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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 31164" data-attributes="member: 57984">David Jacobs said that Katzman and Capice couldn&#039;t stand each other yet they had the exact same approach to series television.&nbsp;My sense of it was that Katzman and Capice counterbalanced one another. Capice may have reined in Katzman&#039;s taste for shlockier or campier stuff, while Katzman&#039;s sense of character developement and the family was better.&nbsp;The season Katzman was gone (and Bobby was &quot;dead&quot;) Capice brought in a new team of producers (Peter Dunne and his writers) and while they kept the show feeling more-or-less like a grounded drama, it was all over the place in terms of plot and character and was, ultimately, quite a mess.&nbsp;Then when Katzman came back (and Capice was gone) they used the devastating &quot;dream&quot; resolution -- which killed the show on-the-spot in the minds of many and is still regarded as a joke 30 years later -- and yet the stories and series flavor that first year back for Katzman, now autonomous, were classic DALLAS.&nbsp;But as the years rolled by, Katzman alone slid further and further into overt silliness. (For one thing, no season of DALLAS post-WhoShotJR? really ever worked when David Paulsen wasn&#039;t directly involved in guiding and structuring the stories, and Paulsen left in 1988).&nbsp; &nbsp;Also, Capice was seen by some as high-handed and bitchy, while Katzman had a better bedside manner with actors and crew until you crossed him. (The show&#039;s key composer, Jerrold Immel, was fired by Capice for using guitar in the episode featuring Bobby&#039;s funeral; Immel was then rehired by Katzman who then fired him again himself, perhaps twice more).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 31164, member: 57984"] David Jacobs said that Katzman and Capice couldn't stand each other yet they had the exact same approach to series television. My sense of it was that Katzman and Capice counterbalanced one another. Capice may have reined in Katzman's taste for shlockier or campier stuff, while Katzman's sense of character developement and the family was better. The season Katzman was gone (and Bobby was "dead") Capice brought in a new team of producers (Peter Dunne and his writers) and while they kept the show feeling more-or-less like a grounded drama, it was all over the place in terms of plot and character and was, ultimately, quite a mess. Then when Katzman came back (and Capice was gone) they used the devastating "dream" resolution -- which killed the show on-the-spot in the minds of many and is still regarded as a joke 30 years later -- and yet the stories and series flavor that first year back for Katzman, now autonomous, were classic DALLAS. But as the years rolled by, Katzman alone slid further and further into overt silliness. (For one thing, no season of DALLAS post-WhoShotJR? really ever worked when David Paulsen wasn't directly involved in guiding and structuring the stories, and Paulsen left in 1988). Also, Capice was seen by some as high-handed and bitchy, while Katzman had a better bedside manner with actors and crew until you crossed him. (The show's key composer, Jerrold Immel, was fired by Capice for using guitar in the episode featuring Bobby's funeral; Immel was then rehired by Katzman who then fired him again himself, perhaps twice more). [/QUOTE]

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