The 80s - Dallas Appreciation #6 - Never tell the truth when a good lie’ll do! - Page 4

**Barrybgb** · 01-06-2017, 09:50 AM

That is cool but I don't see J. R.!

**Melis** · 01-06-2017, 08:30 PM

He should be up front. That's weird

**Melis** · 01-07-2017, 11:49 PM

DALLAS WAS THE LESS CLASSY VERSION OF DYNASTY.

“Dallas was fairly modestly mounted: Southfork was big but no mansion, and now and then the characters wore jeans to breakfast,” Jacobs wrote in The New York Times. “Dynasty was perhaps the most extravagantly produced series in the history of episodic television: the sets were more opulent, the wardrobe more expensive, the lifestyles more ostentatious—the characters dressed for breakfast and wore jewelry with lingerie. During almost any other period, Dynasty would have been regarded as more vulgar than Dallas. In the mid-80s, however, Dynasty was widely viewed as the classier of the two shows. As it happened, both Dallas and Dynasty faded as the Reagan Presidency faded. Indeed, Dynasty could not survive the changing of the guard. It was gone by the end of George Bush's first hundred days.” Now let’s imagine Joan Collins in a ten-gallon hat.

**Barrybgb** · 01-08-2017, 10:09 AM

I never really saw "Dynasty" but it sounds right. The Ewings weren't exactly relatable in many ways, but they were a bit more than the high glamour of the other show.