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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frankenstein Underworld" data-source="post: 424144" data-attributes="member: 35">Knots was more experimental in general, so they could get away with that more easily.Personally, I don't think they cared about the show's reputation.  Do you really need hindsight to know that sending JR to a hillbilly prison farm, hooking him to a horse to plow a field, and having him end up in a sanitarium by his own doing is going too far?  That's a complete 180 in tone from how the show started.  Katzman is the same guy who wiped away an entire season by turning it into a dream.  He had absolutely no regard for the audience whatsoever, and the show only worked when people like Phil Capice and David Paulsen were there to temper his zanier impulses.  Howard Lakin, on the other hand, enjoyed taking Dallas out in left field.  Thus, we ended up with Dallas:  The Hee Haw years.</blockquote>