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Dallas Season 6
The best season so far.
Great series
As good as ever

Dallas - The Complete Sixth Season
Starring: Howard Keel , Victoria Principal , Susan Howard , Priscilla Presley , and Sheree J. Wilson
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ASIN: B000JLTRFE
Release Date: 2007-01-30

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Dallas: The Complete Sixth Season begins with a bang: Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes), Bobby (Patrick Ewing) and Lucy (Charlene Tilton) vote to remove J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) as president of Ewing oil. Big stuff, but J.R. soon lands a job running competitor Harwood Oil. Meanwhile, in this classic primetime soap, J.R. and brother Bobby find themselves on opposite ends of a titanic clash set in motion by patriarch Jock Ewing's will once the latter is declared legally dead. And now that he is officially deceased, Jock's widow, Miss Ellie, becomes interested in a social life again. This results in some discomfort for J.R., who wants his mom to be mom, despite having almost blackmailed her in the first place to release the will. Ludicrous as it all might sound, Dallas is always nothing less than absorbing, and the changes and surprises that come with the territory--the ever-shifting alliances, the come-from-behind victories, the constant scheming to tear down family and friends--are fascinating.

In Dallas: The Compete Fifth Season, J.R. won back his estranged wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray). Yet she seems to be having second thoughts about life as a Ewing, prompting J.R. to take another crack at convincing her to stay with him--while doing his bidding in unscrupulous business maneuvers, of course. Sue Ellen and sister-in-law Pamela (Victoria Principal) become unexpectedly close, and even more unexpected is Pamela's request to husband Bobby that he drop the fraternal competition with J.R. to run Ewing Oil for good. Abortions, tensions, and a chance for longtime, obsessive enemy of the Ewings Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), so recently comatose, to get even with his nemesis are all on the menu. As usual, watching Dallas is like witnessing a car crash and being too mesmerized to leave. --Tom Keogh

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The saga of the wealthy Ewing family continues in its sixth season - full of sibling wars, adultery, reconciliation and power struggles. Season 6 starts with ice: J.R. gets the cold shoulder when the family votes him out as president of Ewing Oil. And it ends with fire: Southfork ablaze, with four Ewings trapped by roaring flames. In between, J.R. and Bobby bare-knuckle it out in their biggest fight yet over Ewing Oil, thanks to their father's will. It seems Jock just couldn't decide who should inherit, so he split the company in half and gave his boys one year to see who could make the biggest bucks ? and win the whole shebang. Plus Bobby and Pam split up, J.R. and Sue Ellen remarry and J.R. sees Cuba's jail system from the wrong side of the bars. Add a Texas whirlwind of lying, cheating and bed hopping and, as J.R. might say, "Darlin', this here is Dallas!"

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Compelling Viewing.......2007-05-21

We love Dallas! The storylines just keep getting more intriguing. Can't wait to purchase Seventh Season. Hope they never come to an end!

Dallas Season 6.......2007-05-21

Product arrived on time in excellent condition.
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The best season so far........2007-05-16

Up until this sixth season came along, season 3 was my favorite. The 6th season sees J.R. more vicous and cold as ever before. With Jock dead, J.R. and Bobby are at each others throats to see who will gain full control of Ewing oil. Bobby gets his hands dirty in a blackmail scam, and when J.R. attempts to take over and run another oil company with his usual form of manipulation, and double dealing, he finds himself staring down the wrong end of a gun. I enjoy Dallas for the dirty business deals, and back-stabbing, I could'nt care less for the soft, emotional, feel sorry for me, crybaby junk, so if you want to know about that, read someone elses review.

Great series.......2007-05-14

Really enjoyed the contest between Bobby and JR. Cant wait for season 7.

As good as ever.......2007-04-11

The series continue with JR pushing the limits even further and working on everyone's nerves, but not on Sue Ellens!

It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)

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Quintessential christmas movie
It Was Indeed a Wonderful Life!
A Timeless Classic
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It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
Starring: James Stewart , Donna Reed , Lionel Barrymore , Thomas Mitchell , and Henry Travers
Director: Frank Capra
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ASIN: B000HEWEJO
Release Date: 2006-10-31

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Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

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George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all - and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?

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Quintessential christmas movie.......2007-06-11

This movie is a tradition in our house during the Christmas season to watch at least once! It never grows old to see Jimmy Stewart realizing that being rich sometimes has very little to do with how much is in your bank account and more to do with how many friends you have. Get the hot chocolate out, cuddle up with your sweetie, build a roaring fire in the fireplace and put the DVD in the machine and remember that your life does matter in the world.

It Was Indeed a Wonderful Life!.......2007-06-04

What would the Christmas holiday season be like without Frank Capra's 1946 classic, It's A Wonderful Life? For millions around the world, watching this inspiring, heartwarming movie starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed is as much a part of the Christmas celebration as putting cookies and milk out for Santa Claus, caroling, drinking eggnog, or trimming the tree.

Of the hundreds of movies I've seen during the forty-one years I've lived so far, there isn't one I can think of that is so quintessentially American as It's A Wonderful Life. Part comedy, part melodrama, and part supernatural fantasy, the film recounts the life of an apparently ordinary guy, George Bailey, who keeps getting the short end of the stick when it comes to realizing his extraordinary dreams and plans for the future.

However, I've learned first-hand that professing my love for this film is sure to provoke arguments with those who accept the ethics of objectivism (the philosophy of Ayn Rand). On its face, the message of the film appears to endorse self-sacrifice for the good of others. But I disagree with that interpretation. In fact, I think that the choices made by George Bailey during his life were truly wonderful, embodying a full and proper conception of personal, long-term self-interest, but without preaching egotism.

The movie opens to the voices of George's loved ones, family and friends who are sending up prayers to God to take care of and watch out for George, who's fallen on the hardest of hard times on Christmas Eve. George's bad luck doesn't look like it's about to change when he is assigned a guardian angel ("second class") named Clarence, a benevolent bumbler who hasn't even "earned his wings." We then learn what has brought George Bailey to the brink of tragedy as director Capra tells the man's life story in a long flashback that makes up most of the picture.

Ever since boyhood, George Bailey has been there for others. When he was twelve, he rescued his brother, Harry, from drowning in a pond after he had crashed through the ice while sledding. Later, working as a drugstore delivery boy, he prevented his distraught, drunken boss from accidentally dispensing poison in prescription capsules.

As he grows up, George dreams of bigger things than can be found in the confines of his small town: seeing Europe, becoming a civil engineer. About to head off to tramp through Europe before going to college, he shares with his girlfriend, Mary (Donna Reed), his secret aspirations:

"Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow and the next day, and next year and the year after that. I'm shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world! I'm gonna build things: I'm gonna build airfields. I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high! I'm gonna build bridges a mile long!"

But at every crucial turn in his life, George's grandiose dreams are thwarted by the responsibilities of everyday life. As he's about to set sail, he learns that his father had a fatal stroke. After the funeral, George stays in Bedford Falls to run the Bailey Bros. Building and Loan, the family business that his father and Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) had built up, rather than allow it to slip into the grasp of the family's avaricious nemesis, Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore). Potter is the town's Scrooge-like magnate, a corrupt, power-lusting slumlord who owns most of the key businesses in Bedford Falls. George puts his dreams on hold while he manages the business--and while he watches his younger brother, Harry, go off to college instead.

Then, rather than jump at the opportunity to invest in the promising plastics industry, George instead goes after his real love, Mary, finally proposing to her. One of the movie's pivotal scenes occurs on the day of their marriage. Just as they are about to embark on their European honeymoon, fate again steps in: their wedding date is "Black Tuesday," October 29, 1929--the day of the stock market crash. En route to the train station, George and Mary see the people of Bedford Falls running toward the building and loan. George rushes over to find that Uncle Billy has panicked and shut the doors to depositors, having disbursed all the money on hand. Worse, Mr. Potter telephones and tells George that he will "help" bail out the building and loan by offering its members fifty cents on the dollar for every share.

While everyone is losing his head, George keeps his cool, despite the throng of terrified customers demanding their money. George staves off the building and loan's collapse not by whining to the crowd to bail him out, but by appealing to their long-term self-interest: by asking them not to sell out their future to Potter.

"You're thinking about this place all wrong, as if I have the money back in the safe. The money's not here. Well, your money's in Joe's house, that's right next to yours. And the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Maitlin's house and a hundred others. You're lending them the money to build, and then they're going to pay it back to you as best they can....Now, listen to me, I beg of you not to do this thing. If Potter gets a hold of this building and loan, there will never be another decent house built in this town.... Joe, you had one of those Potter houses, didn't you? Well, have you forgotten, have you forgotten what he charged you for that broken down shack? Here, Ed, remember last year, when things weren't going so well, you couldn't make your payments? Well, you didn't lose your house, did you? Do you think Potter would've let you keep it? Can't you understand what's happening here? Potter isn't selling, he's buying! And why? Because we're panicking and he's not.... Now, we can get through this thing all right, we've got to stick together, though. We've got to have faith in each other."

I once argued with an Objectivist about that scene, maintaining that George and Mary did the right thing by using their $2,000 honeymoon nest egg to help their depositors weather the storm. But all my friend could see in that scene--indeed, in the whole movie--was altruism. "One of the very first lines in that movie," he told me, "is `he never thinks of himself'!"

But was that true? Consider what would have happened had George and Mary gone on their honeymoon instead of bailing out their building and loan. Yes, they would have had an enjoyable, relaxing couple of months in Europe; but what would they have come home to? The business that George's father had sweat blood to create and keep afloat would have gone bankrupt. Not only would George and Mary have had no source of income, but their depositors--family, friends, loved ones--would have seen their life savings evaporate. The housing development George had built would have fallen into Potter's hands.

For George, the choice was between short-term pleasure and long-term priorities. Did he choose irrationally?
What makes It's A Wonderful Life work so well is that we get to see a different, less readily apparent kind of heroism in George Bailey. Sure, it's easy to notice and admire the swashbuckling valor of a Scarlet Pimpernel or the "damn the torpedoes" military bravery of a John Wayne. But the real world doesn't always present opportunities for obvious and flamboyant heroism. More often than not, it presents instead tough value choices that reveal an individual's true priorities--and his true character.

It's A Wonderful Life is a testament to the power of free will when the going gets tough. In every instance when George faces adversities, he could easily make the easy choice, opting for the fleeting promise of instant gratification. But instead, he consistently makes the harder decision to delay immediate pleasure in order to achieve or preserve his larger, lasting, most profound values.

Today, most people watching the scenes in the building and loan's offices probably cannot quite grasp the bold, life-changing message on the banner that hangs there: "Own Your Own Home." But I remember as a kid talking with my father about what it was like for him growing up in a Depression-era coal mining town in West Virginia. "You had to have at least a fifty percent down payment to buy a home in those days," he told me. "If you were poor, you had to rent." More than any other movie I've seen, It's A Wonderful Life makes real the enormous benefits of the credit revolution, a tribute to "man's faith in man."

To Frank Capra, it was men like George Bailey who helped lift the working class into the middle class. Capra considered this film his personal favorite, and put into it a lot of his own experiences as a first-generation immigrant from Sicily. It's A Wonderful Life is his love letter to the American Dream.

What makes the movie so credible, and Jimmy Stewart so believable as George Bailey, is that he and Capra had both faced those tough choices just months before it was shot. It's A Wonderful Life was the first movie they worked on after World War II. Shortly after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Stewart joined the U.S. Army Air Force and served as a decorated bomber pilot. Capra spent most of the war shooting the Why We Fight series of propaganda films that proved so crucial to the Allied war effort. Both men could easily have avoided service: Capra was too old when the war began, and Stewart flunked his first physical, being too thin for service. But they put aside the glamorous lifestyle and money Hollywood afforded them for the higher purpose of defending America and freedom. I only wish that such values were held in higher esteem by Americans now, in supporting the war effort against the terrorist threat. Today, we seem less eager to make the kind of hard choices that the men and women of Capra's and Stewart's generation did.

The movie's famous climax takes place on Christmas Eve. Bedford Falls awaits the return of its hometown hero--George's brother, Harry Bailey (Todd Karns). As a Navy fighter pilot, Harry saved a transport ship full of American troops by shooting down a Japanese torpedo bomber. However, a few hours before his arrival back home, the building and loan comes up short $8,000. Uncle Billy has absent-mindedly mislaid the money, and now, with the bank examiner and police breathing down his neck, the distraught George sees his entire life coming apart. After fighting Potter all his life, he's reduced to pleading before him, begging to borrow the cash to rescue the building and loan. His only collateral is $500 equity in a life insurance policy. The smirking Potter mocks him, saying, "Why, George Bailey, you're worth more dead than alive!"

George soon finds himself standing alone in the blustery snow atop a bridge, weeping in drunken desperation, thinking about jumping into the icy rapids below.

At that very moment, guardian angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers) leaps into the river himself, giving George the opportunity to let his inherent goodness emerge once more. George rescues Clarence, then slowly learns the incredible truth: that the old man is an angel sent to protect him.

But still believing that his life has been a failure, he informs the eccentric Clarence that he's wasting his time. "I wish I'd never been born," George mumbles bitterly.

The words inspire Clarence to grant George his wish. In the film's closing moments, he gives the man a shocking tour of what Bedford Falls would have been like if George Bailey had never existed.

The housing subdivision that George envisioned is never built; it becomes "Potter's Field," a graveyard for paupers. The wife of his cabbie friend, Ernie (Frank Faylen), leaves him because Ernie wasted his money paying rent for one of Potter's tenements, instead of investing in his own home. Deprived of the chance to lead a productive life with the building and loan, eccentric Uncle Billy is eventually committed to an insane asylum. George's beloved Mary remains a spinster; their children are never born. And Bedford Falls itself--a small, thriving American community right out of a Norman Rockwell illustration--deteriorates into "Pottersville," a sleazy town full of bars, strip joints, and pawn shops.

Most devastating to George, Clarence leads him to his brother Harry's gravestone in Potter's Field.

"You're brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice, and drowned at the age of nine," he informs George.
"That's a lie!" George protests. "Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport!"
"Every man on that transport died," Clarence corrects him. "Harry wasn't there to save them, because you weren't there to save Harry.... You see, George, you really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?"
"You have been given a great gift," Clarence adds. "A chance to see what the world would be like without you."

As I do every Christmas, this year I'll again be watching It's A Wonderful Life with my family. I'll once more share with my loved ones Frank Capra's timeless tale of a man who always remained loyal to his highest and dearest values, and who ennobled the lives of everyone he touched through his common sense, farsighted thinking, and uncommon integrity.

To those who might dismiss George's story as not the stuff of epic heroism, I can only repeat the director's own words. Decades after It's a Wonderful Life first appeared, Frank Capra said: "The importance of the individual is the theme that it tells. That no man is a failure, that every man has something to do with his life. If he's born, he's born to do something."

He added: "To some of us, all that meets the eye is larger than life, including life itself. Who can match the wonder of it?"

A Timeless Classic.......2007-06-04

It's A Wonderful Life is a one-of-a-kind christmas movie with a hint of horror. Not only is this movie unique, but it also has a charasmatic cast. I bought this movie to add to my modest DVD collection, and its the perfect flick arund christmas time.

BUY THE 50TH ANNIVERSAY EDITION,IF YOU CAN FIND IT! AVOID THE 60TH RE-ISSUE.......2007-06-02

This is a classic film and should be in everyone's holiday DVD collection. The 50th Anniversay Edition is superb with excellent sound and picture. The 60th Anniversay is the same print,but on the one I viewed,there were some annoying audio pops in a couple of spots! Buy the 50th Ann. Ed. it is well worth looking for. One of the best holiday movies ever made!

If you have never seen it before, make time to........2007-05-29

The all time Christmas classic. Jimmy Stewart wins the battle for hearts and minds. Great movie for children of all ages. This is a movie to watch on Christmas eve when spending time with family.

Dallas - The Complete First and Second Seasons

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A very slow start...
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Starring: Howard Keel , Victoria Principal , Susan Howard , Priscilla Presley , and Sheree J. Wilson
Director: Michael A. Hoey , Don McDougall , and Vincent McEveety
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Release Date: 2004-08-24

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Dallas: The Complete First and Second Seasons is an American equivalent to those British miniseries about historical chapters in that country's royal monarchy. Full of family in-fighting, political intrigue crossed with personal triumph or disappointment, and plenty of sensational infidelities and betrayals, Dallas is a captivating story of a wealthy oil family's power and travails. It is also uniquely fun and daringly absurd, albeit with a straight face; this hugely successful, primetime soap opera began in the late 1970s and ran 14 seasons in all, built on a handful of primary relationships that stretch credulity but never descend into self-parody.

Not unexpectedly, Dallas begins with a Romeo and Juliet tale that instantly exposes an old feud between two families and strips the civilized veneer from several major characters. Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest of three sons of independent oilman Jock Ewing (Jim Davis), arrives at the Ewing clan's Southfork ranch just outside Dallas, Texas, with a new wife, Pam Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal). Pam is the daughter of Digger Barnes (David Wayne), an old business rival of Jock's and one-time suitor of the Ewing matriarch, Eleanor (or "Miss Ellie," played by Barbara Bel Geddes). Pam's also the sister of a state senator, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), whose vendetta against the Ewings is played out in the legislature, imposing costly regulations on their business and holding committee investigations into questionable practices of company president J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman). Pam's status as the newest Ewing causes an uproar in the family (besides being a Barnes, she also dated the Ewings' genial but lonely foreman, Ray Krebbs, played by Steve Kanaly) and prompts Dallas' charming villain, J.R., to make many Iago-like attempts, over the first two seasons, to drive her from Bobby's arms. Pam has a different set of problems with the other, jealous Ewing women, including J.R.'s possibly barren and alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), and teenage Lucy (Charlene Tilton), daughter of exiled Ewing son Gary (Ted Shackleford). With new and old resentments flying and everyone deeply suspicious of everyone else's motives (even the ailing Jock doesn't trust J.R.), there's plenty of drama to chew on. Still, storylines are often larger than the sum of these parts, with lots of kidnappings, marital affairs, plane crashes, and shootings ratcheting up suspense. Dallas is pure pleasure, a little guilty, perhaps, but not a sin. --Tom Keogh

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Power, wealth, sex, glorious extravagance. One place has them all - Dallas. This 5-disc set includes all 29 of the hugely entertaining show's First- and Second-Season Episodes, including a cast reunion special. Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal and more play Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil, family and power. And Larry Hagman portrays petroleum magnate J.R. Ewing, whose pursuit of, in no particular order, money and clout knows no limits. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary featuring Larry Hagman, Charlene Tilton, and creator David Jacobs
Featurette:Soaptalk Dallas Reunion, SOAPnet special featuring Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, and Charlene Tilton

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Who wants to remember this garbage.............2007-05-09

This was one of the worst Tv shows ever. We had to put up with almost a decade of back stabs, booze, a murder climax, the infamous shower season opening, and the list goes on. You must be a fat guy who is unemployed to watch this.

A very slow start..........2007-04-06

DALLAS was one of my all-time favorite TV shows. However, I didn't start watching it until 1980, around the time the entire world was in the grips of "Who shot J.R.?" fever. Now, for the first time, I went back in time to the very beginning, when it first premiered as a 5-part mini-series in April 1978 and was picked up again the following Fall.

This was a show that definately took some time to get jump-started into the nasty, continuous nightime soap opera that fans came to know and love. In fact, not until the last two episodes on the 5th disc ("John Ewing III"), does the series have any real juice to it. Nearly every episodes plays out like a three-act play, with a convenient and almost "happily-ever-after" resolution at the end. Some of the acting by supporting players can be pretty bad, too - particularly in some episodes (3 of them) that involve members of the Ewing family being taken hostage.

Boring as much of this collection may be, it is inevitably, necessary to watch to know the origin of the Ewing family and it's empire. By the time you get into the third season, though, you definately become hooked.

I loved it!.......2007-03-22

I loved Dallas the first and second series! I haved always loved Dallas from the first time that I saw it many years ago and I fell in love with it all over again. I especially liked the characters Jock and Miss Ellie. I will watch it over and over again it is one of my favorite tv shows of all time!

Great TV Show.......2007-02-24

This Series aired on CBS in 1978. My Mom, God rest her soul watched this every Friday night. I got hooked on this because of the very young but gorgeous Victoria Principal. Larry Hagman who played on I Dream of Jeannie plays the role of J.R. Ewing, Patrick Duffy plays the role of Bobby Ewing and Victoria Principal plays the role of Pamela Ewing. The show also introduces Jim Davies as Jock Ewing, Barbara Bel Geddes as Miss Ellie, and Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing. The first show as Bobby taking Pam to Southfork ranch outside of Texas where the family lives. What Jock and JR don't like, Pam is the daughter of Digger Barnes, an old business rival of Jock's and one-time suitor of the Ewing matriarch, Miss Ellie. Pam's also the sister of a state senator, Cliff Barnes whose vendetta against the Ewings is played out in the legislature, imposing costly regulations on their business and holding committee investigations into questionable practices of company president J.R. Ewing. Pam's status as the newest Ewing causes an uproar in the family because she also dated the Ewings' genial but lonely foreman, Ray Krebbs, and prompts J.R., to make many evil like attempts, over the first two seasons, to drive her from Bobby's arms. Pam has a different set of problems with the other, jealous Ewing women, including J.R.'s possibly barren and alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen and teenage Lucy, daughter of exiled Ewing son Gary. With new and old resentments flying and everyone deeply suspicious of everyone else's motives even the ailing Jock doesn't trust J.R., there's plenty of drama to chew on. Still, storylines are often larger than the sum of these parts, with lots of kidnappings, marital affairs, plane crashes, and shootings ratcheting up suspense. Dallas is pure pleasure, a little guilty, perhaps, but not a sin. I watch this because of Pam but also the ruthlessness of JR and his daddy Jock. I give this 5 weasel stars for Pam alone.

LOVE IT, LOVE IT.......2007-02-11

We love this show, this show never did go out of style.

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DALLAS - 5TH SEASON
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A year of obsessions and tragedy

Dallas - The Complete Fifth Season
Starring: Howard Keel , Victoria Principal , Susan Howard , Priscilla Presley , and Sheree J. Wilson
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Release Date: 2006-08-01

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Blink while watching Dallas: The Complete Fifth Season, and one might miss some of the fastest moving nastiness ever seen on the granddaddy of primetime soaps. Hovering over everything is the tragic loss of grizzled patriarch Jock Ewing (Jim Davis, who died prior to season 5), off on business in South America but dead before he returns to Southfork Ranch and the arms of Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes). While the widow grieves for her loss, charming scoundrel J.R. (Larry Hagman) finds new lows to reach as he conspires to woo estranged wife Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) back to Southfork and blackmail younger brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) into abandoning his shares in Ewing Oil, thus giving J.R. control. Even J.R.'s schemes mask deeper ploys: getting back Sue Ellen means getting back their toddler son, John Ross, which means adding John Ross's ten shares to J.R.'s arsenal. Sheesh.

There's also more collateral damage than ever from J.R.'s machinations, notably the complete destruction of chronic loser Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), whose romantic overtures toward Sue Ellen stand in J.R.'s way. Not only does poor Cliff lose Sue Ellen's affections, he falls hook, line, and sinker for a fake deal dangled by a J.R. confederate, costing him the respect and support of his family and threatening his health. But there's also the infant son of Sue Ellen's late sister to think about: Bobby and baby-starved Pam (Victoria Principal) want to adopt him, but J.R. claims to be the father and threatens to take the boy away. (How do most of these people manage to live under the same Southfork roof?) Meanwhile, young Lucy (Charlene Tilton) deals with divorce and the emotional aftermath of being held hostage, and Jock's son Ray (Steve Kanaly) threatens his marital stability with impulsive investments in real estate. Everything comes to a head with a new eruption in the old Ewing-Barnes family feud, and an internal fight for control of the Ewing empire. Down and dirty, and completely irresistible. A nice special feature provides a tour of the real-life Southfork ranch. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

DALLAS - 5TH SEASON.......2007-05-18

RECEIVED IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - VERY FAST! WILL PURCHASE FROM THIS SELLER AGAIN.

Excellent transaction.......2007-01-17

It was very good price, and fast shiping. What else could you ask for?

dallas the fifth season.......2007-01-12

I loved every eposide there was I loved the show when it was on the air I love it better now that I am older to understand it and know what is going on I love this drama I wish that show was still on the air. I look forward to ordering the complete set.Thanks sincerely jonathan carmical

NEVER WILL GO OUT STYLE.......2007-01-10

This show just gets more popular as the next generation gets the chance to see it.

A year of obsessions and tragedy.......2006-12-09

SPOILERS!

Major points of the season are as follows:

After suffering several miscarriages, Pam (Victoria Principal) is obsessed with motherhood.

Bobby (Patrick Duffy) is obsessed with finding the father of Kristen's baby.

Ray (Steve Kanaly) is obsessed in proving tht he can make it on his own without his wife Donna's (Susan Howard) money.

Cliff (Ken Kercheval) continues his obsession in destroying the Ewings.

Rebecca (Priscilla Pointer) is obsessed with proving herself a "good mother" after having abandoned her children when they were young.

In light of his impotency, Dusty (Jared Martin) is obsessed to show how much of a "man" is he.

Lucy (Charlene Tilton) is obsessed with winning her husband back, while hubby Mitch (Leigh J. McCloskey) is obsessed with making it on his own.

Lucy's photographer, Roger (Dennis Redfield), has an unhealthy obsession with her, leading him to begin stalking the model-wannabe.

Katherine (Morgan Brittany) begins her obsession with brother-in-law Bobby, which will come to a head when she mows him down in a couple of seasons.

Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick) returns in his obsessive quest to bring down J.R.

And J.R. (Larry Hagman) continues, after a few missteps, to run over everyone!

Also, the writers were able to stretch out the absence of "Jock" (the late Jim Davis) by having the character noticeably absent and finally "announcing" his death in a mid-season installment, thus opening the door for the fight for control of Ewing Oil.

"The Search" becomes a tribute to Davis, interspersed with clips from previous episodes that showcased the towering and much beloved actor.

Boy, did a lot happen in these twenty-two episodes!

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Great Movie
the benny goodman story
Great True Story
Benny Goodman Kind of Swing
BENNY GOODMAN STORY

The Benny Goodman Story
Starring: Steve Allen , Donna Reed , Berta Gersten , Barry Truex , and Herbert Anderson
Director: Valentine Davies
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The Glenn Miller Story
The Gene Krupa Story [Region 99]
Benny Goodman - Adventures in the Kingdom of Swing
The Eddy Duchin Story [Region 99]
Orchestra Wives

ASIN: B00008DDRU
Release Date: 2003-03-04

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It lacks the tragic ending of The Glenn Miller Story, a smash hit released a year earlier, but this enjoyable musical biopic does a nice job of blending Benny Goodman's sweet swinging clarinet with a healthy dose of Hollywood hokum. The emphasis is on Goodman's struggle to get "hot music" into the mainstream, and his shy wooing of a socialite (Donna Reed). With Steve Allen cast as the bespectacled Goodman, there's a comic undertone to the bandleader's somewhat geeky demeanor, and Allen (a musician himself) is believable fronting the orchestra. Real-life swing figures, including Goodman Quartet players Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, and Lionel Hampton, lend verisimilitude. The climax comes with Goodman's legendary 1938 jazz concert at Carnegie Hall, a turning point in American popular music--and the sight of a mild-mannered man in a tuxedo leading his band through the glorious frenzy of "Sing, Sing, Sing" remains a delight. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

Great Movie .......2007-05-12

Good acting and great music . KUDOS to Gene Krupa's cameo spots.

the benny goodman story.......2007-04-13

this is a very good movie to watch.the music is splendid it makes you wish to be back in that time when music had more of a meaning donna reed is one of my favorit actresses.thank you for this movie monica grampton

Great True Story.......2007-03-12

I gave this DVD as a gift. The recipient has told me it is a great movie for the whole family to enjoy. Would recommend it. The price was good and I received it in a timely manner. Very good experience all around.

Benny Goodman Kind of Swing.......2007-02-20

Great film, entertaining , informative a great start for anyone interested in finding out about swing , good viewing for all the family.
Debbie Curtis (Debbie Curtis Radio Big Band )

BENNY GOODMAN STORY.......2007-02-11

What the movie lacks in historical fact, it more than makes up for with music and entertainment. For nostalgia, and swing buffs it will warm their "memories." The Mancini cues are, of course, flawless. It was also nice seeing Gene Krupa, Ziggy Elman, Harry James, Kid Ory, Teddy Wilson, and Lionel Hampton on the big screen, rather than having someone else portraying them.
Tony Horowitz
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ol' boys of Dallas
The greatest cliffhanger ever?
Gotta watch the fourth!
Fantastic!
DALLAS: SEASON 3 -THE ULTIMATE CLIFFHANGER!!!

Dallas - The Complete Third Season
Starring: Howard Keel , Victoria Principal , Susan Howard , Priscilla Presley , and Sheree J. Wilson
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ASIN: B0009IW894
Release Date: 2005-08-09

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Dallas: The Complete Third Season, originally broadcast in the fall of 1979 through early 1980, surely represents one of the most raucous and tantalizing years in the life of any television series in history. Murder, banking fraud, kidnapping, adultery, alcoholism, cancer, vengeance, a miscarriage, extortion, bribery, and astounding levels of betrayal both in business and private lives are just part of the catalogue of sins that make season 3 particularly juicy. Actually, what makes the 25 episodes in this box set so much fun to watch is a viewer's gradual awareness that every crime committed, every ethical breach or personal tragedy is part of an overall design, reverberating in dozens of directions and affecting multiple relationships and numerous schemes. As enjoyable as each program is on its own terms, it's quite clear that by the 25th episode, "A House Divided," in which a major character receives a surprise-ending comeuppance, that all chickens were intended to come home to roost in the last show's very clever script.

A remarkable number of story threads found their way into season 3. Starting with a two-parter concerning the kidnapping of a newborn baby belonging to J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), problems just keep on sprouting like weeds. First, there's Sue Ellen's emotional deep-freeze and refusal to nurture her child as a healthy mom should, which in turn prompts the childless Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) to free her maternal instincts toward J.R.'s son, much to the chagrin of J.R.'s brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Meanwhile, teenager Lucy (Charlene Tilton), abandoned daughter of missing Ewing son Gary (David Ackroyd), threatens to teach J.R.'s son, one day, to turn against the Ewing clan, inspiring J.R. to escalate plans to get rid of Lucy any way possible. (Gary, by the way, kicks into gear a famous Dallas spin-off by moving to Knots Landing, California.) Matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a mastectomy, making her worry that husband Jock (Jim Davis) will stop loving her, though he faces problems of his own when a skeleton found buried on Ewing property turns up near Jock's missing handgun. (Whoops.) Finally, J.R.'s almost Shakespearean manipulation of the sale of Asian oil fields to old family friends, just before those fields are nationalized, is brilliantly wicked stuff. His actions have enormous, grievous ramifications--not least of all for J.R. --Tom Keogh

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The series that invented the season cliffhanger and left the world guessing "Who Shot JR?", is now available in this special 5-disc collector's set. Relive the drama, intrigue and deception of TV's most watched event of the 80's, complete with all 25 season three episodes and never-before-seen special features. Dallas recounts the tale of Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil, family and power. And Larry Hagman portrays petroleum magnate J.R. Ewing, whose pursuit of, in no particular order, money and clout knows no limits. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentary:"Who Shot JR?" featurette, including interviews with series' creator and key cast members.

Customer Reviews:

ol' boys of Dallas.......2007-05-09

watching this dvd set was great. I had forgotten how much went on in the lives of the Ewings. It was a regular night time soap opera of it's time. It was great fun to watch.

The greatest cliffhanger ever?.......2006-07-25

Season Three of the long-running primetime soap opera Dallas featured quite possibly one of the busiest television seasons ever and featured what is called the greatest cliffhanger in television history in the final episode.

Of course throughout its run, Dallas was known for having great cliffhangers, but in season three, the writers and producers really hit the nail on the head. To someone who was watching the show in 1980, the final scene of the final episode of season three probably came as quite a shock. I knew what was going to happen and I was still a little taken aback. That's what great television is all about.

And season three completely plays up to that moment right from the start. With all the lying and cheating and backstabbing that take place, the writers are building viewers up so that when the big moment happens, it seems justified, yet at the same time, still comes as a shock.

The shooting of Ewing Oil president JR Ewing (Larry Hagman) created quite a buzz in the television world and when it was revealed who shot him near the beginning of season four, that episode ranked as one of the top-rated television shows of all time. But surely just about everybody would say that JR deserved the bullets.

In the age of the Internet and all other forms of information, even though I have never seen an episode of Dallas beyond the first three seasons on DVD, I know who shot JR, but I still will buy season four and get the inside track on just what he or she was thinking when pulling the trigger.

Season three certainly ran the gamut of emotions, with no time to stop and catch your breath. It began with the two part story about the kidnapping of JR and Sue Ellen's (Linda Gray) baby, John Ross Ewing III. With suspects aplenty, the Ewing Oil magnate's first thought turns to his brother in law, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval) who may or may not be the baby's father.

When the youngster is finally returned to the family, Sue Ellen becomes cold and detached from the child, while Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal) grows attached to the child after losing a baby of her own in a horseback riding accident. Sue Ellen continues to grow detached from John Ross and an affair with Dusty Farlow, who's family would come to play a huge part in future seasons, and trips to see a psychiatrist just estrange her more. As the season ends, the entire Ewing family is concerned about Sue Ellen's drinking and JR is ready to commit her to the sanitarium, much like he did in season two.

Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Pamela Ewing have an up and down season, as they lose a baby and also have to deal with the fallout between her brother Cliff and the Ewing family. After Pamela loses the baby, she grows very attached to John Ross, which upsets Bobby as he wants to have a baby of his own. But unbeknownst to him, Pamela is scared that a disease she may carry could affect her child. She goes on a search for her mother when it is revealed that her father Digger is not really her father. As the season winds down, Bobby and Pamela are leaving Southfork after another of JR's schemes pushes Bobby over the edge.

Ewing matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a battle with breast cancer, which forces her to get a masectomy. She keeps everything to herself as she is afraid that the change in her life will stop her husband Jock (Jim Davis) from loving her. Jock also faces a tough fight from Miss Ellie when it is revealed that he was married before he met her and divorced his wife when she developed mental problems. Jock, JR, Bobby and ranch foreman Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly) go on a hunting trip that finds them being shot at and JR and Jock's lives at stake thanks to Jock's business tactics many years earlier when he still ran Ewing Oil.

Young Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton) is enrolled at college and starts dating a lawyer named Alan Beam (guest star Randolph Powell) who JR is using to set up Cliff Barnes. Lucy dates the young man mainly because she thinks JR hates him, but secretly, he and JR are working together to get Cliff out of the Office of Land Management. They become engaged as JR hatches a plot to get Lucy out of Dallas for good, but his plan backfires when Jock gets Alan a job in Dallas. Lucy also gets to spend time with her parents, Gary (Ted Shackleford) and Valene (Joan Van Ark) who also spin off into their own prime time soap opera Knot's Landing, during this season.

And of course JR. His biggest storyline of the season is his mortgaging of Southfork to finance oil wells in Asia, wells which strike it rich and become a boon for Ewing Oil. But nationalization of the Asian wells sends JR scrambling to sell off most of his shares to his "Business partners," who in turn are dealt a staggering loss, giving any of them a motive to shoot him in the finale. He also has an affair with his wife's sister Kristin (guest star Mary Crosby), who plots with Alan Beam for revenge, giving both of them, as well as Sue Ellen, who he is planning on sending to a sanitarium, a motive to shoot him. It seems JR had a lot of enemies. No wonder the ratings were so high for the who done it show.

As for extras, this set has a couple of good commentaries with Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, including on the "A House Divided" episode, the final cliffhanger at the end of the season. There is also a featurette on the show and its popularity, particularly in dealing with the cliffhanger of JR being shot.

All told, this was a great follow-up to a solid releas of the first two seasons. I never watched this show on television, mainly because I was too young, but I am thoroughly enjoying the episodes on DVD.

Gotta watch the fourth!.......2006-06-13

This show just keeps getting better and better with each season. this season dealt mostly with Sue Ellen, JR, and their baby(or more importantly who the baby's real father was). other episodes include Jock being accused of murder. Miss Ellie finding out she may need a masectomy, Sue Ellen trying to decide between staying at Southfork with JR and going with her new love Dusty, Sue Ellen's trampy sister Kristen coming to Southfork and screwing with people in more ways then one, and of course J.R. trying to put Sue Ellen back in the sanitarium. has some great one liners also. my favorite had to be Sue Ellen talking to J.R. saying "which [...] are you gonna be with tonight." which J.R. replies back "anybody's better then the [...] I'm looking at right now!"
cant wait to watch season 4 and season 5 will be out soon!!!

Fantastic!.......2006-05-31

I just LOVE the show, and owning the DVD's is WONDERFUL!

Additionally, the book "Dallas: The Complete Story of the World's Favorite Prime-time Soap" by Barbara A. Curran is fun to own along with the DVD's. You can see what was going on behind the scenes in each of the episodes and glean amazing facts about the cast and characters.

At least go for the DVD's. They are fun to watch.

DALLAS: SEASON 3 -THE ULTIMATE CLIFFHANGER!!!.......2006-04-17

As this season begins, you can tell by the story lines unfolding that this season is going to be really special! Larry Hagman's JR is at his cunning best, with beautiful Mary Crosby turning in a fine performance as Sue Ellen's ambitious sister. By the end of this season's episodes, you would think that the cliffhanger would be all about Jock Ewing's involvement with the murder of a former ranch hand, and Cliff Barnes handling the case is extra icing on the cake! I discovered that this was going to be the season's cliffhanger, (while watching the documentary) but the network wanted more episodes for the year's season, due to the show's popularity and audience draw, for more commercial time to be bought. The producers and writers decided to build up the last few episodes to the shooting of the show's villain, JR Ewing! The dramatic performance of Barbara Belle Geddes in the "Mastectomy" part 1 & 2 episodes, the kidnapping of JR and Sue Ellen's baby, along with the final episodes building up to the night that JR gets shot, is prime time TV that is brilliantly done! I've just watched the first six episodes of "Dallas: Season 4," and it's got the same entertaining addiction that season's 1, 2, and 3 had! I'm ready for season five, or at least an announcement of a release date! "Dallas" is too good a series just to stop with season four!

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And now we know the rest of the story
dallas IV
THIS AWESOME SHOW NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE
Dallas- fourth season
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Dallas - The Complete Fourth Season
Starring: Howard Keel , Victoria Principal , Susan Howard , Priscilla Presley , and Sheree J. Wilson
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ASIN: B000BVM1TG
Release Date: 2006-01-24

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Following a tumultuous third season that culminated in the shooting of likeable villain J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) by an unknown assailant, Dallas: The Complete Fourth Season is relatively tame by comparison. Still, it begins with no fewer than four episodes stretching out the mystery of who (from a wide field of candidates) actually shot J.R., with the victim's alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), looking like the chief suspect. Meanwhile, with J.R. out of commission and possibly paralyzed by a bullet pressing against his spine, brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) reluctantly takes the reins of Ewing Oil at the insistence of his father, Jock (Jim Davis). Prepared to buy a refinery at a bargain price—something Jock always wanted but J.R. could never deliver—Bobby is set to take Ewing Oil to a new level of success, but finds his authority undercut by J.R., who is pulling strings from his hospital bed.

Another suspect in the shooting, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), brother of Bobby's wife, Pam (Victoria Principal), tries to jumpstart his return to Texas politics by making trouble for the Ewings in the Texas legislature. Bobby himself, burned out on the family business, tries his own hand at the state senate, a useful place to be once Jock and Ewing matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes), mired in a personal conflict that heads toward divorce, find themselves on opposite sides in a land dispute. Other story threads include a rocky marriage between granddaughter Lucy (Charlene Tilton) and a medical student (Leigh McCloskey), and extramarital distraction for lonely Pam and Sue Ellen. Perhaps the biggest scandal of the season is J.R.'s manipulation of a counterrevolution in the Southeast Asian country where Ewing Oil fields were disastrously nationalized--a crime that could come back to haunt him. --Tom Keogh

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The saga of the wealthy Ewing family continues in its fourth season - full of sibling wars, adultery, threats of divorce and doomed new marriages. In its fourth season, Miss Ellie learns shocking news about Jock that she finds unforgiveable, J.R. battles for his life and for control of Ewing Oil and the Ewing wives look elsewhere for love. Don't miss out on the season that solved the greatest cliffhanger in television history: Who Shot J.R.?

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And now we know the rest of the story.......2007-04-10

Okay, so without a doubt, the biggest moment in season four of the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas was the revelation of who really shot oil big wig JR Ewing (Larry Hagman) in television's ultimate cliffhanger at the end of the third season.

The shooter is revealed in the fourth episode of the season, and that episode ranked as one of the most watched episodes of any series in television history. I won't spoil the surprise if there are still one or two people who don't know and don't want to know who pulled the trigger, but the writers and actors and everyone did a great job of making sure that viewers were led down many paths and had many choices as to who it was that pulled the trigger.

The fourth season began immediately after JR was shot and continued through some tumultuos times for the oil-rich Ewing family. As the previous season ended, JR's brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and his wife Pamela (Victoria Principal) were leaving the family's ranch, Southfork, heading for a new life in California. They were tired of JR's shady dealings and packed up and left, much to the dismay of matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes).

JR's shooting brings Pamela and Bobby back to Southfork, where Bobby takes over as temporary boss at Ewing Oil. As JR recovers, he finds ways to sneak back into power, finally leading to Bobby stepping down and JR resuming his "rightful" spot at the head of the company. However, Bobby's leadership helped the company break new ground and for that, he earned his father Jock's (Jim Davis) respect. Of course running Ewing Oil quickly taxed Bobby's marriage and sent his wife towards the arms of another man. Pam, back at her former job at a department store, finds it hard to resist the urge to cheat on her husband with a magazine editor she works with.

JR and his wife Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) have more marital problems of their own, as she is a prime suspect in his shooting and eventually finds herself in the arms of a few different men, including her former college sweetheart Clint Ogden. While Sue Ellen finds herself dedicated to motherhood, she doesn't find herself dedicated to JR, as his continued relationships with other women drive her over the edge. JR's most prolific affairs in this season are with his niece Lucy's sister-in-law Afton Cooper (guest star Audrey Flanders) and with PR maven Leslie Stewart (Susan Flannery, now of The Bold and the Beautiful). As the season draws to a close, Sue Ellen is reunited with Dusty Farlow, (guest star Jared Martin) a man she fell in love with in an earlier season and was presumed dead in a helicopter crash. She makes plans to take her baby and leave JR for the Farlow's Southern Cross Ranch, with a little help from Pamela.

Miss Ellie and Jock go through a tough time when they are on opposing sides of a development deal. When it is revealed that ranch foreman Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly) is Jock's son from an affair he had during the war, Miss Ellie believes that her husband begins to favor Ray a little more. The Takapa development deal widens the gap between the heads of the Ewing family before Bobby, who was elected a state senator in a special election, works out a compromise that suits both. After Miss Ellie and Jock make up, they head to Paris for a second honeymoon.

Ray also reconnects with the love of his life, Donna Culver (guest star and future series regular Susan Howard). They get married, much to the dismay of Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), the brother of Pamela, who is the arch-rival to the Ewing family. Cliff and Donna had been dating for a while as he ran her son's campaign.

Cliff and Pamela also track down their mother, or really, Pamela tracks her down and Cliff gets mad. Rebecca Barnes Wentworth (guest star Priscilla Pointer) moves to Dallas to try to get closer to the family she left many years earlier. Though Cliff rebuffs her attempts of reconciliation at first, he is later swayed to reconcile with his mother.

Young Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton) meets Mitch Cooper (guest star Leigh McCloskey) at college and the two get married, despite the fact that he is struggling to make ends meet. He resents the Ewing money and he and Lucy have many arguments over that. Lucy gets a modeling job thanks to Pamela's editor friend and that furthers the divide between the two and as the season ends, Lucy is heading back to Southfork.

The cliffhanger end to season four once again involved JR. Cliff showed up at Southfork for a meeting with Bobby, who he had been working with in the senate. He arrives and finds a body in the pool. He dives in, notices the (still unrevealed) body is dead. Looking up, he sees a broken railing and JR standing looking down over the pool.

The extra on this set was a pretty decent look into the show, a 2004 reunion entitled Return to Southfork, hosted by Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Ken Kercheval, Steve Kanaly and Charlene Tilton. The original stars talk about life on the set, the famous cliffhangers and more. I found this an interesting piece, as I never watched the show when it was on the air and have yet to see many of the famous scenes.

Sadly, this season marked the last appearance of Jim Davis as Jock Ewing. Though his character would continue on in the next season (on a trip to South America), the actor died before the shooting began. Davis was fantastic as the family patriarch and it is hard to imagine the series carrying on without him, though it did for another 10 years.

All in all, if you're looking for soapy drama in a true 80s fashion, you really can't go wrong with Dallas: Season Four.

dallas IV.......2007-01-18

My wife loves the Dallas series and watches them every chance she gets, from season one on. It is a good way to watch a series with fewer interruptions and on your own schedule.

THIS AWESOME SHOW NEVER GOES OUT OF STYLE.......2007-01-10

THIS SHOW WILL NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE

Dallas- fourth season.......2006-11-03

If you are a Dallas fan, then you will like this season.

The quality is poor.......2006-06-21

No need to discuss the season. 100% perfect.

What I didn't like is the double layer discs that can be easily damaged if handled improperly by other people.

And worse, some of the episodes weren't digitally enhanced and in some cases, the image is very very poor. I even compared them against the tapes I have in VHS.

I think we, DALLAS fan deserve better than that.

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What Are They Up To?
could have been so much better
The Astronaut's Wife - A lackluster film
Poor Johnny
He does it again...

The Astronaut's Wife
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ASIN: 0780628551
Release Date: 2000-02-08

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An intriguingly creepy premise but failed execution marks this stylish and ultimately bland thriller about a pretty, young woman whose pretty, young astronaut husband comes back from his most recent space mission a little... odd. Before that fated space trip, Spencer (Johnny Depp) and Jillian (Charlize Theron) were a sunny, happy couple with matching blonde hairdos and a predilection for romping in the sack from extremely clever camera angles. However, after a communications blackout brings Spencer and his partner back down to earth prematurely, things are a little... peculiar. Spencer's partner goes bonkers and has a heart attack; on top of that, the partner's wife takes a fatal shower with a plugged-in radio. Getting out of the space biz, Spencer accepts a job as a corporate exec in New York, and as a welcome to the Big Apple for his comely wife, he molests her at the company cocktail party. Soon enough, Jillian is pregnant, but as you might expect, this pregnancy (twins, don't you know) is a little... unusual. Writer-director Rand Ravich takes his sweet time getting from extremely obvious plot point A to even more obvious plot point B, stretching out the development particulars in mind-numbing, suspense-killing fashion. Even Joe Morton, as a sinisterly psychotic NASA official, can't liven things up--you know you're in bad thriller territory when the biggest scare comes from a light suddenly being switched off. Theron, sporting a Mia Farrow-Rosemary's Baby haircut, sleepwalks beautifully through the movie, but she did this role much, much better in The Devil's Advocate. Depp, with a cornpone Southern accent, is about as realistic as his peroxided hair. Ravich does the viewer no favors with a hackneyed ending straight out of a B-grade paperback horror novel in which the most shocking moment is Theron's sudden emergence as a brunette. With Blair Brown as a jaded socialite who offers to help out Theron by providing do-it-yourself abortion pills, and a lovely Donna Murphy as the suicidal wife who figures it all out before everyone else. --Mark Englehart

Description

A woman becomes embroiled in a mystery after her astronaut husband suffers an accident and retires as a hero from the space program. When he begins acting strangely, she must decide whether his odd behavior is all in her mind, or if he is no longer the man she once knew.

Customer Reviews:

What Are They Up To?.......2007-06-09

I liked it! It's slow, it's hypnotic and trippy, but be warned: it has no ending. You know my theory about how only the first 2/3rds of a movie are interesting? This film runs with that. It is all about tension and atmosphere, so lay back and enjoy that, because there is NO PAYOFF WHATSOEVER. You never find out what the aliens are really up to, no one wins in the end, nothing is resolved. You have to be prepared for the fact that the build-up and tension IS the movie.

This movie has some very creepy and unnerving scenes, which I would say were similar to the tone of the first 3/4 of The Sixth Sense. With this movie you have to be prepared to follow the subtle changes in tone and atmosphere, and just go where they take you. I found the entire sequence where Charlize Theron initially finds out that something has happened on the shuttle to be very creepy. In fact much of the movie is very unnerving and slightly surreal, exploring the more sinister aspects of the idea that someone's DNA has merged with yours and now there's some new organism growing in your body.

I basically went to see this because I like Johnny Depp and thought [this is pre-Secret Window] that he wouldn't purposely do a movie that was just stupid. His performance is very convincing, as usual. He's very cocky and sexy toward the beginning, in particular. I also think Charlize Theron is a VERY good actress [and this was pre-Monster], and she proves that again here. Yes, this is another version of the role she played in Devil's Advocate, but I suspect that the director saw how good she was in that and wanted her to essentially redo it for this. I think people who don't respect her acting are speaking out of the sexist idea that a woman who is that beautiful cannot possibly be talented.

If you like very carefully controlled tension and great horror atmospherics, I would suggest you see this film. If you're looking for something along the lines of Species with slightly better actors, you're out of luck.

could have been so much better.......2007-05-07

This was a pretty disappointing movie. When I first read the description and found out Johnny Depp was going to be one of the main characters, I got excited. Unfortunately, his performance couldn't save a rather boring and slow-moving storyline. However, this was one of his older films, and was made before he turned into an extremely popular movie star. If only the plot was actually more interesting, I might have given the Astronaut's Wife a higher score.

The Astronaut's Wife - A lackluster film.......2007-05-03

"The Astronaut's Wife" is simply one of those films that I think I picked up due to an interest in Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp's acting careers more so than in the film itself. Having said that, this DVD still sat on t