Why Do You Like/Love Dallas?

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

This might sound like a very basic question but it's not. Everyone must have different reasons for liking or loving the show than just the continuing saga of Southfork Ranch as the season nine VHS releases used to put it.

For me I got into Dallas through my parents, they watched it religiously. What drew me to the show was the battle between the two siblings JR and Bobby and of course the Barnes Ewing feud. Pam was stuck in the middle between her brothers quest to ruin the Ewing's and her own life as Mrs. Bobby Ewing. I came to love Victoria Principal's portrayal as Pam.

Is this the same reasons for you or do you have other reason's for liking/loving the show?

 

[Lastkidpicked]

Great idea for a thread!
Dallas is nostalgia. It's fun to watch a scene today and be reminded of watching that very scene years ago during the original run.

 

[Matthew Blaisdel]

I like Dallas because it made the great Knots Landing possible.

 

[Luke_Krebbs_Ewing]

I like Dallas because it made the great Knots Landing possible.

Knots Landing.

Never heard of it!

 

[DallasFanForever]

I’m not sure I can answer this with just one response. I started watching because of my grandparents and growing up I always seemed to love the same shows they did because I lived with them.

I started watching during season 7 (DVD) and became a huge fan of Bobby and Jenna. I thought they were the best couple on TV back then. I felt bad liking Jenna so much cause I knew Bobby belonged with Pam, but when I started following the show they were already divorced so I didn’t know about all the history between Bobby and Pam yet.

But having said all that, the main reason I loved Dallas was because of J.R. and his antics. He was the greatest character on television and without him and his weekly manipulations there would’ve been no show.

 

[Billy Wall]

Our TV rarely left CBS. Don’t really know how I got hooked, but I was a fan of the Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas followed in that legendary Friday night lineup. My mom and older sister watched all the CBS soaps so it was pretty much a given that we’d watch Dallas.

 

[southfork88]

Most of the reasons I've always loved Dallas are shown by the pictures I posted here:

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[JR's Son]

JR's my Father figure from 1975,
as a Kid, I had no Dad, and JR was who I looked up to every week Dallas Aired on ABC TV in Australia.

 

[the-lost-son]

That's an easy one for me - it's the feeling of watching a saga. It was the first series I watched there today's events had consequences even years later. Prime example was Miss Ellie's mastectomy which was an issue even +4 years later.
It rewarded longtime viewers and careful observators because not everything was spoken out immediately.
Here when the family found out that Ray was Jock's son:

No other primetime soap manged to give me this saga-feeling.