THE CROWN's Prince William mentions DALLAS and KNOTS LANDING!

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Brian Kinney

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In episode 8 of The Crown's new season 5 Queen Elizabeth II. is hesitant to change anything about her TV set which has a terrible antenna signal until Prince William baits her with a special interest channel. New technology arrives in form of satellite dishes at the royal household and the Queen Mother wants to know something about soaps...

Prince William: Satellite dishes have now been installed in all the royal households.
Queen Elizabeth II.: As long as they're out of sight.
Prince William: Plus, the specialist racing channel you wanted, like in the betting shops.
Queen Elizabeth II.: Did you hear that, Mummy?
Queen Mother: How thrilling.
Prince William: Look, simple instructions on all the remotes.
Queen Elizabeth II.: May I see? Printed in a nice, large, idiot-proof font.
Queen Mother: Well, what about the soaps?
Queen Elizabeth II.: Not that we ever watch those.
Prince William: Well, 23 is UK Gold.
Queen Mother: Right.
Prince William: They have repeats of Dallas, Knots Landing, and The Bill.

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Queen Mother: Oh.
Prince William: Please tell me you have no idea what I'm talking about.
Queen Mother: Not a clue.

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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

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Knots Landing?

Never heard of it! :p
 
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

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Rove said:
Am I reading this correctly that the Queen Mother has no clue what Dallas, Knots Landing and The Bill are? Wasn't it Larry Hagman who said it was the Queen Mother wishing to know who shot JR Ewing?
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The Queen mother is obviously joshing with Prince William.

Of course she knows about the hit series Dallas and those other two excuses of programmes which pass for drama! ;)
 
Toni

Toni

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Slightly off-topic, but in the Season 11 premiere of "American Horror Story", Charlie Carver is shown watching... the Season 5 premiere of "Dallas", aka "Missing Heir" (the opening scene). It made me lol!!

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Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

Luke_Krebbs_Ewing

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Willie Oleson said:
I'm still waiting for season 9 but it never shows up on netflix or amazon and it isn't even available on DVD.
I was not a big fan of season 7 and absolutely loathed season 8 but I'm still very curious to know what happens next.
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The space ship from The Colby's shows up and kidnaps a few of the cast members! The last episode ends on a shot of a burning Ice Cream van. Whoever was in it had topped themselves! You heard it here first! ;)
 
Angela Channing

Angela Channing

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It was kind of ridiculous that William should mention those shows when he would have been too young to have watched them when they were originally broadcast so he wouldn't have known what they were. It would have been more believable had he said Only Fools and Horses, Classic EastEnders and The Bill which were repeated on UK Gold at around that time.
 
Rove

Rove

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I'd have thought the Queen Mother was too busy watching the soap opera unfold before her very eyes with the drama surrounding Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Perhaps her love of watching Dallas was - like the rest of us - pure escapism.
 
Taylor Bennett Jr.

Taylor Bennett Jr.

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Angela Channing said:
It was kind of ridiculous that William should mention those shows when he would have been too young to have watched them when they were originally broadcast so he wouldn't have known what they were. It would have been more believable had he said Only Fools and Horses, Classic EastEnders and The Bill which were repeated on UK Gold at around that time.
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yes, now that I think of it, William's parents were joined in holy matrimony in the second-most anticipated wedding of 1981, a handful of months after the world-shaking union of Lucy and Mitch on the fake Southfork driveway. Born a year later, he might have been able to kind of watch the show around the time Michelle and Lee Ann and Susan Lucci were holding court in the Ewingverse, but not before that.
 
Rove

Rove

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Willie Oleson said:
I think THE CROWN is made for an international audience rather than a British audience
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Funny you mention this @Willie Oleson because my elder brother thought this series was made for the American market. Like most fans of this series he enjoyed the first few seasons but has questioned the last few. I didn't enjoy Season 5 at all and found myself fast forwarding or even skipping episodes. I think it's laughable Peter Morgan has an insight to the private conversations behind Palace walls. But hey, don't let a good fib get in the way of telling a yarn.
 
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Angela Channing said:
It was kind of ridiculous that William should mention those shows when he would have been too young to have watched them when they were originally broadcast so he wouldn't have known what they were. It would have been more believable had he said Only Fools and Horses, Classic EastEnders and The Bill which were repeated on UK Gold at around that time.
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Well, Knots Landing broadcasts in the UK were a few years behind the US broadcasts from the second half of Season 3 onwards. Knots Landing returned to the BBC in October 1986 with the Season 3 episode "Cricket" after nearly 3 years off the air. The BBC didn't reach the end of Knots Landing until January 1996, nearly 3 years after the US finished. William was 13 when the BBC broadcasts finished. Knots Landing's entire run was actually finished on UK Gold in 1994-1995 before the BBC completed their broadcasts. Dallas' last season aired in 1991 in the UK on Sunday afternoons with poor ratings, with the last evening broadcasts in 1990 when William would have been 7-8 years old.

I knew of Dallas in the early 1990s, and I'm younger than William.
 
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