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Dallas(1978 TV series)

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This article is about the original 19781991 television series. For the

sequel, see Dallas (2012 TV series.

Dallasis a long-rnning !merican prime timetele"ision soap

operathat aired from !pril #, 1978, to $ay %, 1991, on &' The series

re"ol"es arond a *ealthy and fedingTe+anfamily, the *ings, *ho o*n

the independent oil company *ing iland the cattle-ranching land

of othfork The series originally focsed on the marriage of 'o..y

*ingand /amela 'arnes, *hose families *ere s*orn enemies *ith each

other !s the series progressed, oil tycoon0 *inggre* to .e the sho*2s

main character, *hose schemes and dirty .siness .ecame the sho*2s

trademark314When the sho* ended in $ay 1991, 0 *as the only

character to ha"e appeared in e"ery episode

The sho* *as famos for its cli5hangers, inclding the !ho shot

".#.$mystery The 1986 episode !ho Done %tremains the second highest

rated prime-time telecast e"er3#4The sho* also featred a ream

eason, in *hich the entirety of the ninth season*as re"ealed to ha"e

.een a dream of /am *ing2s !fter 1 seasons, the series

:nale&onndrm aired in 1991

The sho* had a relati"ely ensem.le cast ;arry eddesas family matriarch $iss llieand mo"ie Westernactor0im

a"isas *ing patriarch0ock, his last role .efore his death in 1981 The
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series *on for mmy !*ards, inclding a 1986tstanding ;ead !ctress

in a rama eries *infor 'el >eddes

With its %?7 episodes, Dallasremains one of the longest lasting fll-

hor primetime dramas in !merican TV history, .ehind &onan'a(%6

episodes), a) * +rer(?@ episodes), and -unso/e(@%? episodes) An

#667 Dallas*as inclded in T%magaBine2s list of 166 'est TV ho*s of

!ll-T%3%4

Dallasalso spa*ned the spin-o5 series nots aningin 1979 *hich

also lasted 1 seasons An #616,TCTannonced it had ordered a ne*,

pdated contination of Dallas34The re"i"al series, contining the story

of the *ing family, premiered on TCT on 0ne 1%, #61#

riginal premise3edit4

An 1978, $>$released the :lm &omes a


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ring the :rst episodes of the series, the teenaged ;cy is seen

sleeping *ith ranch foremanay Gre..s(te"e Ganaly) ;ater, in season

for, ay *old .e re"ealed as a half-si.ling, an illegitimate *ing son

throgh an e+tramarital a5air 0ock had dring World War AA Knhappy *ith

his small, one-dimensional role, Ganaly had considered lea"ing the sho*D

to add depth to the ay character, ary, and 'o..y,

noting his resem.lance to a"is The episodes *here ay and niece ;cy

had a Iing is, as Ganaly told inah horein an appearance on her sho*,

prayerflly forgotten, A hope

ay had pre"iosly engaged in a short Iing *ith /amela 'arnes, the

daghter (or rather, as it re"ealed in season three, stepdaghter) of

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corpse in the othfork s*imming pool (season for)D a .laBing hose :re

(season si+)D and 'o..y2s death (season eight) and s.seEent retrn

(season nine)

&ast and characters3edit4

ain articles6 ist o Dallas charactersan ist o Dallas (1978 cast

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Main cast3edit4

For the original :"e-episodes miniseries O season oneO si+ actors

recei"ed the star .illingH 'ar.ara 'el >eddesas *ing matriarch $iss llie

*ing, *hose family *as the original o*ners of othforkD0im a"isas

her hs.and0ock *ing, the fonder of *ing il and head of the *ing

familyD /atrick 5yas their yongest son, heartthro. 'o..y

*ingD Victoria /rincipalas /amela 'arnes *ing, the daghter of the

ri"aling 'arnes family, *hom 'o..y .rings home as his *ife in the pilot

episodeD ;arry


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*ere promoted to the reglar cast as of the :rst episode of the fall of

1978, and Gerche"al a year later

Frther on in the series, se"eral ne* characters *ere added, as the

original actors departed the seriesH

For season :"e, after gest starring since the second season, san

eddes retrned in the follo*ing year

ack am.o, portraying *andering cosin0ack *ing, *as

promoted to reglar stats for season ten, after ha"ing appeared as a

gest star since the end of the eighth season


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dring seasons ten and ele"en, .efore .eing promoted to a main

character for season t*el"e riginally a scheming character, !pril

e"entally .ecame 'o..y2s second *ife, after his di"orce from /am

The thirteenth seasonsa* se"eral additions to the main

castH !cademy !*ard*inner >eorge Gennedyas &arter $cGay, *ho .ys

ay2s ranch after ay and 0enna mo"e to *itBerland, and e"entally

.ecomes the head of *ing il ri"al WesttarD &athy /ode*ellas the

yong, naP"e, &ally


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storylineD0ared $artin(seasons %O@, 8O9, and 1) as e llen2s co*.oy

lo"er, and &layton2s foster son, te"en sty Farlo*D ;eigh

$c&loskey(seasons O?, 8 and 1#) as medical stdent $itch &ooper,

;cy2s hs.andD !drey ;anders(seasons O8 and 1#O1%) as $itch2s

sister !fton &ooper, an aspiring singer and &li52s longtime :ancQeD stage

actress /riscilla /ointer(seasons O@) as e.ecca 'arnes Went*orth,

/am2s and &li52s estranged motherD$organ 'rittany(seasons ?O8 and 11)

as e.ecca2s daghter, Gatherine Went*orth, &li52s and /am2s craBy half-

sister *ho falls madly in lo"e *ith 'o..yD0ohn 'eck(seasons @O7 and 9)

as $ark >raison, /am2s .ea after her :rst di"orce from 'o..yD William

mithers(seasons %O1%) as i"al il 'aron and & of Westtar il,

0eremy WendellD $iss K!*inner e.orah helton(seasons 8O16) as

model $andy Winger, longtime mistress of 0D0enilee


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$arilee tone (Fern FitBgerald, seasons #O1%) and !ndy 'radley (/al

orensen, seasons #O16)D 0ock2s good friend $ar"in /nk !nderson

($organ Wood*ard, seasons O11)D hady in"estment .anker Vaghn

;eland (ennis /atrickseasons %O@) and original Westtar il frontman

0eremy Wendell (William mithers, seasons O?, 8O1#) ther long-time

*ing acEaintances inclde allas / detecti"e eorge /etrie, seasons %O1)D and onna2s

stepson, K enator a"e &l"er (Tom Fccello, seasons %O@, 8, 16O11

and 1%O1)

!lso appearing in many episodes are se"eral .ackgrond

characters, inclding 'o..y2s secretaries &onnie 'rasher (portrayed .y

onna 'llock in season 1, !nn Ford and Cancy 'leier in season #,

and0eanna $ichaelsin season #O) and /hyllis Wapner (e.orah Tranelli,

seasons O1)D 02s secretaries ;oella &ara*ay ;ee ($eg >allagher,

seasons #O) and ly ;o"egren (e.orah ennard, seasons ?O1)D &li52s

secretary 0ackie gan (herill ;ynn ettino, seasons #O? and 7O1)D

*ing il receptionist Gendall &hapman (anone impson, seasons @O1)D

othfork maid Teresa (oseanna &hristiansen, seasons @O1)D and il

'aron2s &l. sta5 ora $ae (/at &ol.ert, seasons 7O1), &assie (!nne &

;cas, seasons ?O16) and e..ie (e.orah $arie Taylor, seasons 11O1)

Main cast departures3edit4

'y the end of the series, only three of the series2 original characters

(0, 'o..y, and &li5) *ere left in allas, the others ha"ing either died or

left to*n
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disease, thogh only she and her doctor kne* !fter this, /am is ne"er

seen in allas again At *as /rincipal2s o*n decision to not rene*

her Dallascontract31#431%4

onna &l"er Gre..sand ay Gre..sdi"orced at the end of season

ten, and the former mo"ed to Washington, &*here she married

enator !ndre* o*ling (gest star0im $c$llan), *ith *hom she raised

ay2s daghter $argaret ! year later ay sold his ranch to &arter $cGay

and left allas *ith his ne* *ife0enna Wadeand 0enna2s children &harlie

and ;cas (the latter fathered .y 'o..y), .ond for *itBerland ay

retrned for :"e episodes in the .eginning of the 1#th season

While /riscilla /resleyopted to lea"e the sho* to spend more time *ith

her family, inclding her, at the time, 1-year old son,314and san

ray*as let go .y the same

.dget costs that ended te"e Ganaly2s rn on the sho*,3114e llen2s

e+it has since .een descri.ed .y >ray as a mtal decision .y her
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and ;eonard GatBman, agreeing that the character had come more than

fll circle31@4

tephanie ogers*as let go as &li52s / representati"e at the end

of season 1%and s.seEently left allas, making actress ;esley-!nne

o*nthe most short-li"ed mem.er of the reglar cast, lasting only 1%

episodes

'ar.ara 'el >eddes2 health had cased her to miss half of the

se"enth season, and after the season :nale, she left the series entirely,

*ith the role of $iss llierecast *ith onna eedfor season eight3174'el

>eddes opted to retrn the follo*ing year in a high-pro:le p.lic relations

de.acle that left eed infriated and in litigation *ith the series

prodcers, *ho made her a S1 million ot-of-cort settlement3184$iss llie

remained on the sho* ntil season thirteen*hen she and &layton left

allas, tra"eling and e"entally settling in rope, near ay and 0enna

Follo*ing her e+it from Dallas, 'el >eddes retired from acting3194

When the :nal, forteenth seasonof the series commenced, ten

actors recei"ed reglar cast stats !lthogh half of them *old lea"e the

sho* prior to the series :nale, all of them remained .illed in the series2

opening seEence throghot the year &layton Farlo*made for

appearances, clearing p .siness that inclded deeding othfork to

'o..yD !pril te"ens *ingtragically died early on in the season, *hile

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and left allas near the end of the season, and0ames 'eamontleft the

sho* a cople of episodes prior to the series :nale, to start a ne* life on

the east coast *ith his ne*ly disco"ered toddler son 0immy, and 0immy2s

mother e.ra ;ynn (gest star e.orah Tcker)

!s the series conclded, &arter $cGaystayed pt at Westtar, as

po*erfl as e"erD $ichelle te"ens*as left heart.roken and hmiliated,

all alone in the ranch she had .oght from $cGay hoping to li"e there *ith

0amesD &li5 'arnes*as once and for all the sole o*ner of *ing ilD

and 'o..y *ing, no* o*ner of othfork, *as :nally a.le to :nd closre

after !pril2s death0 *ing, ho*e"er, ha"ing lost .oth *ing il and

othfork, as *ell as .eing a.andoned .y his sons, *as at the end of his

ropeD the series ended *ith the nans*ered Eestion *hether or not he

had killed himself

/rodction3edit4

ee also6 3re) o Dallas (1978

Seasons 183edit4

eries creator a"id 0aco.s*rote the :rst and the :nal episode of

the original :"e-part miniseries (season 1), *ith the other three episodes

.eing *ritten .y !rthr 'ernard ;e*is,&amille $archettaand Virginia

!ldrige While !ldrige didn2t retrn to the series again and $archetta left

dring season , ;e*is gre* to .e one of Dallas5most inIential *riters

;eonard GatBmanhad .een a part of the miniseries as a prodcer,

and dring season t*ohis inIence increased, as he *as gi"en .oth

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spino5 nots aning, lea"ing GatBman to .ecome the e

actosho*rnner, al.eit original e+ecti"e prodcers/hilip &apiceand ;ee

ichkept their positions

ring the :rst eight seasons of the sho*, Dallas5prodction team

remained .asically intact (the main e+ception .eing ich2s lea"ing

after season %)H /hilip &apice ser"ed as e+ecti"e prodcer, ;eonard

GatBman as prodcer, &li5 Fennemanas associate prodcer, and !rthr

'ernard ;e*is as e+ecti"e story editor=sper"ising prodcer !nd,

althogh #? *riters contri.ted *ith scripts, the trio of GatBman, ;e*is

and a"id /alsen*rote nearly t*o-thirds of the episodes dring these

:rst eight seasons /alsen had Loined the sho* dring the forth

seasonand *as promoted to story editorfor season si+ Cota.ly, the three

of them *rote e"ery episode .t t*o dring the

sho*s se"enthand eightseasons

Season 93edit4


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an all ne* team of *riters (headed .y nne, e+ecti"e story

consltant0oel 0 Feigen.am, and story editors arman) To make the change e"en more noticea.le,

the eight season :nale had also .een actor /atrick 5y2s fare*ell to the

sho*, *ith his character, 'o..y, .eing killed o5

't increased prodction costs3#64and decreasing ratings384cased

prodction company ;orimarto persade .oth 5y and GatBman to

retrn !s ths, as season 9came to a close, GatBman had retrned as a

fll-time *riter, and the season :nale sa* /atrick 5yine+plica.ly

resrface on screen3#14

Season 103edit4

o, as of the season 16premiere, there *as yet a maLor o"erhal of

the cre*H ;eonard GatBman *as promoted e+ecti"e prodcer, reportedly

nder the condition that he *old get total athority of the sho*,3#64*hile &apice and most of the season nine sta5 had left the prodction

!longside GatBman, a"id /alsen *as .roght .ack as *riter and the

sho*2s ne* prodcer, *hile the position as sper"ising prodcer *as

o5ered ne*comer &al"in &lements, 0r&li5 Fenneman remained associate

prodcer ! ne* set of *riters *as hired to *ork alongside the prodcers,

inclding GatBman2s son $itchell Wayne GatBmanas story editor, ;eah

$arksas story consltant, and ;oella ;ee &ara*ay $arks left after

t*o years, *hile the others remained ntil the sho*2s end

cript*ise, /atrick 5y2s retrn *as e+plained .y ha"ing the

entire ninth season.eing a dream of Victoria /rincipal2s character /am,
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e5ecti"ely s*eeping a*ay the e"ents occrring dring the period *hich

GatBman in"ol"ement *ith the sho* had .een minimiBed

"en the cast *as a5ected .y the prodction While ;arry


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ettino(;eonard GatBman2s son-in-la*), ser"ed as associate prodcers

dring season 1% and season 1 !dditionally, *riter ;oella ;ee &ara*ay

also ser"ed as e+ecti"e coordinator for the :nal three seasons

The :nal maLor addition to the sta5 *as ;isa eidman, *ho Loined

the sho* as *riter and e+ecti"e story consltant for the :nal t*o

seasons, lea"ing the *riting sta5 of season 1% and 1 to inclde e+ecti"e

prodcer ;eonard GatBman, co-e+ecti"e prodcer Gen $ .ilt a fll-siBe replica of the othfork

anch .ackyard and pool on one of its sondstages, allo*ing for :lming of

location shots dring the latter part of the season

Directors3edit4
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higher percentage of tele"ision-o*ning !mericans (7#), althogh it had

lesser a.solte nm.ers Anternationally, Dallasstill holds the record for

the most-*atched episode, *ith nearly %@6 million "ie*ers tning in to

see *ho shot 03#74

eries FinaleH &onndrmgarnered %% million "ie*ers and a ##

hosehold rating from 9-11pm on $ay %, 1991 Ats

competition, $anhnter3isabiguation neee4on C'&, dre* a 98 rating

Films/Specials3edit4

ate=Title=Cet*ork=


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'eginning in fall 198, Dallas*as packaged for o5-net*ork

syndication.y ;orimar to local stationsD among the stations to prchase

the program initially *as the allas-Fort Worth!'&aRliate, WF!!-TV nly

the :rst ### episodes (seasons 1 throgh 9) *ere part of the syndication

package


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n.orn child ;ater, e llen Eestions 0 as to *hether it *as really an

accident or did he mean for /am to fall on prpose 0 says, A did not

When e llen asks 0 if he cares that /am lost the .a.y, 0 does not

ans*er her, lea"ing it p to the "ie*er to decide

Season %&o cli!hanger$e llen2s drinking pro.lem has landed

her in a sanitarim, *here she is pregnant *ith a child she .elie"es is &li5

'arnes2 he escapes from the sanitarim, gets drnk, and then gets into

a se"ere car accident, ptting her life and the .a.y2s life in danger The

doctors deli"er the .a.y, named0ohn oss *ing AAA, .t he is "ery small

on deli"ery and is not ot of the *oods yetD nor is e llen, *ho, as the

episode ends, is clinging to life ! "ery distraght 0 is *atching his *ife

at the end of the episode in tears, saying that she2s Lst gotta li"e

Season %hree cli!hanger$To cap o5 a season *here 0 has

angered nearly e"eryone in the state of Te+as, someone comes into his

oRce late at night and shoots him t*ice This episode sets o5 the no*

infamos Who shot 0 M scenario *hich has .een recreated nmeros

times

Season Four cli!hanger$While heading to a late-night .siness

meeting *ith 'o..y, &li5 :nds a *oman2s .ody Ioating in the othfork

pool


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so he can .ene:t from his father2s *ill) An addition, 0 helped to nearly

dri"e &li52s mother2s company into .ankrptcy, *hich cost &li5 his Lo.

&li5 attempts sicide *ith an o"erdose of pills, and a gilt-ridden e

llen rshes to his .edside as &li5 lies in a coma 0 tries to con"ince e

llen that it *as not any.ody2s falt .t &li52s for *hat happened, .t e

llen disagrees and says she does not kno* if she can remarry 0 if &li5

dies, ths potentially Leopardising 02s inheritance

Season Si( cli!hanger$! drnk e llen and ay Gre..s2 cosin

$ickey Trotter are in"ol"ed in an accident, in a car .elonging to 0, Lst

otside othfork e llen emerges nhrt, .t $ickey is paralyBed and

in a coma ay :nds ot that the dri"er of the other car *as Walt riscoll,

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Season Se'en cli!hanger$An *hat appears to .e a copy of the

season three cli5hanger, a mysterios :gre enters the *ing il .ilding

late one night /roceeding to 02s oRce, the :gre prodces a gn and

:res three shots into the .ack of 02s chair in *hich some.ody is sitting

!s the "ictim falls ot of the chair and to the grond, *e see it is 'o..y

*ing that has .een shot

Season )ight cli!hanger$'o..y, *ho has .een di"orced from

/am for o"er a year and is no* engaged to 0enna Wade, decides that he

*ants to remarry his e+-*ife instead, and /am agrees The ne+t morning,

as 'o..y is lea"ing /am2s hose, someone dri"es a car at high speed

to*ard /am 'o..y sho"es her ot of the *ay Lst .efore she is hit .t

cannot get ot of the *ay of the car in time to sa"e himself 'o..y is

rshed to the hospital *here he later dies

Season *ine cli!hanger$"il .siness*oman !ngelica Cero

intends to kill 0 and his cosin 0ack for do.le crossing her, .t 0 has

her apprehended .y the police Knfortnately, !ngelica has already had a

.om. attached to 0ack2s car, *hich e+plodes *ith 0amie inside !fter

hearing this on the phone, 0 rns ot of his oRce to go to 0ack2s

apartment !s he lea"es the oRce, e llen arri"es in the other ele"ator

looking for him !s soon as she enters 02s oRce, another .om. left .y

!ngelica goes o5, and the entire Ioor that hoses *ing il e+plodes,

sho*ering de.ris onto the street .elo* The scene then shifts to /am in

.ed, the day after her marriage to $ark >raison /am *akes p to hear

the sho*er rnning !ssming it2s $ark, she opens the sho*er door, only

to :nd 'o..y *ing, ali"e and *ell (%n the eason Ten :reiere, &obb5s


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eath an all o eason =ine )oul be reveale as a rea that >a )as

having.

Season %en cli!hanger$The *ings s5er a de"astating loss as

*ing il is closed do*n .y the K tate epartment as pnishment for

02s shady dealings *hich cased an international incident /am, on her

*ay home to 'o..y from the doctor2s oRce after :nding ot she can

:nally concei"e a .a.y, crashes into a fel tanker *hich then e+plodes

Season )le'en cli!hanger$0 and e llen2s ne* .ea Cicholas

/earce :ght in 02s penthose hotel site, and dring the corse of the

:ght /earce goes o"er the .alcony and falls to his death hocked .y *hat

she has Lst seen and .elie"ing that 0 has killed her lo"er, e llen

then picks p a gn from the Ioor and shoots 0 three times he then

picks p the phone and tells the police she *old like to report a do.le

mrder

Season %&el'e cli!hanger$e llen prepares to lea"e allas for

good, .t .efore she does she has one last srprise for her e+-hs.and

0 e llen has made a .iographical motion pictre a.ot her marriage

to him (*ith actors portraying them and the other *ings) and pre"ie*s

the :lm to 0 *ho is shocked .y *hat he has Lst seen e llen tells 0

that she is lea"ing allas, .t if he e"er crosses her again in the ftre O

or e"en if she *akes p on the *rong side of .ed one morning O she *ill

release the :lm and 0 *ill .e made the laghing stock of Te+as and

rined fore"er he then lea"es allas, trimphant at last

Season %hirteen cli!hanger$!fter deli.erately committing

himself into a sanitarim in order to persade a patient (&layton2s sister


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0essica) to sign o"er her "oting maLority in Weststar il, 02s plan

.ack:res *hen &ally odU as the series

ends

pino5s, seEels and adaptions3edit4

+nots ,anding3edit4

ain article6 nots aning

/rior to Dallas5premiere, series creator a"id 0aco.soriginated the

idea for a drama series a.ot for married coples in di5erent stages of

marriage, inspired .y Angmar 'ergman2scenes ro a arriage


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a ne* life ring the :rst seasons, se"eralDallasactors (;arry

ary2s

relapse into alcoholism) Knlike the Dallasprodcers, the nots

aning*riters *ere not ready to reset their series, reslting in the t*o

series drifting apart, ne"er to inter"ene *ith each other again

hackelford and Van !rk did ho*e"er reprise their roles for

the Dallas series :nale, *hich sho*ed *hat *old ha"e happened to their

characters if 0 had ne"er e+isted

Films and reunions3edit4

! preEelstory, Dallas6 The arl ?ears, *as a made-for-TVmo"ie

that :rst aired on $arch #%, 198@ on &'dring the ninth season of the

TV series The mo"ie starred a"id >rantas igger 'arnes, ale

$idki5as0ock *ing, $olly


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timespan from 19%% to 19?1, the mo"ie *as *ritten .y series

creator a"id 0aco.s

There *ere also t*o made-for-TV renion mo"ies that aired

on &'se"eral years after the series endedH Dallas6 ".#. #eturns(199@),

*hich resol"ed the series :nale cli5hangerD and the #6th anni"ersary

mo"ie Dallas6 !ar o the )ings(1998) !longside retrning series stars

(/atrick 5y, ;arry ray, >eorge Gennedy, Gen

Gerche"aland te"e Ganaly), and recrring cast (mri GatB, !drey

;anders, e.orah ennardand >eorge /etrie), the t*o tele:lms also

introdced ne* characters O most nota.ly p-and-coming la*yer !nita

mith:eld, played .yTracy coggins The yonger characters &hristopher

*ing, and &li5 and !fton2s daghter /amela e.ecca*ere recast

*ith &hris emetraland e.orah Gellner taking on the roles

n Co"em.er 7, #66, &' aired a prime-time special enitled Dallas

#eunion6 The #eturn to outhor/, in *hich the stars reminisced a.ot

their *ork on the series (.y coincidence, actor


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capacity, reprising their original roles The series is prodced .y Warner


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seasonsH The *ings of allas, The $en of allas and The Women of

allas, all *ritten .y 'rt


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capitalistic.ack:red on the regime as omanian citiBens desired and

soght the l+rios lifestyle seen in the sho*, compared to the despotic

sitation in omania at the time hortly after the e+ection of &eaesc

and his *ife on &hristmas ay 1989, the pilot episode of Dallas, *hich had

.een edited for a se+ scene, *as one of the :rst Western ho*s aired on

the ne*ly li.erated omanian TV3%14

#ther3edit4

An #667, 'ritish comedian0stin ;ee &ollins*ent searching for all

the stars of Dallasto .ring them together for a special renion party The

sho* *as .roadcast at 9 pm nday, $ay #7, #667, on KG tele"ision

net*ork &hannel as part of the &ring &ac/...series

!fter hnting do*n most of the main cast .y any means necessary

(eg, clim.ing o"er secrity fences and am.shing hotels), &ollins

inter"ie*ed them and gained more kno*ledge a.ot some of the

decisions made throghot the sho*2s seasons

The participants amongst the cast *ere ;arry ray,

/atrick 5y, Gen Gerche"al, &harlene Tilton, san


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original cast mem.ers ;arry ray, Gen

Gerche"al, te"e Ganalyand &harlene Tilton ther cast mem.ers in

attendance *ere san


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0 *ing2s hat, a foremost sym.ol of the sho*2s inherent

!mericanness that contri.ted to its hold o"er adiences on a glo.al

scale, is crrently held in the mithsonian2sCational $sem of !merican

eter >an ne of the lines sng is yo too can .e

a star, like my son *ho plays 0 on DallasU We2re ne"er ne"er

pannedU3citation neee4

The series is mentioned in the lyrics of *edishpop .and !''!2s

198# single The ay 'efore Jo &ame The line sng isH There2s not, A

think, a single episode of allas that A didn2t see

&ontry singer


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@ ump up $eisler, !ndy ($ay 7, 199?) T;VAACD When 0

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18 ump up Times Wire er"icesH onna eed, @, ies of

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%# ump up Warner 'ros Tells Te+as Theatre to &ease !nd

esist allas creenings Co* Dallas +bserver $ay 1%, #611

etrie"ed !pril 1, #61#
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nots aning

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Knots Landingis an !mericanprimetime tele"isionsoap

operathat aired from ecem.er #7, 1979 to $ay 1%, 199% on &' ! spin-

o5 of Dallas, it *as set in a :ctitios coastal s.r. of ;os !ngeles, and

centered on the li"es of for married coples li"ing in acl-de-sac,

ea"ie* &ircle 'y the time of its conclsion, nots aninghad .ecome

one of the longest-rnning primetime dramas on K tele"ision

after -unso/eand &onan'a314

nots aning*as created .y a"id 0aco.s(one-time *riter

of Failand later prodcer of ois * 3lar/6 The =e)


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11th place) and a #66 rating for the 198O8? season (*hen it :nished

9th) This can .e attri.ted, in part, to more dramatic storylines as the

series .ecame more soap-opera like, and the gradal inclsion of ne*er

characters to interact *ith the original cast 'y the 1988O89 season, nots

aning*as ahead of Dallasin the ratings, thogh adiences for .oth

sho*s .y this time *ere less than their earlier years

An 1997, mch of the cast renited for a t*o-part mini-series

entitled nots aning6 &ac/ to the 3ulAeAac An #66?, they renited

again for the non-:ction special nots aning #eunion6 Together


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&redited cast3edit4

ee also6 ist o nots aning cast ebers

Michele ,ee(Original cast)as +aren ooper Fairgate

Mac+enie2344 episodes

First married to id Fairgate, and later to $ack $cGenBie, and the

mother of iana, ric and $ichael Fairgate he and $ack later adopted

$eg, (;ara2s daghter *ith >reg mner) Garen *orked as a commnity

acti"ist and later pro"ed herself to .e a good .siness*oman .y rnning

Gnots ;anding $otors and ;ots /oint, of *hich she *as a Loint-o*ner *ith

>ary and !..y ($ichele ;ee *old also .ecome the only cast mem.er to

appear in all % episodes)

Don Murray2Original cast)as .illiam Sidney Fairgate 21959

19816 33 episodes

Garen2s :rst hs.and, and the o*ner of Gnots ;anding $otors ary, the middle *ing son .et*een0and 'o..y, *as the

family .lacksheep and a reco"ering alcoholic The tre lo"e of Valene2s life

and father of their daghter ;cy(from allas) and t*ins 'o..y X 'etsy

*ing !fter his arri"al in &alifornia, he .egan *orking for id Fairgate at

Gnots ;anding $otors, *here he *as e"entally promoted to "ice

president


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to Val *as *recked .y his a5air *ith !..y !fter his father (0ock *ing)

died, he inherited S16 million and later married !..y, thogh the

marriage ended after a cople of years !fter a relationship *ith the

scheming 0ill 'ennett, he later remarried Valene (Ted hackleford is the

only castmem.er along *ith $ichele ;ee to remain in the series

throghot its entire rn, .t he did not appear in e"ery episode)

oan


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! la*yer, and later a restarant o*ner Knhappily married to ;ara,

he strggled to assert himself after she lanched a sccessfl career in

real-estate An 198#, he s5ered a ner"os .reakdo*n (*here he held

;ara hostage at gnpoint) and left to*n in 198% *ithot his family and

he and ;ara di"orced inger,

.t reformed pon the .irth of their daghter rin $olly 'oth he and

>inger mo"ed a*ay from Gnots ;anding in 198%

+im ,an-7ord(Original cast)as inger .ard 2195919836 5A

episodes?

$arried to Genny, >inger *as a kindergarten teacher *ith

aspirations of .eing a singer he ga"e .irth to a daghter, rin $olly, in

1981

"atric- "etersen(Original cast)as Michael Fairgate 21959

19916 18; episodes?

id and Garen2s yonger son *ho *old .ecome romantically

in"ol"ed *ith $ack2s daghter /aige $atheson and later ha"e an a5air

*ith his older .rother ric2s *ife, ;inda Fairgate

laudia ,ono&(Original cast)as Diana Fairgate 219591984>

19936 81 episodes?

Garen2s daghter *ho fell in lo"e *ith the e"il &hip o.erts ($ichael

a.atino) he e"entally left Gnots ;anding to stdy in Ce* Jork &ity
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ulie @arrisas ,ilimae lements21980> 198119856 1A

episodes?

Valene2s mother Thogh they2d .een estranged for many years,

after ;ilimae "irtally a.andoned Valene as a teenager in her Eest to

.ecome a contry singer, ;ilimae reappeared in Valene2s life dring

eason 1 An eason %, she mo"ed in *ith Valene and >ary, remaining in

Gnots ;anding ntil eason 9

Donna Millsas ==y Fairgate unningham )&ing

Sumner219801989> 19936 ;3 episodes?

id2s sister, and the neigh.orhood tro.lemaker !fter di"orcing her

:rst hs.and, 0e5 &nnningham, !..y decided to mo"e to Gnots ;anding

*here she .egan *orking as a .ookkeeper at Gnots ;anding $otors he

engaged in a5airs *ith ichard, and later >ary, destroying his marriage to

Val !..y then married >ary herself (mainly to get his inheritance) .t

they di"orced a cople of years later, thogh .y this time she *as *orking

*ith .oth >ary and her former sister-in-la*, Garen, as Loint-o*ners of

;ots /oint he later married >reg mner (for political reasons) .t the

marriage lasted only a fe* months .efore !..y mo"ed to 0apan !lthogh

!..y adored her .rother id, !..y and Garen rarely got along onna $ills

appeared in almost all the episodes of the series for her nine seasons,

*ith the e+ception of one episode dring the 1988O89 season

%onya ro&eas #li'ia unningham Dyer 2198019906 135

episodes?
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!..y2s re.ellios daghter *ho .ecame addicted to drgs he later

married mo.ster2s nephe*


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politician, >reg .ecame a .sinessman after inheriting his father2s

corporation eary, .t

.ecame mentally ill and e+tremely "iolent !fter he tried to kill &athy, he

accidentally fell o5 a roof and died

%eri ustinas ill Bennett 2198A19896 9 episodes?

!n e+-colleage of $ack2s and later had a relationship *ith >ary

he .ecame threatened .y >ary2s close friendship *ith his e+-*ife Valene

and tried to mrder her he accidentally killed herself after locking

herself in the trnk of >ary2s car in an attempt to frame him for

kidnapping

*icollette Sheridanas "aige Matheson219819936 181

episodes?

$ack2s daghter *ith !nne $atheson he .ecame romantically

in"ol"ed *ith Garen2s yonger son $ichael Fairgate, /eter reg mner
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(*hom she also *orked for), police detecti"e Tom yan, and also /ierce

;a*ton *ho tried to kill her

Michelle "hillipsas nne Matheson21985> 1989> 199019936

88 episodes?

/aige2s mother and $ack2s :rst lo"e he initially tried to split p

$ack and Garen, .t after failing she trned her attentions to >reg and

also attempted to cheat /aige ot of her inheritance from her grandfather

,arry Rileyas Fran- .illiams 21988199;6 99 episodes

Frank mo"ed to Gnots ;anding *ith his *ife /at and daghter 0lie

as part of the *itness protection program reg2s a5airs

ther recrring characters3edit4

te"e ha*(+riginal castas ric Fairgate (1979O1996)
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Garen and id2s eldest son *ho had a .rief romantic relationship

*ith >reg mner2s daghter $ary-Frances .efore later marrying ;inda,

*ho *old ha"e an a5air *ith his .rother $ichael

'o..y 0aco.yas 'rian &nningham N1 (1986O198?)

!..y2s son

tephen $achtas 0oe &ooper (1981O198#)

Garen2s .rother

$ichael a.atinoas &hip o.erts (aka Tony Fenice) (198#O198%)

iana2s hs.and and the mrderer of &iLi reenas 'rian &nningham N# (198@O1989)
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!..y2s son

0osha e"aneas Jong >reg mner (198@O1987D 1996)

og a"antas Jong $ack $cGenBie (198@-1987)

;ar /ark ;incolnas ;inda Fairgate (1987, 1989O1991)

ric Fairgate2s *ife *ho had an a5air *ith his .rother $ichael, and

later on ha"e a romantic relationship *ith her .oss >reg mner he *as

.rtally mrdered

;ynne $oodyas /at Williams (1988O1996)

Wife of Frank Williams and mother of 0lie ! former doctor, she and

her family *ere in the Witness /rotection /rogram .t she died *hen she

*as hit .y anny Waleska2s car

/al &arafotesas


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Valene2s ant *ho comes to li"e *ith her for a *hile

am 'ehrensas anny Waleska (1989O1996)

Valene2s "iolent third hs.and

0oseph >ianas et Tom yan (1989O1991, 199%)

! dirty cop *ho almost married /aige

;orenBo &accialanBaas Cick chillace=imitri /appas (1996O1991,

199#O199%)

! shady Atialian play.oy *ho .ecame in"ol"ed *ith .oth !nne

$atheson and &ladia Whittaker

Thomas Wilson 'ro*nas 0ason ;ochner (1996-1991)

! teenager *ith an a.si"e father *ho goes to li"e *ith $ack and

Garen

'rce >reen*oodas /ierce ;a*ton (1991O199#)

! .sinessman *ho .ecame in"ol"ed *ith /aige .t later tried to kill

her

/lot smmaries3edit4

ee also6 ist o nots aning e:isoes

Season #ne 21959803edit4

1% episodes (1O1%)

/rodced .yH 0oseph ' Wallenstein

Kpon arri"ing in Gnots ;anding, &alifornia, ne*ly remarried >ary and

Valene *ing (Ted hackelfordand0oan Van !rk) meet their neigh.ors at

their ne* cl-de-sac home of ea"ie* &ircle Ce+t door are id and Garen

Fairgate (played .y on $rrayand $ichele ;ee) and their three children,
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iana (&ladia ;ono*), ric (te"e ha*), and $ichael (/atrick /etersen)

!lso li"ing in the cl-de-sac *ere corporate la*yer ichard !"ery and his

*ife ;ara (0ohn /leshetteand &onstance $c&ashin), parents of a yong

son, 0ason, and yong ne*ly*eds Genny Ward (a record prodcer) and his

*ife >inger (0ames ary and Val2s daghter ;cy(&harlene Tilton) came to "isit them

from allas, .t opted not to stay in &alifornia >ary took a Lo. at Gnots

;anding $otors, a Ford-;incoln-$ercry car dealership (hence, the sho*2s

early sponsors) o*ned .y id


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her scheming *ays, .t Garen *as sspicios of almost e"erything !..y

did When !..y took a Lo. at Gnots ;anding $otors as a .ookkeeper, she

helped >ary ot of a .ind *ith mo.sters.y going to his .rother 0 *ing

(;arry ary *as cheating on her *ith 0dy Trent (0ane lliott),

the attracti"e *ife of arl Trent, a man he *as sponsoring in !lcoholics

!nonymos "en thogh !..y set her sights on >ary, she settled for

ichard, taking no great e5ort to conceal the a5air from ;ara, *ho took

on a career in real estate and .egan a Iirtation *ith her .oss, cooter

Warren (!llan $iller) !..y dmped ichard *hen her e+-hs.and 0e5

&nningham ('arry 0enner) threatened to take her children a*ay ring

an episode *here the *omen of Gnots ;anding held a .a.y sho*er for

>inger *hich *as interrpted .y intrders *ho held them all hostage,

!..y sedced one of the thgs in order to get ot of the sitation

>inger .egan dating the father of one of her stdents *hile

separated from Genny, .t took Genny .ack pon disco"ering that she

*as pregnant $ean*hile, ichard2s career as a la*yer took a trn for the

*orse id and !..y2s nephe* /al Fairgate (Gale 'ro*ne) made his only

appearance on the sho* in the episode /layers !t the end of the

season, !..y2s e+-hs.and 0e5 scceeded in taking their t*o children

a*ay *ithot !..y2s permission, lea"ing her frantic When id disco"ered

some car parts that >ary and !..y had .een .ying *ere actally stolen,

his .rakes *ere tampered *ith in order to keep him from testifying to this

in cort id\s car *ent o5 a cli5, *ith id and his F'A agent .odygard

almaggio inside
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Season %hree 219818;3edit4

## episodes (%#O?%)

/rodced .yH 0oseph ' Wallenstein

almaggio *as prononced dead, .t id *as still ali"e and rshed

to hospital


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Valene attempted to forge a .ond *ith her estranged mother

;ilimae (0lie ary

;ara .egan an a5air *ith her .oss cooter after years of .eing

nhappily married to ichard he planned to lea"e ichard, .t then

disco"ered she *as pregnant he planned on a.orting the pregnancy, .t

decided not to after ichard got "iolent ichard *as .ecoming the

company pimpafter .eing asked to spply entertainment .y his .oss for

some clients at his la* :rm, a pattern that kept repeating itself This *as

e"entally re"ealed on the ne*s, and ichard2s employer denied any

in"ol"ement *ith him !fter losing his Lo., ichard .ecame depressed and

had a ner"os .reakdo*n !fter holding ;ara at the children hostage at

gnpoint, ichard *as sent to a mental instittion

!fter Garen passed p the opportnity to fnd a methanol-po*ered

"ehicle proLect, >ary and !..y de"oted hors to making it *ork *ithot

her help !..y made repeated passes at >ary, and :nally they slept

together An the season :nale, Valene *alks in on them .oth and Iees the

cl-de-sac in tears

Season Four 2198;833edit4

## episodes (?O7?)

/rodced .yH /eter nne
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Valene retrns to her hose in ea"ie* &ircle and thro*s >ary ot

he later .ecomes a .est-selling athor *ith &apricorn &rde, her thinly

"eiled e+pose of the *ings of allas >ary mo"es into a .each hose

*ith !..y and her t*o children, and inherits millions from his father2s *ill

An"esting money in se"eral *ays, he decides to go into the record

.siness and teams p *ith Genny *ho prodces the record of a .eatifl

yong singer &iLi nne (;isa ary2s money, and in a cross-promotion, demanded that

&iLi sing there e"ery night >inger resented &iLi, as Genny spent a lot of

time *orrying a.ot &iLi\s career and almost no time at all on >inger2s

;ara and &iLi .ecame .est friends, *hich prompted the insecre ichard

to fear the *omen *ere ha"ing a les.ianrelationship

Valene\s p.licist &hip o.erts ($ichael a.atino) con"inced ;ilimae

to let him li"e *ith them &hip dated Garen\s daghter iana and &iLi at

the same time, and panicked *hen he fond ot &iLi *as carrying his

child anthat &iLi had disco"ered he *as actally a criminal called Tony
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Fenice hortly after*ards, &iLi2s dead .ody *ashed p on the .each >ary,

*ho had again started drinking, *as arrested for her mrder

ealiBing ;ara no longer lo"ed him, ichard left Gnots ;anding,

*hich made ;ara .elie"e he *as &iLi2s mrderer Genny and >inger also

left Gnots ;anding, *ith Genny .eing o5ered a Lo. in Cash"ille An the

season :nale, >ary langished in a prison cell a*aiting trial for &iLi2s

mrder, *hile ;ilimae disco"ered &hip\s real identity 'y this time, &hip

had left to*n *ith iana, lea"ing Garen horri:ed that her daghter *as in

the hands of a killer

Season Fi'e 21983843edit4

#? episodes (7@O166)

/rodced .yH /eter nne

>ary *as acEitted of &iLi\s mrder de to a lack of e"idence &hip

(no* re"ealed to .e mrder sspect Tony Fenice) and iana Ied to*n as

&hip .ecame the primary sspect !lthogh &hip confessed to iana that

he2d killed &iLi, they married *hile on the rn so that she *old not ha"e

to testify against him in cort When it looked as thogh &hip *old get

a*ay *ith the mrder, ;ilimae took matters into her o*n hands .y

rnning him do*n *ith her car ary\s company, *ith *hich to .ild

her po*er .ase !..y con"inced >ary to marry her in order to get half of

his inheritance Valene .egan a relationship *ith Lornalist 'en >i.son
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(oglas heehan) 'efore marrying !..y, >ary slept *ith Valene one

more time Valene disco"ered she *as pregnant *ith >ary2s children

(t*ins), Valene opted not to tell him as he *as no* married to !..y and

she herself *as in lo"e *ith 'en reg

mner (William e"ane), an old college friend of $ack2s *ho *as rnning

for K enator, recei"ed the endorsements of $ack and Garen, as *ell as

!..y, *ho *anted to .y herself a senator >reg hired $ack to lead his

enate &rime &ommission in"estigating the sinister Wolf.ridge >rop, .t

*hen !..y con"inced >reg to get her an illegal land "arianceto .ild on

;ots /oint, >reg pinned it on $ack, ths ending their friendship

!fter Garen2s reco"ery from drg addiction, she and iana

reconciled Wolf.ridge forced !..y to let them .ecome her partners in the

de"elopment of ;ots /oint When $ack disco"ered that !polne o*ned
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all the land in ;ots /oint, e+cept Garen and !..y\s inheritances, he

thoght !polne *as a di"ision of Wolf.ridge ;ara confessed that

!polne *as !..y\s company and >ary decided to di"orce !..y When

$ack faked >ary2s death to get Wolf.ridge, Garen left him, .elie"ing his

o.session *ith Wolf.ridge had cost her e"erything An the season :nale,

$ack tried to trick $ark t &laire (0oseph &hapman), the head of the

Wolf.ridge >rop, into trying to shoot >ary, .t t &laire\s assassin hit

Garen instead !..y *as kidnapped .y the Wolf.ridge >rop *hen they

realiBed they had failed

Season Si( 219848A3edit4

%6 episodes (161O1%6)

/rodced .yH /eter nne (ep 161-119) =;a*rence Gasha (ep 1#6-

1%6)

>reg mner kills $ark t &laire, *ho *as holding !..y hostage on

a .oat !fter .eing shot, Garen *as gi"en only months to li"e after

declining to ha"e risky srgery de to her fear that she *old die on the

operating ta.le like id had $ean*hile, >ary and !..y reconciled and the

cople, along *ith Garen, agreed to .ecome partners in ;ots /oint

;ilimae2s secret son 0osha (!lec 'ald*in), *hom she2d a.andoned as a

.a.y, came to li"e *ith her and Valene


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pro.lem !s a gift to !..y, he had Valene\s .a.ies kidnapped after their

.irth, thogh *ithot !..y2s consent Valene *as told that the .a.ies

*ere still.orn, and *hen she insisted that she2d heard them crying,

no.ody .elie"ed her al"eston .efriended

>ary, and o5ered him a chance to de"elop mpire Valley, a large piece of

real estate >ary .egan constrction to de"elop a .siness and residential

park at the site >al"eston died, lea"ing his company to his son, >reg

mner !ssming he *old inherit mpire Valley, >reg resigned from the

enate, .t >al"eston left mpire Valley to >ary >reg\s meddling mother

th >al"eston (!"a >ardner) paid him an e+tended "isit he took a liking

to !..y .t disliked ;ara *hom >reg had .ecome closely in"ol"ed *ith

0osha .ecame a tele"angelistat World /aci:c &a.le


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!..y con:ded to >reg that she had inad"ertently cased Valene2s .a.ies

to .e stolen from her and asked for his help in reco"ering them as not

e"en she *old kno*ingly steal another *oman2s children, ho*e"er >reg

attempted to .lackmail her *ith the information instead With th

>al"eston2s help, !..y manages to get the address of the cople *ho

ha"e Val2s .a.ies he goes to Val and tells her she kno*s *here her

.a.ies are, in the hopes of reniting them and therefore co"ering her

in"ol"ement in their kidnapping They dri"e to the home of


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sccessflly co"ered her tracks in the matter .y simply telling >ary that

she had recei"ed a phone call for $rs *ing telling her that the .a.ies

*ere still ali"e and *here they cold .e fond, and assmed the phone

call *as meant for Valene Valene and 'en agreed to raise the .a.ies

together, and they married !lso married this year *ere ;ara and >reg,

*hose estrangement ended *hen he con"inced her that his interfering

mother *as ot of their li"es for good >ary recei"ed ne*s a.ot his

.rother 'o..y2s death, and headed .ack to allas for the fneral (in the

198@-87 season premiere of Dallas, 'o..y *ing2s death *as re"ealed to

.e part of a dream, ho*e"er this *as ne"er ackno*ledged on nots

aning)

mpire Valley *ent a*ry *hen >ary disco"ered that >al"eston

Andstries and its partners *ere secretly .ilding an

ndergrond espionageoperation there >ary .le* p mpire Valley to

stop this >ary .lamed !..y, *ho had helped >reg and gone .ehind his

.ack >ary informed !..y at the end of the season that he *old di"orce

her

>ary .eEeathed part of mpire Valley to Val2s kids 'etsy and 'o..y

(named after his recently deceased .rother), *ho *ere .eing raised as

'en2s children /eter ary, *hile /eter, in going

throgh >reg\s :les, disco"ered a *oman named yl"ia ;ean (th
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oman) *ho\d .een recei"ing monthly payments from >al"eston

Andstries for o"er #6 years he had gi"en .irth to >al"eston\s no*-

deceased son, *hom /eter pretended to .e, demanding compensation

from >reg !..y disco"ered the trth and demanded ?1 of /eter\s

compensation in retrn for keeping it secret, .t *hen /eter disco"ered

that !..y had kno*n that Valene\s .a.ies had .een kidnapped from the

start, he sed this against her

With his sanity slipping a*ay, 0osha .ecame a.si"e to*ard &athy,

*ho then left him Cot *anting to lose her, he decided that they shold

die together


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Garen2s kidnapper *as /hil iam.al"o), an old friend

of >reg2s and $ack2s *ho *as .itter to*ard $ack, *hom he .lamed for

ha"ing cased the death of his *ife 'en retrned to Valene and promised

to make their marriage *ork, ho*e"er this promise *as compromised

*hen he *as contacted .y 0ean


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p her stash of drgs to !..y li"ia then .ecame friends *ith /eter

reg

*as left to raise $eg, his and ;ara2s infant daghter "ercome *ith grief

and feeling na.le to raise the child .y himself, >reg asked Garen and

$ack to adopt her, *hich they did $ean*hile, ;ilimae left Gnots ;anding
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*ith a ne* man in her life !..y rekindled an old romance *ith her :rst

lo"e, *ealthy .siness e+ecti"e &harles cott ($ichael Jork) The t*o

married .rieIy, .t !..y ended the relationship after disco"ering his

lterior moti"es a.ot plans for the ;ots /oint $arina

Frank and /at Williams (;arry ileyand ;ynne $oody) and their

daghter 0lie (Gent $asters-Ging) mo"ed into ;ara2s old hose on the

cl-de-sac $ack and Garen *ere sspicios of them at :rst, .t .ecame

their friends pon disco"ering they *ere in the Witness /rotection

/rogram 'siness at ;ots /oint .egan to slo* do*n, and Garen, >ary,

and !..y agreed to e+pand the marina to accommodate the .siness of

$anny VasEeB (0ohn !prea)

/aige .egan to *ork for >reg, and fond herself attracted to him

/aige and $ichael *ent on an archaeological digin $e+ico When it

.ecame apparent that $anny VasEeB (0ohn !prea) *as selling drgs

throgh ;ots /oint, its o*ners tried to stop him ary took an increased interest in Valene2s t*ins, initially at Valene\s

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and forced Valene at gnpoint to take a *hole .ottle of sleeping pills in

order to make it look like Valene had killed herself The follo*ing morning,

Valene *as seen laying motionless on the Ioor

Season %en 21988893edit4

#8 episodes (##6O#7)

&o-e+ecti"e prodcerH ;a*rence Gasha

/rodced .yH $ary-&atherine


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! con artisttried to e+tort money from Frank and /at .y threatening

to re"eal their location to the men *ho had threatened /at2s life *hen she

testi:ed against them $ack halted the con artist, and sed dental records

from a deceased family to make the men .elie"e that the ollars family

(the original identity of the Williamses) *ere dead /aige and $ichael *ere

a.le to get ot of $e+ico, and $anny VasEeB\s nephe* reg\s company

nonetheless To assist in his election campaign, >reg then tried to tried to

regain cstody of $eg from Garen and $ack, her adopti"e parents, *hich

led to a highly charged legal .attle

$ack had a mid-life crisis and Eit his Lo., opening a pri"ate la*

practice Follo*ing a health and safety report, the ;ots /oint resort has to

.e sold reg himself had
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planned to get after his failed attempt to .ecome mayor of ;os !ngeles)

/aige, mean*hile, :nds herself caght .et*een >reg and Ted $elcher,

one of *hom is a mrderer

Season )le'en 21989903edit4

#9 episodes (#8O#7@)


/rodced .yH $ary-&atherine reg2s oRce,
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making >reg .elie"e he *as the intended target >reg himself is then shot

.y $ary Frances2 acti"ist .oyfriend o.ert, thogh he sr"i"es o.ert

.lames >reg for manfactring poisonos agricltral chemicals that are

.anned in the K .ecase they case li"er cancer and confesses that he2s

the one *ho shot $ary Frances .ecase she *as already dying of the

disease and he *anted to p.liciBe their case o.ert then inLects >reg

*ith the chemicals so that he2ll s5er like his "ictims ha"e

Co* .roke, /aige2s mother !nne retrns to Gnots ;anding in an

attempt to cheat /aige ot of an inheritance that her grandfather left her

'y pretending to .e /aige sing her A, she sets p a .ank accont to

fradlently claim the money, .t her plan goes a*ry

/aige falls in lo"e *ith dirty cop Tom yan (0oseph >ian) and the t*o

plan to marry, .t on the day of their *edding, Tom Lilts her after >reg

.lackmails him >ary proposes to Valene, *ho accepts Garen starts

presenting a tele"ision talk sho*, .t .ecomes the target of an o.sessi"e

fan *ho starts terroriBing her from afar When she .elie"es that the stalker

has :nally .een caght, it is then re"ealed that the real stalker is actally

0e5 &ameron (&hris ;emmon), one of her sho*2s prodcers 0e5 then starts

a page for Garen in a scrap.ook he keeps of tele"ision personalities that

ha"e .een mrdered

Season %&el'e 21990913edit4

#7 episodes (#77O%6%)


/rodced .yH $ary-&atherine


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0e5 plots to mrder Garen, .t is e"entally caght With >reg2s

health deteriorating, his half-sister &ladia (Gathleen Coone) arri"es in

Gnots ;anding along *ith her daghter Gate, *ho shares an ncanny

resem.lance to >reg2s dead daghter $ary Frances (.oth characters *ere

played .y tacy >alina) When she realiBes she is not yet in >reg2s *ill,

&ladia schemes to get him a ne* li"er for a transplant so that he2ll li"e

Gate meets te"e 're*er (;ance >est), a man claiming to .e her .rother

te"e, *ho had .een pt p for adoption .y &ladia, *as the prodct of a

tryst .et*een &ladia and /al >al"eston (her mother2s e+-hs.and and

>reg2s father) Gate and te"e .ecome close friends, .t &ladia does not

*ant him arond and so she plants a gn in his car !s he is a former

felon, the gn "iolates his parole and he is shot dead *hile Ieeing from

the police

$ack .efriends a high school stdent named 0ason ;ochner (Thomas

Wilson 'ro*n), *ho *as .eing .eaten .y his a.si"e father $ack recalls

the memories of his o*n physical a.se at the hands of his o*n father,

and in"ites 0ason to li"e *ith him and Garen 0ason dates 0lie Williams for

a *hile Frank passes his la*yer .ar e+am and after .rieIy *orking at a

corporate la* :rm, goes to *ork as a la*yer *ith $ack at his small

practice

anny contines harassing Val ary *ith a .at

and, after forcing him to drink alcohol, pts him in his car *hich he sends

o"er a cli5, hoping to make it look like an accident $iraclosly, >ary

sr"i"es (sa"ed .y the air.ag), .t anny is later fond dead, Ioating in

the Williams2 s*imming pool !fter a police in"estigation in *hich almost
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e"ery.ody is a sspect, it is disco"ered that anny tried to attack 0lie

*hile he *as drnk, fell into the Williams2 pool, and dro*ned Valene falls

from a horse and de"elops psychiatric pro.lems for a *hile he is

e"entally cred and she and >ary remarry !nne meets Atalian Cick

chillace (;orenBo &accialanBa), *ith *hom she falls in lo"e *ith and

em.arks on a series of illegal schemes to make money Their plans all

.ack:re and *hen Cick lea"es to*n, !nne is left .roke and homeless and

is forced to li"e on the streets /aige and ;inda .ecome ri"als at the

mner >rop, made *orse *hen ;inda and >reg ha"e an a5air

While Garen and Val are ot one day, Garen is shot in the .ack *ith

a paint.all .y some teenagers in a car Frios, Garen gets into her o*n

car and a high-speed chase enses *hich ends *hen the teenagers2 car

crashes into a trck Garen rshes o"er to the crashed car and she sees

the .lood-splattered .odies of the teenagers ne of them is 0ason

Season %hirteen 219919;3edit4

## episodes (%6O%#?)

&o-e+ecti"e prodcerH 0ohn omano (ep %6O%18)

per"ising prodcerH 0oseph


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streets, !nne meets shady 'enny !ppleman and they scheme to make

money together he agrees to pose nde for a magaBine and then starts

hosting an ad"ice sho* on night-time radio *hich .ecomes a smash hit

!fter getting herself in"ol"ed in dangeros schemes, ;inda is

mrdered .y the craBy 'rian 0ohnston, *ho then holds the $ackenBies

hostage at gnpoint in their home for an entire episode 0ason lea"es the

$ackenBie hosehold to "isit *eden for a year, *hile 0lie also lea"es

Gnots ;anding to mo"e .ack east to li"e *ith relati"es Frank dates

schoolteacher e..ie /orter (played .y ary, along *ith her ne*

.oyfriend /ierce ('rce >reen*ood) ! former Iame of /ierce2s, Victoria

'royelard (played .y $arcia &ross), re"ealed that /ierce had killed his

pre"ios girlfriend, .t /aige did not .elie"e it /aige *as shot .y /ierce

(aiming for >reg, *hom he hated) and temporarily paralyBed, gi"ing a

delsional /ierce (*ho thoght she *as the pre"ios, pregnant girlfriend

he2d already killed) a chance to kidnap her reg They resce /aige after >reg and

/ierce :ght and fall into the *ater, .t /ierce2s .ody is ne"er fond and he

is presmed to ha"e dro*ned

!le+ 'arth ('oyd Gestner), the nephe* of the >al"eston2s

hosekeeper, .lackmailed &ladia for refsing to help her ailing mother

th >al"eston *ith her medication and ths allo*ed her to die &ladia
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said that she *anted to end her mother2s pain $ean*hile, &ladia took a

dislike to 0oseph 'arringer and asked >reg to get him a Lo. in order to get

him a*ay from Gate >ary, *ho had tied p all his money in Tidal nergy,

*as left .ankrpt Valene attempted to console him, and the t*o of them

spent the rest of the season enLoying a happy marriage .ack at their

hose in ea"ie* &ircle Valene *as asked .y her p.lisher to *rite a

.iography on >reg mner $ary o.eson ($aree &heatham) told Valene

that she *as $eg\s grandmother, as she *as ;ara\s .iological mother

Valene refsed to .elie"e it, and *hen she in"estigated $ary o.eson

frther, she *as kidnapped in Florida $ean*hile, as /aige got into her

car, she looked into the rear-"ie* mirror mirror and *as horri:ed to see

the psychotic /ierce *aiting for her in the .ack seat

Season Fourteen 2199;933edit4

19 episodes (%#@O%)

&o-e+ecti"e prodcerH 'ar.ara &orday

per"ising prodcerH !nn $arcs

/rodced .yH $ary-&atherine ary sees a car she is in e+plode >reg

decides to retire from the mner >rop, and lea"es one-third of the

company to &ladia, one-third to /aige, and one-third to $ack and Garen

(in a trst for $eg) !nne2s pregnancy prompts him to retrn to Gnots

;anding to marry her, .t !nne then :nds ot that she has s5ered

fromhysterical pregnancy !nne old Iame Cick retrns to Gnots ;anding

$ack soght S1,666,666 to .ri.e $ary o.eson to stop her seeking

cstody of $eg &ladia gi"es him S?66,666 from the mner >rop
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Fondation fnds, and gi"es the other S?66,666 to Cick to start a

restarant /aige demanded an adit, and &ladia had to ask Cick for the

S?66,666 .ack, .t Cick had already spent it Garen did not .elie"e $ack

*old stoop to sch methods to get $ary o.eson o5 their .acks and

lea"es him, going to stay *ith iana in Ce* Jork &ity $ean*hile, a shady

:nancial organiBation rn .y a man named aniel Tread*ell attempts to

take o"er the mner grop, e"en plotting to kill >reg and /aige in the

process $ean*hile, >ary and Gate start a relationship

An the t*o-hor series :nale on $ay 1%, 199%, Garen retrns to

$ack The presmed dead Valene retrns to Gnots ;anding, astonding

>ary he e+plains that she *as not in the car that e+ploded and has .een

in hiding for the past year as Tread*ell2s people had kidnapped her after

she stm.led onto some sensiti"e information *hile she *as researching

her .ook a.ot >reg !lthogh she escaped, she cold not let >ary kno*

she *as ali"e for fearing that the organiBation *old come after him and

the children !t the same time, another familiar face retrns to Gnots

;anding as Tread*ell2s partner is re"ealed to .e !..y, *ho has .een

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are also lea"ing to*n 'ack at ea"ie* &ircle, >ary, Val, $ack and Garen

prepare to ha"e a .ar.ece as a ne* cople .egin mo"ing into Frank\s old

hose on the cl-de-sac !t that moment, another car plls p and !..y

emerges he informs e"eryone that she is .ying &ladia\s hose (the

hose *hich had originally .een hers *hen she li"ed on the cl-de-sac)

Valene simply smiles and *elcomes !..y .ack to the cl-de-sac .

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