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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkhullar" data-source="post: 359816" data-attributes="member: 55799"><p>I would like to concur with many of the people here that jock Ewing was an original and only Jim Davis could have played him. They did for the record approach Howard keel and ask him if he wanted to take over even though he had already started with farlow. Out of respect for Jim Davis he said no. Jim Davis was loved by a lot of people in fact I read somewhere that Victoria principal felt the closest to him because he saw in her his own daughter for real. Like I said Howard keel was loved by Larry hagman and it would have been hard now looking back to see him go from farlow to being Jock Ewing. But because he married Ellie they kind of indirectly saw him as the replacement without actually being jock Ewing. That's sad no one can ever replace a legend like Jim Davis. So yes I concur with many of the people here who have said that. Recast in general are difficult especially on something like that. So yeah</p></blockquote><p></p>