Dallas and Petrochelli Coincidences!

[Barbara Fan]

I have finally got round to buying Petrochelli S1 and 2 which i always liked as a child and long before Susan Howard playd Donna in Dallas. (Thanks @Ray&Donna - finally came down in price!)
At the time I didnt know the name Leonard Katzman - who wrote, directed and or produced Petrochelli.

As time goes on and Ive watched more episodes its easy to see where / how the Dallas epiodes were named

we have on Petrochelli
Act of love
Fallen Idol
The kidnapping
The Outsiders
Mark of Cain
Survival
Night visitor
Shadow of a doubt

Not to mention a whole host of Dallas Character actors - Im loving it and poor Maggie aka Susan Howard,
At least Ray finished the house he was building, Tony Petrochelli lays about 3 bricks / episode x

 

[Ray_Krebbs]

Dallas should have gotten Barry Newman to play Andrew Dowling or another character to whisk Donna to DC.

 

[Barbara Fan]

Dallas should have gotten Barry Newman to play Andrew Dowling or another character to whisk Donna to DC.

Agree, he would have been a great addition to the show. I was happy to see Barry Newman in NYPD Blue, early on, a good actor, always wonder what he is doing now, muct be in his early 80s I would think.

 

[Ray&Donna]

Had Tony been building the house out of root beer bottles, he likely would have finished!

 

[Barbara Fan]

Had Tony been building the house out of root beer bottles, he likely would have finished!

Agree, he could have built a glass house! Poor old Harve Smithfield was killed last night lol

 

[Seaviewer]

Act of love
Fallen Idol
The kidnapping
The Outsiders
Mark of Cain
Survival
Night visitor
Shadow of a doubt

Some of those are fairly standard phrases that have been used as titles in a lot of places.

 

[Ray&Donna]

Donna Mills guest starred in a two-part episode of GUNSMOKE with two titles for the price of one: "A Game of Death...an Act of Love"

 

[bmasters9]

Agree, he would have been a great addition to the show. I was happy to see Barry Newman in NYPD Blue, early on, a good actor, always wonder what he is doing now, muct be in his early 80s I would think.

81 now (was born 11/7/1938 in Boston).

 

[Ray&Donna]

 

[Ray&Donna]

Judge Jordan Lee

 

[Barbara Fan]

Ive just ordered a book on Petrochelli, loving seeing so many Dallas supporting cast appear in the show and Jordan Lee is a fair judge!

 

[bmasters9]

Ive just ordered a book on Petrochelli, loving seeing so many Dallas supporting cast appear in the show and Jordan Lee is a fair judge!

Absolutely-- I've seen that second-and-final-season premiere "Death Ride" many a time lately, and Judge Manners (I think that's the name of the judge that Don Starr [the actor] played) was indeed quite tough, but also very fair, applying courtroom procedure equally to both sides (first admonishing the defendant character Gage Hurley [Ned Beatty] for courtroom disruption, then doing the same to prosecutor Frank Kaiser [Michael Bell] for instigation of such disruption by the form of questioning the prosecutor was using [owing to Petrocelli's pointing it out in his apology for Hurley's disruption]).

 

[Barbara Fan]

Having a Petrochelli day x

 

[bmasters9]

Having a Petrochelli day x

I have the series and the book too, but I have them in different forms than you have; you got the series in the German single releases, and the book in paperback; I have the series in the Canadian all-in-one from VEI (Toronto-based DVD label), and the book in hardback.

 

[Barbara Fan]

you got the series in the German single releases

yes sadly has never been brought out in UK and for a long tme were way too £££££ to buy on Amazon

Then the price dropped and i pounced!!

 

[bmasters9]

yes sadly has never been brought out in UK and for a long tme were way too £££££ to buy on Amazon

Then the price dropped and i pounced!!

Glad it worked out for you to where you could have those German releases!

BTW, this is a picture of the way I have the series and the book...

 

[Monzo]

I watched Petrocelli for the first time last year and noticed that guest star Kay Lenz played a character named Janet Wade. Apparently, Katzman liked the name, so he used a slightly altered version in Dallas.

I watched Dallas dubbed in German, and Susan Howard's character had the German voice of Sue Ellen, which was a bit confusing.

 

[Chris2]

Dallas should have gotten Barry Newman to play Andrew Dowling or another character to whisk Donna to DC.

Barry Nelson was on Dallas (as Sue Ellen’s divorce attorney). Does that count?

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Barry Nelson was on Dallas (as Sue Ellen’s divorce attorney). Does that count?

hm, was he a relative of Major Nelson?

With the strong presence of Judge Jordan Lee, all Petrocelli needed was a few appearances by the dynamic Andy Bradley and it would have been unequivocally the finest pre-Dallas show of all time, which it pretty much was anyway.

 

[Karin]

I've watched this show too. The first season with German dubbing as a friend sent me the episodes. Later I got both seasons on an official DVD release in English. I somehow missed there was a book though.