What Other Spin Offs

Justine

Telly Talk Well-Known Member
I feel there were chances for other Dallas spin offs. I feel the best would be one in 1987 with a focus on Donna and her life in DC. I feel she was a strong character who could have carried a political drama for many seasons. It could have shown her becoming a senator all the way to becoming the first female president. I would have had her marriage to Dowling crumble, but she finds true love with another politician. They marry and have children. Ray makes occasional guest appearances for Margaret. What are your ideas?

Yes, yes, yes! The writers missed a massive opportunity here. You should definitely hash this out in the writers room;)
 

Richard Channing

Eternal Member
The Patricia Shepard Academy for Wayward Girls.

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A sort of finishing school/training camp for gold-digging young women to be molded into the perfect trophy wives or sugar babies. Patricia puts them through their paces and rules with an iron fist. She takes on runaways or girls that are down on their luck and transforms them, but not before making them sign a contract that ensures she gets a cut once they have bagged a rich husband. A typical day would include business studies, hair and make-up tutorials, karma Sutra/ Tantra studies and the art of seduction, and target practice ( for when things go wrong).

The series would follow the trials and tribulations of the girls, the in-house fighting and scheming, and also their progress in the outside world as they are wined and dined by the Dallas elite in the hopes of hitting the jackpot. This would leave room for several cross-overs with cartel members and other oil men from the parent show and also some of the girls possibly making appearances on Dallas.
 

Snarky Oracle!

Telly Talk Supreme
All good ideas.

How about THE MARVELOUS MAINWARINGS, in which Kip becomes the gay equivalent of JR, a Machiavellian manipulator with a big cock on every wall who proposes marriage to all the well-moneyed ingenues of Texas, only breaking it off with all of them once he's secured financial benefits from the engagements, tearfully begging his fiancées to keep his homosexuality a secret.

And his family -- and husband -- completely approves. His daddy crowing, "That boy's gonna go far!"

At the end of each season, however, one of his jilted betrothed spills the beans, leading to the annual cliffhanger, usually involving her body dumped in the oil field out back of the family mansion, Kip finally violating the body just before he covers her with dirt because he can only be aroused by a woman when she is, y'know, dead and stuff.

Lucy had no idea how lucky she was.

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southfork88

Telly Talk TV Fanatic
A zany spin-off could be the sit-com based on the married life of James Beaumont Ewing and Debra Lynn, with Michelle Stevens trying in every way to separate them to get remarried and be the heir of the Ewings. However, the couple does not seem to notice all these machinations, constantly resolved by the young and wise Jimmy Ewing.
 

Toni

Maximum Member
A zany spin-off could be the sit-com based on the married life of James Beaumont Ewing and Debra Lynn, with Michelle Stevens trying in every way to separate them to get remarried and be the heir of the Ewings. However, the couple does not seem to notice all these machinations, constantly resolved by the young and wise Jimmy Ewing.
That was already done. Just add a laugh-track to the last episodes of "Dallas". The acting was sitcom-worthy at the very best...
 
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