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He got 2 consecutive Emmy nominations early in the show's run. He should have also been nominated for Season 7 and also should have won at least once.

Randy King, Larry Hagman knew how to make himself appear VERY believably dangerous, ☠️ scary 😨 and threatening.

So is Ken Kercheval

Ohhhhh yea, one of the best ever to do it! IF you haven't done so yet, one day you might want to watch the series. They don't make em like they used to thats for dam sure. Semper.Fidelis

I bought the first 4 seasons on Prime.....best purchase ever!

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Here's a fun fact. Sting lived above a Chinese Takeaway growing up in Newcastle, England, while George Michael's Family lived above a Fish & Chip Shop where his Mother once worked then helped him out at The Restaurant her Husband owned called Mr. Jack's, which was a Greek Restaurant. In England they are known as Takeaways. Alot Of Boy Band/Girlband Icons worked in Cafes/Bars/Restaurants before hitting The Big Time.

Cliff didn’t hold a candle to JR.

He would be President Barnes.

Yeah, also Digger "Lied" to his Children about what really happened. He was so ashamed at his downfall it as easier to blame Jock than himself. Over the years so many Shows from Degrassi, Another World, and Roseanne have had episodes where folks find out the truth and as hard as it is they accept it.

@@laminage I like how you mentioned Degrassi and Another World.

@@a.b.s_productions Why thank you! I live in Canada and Another World was first broadcasted in 1972 until it's cancellation in 1999. Also I loved watching Degrassi on Monday. Also here's another fun fact. Ted Shackleford played Ray Gordon on Another World and Larry Hagman was on it's Sister Show The Edge Of Night. He was also in The Movie The Group based on The Chick Lit Novel by Mary McCarthy.

I hated how they made Cliff into someone who was pure evil in the revived series. That never sat well with me and was not how Cliff in the original series was. I did not like that and I did not like they had Bobby's wife in the revived series end up having feelings for her ex husband who was abusive. If the series had gone on I bet she would have cheated on Bobby. Also did not like how much they changed the look at f Ewing oil/ Ewing Energy and Southfolk.

And to think that Robert Foxworth lamented about losing out on the role of JR to Larry Hagman. I can't see Foxworth doing justice to the JR character. However, Hagman had some guest starring roles in TV series that got him prepped for the JR character. Check out the previous TV characters he played in Police Story; The Streets of San Francisco; and Barnaby Jones . . .they were all variations of the JR character . . . charming when he had to be, but underneath, scheming and conniving.

Yes, that got me too. LOL Well, at this point in the series, Barnes kind of was a cheap man. But that was because, at this time J. R. was already very wealthy, while Cliff was at most an upper-middle class lawyer and not a wealthy man. Remember that this was before his mother Rebecca bought him his own oil company. After that, and especially after Cliff hit his off-shore oil strike with Gold Canyon 340, when he narrowly dodged the attempt J. R. made to bankrupt Barnes Wentworth [Cliff's Oil company], Cliff was as rich as J. R. or maybe a little bit richer than J. R. Ewing was!! From that point on in the series, they were pretty much on an evenly matched footing, in terms of their overall wealth, much to J. R.'s chagrin.

Cliff Barnes is a spineless little weasel got a face like a bullfrog an very poor actor.

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@@tommacdonald9914 He's a very good actor. That's the character he was to play! He just could never out play J.R.

....with little man dreams.🤣 I liked Cliff's character best when writers kept him an attorney. He was no oil man.

Yes, he certainly was!!

He was one of the absolute best characters ever in television history as JR EWING.......PHENOMENAL

He was 1 in a billion

He made a good transition from I Dream of Jeannie to Dallas.

Shows you how good an actor Larry Hagman was. I grew up on Jeannie and while Dallas was quite the change in character, I loved the depiction of JR and Major Nelson

Larry Hagman was a phenomenal actor.

It was just the opposite for me. I didn’t even watch the first year of “Dallas” because I thought of him only as a comedian and there was no way he could pull off JR Ewing. He didn’t spend those early years in the theater 🎭 playing Shakespeare for nothing.

stephen mendoza JR was Grade A Gangsta

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In The Scrapbook about Dallas, they talked about how The Feud continued with The Second Generation with JR & Cliff. JR always "Won", no matter what.

RIP Ken!

yes indeed 2 great actors but of course R.I.P Larry Hagman aka JR

Yeah, too bad Hagman's performance was so underrated at the time.

I agree. This was a great scene between J.R. and Cliff. One of their first and biggest conflicts and it led to many more in the future.

+James Kennedy Actually, Hagman received 2 Lead Actor Emmy nominations around this time. Should have won at least 1 once.

Yeah, I'm glad Hagman's performance was recognized to some degree but imo, he deserved much more than a couple of nominations. He played the most popular character on television in what was, for several years, also the most popular series on television.

+ mikem987 Barnes, that magnificent bastard...

The icecold way J.R. looks Cliff in the eye. Never saw an other actor ever even come close to his portray of evil. Awesome!

@@gazepskotzs4 Those blue eyes of his where cold but devious and mischievous. He managed to be likable while doing it. He was also funny and had great quotes while intuiting peoples weaknesses...lol

It was improvised.

JR knew exactly how to strike!

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True but I've heard similar lines on other soaps, Greg Sumner said similar things on Dallas' spin off show Knots Landing

You're right. This Dallas always had a masculine edge while Dynasty put its ladies out front.

Amen to that.👍. Bet many fellas who enjoyed this were brought up watching it on their Mum's lap/sat with her etc so had no choice. So grew to adore it.❤

Word! JR was alot like Victor Newman on The Young & The Restless. He never dropped The Ball, and he kept his eye on The Prize. Cliff also knew JR "owned" him like a Punk. He didn't have a fraction of what JR has. Also although he's been a very successful Lawyer, and worked hard for "his", to many folks he's just the Fellow whose Daddy was a Drunk and whose Momma abandoned him.

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Agreed. There’s something about the lighting and Larrys dark eyebrows and hair combined with his acting that makes JR much more menacing than in the later years. Even though these people are all wealthy theres a homey rural down to earth feeling as well. Does that make any sense?

Double standards were just one of J.R.'s many flaws.

because woman can never be loyal sleeping with more than one Woman

because Women can never be loyal sleeping with more than one Man or Woman

@homebell4866 spoken like a sexist . Absolutely hilarious. It's obvious you've been hurt & now every woman has to pay for your insecurity that you have for them. It shines thru in your last statement. I'm laughing at your comment the same way you're laughing in your profile pic 🤣. And don't bother replying, cuz I'm not reading it...

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Arthur Name: True. JR was a master tactician. But being that way takes a real lack of morality and empathy toward your fellow human beings. Not to say that Cliff most times didn't deserve it, but still, most of the people JR hurt were people who didn't deserve it.

Matt Beeman : Yeah, Cliff wasted the better part of his life perpetuating a feud with the Ewings, that never should have happened in the first place. He destroyed his relationship with his mother, and every woman in his life, because he was always more obsessed with revenge and power, than with his personal relationships. Even Pam got feed up with him more than a few times.

Brilliant display of verbal destruction

That's why in those early years Sue Ellen was known as ''Quiver lips'' . Watch closely and you see why.

laminage Firth?

Can you imagine if there was the Technology then that they had now, JR would have destroyed Cliff Barnes.

Dang he looks so young.

@@jonstefanik9400 Yes! Sorry for the Late Reply. Also Sue Ellen's Mother played "Lisa" one of Julian Kaye's Clients in American Gigolo. Firth also acted in The Movie. Julian (Played By Richard Gere) pleaded with Lisa to confirm to Detective Sunday that they were "together" when Judy Rhineman was Murdered. She was too scared to tell feeling she'd be part of a Scandal. Also The Husband called Julian a "Liar" saying "My Wife Was With Me The Whole Time". Either it was one of one of two factors, either they "lied" to The Police, or The Husband watched them having Sex.

Yes, sadly enough Thorne Forrester on The Bold & The Beautiful had a history of going after Women that his Brother/Father were involved with or Married to. Caroline, Taylor, Donna, and of course Brooke, now he's with Katie. The only two were Macy & Darla but they were far below the Forresters since Macy's Mother was Sally Spectra the Knockoff Queen while Darla was a Worker at Spectra Fashions.

I thought it was the other way around in the previous generation. Ellie and Digger were an item before she married Jock.

Matt Beeman In the 1st season Jock said that Ellie and Digger had just a teenage flirtation. In the Early Years movie their relationship was more substantial. She at one point referred to him as her beau. She dumped him when she saw him passed out drunk and got with Jock instead.

But since J.R. is the one who is providing the wealth I think he deserves a little more loyalty.

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Astraldragon1 Back then, the mindset was totally different.

Most married men don’t cheat. Kind of stereotyping, on your part. Need more men like Obama, less like Trump.

J.R. White well Obama never cheated on his husband Michael.. The Trump bashing is really getting old. He’s help our country, ESPECIALLY our Military, economy etc.

I agree, best Dallas scene ever. Well written, acted. JR, who is synonymous with not telling the turth, gives that smile at the end because he knows he's telling the turth, and Cliff does too. There was something more important to him than Sue Ellen.

Stever99999, that line made me laugh 😁

I noticed the book shelves are the same as jocks den.

Can't really have Dallas without J.R.

Cliff was always trying to beat JR and never could he was always 5 steps ahead, cliff was sadly obsessed with doing it that it costed him almost everything, he even bankrupted his mother’s company trying to beat him and failed miserably.

Like JR always said your a cheap little man Barnes with little mans dreams, he was spot about him

I'd put Alexis Carrington right there with him.

Bloqk-16, he is was just as threatening even in plaid and with or without that 10-gallon Stetson hat.

stephen mendoza agreed. Love that jacket