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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Miss Texas 1967" data-source="post: 424278" data-attributes="member: 36">This is a nice article, a write up of an interview with Larry himself. (You can read the entire article in Firefox without paying for a subscription <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/larry-hagmans-curtain-call/" target="_blank">https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/larry-hagmans-curtain-call/</a>)$11,000 per episode at the beginning. Then in the fall of 1980, Lorimar agreed to pay Larry Hagman $100,000 per episode, one of the highest salaries for a TV actor at the time, and also allowed him to direct up to four episodes per year and earn a share of the official JR merchandise profits. I assume these are numbers of the day, not adjusted inflation numbers to 2012 levels.From things said over the years I got the sense that while it wasn’t exactly collective bargaining, there was a shared purpose among the actors. Linda  has mentioned that Larry had stepped in and supported her when her contract negotiations weren’t going well.</blockquote>