(The previous season main cast remains the same. Also starring at the episode opening titles will be AUDREY LANDERS and HOWARD KEEL all through the season. During the first half, also will be featured PRISCILLA POINTER as REBECCA and, during the second, JOHN BECK will join them as MARK GRAISON.)
1/104: "CHANGING OF THE GUARD"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: MICHAEL PREECE
J.R. unsuccessfully tries to lure back SUE ELLEN and make her come with JOHN ROSS to SOUTHFORK, but she is confused and even more when she knows that J.R. has moved the boy´s things to the ranch.
When BOBBY and PAM return from L.A., they hold a meeting to decide the future of EWING OIL. ELLIE and LUCY (in her father´s name) vote against J.R. and take him out of presidence. J.R. thinks he is a winner since, besides his own 20%, now he controls RAY´s 10 shares, sold in a critical moment for him, and JOHN ROSS´s 10%, as he seems to be living in the ranch again. Everything depends on BOBBY, who not only votes to replace him in the company, but also hits J.R. after telling him who CHRISTOPHER´s real father is...
Meanwhile, CLIFF gets out of coma and AFTON reaffirms herself as his supporting mate. LUCY, who only told about her rape to her friend MURIEL, discovers that she indeed is pregnant.
BOBBY casually meets HOLLY HARWOOD, the heiress to an oil company in DALLAS, but he ignores that J.R. has come to an agreement with her to run her company in the shadow, in exchange of half the income of HARWOOD OIL.
"To J.R., as powerful as ever..." – pretty HOLLY toasts with him.
"As it is meant to be" - assures J.R....
G.S.: FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, KARLENE CROCKETT, PAUL CARR (TED PRINCE) and LOIS CHILES as HOLLY HARWOOD. FIRST AIRED ON 10/1/82.
2/105: "WHERE THERE´S A WILL"
W & D: LEONARD KATZMAN
SUE ELLEN keeps feeling guilty for CLIFF´s suicide attempt. She is confused and needs time to take a final decision about J.R. Therefore she goes at SOUTHERN CROSS Ranch to visit CLAYTON. PAM advices LUCY, carrying ROGER´s baby, to see a doctor. CLIFF rejects the charge that MARILEE offers him in her company.
In the meantime, RAY and DONNA get sad news about AMOS KREBBS, seriously ill. JOCK´s testament is sealed until its reading. Nevertheless, J.R. uses all his resources (including his freiend call-girl SERENA and lawyer SMITHFIELD´s son-in-law) to know the contents of the codicil sent by JOCK.
"Thanks, daddy, thanks..." – he whispers, as he looks up...
G.S.: MORGAN WOODWARD, ALICE HIRSON (MAVIS ANDERSON), ROBIN STRAND (JOHN BAXTER), FERN FITZGERALD, GEORGE PETRIE, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE, PAUL CARR and CHARLES NAPIER as CARL DAGGETT. FIRST AIRED ON 10/8/82.
NOTE: THE PREVIOUS DAY, KL FEATURED JR (ON THE EPISODE "DANIEL") BUYING THE PUBLISHING COMPANY THAT WAS GOING TO LAUNCH VAL´S DISGUISED BIOGRAPHY AND ANNOUNCING HIS LOVER ABBY THAT GARY WAS ABOUT TO BECOME A MULTIMILLONAIRE. NEXT DAY HE WOULD CONFIRM THIS WITH HIS OWN EYES.
3/106: "BILLION DOLLAR QUESTION"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: MICHAEL PREECE
The EWING brothers agree about letting their mother go out, have fun and meet her friends, which would have pleased JOCK. DONNA and RAY have to postpone their honeymoon once again because they must attend AMOS´s funeral in KANSAS.
PAM is upset about LUCY´s depression, and she finally decides to have an abortion. CLIFF hesitantly takes the job offered by MARILEE. J.R. and BOBBY press ELLIE to make the decision of declaring JOCK legally dead, since the company might have tax problems if the will reading is delayed any longer.
"One way or another - J.R. assures his brother – I´ll have that testament read..."
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, ALICE HIRSON, FERN FITZGERALD, GEORGE PETRIE, FRANK MARTH (DR. GROVNER), DENNIS LIPSCOMB (NELSON HARDING) and KATE REID as LIL TROTTER. FIRST AIRED ON 10/15/82.
4/107: "THE BIG BALL"
W & D: LEONARD KATZMAN
The Oil Barons Ball offers new perspectives to ELLIE, since it means to be her first public appearance without JOCK.
SUE ELLEN gets quite a surprise when meets DUSTY at SOUTHERN CROSS and learns that her former lover has just married. When she painfully knows that he has overcome his impotence, then she decides to return home:
“I´ve just realized that I belong at Southfork”. But CLAYTON answers to her: “You know what your life will be like if you get back with J.R.”
RAY and DONNA are staying at his aunt LIL TROTTER´s in KANSAS. There he tries to help his cousin MICKEY.
On the other side, J.R. intends to surprise his mother during the Ball with the announcement of the creation of JOCK´s memorial scholarships. Thus ELLIE will feel obliged to do what both brothers consider the right thing: reading their daddy´s testament...
G.S.: JARED MARTIN, DALE ROBERTSON (FRANK CRUTCHER), LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, KATE REID, ALICE HIRSON, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, MELODY ANDERSON (LINDA FARLOW) and TIMOTHY PATRICK MURPHY as MICKEY TROTTER. FIRST AIRED ON 10/22/82.
5/108: "JOCK´S WILL"
W: DAVID PAULSEN
D: MICHAEL PREECE
Despite of the pain that it takes, ELLIE decides to declare JOCK legally dead and the family is reunited to know his last will. Meanwhile, REBECCA promises to use all her wealth and energy to get even on J.R. PAMELA is torn apart, as she does not know if she should help her husband or her mother. RAY and DONNA bring MICKEY to SOUTHFORK, where he will work as a handman.
At the same time, J.R. and SUE ELLEN settle their wedding´s date, while BOBBY assures that if his brother inherits the company, they both will leave the ranch. The will´s reading, in presence of GARY, RAY and LUCY as well, upsets the whole family enormously, except J.R., who already knew its contents...
G.S.: DALE ROBERTSON, KATE REID, MORGAN WOODWARD, T.P.MURPHY, ALICE HIRSON, DON STARR, GEORGE PETRIE, PETER HOBBS, KENNETH KIMMINS (THORNTON MCLEISH) and TED SHACKELFORD. FIRST AIRED ON 10/29/82.
NOTE: FOR THE FIRST AND LAST TIME, DALLAS AND KL WERE AIRED ON THE SAME DAY, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AS THEY SHARED THE PLOT TOO. THUS, ON DALLAS, GARY ATTENDED JOCK´S WILL´S READING AND, ON KL, EXPRESSED HIS ANGER ABOUT JOCK´S DECISION OF MOMENTARILY LIMITING HIS INHERITANCE TO THE USE OF INTERESTS. ALTHOUGH BOTH ABBY AND VAL FLEW TO DALLAS, NONE OF THEM WAS SEEN ON THE MOTHER SERIES. BUT JR AND BOBBY DID APPEAR ON KL.
6/109: "AFTERMATH"
W: DAVID PAULSEN
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
Ewing Oil is divided into 2 parts once the testament is read. Both BOBBY and J.R. are ready to wherever it takes to get the company´s control. Upon JOCK´s last will, the one of 2 sons who had earned more money with his share of company all through next year, will be the one and only president of it.
ELLIE and PAM are very worried because this situation may remarkably affect the family relationships. On the other side, REBECCA warns J.R. telling him that she will never forget what he has done to her son. LUCY is back to her modeling work after having an abortion. SUE ELLEN claims that she will always support J.R.
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, BEN PIAZZA (WALT DRISCOLL), GEORGE PETRIE, PAUL NAPIER (HAROLD BOYLE), RAY WISE, KENNETH KIMMINS, PATRICK McNAMARA (JARRETT MCLEISH) and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 11/ 5/82.
7/110: "HIT AND RUN"
W: HOWARD LAKIN
D: MICHAEL PREECE
J.R. is planning a fake hit-and-run accident in order to blackmail WALT DRISCOLL, member of the Oil Land Management, and thus achieving a permission to drill more oil than it is usually allowed. CLIFF is named president of WENTWORTH OIL, but AFTON talks with him and REBECCA to convince them of not using the company against J.R.
DONNA advices ELLIE to acept an invitation for lunch from FRANK CRUTCHER. LUCY consults with her lawyer the details of her divorcement from MITCH. PAM tries to make REBECCA forget her revenge, afraid of its consequences...
G.S.: JOHN LARROQUETTE (COLTON), DALE ROBERTSON, NICHOLAS HAMMOND (BILL JOHNSON), MORGAN WOODWARD, BEN PIAZZA, FAY HAUSER (ANNIE), FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, GEORGE PETRIE, TOM FUCCELLO, PATRICK McNAMARA, KENNETH KIMMINS, PAUL CARR (TED PRINCE), MARTHA SMITH (CAROL DRISCOLL), RAY WISE and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 11/12/82.
8/111: "THE EWING TOUCH"
W: HOWARD LAKIN
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
After getting the permission, J.R. starts a campaign of high-profit oil drilling. When DRISCOLL learns about it, he comes to DALLAS to discuss the issue, but J.R. takes care of paying him an unexpected vacation. The oil men does not understand how J.R. can drill so much crude, since the market is saturated. SUE ELLEN asks CLAYTON to give her away.
REBECCA keeps fighting J.R., warning ELLIE that she will destroy her son if he takes a false step. “I've done all I can to stop this fued but, if it´s a fight you want, just remember other people had tried to fight the Ewings and lost!" – ELLIE reminds her.
BOBBY becomes a partner of a Canadian company in the exploitation of highly productive fields. At the same time, he and J.R. do not welcome their mother´s new friend...
G.S.: DALE ROBERTSON, NICHOLAS HAMMOND, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, BEN PIAZZA, ALBERT SALMI (GIL THURMAN), ALICE HIRSON, JOHN LARROQUETTE, FAY HAUSER, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, TOM FUCCELLO, PATRICK McNAMARA, KENNETH KIMMINS, JOHN CARTER (CARL HARDESTY) and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 11/19/82.
9/112: "FRINGE BENEFITS"
W: WILL LORIN
D: MICHAEL PREECE
J.R. and CLIFF are determined to buy a refinery, whose owner GIL THURMAN wants to close the deal with some sort of fringe benefit, besides money. AFTON, who is longing for CLIFF to eventually sign a big deal, agrees to sleep with THURMAN to close the deal between him and BARNES.
ELLIE gets angry when J.R. asks him what CRUTCHER means to her. Shortly after that, she speaks with the man to tell him he is going too fast, and refuses to go with him to N.Y. PAM and SUE ELLEN promise to remain being friends in spite of their husbands´ rivalry. J.R. uses his wife as a bait for THURMAN...
G.S.: DALE ROBERTSON, MORGAN WOODWARD, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, MICHAEL PRINCE (JOHN MACKLIN), KENNETH KIMMINS, JACK COLLINS and ALBERT SALMI as GIL THURMAN. FIRST AIRED ON 11/26/82.
10/113: "THE WEDDING"
W: WILL LORIN
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
ELLIE invites CLAYTON to spend a few days at SOUTHFORK until the celebration of J.R.´s and SUE ELLEN´s wedding. MICKEY and LUCY have a first conversation in which they exchange sarcastic remarks. But later on, the young man asks RAY about LUCY. RAY forbids him to get close to her, given her recent divorce.
JORDAN LEE meets BOBBY to let him know that J.R. is hurting Ewing Oil and the Cartel. At the same time, AFTON is worried because he knows that CLIFF still is in love with SUE ELLEN. Both of them show up at Southfork, thus creating an atmosphere of expectation and intrigue...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, ALICE HIRSON, TOM FUCCELLO, DON STARR, RAY WISE, PARLEY BAER and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 12/3/82.
11/114: "POST NUPTIAL"
W: DAVID PAULSEN
D: MICHAEL PREECE
The post-nuptial party becomes a pitched battle because CLIFF is looking for trouble. After interrupting the ceremony suddenly standing up, BARNES intends to dance with SUE ELLEN, but instead he starts a fight that ends up with several guests falling into the pool water...
Thereafter, BOBBY and the Cartel come to the conclusion that J.R. is dealing with an embargoed country. CLIFF and REBECCA are trying to persuade all the oil men into rejecting any business with J.R.
BOBBY learns from HOLLY that his brother owns 25% of her company Harwood Oil. “J.R., brother or not, I´ll never let you destroy E. Oil...”
G.S.: NICHOLAS HAMMOND, E.J. ANDRE, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, ALICE HIRSON, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, TOM FUCCELLO, PARLEY BAER, JON CYPHER, GERRY GIBSON, IVAN BONAR and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 12/10/12.
12/115: "BARBECUE 3"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
J.R. surprises everyone to announce his intention of buying a gas station chain. BOBBY confirms his suspicions when HOLLY reveals him that they used to belong to Harwood Oil...and J.R. made her sell him to a ghost company he owns. After the last events, BOBBY promises he will also play dirty to get the control of E. Oil.
The Ewing annual barbecue becomes the background of an argument between J.R. and the oil men. The oldest Ewing brother is selling very low-priced gas. To avoid further trouble, ELLIE takes a decision: sell out the company...
G.S.: E.J. ANDRE, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, ALICE HIRSON, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, ARLEN DEAN SNYDER (GEORGE HICKS), JULIO MEDINA (HENRY FIGUEROA), JAMES KAREN (ELTON LAWRENCE) and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 12/17/82.
13/116: "MAMA DEAREST"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: PATRICK DUFFY
When ELLIE announces she intends to start a legal process to change JOCK´s will, both brothers come to an agreement. BARNES and the other oil men are studying the way to counteract J.R.´s low prices. PAM decides to help ELLIE to find a solution to JOCK´s will.
“She's going to sell Ewing Oil and give half to a drunk and a cowboy!” – an angry J.R. complains.
DONNA finds a trong resistence at the Energy Commission when she wants to stop J.R.´s oil price. AFTON hints CLIFF she wants to wed him. CLAYTON recommends ELLIE an excellent lawyer, BROOKS OLIVER, in case she decides to contest the testament...
G.S.: DONALD MOFFAT (BROOKS OLIVER), LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, DON STARR, GEORGE PETRIE, PAUL CARR, JAMES KAREN, JULIO MEDINA, KARLENE CROCKETT, A.D.SNYDER and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 12/31/82.
14/117: “THE EWING BLUES”
W & D: DAVID PAULSEN
ELLIE must take a heroic decision that may hurt JOCK´s memory or destroy the family. “However much it hurts, I have to overturn JOCK´s will...” PAM is her ally in this situation, as well as MARK GRAISON, the millionaire for whom lawyer OLIVER exclusively works.
J.R. and SUE ELLEN are closer than ever and appear together on a TV show to defend his running of E. Oil. PAM discovers that MARK is more interested in her than in the will´s contest. HOLLY realizes her company is being managed wrongly by J.R. and turns to BOBBY for advice...
G.S.: DONALD MOFFAT, LOIS CHILES, JOHN REILLY (ROY RALSTON), FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, LANE DAVIES (CRAIG GURNEY), SCOTT PALMER (FARLEY CRISWELL), T.P.MURPHY and JOHN BECK as MARK GRAISON. FIRST AIRED ON 1/7/83.
15/118: "THE RECKONING"
W: WILL LORIN
D: BILL DUKE
The possibility of JOCK´s will being annulated upsets ELLIE, since the previous one did not mention RAY nor GARY. ELLIE assures her stepson he will get his share, even on cash, but the foreman cannot admit this charity situation.
SUE ELLEN notices MARK´s attraction to PAM and J.R. decides to take advantage of it as a weapon against his brother, encouraging MARK to woo PAM. At the will contest judgement, the family is divided into 2 sides: J.R. and BOBBY declare against their mother. Not even the reading in loud voice of a personal letter from JOCK to ELLIE changes the verdict: the codicil´s contents are still valid...
G.S.: DONALD MOFFAT, MORGAN WOODWARD, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, TOM FUCCELLO, GEORGE PETRIE, A.D. SNYDER, LAURENCE HADDON, JAMES KAREN, FRED CARNEY (JUDGE HOWARD MANTEE) and JULIO MEDINA. FIRST AIRED ON 1/14/83.
16/119: "A EWING IS A EWING"
W: FRANK FURINO
D: LARRY HAGMAN
ELLIE leaves the ranch for awhile to avoid the family stress. At Galveston, she meets CLAYTON FARLOW, angry with SUE ELLEN due to her alliance with J.R. to get a refinery for the Ewing crude.
Meanwhile the Cartel gives up to BOBBY´s wishes, but he finds out that GEORGE HICKS, another member of the Energy Commission, is connected with J.R. He soon guesses that he has been bribed by his brother to avoid DRISCOLL´s permission to be retired.
HOLLY convinces J.R., at gunpoint, to keep their relationship as strictly business: “You arrogant pig...I could kill you now and never regret it. You ever try to force yourself on me again and you're a dead man...”
Meanwhile, BOBBY sets up a plot against HICKS...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, PAUL MANTEE (GEN. COCHRAN), CHARLES NAPIER, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, APRIL CLOUGH (WENDY), A.D. SNYDER and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 1/28/83.
17/120: "CRASH OF ´83"
W: HOWARD LAKIN
D: BILL DUKE
J.R. denies he has political aspirations and tries to buy a refinery to produce low-priced gas, after the massive popular acceptation he achieved.
REBECCA fights this operation and invests all her energy on preventing J.R. from buying the refinery. At the same time J.R. is worried about his mother´s friendship with CLAYTON.
BOBBY has no other way out but blackmailing HICKS, J.R. style. This makes him feel guilty and have trouble with his wife:
“What do you want from me, sympathy? – she asks – well, you're not going to get it. To slap your hand and tell you you're the same Bobby Ewing I married? The Bobby Ewing I married wouldn´t have blackmailed Hicks or force his own mother into court, so you can just stay dirty!”When CLIFF casually discovers the fling AFTON had with THURMAN, he goes out in a rampage and gets drunk, ignoring its consequences. Later on, AFTON comes over Southfork with tragic news:
“There´s been an accident. The Wentworth plane has crashed. Pam, it´s your mother...”
G.S.: ALBERT SALMI, JOHN REILLY, BEN PIAZZA, APRIL CLOUGH, A.D. SNYDER, CHARLES NAPIER, KENNETH KIMMINS, JACK COLLINS and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/4/83.
18/121: "REQUIEM"
W: LINDA ELSTAD
D: LARRY HAGMAN
CLIFF blames himself of sending his mother in his place, on the Wentworth plane that has seriously crashed. Before dying, REBECCA begs PAM to protect her weak brother, who does not know about it until the next morning.
KATHERINE returns from N.Y., called by BOBBY, and decides that it is about time to settle down in Dallas with her family.
Shortly after her arrival, she does not hesitate to accuse CLIFF of involving their mother into his fight against the Ewings and, therefore, of being responsible for the accident. “You did this, you killed her! I´m going to make you pay for it if it´s the last thing I do...”
At Southfork, PAM gives a surprising piece of news to BOBBY: she has decided to leave the ranch with their son:
“Me and CHRISTOPHER are leaving Southfork, but without you. I need time to think, far from you and far from the Ewing family...”
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, A.D. SNYDER, BEN PIAZZA, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, ALICE HIRSON, TOM FUCCELLO, RYAN MacDONALD and MORGAN BRITTANY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/11/83.
19/122: "LEGACY"
W: ROBERT SHERMAN
D: PATRICK DUFFY
To J.R.´s and KATHERINE´s rejoice, PAM leaves her husband and the ranch. J.R. considers his brother´s failed marriage as an advantage he can use in business.
KATHERINE, on the other side, has personal reasons to interfere in her stepsister´s life. Meanwhile, LUCY rescues MICKEY from a bar fight, thus a new relationship between them begins. CLAYTON advices ELLIE to forget the family problems and care about herself. But SUE ELLEN notices how distant from her CLAYTON has grown now.
“Didn’t you ever realize that I was in love with you?” – he finally asks. “I had no idea.”
”I do find many qualities in ELLIE that I used to think were in you.”
Later on J.R. offers his brother a compromise solution which is refused:
“There was a time when I might have taken your offer but certainly not now. I´m pulling ahead of you in the fight, and I´m gonna whip E. Oil right out of your hands...” The war continues... ...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, BEN PIAZZA, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, KARLENE CROCKETT, MICHAEL CURRIE (SAM REYNOLDS), KENNETH KIMMINS, TOM ROSQUI and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/18/83.
20/123: "BROTHERS AND SISTERS"
W: WILL LORIN
D: LARRY HAGMAN
The relationship between BOBBY and PAM are more and more distant. On one side, KATHERINE is very interested in BOBBY, as MARK is wooing PAM. This situation does not help the couple at all. ELLIE, on her side, is assisting CLAYTON to find a house in Dallas, after selling out S. Cross.
The KREBBSES are aware that the fight for E.Oil´s takeover may hurt the future of Dave Culver at the Senate, since the name of the oldest Ewing is being heard as a possible replacement of DONNA´s stepson. At the same time, J.R. makes a deal with DRISCOLL in a business that may get him the company...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN REILLY, TOM FUCCELLO and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/18/83.
21/124: "CARIBBEAN CONNECTION"
aka THE CARIBBEAN CONNECTION
G: WILL LORIN
D: PATRICK DUFFY
BOBBY gets proofs that J.R. is ilegally sailing crude to an embargoes country, therefore he intends to stop J.R.´s Caribean connection WALT DRISCOLL.
On his side, J.R. is thinking over the possibility of running for a public service. SUE ELLEN feels worried because her past might damage her husband at the election.
On the other side, CLIFF and KATHERINE are easing PAM and MARK´s relationship as much as they can. At the same time, J.R. threats HOLLY with ruining her if she does not collaborate with him:
“I´m getting sick of you looking suspicions every time I come to you with a deal” ...While BOBBY has his own ally in RAY...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN REILLY, E.J. ANDRE and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 3/4/83.
22/125: "THE STING"
W: DAVID PAULSEN
D: LARRY ELIKANN
The fight between the Ewing brothers continues: BOBBY has stopped the Caribbean business even if DRISCOLL has to go to jail. KATHERINE offers J.R. all the information to help him against CLIFF and BOBBY. LUCY explains MICKEY the reasons of her coldness.
ELLIE realizes that PAM and BOBBY may not be temporarily apart. The Cartel is very happy with CLIFF´s return, partly thanks to PAM´s and MARK´s efforts. The latter´s presence at PAM´s hotel suite makes BOBBY angry. At the same time, HOLLY promises J.R. that she will make him pay for his failure...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN REILLY, RUSS MARIN, FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, STEPHANIE BLACKMORE, HENRY DARROW (GARCIA) and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 3/11/83.
23/126: "HELL HATH NO FURY"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: ERNEST PINTOFF
J.R. and BOBBY are victims of HOLLY´s and KATHERINE´s plans, respectively, since they are trying to ruin their marriages. On one side, HOLLY makes J.R. go out with her as a first step of her plot. KATHERINE wants to get BOBBY and pushes MARK to take PAM to Europe. CLIFF gets an offer to replace BOBBY at the Canadian deal if he backs up.
Meanwhile PAM and BOBBY spend the night together but the old problems re-appear the next morning. HOLLY makes SUE ELLEN believe that she and J.R. are lovers, and invites her to check it out by herself: some lipstick spots on his shirt destroy SUE ELLEN´s illusions about her marriage...
G.S.: HENRY DARROW, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, MORGAN BRITTANY, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN REILLY, FAY HAUSER, JOHN ANDERSON (RICHARD McINTYRE), KENNETH KIMMINS, TOM McFADDEN (JACKSON´S PARTNER), WILLIAM BRYANT (JACKSON), FERN FITZGERALD, DON STARR, RUSS MARIN (MATTHEW) and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 3/18/83.
24/127: “CUBA LIBRE”
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: ROBERT C. THOMPSON
HOLLY promises J.R. a pleasant reward if he is able to get her money back on his trip to Cuba. As J.R. is away, SUE ELLEN turns to BOBBY in order to check out if her husband´s infidelity is true. But she gets a surprise to know that he and HOLLY are partners and the young woman would do anything to break their business association.
The KREBBSES invite MICKEY´s mother to their house, but he doesn´t know how to introduce LUCY to his mother. Once in Cuba, J.R. realizes that his name doesn´t mean a thing: he is jailed in a dark, gloomy cell...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN REILLY, FAY HAUSER, JOHN ANDERSON, HENRY DARROW, KATE REID, ALICE HIRSON, HANSFORD ROWE (ANDREW FORREST), DON STARR and T.P. MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 3/25/83.
25/128: "TANGLED WEB"
W: DAVID PAULSEN
D: NICHOLAS SGARRO
After spending one night in prison, J.R. is taken to IGNACIO PÉREZ, his Cuban connection, who wanted to give him a lesson and show him what might have happened to him when DRISCOLL didn´t show up at Puerto Rico. BOBBY´s hopes about winning the battle againt his brother vanish due to a Cuban cigar box.
“Have a Havana?" – J.R. mocks to BOBBY. Later on, he finds out that PAM is in France with MARK upon a confidence of KATHERINE´s.
There, PAM feels embarrased when they bump into some friends from Dallas: “If you were really married - says MARK – you´d be with BOBBY, but you´re not single either. Being caught in the middle is driving both of us a little crazy...”
At the same time RAY confesses his Aunt LIL that JOCK was his real father. SUE ELLEN sees with her own eyes J.R.´s infidelity, as planned by HOLLY...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, KATE REID, KENNETH KIMMINS, WILLIAM BRYANT, KENNETH KIMMINS, DENNIS HOLAHAN (GEORGE WALKER), NATE ESFORMES (SR. PEREZ) and TOM McFADDEN. FIRST AIRED ON 4/1/83.
26/129: "THINGS AIN´T GOIN´ TOO GOOD AT SOUTHFORK"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: GUNNAR HELLSTROM
SUE ELLEN falls off the wagon again when she finds J.R. at HOLLY´s bedroom. PAMELA returns from Cannes, warned by AFTON, so she can speak with BOBBY, and is put in a dilemma, snce she doesn´t know wether help him at the fight for E. Oil and lose him forever, or not help him and have the possibility of a reconciliation.
In the meantime, SUE ELLEN turns to the only man who has loved her, CLAYTON, and tries to seduce him. MISS ELLIE unexpected arrival makes things worse, since she doesn´t believe his explanations. Back at Southfork, SUE ELLEN starts a big fight with J.R.:
“You Bastard! You finally decided to come home!” ”I've been so worried about you, Sue Ellen...” ”When were the most worried? Before or after you made love to Holly Harwood?”
When she drives off his husband´s car, MICKEY tries to stop her unsuccessfully...
G.S.: LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, KATE REID, KENNETH KIMMINS and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 4/15/83.
27/130: "PENULTIMATE"
W: HOWARD LAKIN
D: NICK HAVINGA
SUE ELLEN and MICKEY had an accident when they crashed into another car at the ranch´s entryway. Subsequently, the young man is seriously hurt and LUCY blames SUE ELLEN for driving drunk. The Ewing family gathers at the hospital where the two have been taken. LUCY is very concerned because she is not allowed to see MICKEY, and RAY regrets to have brought him from his Kansas hometown to Texas.
CLAYTON blames J.R. of SUE ELLEN´s breakdown due to his affair with scheming HOLLY.
“She lives in a fantasy world, there everything is perfect – BOBBY tells HOLLY -. She´d crawl into a bottle rather than face it...”
At the hospital, the doctor reports the family about MICKEY´s condition: if he ever gets out of the coma, he will remain paralysed for the rest of his life...
G.S.: BARRY CORBIN, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN WOODWARD, KATE REID, ALICE HIRSON, JOHN ZAREMBA, JOE MAROSS (DR. BLAKELY) and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 4/29/83.
28/131: "EWING INFERNO"
W: A.B. LEWIS
D: LEONARD KATZMAN
The news about MICKEY´s serious condition makes RAY desperate and argue with Sheriff Washburn. RAY is obsessed with the idea of finding the car´s driver who caused the accident. Meanwhile, at Southfork, J.R.´s wife meets PAM. SUE ELLEN confessed her friend what happened. Turning to alcohol as last consolation, she confides to PAM:
“You are looking at the biggest masochist in Dallas. I wasn't content with ruining my life by marrying him once I had to marry him twice...I don´t know what to do now: I couldn´t stand another divorce or facing J.R.”
At Harwood Oil, HOLLY tries to convince the oilman to let her pay him in installments the 20 millions to break up their agreement, but he refuses. PAMELA passes by Ewing Oil to talk with her husband, but he is off to see MICKEY. It´s J.R. the one she meets:
“Where the hell were you when your husband needed you? You couldn't take the battle for Ewing Oil so you left Bobby high and dry and ran off to the South of France with your favorite stud for a long, luxurious roll in the hay...to calm your little hurts. Now tell me, was Mark Graison the only one...Or did you try a few Frenchmen just 'cause you were there?”
PAM reacts to it slapping in her brother-in-law´s face and leaving. "God I hate that woman!", whispers J.R.
Later on, PAM reveals MARK that she feels selfish for disappointing him and BOBBY. His hatred towards J.R. makes her stand by BOBBY´s side and vote to give him the Wentworth drill his Canada fields need. At the KREBBES, LIL refuses to call on her son again:
“What will happen if he wakes up? If he is damaged, then he won´t be my son any more. God forgives me, but maybe we´d better have lost him at the accident...”
Meanwhile, J.R. offers BOBBY to find a way out to their fight, since it has affected SUE ELLEN, PAM, REBECCA, MICKEY and ELLIE, apart from themselves. Then PAM calls and tells him that she will vote with KATHERINE to let him get the Wentworth drill.
The next morning, a depressed ELLIE is convinced by CLAYTON to go with him on a resting holiday. Unaware of all this, WALT DRISCOLL sneaks into RAY´s cousin´s room. After seeing that he is still alive through a life-support machine, he breaks into tears and makes up his mind.
PAM meets BOBBY at the Ewing Building:
“The reasons that made me leave Southfork are not gone. I´ll never go back to you, and it´s very hard to me to say this because I still love you. Our marriage isn´t working: I want a divorce...”
J.R. finds his wife getting drunk with a bottle of Burgundy wine and they exchange sarcasms.
“Unlock the liquor cabinet I am gonna drink myself into oblivion...”
When JOHN ROSS calls his mama out from upstairs, SUE ELLEN throws the bottle onto J.R. to stop him to go up. The wine is spread all through the staircase wall, which will have to be papered again...
The following morning, the family doctor supplies SUE ELLEN a sedative that will make her sleep during more than 18 hours...However J.R. doesn´t want to commit her into a sanitarium again. CLIFF gets angry when he is told that PAM is backing BOBBY and, therefore, he will able to go on with the Canada deal.
“Don't talk to me about cost..I'm getting a divorce...!”, PAM reports to rejoice of KATHERINE´s.
“I don´t know if I can live with someone like you, CLIFF...” says AFTON before running out...At the police station, RAY finds out that the driver they´re looking for has killed himself: it was DRISCOLL, who intended to kill J.R. as a revenge.
BOBBY opens his heart to KATHERINE, who has rushed to her brother-in-law´s side in order to console him: “I can´t change the way I am just to make her happy...”
“You´re so special...”, she tells him as caressing his face, but BOBBY soflty puts her hand away...
At SOUTHFORK, J.R. wraps JOHN ROSS and SUE ELLEN up, and gives the servants the night off. Then, comes up a raging RAY:
"Are you drunk? " - asks J.R.
“I´m cold sober, and I´m gonna kill ya!”, he warns after telling him about DRISCOLL. J.R. throws a fire poker to him that knocks over a candle, igniting the new wall paper, ready to replace the former one.
They start to fight as the entryway and the staircase are set ablaze, reaching the painters´ supplies. When J.R. knocks RAY out with the phone, is amazed to see that the ranch is consumed by a quick fire. The staircase is in flames, and they are setting the upstairs floor too...
Once he is at the first floor, J.R. is knocked down by a girder falling down. Downstairs, RAY is lying unconscious; in their bedrooms, JOHN ROSS and a sedated SUE ELLEN are sleeping, and in the corridor, surrounded by the flames, lies J.R.´s body. The Southfork Ranch has become a real inferno, the EWING Inferno...
END OF SEASON 5
R.S.: BARRY CORBIN, LOIS CHILES, MORGAN BRITTANY, KATE REID, BEN PIAZZA, JOHN ZAREMBA and T.P.MURPHY. FIRST AIRED ON 5/6/83.
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