1: "DIGGER´S DAUGHTER"
Writer: DAVID JACOBS
Director: ROBERT DAY
Millionaire in oil and cattle, JOHN JOCK EWING lives with his family at the SOUTHFORK Ranch, near the town of DALLAS. The EWING clan stands out through its members´ diversity and their strong individualism, encouraged by the unlimited ambition and the free game of passions.
The youngest son BOBBY, returns to the ranch married with PAMELA, daughter of DIGGER BARNES, JOCK´s main enemy. The event is a bombshell to the clan. The oldest brother, J.R., see a spy in PAMELA, and a dangerous enemy for his power-hunger in BOBBY, since he has come back wanting to work hard.
J.R.´s wife SUE ELLEN, turns out to be rather unfriendly and LUCY, the EWINGS´ granddaughter, tries to scare away PAM very early on. J.R. uses foreman RAY KREBBS, PAM´s former boyfriend, to make the couple apart, but his plan backfires and whispers:
"I underestimated the new Mrs. Ewing. I sure as hell won't do that again..."
SUPPORTING CAST: KEN KERCHEVAL (CLIFF), DAVID WAYNE (DIGGER), DONNA BULLOCK (CONNIE), BILL THURMAN (PHIL BRADLEY), JAMES R. GOUGH, DESMOND DHOOGE (DRUNK HARVEY), JAMES L. MOSLEY and TINA LOUISE as JULIE GREY. FIRST AIRED ON 4/2/78 BY CBS.
2: "LESSONS"
aka The Lesson
W: VIRGINIA ALDRIDGE
D: IRVING J. MOORE
PAMELA has already become closer to the EWING family, above all her mother-in-law MISS ELLIE, and begins to feel like an EWING in every sense. She only has problems with RAY and LUCY, spoiled by her grandfather.
PAMELA is determined to put a limit to her shenanigans and make her attend the high school, instead of spending time with RAY at the hayloft...but she rebels and assures she has been sexually attacked by her counselor. PAM finds out the truth by her schoolmate ROGER and gets her in again.
S.C.: TINA LOUISE, JEFFREY BYRON (ROGER HURLEY), DONNA BULLOCK, RYAN MERCKEY (MR. DALEY), JO McDONNELL, LARRY TANNER (HAL) and PAUL TULLY as MILLER. FIRST AIRED ON 4/9/78.
3: "SPY IN THE HOUSE"
W: ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS
D: ROBERT DAY
CLIFF BARNES, PAM´s brother, owns some compromising papers exposing Senator ORLOFF, a friend of the EWINGS´, related with favors they have received from him. When the clan starts to investigate about the way CLIFF could get hand to them, they learn that PAM took them to J.R.´s office, so she is accused of spying on them for her brother.
BOBBY, convinced of her innocence, quickly stands out to defend PAM and discovers that JULIE GREY, J.R.´s secretary, has been sleeping with CLIFF in order to damage his brother...
S.C.: KEN KERCHEVAL, TINA LOUISE, DONNA BULLOCK and NORMAN ALDEN as SENATOR BILL ORLOFF. FIRST AIRED ON 4/16/78.
4: "WINDS OF VENGEANCE"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: I.J. MOORE
After selling cattle in WACO, J.R. and RAY decide to sleep around with 2 women. After they leave, the husband and the brother of one these women come in and find a card of J.R.´s. LUTHER convinces PAYTON to go and get a revenge for what upon them has been a rape...
Meanwhile, a hurricane is striking the area and only the women have stayed at the ranch. BOBBY and JOCK return on time to stop the revenge but not SUE ELLEN´s humiliation, in front of everybody...
S.C.: BRIAN DENNEHY (LUTHER), NIKI FLACKS (WANDA FRICK), LAURA TATE (MARY LOU), NANCY LYDICK (CONNIE) and COOPER HUCKABEE as PAYTON ALLEN. FIRST AIRED ON 4/23/78.
5: "BARBECUE"
W: DAVID JACOBS
D: I.J. MOORE
A big barbecue is being prepared at SOUTHFORK and PAMELA decides to invite her daddy, convinced that there is no resentment left between DIGGER and JOCK. PAM has good news for them: she is pregnant, which makes them happy. LUCY is focused on JIMMY, PAM´s cousin. PAM´s pregnancy upsets J.R. and SUE ELLEN, who turns to booze.
PAM finds LUCY and JIMMY in the hayloft and, when they go away, J.R. and she argue, and she ends up falling down from a certain height, causing her miscarriage.
"Little lady, us Ewings are not an easy family to live with, as you found out – confides JOCK to PAM - We have had our own way for so long, that maybe it kept out of the way of our being, just people. I guess you don´t have no reason to really care but, I want to keep my family together!"
S.C.: KEN KERCHEVAL, DAVID WAYNE, IRMA HALL (TILLIE), JO McDONNELL, HASKELL CRAVER (SAM), LISA LE MULE (SUSAN) and JAMES CANNING as JIMMY MONAHAN. FIRST AIRED ON 4/30/78.
THIS EPISODE CLOSED THE MINI-SERIES THAT WORKED AS A PILOT FOR "DALLAS" IN 1978. THE SHOW WOULD CONTINUE ON THE FOLLOWING TV SEASON WITH THE DOUBLE EPISODE "REUNION".
SEASON 1 (AIRED ON 1978-9 SEASON):
(From this episode on LINDA GRAY and STEVE KANALY are included in the opening credits, and KEN KERCHEVAL becomes a regular character, though the actor did not appear in the titles until Season 2)
6: "REUNION" (I)
W: DAVID JACOBS
D: I.J. MOORE
In LAS VEGAS for a convention, BOBBY bumps into a waiter who surprisingly turns out to be his long-lost brother GARY. After a long insistence, he persuades him to come back to his family at SOUTHFORK.
This shocks the family, especially MISS ELLIE, who always had him as her favorite son. LUCY, who had been secretly meeting her mama VALENE, takes her home too and the whole family is re-united. But J.R. feels suspicious about this reunion...
S.C.: DAVID ACKROYD (GARY), JOAN VAN ARK (VALENE) and PHILIP LEVIEN as JIMMY MONAHAN. FIRST AIRED ON 9/23/78.
7: "REUNION" (II)
W: DAVID JACOBS
D: I.J. MOORE
At his most cynical, J.R. seems to agree with the idea of GARY getting involved with the family business. His ex-wife VAL, though, sees J.R.´s persistence as a scheme to pull GARY away from the ranch.
In the meantime, DIGGER has been drinking again and rejects her daughter PAMELA. Pressure will make GARY to abandon the ranch again, in spite of VAL´s efforts...At the same time, she is unsuccessfully bribed by J.R. and would rather go away on her own.
S.C.: DAVID ACKROYD, JOAN VAN ARK, DAVID WAYNE and SARAH CUNNINGHAM as Aunt MAGGIE MONAHAN. FIRST AIRED ON 9/30/78.
8: "OLD ACQUAINTANCE"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: ALEX MARCH
An old fiancée of BOBBY´s returns to DALLAS: her name is JENNA WADE, and has come back with a child called CHARLIE, of unknown father. After knowing that JENNA just broke up with the politician he was having an affair with, J.R. arranges a meeting between BOBBY and her.
The young man is afraid that CHARLIE might be his daughter, and since JENNA asks him for economical help for her and her child, BOBBY helps them unselfishly. But his attitude alerts PAMELA, who sees in the newcomer a menace for her marriage. PAM faces her, and JENNA admits that CHARLIE IS NOT BOBBY´S DAUGHTER.
S.C.: MORGAN FAIRCHILD (JENNA WADE), LAURIE LYNN MYERS (CHARLIE WADE), NICKI FLACKS (MELISSA ANDERSON), RICHARD ANTHONY, LISA LE MOLE and PETER MARK RICHMAN as MAYNARD ANDERSON. FIRST AIRED ON 10/ 7/18.
9: "BYPASS"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: COREY ALLEN
Arguments between BOBBY and J.R. become more and more frequent as the latter keeps him out of a lot of deals of EWING OIL. BOBBY tells his father about his project of leaving the company and work in the ranch.
A furious JOCK asks J.R. for explanations and, during the heated-up argument, the old man suffers a heart attack. All the family gives his support to the patriarch when he must have a By-Pass implanted. Meanwhile J.R. takes a look at his daddy´s will and starts to scheme. Finally, BOBBY decides to quit the company and J.R. gets back to the control of EWING OIL.
S.C.: BARBARA BABCOCK (LIZ CRAIG), ED NELSEN (JEB AMES) and JOHN ASHTON as WILLIE JOE GARR. FIRST AIRED ON 10/14/78.
10: "BLACK MARKET BABY"
W: DARLENE CRAVIOTTO
D: LARRY DOBKIN
During a family reunion, PAMELA announces she is expecting a baby. JOCK gets very happy since he is thrilled to have a new EWING to continue his name.
SUE ELLEN, 7-year-long married, with no children, is afraid and decides to adopt a child. At J.R.´s back, she begins to arrange things and, as it might take 3 years legally, then she decides to buy one at the black market. But when J.R. discovers the existence of RITA, the surrogate mother, he sends her to California. Then he azures SUE ELLEN that, if they have a baby, it must be "ours, not somebody else´s..."
S.C.: BARBARA BABCOCK, TALIA BALSAM (RITA BRIGGS) and JAMES WHITMORE Jr. as B.J. BUZZ CONNORS. FIRST AIRED ON 10/15/78.
11: "DOUBLE WEDDING"
W: JIM INMAN & A.B. LEWIS
D: PAUL STANLEY
PAMELA meets ED HAYNES again and he reminds her they still are husband and wife. The wedding had happened years earlier, during a trip to Mexico. She was a minor and got it annulled not long after that.
However she intends to tell all to BOBBY and avoid misunderstandings. But ED is faster and reports J.R. mistakenly...Finally, BOBBY y PAM find a copy of the annulment certificate and ED leaves the town.
S.C.: DAVID WAYNE, SARAH CUNNINGHAM, CHARLES HALLAHAN (HARRY RITLIN), RANDY MOORE, NORMA YOUNG, PEGGY WOOD, DESMOND DHOOGE, LISA LE MOLE and ROBIN CLARKE as ED HAYNES. FIRST AIRED ON 10/1/78.
12: "RUNAWAY"
W: WORLEY THORNE
D: BARRY CRANE
At SOUTHFORK, LUCY´s 17th Birthday Party is being organized, but she has been kept aside from the preparations. She gets still angrier when she gets a letter from VALENE explaining she did not accept any money from J.R.
Under these circumstances, she begs her granddaddy to let her invite VAL at the party, but JOCK refuses absolutely and she escapes driving J.R.´s car that night. Following VAL´s track, she crosses with a young man called WILLIE GUST, who makes her look like she is his accomplice in a chain of robberies... When the police track them down, BOBBY succeeds to get LUCY out of that hurtless and take her back to the ranch.
"It wasn´t your last birthday" - "Almost" – she answers.
S.C.: GREG EVIGAN (WILLIE GUST), BERNADETTE WHITEHEAD, RAY LePERE, DAVE BEIDLEMAN, JOE ANDERSON, JIM GOUGH and KENNETH BARRY. FIRST AIRED ON 10/28/78.
13: "ELECTION"
W: RENA DOWN
D: BARRY CRANE
CLIFF´s run for the TEXAS Senate has placed his sister PAM in a compromising situation before the EWINGS. To dissipate the doubts, she openly declares that she will help her brother, opposite the EWING candidate.
J.R. tries very hard to make CLIFF lose the Election, hinting that he could be homosexual. When PAM hears this, she unwillingly reveals that her brother had a girlfriend once. The press eventually publishes that the young woman was killed as she was having an illegal abortion done. CLIFF sees his career ruined and PAM assures J.R. that some day, she will learn to play under their rules and make him pay for this...
S.C.: DON STARR (JORDAN LEE), JOSHUA BRYANT (PETER CARSON), ALLEN CASE, NORMAN BARTOLD, MADELEINE FISHER, MICHAEL HEIT, DICK WHITTINGTON (JACK JACKSON), JIM FERRIER and MEG GALLAGHER as LOUELLA CARAWAY. FIRST AIRED ON 11/5/78.
14: "SURVIVAL"
W: D.C. & RICHARD FONTANA
D: I.J. MOORE
Due to a strong tempest, the EWING´s plane has fallen down into a swamp area, carrying BOBBY and J.R. on. The women ignore their fate and try to keep the news away from JOCK, still recovering from his heart condition. SUE ELLEN gets down desperately and begins to drink, afraid of J.R.´s death might mean her exclusion of the clan, not having mothered an EWING heir.
"If J.R. is dead – adds a mean-spirited LUCY – you´ll never have Southfork". A reporter who arrives at SOUTHFORK is scared away at gun´s point by MISS ELLIE, who can´t help JOCK knowing about it, finally. When the brothers get back at the ranch, BOBBY explains that it was J.R. the one who cared about him and the pilot, and launched the alert lights.
S.C.: BARBARA BABCOCK, JOHN ZAREMBA (DR. DANVERS), TREY WILSON (JOHNNIE), ANDY JARRELL (REPORTER) and KAREN AUSTIN (DAILEY). FIRST AIRED ON 11/12/78.
15: "ACT OF LOVE"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: COREY ALLEN
Despite BOBBY cannot see right her wife working at THE STORE, she enthusiastically keeps devoting herself to haute couture. On her side, SUE ELLEN continues her meetings with CLIFF, meetings that become closer thanks to a trip of J.R. PAMELA is in a dilemma: staying in DALLAS and organize a very important party for BOBBY, or going on a business trip to PARIS. When J.R. and SUE ELLEN meet again, he gets an unpleasant surprise: his wife is pregnant and calculations point at someone else as the father. "Stranger things happened" – she argues - "But not to me" – he answers, and slaps her.
S.C.: BARBARA BABCOCK, JOHN ZAREMBA, MEG GALLAGHER, NANCY BLEIER (CONNIE), LEONE JAMES, JULIE PARRISH, PEGGY BROWN, LIBERTY GODSHALL (J.R.´S LOVER), EVELYN GUERRERO and NICOLAS COSTER as JOE. FIRST AIRED ON 11/19/78.
16: "TRIANGLE"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: VINCENT McEVEETY
Some members of the family are reunited at a nightclub listening to a singer called GARNET McGEE. The family is surprised to see that RAY has a close relationship with her. The foreman, who has been thinking about marriage, is convinced that GARNET is his ideal mate. J.R. knows the singer during a party at the Ranch and turns to his influence to make her fall into his arms.
At the same time, JOCK gifts RAY some lands at North SOUTHFORK, where he will be able to build up his house. Finally J.R. breaks up the couple and BOBBY must stop RAY to end his brother´s life...
S.C.: KATE MULGREW (GARNET McGEE), EDWARD CALL (SAM GURNEY), MEG GALLAGHER, LARRY FRENCH (DICK NORTON), NANCY BLEIER and MICHAEL DUDIKOFF as JOE NEWCOMB. FIRST AIRED ON 11/26/78.
17: "FALLEN IDOL"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: VINCENT McEVEETY
BOBBY meets by chance TAYLOR BENNETT, a former college mate of BOBBY´s and his idol at the football team. TAYLOR´s arrival is seen with reluctance when he explains his project to associate with BOBBY and build up a shopping mall.
The problem is that it should be located at the Section 40 of SOUTHFORK, still intact but rich in oil. PAM´s meddling between them avoids the friendship´s abrupt end.
S.C.: RICHARD KELTON (TAYLOR BENNETT), SANDY WARD, JOHN ASHTON, MEG GALLAGHER, NANCY BLEIER and JOHN PETLOCK as DAN MARSH. FIRST AIRED ON 12/3/78.
18: "KIDNAPPED"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LARRY DOBKIN
A band of kidnappers is planning an operation to get J.R. and ask a big ransom for his freedom. But the operation fails at the last minute and the one kidnapped is BOBBY, who had borrowed J.R.´s car that day.
CLIFF is the chosen one to be an intermediary but J.R. refuses to deal with him. The family sums up the ransom and expect instructions. At the end, J.R.´s interference will make the things worse and CLIFF, angry, since his life has been endangered…
S.C.: STEPHEN DAVIS (WILL), PAUL KOSLO (AL), MEG GALLAGHER, ROBERT HOY, NANCY BLEIER, LIBERTY GODSHALL and KELLY JEAN PETERS as FAY. FIRST AIRED ON 12/17/78.
19: "HOME AGAIN"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: DON McDOUGALL
After a long time of being presumed dead, one day comes up at the Ranch GARRISON SOUTHWORTH, MISS ELLIE´s brother, accompanied by a young woman. They all are happy to see him alive, but shortly after suspicion arises in JOCK and J.R.
They suspect that GARRISON has come for his share of the ranch. ELLIE is determined to stop any fight and decides to return her brother the ranch´s ownership. But GARRISON is hopeless about his health and has little time left to live...
S.C.: GENE EVANS (GARRISON SOUTHWORTH), MELINDA FEE (CATHY BAKER), MEG GALLAGHER, MICHAEL McMANUS (MATT), CHARLES WILDER YOUNG (CHARLIE WATERS), G.L. DAVIS, JOHN PETLOCK and MICHAEL McMANUS as MATT. FIRST AIRED ON 1/7/79.
20: "FOR LOVE OR MONEY"
W: LEONARD KAZTMAN
D: I.J. MOORE
The relationship between J.R. and SUE ELLEN are harder and harder, up to the point that she decides to leave the ranch. When J.R. learns that she left to town, he thinks that she wants to spend some time with her mother and sister KRISTIN.
But his wrath gets loose when he knows that she is staying with CLIFF. However, none of them is capable to give up on their ambitions and face J.R. SUE ELLEN ends up returning to SOUTHFORK, after her affair is discovered by PAM.
S.C.: MARTHA SCOTT (PATRICIA SHEPARD), COLLEEN CAMP (KRISTIN SHEPARD), FERN FITZGERALD (MARILEE STONE), TONI BERRELL, JOHN PETLOCK (DAN MARSH), BARBARA TARBUCK, NANCY BLEIER, MEG GALLAGHER and FRED BEIR as BEN MAXWELL. FIRST AIRED ON 1/14/79.
21: "JULIE´S RETURN"
W: RENA DOWN
D: LES MARTINSON
JULIE GRAY returns to DALLAS and tries to contact JOCK. He is feeling completely acomplexed because his family does not allow him to do anything in the ranch. They are afraid that he might have another heart attack and he feels unuseful. However the meeting with JULIE means a dose of optimism for the old man. Their relationships grow into an honest friendship that ends up giving headaches to the family. MISS ELLIE fears she is losing his husband´s affection and goes at JULIE´s. When JOCK breaks his friendship with JULIE, she threatens J.R. with causing troubles.
"Don´t count on it!", he says.
S.C.: FERN FITZGERALD, TINA LOUISE, MEG GALLAGHER, RICHARD ROAT, KENNETH WHITE, JOHN LAMONT, TAIN BODKIN, FRANK ARNO, RICHARD BERGMAN, HELEN BARON Y JEANNA MICHAELS as CONNIE BULLARD. FIRST AIRED ON 1/26/79.
22: "THE RED FILE" (I)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
After being mistreated by J.R., JULIE decides it is time to give him a good lesson. So she meets CLIFF, to whom she is ready to reveal some secrets carefully kept.
CLIFF shows up at JULIE´s apartment, convinced that he will be able to give the “coup de grace” to his enemy. Nevertheless, he gets a huge surprise when he finds her dead on the gutter, after falling down from her building´s roof. CLIFF is arrested as his presumed murder.
S.C.: TINA LOUISE, SANDY WARD, JOHN ASHTON, JEANNA MICHAELS, FRED BEIR, JORDAN CHARNEY (TENIENTE SUTTON), JOHN PETLOCK, MEG GALLAGHER, MICHAEL CAVANAUGH (O´NEILL), CHARLES WILDER YOUNG (CHARLIE WATERS) and JAMES L. BROWN as HARRY McSWEEN. FIRST AIRED ON 2/2/79.
23: "THE RED FILE" (II)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
J.R. keeps hinting that CLIFF is JULIE´s murderer, hints that bother PAM. She leaves the ranch, leaving BOBBY completely confused. PAMELA adresses J.R. and lets him know that she is determined to help CLIFF to prove his innocence. What everyone ignores is that JULIE has been pushed to death by two associates of J.R.´s, who helped him to hide things like a fake codicil of JOCK´s will...
When J.R. finds out the truth, gets to action so he cannot be linked with the murderers. They are arrested and sentenced, and CLIFF is released. But PAM is not ready to live at Southfork again.
S.C.: SANDY WARD, JOHN ASHTON, MEG GALLAGHER, CHARLES SIEBERT (SLOAN), JEANNA MICHAELS, WALTER BROOKE (COLE YOUNG), WOODROW PARFREY (FORENSE), JORDAN CHARNEY, GARY ALLEN, JOHN PETLOCK and JOHN HARKINS as JUDGE POTTER. FIRST AIRED ON 2/9/79.
24: "SUE ELLEN´S SISTER"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: I.J. MOORE
After BOBBY and PAM´s separation, comes in KRISTIN, SUE ELLEN´s sister. She is an ambitious girl who is going to study Architecture, but she also aspires to get a part of the EWING fortune. Therefore she chases BOBBY with her personal charms. At the same time, J.R. supports KRISTIN´s all attempts to win his heart.
Meanwhile CLIFF asks PAM for a loan in order to buy some lands for DIGGER. When PAM finds out that her brother has been using her, she feels betrayed. KRISTIN is obliged to leave Southfork...for now.
S.C.: COLLEEN CAMP, JOHN MCLIAM (WALLY), JEANNA MICHAELS, BARBARA TARBUCK (CLIFF´S SECRETARY) and MEG GALLAGHER. FIRST AIRED ON 2/16/79.
25: "CALL GIRL"
aka CALLGIRL
W: RENA DOWN
D: LES MARTINSON
At her new job, PAM has met a top model called LEANNE REES. She invites PAM to share her condo, an interesting proposal to PAM, separated from BOBBY. But J.R., who knows LEANNE´s past, takes advantage of it to put her sister-in-law down. He also intends to ruin BEN MAXWELL, the man supporting CLIFF.
To J.R.´s dismay, a sensational story in the news involving PAM with BEN just pulls the couple together again.
S.C.: VERONICA HAMEL (LEANNE), BARBARA BABCOCK, MARK WHEELER (KIT MAINWARING), FRED BEIR (BEN MAXWELL), HEIDI HAGMAN (RECEPCIONIST), CLAUDE EARL JONES (MATT HENDERSON), BUCK YOUNG, ROBERT ACKERMAN (WADE LUCE) and PAUL SORENSEN as ANDY BRADLEY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/23/79.
26: "ROYAL MARRIAGE"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: GUNNAR HELLSTROM
LUCY is madly in love with KIT MAINWARING III, heir to a wealthy family. Her joy expands to the whole clan, especially J.R., who wants to merge both empires. However the groom makes an unexpected confession to BOBBY: he is a homosexual and does not intend to hurt LUCY. After talk it out to her, they agree to set the wedding off and she makes up a reason for it...
"Kit is more man than you'll ever be", assures BOBBY to J.R in a brother-to-brother argument.
S.C.: MARK WHEELER, LINDEN CHILES (CHRIS MAINWARING), FERN FITZGERALD, PAUL SORENSEN, JAY W. MACINTOSH (MRS. MAINWARING), KENNETH WHITE, ROBERT ACKERMAN and JOAN LANCASTER as LINDA BRADLEY. FIRST AIRED ON 3/9/79.
27: "THE OUTSIDERS"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: DENNIS DONNELLY
RAY KREBBS meets by chance a woman called DONNA McCULLUM in a bar, in very special circumstances. The woman´s beauty appeals him from the very beginning and she feels the same way. Once more, RAY begins to think about the possibility of getting married.
Then comes into the scene J.R., who has found about it, and threats DONNA with reporting her husband of it. He is SAM CULVER, an older US Senator she eventually leaves. RAY and DONNA make apart, though.
"You are such a special man", she tells him.
S.C.: SUSAN HOWARD (DONNA McCULLUM CULVER), JOHN McINTIRE (SAM CULVER), FERN FITZGERALD, SHELLEY JUTTNER, JEANNA MICHAELS, CLINT RITCHIE (BUD MORGAN), JOAN LANCASTER, MEG GALLAGHER, KIM ALEXANDER, WILLIAM WELLMAN Jr. and DAWN JEFFORY as ANNE DRISCOLL. FIRST AIRED ON 3/16/79.
28: "JOHN EWING III" (I)
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
SUE ELLEN must face her issues with booze when she drives her car out of the road. Alone with J.R., MISS ELLIE lectures him:
“Since you brougth her, you neglected her, most times for women. You must be do something about it...”
Unaware of this, LUCY has turned to amphetamines after her heartbreak. When she shows up at RAY drugged up and tries to seduce him, the problem becomes obvious to the family. At Southfork, SUE ELLEN is turning to self-pity:
"Till death do us apart..."
"But only thanks to that bastard you´re carrying", says J.R.
When she knows that CLIFF has a girlfriend, she gets drunk and falls downstairs, as LUCY watches her stupidly, until RAY finds them.
"Think what you´d feel is SUE ELLEN was dead", BOBBY tells her later. Pressed by JOCK, J.R. agrees to commit his wife into a sanitarium.
"I swear I´ll make you pay hell for this, J.R.", she shouts while is taken away by the nurses.
S.C.: ELLEN GEER (Dr. ANITA CRANE), PETER HORTON (WAYNE), JEANNA MICHAELS, MEG GALLAGHER, STEFFEN ZACHARIAS, DAWN JEFFORY and SHERRIL LYNN KATZMAN as JACKIE DUGAN. FIRST AIRED ON 3/23/79.
29: "JOHN EWING III" (II)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
A few days later J.R. visits his wife at the clinic, but she gets very violent. When MISS ELLIE comes afterwards, she advises her:
"You must live your own life, not only please J.R., JOCK or me."
LUCY seems to be recovered and, after knowing she has passed the final exams, rejects her alleged friends. At the sanitarium SUE ELLEN gets alcohol through a nurse. When J.R. shows her a picture in the paper with CLIFF and his new girlfriend, she gets depressed.
BOBBY tries to comfort her as well. But she expresses her anxiety and confesses the truth: “Then I thought, just go out and get yourself pregnant. But maybe I could hurt JR, hurt him real bad. Instead, all I did was hurt me and my little baby and the baby's father...”
When BOBBY learns that CLIFF may be the baby´s father, calls on him and threats him:
"For your information, J.R. already knows", says CLIFF. Shortly after, SUE ELLEN knocks down the nurse and runs away in a stolen car. She ends up at the hospital, where she has to be performed a Caesarean section, although it is 8 weeks until the baby is due.
"You have a son", the nurse announces. "John Ross Ewing III", a proud JOCK says. "His condition is delicate, and SUE ELLEN is alive and that is what matters…"
CLIFF arrives at the hospital just when JOCK and ELLIE are leaving, and PAM notices him.
"I know he´s mine – he claims – and, if he lives, he´ll be raised as a Barnes, I swear it, Pamela!"
In the room where SUE ELLEN is, still under the anesthetic’s effects, J.R. and BOBBY are about to leave.
"I don´t understand it - J.R. confides to BOBBY – . Why can´t we get to normal? When we first married, I had loved her so much. What happened? I don´t know when it all went wrong... Oh Bobby, she´s got to live, she´s just got to..."
END OF SEASON 1
S.C.: ELLEN GEER, PETER HORTON, DAWN JEFFORY, HEIDI HAGMAN, KARLENE CROCKETT (MURIEL GILLES), MICHAEL C. GWYNNE (DR. ROGERS), ALAN RACHINS, HEIDI HAGMAN (SANITARIUM RECEPCIONIST) and DIMITRA ARLISS as HATTON. FIRST AIRED ON 4/6/79.
TRIVIA DOSSIER
By Pam´s Twin Sister
1: Introduction of the EWING family and the first SOUTHFORK Ranch. Filmed in January of 1978, in one of the hardest winters in Texas´ history. V. PRINCIPAL and all the others cast members used their own clothes due to the low budget. The opening titles of the Mini-series are white, instead of yellow. The sort of incest between uncle and niece (RAY and LUCY) will discreetly be overlooked in the future. Entrance of Bobby´s secretary, Connie, portrayed by another actress. The scene featuring PAM and RAY at the frozen lake, was part of VICTORIA´s audition, which obviously convinced the producers.
2: Snow-covered outdoor locations are much more visible than in the previous episode. Latin servants are named RAOUL (not written as in Spanish) and FRANCESCA (Italian name that would be replaced by TERESA shortly after). At the final scene, located in a very 70´s disco, the main title can be heard in a disco-style rhythm. This kind of places will be replaced by nightclubs and piano restaurants from 1982 on. The last disco seen on the series will appear in the episodes shot in Vienna.
3: JULIE, TINA LOUISE´s character, leaves the show temporarily. She will return for two more episodes at mid-season. JULIE is (allegedly) the first lover JR and CLIFF have shared (in such order). First script of one of the DALLAS´s main writers, ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS (coming from GENERAL HOSPITAL and HAWAII 5-0), and also co-author of both awful DALLAS´s sequels.
4: In LEE RAINTREE´s novel, this episode is handled much more graphically about violence and sex, and SUE ELLEN is even raped by one of the outsiders. An early tidbit in DALLAS: there are no hurricanes in Texas, but tornadoes. Other tidbits in the Mini-series: palm trees in the streets, the lake behind J.R.´s office window, the uncovered cars in winter, etc. BRIAN DENNEHY is the first supporting actor from DALLAS to become famous and get prestige all thru the years. SUE ELLEN´s scene dressed as MISS TEXAS was played by LINDA GRAY to get the role. This was the first episode written by CAMILLE MARCHETTA, then known as one of the writers responsible for DYNASTY.
5: The highest rated episode in the Mini-series, and beginning of one of the biggest DALLAS´s traditions, BARBACUES. Appearance of a BARNES´ kin, cousin JIMMY, son of DIGGER´s sister, MAGGIE. SUE ELLEN´s drinking habit is quite obvious by first time at the barbecue. Another historical fact: the script concedes the word to a couple of black characters, SAM and TILLIE, caterers of the barbecue. Few color actors will play on DALLAS speaking more than two dialogue lines. PAM´s fall from the barn and her miscarriage could be considered as the first unofficial cliffhanger in the show.
BOBBY´s death was going to be the end of the mini-series, though the network decided to keep the character alive just thinking DALLAS might become a series. One of the last scenes, featuring PAM, BOBBY and JOCK, was included as a tribute to JIM DAVIS in the episode THE SEARCH. Last appearance of the 6-pillar SOUTHFORK, seemingly due to the owner´s legal situation, who wanted to elude any exposition. The house does not exist any more, it disappeared in a fire. The mini-series has been re-titled by WARNER HOME as “Season 1” in its dvd release, thus changing the concept most of us fans have of the numbering of the Seasons. Dallas Universe does not agree with this nonsense concept.
6: First two-part episode of the show, which would use this format successfully all through its run, including its ending (in non-USA versions), CONUNDRUM. Return of cousin JIMMY, now played by PHILIP LEVIEN instead of JAMES CANNING. Introduction of LUCY´s parents, GARY and VAL, future stars of spin-off KNOTS LANDING. Now GARY is portrayed by another actor, dark-haired DAVID ACKROYD, before blond SHACKELFORD came in. VAL appears as waitressing in a café called “The Hot Biscuit”, just the same place where LUCY would take a job 7 years later. Besides, DUNCAN FARM debuts, as our 4-pillar eternal SOUTHFORK.
7: A unique chance to see the EWINGS´ black sheep living with his family at SOUTHFORK. During the rest of the show, he will only do brief visits for such family events as weddings, will readings and funerals. First appearance of Aunt MAGGIE, DIGGER´s sister, played by SARAH CUNNINGHAM. This two-parter and “Return Engagement” on next season, turned out to be DAVID JACOBS´s last collaboration on DALLAS, since he would lead the artistic crew of KNOTS LANDING.
8: The only guest stint of supersoaps´ diva MORGAN FAIRCHILD as JENNA WADE #1. Inconsistency with PRESLEY´s JENNA: this JENNA is liberal enough to sleep with a married Senator.. JENNA´s ex-husband will appear in Seasons 6 & 7, with the name of RENALDO MARCHETTA, named after the writer and creator of the character: CAMILLE MARCHETTA. After this episode MORGAN FAIRCHILD would land on the FLAMINGO ROAD Pilot, lasting 2 seasons, and then on FALCON CREST and PAPER DOLLS, among other shows.
9: First episode focused in the EWING patriarch. One of the scenes co-starring MISS ELLIE was also included in THE SEARCH. Debut of BARBARA BABCOCK as LIZ CRAIG, who will be playing PAM´s friend and boss at THE STORE for 4 Seasons, clothes shop inspired in NIEMAN-MARCUS. BABCOCK achieved an EMMY Award for her role on the show HILL STREET BLUES. Upon the actress herself, she was written off the series because she was becoming “much too visible”. This episode´s director, COREY ALLEN, played JAMES DEAN´s contender at the famous night car race in the movie REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
10: This episode marked DALLAS´s return to Sunday nights, after being aired on Saturdays. First appearance of PAM´s black CORVETTE with plate EWING 6 in the last scene. Guest star TALIA BALSAM is the daughter of late actor MARTIN BALSAM and GEORGE CLOONEY´s ex-wife. The one night stand between RAY and SUE ELLEN, omitted by some channels, was never mentioned again in the show.
11: Last appearance of DAVID WAYNE as DIGGER, who will reportedly move to California. He would be replaced by actor KEENAN WYNN on Season 2. One of the few episodes with two credited writers, a rare case on DALLAS, though not on other series, where there is not only a script but also a screenplay (the adaptation for TV) of each of them (e.g. DYNASTY). DALLAS used to have a regular writing team in every season, and hire free-lancers once in awhile. This habit ended right after the Dream Season.
12: One of the unusual episodes focusing on LUCY. GREG EVIGAN, to be the lead actor on B. J. AND THE BEAR and MY TWO DADS, guest-stars. In one of the scenes, LUCY lip-syncs a country-and-western song at a bar contest. LUCY´s 17th birthday was another of the SOUTHFORK celebrations on DALLAS´s Season 1.
13: The last episode shot on location near and in the town of Dallas. Debuts MEG GALLAGHER as secretary LOUELLA LEE (named after the show´s future writer and assistant for LEONARD KATZMAN) and DON STARR, though not playing his usual role, Oil Baron JORDAN LEE. Also first appearance of the fundraising association D.O.A. (for “Daughters of Alamo”) which include MISS ELLIE and SUE ELLEN, and, later one, MARILEE, MAVIS, CALLY and KIMBERLY CRYDER. During the scene featuring this group, you can notice the first hint of the latent attraction between SUE ELLEN and CLIFF.
14: Debut of the SOUTHFORK set at MGM Studios. From this episode on, the filming will be done on stage or L.A. outdoors. The story revolves around the first ever accident in DALLAS´s history, the EWING plane´s in this case. One of the scenes features PAM wearing a hat, something that will strangely be seen again, unlike other women on the show, such as SUE ELLEN, LUCY, MARILEE or DONNA. An irony, given the meaning of PAMELA´s name in Spanish (=sun hat). The writing team of DC and RICHARD FONTANA, belonged to the usual crew of the STAR TREK saga, as well as others of the same genre, like LOGAN´S RUN, BABYLON 5 and EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT. They only wrote one more DALLAS´s episode: “The Dove Hunt”.
15: First episode written by the future DALLAS´s guru, LEONARD KATZMAN. Playing a casual lover of J.R.´s, appears LIBERTY GODSHALL, actress and future writer of shows like THIRTYSOMETHING or ONCE AND AGAIN. The storyline leads to believe that SUE ELLEN and CLIFF have been seeing each other since the episode ELECTION and, as JR hints at the end, chances are that CLIFF can be the father of the baby that will be known as JOHN ROSS EWING III. From this episode on, the episodes´ serialization increases, though it won´t be total until next season.
16: This is the first episode entirely focused on RAY KREBBS. The character of GARNET McGEE had been previously offered to SUSAN HOWARD, to be cast as DONNA, though GARNET ended up being played by KATE MULGREW. The actress became very popular among the trekkies when she starred in STAR TREK VOYAGER. The scene in which JOCK gives RAY the deed of some lands in the Eastern area of SOUTHFORK was reminisced as a flashback in THE SEARCH too.
17: One of the least popular episodes on a fan level. Also one of the few guest starring a friend of BOBBY´s. Only “turncoat” MATT CANTRELL would follow this BENNETT´s steps. The actor who performed him, RICHARD KELTON, died shortly after the shooting.
18: This is not usually appearing at the favorite lists either. A routine wrong kidnap plot with kidnappers bad enough for the worst B series. Re-appearing LIBERTY GODSHALL as J.R.´s escort again.
19: First and only stint of MISS ELLIE´s brother, GARRISON SOUTHWORTH, a minor character in the prequel DALLAS: THE EARLY YEARS. GARRISON´s thumbstone will be seen in Season 10 episode “Things ain´t going so good at Southfork, again”. BARBARA BEL GEDDES had already worked with GARRISON´s performer, GENE EVANS, in one episode of the show SPENCER´S PILOTS.
20: Debut of SUE ELLEN´s mother and sister. MARTHA SCOTT plays PATRICIA in this episode and Seasons 2 & 8. COLLEEN CAMP only would play KRISTIN one more time, in the rightly entitled episode SUE ELLEN´S SISTER. For unknown reasons, she was replaced by MARY CROSBY on Season 2. Also first appearance of FERN FITZGERALD as MARILEE STONE, featured here just as one of the wives of the oil men in the EWINGS´ circle and fundraiser at D.O.A. with SUE ELLEN. This episode, one of best KATZMAN´s scripts, described one of SUE ELLEN´s many attempts to leaving JR.
21: Entrance of BOBBY´s loyal secretary CONNIE, played by JEANNA MICHAELS, after being incarnated by 2 other actresses. Returns JULIE GREY in an adult plot that would be rehashed years later with CLAYTON and LAUREL ELLIS´s storyline. This episode´s director, LES MARTINSON, also directed the first movie version of comic book BATMAN, based upon the TV show.
22: New double episode in this Season, and first one directed by LEONARD KATZMAN. Debut of another classic supporting character: corrupt cop McSween, who would be promoted all thru the years and eventually retired, making way for Ratagan. McSween´s performer, James L. Brown, also played the boyfriend of a then beginner called MARILYN MONROE in the movie FIREBALL. The last episode guest starring TINA LOUISE as JULIE, only killed off due to the plot twist, since both actress and producers were satisfied with her role in the show.
23: CLIFF´s arrest as JULIE´s presumed murderer and J.R.´s possible responsibility for it would lead to one of PAM and BOBBY´s separations, which remain apart for a few episodes.
24: New episode written by MARCHETTA, this time centered in KRISTIN´s character, here interested in BOBBY instead of in JR.
25: Guest appearance of VERONICA HAMEL as LEANNE, a former call-girl, now a model sharing her flat with PAM. Her popularity would increase not long after thanks to her starring role in HILL STREET BLUES. Plus debut of PAUL SORENSEN (ANDY BRADLEY), cameo of LARRY HAGMAN´s daughter, HEIDI, and entrance of LUCY´s gay boyfriend, KIT. At the end of the episode, PAM and BOBBY reconciled, to JR and SUE ELLEN despair, though the last scene´s mood is really comical.
26: One of the last self-contained episodes. Considered by CHARLENE TILTON as her favorite script, handles the homosexuality issue in a straightforward way, not presenting the man as the clichéd gay, but as a person with virtues and faults. Another story by CAMILLE MARCHETTA, whose insight of homosexuality on DYNASTY would be light-years away from this. The episode´s director is Swedish GUNNAR HELLSTROM, a good friend of HAGMAN´s, actor and director who guest starred in the AUGSBURG episodes as ROLF BRUNDIN.
27: A must-see episode, since it funds the basement for one of the most important couple relationships in the show. Likewise it features one of the most interesting female characters: DONNA CULVER, RAY´s future wife. JOHN McINTIRE plays her first husband, Senator CULVER, a former associate of JOCK´s who was also seen in the prequel.
28: Third two-parter of this Season, completely focused on SUE ELLEN and LUCY´s addiction to drinking and stimulants. First appearance of late SHERRIL LYNN KATZMAN, the producer´s daughter, playing PAM´s workmate at The Store and then CLIFF´s secretary through the end of the series. We can see actor PETER HORTON in a minor role, then married to MICHELLE PFEIFFER, as LUCY´s schoolmate and dealer, who would become popular as one of the stars in THIRTYSOMETHING a few years later.
29: First season-ending Cliffhanger and the highest-rated episode so far. Debuts LUCY´s practically only close friend, redheaded MURIEL, played by KARLENE CROCKETT. Another guest bit by LARRY HAGMAN´s daughter and ALAN RACHINS, to be famous as DOUGLAS BRACKMAN in L.A. LAW. Despite the suspenseful situations would be limited to those related with the JR-SE-CLIFF triangle and JOHN ROSS´s birth, this unusual ending at the time, made the viewers complain during Summer of 1979, especially about the newborn child´s future.
Season 1 of DALLAS is available on DVD through WARNER HOME...but not in Spain.
