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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 272414" data-attributes="member: 22">1925Laura Avery, suggesting baby names to her husband Richard in 1982: How about Martin, after your father?Laura to her daughter Meg: Your great-grandmother went around the world on her honeymoon all by herself because your grandfather, he didn’t want to go.1926Pierce Lawton, speaking about California in 1991: There’s possibility in the air here. You can feel it. This is where everybody’s life begins over.Paige: That’s why God invented California.Paula Vertosick on California: Sometimes people forget this place is a desert.Greg Sumner: Was a desert.Paula: It was a desert until the Colorado River was tapped and Owen’s Valley became a manmade oasis.Greg: People wanted to come here. People needed water.Paula: The developers wanted the water to lure the people here.Greg: People needed homes. The developers provided them.Paula: At a cost to the environment.Paul Galveston: I grew up on the land just east of Lotus Point. Used to be able to ride a horse all day and never see another person or run into any semblance of civilisation.Miss Ellie on Southfork: I remember when we used to ride out here and we'd see cattle all the way down to the river and up on the hillside on the Haskins place.Aaron Southworth: That was before the drought.1927Senator O’Dell: Have you ever visited my state?Bobby: I can’t say as I have.Senator O’Dell: Well, there’s no reason why you should. I wouldn’t if I hadn’t been born there.1928Matt Devlin to Miss Ellie: You haven’t changed since you were a girl. You were always fighting other people’s battles.Carter McKay: My life has been one battle after another.Lilimae: Where I come from, anger is better than helplessness any day of the week. Anger is real-life feeling.Lilimae: The Pine Country is where Val and I have our roots.Lilimae: My mother’s family name is Wylie.Lilimae to her son Joshua: You look just like Orabelle Patrick — your grandmother, my mother.Laura to Meg: “Marguerite, go wash your feet, The Board of Health is across the street.” They used to tease your grandma with that song when she was a little girl. She had red hair. And her mother had red hair. She used to put tea in her hair to keep it red.Mack Mackenzie: My mother had red hair.1929Clayton on Jordan Lee: I’ve known him all my life.Arlen Ward to Clayton: We’ve been friends all our lives.Clayton to Arlen’s twin brother Atticus: I never did like you, Atticus.Clayton: Atticus always tugged at his earlobe when he was nervous or lying. Arlen always teased him constantly. Said his ear would fall off if he wasn’t careful.Clayton: We go back a long way, Rabbit.Robert “Rabbit” Hutch: We sure do.Arlen on Curly Morrison: He was a good friend to me.Clayton on himself, Atticus, Arlen, Rabbit and Curly: Most of us grew up together in San Angelo.Harry McSween on Clayton’s sister Jessica: She grew up with him in San Angelo.Digger Barnes on Miss Ellie: My daddy used to work for her daddy, old man Southworth.Aaron Southworth: Ellie, you know how I close I was to Willard's daddy.Miss Ellie: Henry saved your life.Aaron: I wanted to give him a piece of [Southfork] land, but he got insulted when I made the offer.Miss Ellie: Real proud, huh?Aaron: Too proud. Almost had to break his arm to get him to take a pair of handmade boots for Christmas. Anyway, he never let me bring up the land again until he was dying.Miss Ellie: Did he know he was dying?Aaron: Yeah. Near the end, I could tell he was fretting about Willard. The boy’s always been kind of a misfit and Henry was worried about what would happen to him after he was gone. So I told him that he always had a home and a job at our place and when he was ready to go out on his own, I’d give him the deed to the property and help him out. He argued a little, but I think he was glad. Seemed to take a load off his mind.Miss Ellie to Digger: My daddy gave your daddy a parcel of land and when your daddy died, my daddy said you'd get it.Garrison Southworth on him and Digger: We were round-the-neck buddies.Maggie Monahan (née Barnes) on Digger: I’m his sister, but I was raised by the nuns. You [Ellie] grew up with him right here on this ranch, more his sister than I was. You probably knew him better.Digger: She was a sweet little thing, Ellie was, with a great big laugh. She had a way about her. She would be sweet as sugar one minute, and come at you with a shotgun the next, and, oh, what a temper she had, go off like a firecracker - bang! - and just as quick, it was all over. Sure had a way about her.Cliff on Digger: Ellie Ewing was someone very special to him. She was his first love.Miss Ellie, looking at an old picture of Digger: How young he looks and so full of hope!Cliff: You really loved him?Miss Ellie: Oh, yes. I loved many things about him.Miss Ellie: Willard Barnes, always the romantic. No-one ever knew how gentle you were.Digger: Except you. I remember how you used to look when you used to pick [wildflowers] in the field, face all lit up and glowing. I remember every day we ever dated. Remember that time you was teaching me how to ride a horse? A big Palomino, name of Buckwheat. I still had oil on my boots. You must have spent hours cleaning up that animal.Miss Ellie: And you picked the only spot of mud in the whole corral to fall into.Digger: I wasn’t much of a horseman. Of course, I had a terrible temper.Digger: We were good for each other.Miss Ellie: For a while.Digger: I always loved you, Ellie.Jock Ewing on Digger and Ellie: Sweethearts?? He and Ellie were fourteen years old, fifteen tops!Digger: We was just kids.Miss Ellie: You meant a great deal to me, Willard.Digger: I know ranchers. I grew up with them and for the life of me, I can’t understand what they love about ranching and what they got against oil.Ed Haynes on Digger: [He] was one of the best wildcatters in the whole state.Cliff on Digger: He was the greatest wildcatter in the whole state of Texas.Cliff: You didn’t ever run across an old oil driller named Digger Barnes, did you?Dandy Dandridge: Yeah, once or twice. Now there was a man who could find oil. Found it with his nose, just like me.Cliff: My daddy never needed any reports to find oil. He just followed his nose and he never missed.Digger: They used to point me in any direction, any direction. I’d start walking and where I stopped, that’s where the oil was. I didn’t even use a doodle stick, I could smell it coming right up out of the ground.Jock on Digger: I swear that man could smell oil fifty thousand feet below the ground.Miss Ellie: Jock, Digger was your friend and your partner.JR Ewing: I’ve heard lots of stories about the early years, how Jock and Digger were partners, how they met riding the rails during the Depression when they were still practically kids, how they worked the oil fields, went wildcatting together.Jock: Barnes and I were a heck of a pair back in those days.Jock on him and Digger: We sure had some great times together.Jamie Ewing: Daddy, Jock and Digger Barnes were pretty close.Maggie on Jock, Jason and Digger: They sure did a lot of work together at one time.JR on Blackie Callaghan: He was a friend of my daddy.Meg Callaghan, Blackie’s daughter: They used to go wildcatting together with Digger Barnes.JR: My daddy used to say when Blackie sniffed oil, everybody was covered with crude just as soon as they started drilling.Meg: Yes and that’s why they called him Blackie.Jock on Wally Kessel: He and Digger go way back.Bobby on Jock: He used to do some wildcatting with you up in the Northwest territories, didn’t he?Thornton McLeish: With my father.Elroy Askew on Jock: He helped my daddy out of a real hole once.Jock: Wild Bill [Orloff] did me a few favours years back when we were hawking oil leases on the street corners.Father Mallory: I assume Mr Ewing’s first big strike would have been [in Texas].Miss Ellie: I don’t remember. It was long before I was married to Jock and there were so many wells, so many towns.Jordan Lee on Jock’s first big oil strike: Jock was in East Texas at the time. I was in the west. It was one of those little places that existed only for the amount of oil it could produce — Pride, Texas.Miss Ellie, visiting Pride in 1989: I can just see those young wildcatters strutting around here. They must have felt as if they owned the world.Miss Ellie, standing on Jock’s first drill site in Pride: This is where your dream started, but sometimes I wish it had never ever started at all.John Ross Ewing III, Jock’s grandson: Grandpa hit his first gusher here [in Pride]?JR: That’s right. Your granddaddy fought for this land and he won.John Ross: This is the place where Grandpa made so much money!JR: There’s more to it than just making money. Our heritage started here, son. Ewing Oil started here.Miss Ellie: Pride is the birthplace of Ewing Oil.Maggie: Jason, Jock and Digger — those three were the best of friends at one time. It was striking all that oil that broke them apart.Miss Ellie on Jock, Jason and Digger: They were inseparable for a while. I thought that they would go on forever in business together, but Jason had wanderlust and Digger had a fixation on that bottle very early in life.Miss Ellie on Jason: Did he ever tell you the nickname that Jock and Digger gave him?Jamie: Why, sure — Tumbleweed. Tumbleweed Ewing.Miss Ellie: Right, because he could just never settle in one place for very long.Miss Ellie to Bobby: Once a well came in, Digger lost all interest. He’d be drunk for weeks, leaving your daddy with all the responsibility.Punk Anderson on Alf Brindle and Joe Davis: A couple of roughnecks. They worked every field in East Texas.Alf Brindle: Digger was a real good friend of mine. We did a lot of drinking and playing together, yes sir — but he always knew how to smell out where the oil was, that Digger did. And the fights them three had, I tell you!Cliff: You mean the Ewing brothers against my daddy?Alf: Well, that’s the way most people would have thought it was, but it just wasn’t so. Digger and Jason, they was the ones doing most of the fighting. Oh yeah, many’s the time Jock had to come between them because Jason really hated Digger, you know? He was all the time trying to get Jock to get rid of him, that they didn’t need him, that he was just a drunk - which he mostly was - but Jock wouldn’t hear of it, no sir! Jock took care of Digger. He kept him on the payroll even when he was off doing his drinking and he kept Jason from doing him any real damage too.Jamie: My daddy didn’t like Digger Barnes any better than Jock did.Alf: Begging your pardon, Miss Jamie, but your daddy was a blackhearted man. He and Jock were all the time going at each other over Digger and I’ve got to tell you that Mr Jock Ewing was near a saint putting up with the two of them.JR: My daddy protected Digger and put up with his drinking. Any money he had, he was given by my daddy.Alf: That’s about it. Digger was a weak man but Jock cared for him. Why, you’d have thought Digger was his brother, not Jason.Sam Culver: They’d just elected me Justice of the Peace the week before and here they come, pulling Digger Barnes and Jock up in front of me. It seems they just hit one. Digger come into town to drink the bar dry, buying for everyone. In come old Jock, grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and hauled him out. Well, that didn’t sit too good with the boys he was buying the drinks for, so there ensued one of the finest brawls ever to take place west of the Mississippi. Gave them both a week in the pokey.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?