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<blockquote data-quote="Toni" data-source="post: 417632" data-attributes="member: 82">[ATTACH=full]55440[/ATTACH]
One of the characteristics of the golden years of &quot;Dallas&quot; was that the Opening stayed the same, with Susan Howard replacing the void left by Jim Davis´ death. Priscilla´s title was the exception to the rule, and only because she was a &quot;celebrity&quot;, which was the reason to be of both character and its long life in the show. [ATTACH=full]55438[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]55439[/ATTACH]IMHO, none of the characters above-mentioned was meant to last more than one or two seasons. I´m sure that Mark would have died in Season 10 if Bobby hadn´t returned, and the same goes for Jamie. Mandy, Katherine and Afton were exhausted as characters following the classic structure of narrating of the show (no matter how much we love/hate those three).[ATTACH=full]55436[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]55437[/ATTACH]What Lorimar, or Katzman didn´t like was having to change the titles every season, because behind all the twists and turns and dysfunctionality, &quot;Dallas&quot; had to give the same thing to the audience, always, every season, starting with the titles. People knew they were going to meet the same old characters doing the same funny stuff. When that changed, the show declined. At the end, they had to change the titles every season because there was almost nobody left, and the Opening would have looked too short (imagine Season 14 with only Bobby, JR and Cliff...).[ATTACH=full]55435[/ATTACH]
And why not HER? I wonder.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Toni, post: 417632, member: 82"] [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]55440[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] One of the characteristics of the golden years of "Dallas" was that the Opening stayed the same, with Susan Howard replacing the void left by Jim Davis´ death. Priscilla´s title was the exception to the rule, and only because she was a "celebrity", which was the reason to be of both character and its long life in the show. [ATTACH type="full"]55438[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]55439[/ATTACH] IMHO, none of the characters above-mentioned was meant to last more than one or two seasons. I´m sure that Mark would have died in Season 10 if Bobby hadn´t returned, and the same goes for Jamie. Mandy, Katherine and Afton were exhausted as characters following the classic structure of narrating of the show (no matter how much we love/hate those three). [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]55436[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full"]55437[/ATTACH][/CENTER] What Lorimar, or Katzman didn´t like was having to change the titles every season, because behind all the twists and turns and dysfunctionality, "Dallas" had to give the same thing to the audience, always, every season, starting with the titles. People knew they were going to meet the same old characters doing the same funny stuff. When that changed, the show declined. At the end, they had to change the titles every season because there was almost nobody left, and the Opening would have looked too short (imagine Season 14 with only Bobby, JR and Cliff...). [CENTER][ATTACH type="full"]55435[/ATTACH] And why not HER? I wonder.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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Who played JR Ewing?