Valene would later write Lucy detailing what had actually transpired, which would cause Lucy to briefly run away from home in an effort to be with her mother. In , after eight years of marriage, Sue Ellen announced that she was pregnant, JR was elated. His happiness was only momentary, however, for they were having horrendous problems in their marriage. Then J. And leave it to her to have it with the man whom J.
To top everything, Sue Ellen began drinking heavily, despite J. Fearing that Sue Ellen was doing permanent damage to the unborn child with her round-the-clock drinking, J. Then, the final blow: Julie Grey was murdered. That was the good news. The bad was that J. It just couldn't be! Sophisticated paternity tests were taken and J. He loved him, held him, talked with him, and touched him with tenderness.
No matter how bad things got, J. He recovered quickly, and it was fortuitous, since the biggest deal of his life the purchase of offshore drilling leases in Asia was occurring. And so was the collapse of his marriage. Then Sue Ellen started disappearing, staying out afternoons and nights, giving no explanation but sly smiles.
He loved Sue Ellen, but she wouldn't come near him. Tired, lonely, under enormous pressure at work, he resigned himself to the fact that Sue Ellen must be having an affair. He had been forced to mortgage Southfork to finance the Asian wells, and Jock and Ellie, outraged, lashed out at J. The fact that the wells came in, as J. Now, everyone seemed to be out to hurt him, And Sue Ellen, who had begun drinking again, openly declared her hatred of him and her desire for a divorce.
Late one night in the spring of , while working in his office at Ewing Oil, J. He nearly died. The bullets bruised a kidney and nicked his spleen and left him in the most horrible condition J. The situation brought one aspect of happiness however: Sue Ellen came lovingly to his side, He underwent a very dangerous operation to regain the use of his legs. As he began the long road to recovery, he was hurt to learn that his daddy had put Bobby in as President of Ewing Oil.
And then came the ultimate betrayal: Sue Ellen was arrested as the prime suspect in the shooting. She hadn't come to him because she loved him, she only came because she thought she had shot him in a blackout and was feeling guilty. It turned out, though, that Sue Ellen was innocent: it was her sister who had done it. But the marriage was still in ruins. He let her go and supported her financially throughout her pregnancy in California.
After intensive therapy and sheer persistence, J. Back on his feet, he was back in full action, with one major problem to take care of: Bobby refused to step down from Ewing Oil. R, was alarmed by what he saw as Bobby's reckless leadership, and so he persisted in striking some kind of deal to get back into the power seat before the company was run into the ground. Bobby finally resigned in , after J. The year was the worst of J.
Sue Ellen walked out on him and J. But Pam - that Barnes girl! Then Kristin showed up in Dallas, alone. She had gotten into trouble after the birth of her baby. She was on drugs, and after ingesting too much PCP, she fell from the second-floor landing of the main house into the swimming pool and died. Sue Ellen was shacking up with some cowboy in San Angelo - committing adultery - and she had his son with her.
Sitting in John Ross' empty room at Southfork one night, J. So what if Sue Ellen had fallen in love and run away with another man. So what if all was not well at Ewing Oil or with his family. What mattered to J. That child was a part of him, and to have him taken away was to tear out a piece of his heart. When he and Sue Ellen went to court, he was prepared to bring up her past: the drinking, the affairs, not giving a damn about the publicity, only wanting to get his son, but Miss Ellie restrained him.
So finally, desperate, he embarked on the most risky and dangerous business venture of his life. Using Ewing Oil as collateral on a loan, he bought up all the oil that was being fed into Clayton Farlow's refineries.
By glory, he'd make them give him back his son,. The plan failed, and put Ewing Oil on the brink of disaster. Miss Ellie stepped in. Backing off from her wrath, J. Then she lectured J. Sue Ellen left her cowboy at the Southern Cross and moved in to a Dallas town house. Thanks to Miss Ellie, the court had awarded her custody of John Ross, a huge settlement over and above alimony and child-support payments, and gave J.
The money didn't bother J,R. When his daddy died in South America in , J. He didn't have his son living with him, he had lost his wife, and Jock. His daddy, the man he passionately revered, the reason why he had done everything all his life-to make him proud of him - was gone forever.
He cried at times and wondered what to do, where to go. He went to a prostitute, Serena, for comfort, but found that he had lost all desire for sex. Bobby forcefully reminded him that Jock had built an empire for them, and it was his and J. He went to Jock's office at Ewing Oil late one night and, talking aloud, said:. I lost my backbone down at that lake when I saw you'd never be back. I'm coming back, though, and I'm coming back strong.
You built Ewing Oil from the ground for your sons. I know that, and, Daddy, I'm gonna build it stronger for mine. You're gonna be proud of me again, Daddy. I'm gonna put such a lock on the company that nobody, nobody will ever take it away, not from you and me, and not from your grandson. There had been something about their separation - something had been restored in Sue Ellen that had been lost for many years - that stirred his heart.
He had forgiven her, and his original feelings for her resurfaced. After all, they had been married for ten years, and Sue Ellen was still one of the most beautiful, and desirable women in all of Texas. And her affairs and the birth of their son had brought out a side of her that had long been hidden.
Instead of being detached, cold, Sue Ellen was actually a loving, affectionate, and passionate woman. It caused J.
But then he was crestfallen. It turned out that Kristin had miscarried his baby and that this child was someone else's. No matter what they had done to each other and themselves, there was still an undeniable bond between them.
If nothing else, they were survivors, they were the parents of John Ross, and Sue Ellen was, by this time, a Ewing at heart. The spark of the years before came back and their love rekindled. Meanwhile, though, J. But to J. Sue Ellen and Miss Ellie held J. Sue Ellen put off their pending marriage while an angry Miss Ellie led the family in voting J. Not to be left out in the cold for long, J. The position had been offered by Holly Harwood, the beautiful young thing who had just inherited the company from her father, Al, and didn't know how to run it, So, J.
Despite that workload, J. On November 24, , J. Ewing's dream came true and he and Sue Ellen were remarried at Southfork. This time, he pledged not only his love and devotion to her, but monogamy as well, and he meant it. He resisted the advances of Marilee Stone, whom he had tangled with before, and the pesky Holly Harwood, who was hell-bent on seducing him. But J. In the early days of Dallas, Bobby was not fleshed out appropriately.
He was quite boring, but we solved that problem very quickly. And now Bobby's more interesting again because he's getting older, and changing. I was glad they didn't go with some year-old. That would have made Bobby seem ridiculous. Brenda Strong's a perfect match for Bobby right now. I'm so glad she wasn't on camera in Desperate Housewives — she's a great character actress. Brenda Strong has a spectacular list of credits, mainly one-off appearances in US TV dramas, but her most high profile 'appearance' to date has been the disembodied voice of Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives.
Her character, Ann, along with Duffy's Bobby Ewing, provides the moral centre of the new Ewing family. If you cast your mind back to the original series, in every scene the characters appear to be holding a drink of some kind. Dallas was more about whisky than oil.
I asked Patrick how, given their apparent intake, the returning cast seem to be in such extraordinary fettle. In the new series, Bobby doesn't drink a drop for the whole of the first season, which drove me crazy, because part of the tradition of that show was coming in with a glass of Scotch and delivering the line.
I don't actually drink any more, except wine, but that tumbler of Scotch is part of the show's tradition. Patrick Duffy is back in the saddle as Bobby Ewing. And we envied them that. No one in the real world could drink that much and function. There is another aspirational aspect in the amount of wealth on show in Southfork. The s and early s were a grim time in the real world, and it seems that Dallas has returned just as we're in recession again.
The way he executed those deals seemed to set the show apart from rivals like "Dynasty. In the last two seasons, in particular, there seemed to be this sophisticated edge that avoided insulting the viewer as sometimes the campiness of "Dynasty" could.
While "Dynasty" was busy being flashy and hey, I liked that, too -- I was a teen when it originally aired, after all , "Dallas" was playing the game just a bit cooler, calmer, a touch more complicated. FAQ 5. Why were so many things aroung the house yellow? Who shot JR? When Bobby returned from the dead, where exactly did Pam's dream begin? Details Edit. Release date April 2, United States. United States. Cloyce Box Ranch - E. Main St. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour.
Related news. Lots of It. Jul 21 Rollingstone. Feb 2 Indiewire. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. His net worth is easily in excess of million dollars. He is very well-connected and has lots of influence if many circles. He also has a strong liver capable of handling large daily quantities of alcohol. Ewing Oil is a family-driven, independent oil company. Jock Ewing started it, and slowly J.
One time when J. He later also became the chairman of West Star Oil High level connection. Nevertheless, J. Ewing always gets the main company back in the end. Ewing Oil often does business with the oil cartel in Texas. Said cartels has influence in Austin and Washington and is a useful connection. Other than that, J.
McSween often gets to find information about various dubiously legal matters, blackmail information as well as potential contacts. As to economics, the Ewing Oil company at its peak season 14 in had a net worth of assets of two billion dollars.
The oil price usually varies between 15 and 30 dollars per barrel, and it costs around 10 dollars to produce. Illegal sales to embargoed countries, such as Cuba, will sell for 40 dollars per barrel. He is usually at good terms with Marilee Stone of Stonehurst Oil, and who is also a member of the Texas oil cartel.
He sponsored the singing career of Afton Cooper before she hooked up with his enemy Cliff Barnes. He is at very good terms with Wally Hampton of Old Coal Industries and they will gladly do illegal affairs together. Andy Bradley of the Cartel is another useful contact. Farlow Refineries was a major competitor when J. The greatest enemy, of course, has been Cliff Barnes and any company that he controls or influences.
He has turned competitors into enemies and enemies into fanatics. In some circles he will have a reputation for being the biggest cheat, biggest lier and the biggest double deal in Dallas. He has sold oil to embargoed countries.
Still, he limits himself to murder, and would never consider it. At one point he made troubles for the US Air Force and was surprised when they paid him a visit, at which point he backed down.
He is sometimes ready to take on the whole world and his greatest act ever might have been the financing of a successful revolution in a foreign country to further his business getting oil wells in that country. Never mind that such an action could be considered a declaration of war between the USA and that country.
A full biography of J. Ewing is always clad in a fine suit, even at casual times. In fact, he looks rather unassuming, but underestimating him will have severe consequences.
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