Dad of night
In “Trial and Error,” an eighth-season “Dallas” episode, Bobby (Patrick Duffy) enters Christopher’s darkened bedroom at Southfork, where the child (Eric Farlow) sits on the bed.
CHRISTOPHER: Mommy?
BOBBY: Hi. [Sits on the bed, turns on a lamp] Come here, come here. [Picks him up, embraces him] Oh, there we go. Mama’s not here right now.
CHRISTOPHER: I want Mommy.
BOBBY: I know. She’s gone away for a little while, but I’m here.
CHRISTOPHER: Daddy?
BOBBY: Yeah, did you have a bad dream?
CHRISTOPHER: I want Mommy.
BOBBY: I know. I miss her too. Boy, life sure has gotten twisted around, hasn’t it? Sometimes you live with her, sometimes you live with me. It must be hard on you, buddy. It’s sure not the way we had things planned for you. Or for ourselves.
CHRISTOPHER: Mommy.
BOBBY: [Kisses him] Go to sleep.
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Dallas Decoder 
I loved this scene between father and son although short and sweet it was the highlight of the episode to me, so cute how he kept saying mommy and “I want mommy”. Little Eric is such a charm I also wonder how they get a young boy like this to call VP and PD mommy and daddy separate from his real parents.
Thank you, MaryAnn! Eric Farlow is the sweetest kid. I love to watch his scenes with Patrick Duffy and Victoria Principal.
Great scene! Patrick DuffY marvelous, as always!
Yes, he is!
Its a fascinating epic of a childhood. Little Christopher’s birth mama & daddy are dead. His aunt gives up any claim on him, his adoptive mother temporarily out of the way & Father Bobby has to hold it altogether. This despite the fact that Christopher & Pamela lived away from him for years until he & Mrs. Barnes Ewing, now Mrs. Barnes Ewing Ewing got remarried. That little boy was passed back & forth its confusing to keep track of the players.
And then the poor guy blew up. He was doomed from the start.
Chris! That sums it up doesn’t it. Ahh! Still festering about that massively unfair demise.
Which unfair demise? Pam or Christopher’s?
Ugh the double demises, equal horrors.