Obviously Larry was not well. I think by this stage in his life, he already had a liver transplant because of all those years of heavy drinking and it sure showed up later in life. RIP Larry Hagman 🙏🏼 😢 ✝️
Larry Hagman also just had liver transplant surgery in 1995, that is why he is thin looking. JR Returns was filmed in the Dallas area, in March of 1996. This was the same house they filmed the beginning of season 1 in, while they built matching sets in LA, to match this house.
It really is a shame that the events from this movie (JR Returns) along with the second movie (War of the Ewings) were completely ignored and not acknowledged by the 2012 Revival Series that was on TNT for three seasons.
Although he never said it, the half-smile on Bobby's face when JR announced his return said it all. Through it all, he was happy to see his brother again, if only briefly
You could say on the surface watching it for the first time that Bobby is cold and cruel when he finds JR back but he knows him too well to think he is only here to visit and say hello !!!
Just like JR, just show up after five years like he is just coming home from work! He was truly the master of his own fate. lol I remember one scene years ago when marilee Stone was mad at him and she brought up the fact that it was because of him that her husband Seth Stone killed himself. JR’s response was priceless.. he said “marilee, let’s not nitpick!” Lol 😂 JR Ewing has to be the greatest tv character of all time! 👍
My Dad was in the RAF in the 60s and had Blue Eyes like Larry- Dad was better looking lol. I loved Larry in IDOJ too. Dad died in 1980- but he loved JR. I must get the series. Memory lane can be awesome.
J.R. always had the best comebacks. I loved that half-smile on his face when Bobby left to go upstairs. You always knew J.R. had a dastardly good plan every time he gave a little smirk/smile.
They filmed this and all interior Southfork scenes for JR Returns, in the REAL Highland Park (Dallas) house they filmed the first half of season 1 in, before they built a replica of it in California. The house in 2020 inside is still the same, but they got rid of the dark wood paneling and made it much brighter. They also added a window, where Jocks painting is. Same curvy staircase, etc. Notice the staircase doesn't curve much and the wood paneling is the same. Too bad that yahoo producer of the new DALLAS on TNT, ignored what happened in this movie and the 1998 movie, War of the Ewings.
Not sure about that, the new set they built was more detailed, etc than this one. Did a Southfork tour recently, they rented a big warehouse in downtown Dallas, built the set for the inside of southfork.
Cynthia Cidre really didn't do her homework. J.R. was drinking iced tea for a reason because Larry Hagman wanted it to be known to the audience that he had a liver transplant as a result of drinking. He wanted his character not to be drinking anymore either.
You are preaching to the choir. That bitch screwed up the greatest Franchise Television show in History. As an Indian American she insulted me by putting South Asians like us (FARHAN TAHIR - SMILING FRANK) WIthout explaining how a Texas Oilman finds a kid In Islamabad Pakistan and brings him here. Look Bollywood has its place & I do love it but I also love this. You don't mix things without explaining stuff to give attention. This lady was about race. She thought that she could give US our basic seat but that Hispanics were the same as white & that is fine if as you say she had done her research. Its sad because those Hispanic actors were good they were given stupid plots and bull shit that had nothing to do with oil or even energy at large as it had in the beginning. I get this feeling that if Larry was not as sick as he was he wouldn't have allowed it to be this way. I felt it to be patronizing because Farhan is a great actor and a Harvard grad in real life and insulting. I loved Dallas even though no one from my race was in it. You don't have to make me feel special because there is a South Asian there. If you are gonna put one of us explain why we are there. It doesn't matter I didn't need her to do that nor did any other Indian or Pakistani. She insulted us & the show at large.
In the end, JR executed his Master plan against Cliff Barnes. Jock disliked Cliff immensely as well as Digger for lying all those years. Jock probably greeted JR with a huge hug !! lol
You are extremely incorrect because at the end it's Cliff Barnes that ends up with you in oil. Jr actually signs it over to him. Rightly so because cheated Digger all these years out of his share of you in oil because they discovered it all together. After all these years of fighting and getting back at Jr in the end Cliff walks away with it all.
True. Ellie's reason for leaving SF in 1990 was she couldn't take JR's schemes any more. He left in 1991, and 5 years later, Ellie STILL isn't living there ? They didn't ask Bel Geddes or Howard Keel to reprise their roles for this movie, for some reason.
Mr. White Yeah Bel Geddes retired and I guess they didn't think to ask Howard Keel to come back again because Clayton wouldn't have went along with the plot of the movie. The last time they brought him back it was to tell Bobby that Miss Ellie gave him Southfork and that was in 1990, after he had already left the show.
@redletter2008 Actually, Southfork was expanded at the start of the 83/84 season. It was during the remodel after the fire. Personally, I thought Southfork looked its best during that time. The changes they made in 85/86 was darker wood trim around the entryways and a more cluttered look in the living room.
My beef with Bobby during the later years was that he became completely indifferent towards Ewing Oil and his father's legacy. It seems like Southfork became Bobby's priority. Also, Dallas was not suited for the TV movie format. Storylines in the series were usually covered over many 45 - 50 minute episodes, not constrained to 90 minutes.
If you recall, in the final season, Bobby's 2nd wife was killed over a bad oil deal. After burying April, he had enough of the Oil industry, he sold Ewing Oil, and decided to run SouthFork full time
@@keithclark7266 I believe he sold it to Leann Delevaga but in the TNT reboot her OR her ownership of Ewing Oil was mentioned. But wait didn't Leann sell it to Michelle? No mention of her either, nor from what I recall did Sue Ellen mention how long since she'd split up with Don Lockwood? Much of the reboot was confusing to me was a loyal CBS Dallas fan, and the TV movie where Ray looses w ranch he'd sold years before to Carter McKay makes not much sense with. Unless he came back to Texas at some point between 1991 series finale and the broadcast of the TV movie where he says he lost w ranch. Thoughts?
They didn't just "change the furniture," they changed the entire layout of the house. The layout stayed the same for 13 years on the original series, but they didn't continue having 70s furniture in the 90s.
Yes, not sure what the reason for that was, but the new set WAS more open, and better for filming. Bobby's office was where the dining room used to be, and the dining room, was where the living room was, in the original.
Stephen Border this was the home they modeled the California set after. This house in Dallas was used for the first 10 episodes or so, of the 1978-79 season. The TNT version, the inside of SF looked totally different
@redletter2008 No, this was filmed in the actual Dallas house that the sets were based on, which was also used for the first third or so of the first season, presumably until the sets could be built. That's why it looks smaller (because the sets were originally built to scale or close to it, then enlarged over the years as the budget grew). It's also why the wood paneling from the early years was back.
Bobby should have said to JR "When I First Started Working At Ewing Oil, you made it very hard for me, I realize that I didn't earn it the way you did, but you undermined me every chance you got, and remember I didn't lose Ewing Oil the way you did, why dredge up old wounds."
This was shot right after Larry's 1995 liver transplant. A dead prisoner was the donor. Two years later when The War of the Ewing's was shot JR went back to looking the way he did in 1988.
When Dallas producers were running the whole Who shot JR storyline they almost did recast Larry Hagman with Robert Culp had the producers decided not to give Hagman the pay raise he wanted.
This reunion movie interior of the South Fork living and Dining rooms were filmed in the Original house the producers used in the first 7 or so episodes of the 1978-79 season when Dallas was first picked up as a weekly series on CBS. The production company copied the interior of the real Calder House in Dallas’ living room dining room and the study where the Ewings family pictures were during the first three seasons. Of course they made the interior on the soundstage a tad bigger to accommodate for the moving and setting up of the Film cameras used to shoot scenes. The original interior of the entire Calder home in Dallas has been since gutted and updated and no longer resembles what we fans have come to recognize as the interior of South Fork during the Original run of the series..
Saxon C Do you know the address of this house ?? I always heard it’s on Park Lane, in Highland Park. A real shame they gutted it and redid it, I heard the owners did that a few years back.
The good guys have to stay young to fight the bad guys, he looks as good today in the new series as he did back when this movie was made, except the grey hair
Whatever happened to the original portrait of Jock that was first shown when JR, Ray and Bobby returned from South America and told Miss Ellie that they did not find Jock's body. JR walks outside depressed and then the portrait of Jock/ Jim Davis appears with 1909-81
@redletter2008 For whatever reason, the owners of that house wouldn't let them use it again for the second reunion movie, which was why they filmed the interiors for the first time in the same house as the exteriors. I believe there was only one scene in the house's actual living room, and they shot all of the characters very tightly, with no wide shots, so you could only see the background right behind them and couldn't really get a sense of the room; that downplayed the interior looking wrong.
Johnny Kramer even for JR Returns, the owners originally said no, to them using the house again, the way they did in 1978. A $ 10,000 donation to the wife’s favorite charity, changed the owners mind. There was an article in the Dallas paper, at the time, stating this.
@ 2:06 J.R. begins to tell Bobby what a good job he did on their father's portrait before Bobby interrupts him. Hence the reason that Southfork was added to the painting to begin with.
Is it me or did they Add to the Picture of Jock I don't recall the Southfork Ranch in the background nor the fence at the front of the painting. I thought it was just a full picture of Jock against a blue background. (Maybe I'm wrong)
Larry looks better now than he did then. The only thing I don't like about the new TNT show is that the SouthFork interior doesn't look the same, other than that it's great. But who the hell re-models a whole interior of a house? No one... it SHOULD look the damn same!
To reiterate, since what I wrote may be unclear to those who don't know, when Dallas started, one house (the Duncan Acres ranch in Parker, TX we now know as Southfork) was used for the exterior, and another (rumored to be in the Turtle Creek neighborhood of Dallas proper) was used for the interiors because the inside of the Duncan house isn't that impressive. Then sets were made in LA, replicating the house used for the interiors. For J.R. Returns, they went back to the real house.
This is a house on Park Lane, in the highland park area of Dallas. They also filmed in this house in the summer of 1978, while they built matching sets on a California sound stage. A few noticeable differences, mainly on the California set, they made the stairs to curve a lot more. They pretty much go straight up here.
Do you hear the music in the beginning. It was similar to the Music in the very last episode of The Wonder Years where Adult Kevin (Played By Daniel Stern) does his last monologue and when the Young Man says "Hey Dad, you wanna play Catch", it was Daniel's real life son.
@opendtuning True enough. Larry Hagman owned the original (which doesn't include the fence and Southfork) and it was sold at auction in June 2011 for $31k plus taxes. Too bad it wasn't used for this production.
@willisapril well if you saw the kind of relationship the two had during the series it was not always pleasant im surprised bobby didn't punch jr in the face
@@justinturley7071 yeah, but sadly he went back to it... his daughter said in an interview that apart from a few months before and after his transplant, or possibly for around two years in total, she never saw him without a drink and that he drank from the time he got up til when he went to bed. Apparently, he started drinking in his teens.
0:40 Pay attention how J.R. says "yeah" about Jocks picture and how it never shouldn't be in the office at the first place. For sure J.R. disagrees but he wants to please Bobby after not seeing him in years.
I really believe that the reason we all loved Jock Ewing because He personified what a true Patriarch was! JR Ewing, TV’s greatest Villain, who wasn’t afraid to go up against any man, always respected His daddy and truly respected Jock. That made JR three dimensional everything he did, even mortgaging SouthFork, was because he wanted to build Ewing Oil into a real power and by doing that, it’s like he gave his daddy a gift. That’s why in JR’s mind, Jock Ewing and Ewing Oil was one in the same. He never double crossed his father or tried to steal the company from him. All the great scenes on Dallas was with Jock and JR together. Bobby was like a spoiled brat and after jock died, JR was fiercely loyal to his daddy and always mentioned Jock. I never understood why the writers always said that Bobby was Jock’s favorite. JR and Jock interacted with each other more. Just my observation..
It was Bobby's idea that Jock's Portrait belonged at Ewing Oil when Miss Ellie and Clayton were married and returning to the ranch. JR was against taking down the portrait of Jock and bobby now says Jock's painting never really belonged at the office? it didnt jive with the past shows.
sexykitten0814 you’re right. It I meant to say that they’re talking about The picture that’s hanging in the living room that we’ve never seen before and passing it off as the oil painting of Jock that was done by artist Ro Kim. During this filming, Larry Hagman owned the Original portrait of Jim Davis. Hagman took ownership of it once the original series ended. He should have brought the portrait and had the production team use it for this reunion show instead of making us think the picture on the wall has always been there. 😊
for 13 years the SouthFork interior did not change...not even for the 2 TV movies....for the TNT series, they had to upgrade the interior for new century/decade....would've looked odd to have 70's furniture in a 2012 home
Yet in the TNT update no explanation was given for the new interior. Someone could have at least said while I'm glad we were renovated this place about 15 years ago or something
