Your First memory of Dallas

[EW1NG_1]

cast your mind backs folks and what can you recall as being your earliest memory/storyline or cliffhanger moment in Dallas that you can still remember watching

mine was the season 6 cliff hanger - when Bobby gets shot in JR's office!
i vaguely remember the Ewing inferno when Southfork catches fire the season before
but i can still remember Bobby getting shot and nearly crying thinking my favourite character was dead
i was about 6 years old lol

[midwestdj]

My first memory of Dallas was watching Barbara Bel Geddes during Jock's heart attack and then BBG during the "Mastectomy" storyline.
I was mesmerized by Bel Geddes' acting. She was brilliant.

[GuidingLite]

My very first memory of Dallas was on a Friday night when I spent the night with my Nana shortly after she moved back to Maine from Massachusetts when her second husband passed away....I'd spend weekends with her (I was 10) and she'd let me stay up far later than I usually got to...probably for the company....

Every Friday she tuned in to Dallas....

The very first character I ever saw on screen was Dusty Farlow.....I asked who he was, and Nana told me he was involved with a married lady who had a husband who was a real 'stinker'.....

;0)

[DrCampbell]

cast your mind backs folks and what can you recall as being your earliest memory/storyline or cliffhanger moment in Dallas that you can still remember watching

mine was the season 6 cliff hanger - when Bobby gets shot in JR's office!
i vaguely remember the Ewing inferno when Southfork catches fire the season before
but i can still remember Bobby getting shot and nearly crying thinking my favourite character was dead
i was about 6 years old lol

I vaguely remember tuning into the miniseries or first season briefly, to see what was so "scandalous," but it was Who Shot JR that hooked me (and America). I was thirteen at the time, and my mom had figured out that it was Kristen, because Kristen and Sue Ellen were each other's alibis, and Sue Ellen was too obvious (Kristen was 5-1 in Vegas Sue Ellen was 2-1). I had been a Dukes of Hazaard Fan so I just kept tuning in, and thought the show was amazing.

My dad had died when I was twelve so JR was a bit of a male role model for me LOL. I loved how his mind worked, and how he always wound up back on top no matter who tried to topple him.

This is why I'm sticking with JRJ in the "rise to power."

I never really stopped watching the show, but I stopped making sure I was home for it around 1983, when my social life improved. When I entered the working world, with a more regular schedule, it was easier to watch again.

I still haven't forgiven them for Susan Lucci.

[victor lord jr]

jr was using his mom to still john ross back from suellen they were at dustys ranch,I was watching it at my aunts.

[EW1NG_1]

the first actual storyline i remember following was when Naldo Marchetta kidnapped Jenna Wade and her daughter Charlie!
and how Bobby was trying to save them and then Jenna had to go on trial for murder/manslaughter and got jailed

i remember this season better then the one before - which i can only remember as my first memory was the Bobby getting shot in JR's office!
this is what made me want to watch it with my mother more the following season

[CassadineSon]

The first episode. The series premiered while my family was on vacation in Florida. It was raining and that was the show that we watched!! Shoot, I was hooked from episode 1 !!

[soapfan72]

my first dallas memory was my parents talking about how they went to england on vacation and jr mania was running wild I remember my aunt and uncle really liked it also and me buying season 1 and 2 dvds

[July Baby]

The first episode. The series premiered while my family was on vacation in Florida. It was raining and that was the show that we watched!! Shoot, I was hooked from episode 1 !!

Same here! I tuned in out of curiosity and remember thinking, this show is good. I kept tuning in and realized after a few episodes that I was hooked. If the phone rang during the show, I let it ring (this was before answering machines). (I had a friend a who used to take his phone off the hook before the show started so he wouldn't be interrupted ). If I went out for dinner on a Friday night, I made sure I was home by the start of the show (even after VCR's came out!). I'm still hooked!

[EW1NG_1]

we are all showing are ages
i know its hard especially for any ladies ..

[July Baby]

we are all showing are ages
i know its hard especially for any ladies ..

lol! Yes, for sure!!!!!!

[victor lord jr]

lol! Yes, for sure!!!!!!

well its hard to believe that the show started like 30 years ago,and think of the fun we'd had, if we had the net back then,I always laughed when it showed the computers at ewing oil they were huge,and jr telling john ross go head son play on it ,I dont know how to use it or something like that.

[EW1NG_1]

i was actually born 1978 - so i am as old as the show

[lovgrenfan]

I don't remember. I actually never saw the original run of Dallas because I'm a bit too young (28). Sweden, thank god, showed the entire series again after it ended. I was still young then. I think I was around 10 years old for the second run of Dallas. It is so hard to remember what I saw first. I do remember such classic moments like the SF fire, Bobby's return, Pam's car accident etc. But I have no clue in what order I saw everything in.

But, logically, it had to have been somewhere around season 3. I do remember a tiny bit about the mystery of who shot JR. Before I bought the show on DVD, I had some VHS tapes saved. Lucky for me, numbered in the right order. I believe season 5 is on the first VHS. I started taping when I got REALLY hooked on the show.

[EW1NG_1]

I don't remember. I actually never saw the original run of Dallas because I'm a bit too young (28). Sweden, thank god, showed the entire series again after it ended. I was still young then. I think I was around 10 years old for the second run of Dallas. It is so hard to remember what I saw first. I do remember such classic moments like the SF fire, Bobby's return, Pam's car accident etc. But I have no clue in what order I saw everything in.

But, logically, it had to have been somewhere around season 3. I do remember a tiny bit about the mystery of who shot JR. Before I bought the show on DVD, I had some VHS tapes saved. Lucky for me, numbered in the right order. I believe season 5 is on the first VHS. I started taping when I got REALLY hooked on the show.

ah hello SLY
i was the same at first, i remembered the fire at southfork, bobby getting shot, jenna getting kidnapped, etc etc
but did not know what order to put them in, but thankfully i have caught up on seasons online and done some research and figured it out
and i am going to order the boxset soon

i cant believe my own memory for remembering some moments from the age of 4 onwards of Dallas

[midwestdj]

Dallas was always a treat for me. My dad hated soap's and wouldn't let my mom or me watch them, like that really stopped us. I watched Days and General from '84 on (I was 10 then), he worked days so... during the summer it was easy.

Friday nights were harder, so I always tried to be at a grandparents house on the weekends. My mom's parents watched every week and my dad's mom didn't care what I watched.
I stated earlier that my first memory of Dallas was scenes between Jock and Ellie during his heart attack and her cancer, however, I'd have to say my first real memory of Dallas, as most of ours should be would be.... Jerrold Immel's incredible theme song! That song still makes me happy!

[DrCampbell]

Same here! I tuned in out of curiosity and remember thinking, this show is good. I kept tuning in and realized after a few episodes that I was hooked. If the phone rang during the show, I let it ring (this was before answering machines). (I had a friend a who used to take his phone off the hook before the show started so he wouldn't be interrupted ). If I went out for dinner on a Friday night, I made sure I was home by the start of the show (even after VCR's came out!). I'm still hooked!

I grew up in Manhattan so the 9-10 hour was a nice way to divide the evening, after which I'd go out.

Even after I stopped watching every week I'd ask Mom for a recap when I got home.

[July Baby]

well its hard to believe that the show started like 30 years ago,and think of the fun we'd had, if we had the net back then,I always laughed when it showed the computers at ewing oil they were huge,and jr telling john ross go head son play on it ,I dont know how to use it or something like that.

I agree - it is hard to believe the show premiered in 1978 - 34 years ago! In some ways it seems like yesterday, especially when I see clips from the original. It is funny when you look back at those monster old computers. And there were no cell phones so you didn't see characters walking around with their phones pressed against their ears.

If we had had the internet back then, OMG, it would have been great to have the opportunity to discuss the show the way we do now!

[July Baby]

i was actually born 1978 - so i am as old as the show

LOL - Well, Ewing 1 - for a show that's old, but for a person that's still quite young!

[July Baby]

I grew up in Manhattan so the 9-10 hour was a nice way to divide the evening, after which I'd go out.

Even after I stopped watching every week I'd ask Mom for a recap when I got home.

It was a great way to end the work week. Dinner out and "Dallas" or "Dallas" first and then go out. It's nice that your mom watched it, too and could fill you in.

[victor lord jr]

I agree - it is hard to believe the show premiered in 1978 - 34 years ago! In some ways it seems like yesterday, especially when I see clips from the original. It is funny when you look back at those monster old computers. And there were no cell phones so you didn't see characters walking around with their phones pressed against their ears.

If we had had the internet back then, OMG, it would have been great to have the opportunity to discuss the show the way we do now!

no cell phones, car phones were the thing ,and about the net,if we had it think of how busy it would have been when jr got shot,

[DrCampbell]

no cell phones, car phones were the thing ,and about the net,if we had it think of how busy it would have been when jr got shot,

The internet actually did exist, but it was mostly CompuServe and USENET back then.

I think CompuServe cost $5.00 an hour back then. The fax was just beginning to gain traction as well.

[victor lord jr]

The internet actually did exist, but it was mostly CompuServe and USENET back then.

I think CompuServe cost $5.00 an hour back then. The fax was just beginning to gain traction as well.

and I got my first computer 10 years ago,I guess I just didnt realize how long its been out.