do that. people are no longer embarrassed to watch televtelev. we have seen the news and it s us. slowly but surely the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be pupon us. as we begin the 80s. nine out of ten people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it. what is it? it s television s primetime prairie pot boiler of dallas. a move like that will destroy all of you and ruin our family name. brothers or no brothers, whatever it takes, i will stop you. dallas, the one hour show that captivated america for 13 years. dallas rooted in the 1970s. this character, jr as a pop phen phenomenal. tell me which you will be staying with tonight. whatever it is, it s much more delicious than the i am looking at now. you could do something so unexpected that it would become news over night. [ gunshot ] . the national obsession around who shot jr is hard to imagine how obsessed we were with that question but we were