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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 90804" data-attributes="member: 57984">No, the Steve Forrest plotline was dropped because he was already contracted to do a GUNSMOKE reunion movie in Canada that winter.He finished shooting DALLAS before his episodes regarding his identity as the patriarch even aired. So the brass wasn't responding to viewer complaints.They likely never intended to have Forrest stay on as Jock. The actors were all told different things about whether Wes Parmalee was or wasn't really Jock Ewing. But the anxiety it created for the family was dramatic gold.</blockquote>