Gayle Hunnicutt, a Fort Worth native who found on fame on British television and theater stages before returning to America to star on TV's Dallas, has died at the age of 80.
potboiler, dallas. a move like that will destroy all of you in oil and it will ruin our family name. i assure you, it felt like that never crossed my mind. whatever it takes, i will stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas established new ground in terms of a weekly one- hour show which literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show rooted in the 1970s. one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing, as a pop phenomenon. what difference does it make, whoever it is has got to be more interesting than who i m looking at right now. it was such a delicious villain. everyone was completely enamored by this character. at this point, so many people were watching television. that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news.
it s television s primetime, prairie pot boiler, dallas. a move like that will destroy all of ewing oil, and it ll ruin our family name. i assure you, a thought like that never crossed my mind. brother or no brother, whatever it takes, i ll stop you from destroying ewing oil. dallas really did establish new ground in terms of the weekly, one-hour show that literally captivated america for 13 years. dallas is a television show which in some ways is rooted in the 1970s, and one of the crazy things that emerges is this character, jr ewing, as a pop phenomenon. tell me, jr, which slut are you going to stay with tonight? what difference does it make? whoever it is, it s got to be more interesting than the slut i m looking at right now. he was such a delicious villain. everyone was completely enamored by this character. at this point, so many people were watching television that you could do something so unexpected that it would become news overnight. who s there?
the national obsession in 1980 around who shot jr it s hard to imagine how obsessed we all were with that question, but we were. who shot jr is about as ideal a cliffhanger as you possibly could get. who did shoot jr? we may never get the answer to that question. i mean, the people who produced that program are going to keep us in suspense for as long as they possibly can. we shot jr and then we broke for the summer. then coincidentally, the actors went on strike and it delayed the resolution. and it just started to percolate through the world. i remember going on vacation to england that summer, and that s all that people were talking about there. well, we know you don t die. i mean, you couldn t die? you don t know that. well, how could you die? you couldn t come back next season. that s what i mean. i couldn t come back, but the show could still go. oh, but you wouldn t?