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  Dallas - TV.com
Dallas, the saga of the Ewing Family, began as a five part mini-series in 1978.
Dallas was conceived as a show that had plenty of sex and romance for the female audiences, and a lot of cowboy posturing and business intrigue for the male viewers.
Malibu Shores was a short lived NBC series starring Keri Russell and Tony Lucca, both stars of the popular Disney show, "The All New Mickey Mouse Club." Even with a run of only ten episodes, the...
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 Dallas TV Series News
Dallas season 9 makes its way onto DVD this summer, July 15th 2008 in the US and Canada, with a UK release to follow shortly after.
Dallas fans can also expect to see season 10 out on DVD before the year is out.
Of course none of us took Dallas seriously, we all knew it was high drama but unlike its ABC counterpart Dynasty, it never fell into the abyss of camp comedy.
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 Dallas Summary and Analysis
Dallas was a highly popular, long-running American prime-time television soap opera that originally ran from 1978 to 1991.
That's the word from Dallas tourism officials attempting to lure gay and lesbian visitors with a message that the city is a great place for them to spend their time and money....
Dwayne De Rosario, Eddie Robinson and Stuart Holden scored goals and the Houston Dynamo defeated FC Dallas 3-0 on Sunday.Houston (14-7-6) pulled into a tie with Chivas USA for first-place in the Western Division with the win.
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  Mary Martin - Music Downloads - Online
The speedy completion of this series of projects was necessitated by her delicate condition; on November 4, 1941, she gave birth to her second child, Mary Heller Halliday.
Her tenure on the show was interrupted in September 1982 when she was seriously injured in a car accident while riding in a taxi, but she recovered and continued to appear on the program into 1983.
In addition to those 1940s films, there are grainy kinescopes of some of Martin's TV appearances, on The Ed Sullivan Show re-creating scenes from her shows, for example, and the Ford 50th Anniversary Show duet with Ethel Merman.
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  Dallas (disambiguation) - guideofcasinos.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Dallas TV series was a US prime-time television soap opera set in Dallas, Texas, that aired on CBS from 1978 to 1991.
Dallas is the name of the captain of the commercial starship Nostromo in Alien (1979), a science fiction/horror film directed by Ridley Scott.
Dallas is a former persona of professional wrestler Lance Hoyt.
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  Dallas (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dallas series is probably best-known for the central character of J.R. Ewing, the vain, greedy, scheming, crass oil baron played by Fort Worth native Larry Hagman for the show's entire run.
Dallas was eventually translated and dubbed into 90 languages in over 67 countries, a record that to this day still stands for an American television series.
The series left that location at the end of the first season due to a request by the property owner, and moved to the ranch (Duncan Acres) where the series was filmed for the rest of its run.
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 Dallas
Dallas, the first of a genre to be named "prime-time soap" by television critics, established the features of serial plots involving feuding families and moral excess that would characterize all other programs of the type.
For prime time in the late seventies, Dallas was sensational, featuring numerous acts of adultery by both J.R. and Sue Ellen, the revelation of Jock's illegitimate son, Ray Krebs, who worked as a hired hand on Southfork, and the raunchy exploits of young Lucy, daughter of Gary, the third, largely absent, Ewing brother.
The generic formula was complete when that same season concluded with a cliffhanger: Sue Ellen was critically injured in a car accident and both her fate and the fate of her baby remained unresolved until September.
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Although we are in the new millennium, Dallas continues to try and carefully preserve some of its older traditions while gracefully inviting in the technologies of the future.
The city of Dallas encompasses 384 square miles of rolling prairie, with native pecan, cottonwood and oak trees located along the Trinity River and the numerous creeks that feed it.
Dallas is the ninth-largest city in the United States.
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 Dallas (TV series) at AllExperts
Many fans and TV critics consider this the moment when the show jumped the shark, one of the few shows for which such consensus is overwhelming (In fact, it is probably the most frequently-cited case after the Happy Days episode that gives the phenomenon its name).
Dallas was eventually translated and dubbed into 90 languages in over 67 countries, a record that to this day still stands for an American television series.
The series left that location at the end of the first season due to a request by the property owner, and moved to the ranch (Duncan Acres) where the series was filmed for the rest of its run.
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 Dallas TV Show Dallas Television Series DVD Download Review Dallas Cast Characters Trivia 80's
Dallas was the popular, long-running 80's TV show/soap opera about the Ewing family.
The Dallas TV series is best-known for the it's character J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), the greedy, scheming, oil magnate.
When Dallas became a huge hit, CBS turned to Jacobs to do another show, and Knots Landing was created as a spinoff of Dallas.
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 History of Southfork Ranch in Plano Texas, NE Dallas
The hit series, which counted millions of viewers across the United States and in 95 foreign countries as fans, was originally broadcast in the United States from 1978 to 1991.
The series continues to be broadcast in syndication and still is in first-run status in many countries around the world.
By this time, the series included 356 episodes and had become the most watched series in the world, and had spawned a successful spin-off series in Knots Landing.
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 Texas Monthly: Big As Dallas
Moving from the soap opera image of Big D in the eighties, when the Dallas TV series was reportedly the favorite show of Queen Elizabeth, today's Dallas is not only a favorite for business travelers but also one of the most exciting cities anywhere for pure fun.
Dallas is where Texas Instruments scientist Jack S. Kilby created the first integrated circuit in 1958, the silicon chip that ushered in the computer age.
Last, with Dallas Love Field Airport right in town (nine miles from downtown Dallas) and DFW International in the middle of the Metroplex between Dallas and Fort Worth, getting to and from Dallas is a breeze.
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 TV Series on DVD
One of TV's more interesting tough-girl action shows, Dark Angel is a distinctive blend of the personal, the adventurous, and the politically aware.
In the series’ fifth season, the gang makes the transition from adolescence to adulthood as they embark on their first year of college.
The sad fact faced by all fans of the BBC's long-running science fiction series Doctor Who is that nearly half of the 200+ episodes are considered lost or incomplete due to improper storage....
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 Browse TV Series. Dallas
Dallas: The Complete First and Second Seasons is an American equivalent to those British miniseries about historical chapters in that country's royal monarchy.
Dallas: The Complete Third Season, originally broadcast in the fall of 1979 through early 1980, surely represents one of the most raucous and tantalizing years in the life of any television series in history.
Dallas recounts the tale of Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil, family and power.
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 USATODAY.com - Part of 'Dallas' to be filmed in Dallas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Janis Burklund, director of the Dallas Film Commission, said Monday she had received word from 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the production, that at least one-third of the movie would be shot in the city.
Dallas, a remake of the classic TV series, will star John Travolta as the conniving Texas oil baron J.R. Ewing and Jennifer Lopez as his wife, Sue Ellen.
Producers are expected to shoot in the Dallas area for the first four weeks before moving to Shreveport, La., for the remaining eight weeks.
www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-06-13-dallas-movie_x.htm   (348 words)

  
 Bringing JR back to life - Film - www.theage.com.au
Dallas will be set in Texas in modern times, it won't be a spoof of the TV series, it's not a comedy and JR Ewing and his backstabbing, dysfunctional family will take centre stage.
The Dallas TV series, which spanned from 1978 to 1991, was considered opulent, but Luketic's film version would take opulence to another level.
"Think of all the limitations TV series have budget-wise and we are freeing that up, giving you the world's richest and most powerful family living in Texas," Luketic said.
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 Dallas 1978-1991   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Notes: DALLAS, the saga of the Ewing Family, began as a five part mini series in 1978.
Dallas was conceived as a show that had plenty of sex and romance for the female audiences, a lot of cowboy posturing and business intrigue for the male viewers.
The formula worked and by the early 1980's, it was one of the most popular shows in TV history.
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 John Travolta survives but the rest of Dallas cast are fired | the Daily Mail
The long-awaited movie version of popular TV series Dallas has been put on hold after all but one of the stars were fired.
Although Dallas still has an enormous number of fans in the United states and around the world, New Regency executives are concerned about finding an audience for the film.
The TV series ended 15 years ago and they are worried that Dallas is no longer a recognisable name with young audiences.
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 The Patriot Resource Drama TV Series: Dallas   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Dallas premiered in 1978 and soon became an international phenomenon, airing in over 130 countries around the world.
By the third season, the series garnered critical acclaim and had faithful following tuning-in weekly to get a glimpse into the Ewing family and the latest escapades of J.R. (Larry Hagman), the unscrupulous leader of the pack.
Over its 14 seasons, Dallas garnered 17 Emmy nominations and four wins, 14 Golden Globe nominations and one win, and was the #1 or #2 rated network series for five consecutive seasons.
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 Barbara Bel Geddes, at 82; starred in TV series 'Dallas' - The Boston Globe
Barbara Bel Geddes, the winsome actress who rose to stage and movie stardom but reached her greatest fame as Miss Ellie Ewing in the long-running TV series ''Dallas," has died.
But she was best known as the matriarch of the rambunctious Ewing oil family on ''Dallas," which hurtled to the top of the ratings despite negative reviews.
He recalled the makeup room on the ''Dallas" set being so filled with her cigarette smoke that he would ask to be made up in his dressing room.
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 Nature and Outdoors TV Series
It ran on national sports cable networks for three years, and covered a variety of sporting events that took place either on, in, or near the water, such as water skiing, boat racing, and tournament fishing.
The series was produced, written and directed by Payne Roy, and broadcast by Gaylord super station KTVT in Dallas/Fort Worth.
It was the first television series of its kind to cover the full gambit of paramutual horseracing in Texas, and was broadcast for two seasons on Gaylord SuperStation, KTVT in Dallas/Fort Worth.
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 CBC.ca Arts - 'Shoot J.R. in Dallas,' city tells filmmakers
Dallas city officials have launched a promotional campaign called "Shoot J.R. in Dallas" – a play on the hit show's 1980 cliffhanger episode in which the lead character, J.R. Ewing, a scheming oil baron played by Larry Hagman, is shot.
Now, with the media buzz over the upcoming film remake of the TV series – which was a global hit for CBS – there is a lot of momentum to support that incentive fund, Jones said.
Though Dallas was not an instant hit when it debuted in 1978, the evening soap opera about a wealthy, feuding Texas family grew to become a global phenomenon.
www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/03/14/dallas-film-campaign.html   (1630 words)

  
 A visit to the Southfork Ranch where the tv-series Dallas was shot   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Southfork is the ranch where the tv-series Dallas was shot and where the Ewing family was living in the tv-series, although only the exterior parts were filmed there, the interior shots were recorded in a studio in Los Angeles.
The house looked a lot smaller in reality than on TV (not that I used to follow Dallas but I watched it occasionally when I was a child).
She was fortunate enough to assist to the Dallas anniversary reunion in 2004 (the one we learnt about from the museum!) I thought it was such a coincidence...
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 Dallas TV Show - Dallas Television Series :: Dallas TV Series :: Summary/Synopsis
Film executives in Dallas, Texas are furious the big screen remake of the popular television show Dallas is going to be shot in Florida.
Officials in Dallas hope to persuade the makers of a movie version of the TV series Dallas to film in the US city.
The Dallas Film Commission has launched a campaign called Shoot JR in Dallas to entice 20th Century Fox by asking the private sector to offer incentives.
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 Dallas travel guide
Dallas, Texas is the third largest municipality in Texas (behind Houston and San Antonio).
Home to the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars, Texas Rangers, Dallas Desperadoes indoor football, and FC Dallas Soccer, Dallas is a sports lover's paradise.
While you are in Dallas, you may visit the famous Southforth's Ranch where the famous Dallas TV series was shot at Plano, 20 miles north of Dallas.
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 J.Lo to Star in "Dallas" New Series - Softpedia
One of the biggest buzzed-about projects around Hollywood these days is the upcoming big screen adaptation of the classic TV series “Dallas” from Regency Enterprises and 20th Century Fox.
The wildly popular 80's series focused on the exploits of a group of Texas oil millionaires, centering on both their shady business dealings and their rocky personal relationships.
On the series, Linda Gray starred as Sue Ellen, Larry Hagman was J.R., Patrick Duffy was Bobby and the recently deceased Barbara Bel Geddes, who won an Emmy for the show, starred as Miss Ellie.
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