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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 364459" data-attributes="member: 95">Dallas although it began in 1978, I think started filming in late winter of 1977, ten years after the Summer of Love of 1967 and just a few short years after the optimism that the 60s had came crashing down.So when I watch early Dallas I am acutely reminded that the show that would define 80s America, started  in the 70s, a decade that is the complete opposite of what the 80s would become, and started filming during their Carter era and several years before Ronald Reagan would begin his two terms.This is why I find Dallas most fascinating of all the 80s soaps, we are taken through a journey of a period in America’s history, between the Vietnam and Gulf wars.The 80s on Dallas for me didn’t really feel like the 80s until about 1983 there was definitely a cultural shift at that point.The 70s from a 2023 standpoint seems so far away yet the 80s still feels very recent. maybe it was because I was born in 1989, the 70s was still a recent decade yet at the same time a long ago distant era by that point seeing as how much society changed in the 80s.</blockquote>