From today's even further jadedness - ultra-raunch having long ago overtaken glamorous sex appeal, Dallas seems downright bucolic to utterly quaint.
The iconic world inhabited by J. The sexual mores, vices, and the corruption in big business in particular, hold up. Only now, they have acquired a patina of acceptability, posing the question; 'as a society Pitching the idea to Lorimar executive, Mike Filerman was a no-go. Mike wanted to do trash, and together, we did television! CBS liked the idea, though not enough to produce it — yet. Eventually, the project would find a home as Knots Landing.
Recognizing it as more of an ensemble piece, Filerman decided it lacked the potential to interest Linda Evans. Ironically, CBS liked Dallas enough to commission a 5-episode mini-series.
So, Fiberman and Jacobs set about casting their project; the entire shoot expected to get underway in just six weeks. First to be contacted was Steve Kanaly who immediately took an interest in the part of the wily ranch hand, Ray Krebbs. Also, up for the part was actor, Ken Kercheval. Producers would pass on Kercheval for Ray. But the actor was not entirely out of luck.
Ironically, all three were from Brooklyn and had never been to Texas. Nevertheless, this trio captured the essence of a city and a state as wide-open to the possibilities for a total transformation into pop icons, reinvigorating their tourist trade and putting Texas on the international list of celebrity.
Cast opposite this muscular star was another year-old, Victoria Principal who, like Duffy, had seen her earlier career aspirations quickly fizzle.
Unlike Duffy, Principal had achieved notoriety of a different kind, appearing in a spread in Playboy Magazine. Seventeen-year-old Charlene Tilton, whose acting resume was practically nonexistent, nevertheless landed the part of the sexually charged nymph, Lucy.
Opposite Bel Geddes was another screen veteran, Jim Davis as head of the family, Jock — at age 67, decidedly, the elder statesman of the group. After serving his country from , Hagman redoubled his efforts to break through to popular appeal.
But his determination was not immediately rewarded; his off-Broadway bit parts gradually earning him modest notoriety and the inevitable segue to slightly more substantial supporting parts on Broadway. He made his TV debut in ; a largely forgettable spate of live appearances that led to a few more in some high-profile movies. At the end of that series successful run in , Hagman once again found himself unemployed, and seemingly unemployable — producers unable to see beyond the character of Maj.
Anthony Nelson. Ewing in Dallas. Weighing his options, Hagman wisely concurred that any show headlined by Bel Geddes and Davis could only turn out to be a winner. He was the only actor to have actually hailed from Fort Worth. He was also quite certain from the outset that it was better to appear in support, as part of an ensemble in a hit, than as the headliner of a flop.
To ingratiate himself to the cast, Hagman turned up at the first rehearsal for the pilot in full Texas regalia; ten-gallon, buckskin and cowboy boots, toting a saddle bag full of champagne to lighten the mood.
While the character of J. Leonard Katzman assumed a very personal responsibility for overseeing Dallas. For the actors, Katzman was both a man of action and the real authority figure to whom everyone relied upon.
Hence, no back-lot facsimile would do. While, in years yet to come, Dallas would increasingly rely on a blend of footage shot in Texas, with interiors mostly lensed back in Hollywood, on soundstages at the old MGM studio facilities now belonging to Lorimar , for its final seasons, virtually episodes were recorded on indoor recreations of Southfork — both exteriors and interiors — to keep costs down.
Interestingly, the ranch house that would ultimately become as much a part of TV-land iconography and integral as any character on the show, at least in the pilot, was not the sprawling Duncan Forest Ranch near Plano, but rather, the Southern antebellum-styled Cloyce Box Ranch near Frisco, Texas. A rift with the owner during the shooting of the 5-part mini-series forced Katzman to reconsider alternative locations after production wrapped.
Tragically, the ornately styled mansion, once situated on an impressive 70 acres of wide open spaces, would be decimated by fire in Although spirits ran high, despite some hellish weather, once shooting of the pilot wrapped in March, cast and crew returned to Hollywood, disbanding to look for other work. The general consensus was that Dallas was so wildly different from the usual programming on television, it would not survive its mid-season run and was likely to quickly fade into obscurity.
But nothing could have been further from the truth. Audiences were not watching. And worse, Texans feared those that did tune in were getting the wrong impression about their fair state; populated by a bunch of gun-toting yahoos, raking in big money and living audacious lives steeped in sin and corruption. Lest we forget, it had been only a scant 15 years since the real city of Dallas played host to one of the most shocking chapters in American political history: the bizarre assassination of President John F.
Worse for Dallas — the show — or so it would seem, the critics were watching. Cast and crew were quickly reassembled and sent back to Texas. Rescheduling the show from Sunday to Saturday, then finally, Friday nights at 9pm, Dallas suddenly took off. Early on, Katzman and Jacobs made the executive decision to write ongoing story lines.
Up until Dallas , prime time dramas usually featured an all-inclusive narrative — one per week that did not hinge on either the episode that preceded it or led into the one yet to follow. Linda Gray, in particular, felt as though the women were being under-utilized. Sue Ellen would strike back at her husband by having an extra-marital affair with his arch nemesis, Cliff Barnes. Creators John Wilder Michael Zinberg.
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