jgro...@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, May 23, 2022 at 6:27:00 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> In article <
190520221528315223%no...@noway.com>,
no...@noway.com wrote:
>>> Adam H. Kerman <
a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>> anim8rfsk <
anim...@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>> Ubiquitous <
web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>>>>>> They weren't copying Dallas?
>>>>>
>>>>> JR taking one for the team did come first, didn't it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe TV Guide was lying to us. Or maybe Matt Houston was the first time
>>>>> the gimmick failed?
>>>>
>>>> But Dallas had been renewed. The concern was the needed a hook so
>>>> viewers would anticipate the fall premiere.
>>>
>>>The Dallas thing was no mystery in the first place. I remember telling
>>>everybody around me on an airplane ride from Atlanta to JFK that it had
>>>to be Mary Crosby because she'd signed to do another series. It's a
>>>tribute to both vigorous P.R. and audience stupidity that "Who shot
>>>J.R.?" was ever a thing at all.
>>
>> I don't remember hearing that about her leaving the show at the time, but
>> that doesn't neccessarily mean her character did it.
>
>If anyone had the motive it was wife Sue Ellen.
They ALL had motive. That was the point!
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Let's go Brandon!