It was thirty years ago today...

[Smokin Joe]

...that "Dallas" first hit the screens in the UK.

What a series! JR Ewing became my all time hero, a man who recognised integrety for what it really is, an inconvenience that gets in the way of success.

They don't make 'em like that anymore!

 

[Tony Bell]

I like to think that me and me brother were among the first to recognise that Dallas was not to be taken seriously. We were watching it - sometime in late 78 - when Bobby and JR had one of their regular bustups, and as they squared up JR said 'Hey. You gonna punch me up, Bobby?'
This became a bit of saying between me and Mark.
Okay, maybe you had to be there, but we found it amusing.

 

[Tony Bell]

And as for 'Who shot JR' in 1980...
I always reckoned it was Raoul, the butler. Think about it. Every week he would serve up a sumptuous breakfast on the verandah of Southfork, only for JR to storm off without eating a thing, in the aftermath of another row with Sue Ellen.
I rest my case.

 

[Melvil]

And as for 'Who shot JR' in 1980...
I always reckoned it was Raoul, the butler. Think about it. Every week he would serve up a sumptuous breakfast on the verandah of Southfork, only for JR to storm off without eating a thing, in the aftermath of another row with Sue Ellen.
I rest my case.

You may have a point!

 

[longers]

Hearing this meant it was time for bed .

 

[Maz]

Hearing this meant it was time for bed .

hehe...I think I stayed up to watch Match of the Day that came on straight after, if memory serves me well.

 

[Renard]

I seem to associate it with Monday nights.

 

[Smokin Joe]

I seem to associate it with Monday nights.

Naw, it was a Saturday show.

Mind you, I see you are from Avondale, wherever that is. Did you have TV there in the seventies and eighties, or even electricity?

No offence mind, I just wondered.

 

[Keith Oates]

Dallas wasn't really that good, it only became popular becuase Terry Wogan used to plug it every day on his radio show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Fnaar]

Dallas wasn't really that good, it only became popular becuase Terry Wogan used to plug it every day on his radio show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Adverts on the bbc? Whatever next?

 

[Dave5N]

Saturdays. It was utter rubbish. Don't listen to Tony. He's unreliable when it comes to TV.

 

[rich p]

ISTR that when it first came out it was a twice a week half hour show on weekdays. It morphed into an hour of prime time Saturday evening soon.

 

[Renard]

Naw, it was a Saturday show.

Mind you, I see you are from Avondale, wherever that is. Did you have TV there in the seventies and eighties, or even electricity?

No offence mind, I just wondered.

We even had flushing toilets!

FWIW I still think it was a weekday (circa 1981) and when it began to get popular (as Keith says after TW plugged it mercilessly) it might have been moved to Saturdays. Not that it really matters

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Dallas was on on a Wednesday you chumps.

Damn it Barnes!

 

[Renard]

I knew it was definitely a day ending in 'y'.