Morgan: I really didn't. They had it pretty much figured out where they wanted her to go. The only thing was I kept saying to them is look is she ever going to get Bobby? Is she going to win? and they said "well she can’t win we don’t want her to win she is so evil. So I said what are you going to do with her and they said that eventually she is going to just loose it, she is going to go over the edge and get more and more psychotic", so every week I would have to put a little more of that madness creeping into her.

Interviewer: yes she changed from a rather angelic look to total glitz. Did you have a say in the `look`?

Morgan : yes absolutely and wilder and wilder. The bigger shoulder pads, the bigger hair. I had a lot of say in what I wanted to wear but she was very over the top. It fitted that character.

Interviewer: I believe Travillia came in to add more glitz

Morgan: yes he did. You see in those years we were very competitive with Dynasty and I remember many many times on a Wednesday morning when we would go into the makeup room Larry would have the LA times and would turn to the ratings and go "we beat em again" (laughs) so every Wednesday Dallas would come out on top. There was a big rivalry between the networks, ABC wanted Dynasty to takeover and we were still holding it and that's when everything got much more glitzy and much more glamorous.

Interviewer: The most unforgivable thing Katherine did was split up Pam and Bobby. How did fans react? Did you get angry mail?

Morgan : oh yeah. I would go out into the public and people would hate me, waitresses in restaurants would say "just leave him alone". I'm like `Wait its a character I'm not really her".It was pretty funny, the whole world was watching.

Interviewer: so then Katherine shot Bobby. Did you know beforehand it was Katherine who did it?

Morgan: no , they shot it with three different actors. They had me do it, they had Holly Harwood do it and they had Sue Ellen do it.

Interviewer: so was it your choice to leave at that point?

Morgan: At that point I was under contract with Aaron Spelling for another TV series Glitter but Dallas had me contracted to the end of the season and Aaron made a deal with me before Dallas picked up my option so at that point I was doing two TV shows at once so Dallas wrote me out for a while and then brought me back .

Interviewer : would you have liked Katherine to have been a major character?

Morgan: you know she was big enough as it was because it is so difficult when you are recognized as that character, if she had been any bigger I don't think I ever would of worked, it was hard enough as it was and Larry Hagman told me that "I’ll forever be JR Ewing" and he’s right. I talk to a lot of people on that show and they are very typecast.

Interviewer: Then you returned in 1985 to kill off Bobby. How did you feel about killing off one of the worlds most popular television characters?

Morgan: Oh god. I said don’t make me do this. When I die someday that’s what will be on my obituary. "The woman who killed Bobby Ewing". When I did that scene I was seven months pregnant with my daughter so I asked for Katherine to die because they were not going to be able to hide me anymore, so they said they will both die together. At that point they had no idea Patrick would want to come back then everything changed with the dream.

Interviewer: were you pleased that Katherine was alive again ?

Morgan: When they called me I said you have to be kidding. Nobody will buy that, I said don't you understand you buried the guy, they even said it on Knots Landing. Did they all have the same dream? The writers said they couldn't think of any other way to do it. The whole year was gone, like it never happened. Then I said to them "what kind of drugs was Pam on?". (laughs)

Interviewer: Then you returned in 1987 in your nurses uniform with the bandaged Pam .But for only two episodes, why was that?

Morgan: Well what they did if you watch those shows, Pam wanted to leave so who better to take Pam than Katherine, so the only clues that you have to who took her away was a woman in a big hat. They never really say who took her but you assume that it was Katherine. So they wanted that to be a mystery in the show, so some day Katherine would reappear, which someday I probably will, who knows? She's definitely not dead, and they have that open story line.

Interviewer: So were you ever asked back again?

Morgan : They talked about it, at that time they had lost a lot of the original writers. Everybody had moved on. But they always have that mystery, she's out there somewhere.

Interviewer: so would you consider being in a Reunion movie?

Morgan: it would depend, at this point I don’t know. I have gotten over that character, but if the situation presented itself, who knows?

Interviewer: Do you think Katherine was plain psychotic or just misunderstood?

Morgan: (laughs) She was psychotic, she was one of these people that are obsessed, they will find something they want and will do anything to get it and if they can’t get what they want they will destroy the person and themselves. There are a lot of people like that, even though she had everything she wanted Bobby. It kind of parallels Scarlett O'Hara in a way , how she was with Ashley. I asked the producers "what if she gets Bobby? Will she then not want him anymore?", it was like a game. On that show the characters were either good or they were bad and I learned a lot from Larry Hagman about playing the evil part, but what you wanted to do with those characters was to get people so involved that they wanted to come back the next week to see what they were going to do and that’s what we tried to do with Katherine, people hated her so much that they couldn't stay away.

Interviewer:What were your favorite scenes?

Morgan: Some of the most fun I had was doing the shows with Jenna Wade, Pricilla Presley. When Pricilla joined the show we would have to do scenes together that were so bitchy, we had so much fun with that.

Interviewer: Yes, actually I remember one of your first scenes with Jenna would of been in a bar where you warned her to keep away.

Morgan: (laughs) yes, offering her money to move away. That is my favorite scene and one with Ken Kercheval where he’s asking me for money to save the company."Your asking me for money?" (getting back into the Katherine role as she states this and laughs) it was great.

Interviewer: So I gather there were many funny moments on the set?

Morgan: Oh many, we had a great time. It was not that serious, everyone knew their part so well we could have fun with it. There were a lot of jokes that were played, a lot of practical jokes that Larry and Patrick did.

Interviewer: so is it true that the cast really were like one big happy family?

Morgan: I did not work with everybody, my character was pretty much JR, Pam, and Cliff. I hardly ever worked with Linda Gray, I never worked with Lucy or Ray Krebbs. We would only work together at the Oil Barons Ball or barbecue. But Larry and Patrick were so funny and it was a good thing I was a professional actor because they would joke up until the last second.

Interviewer: Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman have stated that there was a lot of drinking on the set. I have this image of the whole cast staggering around drunk.

Morgan: (laughs) Those two always, it was fortunate that the shows turned out great. If you didn’t have professional people it could of been a disaster.

Interviewer: Are you in touch with any of the cast members?

Morgan: Once in a while I see Charlene Tilton, I would love to see John Beck , I haven't seen him in a couple of years. When I did Glitter, Timothy Patrick Murphy (Mickey Trotter) was on that show and he passed away, he was one of the nicest people. I`v seen Linda a couple of times and Patrick a couple of times but basically people have gone their own way.

Interviewer: ok here's a question for you. If you were stuck on a desert Island which cast member would you choose to be stuck with.

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