Who Was Larry Hagman? 

I met Larry Hageman at a bar in Texas. He was a class act.

I never knew how much I wanted to know about Larry Hagman until you told me. 😀

One of my mother's closest friends ran around with Larry Hagman at Weatherford HS. She smoked and died of lung cancer. Larry even came to the hospital when she was on her deathbed. When my mother came to visit her, my mother said she got the VIP treatment because they thought she was with Larry Hagman.

In early 1991 I lived in Romania for 3 1/2 months while processing the adoptions of my children through a very uncooperative system. I rented a small studio apartment during my stay. I had no radio or TV for entertainment, but the thing I looked forward to every night at the same time, was hearing the Dallas theme song through the walls. I was very homesick because I was there much longer than I thought I would be, and that was a little taste of home every night. I never new the back story on why Dallas was on their TV every night, so thank you for sharing.

My Grandpa was still alive when Dallas hit the airwaves in 1979. He was very religious due to his experiences during the Depression and throughout his life, and he wouldn't watch it because of the flagrant immorality of all the bedhopping and affairs that the characters had. My Grandmother, however, loved the show and watched it every week. I really got into it as well because hey, we're Texans and the whole oilfield and cattle thing was close to our lives (I'm sitting on my ranch looking out the window at an oil drilling rig a mile away across the valley as I type this) and I thought it was pretty cool the way JR always outwitted his opponents, set them up, and used their own proclivities against them... In fact I was SO into the show that my nickname in high school given to me by my ag teachers was "Ol' J. R." (my first and last initials). I miss the 80's... it was a great time in America... not like now... Later! OL J R :)

I met Larry Hagman once at the Love Run charity motorcycle ride in Los Angeles. He was the Grand Marshall and I was covering it for a biker magazine. We had an interesting but unusual conversation.

J.R. Ewing was the greatest television character until Tony Soprano came along. Much respect to Larry Hagman.

I met Larry Hagman when I was a waiter around 1992. I served his table. This was in NYC and he was wearing a cowboy hat. He was at least 50 lbs overweight and his head had a constant shake or twitch. He spoke very slow with long pauses. He looked prematurely old.

That was a great 80 minutes. It was nice to hear that Larry Hagman was a real mensch and a good friend. Sad to hear about the deterioration of his beloved wife at the end. That was a downer. Very sad. Thank you, Mark. You’re very pleasant company and a great story teller. And thank you, Eric. Best of luck with the hand tomorrow.

Larry Hagman was a big supporter of organ donation. He did several appearances at organ recipient groups. My friend's little sister was a recipient of an organ at a very young age. At one of these get togethers, they met Larry. It think they were either young teens or tweens at the time and Larry decided to show these 2 young girls his scar from his surgery. My friend was completely mortified. She would say she saw parts of Larry Hagman she never wanted to see. Looking back it's pretty funny.

When I was young I saw a Larry Hagerman interview and I can't remember exact quote but they said what does it feel like playing the Bad Guy the Heavy on Dallas as JR, and he said no problem even Peter Pan had a knife.☺

you can tell larry meant a lot to you mark. thanks for sharing the stories. larry sounds a like a fun guy to hang out with. loved him on i dream of jeanie.

I wasn't sure if I was going to watch this episode because I'm not usually interested in Hollywood stuff but I loved it! Thanks Mark, you made it a great story!!

Fabulous!

I have realized listening to Mark tell these stories that I am a very, very , very boring person 😂

Beautiful storytelling. I know this was about Larry, and the salt of the earth came through, but I loved Robert Conrad and the Wild, Wild West.

I when I was in Sweden, I ate Filmjölk. It was nothing but sour milk just like plain yogurt. You poured it in a bowl put cornflakes and sugar on it. It was very good.

Great 👌 show

Love that line Mark said:. You know if we are doing a show on Larry Hagman, that there must be something more ........

Another awesome show. At 55 I was a kid during “Dallas”. I used to watch reruns of “Dream of Genie” Dallas was a big, big deal.

Dallas was my all time favorite show

Grew up watching these stars nice to hear the other side of them ,good story

I haven’t enjoyed story time this much, since I was 5 years old!❤️

I loved this, thank you! I loved Larry Hagman and am charmed / thrilled to hear about his marriage, his uprightness, his quirkiness & humour....all filtered through Mark's hilarity. Laughed and laughed, once again thank you!

Guys you make it interesting every time, I'm from Denmark, saw the show as a kid - and thanks to American and English TV I'm fluently speaking English, even with accents. You guys are doing a great job 😊

Mark, thank you for sharing that part of your life with Larry Hagman. I always loved Larry Hagman - especially in I Dream Of Jeanie. He did an amazing job of acting and covering up his own sweet personality while portraying JR on Dallas. It was cool that he was in the Air Force, since he played an Air Force officer on I dream Of Jeanie. Thank you, again.

What a great friendship. Thank you so much for sharing with us. Eric, your reaction to Mark’s great storytelling is priceless.

In 1962, our family went to Dallas State Fair Park Auditorium to see the Sound of Music broadway musical version starring Mary Martin as Maria!

As an ole boy from brazos county...his only sin was shooting the buzzard. Damn I love you boyz, hope yall are having a great winter somewhere, cause it's 74 degrees + here atm

I loved Seahunt!

Larry, Linda Grey and Patrick Duffy regularly visted England. They were always on daytime talk shows. They appeared to be inseparable. Their sense of humour and bond came right through the telly. Larry must've supported Patrick when his parents were murdered.

When I was 13 yrs, my parents 'made-me-wear' designer jeans with "JR's my sugar daddy" on the back right pocket. Learnt a new term. All the moms and teachers thought it was funny. Classmates thought it was cool. Visited Germany just after JR'd been shot. EVERYONE asked us if we knew who shot JR? We were from Houston. Oh the disappointed faces. Thanks Mark. The best episodes are those from your heart. Sounds naff but true.

Fantastic show guys. I’m watching it twice. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

We put legalizing marijuana on the ballot in Alaska in 1999. I knew Hagman was an advocate of marijuana legalization so we sent a fundraising letter to every Larry Hagman we could find hoping we got a contribution. We got a check for $10 from a Larry Hagman. I wish we had kept the check for it's signature which had to make it worth more than the ten dollars it was made out for.

Sea Hunt and Sky King followed by wrestling and roller derby were Saturday morning shows for me as a kid in SoCal.

Fascinating and funny at the same time. I grew up watching Dallas. J.R. was the ultimate anti-hero. RIP Larry. Great work guys.

If I heard this from anyone else but Mark I wouldn't believed a thing.

What really surprised me was that Hagman attended Bard; this says a lot about him.

I always wanted to be JR Ewing, Now I Want To Live Like Larry Hagman with a Awesome Friend like Marc, what a Life

I loved this episode and as always its so intriguing and fascinating hearing all the tid-bits you'd never hear if it weren't for Mark! Thank you for sharing them Mark, as well as your personal stories with him. I honestly think these episodes just get better every week. I ended up watching it with my mom. She was bored and I told her I had this to watch and she wasn't really keen cos she didn't like JR in Dallas but I reassured her, 'mom you're going to enjoy this, guaranteed you'll hear things about Larry you never knew'. She humored me. We had to pause half way through but she couldn't wait to get back into it. She still doesn't like JR but she was thoroughly entertained. Safe to say she's going to want to watch more of these with me. She also agrees that Mark is an excellent storyteller!

Absolutely love your content !! Why this channel does not have 100k + subscribers ?! It’s so entertaining while deeply informative, thank you so much to both of you for this great work.

Aside from Dallas an I Dream of Jeannie, I remember Larry Hagman from the anti-smoking ad from the 80s.

this was a good one. grew up with Dallas in comunist romania . . . this is the only thing we had smuggled in

Larry Hagman was doing a remake of "Dallas" at the time of his death... sort of "Dallas: The Next Generation". They got Patrick Duffy to reprise his role as Bobby, and recruited Brenda Strong as Bobby's new wife. It was mainly supposed to be a show about Bobby and J.R.'s kids vying for control of Ewing Oil, sort of taking up where Bobby and J.R. had left off when the series ended (well, where the TV movies ended since they did crank out 1 or 2 after the series ended IIRC). BUT as it ended up the show mainly ended up focusing on Bobby and JR since they were the main draw of the series. They ended up in some improbable situations with the cartels and drugs and stuff and they even brought back Cliff Barnes whom JR set up one last time, since he "knew he was dying", mirroring Larry Hagman's own health decline in the show, because he knew he couldn't keep doing the show anyway. He died shortly thereafter. The show finished it's second season IIRC without him and then wasn't picked up again, and that was that. The whole show didn't really work well-- the world had moved on from the "greed is good" mentality of the 1980's which is what made the original show work so well back in the 80's, but even that was petering out by the early 90's which is why the show finally ran down and ended. BUT for awhile during the 80's there was a whole plethora of "lives of the rich and greedy" shows from Dallas, to Falcon Crest, Dynasty, the Dallas spin-off Knots Landing, etc. When I was last at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I went over and we toured Cape Canaveral Air Force Base (now Space Force Base) and they still had a life-size cutout of Barbara Eden in her "Jeannie" costume with a part of the museum dedicated to the show and it's popularity and impact on the space coast... it was pretty interesting. Lots of photos and stuff. So the show is still part of the culture down there. Similarly if you're in the Dallas area (north of Dallas anyway) you can still visit Southfork Ranch, they have a visitor center and "Miss Ellie's Deli" and some other stuff related to the Dallas TV show... Larry Hagman was one of a kind, and unfortunately, like John Wayne, I think we won't see his kind again...

I'm from Malaysia and Highland Towers is infamous in my country because of a tragic collapse of a condo building called Highland Towers that killed many and soon to be haunted(so they say)

Hey Mark, it sounds like your friend was a genuine treasure. I always liked the guy's acting and now every time I get to see one of his reruns I'll enjoy them all the more. Thanks for sharing. I especially enjoyed hearing about his wife and how much he loved her. My grandparents were married 55 years until Grandpa's death from cancer on their anniversary. He had one of my aunts give her a bouquet of roses with one yellow rose in the middle. It was something they used to do that no one had noticed until that day. Well ever after that day someone in the family would give Grandma a bouquet of roses, one yellow on their anniversary. It's the little details that make the sweetest memories.

Back in the 90s we all played trivia pursuit regularly and his mother Mary Martin along Fatty Arbuckle are two names that were the answer to several questions ... learned quite a bit from that damn game

Great story…

Thanks for all the stories of the late, great Larry Hagman. 😊

Another great video guys. Keep it up!

And of course, Larry was playing a "composite oil man" in NIXON at the Murchison mansion where they were hinting at the assassination the night before it happened -- but we all always assumed JR had been involved all along!

Great episode! Great story telling. Brought back some memories of that time. Enjoyed :)

Thank you so much for telling us such rich stories. I'm 76, so I can touch base with much of it! Thank ya, man. From a lifelong Texan. . .

Great stories.

just a newbie here great stories love em keep em coming guys im from australia

Of course Sea Hunt!! I loved it!

Aye regarding old world building on Franklin and Highland. Many of them in Hollywood and also the brick apartment buildings in and around Korea town. All built by previous unknown advanced civilization.

Love the stories about Larry Hagman. Thank You guys for another great Untold Story.

Great stories. Thanks for another terrific program, Eric & Mark!

WOW .. Mark ,, brilliant story. Thank You .. brought my whole life back to mind. You obviously have a big heart and I appreciated so much you sharing your personal relationship with Larry. Touching beyond explanation !!! 😍😘 EPIC !!!

In 1985 when I first joined the Canadian Army during a compass march exercise we had a rest break and a Sergeant caught 2 guys "having fun". Back then, they sent them to Military prison!

I’m from Los Angeles, but proudly live in Texas nowadays for the last 15 years. Honestly, I am not surprised about this story of Hunter stew. Texans are definitely a different breed.❤

Bloody hilarious show

Thanks guys, this is one of the best episodes so far. All of them are good, and I am always looking forward to the next episode. No doubt AUS is the best RU-vid has to offer. Thank you.

Mark so cool you were close friends with Larry Hagman! What an interesting guy. My only connection is my mother was childhood friends with Jon Eicholtz (Barbara Eden's husband) growing up in Topeka KS. She met Barbara at a Topeka High reunion. Ms. Eden really loved Larry and he was her dear friend.

Best movie part Larry Hagman played was the Colonel in The Eagle Has Landed. Serious war movie, but his acting was great.

I remembered Sea Hunt! Was put together pretty good considering.

I came here for JFK. I have always liked Larry Hagman. I have a whole new level of respect for Larry

“I Dream of Jeanie” was my dream girl. As a kid I thought all women would be like Jeanie. Barbara Eden was my dream girl for many years. 😆🇺🇸

I always had a crush on Larry. Thanks for sharing💖

NEVER MISSED NOT ONE DALLAS SHOW

Great stories, an episode full of things I did not know. Perhaps a show or series on Howard Hughes, someday ?

surprisingly interesting episode. my first time watching!

Another fascinating, warm, and humorous story. Thanks again Mark and Eric.

Good show

I love these stories!

So miss him

I laughed so much !! Thank you 😊👍🏻🤣

Thanks guys! I'm still catching up on episodes but they are all fascinating.

Another great story of an actor I grew up with. Good storytelling, Mark. Thanks 👍

Really liked this one

Very interesting. I remember being surprised to see Larry appear in The Eagle Has Landed, when I first saw it in the 80s.

Great show guys, great bio of Hagman👍🏻

Great episode. My favorite since box of broken dreams.

Fabulous as always...good luck on Friday, Eric! Sending Prayers and positive energy!

This is awesome... JR is my hero

My dad grew up near Weatherford when Mary Martin was a teen. Dad said she would come to the door in a negligée when he delivered food from his parents’ diner. He moved to California about the same time she did to play baseball and ended up with the Yankees farm team just before the war. Hunting in Texas was dad’s favorite sport. We always had quail, dove, and venison frequently…No armadillo or weird stuff.

I DREAM OF JEANNIE was my favorite show as a child. Barbara Eden was so beautiful and was amazing as Jeannie. Larry Hagman, the handsome lead, and very good at physical comedy. What a great show!

Gfeat show! Always liked Larry Hagmondo

32 minutes into it. And, really happy. I hope I don’t get let down later. It’s been a long time since I thought of Larry Hagman. Years ago I had been told some not so admirable things. But, to me he’s always.

Love this story! His Texan father is badass

Met Larry at Now Where but Texas. JR in Dallas

Thanks for the Hagman stories! To say the truth, initially I was not very interested. But I’m glad I watched it. Funny stories! Also, it’s nice to see your soft side Mark.

He was hilarious as Major Nelson! 😂

My dad used to do that to me each summer. Also, love me some Joan Collin’s.

JR Ewing was based on HL Hunt, 1 of the architects-financiers of the JFK Assassination. Everything circles back to Dealey Plaza, or so it seems.

Mark would be that 1 guy in your friends circle that you absolutely invite to every party.

Of all the great episodes, this one might be my favorite so far. Maybe because my expectations were lower, but this was Mark at his best. You could tell he was emotionally invested and I am grateful he shared these great stories about a larger than life legend and friend of his. As a child of the eighties, it is hard to describe the popularity of Dallas. When you say everyone knew about this show, you really mean to say everyone.

GREAT SHOW. FROM A PROUD TEXAN.

@1:19:05 an Orson Welles one would be good. He is someone that I've long considered to be one of the best actors and directors of all time.