SEASON 2
A HOUSE DIVIDED
YEAR 2 (AIRED ON 1979-80 SEASON):
From this Season on, and through the end of the show, KEN KERCHEVAL will be starring in the titles, together with the rest of the main cast.
Gueststarring in most episodes, RANDOLPH POWELL (ALAN BEAM), MARY CROSBY (new KRISTIN) and, initially at the closing titles, KEENAN WYNN (new DIGGER), who will be credited at the beginning of the episodes afterwards.
1/30: "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JOHN?" (I)
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
A few weeks later, the baby is recovered and strong enough to be taken home by his parents. However, at SOUTHFORK, SUE ELLEN seems totally uninterested in the child, before LUCY and ELLIE.
PAM is trying to make CLIFF give up on his promise of getting back SUE ELLEN and the baby, to whom he considers his own. J.R. welcomes a new collaborator, ALAN BEAM, a lawyer employed at Smithfield & Bennett´s firm.
When J.R. obliges SUE ELLEN to go with him to the hospital to take the baby home, they find the police at the entrance.
"Your baby has been kidnapped..."
G.S.: SANDY WARD, JOHN ASHTON, GEORGE O. PETRIE, MEG GALLAGHER, JEANNA MICHAELS, SHEILA LARKEN (PRISCILLA), JOE BRACTHER (HARRY SHAW) and RANDOLPH POWELL as ALAN BEAM. FIRST AIRED BY CBS ON 9/ 21/79.
2/31: "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JOHN?" (II)
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
SUE ELLEN feels guilty for what has happened, while BOBBY strongly suspects of his brother-in-law CLIFF. J.R.´s old accomplices are out of prison and threat J.R. to make him believe that they have the baby.
Eventually, PAM will be the one to find the clue leading to the Little John: a woman called PRISCILLA has been visiting the baby right until his disappearance. BOBBY, CLIFF and PAM call on her and, finally, discover that she has the baby at home.
After apologizing to SUE ELLEN, PRISCILLA, who had lost her newborn baby, gives him back to SUE ELLEN. But she quickly holds him on to nanny Mrs. REEVES, in front of a perplexed JR.
G.S.: SANDY WARD, JOHN ASHTON, SHEILA LARKEN, JOHN O´LEARY (DR. FREILICH), BARBARA TARBUCK, JORDAN CHARNEY (DETECTIVE ROLLINS), MEG GALLAGHER, JEANNA MICHAELS, JOCELYN BRANDO (MRS. REEVES), GEORGE O. PETRIE and DENNIS PATRICK as VAUGHN LELAND. FIRST AIRED ON 9/28/79.
3/32: "THE SILENT KILLER"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: I.J. MOORE
Both families are casually reunited at the DALLAS Airport. On one side, there is SUE ELLEN and J.R., waiting for PATRICIA and KRISTIN SHEPARD. CLIFF is welcoming his father DIGGER.
Despite of her good health showing off, DIGGER does not seem to be in a good moment...The doctor´s diagnosis is clear: DIGGER suffers a genetic decease called NEUROFIBROMATOSIS.
G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, JOCELYN BRANDO, WILLIAM BASSETT (DR. HOLLISTER), GEORGANN JOHNSON (DR. CAROL GROVNER), LEA CATUCCI, MARY CROSBY (KRISTIN SHEPARD) and KEENAN WYNN as DIGGER BARNES. FIRST AIRED ON 10/ 5/79.
4/33: "SECRETS"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
The BARNES family is worried about DIGGER´s disease, transmitted to his descendants. DIGGER tries to convince them that it is not so serious, since they overcame it.
The lethal incidence on newborn babies is bigger and PAM fears for SUE ELLEN´s child. At the end, her own pregnancy is confirmed but hidden to BOBBY.
At the same time, BOBBY tries LUCY makes peaces with her mother VALENE. But J.R. tracks her down and tries to bribe her again, but is rejected once more time. When LUCY overhears the talk, then she knows that she must start over with her mama.
G.S.: JOAN VAN ARK, GEORGE PETRIE, WILLIAM BASSETT, MEG GALLAGHER, JEANNA MICHAELS and JOCELYN BRANDO. FIRST AIRED ON 10/12/79.
5/34: "THE KRISTIN AFFAIR"
W: WORLEY THORNE
D: I.J. MOORE
J.R. does not give up on his fight against CLIFF. In order to compensate the interferences from the O.L.M. makes about drilling in Texas, he plots to be able to drill on an Asian area.
KRISTIN, who had decided to study Architecture, change plans and takes a job as a secretary at Ewing Oil. PAMELA eventually reveals to BOBBY the news of her pregnancy. Meanwhile, J.R. is obliged by banker LELAND to mortgage the ranch for the Asian business.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, DENNIS PATRICK, PAUL SORENSEN, ROBERT ACKERMAN, DON STARR and MARTHA SCOTT. FIRST AIRED ON 10/19/79.
6/35: "THE DOVE HUNT"
W: D.C. & RICHARD FONTANA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
ELLIE is upset about her health and sends the family men away on a hunting to Louisiana. BOBBY, J.R., RAY and JOCK does not suspect they will become the moving target for some former associates of the patriarch. The revenge ends up with bullet wounds for both JOCK and J.R.
When he sees himself hurt, JOCK confesses J.R. that he had been previously married to another woman, AMANDA. The problem is that she has been committed into a mental clinic for the last 40 years and he never mentioned the subject to ELLIE. JOCK asks his son that, if anything happened, to make sure that AMANDA will be properly cared.
G.S.: ROBERT J. WILKE (TOM OWENS), STEPHEN GIERASCH (BEN MASTERS), JOHN ZAREMBA and THOMAS CALLAWAY as DAN OWENS. FIRST AIRED ON 10/26/79.
7/36: "THE LOST CHILD"
W: RENA DOWN
D: I.J. MOORE
BOBBY welcomes the new cowboys hired as SOUTHFORK workers. Right away he gets close with the son of one of them, an orphan boy who always accompanies his daddy.
At the same time, PAM´s anxiety increases, pregnant and afraid of losing the baby that BOBBY is so excited to have. CLIFF reveals DIGGER that he fathered JOHN ROSS.
Unexpectedly, PAM suffers a riding accident and miscarriages. Then she confesses BOBBY she is a carrier of neurofibromatosis. BOBBY´s farewell from little LUKE turns out to be really emotional, but so frustrating to PAM...
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JEFF COOPER (DR. SIMON ELBY), MED FLORY (CAL McBRIDE), JEANNA MICHAELS, JAMES CHANDLER, KEN FARMER and RONNIE SCHRIBNER as LUKE MIDDENS. FIRST AIRED ON 10/2/79.
8/37: "RODEO"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
SOUTHFORK is teeming of activity. JOCK enjoys himself helping to prepare the big rodeo. J.R. is trying to win back SUE ELLEN to make a happy couple again. DIGGER comes up at SOUTHFORK to meet his grandson.
At the right time KRISTIN and ALAN play a farce in front of everyone. Meanwhile, SUE ELLEN feels attracted by a young cowboy who makes J.R. jealous. His name: Steven DUSTY FARLOW.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, S.L. KATZMAN, RHONDA BOX, KENNETH BARRY, JAMES BODEAN and JARED MARTIN as DUSTY FARLOW. FIRST AIRED ON 11/9/79.
9/38: "THE HEIRESS"
aka HEIRESS
W: LORAINE DESPRES
D: LES MARTINSON
The EWINGS celebrate JOCK´s birthday. In the middle of the reunion, ALAN BEAM shows up, apologizing for the rodeo´s incident. J.R. has set up the scene very carefully and faces ALAN. LUCY considers the lawyer as the ideal man for his showdown with J.R.
CLIFF is thinking about running for the Congress Election and BOBBY finally discovers the ASIA affaire.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JEFF COOPER, GEORGE PETRIE, KARLENE CROCKETT and LAURA JOHNSON as BETTY LOU BARKER. FIRST AIRED ON 23/11/79.
10/39: "MASTECTOMY" (I)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: I.J. MOORE
MISS ELLIE´s worst fears are confirmed when her doctor advises her to go through a fast surgery intervention to take the cyst out. JOCK decides to be sincere to ELLIE and tell her he was married to AMANDA.
ELLIE refuses to forgive JOCK, since he abandoned a sick woman. SUE ELLEN agrees to meet DUSTY, who assures to be able to wait for her. Before getting into the operating room, ELLIE consents about having a mastectomy done, if they have to.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JARED MARTIN, JOHN ZAREMBA, JANE KEAN (MITZI) and JEFF COOPER. FIRST AIRED ON 11/16/79.
11/40: "MASTECTOMY" (II)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: I.J. MOORE
BOBBY and PAM are very concerned about ELLIE´s surgery, since it was a CANCER. All of them think that the performed mastectomy, along with the shock of JOCK´s news, may affect her recovery.
LUCY feels so depressed herself that eludes to visit her grandma. Unconsciously, she blames her for being sick and having her same blood.
"You must have periodical checks done – advises ELLIE – and overcome that fear. It´s part of the business of life."
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JARED MARTIN, JOHN ZAREMBA, JANE KEAN (MITZI) and JEFF COOPER. FIRST AIRED ON 11/16/79.
NOTE: For unknown reasons, this two-parter was aired right after the episode 37, RODEO, but we have respected the airing order for Spain.
12/41: "ELLIE SAVES THE DAY"
W: A.B. LEWIS & E. MICHAEL
D: GUNNAR HELLSTROM
J.R. is completely absorbed by the Asian fields drilling. He has invested all the EWING OIL capital, plus 100 million dollar loaned by a bank consortium, with the mortgaged ranch as a guarantee.
Suddenly, a strong typhoon destroys the rig and banker VAUGHN LELAND does not concede any more delay. ELLIE´s intervention will save the family fortune, as she allows to drill on part of the ranch´s protected lands. But she must do it against her daddy´s last will:
"I may never forgive you for this J.R." - sentences ELLIE.
G.S.: DENNIS PATRICK, JEANNA MICHAELS, MICHAEL LAWRENCE and DON STARR. FIRST AIRED ON 11/30/79.
13/42: "RETURN ENGAGEMENT"
aka RETURN ENGAGEMENTS
W: DAVID JACOBS
D: GUNNAR HELLSTROM
ELLIE spends a whole day listening to GARY´s favorite record, as a way to celebrate his birthday. They don´t know yet but GARY is living with VALENE in DALLAS and make plans to re-marry.
This event anticipates J.R.´s comeback, on a business trip with KRISTIN. The wedding present from ELLIE and BOBBY is a house in a suburban area in CALIFORNIA called KNOTS LANDING.
G.S.: JOAN VAN ARK, TED SHACKELFORD (GARY), E.J. ANDRE (EUGENE BULLOCK), ANDRA AKERS (SALLY BULLOCK), JEANNA MICHAELS and TERRY LESTER as RUDY MILLINGTON. FIRST AIRED ON 12/20/79.
NOTE: THIS EPISODE WAS CONTINUED BY THE KNOTS LANDING PILOT ON THE FOLLOWING THURSDAY, 12/27/79.
14/43: "MOTHER OF THE YEAR"
W: RENA DOWN
D: LARRY HAGMAN
PAM is upset by Little JOHN and goes with him whenever she hears him cry. SUE ELLEN, on the other side, shows off an absolute indifference to him and J.R. recriminates it to her. Also CLIFF accuses her of being using the baby as a weapon to remain in the family. JOCK threats with selling out the Asian fields against J.R.´s opinion. SUE ELLEN overcomes her passivity and begins to act as a mother towards JOHN ROSS.
"I lost him..." - cries PAM. "No, he never was yours..." – answers BOBBY.
G.S.: DENNIS PATRICK, JEFF COOPER, JEANNA MICHAELS, TED MARKLAND, JOCELYN BRANDO and JOAN LANCASTER (LINDA BRADLEY). FIRST AIRED ON 12/14/79.
NOTE: THIS EPISODE WAS AIRED IN USA BETWEEN “ELLIE SAVES THE DAY” AND “RETURN ENGAGEMENT”. THIS WAS THE FIRST EPISODE DIRECTED BY LARRY HAGMAN.
15/44: "LOVE AND MARRIAGE"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: ALEXANDER SINGER
One night, BOBBY gets a nice surprise when he finds SUE ELLEN caring about Little JOHN. At the same time, PAM is beginning to dedicate too much attention to her work at The Store.
To make things worse, J.R. manages to get her sister-in-law promoted at the shop and her boss and friend LIZ, sent to Houston. RAY and DONNA meet again and she tests his beloved.
G.S.: SUSAN HOWARD, TOM FUCCELLO (DAVE CULVER), BARRY CORBIN (SHERIFF FENTON WASHBURN), JEFF COOPER, JEANNA MICHAELS, BARBARA BABCOCK and MEL FERRER as HARRISON PAGE. FIRST AIRED ON FRIDAY 12/21/79 (THEREFORE 2 EPISODES WERE AIRED THAT WEEK).
NOTE: THIS EPISODE WAS AIRED IN USA RIGHT AFTER “RETURN ENGAGEMENT”.
16/45: "POWER PLAY"
W: JEFF YOUNG
D: LES MARTINSON
KRISTIN has just discovered the relationship between LUCY and ALAN, as well as ALAN´s two-side game, working for CLIFF, but under J.R.´s orders. ALAN thinks to have found a gold mine in LUCY, who would rather not rush in.
"If we can make LUCY leave SOUTHFORK, her father will never come around here" – schemes J.R. When he reports his parents about this relationship, LUCY feels self-assured and announces they are to be married.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, SUSAN HOWARD, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE (SERENA WALD), KARLENE CROCKETT, LAURA JOHNSON and MICHAEL PRINCE as JONAS SMITHERS. FIRST AIRED ON 1/ 4/1/80.
NOTE: THE PREVIOUS DAY, J.R. DID HIS FIRST CROSSOVER TO KNOTS LANDING ON THE EPISODE "COMMUNITY SPIRIT".
17/46: "PATERNITY SUIT"
W: LORAINE DESPRES
D: HARRY HARRIS
CLIFF realizes that he has no funds left to keep on with his campaign and decides to resign. He ignores that J.R. schemes to ease his nomination and thus taking him out of O.L.M. Desperate by his failure, a drunk DIGGER confesses a journalist that CLIFF is the father of Little JOHN.
When the proper blood analysis is performed, the EWING marriage is astonished: J.R. turns out to be his father. By himself, J.R. goes into his son´s room and holds him by the first time, excited.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JARED MARTIN, GEORGE PETRIE, STANLEY GROVER (DR. MILES), STEPHEN KEEP (BARRY LESTER), FERN FITZGERALD and MARTINA DEIGNAN as DEBORAH JOHNS. FIRST AIRED ON 1/11/80.
18/47: "JENNA´S RETURN"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: I.J. MOORE
SUE ELLEN´s and DUSTY´s romance is more and more passionate and she relies greatly on the cowboy. Her absences make J.R. jealous, since she gives no explanations.
PAMELA flies to PARIS on a business trip with her boss HARRISON PAGE. At the Airport, she sees BOBBY reunited with his old flame JENNA WADE. She does not want to push things and asks him to make things clear with PAM.
"I think I have no reason to go home tonight..." - assures BOBBY.
G.S.: FRANCINE TACKER (JENNA WADE), DON PORTER (MATT DEVLIN), MEL FERRER, SUSAN HOWARD and JARED MARTIN. FIRST AIRED ON 1/18/80.
NOTE: NEXT FRIDAY DALLAS WAS NOT AIRED IN USA, BUT THE KL EPISODE TITLED “LET THE CIRCLE NOT BE BROKEN”, TO APPEAL AUDIENCES TO THE NEW SHOW. THEREFORE, DALLAS WAS BRIEFLY INTERRUPTED AT THE SAME POINT THAT WOULD IN ITS SPANISH AIRING ON TVE1, DUE TO THE FOOTBALL WORLD SERIES ´82.
19/48: "SUE ELLEN´S CHOICE"
W: CAMILLE MARCHETTA
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
Finally, BOBBY and JENNA do NOT spend the night together. When PAM returns from PARIS, JENNA questions her about her feelings to BOBBY.
"Because if you don´t want him, I do" – she says. DUSTY presses SUE ELLEN to leave J.R. She asks her husband for a divorce, but J.R. only will agree if she leaves Little JOHN with him. Therefore, SUE ELLEN feels obliged to end her romance with DUSTY.
Meanwhile, PAM confides to BOBBY:
"I feel so unuseful for not being able to give you a son, that sometimes I wish you would leave me...other times I think I´d die without you."
The couple reconcile and promise each other they will solve their problems out.
G.S.: FRANCINE TACKER, SUSAN HOWARD, JEANNA MICHAELS and JARED MARTIN. FIRST AIRED ON 2/1/80.
NOTE: THE PREVIOUS DAY, LUCY DID HER FIRST AND LAST APPEARANCE ON KL, ON EPISODE "HOME IS FOR THE HEALING".
20/49: "SECOND THOUGHTS"
W: LINDA ELSTAD
D: I.J. MOORE
Bent on throwing LUCY off the ranch, J.R. pulls on ALAN to marry LUCY offering him a new firm in CHICAGO. At the same time, he does not consider the new links between RAY and DONNA as good news. She is a widower now and is trying to let the foreman fit in her circle.
J.R.´s influence is final to make RAY feel inferior at her eyes again and ends their relationship. When JOCK offers ALAN a firm in DALLAS, J.R. gets angry and tries to cancel the wedding. So he turns to BETTY LOU, ALAN´s former girlfriend, who has been dating him in spite of LUCY.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, ROBERT ROCKWELL (MITCHELL), LAURA JOHNSON, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE, KARLENE CROCKETT and CHRIS COFFEY as GREG FORRESTER). FIRST AIRED ON 2/8/80.
21/50: "DIVORCE-EWING STYLE"
W & D: LEONARD KATZMAN
SUE ELLEN has set up a plan to get a divorce. So she tries her best to look like the perfect wife and devoted mother before everybody, thus having all of them on her behalf at court.
Neither she has forgotten to hire a detective to follow J.R. at night...But he soon discovers her intentions and use KRISTIN to make the family believe that SUE ELLEN is off the wagon again. SUE ELLEN´s reaction is violent when she shows the detective´s reports, faked by J.R.
G.S.: DON PORTER, BARRY CORBIN, JEFF COOPER, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE, JAMES L. BROWN and JOHN CHRISTY EWING (TOM FULLER). FIRST AIRED ON 2/15/80.
22/51: "JOCK´S TRIAL" (I)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: I.J. MOORE
CLIFF is named the D.A.´s Assistant and, as soon as he takes over, he devotes himself to the SOUTHFORK case: a corpse has been found under the lands where RAY is building up his house. CLIFF learns that it is a murder committed many years ago.
SUE ELLEN drinks again when she knows that DUSTY is presumably dead due to a plane accident, on his way to meet her. ELLIE discovers that one of his collaborators has fallen in love with her. Eventually, JOCK is arrested as the presumed murderer of HUTCH McKINNEY, the cowboy whose corpse had been found.
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, DON PORTER, BARRY CORBIN, NICOLAS COSTER (LYLE SLOAN), JEFF COOPER, CHRIS COFFEY and JOAN LANCASTER. FIRST AIRED ON 2/22/80.
23/52: "JOCK´S TRIAL" (II)
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: I.J. MOORE
Though JOCK´s trial recalls the attention of the EWINGS, other members of the family have their own problems: PAM expects a fatal conclusion for the sickness of old DIGGER. JOCK has hired the best criminal lawyer in the Union to defend him, SCOTTY DEMEREST. He fears that CLIFF´s proofs might incriminate him dangerously.
But just his worst enemy, DIGGER, is the one who will clear things up: before dying, DIGGER confesses to have killed that cowboy, who turned out to be PAM´s real father.
"I´ve always loved you just like you´re my own..."
G.S.: KEENAN WYNN, JOHN ZAREMBA, DON PORTER, STEPHEN ELLIOTT (SCOTTY DEMEREST), NICOLAS COSTER, WILLIAM WATSON (HUTCHINSON McKINNEY), BARRY CORBIN, GEORGE PETRIE and VICTORIA PRINCIPAL as REBECCA BARNES. FIRST AIRED ON 2/29/80.
24/53: "WHEELER DEALER"
aka THE WHEELER DEALER
W: BARBARA SEARLES
D: ALEXANDER SINGER
DIGGER´s death means a big shock to PAMELA, now obsessed with finding the identity she has just lost. J.R. gets upsetting news about the EWING fields in ASIA: they are going to be nationalized due to a revolution. In order to avoid an economical breakdown, he sells out most of his shares to the Cartel and VAUGHN LELAND.
SUE ELLEN is trying to forget DUSTY´s death through drinking. Meanwhile, JOCK and his wife decide to visit AMANDA at the COLORADO sanitarium where she was committed. But AMANDA cannot recognize JOCK...until he notices BOBBY.
When JOCK returns to DALLAS and learns what happened, he brawls: "How much did we lose?”
"We are lucky, we just made ourselves a killer...", answers J.R.
G.S.: DENNIS PATRICK, RON HAYES, JEFF COOPER, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE, GEOFFREY SCOTT (bar cowboy), ROBERT ACKERMAN, PAUL SORENSEN, SARAH CUNNINGHAM and LESLEY WOODS as AMANDA LEWIS EWING. FIRST AIRED ON 3/14/80.
25/54: "A HOUSE DIVIDED"
W: RENA DOWN
D: I.J. MOORE
The Asian fields nationalization news causes a commotion all over the town of DALLAS. During a press conference at EWING OIL, J.R. assures THEY ARE NOT RUINED. When BOBBY comes, JOCK and J.R. tell him that the latter had sold out almost every field to the Cartel and Banker LELAND. To worsen things, one of the Cartel members, SETH STONE, jumped off to death that morning.
His widow MARILEE keeps calling at the offices, but J.R. rejects the calls. JORDAN LEE and VAUGHN LELAND threat J.R. with a vengeance:
"Somehow you knew it, J.R. I´m gonna make you pay..." Once alone, BOBBY accuses J.R. of conning the Cartel, but he states: "I didn´t know, l swear it, daddy. I´d never do something like this to my friends..."
Meanwhile, ALAN shows KRISTIN the press headlines: "Ewing Empire Collapses". The pair begins to plot something to blackmail J.R. through his Asian connection.
At Southfork, BOBBY learns that PAM is gone to Corpus Christie searching for information about her mother. Shortly after, a SUE ELLEN with hangover promises BOBBY she´ll never have a drink again...
At Ewing Oil, J.R. discovers KRISTIN´s schemes. Unaware of all this, LUCY is dating one of her professors, GREG FORRESTER. So far it has been a platonic relationship, but she wants to change that. What she ignores is that FORRESTER has a wife and a baby.
SUE ELLEN confesses Dr. ELBY that she does not remember the previous day´s incident at the cowboy bar. The psychiatrist realizes that she relies on BOBBY rather than on herself. J.R. visits KRISTIN and suggests her to leave for Rio de Janeiro, but she replies: "One day, somebody´s gonna stop you and I hope I´m there to watch it. No way you can buy me off!"
At Corpus Christie, about 600 kms. away from DALLAS, PAM visits the house her family lived in decades ago. By chance she finds out that they left town shortly after she was born. Later on, she learns that REBECCA DID NOT die in C.C. and decides to return to DALLAS, sure that she still is alive.
That night, J.R. and SUE ELLEN start a verbal fight in which she feels she´s the winner, sure that BOBBY will help her. After suffering a new humiliation by J.R., she messes everything up there and finds in a drawer...J.R.´s gun.
Next day CLIFF tells the EWING brothers that an old document of DIGGER´s makes him their associate at the EWING 23. This field had been recently opened by BOBBY and has become very productive. But J.R. does not hesitate to order its immediate closing, before CLIFF´s angry look.
PAM only thinks of finding her mother even if she has to quit at The Store. ALAN is taken to J.R.´s office and accused of raping a minor...who does not really exist. At SOUTHFORK, BOBBY argues with JOCK and J.R. for EWING 23. Once alone, J.R. whispers: "BOBBY is weak, not like a real EWING, daddy." BOBBY has made his mind: " I've had all the wheelin' and dealin' and backstabin' I can take. We leave in the morning…"
Next morning, both JOCK and ELLIE try to talk him out of leaving but he is firmly determined to do it. SUE ELLEN, who has witnessed the scene, blames J.R. of everything: “You threw GARY away, tried to bribe VALENE, cheated your friends...Congratulations J.R. You are the only son of the EWINGS now.” His answer is a bombshell: "Think you enough said in this house, Sue Ellen. You´re a drunk and an unfit mother. The sooner we have you put away in that sanitarium, the better off you can be."
Sergeant McSween calls on KRISTIN´s apartment. He accuses her of prostitution and gives her 24 hours to quit town. "I´ll kill him...I swear I´ll kill him", she whispers. "Take a number - answers ALAN – are a few heads ahead of you."
VAUGHN phones J.R. to make him a last threat: "You´re gonna pay for this with your own life..." In SOUTHFORK, SUE ELLEN stares at the gun for a long time, picks it up and puts it into her purse...
At the cemetery, CLIFF talks to DIGGER´s thumbstone: "There is nothing left I can do, except stop J.R. for good.” At that moment, SUE ELLEN confesses Dr. ELBY: "You´ve been right all along: I can´t rely on anyone else to do what I have to do..."
Shortly after, J.R. gets a mysterious call at his office from someone who hangs off just after hearing his voice. A few minutes later, the elevator opens its doors, somebody slips into the office, checks if the secretaries are out and goes straight to J.R.´s office.
When J.R. hears a noise, comes out of his office to see who it is, but then, two gunshots let him unconscious on the ground, between life and death.
END OF SEASON 2
G.S.: DENNIS PATRICK, RON HAYES, CHRIS COFFEY, JAMES L. BROWN, JEFF COOPER, SUSAN KELLER, DON STARR and ANN NELSON as the Corpus Christie neighbor. AIRED ON 3/21/80.
TRIVIA DOSSIER
by Pam´s Twin Sister
30: First episode of the Season, divided in 2 parts. In the future this format would be followed at most season premieres, especially from Season 8 on. Replacement of the actor who played JEB AMES, ED NELSEN, by SANDY WARD in this two-parter. Debuts one of the show´s most faithful supporting characters, family lawyer HARV SMITHFIELD, performed by late GEORGE O. PETRIE, as well as the only remarkable new character: also lawyer ALAN BEAM, played by RANDOLPH POWELL, seen on the TV version of LOGAN´S RUN, a KATZMAN production too.
31: Conclusion of this double episode, solving out the kidnapping plot of J.R.´s heir, JOHN ROSS EWING III. First appearance of another recurring character, banker VAUGHN LELAND, who also would appear on Seasons 4, 6, and 7, portrayed by the same actor, deceased DENNIS PATRICK, famous for the gothic serial DARK SHADOWS. JORDAN CHARNEY plays another detective after gueststarring on THE RED FILES, but his former role SUTTON is played by another character...In a very minor role we can see JOCELYN BRANDO, MARLON´s sister, as JOHN ROSS´s nurse. Also debuts CLIFF´s small apartment that will remain until half Season 5. This was the first episode to be included in the Top Ten list.
32: Returns actress MARTHA SCOTT as PATRICIA on 2 more episodes. 2 members of the family are brought back with different actors: MARY CROSBY replaces COLLEEN CAMP as KRISTIN and so does KEENAN WYNN with DAVID WAYNE as a very different-looking DIGGER. The episode´s title, THE SILENT KILLER, could also make reference in prospect to both the BARNESES´ disease, neurofibromatosis, and KRISTIN herself, to become J.R. attempted murderer. The plot also unveals that REBECCA had suffered two miscarriages, one of them before to give birth to CLIFF and again before to have PAM, due to neurofibromatosis.
33: First of 16 episodes written, produced and directed by DALLAS´s guru LEONARD KATZMAN. DALLAS´s third stint of JOAN VAN ARK as VALENE. This time the conflict between her and daughter LUCY is worked out thanks to BOBBY. A clip scene of this episode was replayed as a flashback told by LUCY on episode THE COUNTRY GIRL from Season 11, written by the same writer, A.B. LEWIS.
34: KRISTIN is hired at EWING OIL, thus leaving her Architecture career (!?) and replacing just married LOUELLA, who will re-appear later on. Also begins the love affair between KRISTIN and J.R., one of the main storylines in this Season 2. The last episode of writer WORLEY THORNE, freelancer who had only written one more episode, RUNAWAY.
35: The shooting of the location scenes for this episode was when the crew started to notice JIM DAVIS´s illness, since he went through conscience and memory loss. About one year later, the actor would die of a brain tumor. The bar brawl scene would be reminisced on episode THE SEARCH. Also first mention of JOCK´s secret ex-wife AMANDA, committed into a sanitarium, although the revelation was about to be RAY´s true identity as JOCK´s son.
36: Enters SUE ELLEN´s shrink Dr. SIMON ELBY, played by Canadian JEFF COOPER, seen on the daytime soap THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS years before. Guest characters BO and LUKE were probably named after the ones starring on the show aired right before DALLAS at the CBS schedule, THE DUKES OF HAZZARD. The plot featured PAM´s second accidental abortion, leading to her depression phase. With this episode the show scored the Top 5 for the first time. BRUCE BROUGHTON received his first EMMY nomination as best music score composer in a drama series for his work for THE LOST CHILD.
37: First EWING charity rodeo which, despite of being ANNUAL, it would only be celebrated one more time, on episode # 200. Debuts STEVEN “DUSTY” FARLOW, who mistakenly claims to use her mother´s last name FARLOW, owner of the SOUTHERN CROSS Ranch, as WAYNE is his father´s (which actually is CLAYTON FARLOW). Ironically the plot twists will make his claim true since his real mother´s last name actually is FARLOW, as will be revealed on Season 6. Both names are a wink at KAZTMAN´s brother-in-law´s name, also belonging to the crew. Excerpts of the rodeo sequences will be used in one Season 4 episode, as home movies of DUSTY´s. JARED MARTIN had previously co-starred in other KATZMAN productions, like THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY and LOGAN´S RUN.
38: First appearance of LAURA JOHNSON as BETTY LOU BARKER, ALAN´s girlfriend, an actress who would become very popular thereafter playing golddigger TERRY HARTFORD RANSON CHANNING on FALCON CREST. First episode scripted by LORAINE DESPRES, who would also write for other LORIMAR shows: THE WALTONS, FAMILY or KNOTS LANDING, as well as DYNASTY. This episode was originally aired in USA after the two-parter MASTECTOMY.
39: Double episode focused on ELLIE´s breast cancer, aired as an one hour and a half episode in USA. A.B. LEWIS´s work that proved that a serial could feature more ambitious issues in a realistic way, so much that it provided BARBARA BEL GEDDES her only EMMY that year, as best actress in a drama series. The deceased actress had gone through the same problem in real life.
40: Part 2 of the previous, centered around the aftermath of ELLIE´s mastectomy and how it affects her family, especially JOCK and LUCY. This was one of the favorite stories of both BARBARA BEL GEDDES and CHARLENE TILTON, who considered this show “really pushed the envelope” in this kind of issues.
41: Another of the few episodes co-written by 2 writers. It was originally aired after THE HEIRESS. Enters late DON STARR, this time playing Oil Baron JORDAN LEE, member of the Cartel of Independent Companies of Dallas and regular supporting character almost through the end.
42: Last story of DAVID JACOBS for DALLAS (apart from THE EARLY YEARS) introduced GARY´s new performer, TED SHACKELFORD, and above all, launched its spin-off KNOTS LANDING. In the penultimate scene BOBBY and the newly married couple walk put of the house to become so popular all through the years. Enter old-timer western actor E.J. ANDRE as shipmaker Mr. EUGENE and wife SALLY BULLOCK, here played by ANDRA AKERS. Guest star TERRY LESTER (RUDY, KRISTIN´s ex-boyfriend), died in 2003, after devoting himself to music and acting in daytime soaps such as THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS, SANTA BARBARA and AS THE WORLD TURNS. This episode was aired in USA after # 43, MOTHER OF THE YEAR, on Thursday night, instead of Friday´s, thus achieving a higher rating (nº 2) than the next day´s episode. Thursday night would belong to KNOTS LANDING during 14 years.
43: First of 32 episodes directed by LARRY HAGMAN. Conclusion of the storyline of SUE ELLEN´s emotional blockade as she finally accepts her son JOHN ROSS. Debuts JOAN LANCASTER as LINDA BRADLEY, the gossipy wife of Oil Baron ANDY and closer friend of MARILEE´s. This episode was aired in USA after ELLIE SAVES SOUTHFORK.
44: Returns SUSAN HOWARD as DONNA for 4 episodes. Debut of wasted TOM FUCCELLO as her son-in-law DAVE, of BARRY CORBIN (NORTHERN EXPOSURE) as Sheriff FENTON WASHBUN, and MEL FERRER, future PHILLIP ERIKSON on FALCON CREST, here playing PAM´s boss HARRISON PAGE. This episode was first aired the day after RETURN ENGAGEMENT so, unusually, there was a double dose of DALLAS that week. This episode´s director ALEXANDER SINGER, had already directed TV classics such as THE FIGITIVE, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, LOU GRANT, and would follow to HILL STREET BLUES, KL, FALCON CREST, REMINGTON STEELE and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, and had won an EMMY for his work in one episode of THE LAWYERS.
45: Enters STEPHANIE BLACKMORE as call-girl SERENA WALD, introduced by ALAN BEAM, but she would become J.R.´s confident and accomplice as years passed by. The only script written by JEFF YOUNG for DALLAS. From this episode on, KEENAN WYNN will be credited in the opening titles instead of the closing ones.
46: The final scene of this episode, in which J.R. eventually accepts JOHN ROSS as his own and holds him, is the favorite scene of many members of the DALLAS´s crew. Director HARRY HARRIS also directed episodes of a lot of shows like BONANZA, THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS, 8 IS ENOUGH, THE WALTONS, MAGNUM P.I., FALCON CREST, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, DR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN and FAME, which provided him an EMMY as best director in a drama series. JORDAN LEE´s wife is named SARA, though she will be mentioned as e
EVELYN in the future.
47: Returns JENNA WADE, now with actress FRANCINE TACKER´s look. She co-starred in the show THE PAPER CHASE. Continuity error: the character says that her daughter CHARLIE has just left to ITALY with her daddy when Season 6 assumes she never met him. DON PORTER, the late actor playing ELLIE´s suitor, had co-starred with VICTORIA PRINCIPAL in the TV Movie LAST HOURS BEFORE MORNING and with LARRY HAGMAN in THE PRESIDENT´S MISTRESS.
48: One of the episodes audio-commented by L. GRAY and P. DUFFY for the DVD edition. This was CAMILLE MARCHETTA´s last script, thereafter she would be hired by the producers of DYNASTY and FALCON CREST. BOBBY and PAM´s mutual loyalty remained until their divorce by pressure from CBS, who wanted to feature the couple as a role model for the audiences.
49: First episode written by LINDA ELSTAD, deceased in 1997, who would keep working on the show for 3 more years. ELSTAD also wrote for 8 IS ENOUGH, FALCON CREST and FAME. Last appearance of LAURA JOHNSON and debut of CHRIS COFFEY as LUCY´s professor and lover-to-be GREG FORRESTER. Also seen in a very minor role is then husband of VICTORIA PRINCIPAL, CHRIS SKINNER, as one of LUCY´s Literature classmates, KETTERING. Their marriage lasted 20 months. This episode reached Top of the ratings for the very first (and not last) time.
50: Appears the only true EWING in the show´s cast: JOHN CHRISTY EWING. Another episode topping the audience ratings.
51: First part of a double episode which, originally, was meant to end this second Season of DALLAS. New mention of the FARLOW family (though the wife had been dead for 20 years) and their SOUTHERN CROSS Ranch.
52: Last episode with DIGGER BARNES and debut of STEPHEN ELLIOTT (ANGELA´s first husband on FALCON CREST) as prestige lawyer SCOTTY DEMEREST, who would re-appear on Seasons 7 and 9. His real-life wife ALICE HIRSON would play MAVIS ANDERSON from Season 5 on. In the flashback B/W scenes, VICTORIA plays PAM´s mother REBECCA, later portrayed by PRISCILLA POINTER. The decision came from a shy suggestion from VICTORIA herself. Also is revealed that ELLIE´s father was named AARON, just like DAVID JACOBS´ son. DIGGER´s funeral was going to be the end of the Season but, fortunately, CBS asked for two more episodes at the last minute and thus came out the plot about J.R.´s shooting.
53: The only but excellent script written by BARBARA SEARLES. First appearance of JOCK´s ex-wife AMANDA, here played by LESLEY WOODS. Other two actresses will incarnate her again on Season 7 and prequel THE EARLY YEARS. In the bar brawl scene you can see actor GEOFFREY SCOTT (MARK JENNINGS on DYNASTY) as the cowboy SUE ELLEN mistakes with DUSTY. ED KENNEY plays for first and only time Oil Baron SETH STONE, MARILEE´s suicide husband in the last episode of the Season. The story sets year 1939 as the buying date of field EWING 23, however DIGGER and JOCK had become enemies already in 1934 upon TEY.
54: The most popular episode ever of DALLAS, nº 1 at the ratings, whose end features J.R. getting shot. Written by RENA DOWN, the writing team started off from the shooting scene to build up the previous ones, without thinking who might be the attempted murderer. In a one-scene role (as the former neighbor PAM meets in CORPUS CHRISTIE) we see ANN NELSON, popular for her brief stints in the “Airplane!” movies, on KNOTS LANDING and, above all, as the school clerk on the FAME series, Mrs. BERG. For this episode editor FRED W. BERGER received a nomination for the EDDIE Award for best editing in a TV series. The scene of BOBBY´s goodbye is PATRICK DUFFY´s favorite one, of all he played with BARBARA BEL GEDDES.
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Season 2 of DALLAS is available on DVD through WARNER HOME...but not in Spain.
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