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A Taxonomy of TV Cliffhangers
Sometimes TV shows deliver closure: traditional sitcoms usually end their stories in under thirty minutes; procedurals solve most cases by...
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J.R. Ewing Was Shot 41 Years Ago Today on Dallas
On March 21, 1980, Season 3 of the CBS drama Dallas came to an end with what would become the...
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Posted Wednesday 10/28/20 at 9:16AM EDT
Report: Mikhail Gorbachev believes Dallas helped lead to the Soviet Union's collapse
Eurythmics musician David Stewart recently said on Joss Stone’s A Cuppa Happy podcast that the former president of the Soviet...
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Posted Friday 4/17/20 at 2:04PM EDT
Dallas, China Beach, Pop TV's One Day at a Time and Difficult People casts to get together virtually for coronavirus relief
Stars of the four shows next week will become the latest participants in The Actors Fund’s "Stars in the House"...
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Posted Wednesday 10/02/19 at 5:53AM EDT
Wayne Fitzgerald dies: Prolific movie and TV title sequence designer on Dallas and The Dick Van Dyke Show was 89
Fitzgerald designed the title sequences for more than 500 movies, from The Graduate to Sixteen Candles to The Godfather series.
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Twelve Free (or Nearly Free) Streaming Services
In the coming months, Apple, Warner, Comcast, and Disney will each roll out new subscription streaming services, crowding a marketplace that...
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Posted Wednesday 6/12/19 at 1:16PM EDT
Presenting the 25 episodes that changed TV: From Lucy's I Love Lucy pregnancy to Game of Thrones' beheading
Vox's "25 Episodes That Changed Television includes the series finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Dallas' Season 3 finale...
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Posted Wednesday 4/24/19 at 1:35PM EDT
Dallas star Ken Kercheval, who played J.R. Ewing's archrival, dies at 83
Larry Hagman and Kercheval, who played oil tycoon Cliff Barnes on the classic primetime soap, were the only Dallas cast...
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Posted Monday 2/25/19 at 9:46PM EST
Morgan Woodward dies: Dallas, Star Trek and Gunsmoke actor was 93
Woodward appeared in 55 episodes of Dallas, playing oil man Marvin “Punk” Anderson.
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Posted Monday 9/17/18 at 7:37AM EDT
Peter Donat, who played Agent Fox Mulder's father on The X-Files, dies at 90
In addition to his six episodes of The X-Files, Donat is also known for playing the doctor who treated J.
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Posted Monday 4/02/18 at 9:00PM EDT
Dallas premiered 40 years ago today, paving the way for our Peak TV era
The CBS primetime soap, which premiered on April 2, 1978 and lasted 14 seasons through May 3, 1991, changed TV...
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Posted Friday 10/13/17 at 11:28PM EDT
Dynasty vs. Dallas
Which 1980s soap opera was better? “It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Dallas was a better-written show than Dynasty,” says...