I realize the popularity of the show kind of faded in the later years, but Dallas to me will always be an iconic tv show. There wasn't a show on tv like it before it was on tv or after it went off the air. Of course there were other soaps (Knots Landing, etc.), but Dallas was completely over the top. This show was king in it's day. Great memories of Friday nights as a kid, then getting up Saturday morning watching cartoons for four hours. Hard to believe this episode aired 25 years ago yesterday.
@Ligma - No, check the description, it aired May 3, 1991. In a little over 3 months from now it will be May 3, 2019 which will be 28 years since the finale.
@@gravyboy3072 Who the hell cares. JR is dead and so is Larry as you and I will soon be. Make the best of your life that God gave you on this earth. Stop watching soap operas and start living. Life will give you your own soap opera. If you let it; it may turn out better than Dallas.
Damn! I gotta say, I remember watching this finale as a 9 year old kid with my mom when it first aired back in ‘91. I think the episode ran for something like 2 hours maybe? But I only was allowed to watch the first half until 9pm when it was my bedtime. Mum filled me in the next morning on what happened. To this very day, I have never seen this ending with my own eyes until NOW! Thank you so much for uploading such a treasure!
I love that it ends with the same majestic music as usual. Instead of a “this is our last episode so it’s important we go out with silence.” Made it even more awesome and perfect for the series as a whole.
during the OG CBS run there was probably a little bit of black and then a commercial break. i do agree going hot into the credits is *very* jarring tho lol
JR was the most entertaining guy in tv for a decade. Hangman was genius. The original villian ppl loved to hate It's why this epusode rings so false. I'd buy JR telling the devil to get screwed before I'd buy he commited suicide
I grew up watching Dallas with my mom & aunt. It was never miss tv. We started watching during the first season when the episodes weren’t tied together as they’d be later. In the mid 80’s we drifted away. Just lost interest. Mom & I watched this finale though. Hadn’t seen Dallas in years. We both looked at each other and said “I miss watching this show.” It was so comforting to see again.
In the Return of J.R. movie they explained it. He shot the mirror. Bobby's reaction was the way it was because they maybe originally wanted to end the show like that.
This ending has a big bit of Twin Peaks in itself. Almost the whole (double) episode takes part in an unreal, surrealistic world, and the final scene is about a mirror, just like in that series. :)
This final scene scared the wits out of me when I first saw it as a kid. Only to watch JR return several years later. What a way to end the series: a cliffhanger!
The “Conundrum” cliffhanger wasn’t resolved until 1996, with the Dallas made for TV movie reunion, “Dallas: J.R. Returns.” It was revealed in the beginning of the movie that J.R. had not, in fact, shot himself, but he had instead shot the mirror where the spirit “Adam” was appearing to him.
@@jjmfrees I know right, I was thinking the same thing. With the quit dramatic reaction that Bobby had, it should have shown that JR actually did shoot himself...but scraped his head rather than the bullet going through. That would have given Bobby a better cause for his dramatic reaction.
The mirror explanation was just a way to do the reunion movies, blowing off what was likely meant to be JRs suicide. Anyway he dies in the tnt show very similarly with the help of bum.
I saw this episode, all those years ago, and can't remember exactly what happened. I seem to remember, the following episode, it turned out that JR shot the "devil in the mirror", which would've been in JR's character. Will have to see if there is a video clip to remind me what did happen. This show was over the top, both funny and entertaining in it's own unique way.
What I love about this finale is how it implies that despite years of being at odds, deep down, JR loved Bobby. When he sees the broken down, gambling addict bobby he's genuinely crestfallen (as opposed to how annoyed he is with a Val-less Gary) and he's scared for him as the alternate Bobby rolls the dice one more time against the alternate Carter McKay. And when he wins, he's overjoyed, he just knows "Bobby's back on his feet now!" and things will be okay for him. But as the mystery man says, "he'll have lost it all." But JR doesn't want to believe that. He doesn't want to believe the only reason Bobby was good was because he was bad. The man knows his brother, and respects him too much to believe that.
Yes that was pretty much an editing mistake but judging the true character of Jr there's no way he would have gone out that way. So the analogy of him shooting the mirror thinking he was shooting the devil according to the reunion movie Jr returns, makes a lot of sense in my opinion
I watched this alone in my room as a 10-year old. It was strange because Dallas was something I'd always watched in the presence of adults. Perhaps that spoke to the decline of the series in the popular consciousness. But the episode was pretty big news--I'd heard about it on the radio before it aired, for example, so I knew the basic plot going in and it was clear that the world still cared about the ending of the show. The episode is really a tour de force, I find it a huge downer on one hand, but it was intense and the cliff-hanger finale was no let-down.
@@frenchguiana-southamerica8978 That wasn't his son. That was his brother (Bobby). Bobby saw that J.R. had shot the mirror and said "Oh my God" because he was probably really confused as to why his brother had shot a mirror.
Anybody with common sense and who kept up with the show knows that after this the show came back and a couple of reunion movies and then the series rebooted, that Jr did not kill himself
In My childhood every Friday at noon and8 pm was Dallas Everybody was so excited to watch this show ,I loved that We hade to wait 1 week for an other episode sweet 90’s
This isn't a fucking 90s show. It began in '78 and is associated with the 80s. And everybody already knows how the concept of 'a weekly TV series' works, thanks.
Heyy y’all probably wouldn’t pay me no mind but I absolutely loveee Dallas I’m 20 years old and I watched the whole season with my mother we just finished the final scene last week, my mom would tell me how Dallas and Dynasty was the shows back then and in my opinion I feel like it still is, nowadays you don’t see a whole lot of seasons from different shows but I absolutely enjoyed this Gem.
For thirteen historic years, J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) has double-crossed his friends, betrayed his family and destroyed his enemies. On Friday, May 3, it’ll all be over. It’s J.R.‘s Judgment Day. DALLAS! Trust us. It ends with a bang!
Though Dallas lost me after the dream season I stuck with the series and Tele-movies. What is interesting when I watch these final episodes is my memories sitting with my grandmother watching them as my local TV station stopped screening Dallas. She lived in an area where her local TV station still screened it and she would tape them for me. She was the first I knew who purchased a video recorder as they were so expensive. Times have changed.
This ended up getting shown on Sunday early afternoons on BBC 1(the last season) in the UK. That's one of the reasons why the ratings were so bad. I only knew about this being the last episode from a newspaper TV listings. Utterly surreal ending. The whole "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Scrooge" homage(which has been done in many other TV and films - "Moonlighting" did it). Dallas never did things the usual way - but this was certainly a grand finale.
That's probably why I don't recall ever seeing this ending at the time. I remember JR being in a mental institute and trying to escape but not sure if this was in the previous series to the finale. I think the BBC also repeated all the series on mid afternoons during 90s, after Going for Gold with Henry Kelly lol.
@alanheath Thank you so much! Even if you don't find it, I thank you for your attempt. Forgive my cynicism, but I'm a little weary about this new Dallas show. You can't mess with a classic.
The closing theme song in this clip also is NOT from the series finale, as the series finale was extra long and slower. This one was one from another season 13 episode.
I've Remembered this scene for Years ever since my Childhood. I Remember those Glancing Red Eyes & that Devil Shouting "Do it". Funny how when you're young you seem to lock onto something completely different.
@Alf DarkDeadly I remember it being scarier as a 12 year old. I think because it was out of place for this show. I also thought until now that the actor playing the devil /demon was Dean stockwell but I have been wrong all these years. Quautum leap was on around this time.
THE FLUFFY CUTE TEDDY BEAR CHANNEL ROBINSON I remembered the Demon guy as being an average sized man (6 feet, maybe 180 or so) with a deep voice, who looked intimidating even in the white suit, then I come watch it again and he’s a shrimpy little skinny dude who looks like Martin short’s fraternal twin or something.
Perhaps the devil should be played by a jaw-droppingly handsome, impeccably-dressed, silver-tongued, perfectly-spoken, clever, cunning, convincing, charming, subtly-suggesting, smoothly-manipulating man to give the closest-possible human representation.
Buck Wild "Oh my God, what a nightmare." Yep, I saw the whole thing. The sad, sorry mess. Although watching Cliff Barnes become acting President of the United States was a nice surprise.
Ah, interesting. Thanks for the info. I have to say that I am already hooked on the new season. I was skeptical at first because of new actors but John Ross and Christopher are amazing. The network definitely chose the right actors. Glad to see Sue Ellen, Bobby and J.R. adding to the punch of the show. Sadly Cliff Barnes has lost his flare for me and I really miss Victoria Principle.
I know that at the time the origional series ended, it was claimed that CBS made the decision to cancel the show while this episode was in post-production and they didn't see it coming. However, honestly how would they have explained away this cliff-hanger if the show had returned for another season. And so far, they've only briefly mentioned this even in passing in the new series.
After I began watching Dallas early in the 2nd season; I quit watching in March of 1991 when my Ex-Wife & I busted up for good. It was kinda hard for me to get back into
So painful to watch this. Good God, after all the genius writing & acting over 13 years - what a horrible finale. Like a cheap episode of Fantasy Island.
What about St. Elsewhere. The Hospital Closes Down if I remember, then Donald Westphall comes "Home" to his Father Dr. Auschlander and his Son Tommy only to discover that it wasn't real but a fake. Then Tommy looks at a Fake Hospital and shakes the Toy.
@@gravyboy3072 My understanding from the documentary I watched was they had shot 5 episodes for the pilot when episode 5 took off gaining popularity they asked for an emergency shoot for more episodes for season 1 because the show was just starting to gain popularity. Mostly this popularity was due to the criticism it was receiving from Hollywood critics and the controversy it created around Dallas (the city) and them not wanting to be portrayed as they thought they were.
To those who claim Bobby stared downwards Most likely Bobby gazed at the broken mirror shards, then at J.R. with pistol in hand muttering about the Devil and definitely alive. Several years later, cue the reunion movie. P.S. Yes, I figured J.R. shot at the mirror instead of himself.
+Rgoid I turned 15 they premiered the final May 3 1991 this was a quarter century ago. I am turning 40 when I was 15 I actually thought he was dead and he would never come back. But if you think about it they had to do it that way to keep the door open for a come back of some sort. God I miss the ole days. With my 40th in a few days. God Larry I miss you RIP.
Even thought JR deserves everything that had happen to him, I actually feel sorry for him. He was such a popular character and a villain to actually root for. But you know what they say, you reap what you so.
Yes , I was feeling sorry for him at first but remembered all the people he had ruined .Walt Dricoll & Seth Stone commited suicide , Edgar Randolph in a mental institution , the list is endless .
4N Lover I didn’t count the 2012 version ever happening. Just too many inconsistencies. Cliff Barnes becoming a billionaire psychopath destined to destroy the Ewing’s ? He made peace with the Ewing’s in 1988
A lot of people don't like this episode, but I do. It was a takeoff on "It's a Wonderful Life." Too bad Donna Reed, who played Miss Ellie when Barbara Bel Geddes left for a season, had passed away by the time this first aired. Though the best seasons were the early ones when Jim Davis was alive, the show was highly watchable right to the end. The best way to see this series is on DVD and binge watching it from beginning to end. I bought the entire series and have spent this summer watching it. I only watched it a little bit when it originally aired. I am near the end of the 14th and last season. It was still a lot of fun to watch. I enjoy the in-jokes on this show including the final season. Larry Hagman's "I Dream of Jeannie" costar Barbara Eden appearing in several episodes, one episode showing the name of Leslie Moonves, then head of Lorimar and later CBO of CBS, as having a breakfast appointment with Carter McKay in McKay's appointment book, still made the series a lot of fun.
Supposably when they filmed this, in March 1991, they did NOT know they would be cancelled by CBS, so they didn't know this would be the last show. Also why Victoria Principal refused to take part, because they couldn't guarantee her this was it. in JR Returns in 1996, bobby said how Jr shot his mirror.
Ah, I had no idea John Ross and Christopher were seasoned actors. They are amazing on the show. I still can't believe I fell head over heels for this show already. I was huge Dallas/Knotts Landing fan back in the day so I am definitely the highly critical one when it comes to continuations or sequels. Can't wait for to see the next show tomorrow night. Yes, Elena is awesome....and hot too. :-)
A better series finale in '91,' would have been Bobby/Pam reunited, after a showdown with Katherine Wentworth, while JR attempts to murder Cliff, but is stopped by the shocking revelation, that Digger was his father / Cliff is JR's half brother.
Remember in the original Dallas Sue Ellen slept with both Cliff and JR and got pregnant with John Ross? JR and Cliff fought over John Ross until a blood test said that JR was John Ross' father. My dream storyline on the reboot would be John Ross finding out through a DNA test he is NOT JR's son; he is Cliff Barnes' son, making him the half-brother of Pamela Rebecca. It revealed JR paid a technician to switch his and Cliff's blood, JR knew John Ross was Cliff's son, but raised him as a means of revenge against Cliff, and probably why John Ross always felt like an outsider and was more aligned with Pamela Rebecca.
There is another episode after this -in fact there are 2 - It starts off with Bobby telling JR that he tried to shoot himself in the mirror - the two special episodes show JR having breakfast the next day -& has a continuing plot -they are both feature length films -to keep he book open - I will post what they are called -as I cant find them on you tube but i have got both -& I will try to upload them :)
The thing was the 2nd to last episode they actually wrapped up all the stories from the season and could have just ended the show with JR lying on the bed with the gun in his hand right there as the show ended this 2 hour finale was really a bonus to see what the show's cast lives would have been had there never been a JR Ewing
jr shots the mirror in the end, leaving an opened ending to this last show . when Dallas made a return to tv briefly jr was still alive. its like Joel is so handsome in this show.
I realize the popularity of the show kind of faded in the later years, but Dallas to me will always be an iconic tv show. There wasn't a show on tv like it before it was on tv or after it went off the air. Of course there were other soaps (Knots Landing, etc.), but Dallas was completely over the top. This show was king in it's day. Great memories of Friday nights as a kid, then getting up Saturday morning watching cartoons for four hours. Hard to believe this episode aired 25 years ago yesterday.
I just finished watching seasons 4 and 11-13 on dvd because I still enjoy this show. And my all time favorite character is J.R.
More like 36 years man.
@Ligma - No, check the description, it aired May 3, 1991. In a little over 3 months from now it will be May 3, 2019 which will be 28 years since the finale.
@@gravyboy3072 Who the hell cares. JR is dead and so is Larry as you and I will soon be. Make the best of your life that God gave you on this earth. Stop watching soap operas and start living. Life will give you your own soap opera. If you let it; it may turn out better than Dallas.
I was watching it with my parents. Ten years old. Didn’t understand why my mom was so upset. “That’s how it ends!”
Damn! I gotta say, I remember watching this finale as a 9 year old kid with my mom when it first aired back in ‘91. I think the episode ran for something like 2 hours maybe? But I only was allowed to watch the first half until 9pm when it was my bedtime. Mum filled me in the next morning on what happened. To this very day, I have never seen this ending with my own eyes until NOW! Thank you so much for uploading such a treasure!
lol I was 9 too, but I got to watch it all. Your mom sucks lol
i love how the credits blow off all the drama
Huh?
@@scottyclayton5604 he's basically saying the closing credits are way too happy considering a very dramatic scene just happened before it
@@skingerskanger Let's play the happy music..The soap opera Santa Barbara was good at that too. With the shows upbeat them song. XD
I love that it ends with the same majestic music as usual. Instead of a “this is our last episode so it’s important we go out with silence.” Made it even more awesome and perfect for the series as a whole.
during the OG CBS run there was probably a little bit of black and then a commercial break. i do agree going hot into the credits is *very* jarring tho lol
JR would NEVER have killed himself. Let’s all get real. 🤣
BIG FACTS
This show was the Sopranos of the 80's. Brilliant in every regard. You can re-watch every episode forever.
JR was the most entertaining guy in tv for a decade. Hangman was genius. The original villian ppl loved to hate
It's why this epusode rings so false. I'd buy JR telling the devil to get screwed before I'd buy he commited suicide
Lol gtfo. More like the inception of its era
The Sopranos is more high brow than Dallas.
Sopranos shits on this lmao
@@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock. sopranos would be nothing without twin peaks, dallas, and other series and movies that inspired it
i love the insane mood whiplash as the happy credits music starts playing
Dallas was the best TV show ever put on celluloid...even this gives me chills...ending it on a cliffhanger!
I remember being 10 years old and watching this when it originally aired with my grandparents.
I remember being 14 years old watching this with my grandma while my parents had a date night.
@@kristinadospoy7347how could your parents miss the finale rude LoL
@@MattJr4793 can't tell you
@@kristinadospoy7347 no worries about it really
I always loved the theme music to Dallas.
THIS AIRED 30 YEAR'S AGO 2 NIGHT, FRIDAY MAY 03RD, '1991, WOW HARD 2 BELIEVE "DALLAS" HAS BEEN GONE 30 YEAR'S NOW
I grew up watching Dallas with my mom & aunt. It was never miss tv. We started watching during the first season when the episodes weren’t tied together as they’d be later. In the mid 80’s we drifted away. Just lost interest. Mom & I watched this finale though. Hadn’t seen Dallas in years. We both looked at each other and said “I miss watching this show.” It was so comforting to see again.
Ended with the a cliffhanger, my God but we all know that JR went on to live another two decades before passing away !
Indeed! He shot the mirror.
Yeah, and thats great!
In the Return of J.R. movie they explained it. He shot the mirror. Bobby's reaction was the way it was because they maybe originally wanted to end the show like that.
I love the ending.
*bang*
"Oh my god.."
Commence cheery music!
Bobby: J.R. . . . What have you done?
J.R.: I shot at the Devil, Bobby . . .
With NO sound of shattered glass ?? XD
@@MrCraigblaze good point
@@MrCraigblazeprobably shot at the ceiling or wall instead.
I just turned eleven about two weeks prior and I still remember watching this the night it aired.
This ending has a big bit of Twin Peaks in itself. Almost the whole (double) episode takes part in an unreal, surrealistic world, and the final scene is about a mirror, just like in that series. :)
Since this would have been filmed in early spring of ‘91, it’s quite possible that the writers were thinking of Twin Peaks.
If Bobby didn't clean up the dirt on the floor Jr would be still alive if he went to him first
This final scene scared the wits out of me when I first saw it as a kid. Only to watch JR return several years later. What a way to end the series: a cliffhanger!
We instantly went from "Who Shot JR?" to "WAS JR SHOT?" :^P
Can’t believe it’s been 30 years since the final episode of the series
Me either
RIP Larry Hagman
I just finished all 14 seasons in 2 months and I am so disappointed in the last episode
Dam wasn't Bobby gorgeous and sexy as heck
Dam wasn't Bobby gorgeous and sexy as heck
We all were when it originally aired.
LOL, I love the upbeat, jaunty music after J.R. just blew his brains out.
But of course, he never did that.
We find out in a reunion movie a few years later that he actually shot the devil in the mirror.
boomzer t-man no he didn't. Bobby would not have been so SHOCKED over just some shattered mirror!
A Giant Sloar z
Yes he did
Take a look for yourself
th-cam.com/video/YhtuJ8xLpAk/w-d-xo.html
The “Conundrum” cliffhanger wasn’t resolved until 1996, with the Dallas made for TV movie reunion, “Dallas: J.R. Returns.” It was revealed in the beginning of the movie that J.R. had not, in fact, shot himself, but he had instead shot the mirror where the spirit “Adam” was appearing to him.
Bobby overreacts a bit, must’ve been his favorite mirror
@@jjmfrees I know right, I was thinking the same thing. With the quit dramatic reaction that Bobby had, it should have shown that JR actually did shoot himself...but scraped his head rather than the bullet going through. That would have given Bobby a better cause for his dramatic reaction.
if he had shot the mirror you would have heard the shatter but you didnt
The mirror explanation was just a way to do the reunion movies, blowing off what was likely meant to be JRs suicide. Anyway he dies in the tnt show very similarly with the help of bum.
Then why was Bobby looking down at the floor?
My parents let me stay up past my bedtime on Friday nights so I could watch this with them, so I was very sad when the show ended.
I saw this episode, all those years ago, and can't remember exactly what happened. I seem to remember, the following episode, it turned out that JR shot the "devil in the mirror", which would've been in JR's character. Will have to see if there is a video clip to remind me what did happen. This show was over the top, both funny and entertaining in it's own unique way.
What I love about this finale is how it implies that despite years of being at odds, deep down, JR loved Bobby. When he sees the broken down, gambling addict bobby he's genuinely crestfallen (as opposed to how annoyed he is with a Val-less Gary) and he's scared for him as the alternate Bobby rolls the dice one more time against the alternate Carter McKay. And when he wins, he's overjoyed, he just knows "Bobby's back on his feet now!" and things will be okay for him. But as the mystery man says, "he'll have lost it all." But JR doesn't want to believe that. He doesn't want to believe the only reason Bobby was good was because he was bad. The man knows his brother, and respects him too much to believe that.
Now I didn't hear a mirror shattered and the look that Bobby gave wasn't a look that Jr shot the mirror
Yes that was pretty much an editing mistake but judging the true character of Jr there's no way he would have gone out that way. So the analogy of him shooting the mirror thinking he was shooting the devil according to the reunion movie Jr returns, makes a lot of sense in my opinion
I watched this alone in my room as a 10-year old. It was strange because Dallas was something I'd always watched in the presence of adults. Perhaps that spoke to the decline of the series in the popular consciousness. But the episode was pretty big news--I'd heard about it on the radio before it aired, for example, so I knew the basic plot going in and it was clear that the world still cared about the ending of the show. The episode is really a tour de force, I find it a huge downer on one hand, but it was intense and the cliff-hanger finale was no let-down.
That must have been interesting as a kid, did you wonder why tge adults lost interest when u were a kid?
I loved the twisted "It's a Wonderful Life" theme this one had... and please.. JR was too self-centered to commit sucide! He shot the mirror!
Apparently he was. Remember, they had "The Return of JR."
He shot himself, because his son came in and said "oh my God"
@@frenchguiana-southamerica8978 That wasn't his son. That was his brother (Bobby). Bobby saw that J.R. had shot the mirror and said "Oh my God" because he was probably really confused as to why his brother had shot a mirror.
Anybody with common sense and who kept up with the show knows that after this the show came back and a couple of reunion movies and then the series rebooted, that Jr did not kill himself
@@frenchguiana-southamerica8978 no bobby is jr brother
In My childhood every Friday at noon and8 pm was Dallas Everybody was so excited to watch this show ,I loved that
We hade to wait 1 week for an other episode sweet 90’s
This isn't a fucking 90s show. It began in '78 and is associated with the 80s. And everybody already knows how the concept of 'a weekly TV series' works, thanks.
Bobby reacts before the shot! Priceless, as ever
No. The video is a split second faster than the audio.
What a terrific Devil Joel Grey made.
I like how dramatic the music is in this scene.
Heyy y’all probably wouldn’t pay me no mind but I absolutely loveee Dallas I’m 20 years old and I watched the whole season with my mother we just finished the final scene last week, my mom would tell me how Dallas and Dynasty was the shows back then and in my opinion I feel like it still is, nowadays you don’t see a whole lot of seasons from different shows but I absolutely enjoyed this Gem.
Please come back,best soap ever.
For thirteen historic years,
J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman)
has double-crossed his friends,
betrayed his family
and destroyed his enemies.
On Friday, May 3, it’ll all be over.
It’s J.R.‘s Judgment Day.
DALLAS!
Trust us.
It ends with a bang!
My favorite Dallas finale promo: th-cam.com/video/GJiDMhVdCLc/w-d-xo.html
Perfect ending for a perfect, legendary series! For me this WAS truly the END. 💜
Though Dallas lost me after the dream season I stuck with the series and Tele-movies. What is interesting when I watch these final episodes is my memories sitting with my grandmother watching them as my local TV station stopped screening Dallas. She lived in an area where her local TV station still screened it and she would tape them for me. She was the first I knew who purchased a video recorder as they were so expensive. Times have changed.
This ended up getting shown on Sunday early afternoons on BBC 1(the last season) in the UK. That's one of the reasons why the ratings were so bad. I only knew about this being the last episode from a newspaper TV listings.
Utterly surreal ending. The whole "It's a Wonderful Life" or "Scrooge" homage(which has been done in many other TV and films - "Moonlighting" did it). Dallas never did things the usual way - but this was certainly a grand finale.
That's probably why I don't recall ever seeing this ending at the time. I remember JR being in a mental institute and trying to escape but not sure if this was in the previous series to the finale. I think the BBC also repeated all the series on mid afternoons during 90s, after Going for Gold with Henry Kelly lol.
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I loved Dallas the first four to five seasons but it got crazy after that
I thought seasons 5 & 6 were the best .
@alanheath Thank you so much! Even if you don't find it, I thank you for your attempt. Forgive my cynicism, but I'm a little weary about this new Dallas show. You can't mess with a classic.
Loved that finale.
This is like a christmas carole without the happy ending. Anybody should be able to know he shot the mirror though. 😂
The closing theme song in this clip also is NOT from the series finale, as the series finale was extra long and slower. This one was one from another season 13 episode.
40th anniversary. Lot of love still with the fans and all.
Never put Baby's father (Jennifer Grey's dad, Joel Grey, played Adam in the episode) into a corner, or you will be sent to eternal hell.
The only one scene of dallas i clearly remember watching as a kid.
I've Remembered this scene for Years ever since my Childhood. I Remember those Glancing Red Eyes & that Devil Shouting "Do it".
Funny how when you're young you seem to lock onto something completely different.
@Alf DarkDeadly I remember it being scarier as a 12 year old. I think because it was out of place for this show. I also thought until now that the actor playing the devil /demon was Dean stockwell but I have been wrong all these years. Quautum leap was on around this time.
THE FLUFFY CUTE TEDDY BEAR CHANNEL ROBINSON I remembered the Demon guy as being an average sized man (6 feet, maybe 180 or so) with a deep voice, who looked intimidating even in the white suit, then I come watch it again and he’s a shrimpy little skinny dude who looks like Martin short’s fraternal twin or something.
Me too! This is the first time seeing it since I was ten. During the finale. Wasn’t as dark and spooky this time around.
Perhaps the devil should be played by a jaw-droppingly handsome, impeccably-dressed, silver-tongued, perfectly-spoken, clever, cunning, convincing, charming, subtly-suggesting, smoothly-manipulating man to give the closest-possible human representation.
Now that's what I call a Hell of a twist. :P
Does anyone else notice the four notes of The Twilight Zone theme at 1:20
Best ending ever
The Cowboys never won a Super Bowl while Dallas was on the air.
1:05 JR sums it up for anyone who sat through this entire finale.
Buck Wild "Oh my God, what a nightmare." Yep, I saw the whole thing. The sad, sorry mess. Although watching Cliff Barnes become acting President of the United States was a nice surprise.
Who would have thought, that Reality is much more of a (bad) surprise nowadays.... :/
Not really, the true Dallas fans still loved it!
Well I guess I'm not a true Dallas fan because I thought it was trash.
Buck Wild I
I was a senior in high school when I watched this finale just a few weeks before graduating from high school pretty amazing time. 0:57 0:57
Ah, interesting. Thanks for the info. I have to say that I am already hooked on the new season. I was skeptical at first because of new actors but John Ross and Christopher are amazing. The network definitely chose the right actors. Glad to see Sue Ellen, Bobby and J.R. adding to the punch of the show. Sadly Cliff Barnes has lost his flare for me and I really miss Victoria Principle.
I know that at the time the origional series ended, it was claimed that CBS made the decision to cancel the show while this episode was in post-production and they didn't see it coming. However, honestly how would they have explained away this cliff-hanger if the show had returned for another season. And so far, they've only briefly mentioned this even in passing in the new series.
After I began watching Dallas early in the 2nd season; I quit watching in March of 1991 when my Ex-Wife & I busted up for good. It was kinda hard for me to get back into
Doesn't make sense. JR did so much damage to so many people he was doing Satan's work all along. He's the kind of man he'd want to keep in the game.
God played Devil's Advocate and lost to JR
I like how they make it so it looks like the man shot himself, and then happy music starts playing lol
So painful to watch this.
Good God, after all the genius writing & acting over 13 years - what a horrible finale. Like a cheap episode of Fantasy Island.
What about St. Elsewhere. The Hospital Closes Down if I remember, then Donald Westphall comes "Home" to his Father Dr. Auschlander and his Son Tommy only to discover that it wasn't real but a fake. Then Tommy looks at a Fake Hospital and shakes the Toy.
@@laminage I always took that as a bit of a joke to give that show a light-hearted farewell.
@Dolinkski - It's season 14, the title of the video is correct. Season 1 only had 5 episodes, maybe that throws people off, but this is season 14.
@@gravyboy3072 My understanding from the documentary I watched was they had shot 5 episodes for the pilot when episode 5 took off gaining popularity they asked for an emergency shoot for more episodes for season 1 because the show was just starting to gain popularity. Mostly this popularity was due to the criticism it was receiving from Hollywood critics and the controversy it created around Dallas (the city) and them not wanting to be portrayed as they thought they were.
To those who claim Bobby stared downwards
Most likely Bobby gazed at the broken mirror shards, then at J.R. with pistol in hand muttering about the Devil and definitely alive.
Several years later, cue the reunion movie.
P.S. Yes, I figured J.R. shot at the mirror instead of himself.
+Rgoid I turned 15 they premiered the final May 3 1991 this was a quarter century ago. I am turning 40 when I was 15 I actually thought he was dead and he would never come back. But if you think about it they had to do it that way to keep the door open for a come back of some sort. God I miss the ole days. With my 40th in a few days. God Larry I miss you RIP.
+Rajesh Khullar It Was 25 Years Ago A Week Ago
+Rajesh Khullar yeah I said that on April 30th before my birthday lol
+Rajesh Khullar Happy late 40th, I wish you good fortune as you continue with life.
He didn't shoot himself...
It is on channel 149 on Sky TV in the UK, and is currently on season 10 episode 224.
this is soul crushing...
Great cliffhanger
Oh my god wow that music at the end made me laugh so hard- so inappropriate its amazing
It would have been interesting to have a few more episodes
Essentially the same character he'd later play in Buffy, Joel Grey was amazing in this.
The original Dallas run is currently showing on Sky and Freesat channel CBS Drama.
Since the movies didn't exist in the TNT reboot, how did they explain this scene?
Even thought JR deserves everything that had happen to him, I actually feel sorry for him. He was such a popular character and a villain to actually root for. But you know what they say, you reap what you so.
+JR Ewing Kind of like Mr. Burns>
Yeah, when you come to love the villain so much despite their horrible deeds, you have to feel sorry for them on occasion.
Yes , I was feeling sorry for him at first but remembered all the people he had ruined .Walt Dricoll & Seth Stone commited suicide , Edgar Randolph in a mental institution , the list is endless .
@@paulgerkin2851 He was a villain you love to hate.
If he did shoot the mirror, why didn’t we hear the glass shatter?
Good point. Bobby looked round before the shot as well
@@sarahdent2600 you’re right. A split second before he stopped and turned.
We all know bullets can't kill JR.
I spit just now lmao, lmao, lmao
Actually it did kill him in the end.
blastardinc but in the end it did
4N Lover I didn’t count the 2012 version ever happening. Just too many inconsistencies. Cliff Barnes becoming a billionaire psychopath destined to destroy the Ewing’s ? He made peace with the Ewing’s in 1988
@chris Morrison I agree. A lot of the storylines and character development in the 2012 series came out of left field.
I love how Southfork Ranch became a bunch of suburban neighborhoods.
The Southworth family would be spinning in their graves if that were to happen.
A drink in one hand and a gun in the other is never good.
For the longest time, I considered this the WORST ending to a long running tv series EVER.
A lot of people don't like this episode, but I do. It was a takeoff on "It's a Wonderful Life." Too bad Donna Reed, who played Miss Ellie when Barbara Bel Geddes left for a season, had passed away by the time this first aired.
Though the best seasons were the early ones when Jim Davis was alive, the show was highly watchable right to the end. The best way to see this series is on DVD and binge watching it from beginning to end. I bought the entire series and have spent this summer watching it. I only watched it a little bit when it originally aired. I am near the end of the 14th and last season. It was still a lot of fun to watch. I enjoy the in-jokes on this show including the final season. Larry Hagman's "I Dream of Jeannie" costar Barbara Eden appearing in several episodes, one episode showing the name of Leslie Moonves, then head of Lorimar and later CBO of CBS, as having a breakfast appointment with Carter McKay in McKay's appointment book, still made the series a lot of fun.
"go, pull that trigger" couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
In the TV Movie, "Dallas: J.R. Returns", It's Revealed that J.R. Shoots the Mirror
I Guess that J.R. Wanted to Get Rid of Adam
Let’s say this was a cliffhanger to end all cliffhangers. All because this was the final episode of Dallas.
I was named after someone on this show, her name was Jory Taylor 😊💗
The ending of Season 14 was ridiculous.
azariah15 Actually it was very fitting for JR to get it like that after all the harm he had done to others!
Supposably when they filmed this, in March 1991, they did NOT know they would be cancelled by CBS, so they didn't know this would be the last show. Also why Victoria Principal refused to take part, because they couldn't guarantee her this was it. in JR Returns in 1996, bobby said how Jr shot his mirror.
Really bad
Ah, I had no idea John Ross and Christopher were seasoned actors. They are amazing on the show. I still can't believe I fell head over heels for this show already. I was huge Dallas/Knotts Landing fan back in the day so I am definitely the highly critical one when it comes to continuations or sequels. Can't wait for to see the next show tomorrow night. Yes, Elena is awesome....and hot too. :-)
A better series finale in '91,' would have been Bobby/Pam reunited, after a showdown with Katherine Wentworth, while JR attempts to murder Cliff, but is stopped by the shocking revelation, that Digger was his father / Cliff is JR's half brother.
Remember in the original Dallas Sue Ellen slept with both Cliff and JR and got pregnant with John Ross? JR and Cliff fought over John Ross until a blood test said that JR was John Ross' father. My dream storyline on the reboot would be John Ross finding out through a DNA test he is NOT JR's son; he is Cliff Barnes' son, making him the half-brother of Pamela Rebecca. It revealed JR paid a technician to switch his and Cliff's blood, JR knew John Ross was Cliff's son, but raised him as a means of revenge against Cliff, and probably why John Ross always felt like an outsider and was more aligned with Pamela Rebecca.
It was a good cliff hanger ending, but I noticed Bobby stopped and turned suddenly, just before the gun fired and not right when the gun fired.
Loved all the episodes, Linda grey playing in one of our soaps, great. susan
the audio delay makes this comical
There is another episode after this -in fact there are 2 - It starts off with Bobby telling JR that he tried to shoot himself in the mirror - the two special episodes show JR having breakfast the next day -& has a continuing plot -they are both feature length films -to keep he book open - I will post what they are called -as I cant find them on you tube but i have got both -& I will try to upload them :)
jr returns, war of the ewings
The thing was the 2nd to last episode they actually wrapped up all the stories from the season and could have just ended the show with JR lying on the bed with the gun in his hand right there as the show ended this 2 hour finale was really a bonus to see what the show's cast lives would have been had there never been a JR Ewing
Agreed!!
You are absolutely right! I couldn’t agree more!
Dallas has been picked up for another season! WOOOOO
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In the way it ended, I wonder how many people, in real life, actually has to confront their selves in the mirror that way.
Did anyone catch the bit of trivia where Barbara Eden's character mentioned her maiden name? LeAnn "Nelson?"
jr shots the mirror in the end, leaving an opened ending to this last show .
when Dallas made a return to tv briefly jr was still alive.
its like Joel is so handsome in this show.
What's the best Dallas movie ??
Dallas the 14th and final season is schedule to be released in Jan.2011 if the date doesn't changed.
I was a Dallas and TGIF fan in 1991, so on this night, I missed the finale. Can anyone tell me where I can get the full final episode?
25 years ago tonight.
Yes of course, but the scene in which J.R. was shot was in the season 2 finale, wasn't it?
Matteo Sobrero No, it was in the 3rd. That is if you count the first 5 episodes as the first season.
even larry hagman and patric duffy said they read the script and were against it it was supposed to be a play on its a wonderfull life in reverse