Good Morning...Who shot J.R.?

[Okla-homey]

Nov. 21, 1980: Millions tune in to find out "who shot J.R.?"

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27 years ago, television history was made on this day. 350 million people around the world tune in to television's popular primetime drama "Dallas" to find out who shot J.R. Ewing, the character fans loved to hate.

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The cast. The three female leads, Linda Gray (J.R.'s wife), Victoria Principle (Bobby's wife) and Charlene Tilton (the youngest Ewing daughter) can all be GIS'ed if you're interested in seeing their nekkid pitchers.

J.R. had been shot on the season-ending episode the previous March 21, which now stands as one of television's most famous cliffhangers. The plot twist inspired widespread media coverage and left America wondering "Who shot J.R.?" for the next eight months.

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Larry Hagman played "J.R."

The November 21 episode solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.'s wife's sister and his former mistress, as the culprit.

The CBS television network debuted the first five-episode pilot season of "Dallas" in 1978; it went on to run for another 12 full-length seasons. The first show of its kind, "Dallas" was dubbed a "primetime soap opera" for its serial plots and dramatic tales of moral excess.

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Larry Hagman earlier played an astronaut who fell in love with a hawt genie

The show revolved around the relations of two Texas oil families: the wealthy, successful Ewing family and the perpetually down-on-their-luck Barnes family. The families' patriarchs, Jock Ewing and Digger Barnes, were former partners locked in a years-long feud over oil fields Barnes claimed had been stolen by Ewing.

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Southfork Ranch...where they all lived.

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Ewing's youngest son Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Barnes' daughter Pam (Victoria Principal) had married, linking the battling clans even more closely. The character of J.R. Ewing, Bobby's oldest brother and a greedy, conniving, womanizing scoundrel, was played by Larry Hagman.

As J.R. had many enemies, audiences were hard-pressed to guess who was responsible for his attempted murder. That summer, the question "Who Shot J.R.?" entered the national lexicon, becoming a popular t-shirt slogan, and heightening anticipation of the soap's third season, which was to air in the fall.

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After a much-talked-about contract dispute with Hagman was finally settled, the season was delayed because of a Screen Actors Guild strike, much to the dismay of "Dallas" fans. When it finally aired, the episode revealing J.R.'s shooter became one of television's most watched shows, with an audience of 83 million people in the U.S. alone--a full 76 percent of all U.S. televisions on that night were tuned in--and helped put "Dallas" into greater worldwide circulation. It also popularized the use of the cliffhanger by television writers.

The last premiere episode of "Dallas" aired on May 3, 1991. A spin-off, "Knots Landing," aired from December 27, 1979 until May 13, 1993. "Dallas" remains in syndication around the world.

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Charlene Tilton in the prime of her hawtness

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Charlene Tilton now.

[LilSooner]

My mother had my baby shower on this night and they all sat around watched who shot JR.

[BudSooner]

Homey, tell me you didn't GIS Charlene's now nekkid pictures......YUCK!

heh!

[Dio]

How long until Southfork is sitting in the middle of a subdivision? My aunt and uncle used to live in Murphy, and I am stunned every time I go out that way and see how much development has gone on.

[Curly Bill]

Never forget, I was a huge Dallas fan, but on the night this episode aired we were on our way to our deer lease in Fairfield TX. There was a store we always stopped at in Ennis and we found out from the lady that ran it who shot JR.

[Pricetag]

I remember there was an embankment on the Broken Arrow Expressway in Tulsa that had a bunch of graffiti on it. It was labeled "Pink Floyd's Wall," and one of the bigger displays said "The Goat Shot J.R." I don't know what that was supposed to mean, but it was up for several years.

[picasso]

I did an art show at Southfork last year during OU/Texas weekend.

It sucked but I did fantasize about swimming with Victoria Principal. I think it was swimming.

[VeeJay]

Actually, Charlene Tilton's character was the daughter of missing brother Gary, who was the main character in "Knot's Landing." Lucy stayed behind at the ranch while Dad had gone off on a life of drunken binges and landed in California.

Lucy was always running into a boyfriend that J.R. had problems with. She was doomed to a life of heartbreak due to J.R. I used to watch this show because I thought J.R. was da bomb.

At any rate, them's some Texas sized hooters.

[Widescreen]

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This is about 3 miles from my house. They have a big 4th of July celebration every year and I can hear the fireworks.

[soonerbrat]

my dad was on one episode of Dallas.

[The Ghost of Joe Morrison]

J.R. Ewing....the BEST character in the history of television!

[85Sooner]

An interesting little note:Hagman used to spend one day a week without speaking.

[The Ghost of Joe Morrison]

An interesting little note:Hagman used to spend one day a week without speaking.

Why?

[sooneron]

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I believe.


I called it that it was Kristin that shot him the week after he got plugged.

[sooneron]

I still think Victoria P was hawter.

[The Ghost of Joe Morrison]

I still think Victoria P was hawter.

....but like me, you'd still love a piece of it! Her +i+$ used to be amazing! Loved their bounce on the Dallas intro! They went perfectly w/ the music!:texan: