dallas - the complete ninth season

Rating:
Date: 2008-07-06
hit and miss year
the death of Bobby and then the return at the end of the year of Bobby left me in the cold and for the first time Dallas didn't feel as Innovative as it once had and it felt like it was following the trends as to setting them. everything else was in play,but Dallas started coming across like it was copying "Dynasty and Knots Landing and other things. it was starting to lose it's own idenity during this particular season. of course the season had some good moments,but you really appreciate Patrick Duffy a whole lot more when you see the show without him. that whole Shower scene and whatnot is the Big time "Jumping the Shark" which to me Dallas was never quite the same again.

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-11
The last 5 seasons of Dallas and the color RED
I started collecting and watching Dallas on DVD, and I am starting to love the show. So far, I have the first 5 Seasons and I am looking foward to collect the rest of the series. I hope there plans on releasing the 5 remaining seasons the next few years. The next Season to release is Dallas The Complete 10th Season (1986-1987), which is the final season for Susan Howard as Donna Krebbs and Victoria Principal as Pamela Barnes Ewing. I hope Dallas The Complete 10th Season (1986-1987)has the color RED to match the Cliffhanger whare Pam gets barbecued. Please release the last 5 seasons of Dallas in the near future!

Rating:
Date: 2008-06-05
The Dream Season
Let us put to rest any comment about season nine, Patrick Duffy left the cast to handle personal affairs after his parents were brutally murdered in colorado, enough said. And yes the cast members welcomed him back season ten .

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-18
Weird Year in the Middle of the Series
Fortunately, the real Miss Ellie is back (in the form of Barbara Bel Geddes) but this is an otherwise strange year.

With Bobby ostensibly dead, new writer/producers took over the show and attempt to make it both more introspective (like spin-off KNOTS LANDING) but also more glamorous (like rival DYNASTY).

The first half of the season almost works--- it's edgier and experimental. But mid-way thru, the plotting just becomes muddled without any direction, and you have characters making nice-nice who never ordinarily would. The scenes become increasingly maudlin, taking on a frankly prissy "Little-Woman-Fixes-All" perspective which is riminiscent of the old daytime soaps from prior decades, and it's not an improvement.

By year's end (SPOILER ALERT!!) Bobby re-appears in Pam's shower... Back in 1986, this became DALLAS' biggest cliffhanger since J.R. was shot: how is Bobby alive??

But it was the answer which became THE biggest "Jump the Shark" moment in TV history: Bobby's death and the entire subsequent year was all one long dream on the part of Bobby's ex-wife, Pam.

Many long-term viewers tuned-out never came back. The dream scenario became a sitcom punchline for years.

Sure, DALLAS was a "soap", but also one of the most influential shows in TV history, and fans were appalled by the use of the dream because it wasn't the kind of device the series was accustomed to previously throwing at their audience.

Suffice it to say, DALLAS never recovered either its audience or the hard-won respect it had earned up until that time. DALLAS had quite literally become a legend in its own time, and critics had eventually been won over by the show, acknowledging it to be a legitimate drama--- until this, an insulting plot contrivance which wound up validating all the "it's just a soap" cliches the series had worked so fervently to overcome prior to that.

The use of the dream was the result of petty squabbles between producers, with the fans ultimately left out in the cold. And even to this day, some people close to the show claim that the dream was "the only way to bring Bobby back" and that "the ratings surged up again after the dream scenario was used"....

Neither of which was true at all.

Rating:
Date: 2008-05-01
Relax, it's just a dream
Okay, so it was all a dream, but what a fun dream it was. The whole Angelica Nero/Dmitri Marinos plotline is vintage 80s (check out those crazy outfits Angelica wore!) and culminates in what is one of my all-time favorite Dallas lines: Harry McSween, JR's pet police detective,says to the struggling Angelica as he leads her out of JR's office at Ewing Oil "Come on, Ms. Nero, let's you and me take an elevator ride and I'll explain to you all about the Miranda decision." Now, you just don't get writing like that on TV nowadays. Five stars all the way for this season.

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