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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 357818" data-attributes="member: 23">It was a big gap, but the main disruption from the bidding war actually took place some time before Swan Song. Dallas was pulled off the air for months mid-Season Seven after Jenna was found with the smoking gun and Naldo's body.I do agree that the big gaps didn't help, particularly in terms of spoilers. Pictures of Bobby's death were plastered all over the tabloids months before Swan Song aired.  As you said, Swan Song was very successful and highly regarded in Britain, but it may have had even more impact if there hadn't been the gap and time for it to be spoilt.As I remember, Dallas was still on many people's tongues even the following year when the series was back on regularly. There was much speculation after Patrick Duffy turned up in the shower (I seem to recall the "long lost evil twin" theory prevailed). But the dream reveal at the start of the following season alienated a number of people I knew who'd watched up to that point who just felt it was too silly for words.Falling behind in the scheduling didn't help, but the audience loyalty was probably tested more by the content of the series itself.</blockquote>