'Dallas' Cast Reunites to Discuss Throwing Brad Pitt in a Pool and 'Who Shot JR?' Cliffhanger (Exclusive)
etonline.comturns 45, ET's Kevin Frazier sat down with cast members Audrey Landers, Charlene Tilton, Joan Van Ark, Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and Steve Kanaly for an anniversary reunion event produced by Dan Gore at Oscar's Palm Springs in California.«Great to be alive.
Great to be in Palm Springs,» Kanaly said before he and his co-stars reflected on the legacy of the beloved primetime soap and revisited highlights from the series' 14-season run on television, including throwing a then-unknown Brad Pitt into a pool and the game-changing cliffhanger that left millions of fans wondering, «Who shot J.R.?» First premiering on CBS on April 2, 1978, — which in many ways is the original of its time — revolved around the sprawling, affluent (and often feuding) family, the Ewings, who owned an oil company and ranch land in Texas.
At the center of the series was the marriage of Bobby Ewing (Duffy) and Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal), while many of their eccentric family members, including the scheming oil tycoon J.R.
Ewing (Larry Hagman) and others, were essential to the show's most wild plots and biggest fights. In addition to Duffy, key characters included Landers as Ewing sister-in-law Afton Cooper; Tilton as Bobby's sister, Lucy Ewing Cooper; Van Ark as Lucy's mother, Valene Clements Ewing; Gray as J.R.'s wife, Sue Ellen Ewing; and Kanaly as Jock Ewing's illegitimate son, Ray Krebbs.
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