He had OK chemistry with Presley but principal was easy by far his leading lady always. Sheree Wilson was ok with him to but you could tell each time he was put with someone else it wasn't working as good as when he was with Victoria. Plus they were friendly off set and spoke nicely of each other. Loved it when they reunited on Family Guy in 1999 for the shower scene
@@msrain1235 A dream that lasts this long is no longer a dream, it's a real coma, it's Pam's dream which includes many passages without her being present, in Knots Landing Valene called her son Boby to remind her tribute to Bobby, and the Knots Landing storyline was never changed. It would have been more believable if this would have been Bobby's dream while in a coma after Catherine knocked him down. As this would have been Boby's dream it would have been normal not to see him in his dream.
And it got much worse- i just finished season 11 and the way they wrote ray and jenna out of the show with that lame fatal attraction storyline was horrible! what a great send off to an original cast member- not! i don’t know how steve kanaly kept a straight face acting some of those scenes with the psycho woman who got obsessed with him- the writers were ripping off fatal atrraction and it sucked bad- ray deserved better than that
I'm still watching episodes to go back to the way life was in the good old days when I was just abt 10 yrs old... The best days that I wish we could get back
Loved the scenes between Pam and Jenna! Especially the one before this one when they meet in the driveway. Pam offers Jenna her support, and Jenna goes ballistic thinking Bobby wanted to marry her more than anything. Pam is keeping a lid on it up until she snaps here! I also like the scene in the next episode after Jenna has the flashback and remembers setting Bobby after Lucy's wedding and she comes to grips and makes amends with Pam.
I loved Ray and Donna and having Pam dream up their lives is insult to the show and characters. Nobody can replace Bobby and Pam, just like nobody can replace Ray and Donna. Having Susan Howard written out of the show is just unforgivable. She was a very strong character and Dallas needed her character on the show.
In 1985 or 86 it wasn't that bad. Although I don't like the blouse that she wore with it. I guess it's supposed to be Japanese or something although it clashes.
It would be appalling now, but back in the 80s, when this was being filmed, that was syle. I remember it too well. Everything had those huge shoulder pads which I absolutely hated. On certain women they looked awful. Especially if the woman was overweight and had a short neck.
That's the makings of a KEPT woman. Bobby KEPT her around like a stray puppy that he felt sorry for. A woman can't do anymore than a man allows her to do.... and Bobby allowed it for years which is why his stray puppy (Jenna) is squatting & peeing on the posts of Southfork ...
I think people have been too critical over Priscilla's acting here. She actually did it perfectly. If you are only seeing this scene, yes, you would think Priscilla was over acting poorly. However, the story line portrayed Jenna Wade having a nervous break down, when Bobby died. She was being on the borderline of being crazy. This was why Pam exclaimed, "What have I done!" Pam knew Jenna was unbalanced.
Nope. The technical term for Priscilla’s performance is: mugging, acting from the neck up, pushing things over the top in an unnatural way, not believable human behavior, etc. she was very pretty, but not a skilled or accomplished actress, unfortunately. And as always…It is still okay to enjoy watching her work, of course!!!
@@thehair1474 lol. Well i do like her and she is so pretty. the thing is, i remember laughing a lot at those movies, but just like when she played Jenna, she was not memorable, as in , i dont remember anything about her performances as an actress.
@@Mister_ListenerLeslie Nielsen and the rest of the Naked Gun casts were so sensational that you could tolerate Priscilla, and ignore the wretched OJ. Nielsen thought she was a moron, but then he was none too bright either, lol.
Maine Individual Linda Gray left when Dallas was dead . Principal left and killed the show. Even though ratings dropped because of dream season, her departure killed Dallas.
Teri Kay I know right.. she said the writing was not good at all.. but she still should have stayed or at least did cameo appearances in the reunion series, but no ooo she had to do her skin care line Principal skin care line.. well it paid for for her at least... her net worth is over 150 million .. higher than any other actors on the show ..
Jenna forced her hand. Pam had to hurt her feelings. Ps. As close as Pam and Lucy were, I found it strange that she didn't know about the wedding nor was she invited.
@@spicyhot2552 Tbh, Val left Gary when she caught him with Abby as he begged and pleaded before settling with Abby. Abby said it herself the first Mrs. Ewing never goes away and she NEVER did 😂.
Gary and Val married three times with the last time being in April 1991 one week before Dallas finished and as we saw in both the Knots mini-series and then the reboot, they're still married.
Jenna and Ray was a strange combination from the beginning. They had no chemistry at all, it was just playing on the girlfriend swapping past between Bobby and Ray. The Jenna character as played by Morgan Fairchild was written as a gold digger, and fit that mold much better, it was awkward to frame her as virtuous in the later seasons as played by Priscilla Presley.
Jenna wasn't meant to be boring. But Priscilla P. was. She couldn't act. Has the blame to be put on the writers? Jenna was a strong (manipulative?) woman (when created by Morgan Fairchild) and a threat. This whiny Jenna was born before the "dream". Priscilla P. had no charisma, no nothing. I guess the staff had to adjust to that reality. She had A name, she was a Special Guest Star. Just like Christopher Atkins.
Victoria Principal was for me the best looking woman on the show, which is saying something cos there were plenty of contenders. She was in that sweet spot that exists between the 'girl next door' and a supermodel (don't ask me to explain that guys cos I'm not really sure of the answer myself) but suffice to say in a parallel universe if VP was my lady then I would be the happiest bloke on the planet.
"After the divorce" says Patrick "I thought Boy Bobby will start dating like crazy". The producers said no I had to be good. But we were always sort of getting back together because the couple was so firmly established in the minds of the audience that scriptwriters couldn't walk away from it. ^
Jenna was mooch even in Pam's dream! What's with all of the subtle car accident, etc., references. Maybe Pam's dream foreshadowed her and Christopher;s future car problems!
Notice the fancy paintings on the wall of the staircase. They were trying to fancy up Southfork, making it more like Dynasty, after Dynasty beat them in the ratings, the previous year.
J.R. White - True. The entire interior of the house was redecorated with fancier furnishings while the Ewings were at the hospital watching Bobby croak. Definitely due to Dynasty’s influence.
Ok...yeah Priscilla Pressley's acting does kinda suck here. The thing is that it works so well on the "Naked Gun" series. That's because it's an outlandish comedy and Pressley's over-dramatic theatrics (almost like a *parody* of soap-opera acting) plays off well against Leslie Nelsen's deadpan comedy, adding to the humor. But in a situation like this where we're supposed to take her stilted, over-the-top sobbing deliver *seriously*, it just falls flat.
"when Pamela went nuts and was admitted in a mental hospital I thought the time had come for Bobby to run off the rail... But he continues as before. There I was trekking off to the hospital everyday with flowers and sympathetic expression when I really feel like giving her a good slap". Patrick says the producer want to keep Bobby a Polly Pureheart who would never abandon his wife. The viewers would just never accept him going off with another woman. Duffy points out:"It's a pity but I'm stuck with boring Bobby".
What a great soap opera , I still enjoy their drama , Kept me in suspension , I miss Larry J.R Hackman , He died in 2012 , I guess, I believe in resurrection , Im hoping to see many good people again, It is a continually sad feeling 😢😢😢knowing about departures of our fellow humans, Only Jesus spoke about eternal life, I cannot let go of him. He will bring us back alive. 😊🙂😇Rejoice.
I wish they had come up with another way to bring Bobby back in season nine instead of the dream explanation. There were so many well written scenes in season eight including this one that were discarded and could have fueled the story lines in later seasons.
I know this was the dream season, but Bobby died and before he died, he was going to break things off with Jenna, then he died and yet Jenna’s still at Southfork even though she isn’t a Ewing by marriage or blood, so if anyone doesn’t belong there, it’s her.
I prefer Jenna over Pam....Pam was such a loud-mouth goody-two-shoes.....She was always trying to control everything to fit her and what she wanted......She left Bobby 3 times.....Some love!!!!!!
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The problem with Jenna was that, without Bobby, she had no reason to be on the show. Pam at least being a Barnes and the mother of a Ewing had a reason to be there, whether Bobby was there or not, or whether she was involved with him or not. I guess that's why they hooked Jenna up with Ray, even though they had zero chemistry, to try and keep her relevant.
He says of Victoria Principal who plays Pamela. "I have never even conversed with her off the set. But on set we have a great working relationship I think it's because we play such a lousy people". __________ Being paired with VP (whom Duffy calls "the upstage artist of the world") was difficult at first. "We were in constant state of competition, we were very territorial in front of the camera and it was a strain". Their relationship improved during Dallas' third season when Duffy made his debut as a director. "I developed an appreciation for her and I think for the first time she started to trust me".
It seems it may have been a so called rebound relationship Bobby and Jenna had. Plus the passion of the old days, since Jenna was his first(?) love and so forth.
I don’t believe there’s any correlation with Ginger Alden here. Ginger was merely someone that came into Elvis’s life too late to save him from himself. However, I do agree that Elvis would have lived longer if he had stayed married to Priscilla, but not for the same reasons I think you believe. It’s my opinion that Elvis wasn’t ‘in love’ with Priscilla, although he did love her, ie, in the sense of how a parent loves a child. Even so, Elvis would have remained married to Priscilla (if Priscilla could have tolerated a virtually sexless marriage) and therefore his ego would not have been so badly bruised as a result of her publicly leaving him for Mike Stone, from which I don’t think he ever quite recovered, and from which I believe contributed to his decline. Tall order I suppose for many women!
Oh wow you really think Elvis couldn’t do without her???? He done just fine, she was the one that kept in contact with him for the money & who in their right mind would leave Elvis for Stone???? It was her that said he never touched her that was her excuse for her affairs, he didn’t make up excuses!!!!
I didn’t like the way they both treated Jenna! In the end Bobby became so annoying it was a blessing that he got killed off and then he came back 1 year later! I was like WTF?
Luke Barley you are right when you say Morgan would have had bigger balls than Priscilla and I think Morgan could have really evolved that character into the likes of someone like Kristen. Morgan was hands down the best looking beauty on Dallas. I did like Pam and you are right; she was whiny and difficult. Bobby put up with too much of her childish antics. Any other man would have served her divorce papers in matter of weeks. Pam always tried to play that goody goody role but deep down she was a good diggger. Garnett McGee and Sue Ellen both called her out on it in Season 1 and 2. Priscilla skated on her last name. That is the only reason she got that role.
I liked Priscilla Presley as Jenna but i do wonder if Dallas only hired her because of who she was which i think would have been unfair to Priscilla in a way.I also wonder if Dallas wanted Jenna to be sympathetic to the audience and so they might have known Morgan Fairchild wouldn't be able to play her that way.
I wonder if Dallas didn't want to bring Morgan Fairchild back to play Jenna because they knew she would play Jenna as a tough character and Dallas wanted Jenna to be a somewhat sympathetic character.Plus when Dallas brought Jenna back Katherine was around and so Dallas may not have wanted two manipulative women going after Bobby at the same time.
Jenna was, 'all shook up' by pams comments. She probably thinks Pams 'the devil in discise. ' The whole situation could of avoided if Bobby said to Jenna regarding Pam, She's 'always on my mind.' Bobby obviously loves Pam she's his 'Angela' What would of been awful is if Pam asked Jenna, 'Are You Lonesome tonight?" Now Bobby's dead. While alive it's clear Bobby wanted to give Pam 'A Big Hunk o' Love' The next day Jenna was seen 'Crying in the Chapel.'
@Ana Quinn I haven't watched the originals in a long time, but as I recall, Pam moved out when her mother tried to intercede in the feud between JR and Cliff and was killed in a plane crash as she was trying to help Cliff. Later she was going to tell Bobby she wanted to get back together, but Katharine showed Bobby a letter that she claimed Pam had typed to her lawyer which said that basically she was going to get back with Bobby, even though she no longer loved him. So Bobby beat her to the punch and told her he was letting her go. Neither of them wanted it, but JR and Katharine tricked them both into thinking the other wanted out. That scene where Bobby told her he wanted the divorce just broke my heart. Here's the clip: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kRBL3QRhyGI.html
I've been watching a ton of Dallas clips and I have come to the conclusion that Pam and Jenna should have hooked up. Bobby is an idiot to want Pam when he could have had Jenna. Jenna is a total moron. So to balance the scales putting Pam and Jenna together puts a grounded person with a moron saves everyone from a big headache. Pam is still a tasty dish but she is practical.
