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<blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 348702" data-attributes="member: 19949">This is from an article in the December 26, 2022 issue of Soap Opera Digest: Patrick Duffy says he still gets stopped by fans of Dallas’s Bobby. “At that time [in 1978], soaps hadn’t been done in nighttime since Peyton Place in the 1960s,” he points out. “Then, Dallas came on and the TV industry saw that there was that attachment and dedication to a continuing storyline. It changed nighttime television and it changed the people who viewed it. More often than not, way over 50 percent of the people who come up to me, their story is a family story of viewing Dallas, saying, ‘We watched with my parents and grandparents. It was a must-do thing every Friday night. We would have dinner together and then watch the show and talk about it.’ It was a blending of the family and bonding moment that people still carry with them ever after.” When Duffy and real-life love Linda Purl were doing a UK tour of Catch Me If You Can earlier this year, he recalls, “People would come up and say, ‘My mother, who is no longer with us, would have loved to have met you because we watched Dallas,’ and so it goes on beyond the generation and it’s wonderful. It’s great. And I’d say, ‘Thank you for telling me.’ I’m very happy to hear that.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monzo, post: 348702, member: 19949"] This is from an article in the December 26, 2022 issue of Soap Opera Digest: Patrick Duffy says he still gets stopped by fans of Dallas’s Bobby. “At that time [in 1978], soaps hadn’t been done in nighttime since Peyton Place in the 1960s,” he points out. “Then, Dallas came on and the TV industry saw that there was that attachment and dedication to a continuing storyline. It changed nighttime television and it changed the people who viewed it. More often than not, way over 50 percent of the people who come up to me, their story is a family story of viewing Dallas, saying, ‘We watched with my parents and grandparents. It was a must-do thing every Friday night. We would have dinner together and then watch the show and talk about it.’ It was a blending of the family and bonding moment that people still carry with them ever after.” When Duffy and real-life love Linda Purl were doing a UK tour of Catch Me If You Can earlier this year, he recalls, “People would come up and say, ‘My mother, who is no longer with us, would have loved to have met you because we watched Dallas,’ and so it goes on beyond the generation and it’s wonderful. It’s great. And I’d say, ‘Thank you for telling me.’ I’m very happy to hear that.” [/QUOTE]

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