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Dallas - The Original Series
Is Dallas the Greatest American Soap/Drama Series of All Time?
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 329598" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>DALLAS is regarded as "the most successful" drama series in global TV history, and we mostly all know why.</p><p></p><p>But, to be frank, the series stumbled <strong><em>so</em></strong> badly in <strong><em>so</em></strong> many ways during the last half of its run -- due in part to Katzman's creative rigidity and the replacing Paulsen with Lakin -- that it's hard to really call it "the greatest of all time."</p><p></p><p>That's what's so melancholy about the '80s nighttime soaps: so much potential, so effectively realized early on, and their losing their directions and identities so thoroughly. Or, as one friend said in the break-room circa 1988: "<em>those shows drive me <strong>up the wall!</strong></em>" and she wasn't being soap-snotty when she said it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]38502[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 329598, member: 57984"] DALLAS is regarded as "the most successful" drama series in global TV history, and we mostly all know why. But, to be frank, the series stumbled [B][I]so[/I][/B][I] [/I]badly in [B][I]so[/I][/B][I] [/I]many ways during the last half of its run -- due in part to Katzman's creative rigidity and the replacing Paulsen with Lakin -- that it's hard to really call it "the greatest of all time." That's what's so melancholy about the '80s nighttime soaps: so much potential, so effectively realized early on, and their losing their directions and identities so thoroughly. Or, as one friend said in the break-room circa 1988: "[I]those shows drive me [B]up the wall![/B][/I]" and she wasn't being soap-snotty when she said it. [ATTACH type="full"]38502[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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