Favorite Dallas Fight Scenes

Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

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What are some of your favorite fistfights from Dallas?

One of my favorite ones is the fight between Mark Graison and Matt Cantrell in South America while Pam was missing. John Beck throws some punches that look like they should've taken Marc Singer's head off and Singer's reactions to the punches especially make them look brutal. No matter how devastating the punch, Cantrell keeps getting back up and going after Graison. I thought: "Geez, I wish I could take that much punishment and keep going"! It's really a fun fight to watch.
 
Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

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Swami said:
Simply has to be "The Dove Hunt", a classic set-to in Jock, Ray and Bobby in taking Tom Owens and his sons on head-on, although for them to be completely upstaged by JR flooring an opponent with a glass tankard!

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I love how JR is so calm, cool and collected even in the midst of a bar brawl that he actually thinks to take his watch off before doing that. Classic JR!
 
Billy Wall

Billy Wall

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Kenny Coyote said:
What are some of your favorite fistfights from Dallas?

One of my favorite ones is the fight between Mark Graison and Matt Cantrell in South America while Pam was missing. John Beck throws some punches that look like they should've taken Marc Singer's head off and Singer's reactions to the punches especially make them look brutal. No matter how devastating the punch, Cantrell keeps getting back up and going after Graison. I thought: "Geez, I wish I could take that much punishment and keep going"! It's really a fun fight to watch.
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I believe John Beck/Mark was a boxer at one one.

But a really good fight was between Bobby and Tommy McCay. Bobby usually just beats the crap out of someone, but Tommy actually held his own for a while.
 
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Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

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Swami said:
Simply has to be "The Dove Hunt", a classic set-to in Jock, Ray and Bobby in taking Tom Owens and his sons on head-on, although for them to be completely upstaged by JR flooring an opponent with a glass tankard!

Swami
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Let's see who else here knows they break a glass schooner or break glass bottles over people's heads in TV fights without any of the actors getting hurt. What's the trick to it?
 
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James from London

James from London

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Candy (or sugar) glass.
 
Michelle Stevens

Michelle Stevens

'The Lovely Michelle'
Johnny Dancer vs Cliff Barnes just for it's one-sidedness. I always get a good laugh when I see it and I like Cliff.
 
Justine

Justine

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I will forever love this one - always makes me giggle how Sue Ellen continues to hit Bobby with her purse even once they're at Southfork:

 
Swami

Swami

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Justine said:
I will forever love this one - always makes me giggle how Sue Ellen continues to hit Bobby with her purse even once they're at Southfork:

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That was the kind of contest which needed running commentary to fully describe Sue Ellen's repeated swipes at Bobby with her handbag.

Bobby beating up Tommy McKay was also good. The Oil Baron's brawl too.

Swami
 
Taylor Bennett Jr.

Taylor Bennett Jr.

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Bobby and Ray and Kit Mainwaring vs. some local rustlers in Call Girl was another good one. Interestingly, the same blond mustachioed guy was the bartender in both that fight and the one in Landowne in The Dove Hunt. He'd have some good insight into the action from his front-row vantage point if we could only track him down!

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Taylor Bennett Jr.

Taylor Bennett Jr.

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Taylor Bennett Jr. said:
Bobby and Ray and Kit Mainwaring vs. some local rustlers in Call Girl was another good one. Interestingly, the same blond mustachioed guy was the bartender in both that fight and the one in Landowne in The Dove Hunt. He'd have some good insight into the action from his front-row vantage point if we could only track him down!

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Wow, I just noticed another recurring extra! Check out the tall, rough-looking bearded guy in the background of the 'Bobby and Ray save Sue Ellen' fight. He appeared in the previous season in the scene where Ray and Donna meet!

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The first screenshot is from season 3 DVD, and the second is from season 2. He's even wearing the same shirt!

They also recycle some footage of Bobby driving on a winding country road from the previous season as well. In season 2 it was Bobby and the first Kristin driving to Old Man Kessel's farm, and in season 3 it was Bobby and Ray driving to the Ace Bar in Braddock to help Sue Ellen.

(amazing the things one notices while scouring one's Dallas collection on Prime Video for screenshots for the ABC thread!)
 
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Michelle Stevens

Michelle Stevens

'The Lovely Michelle'
Of JR fights the 1987-'88 season finale when he fights Nicholas Pearce was one of my favorites, like the Barnes/Dancer fight it's uneven in theory but in this case JR was the victor.


Surely JR was half pickled by the time Sue Ellen and Pearce arrive. How JR, in his mid-fifties, could fight-off a man easy fifteen years his junior and in much better shape always amuses me.
 
Kenny Coyote

Kenny Coyote

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Michelle Stevens said:
Of JR fights the 1987-'88 season finale when he fights Nicholas Pearce was one of my favorites, like the Barnes/Dancer fight it's uneven in theory but in this case JR was the victor.


Surely JR was half pickled by the time Sue Ellen and Pearce arrive. How JR, in his mid-fifties, could fight-off a man easy fifteen years his junior and in much better shape always amuses me.
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I never gave it that much thought but you bring up interesting points. The odds were heavily against JR in that situation but he had two things going for him:

1. It was in JR's home

2. JR was more calm and level headed than Nicholas by far.

If I had to fight someone younger and bigger than me, I'd much rather it takes place in my home than in his home, because I know every inch of my home and will use that to my advantage.

Nicholas was in a rage, he'd lost control of himself and was taking ridiculous chances like rushing towards JR when JR had a gun in his hand. In fight it's vital to remain as calm as possible and we'd always seen that JR was very good at remaining surprisingly cavalier even in crisis mode. Nicholas was acting purely on anger and he made a fatal mistake when they were fighting out on JR's balcony.
 
Swami

Swami

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Kenny Coyote said:
I never gave it that much thought but you bring up interesting points. The odds were heavily against JR in that situation but he had two things going for him:

1. It was in JR's home

2. JR was more calm and level headed than Nicholas by far.

If I had to fight someone younger and bigger than me, I'd much rather it takes place in my home than in his home, because I know every inch of my home and will use that to my advantage.

Nicholas was in a rage, he'd lost control of himself and was taking ridiculous chances like rushing towards JR when JR had a gun in his hand. In fight it's vital to remain as calm as possible and we'd always seen that JR was very good at remaining surprisingly cavalier even in crisis mode. Nicholas was acting purely on anger and he made a fatal mistake when they were fighting out on JR's balcony.
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Plus JR always had the benefit of key contacts in the Dallas police to deal with any aftermath.

Swami
 
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Srqmom

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What about JR and Ray’s tussle that caused SF to burn?
Notice after that (and a new season) that the set changed, the new hall to the bedrooms and all of a sudden we see Ms Ellie’s kitchen! Never showed it before and then a bunch of scenes happen in it.
 
Billy Wall

Billy Wall

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Srqmom said:
What about JR and Ray’s tussle that caused SF to burn?
Notice after that (and a new season) that the set changed, the new hall to the bedrooms and all of a sudden we see Ms Ellie’s kitchen! Never showed it before and then a bunch of scenes happen in it.
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Ray, the tough and rugged cowboy, definitely lost some luster with that fight. Lol

But leading up to the fire, they were showing more and more scenes of the upstairs hallway, but they had been showing the new kitchen for years. The kitchen came right after Jim Davis/Jock left the show I believe.
 
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