OMG "Dallas" - It's baaaaack....

[Shankara20]

It's 1978, I'm in the food service business. I have two middle school kids.
And then here comes the prime time soap opera Dallas. We, I and my wife (two wives back) got hooked. At that time we had no way to record it or stream it, there was no "on line" - it was that far back. We had to plan our lives around broadcast show time using our roof top antenna to bring in the 4 TV channels available.

http://sharetv.org/images/dallas-show.jpg​

The only enduring thing was knowing where "Who Shot JR?" came from, even if we did not remember for sure who did shoot JR.

And now out of nowhere for no discernible reason, it is back Dallas on TNT (link).

http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/dallas-shower-tnt.jpg​

So has anything changed in your life in the last 34 years?

How are you containing your excitement that those cast members not dead will be back on TV for children to see?

 

[intothewoods]

Hold the phone. HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE!













You remember watching LIVE TV????


Ba da da ba da da dum!

Thank you, I'll be here all week!

 

[Shankara20]

You remember watching LIVE TV????

You know damn good and well how OLD I am....

As for the original Dallas, it might have been on in the background when your folks were makin' you, little darlin'.

 

[Etoile]

It was a soap opera then, and assuming it's still a soap opera now, I ain't interested!

Edit: Patrick Duffy has aged well though.

 

[DVS]

It was a soap opera then, and assuming it's still a soap opera now, I ain't interested!

Edit: Patrick Duffy has aged well though.

I wasn't a fan when it was first on, but my mother and sisters sure were. Oh, I watched it some, because there were some hot babes on that show. Yes, it was a soap opera but calling it that is almost a sin. I've seen the daily soaps and I tend to lose interest in just a few minutes. Dallas and Dynasty were both well made shows, and when JR was shot, it was a major topic of discussion, even if you didn't watch the show. That's how popular that show was. Nothing against the daytime soaps, but unless someone shot Susan Lucci's character, I don't think anybody would know. And they milk things for so long on the daytime soaps, she could be in the hospital for a whole season, just from a flesh wound.

 

[Netzach]

I think I liked falcon crest even more. It was even stupider and I was eight ten whatwasit? 34 years? How can this be, I can't have been 3?

Alexis' wardrobe is a major fantasy point for one of my callers, thank fuck I can remember what he means.

 

[Shankara20]

For some reason I am feeling so very old this morning, think I'll go out for a walk on the beach and try to forget about how Patrick Duffy might have aged "well"

http://www.signsfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/sexy-old-guy-1.jpg​

 

[JMohegan]

Can't say I ever saw an episode, but Victoria Principal was hot as hell. Just googled her to see if she's returning, and would now like to rant against plastic surgery and the propensity of some females to turn themselves into fucking freaks of nature.

 

[intothewoods]

Can't say I ever saw an episode, but Victoria Principal was hot as hell. Just googled her to see if she's returning, and would now like to rant against plastic surgery and the propensity of some females to turn themselves into fucking freaks of nature.

What if you just do a bit of touching up but you still look natural? Can't say I haven't considered it. Forty is coming....

 

[intothewoods]

Alexis' wardrobe is a major fantasy point for one of my callers, thank fuck I can remember what he means.

Loved Dynasty when I was a kid. Watched reruns after school. Alexis was the best! They don't make bitches like that anymore.

 

[JMohegan]

What if you just do a bit of touching up but you still look natural? Can't say I haven't considered it. Forty is coming....

Ack, my apologies, ITW. It's tough for me to be lighthearted on this subject, and this is a lighthearted thread.

 

[Shankara20]

Forty is coming....

just a child....

 

[intothewoods]

What have you considered, and why?

Does Mr. Man find you unattractive, or would this just be you giving in to the self-esteem onslaught of Big Beauty's airbrushed messaging war?

Dahling, no one one finds me unattractive...oh, sorry, just channeling my inner Alexis...thanks Netz!

I don't know - nothing right now but let's see how it goes. Julianne Moore looks pretty awesome. She can't be doing nothing.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000194/

 

[intothewoods]

just a child....

Well, at least I've stayed out of the sun...

 

[graceanne]

So has anything changed in your life in the last 34 years?

Lots! I was born, I learned to crawl and then to walk, I got potty trained, I went to school, I moved around a lot, I got saved, I graduated from school, got married, had kids, went back to school, and here I am.

It's been a busy 34 years.

That said, I vaguely remember Dallas, and I also vaguely remember my mom hated that show. So even if I was old enough to watch it, my mom wouldn't have let me. *shrugs*