Oh wow! How sad. This season we said goodbye to Ray, Sue Ellen and a final farewell to Pam - awful, just awful that the show lost such fine actors and characters. I remember Steve Kanaly saying that the producers told him that they had to lose an 'arm' in order to save the 'body' - how wrong they were! The audience wanted the original characters in not the bunch of weak younger ones like James and Cally. The show died a death not long after. Sad; just terribly sad, I'm sure the cast knew it!
They need to bring Ray back on a more permanent role on the new Dallas. It would also be good if the new Dallas brought back some of the old music back from the original Dallas. Going to be weird this season without Jr. Hopefully they'll have the picture of Jr and they'll make him still feel a part of the show. Kinda what they did with Jock's portrait
Sad. Steve was let go after Priscilla Presley left the show. I wish they had kept Ray and Donna together. Susan was let go too, they both wanted to stay and probably would have stayed until the end, in 1991
I believe that DALLAS spelled KREBS with TWO "B's". "K R E B B S" . I could be wrong. Ray and Donna never should have broken up and never been let go by the producers. I am very fond of the piano-theme music that they used for Ray going all the way back to when Jock and Digger Barnes were still on the show.
I thought the relationship with Jenna should never have advanced beyond the platonic stage. I could never have seen a marriage between them working out ..... though moving far away was a good start.
StreathamG, so true about the original cast leaving one by one. The new characters were terrible, made the show worse and the ratings proved it! I did not watch as much after the "Dream Season". Still one of the greatest shows ever!
Poor old Ray had reached the end of the line. There wasn't very much more they could do with the character. He could only say, "Well, Bob, I'm just a ranch hand, I wasn't born into all this money" so many times. A few episodes before this, he and Jenna were arguing with Charlie, and Jenna said, "Don't you give me that, young lady!" At that point, I knew that all of these characters had come to the end of their rope. When you're reduced to petty arguments with a teenager, your time is up.
Did JR and Bobby ever realize that Ray was their half-brother? Yeah, Jock was his father....feel free to post the answer if anybody knows. Boy, Ray was such a class act...as was Bobby.
@MrsBobbyJamesEwing Donna didn't want to be with Ray. Though I wish she did .... they could have had Ray eventually move to DC and been involved in ranches in Virgina and Maryland, plenty of opportunity there.
i love the background music.. It plays in the later parts of dallas whenever RAY IS AROUND.. Does any1 know where i can find or get or who created this beat in the back ground
that's true and although Ray was not her son but she treated him as he was. I'm glad to see Miss Ellie not brake down into tears over him leaving like she did with JR. Bobby and Gary in the early days of the series.
Kinda sad. I wish that they had let Ray be evil for more than just the first season and part of the second. The show had a certain element when he was evil and Kanaly acting is better also when he plays the evil and angry parts.
Ray did the deed first...but Sue Ellen was drunk and started it.........all so Rays' relationship with Lucy was never mentioned again once Ray learned he was a Ewing. To bad they never did reslove that issue...it would have been interesting to see them Deal with the News of Ray being a Ewing....you can imagine it would make them uncomfortable for a while.
Larry Hagman's got a deep-buzz going here; it's SO sad - that booze wrecked his ability to get under our skin. Katzman and Jacobs tried to make up for the hole with wild plots (Europe, Russia, Anglica, etc.) but if Larry (JR) had've just dumped the champagne, the show would have soared back to #1.
@@bette1908 It was established that Jenna lived in Europe before so that would make more sense as she was was the one who wanted to move there and besides Ray barely knew Gary
The biggest continuity error was Ray banging Lucy who turned out to be his half neice. It was Larry that ordered that the Ray character would be revealed as Jocks son. However it was never ever mentioned that Ray was screwing his neice. It didn't matter that he banged Sue Ellen but Lucy?
Ray became enemies with JR, when JR slept with Ray's girlfriend Garnet MCgee. I find it funny because way before that, Ray slept with Sue Ellen one night she and JR had a huge fight. I think this was like maybe 4 or 5 episodes in the first season. Ray became unbearable when he and Jenna became involved and he turned into a real ass. He was constantly ragging on Charlie. No wonder why she ran to bobby, Ray slept w/every main Female Character in the show except Miss Ellie.
Actually I have and Ray was never evil. Bit of a philanderer maybe, a jack the lad but at what point did he ever do anything that could be construed as 'evil'?
@daddy1046 So Jenna can't date while pregnant with Bobby's baby? Maybe the guy who got her pregnant should have thought about it before he got her there. Yes, the possibility she wasn't going to be his quasi second wife. Donna seemed more interested in the sleazy Senator at this time ... a shame because I liked Donna and Ray.
That's not true , The actor that played Ray was going to leave awhile ago. It was Larry Hagman's idea to make Ray Jock's son so he would have a new storyline .
It was also his doing that Sue Ellen come back. The actress asked for money and they fired her. Larry Hagman said you can't have a JR without Sue Ellen and had them bring her back . He was going to quit the show if they didn't bring Linda Grey back.
