happy ending for Pam and Bobby. Better yet, Pam should come back with a daughter (hers and bobby). More fights, jealousy and romance at the same time but in the end, family means more important than anything else.

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• Lori

  2010/12/27 at 11:17 pm

  Dallas I can not wait for all that Texas Drama Bring it make it Big and keep it to the main story line do not go over kill or it will not stand make it like real Family Drama make it relatible with the cousins wanting to be like the Dads and uncle switch roles make Bobby son want to be like Jr and make Jr son want to keep the ranch like his Grand dad and Bobby did that way it will make a good frude with the Brothers have Lucy Daughter wild as ever or Son a Sexy Rancher already feeeling the Texas Heat and Oil Bring it

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• Mickey

  2010/12/25 at 3:35 am

  I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting years for this.

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• Maria

  2010/12/17 at 11:49 am

  I hate when people remake shows. Just leave great ones alone! These producers have no brains anymore. They just keep remaking the old shows.

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  • Jack

    2011/02/16 at 3:02 am

    Don’t watch it then, thats what I do when I don’t like something

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• ALAN KATTAN

  2010/12/09 at 3:39 pm

  I’VE GOT A GREAT IDEA. WITH PATRICK DUFFY CASTED AS BOBBY PRESUMED TO BE IN THE JOCK ROLE SHEREE J. WILSON AS APRIL WOULD MAKE A GREAT MISS ELLIE ROLE ON THE NEW TNT PILOT EPISODE OF “DALLAS.” IT SHOULD BEGIN BY REPLAYING APRIL’S GUN DOWN AND FUNERAL THEN BOBBY WAKES UP FROM HIS DREAM WHILE STILL ON THE HONEYMOON IN PARIS AND APRIL IS TAKING A SHOWER. THEN AS BOBBY APPROACHES THE SHOWER (WITH BOBBY AND APRIL’S FAMOUS SAXOPHONE SONG BEING PLAYED IN THE BACKGROUND) APRIL SAYS TO BOBBY WITH HER SOFT VOICE, “COME IN. BABY!” WITH HER POINTING FINGER INDICATING THE DIRECTION. THEN BOBBY REPLIES, “APRIL?” AND THEN FAINTS. THEN THE “DALLAS” THEME SONG BEGINS WITH THE CREDITS. THEN AFTERWARDS THERE IS A SUBTITLE MENTIONING “20 YEARS LATER.” KNOWING THAT THE NEW “DALLAS” IS PRESUMED TO HAVE CHRISTOPHER AND JOHN ROSS FEUDING THE SHOW SHOULD ALSO FEATURE A TEENAGE DAUGHTER OF BOBBY AND APRIL WHO WOULD BE IN THE ROLE OF LUCY.

  I GREW UP WATCHING “DALLAS” AS MY FAVORITE SHOW WITH BOBBY EWING AS MY ROLE MODEL AND THAT THE BOBBY-APRIL COUPLE WAS MY FAVORITE TV COUPLE SINCE SHE WAS THE MOST SUPPORTIVE WOMEN BOBBY EVER HAD DELIGHTING HIM WITH HER SENSE OF HUMOR. IT WAS THE SADDEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN ON TELEVISION WHEN APRIL WAS GUNNED DOWN, AND THAT I STILL COULD NOT GET OVER APRIL’S DEATH. INSTEAD OF KILLING APRIL OFF IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THAT APRIL WAS KIDNAPPED AND MISSING ALL SEASON LONG WHILE BOBBY AFTER RETURNING HOME ALONE FROM HIS HONEYMOON SENDS MEN TO SEARCH FOR APRIL. THEN AT THE END OF THAT FINAL SEASON BOBBY GETS WORD THAT APRIL HAS BEEN RESCUED AND IS RETURNING HOME SAFELY.

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  • brett pedroia

    2011/02/10 at 10:15 pm

    oh my gosh.. that is such a great idea..your right thats were they need to start off. wow !!

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• Gwendolyn

  2010/11/21 at 4:33 pm

  I’m so excited, I can hardly wait.
  Yes, Dallas is back. Hopefully all of the original cast will be ask to be a part. Lucy, J.R. Bobby, Sue Ellen, Pam. Of course the rest of the cast that’s still alive. Exciting !!!

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• Anna

  2010/11/09 at 5:55 pm

  wow. i can’t believe its really happening. when will it come out?

  anna
  uk

  xx

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• Kristopher

  2010/11/04 at 11:52 pm

  MY only fear is that the reboot of DALLAS has so much to live up to that it will never stand the test of it’s fans (vis a vis Lord Of The Rings). Also, I hope the rebooters remember that it was the intricate and addictive *story* that made DALLAS great and not be tempted to succumb to the “sex sells” adage of most popular TV. I understand that there was sleaze in the original series, but would it *really* have made any difference to the story had J.R. and perhaps Kristen were shown bumping uglies? I was fine with the “suggestion” of sleaze rather than watching a ten minute softcore pornographic film in the middle of my episode! I think that the strength of DALLAS came from it’s wonderfully cast characters and fantastic storyline. (Ok, perhaps not all cast was spectacular, I mean ,to each their own, but Charlene Tilton could not an Emmy win:) )

  Just an opinion, flame away

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• josephine

  2010/10/30 at 11:49 pm

  i loved all the people on the show

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• James

  2010/10/30 at 12:14 am

  More ideas. Aside from focusing mostly on the new generation, JR retires from Ewing Oil as his sons, James and John Ross (and any other kids he might have) are fighting each other and their cousins on who will be top dog at the company. JR is pursuing Sue Ellen who he finally decided was all the woman he would ever need. She has created a fantastic life for herself and won’t have anything to do with him, but time will tell, and she does miss Southfork. One of JR’s sons marries the daughter of one of the Ewing’s worst enemies, giving a deja-vu to the original series pilot. Ray has bought back the portion of Southfork that he had sold, giving him and Jenna a reason to be back on the Ranch, they have a couple of children, being additional Ewing cousins, but Jenna still has a flame for Bobby, which causes conflicts. Bobby was always the hero, and the counter-balance to JR, but in a role reversal, Bobby has become the new JR in town, at least for a while, and then Pam comes back into his life…

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• James

  2010/10/30 at 12:02 am

  Now that Barbara Bel Geddes has died, the pilot should focus on the estate of Southfork and who will inherit it. JR has John Ross and an older son James. They could introduce a couple of teenage children that he might have had with Callie or someone else in the years between the end of Dallas and now. Bobby has Christopher, and was Jenna’s daughter really his? He could have a couple more children from the years between, too. Of course, Gary has Lucy and the twins durng the Knots Landing years. So there are multiple cousins (Jock & Ellie’s grandchildren) who could fill a new show with new conflicts and drama. But who will inherit Southfork. Ray sold off his share that Jock left him. Gary was never a fixture in Dallas. Bobby loved the land. JR was really only interested in the Oil business. I think the pilot should start with this premise of the funeral, and settlement of the Southfork inheritance., and provide a nice tribute to Miss Ellie, Jock, and Clayton who are now all gone from that generation. Then they can move on with the lives of the family members and the current makeup of the family in the oil business. To succeed, it really needs to focus on the new generation, and pepper in some of the old-timers to keep the continuity going. Also, Pam should come back and resolve her abandonment of Bobby and Christopher and try to re-build a relationship with them.

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• Mari

  2010/10/27 at 6:08 pm

  I am hopeful about the new series because I loved Dallas, but as mentioned above, it will have to be done well. Referencing the originals with guest appearances, but focusing on the new characters. And hopefully they will do a better job of tying in Gary and Valene (Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark) from the original and Knots spin-off.

  TNT should run the entire Dallas series (if legally possible) before the new series starts.

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• amolia piomelli

  2010/10/27 at 2:39 pm

  thats great but they should put back the old series my husband was heart broken when they stopped the reruns see what you people could do getting it back on the air you would make a lot of people happy they were very loved.

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• Raymond "O"

  2010/10/27 at 10:57 am

  “GREAT” I hope JR”s son is just like him. I loved when people buckled under JR”s manupalating ways. It’s a breath of fresh air to see a classic show being given a chance. TNT can be sure my eyes will be glued to the tube not only for the pilot but for every cliffhanging episode.Thanks…………….

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• DEBBIE FROM NY

  2010/10/25 at 5:28 pm

  THE GREATEST SHOW THAT HAS EVER EVER BEEN ON TV !!! WATCHED LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE EPISODE RERUN AFTER REURN AFTER RERUN. REALLY MISS IT. EVEN HAD A CAT ONCE NAMED J.R. !!!! IT NEEDS TO GO BACK ON THE AIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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• Michelle P.

  2010/10/25 at 3:14 am

  Great New. I was only a kid, but always watched the show. Glad to see that Larry and Patrick Duffy are coming back.

  They need to bring Pam back (Victoria Principal) where Bobby and Pam could finally be happily married. I think many fans would love to see this.

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• Darrell

  2010/10/20 at 7:55 pm

  What is the proposed airing date for the pilot, big fan can’t wait.

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• Lois Kinney

  2010/10/20 at 3:11 am

  I think it is great!!! Can’t wait for it to happen!!

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• Roslynn Solis-Champion

  2010/10/16 at 10:21 pm

  Hallelujah!!!!! Dallas is coming back! That is the best news I’ve read so far this year! I hope it is as good as the original series, which I’m sure it will be. I knew when the final episode did not show JR dead, after he alledged shot himself, that it was possible, it would return one day! Man, man, can hardly wait!!!

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• MICHAEL DUET

  2010/10/13 at 8:51 am

  I THINK ITS AWSOME. FINALLY MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SHOW WILL BE BACK ON THE AIR.

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• David Bailey

  2010/10/10 at 12:13 pm

  Linda Gray must return as Sue Ellen, no other actress can play her like Linda. There has to be a Sue Ellen if the story revolves around her and Bobby’s son. Wish Victoria Principal could return too as Pam.

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  • JP

    2010/10/23 at 3:54 pm

    I am sure they will include Sue Ellen as she was a major character in the last 2 Dallas installments in ’96 and ’98. It would be great to have Victoria come back and continue the Pam character. The show (IMO) handled the departure of Victoria/Pam very badly. I know they had “issues” over killing off any character so soon after having to justify the return of Patrick/Bobby a year earlier. Despite fan loyalty to VP, producers should simply have recast the character of Pam. They did for ONE episode in ’88, and I think fans would have accepted a new actress in the role. Anything would have been better than having “Pam” wrapped in bandages, then abandonning her beloved husband and son with the help of the Wentworth Industries Chairman. That was a crock! It betrayed 9 years of Pam being a loving, devoted mother and eternal lover of Bobby. Why? Because she wasn’t “pretty” anymore. NOT believable and could be finally resolved in ONE episode by VP and producers – if they wanted.

    Glad to see that Priscilla Presley may reprise the Jenna Krebbs character. Having Jenna and Ray move to Europe was even dumber than the Pam fiasco.

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  • David Bailey

    2010/10/31 at 10:30 pm

    Have read recently that Larry Hagman has no intention of going back to ‘Dallas’. His wife is now seriously ill and has to have care. Not sure if I’ll bother if some of the originals don’t return.

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• John Ross

  2010/10/10 at 1:58 am

  How about bringing on Nicolette Sheridan’s Knots character Paige on board. The ex desperate housewife may add a few viewers.

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• Ashley

  2010/10/07 at 4:22 am

  Absolutely FANTASTIC news. Loved the series growing up. I hope they publicize it well…GRAND STYLE! We can’t wait to see it.

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• Kristina

  2010/10/01 at 5:47 am

  My husband and I are absolutly thrilled about this information! We just can’t get enough of Dallas. Anyone know when it will air?

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• Lucilene Lima

  2010/09/30 at 2:06 pm

  Sou fá da serie no brasil e só a um ano vi o final, foi maravilhoso, e o fato da possibilidade de retomada das filmagens me deixa muito feliz…

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• Dustie

  2010/09/29 at 5:56 pm

  I think this is fantastic news. I hated to see Dallas end. This is the greatest news I can think of that has happened lately. I hope the regular stars will be in it.

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• Missi

  2010/09/28 at 12:12 am

  As long as Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman are on it!!!
  It’s one of my favorite show ever!

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• Patrick

  2010/09/26 at 11:28 pm

  Why is CBS not picking-up the show? I wonder what TNT will have to do about copyright issue, we won’t see any flashback from the old series.

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• missy

  2010/09/26 at 8:17 pm

  i can’t wait. infact i am watching season 1 right now!

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• Charles

  2010/09/26 at 7:18 pm

  It will need to be done well. The key actually is not to rely on the original cast but to have reference to them. This would make John Ross and Christopher key in ensuring many of the original elements remain but it focuses on the future. They would be men in their thirties so it would be believeable that they are running a powerful business.

  Lets hope it works.

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• Paul

  2010/09/25 at 9:49 pm

  Brilliant news. Lets hope one of the British TV stations screen it.

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  • David

    2010/10/21 at 6:38 pm

    Hopefully BBC Television will buy it, and show it on Wednesdays at 8pm on BBC1. Dallas’s traditional time slot in the UK on it’s original run.

    Great news everyone, I LOVE DALLAS.

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• Lois Kinney

  2010/09/24 at 5:03 pm

  I think it’s the greatest thing to happen to TV since Dallas. The reality show on TV stink as do most of the shows on television now these days. I think some good ole Texas BBQ and brothers fighting over an oil company will put some spark back into the tv industry. I don’t know who thought of this idea, but he/she is a genious. I have always wondered why someone didn’t come up with a new generation Dallas. You have John Ross, Christopher, Charley, Lucas, Margaret plus the older generation. Can’t wait!!!!!!!!!

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• Jason

  2010/09/24 at 7:37 am

  its going to sooo great to see Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Grey back on Dallas as well the actors who played Christpher and John Ross in the Dallas tv movies.

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• Scott

  2010/09/24 at 12:37 am

  Wooo-hooo! Reading this has truly made my day! To think that “Dallas” could well and truly be back on our television screens is incredible.

  I hope all aspects of the pilot are done well though if we are to hope for a full series. Everything from the script to casting has to be faultless because TV companies have fairly bad habits these days of not giving TV shows a proper chance to run and cancel them just after one season if they don’t pull in the viewers they need.

  Although it would be amazing to see Larry, Linda, Patrick, Victoria, Ken and company back on the show full-time, I think sadly the most we’ll see of them will be in cameo roles in which case the casting of the new generation of Ewings/Krebbs’/Barnes’, John Ross, Christopher, Lucas, Margaret, Pamela-Rebecca, will have to be very well done to make up for the lack of veteran “Dallas” actors.

  Add this up with the fantastic storytelling we came to love on the original show and TNT are sure to have a hit on their hands which will definitely pull in past fans of the show and a new generation of viewers worldwide. How do I know this? I am only 17 years old myself and think “Dallas” is the greatest TV show of all time. So if I can be captivated by what the show had to offer from 78-91, then I’m positive people of my age will be drawn in by the new stories and characters from 2010 and beyond….

  Oh and please, please, please keep the original theme tune of the show! I just can’t imagine watching the opening credits and not hearing that iconic theme.

  Lots of love “Dallas” fans from Scotland !

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• Debbie Barber

  2010/09/23 at 9:30 pm

  I am so excited about this new show. Looking forward to seeing as many of the original cast as possible. Is there a date set yet for airing?

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• Josh

  2010/09/23 at 1:41 pm

  It is SO exciting. I hope they bring back Sue Ellen, Bobby and JR. I’ve met Larry Hagman – a true gentleman.

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• Tony

  2010/09/23 at 1:18 am

  Hey Dallas cast,
  I have watched the show from beginning to the end.I have been waiting for this day to come for many yrs now,For a New generation of Dallas.
  I can’t wait to see the orginal cast as well as the new,I’m wondering what day and time the pilot of the first dallas show will be?Please let me know so I know when to be watching for it to see it on tv.Why is it on tnt channel I’ve always watched it on cbs just curious.But anyways I can’t wait to see it on tv know matter what channel its on.
  See J.R back to his old tricks,and bobby to set him straight !!

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  • Tammy Terrell

    2010/09/23 at 2:28 pm

    I am so looking forward to this show. I was a little girl when Dallas was on tv, but I loved that show. Can’t wait to see the grands do their thing as Ewings……

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• In the know

  2010/09/22 at 10:15 pm

  Lovely to see so many fans of Dallas. Please do not believe whispers of fans reading scripts and leaking plot details.

  I can tell you categorically that none of this is true. If they have seen a script it is not the one under development for this pilot.

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• Pamela Schartz

  2010/09/22 at 9:53 pm

  My son and I are actors and want to audition. He would be great a great son of J.R or Bobby. I would love a Mom role in this ongoing saga.

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• Pamela Schartz

  2010/09/22 at 9:49 pm

  My son and I want to audition. We’re actors. He would be a great son and I would be interested in a Mom role.

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• scott

  2010/09/22 at 10:41 am

  Charlene Tilton and Ken Kercheval were also cast well in the original. Love them too….

  as were Sly and Luela

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• scott

  2010/09/22 at 10:40 am

  I love the idea. Bring back Linda Gray and Hagman for the grandparents. Forget Susan Howard, Victoria Principal, Steve Kanaly, and other uninteresting characters. Even Patrick Duffy as Bobby was uninteresting, and not cast well in the original. Now, Jim Davis and Barbara Bel Geddes was perfect casting… and we liked Clayton Farlow (Howard Keel) too.

  … after Priscilla Presley’s facelift bomb, I don’t think we want her back. Sorry.

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  • Matt

    2010/09/22 at 3:03 pm

    Patrick Duffy as Bobby, uninteresting? Are you smoking crack? The show almost went off the air the season that he was “dead” The only way it survived was because they brought him back. And Dallas was built upon the Pam and Bobby relationship. How can you say that they weren’t needed?

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  • James

    2010/09/25 at 11:13 am

    What are you saying, Priscilla Presley and Patrick Duffy were 2 of the best!

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