Dallas TV Series | Cast Documentary

oh after all these years it's hard to keep it up [Music] it defined the 80s as much as reagan thatcher and filofax's 300 million people will get in a lava every week over the world's first super soak dallas i'm still a hero down there they love me i love them made them a lot of money and they made me a lot of money dallas is a good town you could either make yourself nuts by trying to remember the plots or you could just do every scene exactly the same and then it didn't matter good morning darling more coffee how are you this morning j.r even now if you say the show was watched by 300 million people it's just mind-boggling we were recognized every day of our lives in over 100 countries around the world i don't miss being that famous and i don't miss getting up that early every day but i do miss the faces of that cast that i love so much for most of the last century dallas was famous as a cowboy town as the oil capital of america as the city where jfk was shot the first unconfirmed report say the president was hit in the head but then it became the city where jr got shot and dallas became the home of dallas dallas was a story of the ewings the feuding family of oil barons who were incredibly rich but still all lived together on a tiny texan ranch called southport [Music] tonight we meet the family behind the family and learn how the cast stuck together when real life mirrored the on-screen tragedies and traumas and the cast returned to south fork to relive some of their finest moments i got the shove jr in the swimming pool do you remember that was not expecting it this is scripted no sort of like you're not [Music] and with unprecedented access to dallas outtakes we reveal the non-stop party that went on behind the scenes [Music] patrick duffy has the greatest sense of humor so when we were lined up to do these photographs that would be seen around the world just as the photographer would say okay ready patrick would stick his hand up my ass that's the only way to describe it and there would be a complete look of surprise and shock on my face and it would be a look of utter satisfaction on his and that would always be the shot they used [Music] for 13 years the ewings of south fork were television's dysfunctional first family jr was the eldest son a backstabbing businessman sue ellen was his anguished alcoholic wife you're a drunk an unsafe mother sooner we have you put away in that sanitarium the better off you're going to be jayhaw was always competing with little brother bobby both for control of the family oil business and the love of their hapless long-suffering ma and power jock and miss ellie bobby was the good brother the one who wanted to play by the rules i've put up with all the wheeling and dealing and backstabbing that i'm going to there was just one other problem the ewings were locked in a bit of feud with a rival oil dynasty by the name of barnes and bobby had just gone a married pamela barnes that didn't best please the rest of the ewings and that's where it all began in 1978 filming started on what began as a mere five-part mini-series the leading man was patrick duffy still damp from his success as the web-footed heartthrob in the man from atlantis his new bride pamela barnes was played by victoria principal and together they would very quickly become tv's hottest couple day one scene one take one was victoria and i in the car pulling up to the service station remember it vividly somehow was that important to me i love that seat i actually still have the leather jacket that i wore in that red mercedes it had to be five below zero i'm exaggerating but it was freezing and we were supposed to be driving back to tell the ewings that we would marry your folks gonna throw me right off that ranch relax honey you're my wife now your family you are a ewing and once that sinks in they're gonna love you like i do before it sinks in is what worries me relax sweetheart everything's gonna be fine it was freezing cold it's a wonder when we kissed we didn't break our lips we almost had to be broken apart because my lip gloss literally froze to patrick's lips it was a very uncomfortable kiss we were all just like boy this would be a great thing if it lasted because here i am working with one of the most beautiful women in the world and she's married to me it was like this is such a cool job i worked with fish before patrick's enthusiasm was mirrored by victoria convincing us all that for bobby and pam it was the real thing we're watching an episode of dallas and i looked over and my wife's doing this she's looking really sad and i said what's the matter she said she saw something i don't even know what she saw but she said i thought you only did that with me it was a wonderful magical chemistry and up until then not only not america but nor had the world ever seen a married couple that was hot i mean pam and bobby liked to have sex and that was really unusual [Music] even the crew were captivated we could cut or you guys could just get off on this one in the beginning dallas had far more to do with rumpty dumpty than oil rigs pam's marriage to bobby didn't only annoy the ewings southport's randy ranchanda ray krebs played by steve canelli was mighty sore too since he had once been engaged to pam but by scene 22 of episode 1 he was seeking solace in the arms of the ewing granddaughter lucy played by charlene tilton how could a fella forget being in the hail off with a beautiful girl like charlene tilton steve connelly and i had some incredibly really pushing the envelope uh love scenes they really didn't show that kind of stuff of that at that time call me her name again remember he looked at me went i thought you'd be a little bit older i mean i looked like i was 12 i was 17 but i look like i was 12. i'm telling you i'm feeling like some sort of pedophile she's just 17 and she's this 4 foot 11 young woman and she's planning this big kiss on me and the director says speak to charlene about it you see because we can't see her tongue kissing you in that way the network will never show it i had to tell her and she said oh okay no problem i don't want him to cut my scene she was just putting her heart and soul into the part steve's lying but steve was the one with the tongue not me in the beginning the character we all remember dallas for was in the background no one thought a bad guy like jr could be the star but it was clear from the cast's very first meeting that with larry hagman on board things were never going to be straightforward nobody beats old jr you know that we had a reading before we went down to texas so we all got there good little actors that we were and we're all walking and going hello how are you oh nice to meet y'all to meet you and then hagman walked in hegman walked in dressed all in fringed leather with a giant big hat and a big tooled saddle bags and in the saddlebags were stuffed bottles of champagne i remember looking at him thinking oh my god this is going to be my quote husband this eccentric wacko is going to belong to me lucky me that's how we got to know each other and it was perfect it became a cocktail party atmosphere and that maintained itself for 13 years larry had just had a huge hit with his role in i dream of genie and coming from a show business family he was used to life in the limelight and as jr he hogged it all from the very beginning nasty jr was scheming to bust up pam and bobby's marriage he arranged for ray to get her soap and then for bobby to find pam in a state of undress with her old flame bobby fire you if i were you i'd shut up the bobby rumble jr's master plan it stops right now j.r this big emotional scene i'm acting my heart out and i spin him around to grab him it was a dumb stupid trick i'm acting my ass off here and i went like that like that he broke up it just fell apart so that was kind of our signature sorry i didn't have more spit but i'm just gonna work it up it was like okay i get it everything is fair game and let's have fun and we did and when the cast messed around the cameras kept on rolling [Music] patrick and larry are a couple of the biggest clowns you ever want to meet in your life and they just feed off of each other i am absolutely boring up against those two they were like little children you know they just couldn't help themselves especially at dining room scenes dinner's ready should we go in we would cringe every time we'd open the script and there would be this ewing family dinner we'd think oh no we have to sit through one of these so patrick and larry would always have food fights they would put a dinner roll on a fork and then they'd hit it and it would fly across yeah patrick and larry were just kids and at first it was just the two of them but pretty soon linda gray and i just gave up and joined in it was easier [Music] luke go up the main house come call a doctor i can't even begin to tell you how hard it was to make love to bobby ewing patrick tormented me it was just whatever was on the set that day i'd bring it to bed in one of our bedroom scenes had someone push a dummy's leg between us while we were making love so that i thought that the biggest thing i'd ever come across in my life had just slipped up my groin and i screamed and ran off the stage and i would get upset and he would always talk me out of it [Music] [Laughter] because of our relationships we were able to have an incredible amount of fun goof off and still get the work done on time and have the best atmosphere the party at south fork would go on for 13 years later we catch up with the cast as they are today see how life has treated them since they closed the gates of the world's most famous ranch behind them [Music] tonight long after they were famous as ray and donna krebs actors steve canali and susan howard are returning to southport 11 years after dallas ended the feuding ewings are long gone but for steven susan the ranch is full of memories this place looks like you could make a tv series here what do you think looks pretty good i expect to see miss ellie standing on the forge waving at us yeah i think just like yesterday when that was the case hadn't changed the whole life [Laughter] what was your first thought when you came up here well it just seems like all the years just vanished and we were out here yesterday south fork was actually too small to film inside so interior scenes were shot in a studio in hollywood but southport came into its own for the many ranch action scenes the first time i was here we were sitting up there and staying and you and patrick were on the bulls the funniest things when you all would be there and about ready to come out you'd take your head you pull it down like you were steve mcqueen well i was i was john wayne and steve mcqueen and all those guys rolled up it was so hollywood let's have a hand for ray krebs that thing down get all wrapped up around there and we actually we're on those bulls as you recall and they are mean and dangerous and you can definitely get hurt in there it's not a place where actors should be and and about the time you go like this like let him let him out and then you would jump out of there if they actually let him out you would have been indeed [Applause] we faked him out didn't we people said gosh you know are you really a cowboys oh no i remember there were some scenes that i played in this barn it had to do with charlie you remember and she was misbehaving yes who was her boyfriend well i had totally forgotten about it i remember and somebody said you know uh do you remember when brad pitt was on this show i said i said you mean brad pitt well you had scenes with him i said i did you get off this ranch and you stay off it get out of here go on yes sir and then whatever happened to brad pitt every year the entire cast decamped to texas for filming before the show struck oil the future stars had to make do with down home accommodation in the beginning we used to stay at a motel that was so basic we used to call it the roach coach [Music] because if you missed your ride to work you could always ride one of the roaches they were that big on set things were hardly more glamorous and certainly not cool it was 126 degrees very very hot we used to take paper towels and put it in the midriff of our clothes because we would just be sweating through not very attractive but we had to do it you can feel that little bead of sweat in your hair and it's kind of running down you're going to get this line done before it gets to the hairline they're going to see it come down by far beak and then you were done they cut and you're going to dry off again it was desperate out there at times and i think that's a reason we learned to do our scene so quickly shooting needed to be brisk because there was a heck of a lot of plot shenanigans to get through let's recap bobby saw an ex-girlfriend return with a child that may or may not be his pam lost a baby before finding a mother lucy found her long-lost father and reunited him with her long-lost mother but whilst these three were being kept busy with all that the show's emphasis was changing jr was moving center stage with his regular spats with boozy sue ellen and mortal enemy cliff barnes the only way i could get the message through that thick scholars was to have you bankrupt your mama's company well i just sat back and watched it no i'm not finished yet sure you are tomorrow morning the janitor is going to come in here and sweep you out with the rest of the trash unless of course you do the honorable thing get in the elevator go up the roof and jump off huh [Laughter] larry was a genius very soft from the beginning that you could make a wonderful character out of this villainous guy it was not even his story it was the barnes's and the ewings pam and bobby it was their show and larry just came in and stole it i'm j.r ewing i don't get ulcers i give them the character of jr was like a license to steal it was so much fun yeah mama should have had her tubes tied after i was born you could play it absolutely straight because the words took care of themselves saying terrible things is just part of my charm i guess and if you did it with a smile you could be stabbing somebody in the back and have more fun yeah once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake it was wonderful one of dallas's leading attractions was the tempestuous rowing of jr and semi-social totally luckless sue allen tell me j.r which [ __ ] are you going to stay with tonight [Music] what difference does it make whoever it is more interesting than the [ __ ] i'm looking at right now despite his new high profile larry hagman's attitude to filming never really changed the dallas outtakes show how he still managed to find time to amuse himself and everyone else so ellen ewing was lying in a hospital bed when my first man i just loved her so much larry does this incredibly emotional farewell and oh she can't die bobby she just can't a little tear oh bob she's gotta be here patrick says uh would it help if we sang that old song we used to when we were kids j.r i was lying there thinking this is not in my script do your balls do the [Music] i was trying everything i could to not laugh and at a particular moment i couldn't help it and i started laughing i could have killed them both the crew was hysterical and um that was one of those you know dallas moments it was great it was terrific the cast [Music] there was just one cloud on the horizon to boost ratings the network wanted the season to end with the ultimate cliffhanger the show had been sort of slumping along it had developed an audience but not much of one towards the end of that year tbs said could we have a couple more shows oh holy smokes what do we do how do we wait a minute why don't we just shoot him shoot jr yeah why not well who's going to shoot him well we don't even have to decide today jose holy smokes that might work [Music] you hear the gunshot you see him take the hit he goes to the floor freeze frame end of the season from that moment on this show was the leading show in television for the next six years and it was it was just just like that for the first time ever a london betting establishment made book on a fictional event who shot jr of course the cast couldn't wait to add their twist to the speculation i was offered 250 thousand dollars if i would devolve who shot i didn't know [Music] but i thought that's a real jr thing to do tell them and it's totally wrong take that pick up my money and go take that and that [Music] i didn't do that that would be a jr thing to do and i prided myself on not being jr in real life took advantage of public interest by threatening to leave the show unless granted a massive pay rise he landed in london to headline the royal variety performance i was making decent money but nothing like i was worth or i felt that was worth so i asked for what i felt that was worth and you know i realized that if i hadn't gotten it i'd probably never work in business again [Music] which threats really with whom hello there is no way you could have dallas without larry hagman eating that poker to win me some dollars twisting the ear of a kid till he hollers scaring young girls with lascivious grins these are just some of my favorites the studio eventually accepted most of hagman's demands and he returned to south fork in his own helicopter to a standing ovation the royal variety performance was not nearly so successful and i forgot that particular lyric but he wasn't the only dallas denison to hit a bum note by turning to music my manager talked me into it the record was mediocre at best but it was fun so it did well i actually have a gold record in europe [Music] the only reason that thing exists in the universe is because of dallas cool i'll do a record that'll be something i've never done before [Music] and together [Music] dallas and its stars were now major news when the episode that revealed who shot jr came to britain it was kept under armed guard until broadcast over 20 million brits tuned in to find out who had tried to murder the texans they loved to hate it turned out to be very crosby well i was having a little affair with her and she had to be my wife's sister and she thought she was knocked up so that's why she shot however as dallas featured more glamour and gunfire and less cow poking and ye-hoying so there was less and less for steve canale to do with uncharacteristic generosity jr came to his rescue larry hagman was now directing occasional shows and a major power behind the scenes with enough clout to change storylines i was ready to quit and larry says don't leave this show now steve let's work on this together i have a four son i said well how about you being the bastard son i found that out yesterday i kind of mentioned it to producers and they made him the bastard son ray [Music] welcome to the family boy there was only one hitch ray had been in the hay loft with lucy that was his niece so it was a little dicey there you know we had to kind of play that down it took the third year before we were able to bring that into the show ray and i very clearly had been together for quite a bit of time in the beginning and then we find out he's a ewing so yikes they just kind of ignored that and went right on events at southport were becoming more and more twisted and bizarre but real life would become more shocking than anything that happened on screen striking down members of the cast and their nearest and dearest his parents have been killed murdered shot with a double barrel shotgun both of them in the chest died boom immediately by the mid-80s dallas was the most popular tv show on earth watched by more than 300 million viewers in over 90 countries every week the stars of the show were the most highly paid television actors ever and everyone wanted to bask in reflected glamour even the reagans called in jr to be santa claus at the white house christmas gathering it was pandemonium i mean larry literally couldn't go anywhere it was an amazing thing but that's from being in 300 million living rooms every week we were recognized wherever we were every day of our lives and over 100 countries around the world i was doing publicity in south africa they had about 20 000 people part of the second floor came in people were hurt it was a mess [Music] [Applause] in real life you've been married for how long three weeks back then it was unheard of there'd be helicopters and that people be in trees and there'd be but all those things were happening that day during the wedding the sound was obliterating our wedding harry and i look at each other like is this happening people are watching us between their feet you know they got their beer they can go to the bathroom they talk while we're talking they make love they do whatever but we're in their home and they see us on the street and they just don't know how to make the transition people related they thought that the actor was the character do you practice on the drunkenness when you're off the set no i don't they would walk up to me on the streets send little letters you know well i spoke to my therapist and my therapist thinks you should do this it's dangerous it's like being a criminal you have to set up a space around yourself like the no tread space leave me alone space i came back about one o'clock in the morning and there was a gorgeous woman in my bed she said my husband's away for the weekend i thought we might have a little fun there i had a glass of champagne but real life couldn't always be kept at arm's length as the cast discovered one fateful afternoon during filming the ewing men were on a hunting trip when it became clear all was not well with jim davis alias big jock ewing it was a really hot day and the wind was blowing so you didn't feel as hot but you're evaporating all the time everybody was dehydrating and he wasn't drinking water or anything we're all out in the sun doing this scene and jim just out of the blue says what are we doing here and we all laughed like he was making a joke nothing jim who knows what we're doing he goes no what the hell are we doing here i said well we're not you know we're shooting in dallas dallas what the hell are we doing in dallas we were making a television show what show and everybody kind of went what show and he knew who he was but he didn't know where he was he had no concept of dallas we knew that he was wobbling we didn't know that it was cancer we just thought he was having a heat stroke doctors discovered a tumor on jim's brain and he began a course of chemotherapy despite being given two years to live he went straight back to work every day going through chemo treatment and radiation god bless him he lost his ability to stand on his own he lost his balance his hair came out we had to put a wig on him we had to sit him down at the table and he would not give up it was a sad thing to see such a towering image of strength be debilitated like that in every way but his spirit it was sad very sad we were a family and to lose a member was like losing a member of your family very sad and uh think of him to this day jim's death had to be written into the dallas plot line and soon jock would disappear in a play clash they say that they say that oh [Music] the show just had to go on miss ellie backed herself a new husband clayton played by howard keel barbara bell getting played miss ellie decided to leave so instep donna reed but she was still meant to be miss ellie well at least for a year when barbara bell getting decided to return and miss ellie was miss ellie again bobby's love life was just as confusing when he divorced pam his new love interest was jenna she had been played by two different actresses before a third stepped in one of the most famous women in the world elvis widow priscilla presley i'm sorry we're late everybody coming into that cast after reading about it every week through the tabloids i think i was scared to death i mean i thought oh my god what am i doing you know they've been together for so long here comes the newcomer and to my surprise um they welcome me you know with open arms jenna i'd like to officially welcome you back to south fork it's nice to be back j.r you look lovely i changed outfits four times i guess i was a little nervous well no reason to be nervous we're all just one big happy family right j.r that's right right i couldn't have asked for anything better you know i was signed for a year and ended up doing it for five years so i really became part of the show darling i want you to sit in your regular place here yeah that's right jenna you sit in pam's old chair although newcomers were readily accepted into the dallas extended family it was the veteran stars who had the off-screen clout it actually was negotiated into my contract how many times a year i would be seen in a bathing suit or in a teddy and i used to call it the three-teddy year now bobby now what honey i would not be seen in more than either three bathing suits or three teddies not six but three they had to divide it up because i felt that it was um it was abusing me just as larry hagman had done steve canale used his influence to become an occasional director of the program the steve canale's debut behind the camera turned out to be one of the cast's most tragic days the very first show that i directed i'm driving through beverly hills to culver city six o'clock in the morning listening to the talk radio and i hear this announcement actor patrick duffy who plays bobby ewing on the tv series dallas today received word that his parents had been murdered apparently during a hold up kind of went in one ear and went out the other year and then it settled in and i went oh my god i got to the set and somehow i knew what had happened and i called his house and he answered and we spoke and he told me he wasn't coming in and i don't remember much about the rest of the day i think it was probably on autopilot for the rest of the day we got word that his parents had been killed murdered shot with a double barrel shotgun both of them in the chest died boom immediately i arrive and everybody now has heard patrick is not going to be on the set as was scheduled and my entire crew was totally devastated this is like my first day as the director it's not an easy thing to do but i had to say okay you have to pull yourself out of this i told them that patrick would want us to work as best we could i said let's just come in here and put our nose to grindstone everything worked absolutely without flaw but it was one of those moments that you never forget and of course directing is full of moments like that but that was a tragic thing it was a terrible time i mean you know to have a murder like that and and to be so close to someone like patrick who had that horrible thing happen but you know he's a buddhist and he can get over that kind of stuff because he we're all just on a wheel we keep coming back all the time when he did come in everyone was very tense you know what do we what do we say to him how do we approach him is everyone else going to go up do i go up when they do do i um wait uh how would i feel what would i want gosh it's hard to even relive that moment with not being a blood relative of mine the cast of dallas was as close to family as my sister is to me so they knew inherently whatever however they knew the right way to welcome me back that didn't make it like we can't talk about anything or what do we say or anything that was like a family member they knew exac and i don't even remember what it was but it was so normal to go back to work it wasn't uncomfortable i didn't have to go okay everybody i'm going to make a speech now about it just went back to work it was perfect it was it truly is like a family but like any family members leave the nest it was not not the texas sun and the camera was on the water it started on the water remember on one the camera pans up from the water and it comes up i'm all pensive and ray makes a clean entrance says kind of chilly out there you want a coat and donut said no no i'm fine no i'm not ray walks up and says i touched her and she flinched she'd come back to me and with all that she can muster she looks dead in the eyeballs yeah and says i don't think i can i don't think so well the ray is very pompous he says i don't know why you love me because i'm just such a great guy you and you know i love you because i i wouldn't cheat on anybody else give me a break we've had our differences you know everybody that's married has differences right just hear me out then would you no no she was a fool well she went off to bigger and better things in politics [Music] that there was one departure that would shake south fork to its core patrick duffy wanted bobby to make a grand exit they even sent a car for him i didn't want to ride off into the sunset and have everybody pretend that i might be coming back any minute so i said we really should kill him just kill him dead they finally agreed so i died [Music] [Applause] when patrick left the show what a sad thing we all love patrick you know here we have this fella dying i cried real tears i i had no trouble at all imagining that it was going to be no more patrick don't do this to me bobby don't leave me i begged him not to leave i begged too ellen not to leave too but you know they felt it was a time to go on and do other things well patrick found out it was time to come back too between them larry and patrick would concoct one of the most memorably bonkers plots in soap opera history to bring prodigal bobby back to the dallas fold [Music] following the tragic death of bobby james ewing the antics at south fork were losing their grip on the public's imagination ratings had slumped and patrick duffy's career after dallas hadn't exactly set the world a light have you noticed what happens when you rent from dr you get richer i worked i did commercials i did some stuff and then you know in all honesty it wasn't anywhere near as good out there as it was on dallas [Music] patrick and larry are still the best of friends to this day [Music] hello here oh excuse me oh i hate doing this every single time thank you daddy thank you daddy thank you daddy so how's your career together these two perennial jokers would rewrite soap history at a stroke i got a phone call from larry and he says come on i'll take a jacuzzi and have a drink and i looked at my wife i said they're gonna ask me to come back on the show that's weird and she said you can't come back unless that whole year was a dream we laughed when haha and i went out to talk to larry and said come on back and i thought yeah i'm not having fun out here and then i came back tv programs discussed it newspapers reported it how exactly would bobby ewing be brought back from the dead [Music] no cast member knew what was going to happen including victoria millions tuned in on friday night to witness bobby's apparent resurrection nobody knew how i was coming back on the show everyone thought bobby would appear during a wedding scene but that was not to be i couldn't film anywhere on a lot in los angeles because somebody would know what we were doing so leonard hired a commercial crew a crew of guys who only do television commercials and he bought a case of irish spring soap and we built a shower i was called in to come do the scene unexpectedly and i had this from wardrobe but i had never worn it so i had taken it home to keep it i think that's called theft but nevertheless they called me said do you have something of your own you could bring so i thought oh i might as well bring in the one i took and i brought it in went to the shower opened the door and no one was there i thought i was supposed to be having a nervous breakdown so one of the happiest days of my life was when they cut it together and patrick was in the shower [Music] i actually turned and said good morning and you can have a good morning too if you wake up like the duffy's and shower with irish spring and when we watched the show in my house that night i probably counted to 30 and the phone rang and it was victoria i have no idea what i said i'm just sure that that that i i was incredibly happy and i'm probably cursed she's going i can't believe i got it she had no idea it was going to be that so it was very exciting it was really cool despite massive audience figures for the shower episode it did leave one slight difficulty namely the instant dismissal of one whole year's worth of dallas episodes 30 hours of plot development new characters and the usual twists now had to be ditched as just a dream dallas fans were crazy for the show but were they this crazy it's almost like name the thing that you have the hardest time accepting on dallas and most people would say it's that dream thing i just don't know if i like that or not i don't think the public appreciated it that wasn't what they wanted they had lived through the death it was the only way to explain everything but it was the only way to explain everything when the show had already lost its way couldn't he have gone away and been the man in the iron mask and they discover him in a dungeon somewhere rip the you know oh my gosh it's bobby dreams solve all kinds of problems in literature you can wake up midsummer night's dream they wake up you know they wake up with ears but they wake up of course in their estimation you just throw it out there and if they they love it they love it and if they hate it they do and they did and the show just kind of went you know what's happening in life boy well right now i'm half blind did we order that no no we haven't we haven't ordered it look at that isn't that beautiful with patrick back in the prickly bosom of his family jr and bobby's dirty double act was resumed but dallas never regained its popularity the southport saga would run for five more years of endless revolving storylines and an ever evolving cast then after 13 years and 356 episodes dallas came to a final freeze frame 1991 the cast were at last free to flee the ewing mansion and reinvent themselves in the outside world god larry remember when we used to do this with something other than iceland oh yeah i don't think anybody could keep up with hagman hagman had practiced at his drinking for 40 years i drank four or five bottles of champagne a day but i i never got drugged and he just kind of kept that you know that that even kind of click going all day he'd come in the morning i'd have a glass of champagne with him at like 7 00 a.m then i'd have to bow out until lunch but he would just keep that going but he also was never out of control and we never lost a square frame of footage because of him drinking ever there are reports from california this morning that actor larry hagman is getting a new liver larry received news that he was going to have a liver transplant that was traumatic and that's life-threatening and we were such close friends that you you know you really think is this the last time i'm going to see him the damage had been done to my liver it didn't matter where i drank it or not and it just disintegrated and then when they opened me up they said i had two weeks to live so we're right under the wire there i was one of the first to see him after he came home and um i remember it to this day you know he was alive larry was alive and we just sat there and cried as for south fork the ewing ranch is still home to a lot of memories do you remember that time though the scene with larry you know when it was really a joy i got to shove jr in the swimming pool do you remember that was not expecting it this is scripted no sort of like you're not and despite filming never having actually taken place inside south fork it's now home to a tour each room has a fictitious theme because actually all of the interiors for the show dallas we're never filmed here so actually as y'all are walking through the house today you really won't recognize the thing but i hope you'll enjoy the tour dallas may have lost the black stuff but it still has the old black magic i guess what i would miss most are just the people but when we see each other picks up just like right where it left off there were days when we argued in days when we cried days when we laughed and days when we kissed like any family it was like surfing it was like surfing through life with uh with your extended family for 13 years i couldn't wait to get the car and go to work every single day i didn't have a bad day of work in all those years i'll meet you back at the ranch [Music]

Channel: DALLAS70

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Keywords: DALLAS, DOCUMENTARY, TV SHOW, TV SERIES, CLASSIC TV SHOW, ACTORS, HOLLYWOOD, INTERVIEW, SOUTHFORK RANCH, TEXAS, 1980'S, YOUTUBE VIDEO, 2020, WHO SHOT JR, POP CULTURE, LARRY HAGMAN, JR EWING, LINDA GRAY, PATRICK DUFFY, VICTORIA PRINCIPAL, PRISCILLA PRESLEY, ELVIS, EWING OIL, TV REUNION, FASHION, SOAP OPERA, NICHT TIME DRAMA, TELEVISION SERIES

Id: O87CzQ46CUs

Length: 44min 31sec (2671 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 27 2020