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About the TV Series Dallas
Background, history, filming, famous cliffhangers, ratings and DVD releases — fan-made guide.
Introduction to the TV series Dallas
It was a Sunday night, April 2nd 1978, that TV history changed forever when a new five part mini series made its debut on CBS. That show was Dallas, created by David Jacobs and went on to become the most sucessful show in the history of television.
Dallas was not, however, initially produced as a serial. It was conceived as a noncontinuing drama. “I had hoped we’d be able to serialize after we got a hold,” says David Jacobs, Dallas’s creator. Indeed, the show changed to its present serialized form after about ten episodes of its first official season in the fall of 1978.
“We move a lot faster than a daytime soap,” says Capice. “In the course of twenty-five or twenty-six shows a season, we did the same amount of material that a daytime serial does in two hundred and fifty shows.”
Dallas wasn't an instant hit and gradually picked up an audience. It wasn't until its 1979–1980 season cliffhanger when JR was shot that the show was catapulted into a worldwide phenomenon.
DALLAS 2012
TNT brought Dallas back in 2012 as a continuation of the classic CBS soap, with Cynthia Cidre developing the series and Warner Horizon Television producing it.
The TNT revival ran for three seasons (40 episodes), premiering on June 13, 2012, and ending on September 22, 2014.
