“Dallas’s” third season offers lots to celebrate – and a few things to curse. Performances Larry Hagman and Linda Gray do mighty impressive work in Season 3, but even they can’t touch Jim Davis and Barbara Bel Geddes. Since I began re-watching “Dallas,” the nicest discovery has been how good Davis is as Jock, especially […]
In “The Wheeler Dealer,” Jock and Miss Ellie visit the Colorado sanitarium where Amanda, his first wife, has lived for many years. The scene is beautifully written and performed, but whenever I watch it, I find myself a little distracted by the dark brown fur coat Barbara Bel Geddes wears. This is a decidedly un-Ellie-like […]
Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) lies in a hospital bed after having a breast removed in this 1979 publicity shot from “Mastectomy, Part 1,” a third-season “Dallas” episode.
In “Dallas’s” third-season episode “Mastectomy, Part 1,” Pam and Miss Ellie (Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes) discuss Ellie’s medical problem over lunch at a restaurant. PAM: What do you do now? ELLIE: Keep going back for regular checkups. PAM: Well, that doesn’t sound too difficult. ELLIE: I don’t wanna tell Jock. PAM: Miss Ellie, why […]
In the 1970s, Edith Bunker and a few other major television characters had cancer scares, but no one actually got the disease. “Dallas” upends this convention in “Mastectomy, Part 1,” when Miss Ellie learns a newly discovered lump in her breast is malignant. This storyline, like the second-season episode about Kit Mainwaring’s coming out, demonstrates […]
