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DVD Dallas - The Complete Fourth Season
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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Dallas- fourth season
If you are a Dallas fan, then you will like this season.
The quality is poor
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.
Lacklustre season
I own the other three seasons, so naturally was keen to grab Season 4. I had only seen some of this season when it was first shown in 1981 on TV.
However, watching it in its entirety on DVD recently, I have found Season 4 to be lacking the overall spark of the wonderful Season 3. OK granted, the anticipation of finding out who JR's killer is helped give this season its appeal back in 1981. Yet, once that storyline is resolved, the rest of the season does not have enough excitement to really pull the viewer in. The very weak union of Mitch and Lucy dominated, as did the introduction of Susan Flannery as Leslie Stewart (JR's PR Assistant). This added very little value in my opinion. Overall, nothing spectacular seemed to unfold unless you think the Tapaka storyline is a big deal. It's only near the end of the season when a hint of things to come in the next season came to light. The possible divorce of Sue Ellen and JR and the 'kidnapping' of John Ross JR. Also the continued attempts of Bobby and Pamela to conceive a child. Poor Pammy.
The biggest appeal of Season 4 is the inclusion of the special feature: Return to Southfork ... this is quite entertaining. One thing I would like to add about Dallas is the problem throughout with poor casting. For example, Charlene Tilton as Lucy and the ever present Ken Kerchival as Cliff Barnes. These two characters,along with the actor who plays Ray Crabbs receive too much exposure in this show despite not being main characters. That always surprised me.
Nevertheless, I look forward to Season 5 after feeling quite let down by the 'boring' Season 4.
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... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Russ Mayberry - Alex March - Steve Kanaly DVD Release Date: Released the 01 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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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... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Patrick Duffy DVD Release Date: Released the 09 August 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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If anybody from Warner Home Video is reading this, have you thought about the implications of releasing a 13-season DVD series at the rate of two seasons per year? This puts Season 13 being released in August of 2010! All of us Dallas fans would like to get the whole collection while the world is still using the current DVD format! Who's to say what the fast-moving rate of technology will have moved us all on to by then. If you're a fan and feel the same way, I ask you second the sentiment and lend your vote by finding this review helpful. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Russ Mayberry - Alex March - Steve Kanaly DVD Release Date: 30 January 2007
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Knots Landing was a Dallas spinoff that spent its first season in marked contrast to the latter series' tales of power-grabbing, greed, corruption, conspiracies, and fraternal rivalries. Where Dallas concerned travails of an ultra-rich and influential Texas family, and its many enemies0--all great fantasy stuff--Knots Landing initially evolved as a drama set among Southern California's suburban middle class. Built around the character Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford), a recovering alcoholic and brother of Dallas' scheming J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), Knots Landing is set on a cul-de-sac in a seemingly peaceful neighborhood of modest houses. Gary, one might recall from several episodes of Dallas, is the black sheep of the Ewing clan. His marriage... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 28 March 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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