Dallas - 70's or 80's?

[Toni]

Weren’t Dallas and Knots both the last shows that started in the 1970s to still be on the air by 1986? I read this somewhere once, though Knots only started in December 1979 and most of season one was in 1980, while Dallas began filming in late 1977/early 1978 airing in the spring of 1978, so I would say Knots was more 80s than a 70s-80s hybrid like Dallas was

Funny but when I watch the (3) earlier seasons of Knots, something in my mind tells me they are still in the 70s. Lorimar didn´t spend too much on their wardrobe back then, they seemed to be wearing what the Dallas secretaries had thrown to the garbage...In fact, Knots didn´t belong to the 80s until Abby put on her first kabuki mascara around Season 4...

What they gave to Lucy really belonged to a school montage of "The Sound of Music"...​

 

[Jimmy Todd]

I think of Dallas as a 1980s show, although the first 2 seasons do have a 1970s feel to it with the fashions. At the start, it does feel very 1970s, but on the whole Dallas is clearly 1980s, especially with the ruthless neo-liberal capitalism that J.R. Ewing embodies and the 1980s as a decade being remembered for governments pursuing such policies and ditching the post-WW2 Keynesian economics completely. Bobby Ewing generally plays the role of the sort of Keynesian resistance to what J.R. is doing at Ewing Oil, although Bobby does occasionally become just like J.R. In the Battle for Ewing Oil in Season 6, I usually find myself siding with J.R. more.

This is interesting. I'm not good with economics, so I looked up Keynesian economics, but it's hard for me to grasp "aggregate supply," etc. The one thing I think I got was that in this model, there was the belief that paying too high wages caused employers to not be able to higher as many people, leading to high unemployment. Am I right about that?

If you don't mind, would you be able to explain this economic model a bit further? If you can do it using Dallas characters. Even better:rainbow:
Thank you!

Dallas is very much an 80's show.

That's really down to the continual prominence of the shoulder pads in the fashions of that time.

And of course the big hair styles, which Linda Gray & Morgan Brittany had.

Did they ever! I loved the big hair, especially Katherine's. Ms. Wentworth was no barrel of laughs, but she had beautiful hair and eyes!

 

[Seaviewer]

Weren’t Dallas and Knots both the last shows that started in the 1970s to still be on the air by 1986? I read this somewhere once, though Knots only started in December 1979 and most of season one was in 1980, while Dallas began filming in late 1977/early 1978 airing in the spring of 1978, so I would say Knots was more 80s than a 70s-80s hybrid like Dallas was

True, but it was still created with a 70s mindset regardless of when the episodes aired.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Of course the general public would pick the 80s, and people have given valid reasons for that to be the case above, but when it comes to personal taste, I'm going 70s all the way - the giant Lincoln Mark IV over the later Town Cars (which were still pretty excellent admittedly), Pam's black Corvette and Bobby and JR's 70s Mercedes over the Cadillac Allante and what not, silly butterfly collars and loud jackets and slacks and Pam's long straight hair over the ludicrous shoulderpads and overblown wardrobes and hairstyles that came later, cheesy disco over cheesy lounge music (thanks, Afton), etc. etc. etc.

The show straddled the decades and had its most popular years in the 80s, but it started out low-key 70s-tastic!

(yeah, the Barnes For Congress Roller Disco aired early January of 1980, but it was written and filmed in 1979! oh man, I was always too distracted by Pam's beauty to notice Cliff's silly wide tie in the above, and I wish I could get a clearer screencap of Pam's unveiling at the newly-opened Braddock Disco, but Amazon video won't cooperate)

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

yeah, the Barnes For Congress Roller Disco aired early January of 1980, but it was written and filmed in 1979!

And, as I always say, 1980 was the last year of the '70s. It really, really was.

 

[Grant Jennings]

And, as I always say, 1980 was the last year of the '70s. It really, really was.

It was also the year "Can't Stop The Music" and "Xanadu" were released, the finale ultimo to the decade.

 

[Willie Oleson]

And yet I just can't process the idea that "Rapper's Delight" charted in december 1979. I don't want that song to exist in "my" precious seventies.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

There's a really bizarre scene on Knots Landing when Lucy visits. She goes to a party and she's dancing with this guy who is dressed in...I don't know what