Soldiers seize J.R. (Larry Hagman) upon his arrival in Havana in this 1983 publicity shot from “Cuba Libre,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode.
Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘You Are a Very Sick Little Girl’
August 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
Give her hell, honey
In “Cuba Libre,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, Holly (Lois Chiles) is in her bedroom when Elliot (Robert Pinkerton) escorts Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) into the room.
ELLIOT: Can I get you anything?
HOLLY: Sue Ellen?
SUE ELLEN: Nothing.
HOLLY: That’ll be all, Elliot. [He leaves.] All right, you wanted to talk?
SUE ELLEN: Yes. I want you to know that your rotten attempt to destroy my marriage has failed.
HOLLY: [Smiles] Oh?
SUE ELLEN: For awhile, I thought you were telling the truth, because I saw no reason why you should lie about something like that.
HOLLY: [Crosses her arms] You think I was lying?
SUE ELLEN: I know you were. And I know why. You and J.R. are partners. I know that. And I also know that you lost a lot of money because of him.
HOLLY: If you know so much, then you must know the truth about us — which is what I told you.
SUE ELLEN: I know you are beneath contempt. Because you and he failed in a business deal, you wanted to get revenge on him through me. By your vicious lies against him, you tried to ruin our marriage. [Takes a step closer] You are a very sick little girl. And I don’t want to ever see you or hear of you again. [Walks toward the door]
HOLLY: Sue Ellen? [Sue Ellen turns to face her.] I’m afraid we will see each other again.
SUE ELLEN: I doubt that. [Opens the door and leaves]
The Art of Dallas: ‘Hell Hath No Fury’
August 12, 2013 by 2 Comments
Katherine and Mark (Morgan Brittany, John Beck) are seen in this 1983 publicity shot from “Hell Hath No Fury,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode.
Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘Who the Hell Were You in Bed With?’
August 12, 2013 by 2 Comments
What a stud
In “Hell Hath No Fury,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, Pam (Victoria Principal) awakens in her hotel bed and finds Bobby (Patrick Duffy) getting dressed.
BOBBY: [Sits on the bed] Good morning.
PAM: Good morning. [They kiss.]
BOBBY: Did you, uh, sleep well?
PAM: [Giggles] I sure did.
BOBBY: I love you.
PAM: You know, I’ve missed hearing that in the morning.
BOBBY: Well, you can hear it a lot more from now on. [Rises] I’m going to send a couple of the boys in from Southfork to help you pack.
PAM: [Grabs her robe] Pack?
BOBBY: Sure. Oh, honey, it’ll be a lot easier for you that way. [Pours himself a cup of coffee] You don’t realize it, but you’ve accumulated a lot of stuff here between your own things and Christopher’s.
PAM: [Now out of bed, facing him] Bobby, I’m not coming back to Southfork.
BOBBY: Well, what was last night all about?
PAM: I love you, but sex hasn’t changed anything.
BOBBY: Oh, come on, honey. [Sets down coffee cup] This separation of ours is silly. It’s obvious that we both want each other. [Holds her arms]
PAM: Well, of course I want you. Step out of Ewing Oil and I’ll come home with you right now.
BOBBY: Honey, I would do almost anything for you but I can’t do that.
PAM: That is what’s tearing us apart. As long as you’re obsessed with winning the company, you’ll never be the Bobby Ewing I fell in love with.
BOBBY: [Walks away] Honey, if I start giving up on the things that I try and do now, the Bobby Ewing you knew is going to cease to exist anyway.
PAM: He ceased to exist a long time ago!
BOBBY: [Facing her] Then who the hell were you in bed with last night?
PAM: Bobby, that was just a moment.
BOBBY: A moment? Is that what our marriage is to you now, a moment? You make me feel like I should give you a bill for services rendered.
He grabs his jacket and heads for the door, opening it to reveal Mark (John Beck) standing there with flowers.
MARK: Oh, my timing’s terrific again. Bobby?
Bobby brushes past him.
Dallas Cliffhanger Classics: Season 11
August 9, 2013 by 5 Comments
Dallas Decoder celebrates “Dallas’s” classic cliffhangers with weekly summertime flashbacks. Collect all 14 images and share them with your friends.
Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘Wait a Minute Now. We’re Not Drunk.’
August 7, 2013 by 3 Comments
Buzzed Bobby
In “The Sting,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, an anxious Donna (Susan Howard) is on the phone in her living room.
DONNA: Bobby isn’t there either? Uh-huh. Then you haven’t heard from either one of them? Well, do me a favor, Teresa. If Ray comes up there, would you tell him to call me at home? OK, bye.
She hears rustling outside. The patio door slides open and a tipsy Bobby and Ray (Patrick Duffy, Steve Kanaly) enter.
BOBBY: [Giggly] Hi.
DONNA: Where have you been? [Ray walks toward the kitchen, followed by Bobby.] Well, maybe I need to make some coffee.
BOBBY: Oh, wait a minute now. We’re not drunk.
DONNA: Well, you could have fooled me.
RAY: Now, hold on. [Laughs, tosses Bobby a beer] Here! Just what you need, huh? [Slaps him on the shoulder] We just had a couple of beers in celebration. [Laughs, plops on the sofa]
DONNA: Well, celebration. That’s terrific. I guess you know you’ve had me half worried to death!
RAY: Worried? Why?
DONNA: Why? [Motions toward Bobby] Ever since he called, you two have been running around like crazy. I mean, you don’t tell me why or what for! Do you know what time it is?
RAY: [Rises, approaches her] Oh, honey. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to scare you.
DONNA: You know you could have called your wife, Ray Krebbs. Would you like to tell me what it is you’re celebrating?
RAY: Think we ought to tell her?
BOBBY: [Slurry] We rode out in the spirit of John Wayne, Donna.
RAY: Yeah, we headed J.R. off at the pass. [Guffaws]
DONNA: What are you talking about?
BOBBY: OK, in plain English?
DONNA: Please.
BOBBY: [Deadpan] J.R. … [Cracks up, along with Ray] will never sell guns to the Indians again!
Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘You are a Cocky, Snotty Little Kid’
August 5, 2013 by 1 Comment
Ouch, Donna
In “Caribbean Connection,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, Mickey (Timothy Patrick Murphy) enters the Krebbs home as Donna (Susan Howard) stands at the kitchen counter, writing on a notepad.
DONNA: Hello, Mickey.
MICKEY: Hi. Is Ray here?
DONNA: [Looks up] No.
MICKEY: Well, I guess he’ll be here any minute, huh? We’re supposed to go someplace together.
DONNA: Well, if you’re gonna wait, why don’t you make yourself a cup of coffee?
MICKEY: Yeah. [Pours himself a cup while Donna moves to the sofa, which is strewn with papers] Boy, I’ll tell you, it’s amazing. [Sips]
DONNA: [Looking at files] What’s amazing?
MICKEY: Well, that people as rich as you and Ray live in a house like this?
DONNA: [Smiles] You don’t approve of the way that we live?
MICKEY: This place? I don’t know. I guess it’s all right for a ranch hand. I tell you, I’ve seen better looking tract houses.
DONNA: [Puts down the file] You know, Mickey, Ray built this house with his own two hands.
MICKEY: [Smiles] Yeah, I built a doghouse once with my own two hands. Doesn’t mean I’d live in it. [She looks away.] Sorry. It was just a joke. I tell you one thing, though. If I came into one-tenth the kind of money you two have, I’d get me a house that showed it. Something like Southfork. [Sits on the arm of the chair near her] Now you have to admit, that’s a fine looking house.
DONNA: Yes, it’s quite a house. Full of loving and warm, tender people. [Mickey chuckles.] Money means a lot to you, doesn’t it?
MICKEY: I wouldn’t mind having a little.
DONNA: Is that why you’re so interested in Lucy?
MICKEY: No. You’re real wrong about that.
DONNA: Am I?
MICKEY: [Gets up, walks away] You know, I really want to know something. What is it that you have against me? What did I ever do to you? [Silence] Come on, really. I mean, is it because once I got in trouble in Kansas? Because Ray had to bail me out. What?
DONNA: No, no. It isn’t that. I happen to think that everybody is entitled to a few mistakes.
MICKEY: Then what? I wanna know.
DONNA: [Stands, raises her voice] All right, I’m going to tell you: because you are a cocky, snotty little kid. And Ray happens to think the world of you. He has a great big emotional investment in you and you know, I just keep thinking that one of these days, you are going to let him down with a great big thud.
MICKEY: [Softly] I won’t let Ray down. Look, yes, I screwed up in the past but I’m really trying to straighten myself out.
DONNA: Maybe you are. Maybe I’m the one who’s wrong. I hope so.
MICKEY: I wouldn’t hurt Ray. Not if I can help it.
DONNA: I hope not.
Ray (Steve Kanaly) enters. He seems rushed.
RAY: Sorry I’m late.
MICKEY: No, that’s all right. I just got here.
RAY: Well, you ready to go?
MICKEY: Yeah, sorry. [Donna takes his coffee mug. Mickey walks past Ray and exits.]
RAY: You OK, honey?
DONNA: [Smiles] I’m fine.
RAY: [Smiles, gives her an air kiss] Bye.
Dallas Cliffhanger Classics: Season 10
August 2, 2013 by 8 Comments
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Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘She Died and I Lived!’
July 31, 2013 by 4 Comments
The survivors
In “Brothers and Sisters,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, Pam and Cliff (Victoria Principal, Ken Kercheval) are in his living room, where she sits on the sofa and tells him about a potential business deal as Cliff leans against the back of a chair, not facing her.
PAM: So we went down and took a look at it. Now it’s a small division of Graisco Industries.
CLIFF: What’s that got to do with me?
PAM: Well, Mark thinks it could be a great buy for Barnes-Wentworth.
CLIFF: What, am I supposed to be honored because he wants to sell me something?
PAM: [Angry] No, you’re supposed to get off your butt, go down there and take a look at it and make a decision!
CLIFF: Forget it.
PAM: You mean you won’t even go and look at it?
CLIFF: You got it.
PAM: Cliff, listen to me. Do you know why Mama gave you that company?
CLIFF: [Walks up the steps, begins collecting laundry hanging off the bannister] That doesn’t make any difference.
PAM: Yes, it does. She left it to you because she loved you and she believed in you.
CLIFF: [Raising his voice] Look, how could she? All the times I disappointed her while she was alive. And in the beginning when you first found each other, I was the one that didn’t accept her. And you were worried, you remember? You were worried because you were afraid that I was only after her money. Well, maybe you’re right because the first chance I got, I embezzled from the company!
PAM: She forgave you!
CLIFF: [Screaming] Oh, doesn’t anybody hear me? Doesn’t anybody understand? [Tosses the laundry] I was supposed to be on that trip! [Takes a step down] She died and I lived!
PAM: That’s right, you are alive! You can’t just shrivel up and die!
CLIFF: Yeah, but what right do I have to be alive? [Sits on the stairs] You know, I wasn’t even in the hospital when she died! You think she forgave me that?
Pam’s mouth drops as Cliff buries his head in his hands. She moves toward the steps, kneels and pulls his hands away, making him face her.
PAM: [Softly] Cliff, she didn’t blame you. All she ever did was love you.
CLIFF: Oh. She loved me?
PAM: Oh, yes. She wanted you to carry on. She wanted you to continue what the two of you started together. And she asked me to take care of you. And I’m trying, if you’ll just let me.
CLIFF: She loved me?
Pam looks at him, pulls his head onto her shoulder and strokes his hair.
Dallas Scene of the Day: ‘Sue Ellen, I’m in Trouble’
July 29, 2013 by 1 Comment
Present tense
In “Legacy,” a sixth-season “Dallas” episode, Sue Ellen sits alone at the breakfast table on the Southfork patio as J.R. (Larry Hagman) paces and reads the newspaper.
J.R.: I tell you, I’ve never read such depressing news. Rebecca’s poor old husband must be spinning in his grave. He worked his butt off all his life building a fortune under the Wentworth name, and two-thirds of it now goes to some family named Barnes.
SUE ELLEN: Darlin’, get yourself some breakfast and sit down.
J.R.: [Slaps down the newspaper in front of her, points to the article] Look here, look there. The oil company Barnes-Wentworth goes to Cliff Barnes outright. I should have stayed with the funny papers.
SUE ELLEN: I don’t know why you’re so concerned about this.
J.R.: With Pamela an heiress, Barnes wielding major power? When Rebecca was alive, she could at least temper his idiocy. Now that she’s gone, he’s free to do any fool thing he wants to.
SUE ELLEN: I think Rebecca was very wise, the way she took care of her children.
J.R.: [Exasperated] Giving Barnes complete control of that company is like giving John Ross a loaded gun to play with.
SUE ELLEN: [Laughs] J.R., Rebecca’s will shouldn’t concern you at all.
J.R.: Well, Barnes is Bobby’s brother-in-law, you know? And Bobby’s not too far behind me in this little contest we’ve got going.
SUE ELLEN: Cliff’s not going to help him. He hates all the Ewings now.
J.R.: Well, who knows what that lunatic’s going to do? And look where Pam came out on this deal.
SUE ELLEN: Bobby and Pam are separated.
J.R.: Yeah, let’s just hope it stays that way.
SUE ELLEN: I don’t hope any such thing.
J.R.: Sue Ellen, I just mean until I win Ewing Oil. [Snatches back the paper, sits]
SUE ELLEN: Darlin’, you really seem to be worried about all this. Are you afraid we’re going to lose? [Gets up from her seat, sits on the arm of his chair, rubs his shoulders]
J.R.: Sue Ellen, I am in trouble. I lost my variance. Bobby made a killing on that Wellington deal. Pamela inherited a fortune. If they ever get together again, if she starts to help him, they could wield a frightening amount of clout. Really.
SUE ELLEN: I’ve never heard you talk like this before.
J.R.: Like I said Sue Ellen, I’m in trouble. I’ve just got to find a way out.
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