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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LMLDallas78" data-source="post: 389060" data-attributes="member: 55682">It is quite remarkable isn't it?  Quite wonderful.Dallas viewers were very spoiled with the original and best cast. Larry Hagman behaved very spoiled when he showed off about Donna Reed then pitied himself for being bored when his Patrick left. With that combination certain recasts and dissaproved of stories would suffer from Dallas audiences as well as  it's own stars criticisms and cause irreversible damage. Soaps today get away with recasts all the time because it's the done thing and there's a large cast and characters can dip in and out and aren't terribly missed.The dream was the main one for Dallas which it never totally recovered from. As Susan Howard said when asked how she felt about it, "Like there's no Santa Claus" and then on it's slow decline she said, "Dallas killed itself, Dallas drove the stake in it's own heart".</blockquote>