DALLAS - Season 6 (1982-83) Cliffhanger (J.R. Vs. Ray/Southfork Burns)
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- These are the final minutes to "Ewing Inferno", the 28th and final episode (131st overall) of the sixth season of the 1978-91 CBS drama "Dallas". The episode originally aired Friday, May 6, 1983.
Another one of John Ross "J.R." Ewing, Jr's (Larry Hagman) crooked deals have come back to haunt him: his half-brother Ray's (Steve Kanaly) cousin Mickey is in the hospital paralyzed due to a drunken car crash caused by a wronged business associate of J.R.'s. Upon the discovery, Ray finds J.R. at Southfork and attacks him, setting off a blaze that engulfs Southfork, trapping J.R., Ray, John Ross (Omri Katz) and a sedated Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) inside.....
It's hard to believe that this was 35 years ago that this cliffhanger took place
Dallas was once again THE #1 Drama on Prime Time Television
It is crazy to think it was that long ago. I used to watch Dukes and Dallas at my grandparents house. My Mom used to make pizza for my brother and I every Friday night, great times indeed.
This season was great. It was like a roller coaster.
I loved it too, but Pam’s drama was boring 😂
I love how there's smoke clear upstairs, but none in the living room, right next to the fire.
And part of the ceiling upstairs in the hallway starts collapsing immediately. Seems to me the fire would have had to burn a lot longer to cause that kind of structural damage.
Probably one of the bravest things JR ever did, go through the burning flames to find Sue Ellen and John Ross.
I loved Dallas,i remember watching it on BBC 2 on a Friday night in the late 70s/early 80's here in the UK.
Get that barbeque on! I remember this very well. great stuff Dallas was top viewing back then.
Remember watching this as a kid on the initial airing, and recall JR saying "my back" at 1:33. Classic.
That was classic!! I did notice one inconsistency. How did Jock’s painting survive the fire? It was seen in latter episodes after the fire. I guess the Ewings had the money to have a new one done. That’s what I call a Ewing barbecue 😂😂😂😂
Maybe there was another duplicate of the painting.
After the famous, who shot J R. cliffhanger in 1980, this is my 2nd favorite cliffhanger of Dallas. Four lives in jeopardy, J. R., Sue Ellen, John Ross, and Ray, and maybe the complete destruction of the South Fork mansion as well. A very hard cliffhanger to top and none of the following cliffhangers, for the rest of the series did top it, in my opinion. Anyone else agree with me? Or disagree?
Agreed. Argument can be made for season 9 cliffhanger if only for all the crazy shit that went down on that one and it ending with Bobby in the shower. It all ending up being a dream definently knocks it below I think tho
I agree, but it may tie with Bobby's "death".
Way to go Ewing boys!! With Jock gone it only took two years to burn down the ranchhouse
😆🤣Right!
My favorite was Shelia Floey's / Hillary Taylor's death by a half naked woman !! XD
@@MrCraigblaze Haha, yeah I'm sure most people in her situation would've killed Cliff too, but they probably wanted him to stay alive in case there was ever a reunion movie/series
yeah jock would've kicked both their asses for burning down the house he loved southfork
@@MrCraigblaze Cliff had to stay alive for the sake of the finale. If Cliff gets killed, he doesn't get to take over Ewing Oil and give JR that large contribution to his downfall at the very end..... hell, if Cliff got killed, JR would've still considered that day a win despite losing EVERYTHING else, and the finale wouldn't have worked
one of DALLAS' better seasons in my opinion. It was great to see Bobby and JR play dirty during their fight for control of Ewing Oil. Notice the wall move during the fight at 1:34.lol
I love JRs throw with that kerosene lamp towards Ray not knowing he caused the fire on Southfork.
Did Raul and Teresa ever get together? They went on a date to a movie. LOL. :)
This season finale was terrific, and had me on the edge of my seat.
Lol - that's the real cliffhanger ... what happened with Raul and Teresa?!!
I agree. One of the few times JR won a fight on "Dallas"
Dallas went into syndication in 1984 5 days per week. Unlike the original run of the show, they had a narrator with a fabulous deep voice (Peter Cullen?} narrate what had happened on the previous episode with the Dallas theme in the background. I still remember the season seven episode narration describing what happened here< "The devil got his due. JR's sins had come home (pause) AND NOW." Then the theme song would start. I can't find ANYTHING on the internet about this. Does anyone remember this and know who the voice actor was?
Two years later, Dallas has moved into syndication in the fall of 1984 along with Knots Landing,
Falcon Crest and The Dukes of Hazzard. In fact, Dallas has changed the face in television history.
1983 i remember this one ❤
The Southfork fire ending was a fitting metaphor of the house of Ewing. The family was a raging inferno with Bobby and Pam's marriage on the rocks, Sue Ellen back on the bottle after discovering JR in bed with Holly Harwood, Bobby and JR's contentious fight over Ewing Oil, and Miss Ellie having a nervous breakdown over all of the above. I could see the painting of Jock coming to life and saying, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!".
I always had a problem with how long it took JR and Ray to notice the fire.
Gary was always my favorite of the four Ewing brothers
Just one thing I have to say about this clip, who leaves candles next to a load of paint and decorating stuff?
The Ewing family that who. Lol
Haha. Don't know anything about health and safety.
For the matter, when did we ever see candles burning like that?
Great cliffhanger to a terrific season. Unfortunately it went gradually downhill after that. pity
Cmon Ray! J.R. would outfox you in an oil deal any day, but you couldn’t KO him in a fist fight?!
Flammable items, like wallpaper glue, paint, and a drop cloth, and someone lit some candles on a nearby table, plus lit a kerosene lamp that would often be used when there's a power failure.
The maid and butler must really have high-tailed it out of there. There was about a minute between her closing the dining room door and the fire starting.
After a long hard day at the office. People just like to leg it home haha
Yeah, we had smoke alarms in the 80s.
Smoke alarms have been around for years long before the 1980's. The first battery powered smoke alarm was invented in 1969. Hard wired ones have been around even longer. However it was rare for TV shows around this time to feature them!!! :)
There is another cliffhanger similar to this at the end of the 1988 season when Nicholas and sue Ellen demand that jr tell them where John Ross is jr refused to tell them and jr and Nicholas start a fight similar to this one here.
“Call off your gigolo, honey!”
1:10, this is how the fire started!
thank god the painting of jock survived the fire
It was probably a duplicate painting.
I am sorry my comment was meant for the first episode of the 1983 - 1984 season of Dallas. God Bless - Jason
The fire also gave a reason as to why Southfork had its makeover.
And get rid of that door on the far right !! Xd
Missed this cliffhanger somehow
@@daveyhouston You must have been drunk at the time like Sue Ellen.
Im like its 1983 and look so much more modern than 1978.
How can Ray and Donna be the odd couple in Dallas?? They were both knocked out by phones in the same year.LOL..
@lsaturn01 I call them as I see them.. XD
The car that hit JR's Mercedes looks like Sue Ellen's station wagon from season 2, while the Mercedes looks suspiciously like JR's, also from season 2.
Yes on the first JR car. But the wagon was a black, regular Ford. SE drove a Mercury Colony Park wagon. I live for this shit LOL
This episode in a way starts off kind of funny , I am sorry I do not know the right thing to say, so please let me explain. Okay, I know fake South Fork home - the inside was badly burned in California, but Bobby is in Parker, Texas seeing the real South Fork on Fire, which is a fake picture of the house being burned. Okay, Bobby drives on the real South Fork drive way, by the time his car arrives on to the house ,Bobby is back on the fake South Fork set in California. I l would like to know how actors and production crew put the pieces together when they are in Texas and when they are in California. Amazing.
RIP to Larry and Roseanna.
Classic classic classic
Gentlemen, you don't realize while the both of them are fighting J.R. accidentally lit a candle causing the Southfork house to burn on 🔥!!!
April 20, 1983: On ABC the 3rd season of Dynasty end with Krystle and Alexis in the burning cabin
May 06, 1983: On CBS the 6th season of Dallas end with fire on Southfork
Great minds think alike 😂
Controlled fire.
I've never seen all those lit candles on that table before. How convenient of JR to throw something at Ray, miss and hit a table full of lit candles.
I agree, and right near flammable items like drop cloths, paint, and even wood.
how could they not even notice the foyer and stairway were engulfed in flames while fighting?
When they fight, watch the walls move. 1:34 piano moves wall, 2:05 foot pushes wall.
It's called - Suspension of disbelief.
In This Clip, From 3:30 To 4:14, It Was "Dallas" Video Close From May 6, 1983
TRT, Turkish state owned channnel, ended Dallas with this cliffhanger in September 1983 and never started again. We had to wait for 7 yrs to watch Dallas on a different channel.
JR Ewing started a roaster.
That season ended up in smoke.
There should have been another Dallas-Knots Landing crossover episode, except this would have been the season finale for both shows and in this season finale, both Sue Ellen and Gary Ewing get rip-roaring drunk and go on a drunken crime spree together. Now, J.R., Bobby, Abby and Valene need to join forces to bring the crime spree to an end and get Sue Ellen and Gary into an AA meeting. At the end of the crime spree, Gary and Sue Ellen agree to go to AA, but they are both still so drunk that they accidentally enroll themselves in an AAA meeting. Oh the horror! Oh the boredom! LOL
It bothered me that JR was not much of a fighter despite Jock's bragging of raising JR to be a man's man. He did have a couple good swings though.
He was overweight and drank burbon all day
Well he got the last word on Ray in this scene, plus there's other ways to get the edge on someone, with the last word, don't always have to be by fists.
Look closely and you'll see as Ray pushes JR into the piano, the piano moves backs and hits the wall - the outer wall moves and again when Ray kicks against the wall.
THE 3RD OR 4TH BEST CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Real TV. They don’t make them like this anymore. Friday nights always equaled McDonald’s or Browns Chicken and CBS from 7pm to Bedtime (11pm on Friday and Saturday Nights)
Sue Ellen said after the fire and while they were repairing the house, she had her own bedroom built. How was that possible? In order to build another bedroom, the whole half of that side of the hallway would’ve had to have been torn down and reconstructed. Not only that, Southfork didn’t have any guest rooms available that she could’ve turned into a bedroom?
Secondly: Miss Ellie didn’t seem phased one bit by the fire happening, as much as she adores Southfork, especially given the fact that she lost a lot of clothing due to the fire. I mean…I know they’re wealthy so her replacing her clothing wasn’t a big deal. But just the fact that a huge fire tore through her beloved Southfork just seemed odd to me.
The wall moved when they were fighting.
Why were the lit candles in a room with pain tarps and wallpaper chemicals? That wasn't too smart.
Only in Hollywood.
@donegaveup It's a classic. However, there are some oddities. First, Teresa closes the doors to the dining room, which had never been done before. Secondly, there are lit candles in entry-way & in the living room. Odd in that I don't recall there being lit candles in the house before or since. Why would someone have any type of fire around paint, tupentines & other cleaning items? Fortunately, the fire caused the living room to "expand" as seen in '83-'84 premier episode.
No. Sue Ellen was the reason why Mickey was in the hospital. Not JR. Sue ellen should have taken responsibility for her actions.
Too bad JR didn't say "Can you hear me now" after hitting him with the phone
okay, 2 minutes into the clip the smoke has reached john ross' and sue ellen's rooms. but not a trace of smoke or fire in the living room????
Yep, and the ceiling upstairs in the hallway was starting to cave in 2 to 3 minutes after JR had made it upstairs and collapsed in the floor out in the hallway.
why was Southfork all covered up was they decorating
@paulac2006 thank your very much. I was only five then i must have got confused.
JR would be the idiot to throw a lit candlestick.
STOP
RAY !!!!
This was obviously before a time in television where major characters died like in Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. But could you imagine if say they killed off Ray or John Ross here and the drama that would've unfolded as a result of it. Would've been some great tv I'm sure. Still great tho
wonder if Jr Ever Slept With The Maid Teresa lol
LOL!
Old Penny Mouth Zoom Animation
Ahh ohh ray
Walt Driscoll was driving the car the one that you Ray and Bobby bailed out of jail and set up to begin with
Abd isnt it ray who ended up killing mickey anyways?
@@scottaznavourian5791 And typical hypocrite wants to put the Blame on JR. were as If Ray and Bobby hadn't Screwed JR . Deal with this guy being Arrested he would not have gone out looking for revenge . Not that I'm saying JR. Is innocent in all this But Ray and Bobby are just as much to blame and that kid being in the Hospital is just as much there doing as JR .
@@scottaznavourian5791 He had a part in it yeah
Office Shouting
This shows how much h ray cared about southfork,he should be held responsible and be made to pay for the damages,,,he seems to forget that it was him and bobby that set Driscoll up in the first place,,that is what caused him to want to kill JR,,yet good old boy krebbs blames JR for mickey,,it was sue ellen and Holly Harwood, and it was as much rays fault for setting up Driscoll
But JR did remind both Ray and Bobby of their part in the first episode in the following season, their part of setting up Driscoll and Mickey getting severely hurt.
th-cam.com/video/2jlygs_W4GM/w-d-xo.html In fact Dave M, here it is.
Ray!! Dam half bread!Lol..
Ray was as guilty as JR.
OMG JR actually won the fight!
By fighting like a woman.
Lead actors are suppose the last word.
Why do they have candles burning? The staff took the night off! Oh yeah...it's a t.v. show! Why was Larry so loud fighting Ray. J R. would have been killed by that beam or really severe head injury. Oh...yeah it's a t.v. show. 😆🤣
Yeah, and that same beam that fell in the hallway happened only 2 to 3 minutes or less after the fire had made it upstairs in the hallway. A fire would have to burn a lot longer to make a beam in the ceiling collapse like that.
JR always got beat up by 2 of his brothers Ray & Bobby however Gary was weak so he always took JR's abuse even till his death in the new series.
JR got the better of Ray in this fight, he gave Bobby an elbow shot in the pool in 88, after Bobby figured out his Lisa Alden connection.
i dont know why but i always thought the fire started because of Sue Ellen. I thought she threw the alcohol glass ar the fire. Did she have a fight with J.R at that night??/
No, that happened in a Paralell Universe.
lauries eggs and cheese
mike and jody if you please
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Was this fire really scripted.
No it really happened. Did you not hear about the Southfork Fire on the Dallas News back in May of 1983? It was the top story that same night.
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