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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurie Marr" data-source="post: 382131" data-attributes="member: 175">It is perhaps appropriate for a show that dwelled obsessively on parenting that Dallas replicated these anxieties behind the scenes. Jacobs was the ‘creator’ but abandoned his progeny in its infancy and - in numerous interviews - never could quite bring himself to tell Dallas that it was loved by him.  Katzman was the surrogate but could never shake off the feeling that ‘Dallas’ would never fully be his. Paulsen was the troubleshooter - making sense of it all: the wise uncle (as was Art Lewis, to a lesser extent). Capice was the distant elder who took the praise, dished out the criticisms but avoided the hard daily graft of bringing up baby.For context, here’s a quote from one of the last interviews with the late David Jacobs: “Lennie was tired of the conflicts with Phil. I also think it annoyed Leonard that when something big happened on “Dallas,” like the “Who Shot J.R.?” episode, that I would get so much press because I created the show. He wanted to develop a show that could be his from the get-go. Leonard had something to prove, just like we all have something to prove.”‘Who’s the Daddy?’ was both a frequent pivotal plot in the show and the psychodrama that informed its creative development.</blockquote>