SEASON 8



THE DREAM SEASON





YEAR 8 (AIRED ON 1985-6 SEASON):

REMAINING THE STARS FROM THE PREVIOUS SEASON, EXCEPT DONNA REED, REPLACED BY BARBARA BEL GEDDES, AND TEMPORARILY MISSING PATRICK DUFFY AND CHARLENE TILTON (WHO ONLY APPEAR IN A FLASHBACK AND THE FIRST, ALSO IN THE LAST SEQUENCE OF THE SEASON).

The “Also Starring” actors all through the 31 episodes are DEBORAH SHELTON, JENILEE HARRISON, DACK RAMBO, JOHN BECK as MARK (from episode 4 on), JARED MARTIN (back in his role as DUSTY, up until episode 14), MARC SINGER as MATT CANTRELL (from ep. 15 through 29) and STEVE FORREST as BEN STIVERS in the last three. This Season´s Special Guest Star is BARBARA CARRERA playing wicked ANGELICA NERO, who enters the scene in episode 7.

More promotional pics from Season 8 in the GALLERY.




1/192: "THE FAMILY EWING"
aka ROCK BOTTOM Part 1
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: NICK HAVINGA





The EWINGS gather at SOUTHFORK for BOBBY´s funeral. On the other side CLIFF and JAMIE try to comfort PAM, who feels guilty for his death: “He died trying to save me...It was my fault...Oh, my poor baby, his daddy is dead because of me...” Only ELLIE seems able to cope: she begins to make the arrangements for the service, as well as a things-to-do list. "Don´t bury the pain inside", CLAYTON advices her.





GARY returns to the ranch in order to support his mother. After all these years, GARY has found himself and is able to provide solace to ELLIE. But J.R. unloads his rage on him and RAY: "I had a brother and now he´s dead. No one can replace them, especially you two..."





ELLIE decides to have BOBBY buried on a beautiful green hill overlooking SOUTHFORK, near a treehouse where the EWING children used to play. "Of all the places where he used to play, this was his favorite," she explains to CLAYTON. "GARY used to come out here with him, but J.R. was learning from JOCK. But I think he would have traded everything if he could have been the one that JOCK built the treehouse for..."





SUE ELLEN, the last to know about BOBBY´s death, ends up drunk, after hearing another verbal attack from J.R.: "Go with your cowboy and your bottle, but get out of my sight..." DUSTY wants to take care of her and J.R. seems to be happy to get her out of her life: "You just go in the house, throw her over your shoulder and carry her the hell out of SOUTHFORK..."





ELLIE tries to make SUE ELLEN understand that she is an alcoholic and DUSTY cannot give her the help that she needs, but SUE ELLEN takes offense at the speech and drives away from the ranch, right to a bar.




DUSTY follows her: "You´ll see", she says to him, "if I stay here and drink enough, then I won´t have to face anyone – nor Miss Ellie, nor my son, not even you." She slaps him and DUSTY knocks her off and leaves with her on his shoulder...




The funeral is a simple short ceremony. Present are the EWING brothers J.R., GARY and RAY, ELLIE and CLAYTON, SUE ELLEN and DUSTY, cousins JACK and JAMIE, CLIFF, PAMELA and her child CHRISTOPHER, JENNA and her daughter CHARLIE, and little JOHN ROSS.





When the family leaves, J.R. stays for awhile alone with the casket and talks to his brother:
"Never really told you how much you meant to me. All the fights, all that time buttin´ heads with one another...I´m sorry we were never friends. I wish I´d taken time to tell you that I loved you...I do, and you tell Daddy I love him too. Good-bye, BOBBY. I miss you..."



G.S.: TED SHACKELFORD, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, JOHN ZAREMBA, GEORGE PETRIE, DOLORES CANTU (ANGELA), DEBORAH TRANELLI and JOSHUA HARRIS as CHRISTOPHER EWING. FIRST AIRED ON 9/27/85.

NOTE: The previous Thursday, KL had done its last physical "crossover" with DALLAS when BOBBY´s death had been announced at the end of the episode. The morning after, GARY showed up on DALLAS without any mention neither to VAL nor her then wife ABBY. Late in that season, we will see GARY take a flight to DALLAS in order to seek financial help from his family, but that flight and that visit never landed on the mother series. From BOBBY´s "resurrection" forward, any storyline link between both shows would be broken, except for DALLAS´s final episode, CONUNDRUM, where GARY and VALENE would guest star.
2/193: "ROCK BOTTOM”
aka ROCK BOTTOM Part 2
W: JOEL J. FEIGENBAUM
D: MICHAEL PREECE




After the service, SUE ELLEN suddenly changes her mind and decides to return to the ranch, but J.R. rejects her ruthlessly thus pushing her to the bottle:
"I have no wife and my son has no mother. You´re just a bad memory to me..."





The EWINGS are shocked to know that BOBBY left his share of EWING OIL to CHRISTOPHER, though managed by PAM until he is eighteen, which enfuriates J.R.




ELLIE, CLAYTON and JENNA are desperately seeking for SUE ELLEN: “Every time she drinks, her chances only get worse...” “We don´t know that she´s been drinking”, CLAYTON says. “Don´t we...?, ELLIE doubts.




J.R. starts to date MANDY at public places as he tells the young woman: “I have a very strong feeling that the SUE ELLEN problem is going to take care of itself...”




At the same time SUE ELLEN wanders through the downtown, without identification, car or self-esteem...When one morning she wakes up at a lousy motel and stares at herself in a mirror, she yells: “You are disgusting! I hate you!!"




GS: GEORGE PETRIE, SHALANE McCALL, DON STARR, FERN FITZGERALD, PAUL SORENSEN and LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS (hood). FIRST AIRED ON 9/27/85.

NOTE: CBS originally aired this episode in a special 2-hour premiere along with the previous episode, adopting a tactics to last over the years to come. However, in Spain and the rest of the countries, they were aired as 2 independent episodes.
3/194: "THOSE EYES"
W: PETER DUNNE
D: NICK HAVINGA




PAM is torn between doing the best for her son and doing what BOBBY would like her to do.




CLAYTON and ELLIE track down SUE ELLEN at the police detoxification unit, where she has been moved to from the town dead ends. DUSTY comes up to see SUE ELLEN: “I´m here because I love you, I´m here to keep my promise to help you. I want you health again. Because I want you...” But DUSTY eventually gets entangled in a fight with J.R.




Finally, J.R. decides to put SUE ELLEN into a sanitarium, after she goes through the first detox phase...
"It´s all right, J.R. – ELLIE assures him – You´ve done what had to be done. Someday Sue Ellen will thank you for this..."




GS: GEORGE PETRIE, WILLIAM SMITHERS, LAURENCE HADDON, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DON STARR, DEBORAH RENNARD, FERN FITZGERALD, JOSHUA HARRIS and SHERIL LYNN RETTINO. FIRST AIRED ON 10/4/85.
4/195: "RESURRECTION"
W: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: MICHAEL PREECE





Both J.R. and JEREMY offer to buy out CHRISTOPHER´s share, pushing PAM to negotiate with them. Also ELLIE is thinking about selling to WESTSTAR to keep the family together, but this decision confronts her with the family.




On the other side SUE ELLEN is surprised to see DUSTY at the sanitarium. He seems determined to make their relationship work. She agrees to join a rehab program, but one of the attendants offers her a drink for money. “I can do it! I can do it. I just need help...”




CLIFF, J.R. and JEREMY are after the EWING OIL share owned by JACK after the suit, but he doesn´t want to commit with anyone of them. Back at BARNES-WENTWORTH, PAM gets more and more confused by pressures, until one day...




GS: ALAN FUDGE (DR. LANTRY), GEORGE PETRIE, WILLIAM SMITHERS, LAURENCE HADDON, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, JOSHUA HARRIS, S.L.RETTINO and the voice of DEBORAH SHELTON. FIRST AIRED ON 10/11/85.
5/196: "SAVING GRACE"
W: JOEL J. FEIGENBAUM
D: NICK HAVINGA



PAM faints when MARK GRAISON shows up at her house. "I don´t know whether to laugh or cry...Tell me I´m not dreaming", she whispers when regains the conscience. Later MARK explains that he was at HONG KONG when she went there for him, but he bribed another person to replace him at the hospital bed. Besides he confesses that his leukemia has no cure, it is just in remission...

Meanwhile JEREMY makes offers to RAY and JACK in order to buy out their EWING OIL shares and CLIFF tries to win JACK´s confidence. On the other side J.R. is angry because his investigation about JACK´s past has been no good as SUE ELLEN continues her rehabilitation at the sanitarium.



Finally, MARK calls on J.R. and punches him:
“You´ll regret the day you sent PAM looking for me. Because she found me. And I´m going to do everything I can to make you suffer the way she suffered. Take a good look around you. This place is going to be nothing but memories before I´m through."

G.S.: ALAN FUDGE, WILLIAM SMITHERS, BURKE BYRNES (PETE ADAMS) and DEBORAH RENNARD. FIRST AIRED ON 10/18//85.
6/197: "MOTHERS"
G: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: MICHAEL PREECE



SUE ELLEN´s mother PATRICIA SHEPARD arrives at SOUTHFORK to visit her daughter. When she is told where she is, PATRICIA makes up her mind to help her work out her differences with J.R. The latter hints MARK he should stop the selling of the share to WESTSTAR. But she decides against him:
"I see that you, finally, took revenge," - J.R. tells her
"No more arguments, J.R." - is PAM´s straight answer.
When ELLIE learnts that PAM is going to sell out to JEREMY, she also throws in with WESTSTAR...



G.S.: BIBI BESCH (DRA.GIBSON), WILLIAM SMITHERS, BARRY JENNER, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, JOSHUA HARRIS, HAL LANDON (OILER #1), DONALD CRAIG (OILER #2) and MARTHA SCOTT as PATRICIA. FIRST AIRED ON 10/25/85.
7/198: "THE WIND OF CHANGE"
W: PETER DUNNE
D: COREY ALLEN

ELLIE backs up PAM in her decision to sell out to JEREMY, afraid of J.R.´s thought of leaving with his son. "We left him no choice”, she confides to CLAYTON, "Without EWING OIL, there´s no reason for him to stay. That´s why, for better or worse, I can´t sell to WENDELL. I need to save my son, not lose him."



SUE ELLEN is released from the sanitarium to her mother´s care, and lease a house at Turtle Creek. Both women re-appear at the Oil Barons´ Ball, and so does MANDY, who confesses J.R. she still loves him and will be whatever he wants her to: wife or lover. JACK is feeling watched by a mysterious woman and the KREBBSES get bad news about the baby they are expecting.




The Oil Man of the Year Award is given posthumously to BOBBY EWING and received by ELLIE, who asks PAM to accept it in CHRISTOPHER´s name. PAM takes the chance to announce her eventual decision:
"With apologies to those who may not understand my sudden change of heart, I cannot...will not sell my son´s heritage to WESTSTAR."



When J.R. happily approaches her, PAMELA adds:
“I´m not selling the shares at all, not even to you J.R. From now on, it´s you and me. I´ll be seeing you in the office, partner..."

G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, FRANCES LEE McCAIN (DR. AMY ROSE), WILLIAM SMITHERS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DON STARR, FERN FITZGERALD, JOSHUA HARRIS and GREG MICHAELS. FIRST AIRED ON 11/1//85.
8/199: "QUANDARY"
W: JOEL J. FEIGENBAUM
D: MICHAEL PREECE




RAY and DONNA find themselves in a quandary after knowing their unborn son suffers the Down´s Syndrome and they have opposite opinions about it. ANGELICA NERO is using CLIFF to attract J.R., who doesn´t suspect that she has chosen EWING OIL due to her interest for JACK.

When PAM settles in BOBBY´s office, J.R. threatens her:
"This is not a sentimental game, but a competition, and you´d better be ready, because the game is gonna be real hard..."




DONNA and RAY make the choice to have the baby once they visit a school for handicapped children, certain that they will overcome the problems the illness takes.

G.S.: F.L. McCAIN, OMRI KATZ, S.L. RETTINO, DEBORAH TRANELLI, MICHAEL SKIPPER (BILL CRAWFORD) and MERETE VAN KAMP as GRACE. FIRST AIRED ON 11/8/85.
9/200: "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS"
W: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: COREY ALLEN



ELLIE has organized a fund-raising rodeo at the ranch with DUSTY participating. Pressured by the latter, SUE ELLEN gets to the conclusion that she is not ready for a commitment. J.R. tries to dazzle ANGELICA, but it is JACK the center of her attention.



MANDY shows up at SOUTHFORK invited by J.R. She and SUE ELLEN eventually meet:
"Why is it that the mistress always thinks she knows more than the wife...? – she says to MANDY. On the other side, PATRICIA and J.R. have a very tight conversation:
"There´s nothing wrong in the way I raised my daughters"
"No, only the results..." – he cynically answers. Later a hurt SUE ELLEN strikes back:
"For me, you can screw MANDY WINGER at the ranch, in front of your family and friends..."

While watching some cattle, DONNA falls from the rail. This will bring a tragic outcome.



G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, MERETE VAN KAMP, OMRI KATZ, SHALANE McCALL, DEBORAH RENNARD, ROBERT HARPER, JOSHUA HARRIS and GINO DE MAURO (ROCKY JOHNSON). FIRST AIRED ON 11/15/85.
10/201: "SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: MICHAEL PREECE

The doctor asks RAY whose life he should save in case he had to make a choice: “Save my baby if you can, but don´t let DONNA die...”, he answers overwhelmed.

SUE ELLEN tells DUSTY that she is not ready to live with him. PATRICIA finds herself supporting her daughter´s separation from J.R., though she thinks that JOHN ROSS should live with them. The KREBBSES are going through a crisis when she has an accidental abortion.

"I´ve come here believing I was the spider and now I´m feeling as if I were the fly.” –J.R. says to ANGELICA when they meet late at night.

Meanwhile SUE ELLEN hires a lawyer and starts the fight for JOHN ROSS´s custody. J.R. reacts immediately and strongly:



"Divorce me, go marry that cowboy. Do anything you want, but don´t even dream of trying to take my son away from me. Because if you should somehow succeed, there´s not enough room in this world to keep you safe from me..."

G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE PETRIE, OMRI KATZ, SHALANE McCALL, BURKE BYRNES, DEBORAH RENNARD, DEBORAH TRANELLI, DANONE SIMPSON and NICK ELDREDGE. FIRST AIRED ON 11/22/85.
11/202: "THE PRIZE"
W: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: COREY ALLEN



J.R. decides to have ANGELICA and her boss investigated, since the tycoon DIMITRI MARINOS looks very much like JACK. She assures that JACK is his illegitimate son and heir to his fortune.

JOHN ROSS runs away from home because he is afraid of another court battle:
"If they all really love me, why are they doing this to me?- the kid asks ELLIE, when she finds him hidden in BOBBY´s treehouse – I want things the way they used to be, when we lived all together.”

After talking separately with the boy and his parents, the judge gives the custody to SUE ELLEN:
“I´m convinced that both of you love your son. My decision is no reflection on the depth of feeling you each have for him, or he for you. But it falls to me to award custody to only one parent. And I have therefore made my decision to award that to Mrs. EWING.”



G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, MERETE VAN KAMP, OMRI KATZ, SHALANE McCALL, BURKE BYRNES, DEBORAH RENNARD, BLAKE LEONARD CONWAY, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN, GINO DE MAURO and GEORGE CHAKIRIS as NICHOLAS. FIRST AIRED ON 11/29/85.
12/203: "EN PASSANT"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: MICHAEL PREECE

SUE ELLEN is really upset by the possibility of J.R.´s appeal. Of course, J.R. has begun to "prepare his defense", employing the judge´s son at EWING OIL. ANGELICA orders NICHOLAS to keep J.R.´s detective kidnapped in GREECE, up until GRACE can intercept the report. Later on J.R. calms down ANGELICA: "Pam always has to say no before to say yes. So she thinks she´s doin´ something...”

DONNA breaks her silence and re-connects with RAY, who has put down the house he was building. To everybody´s surprise, SUE ELLEN decides to leave JOHN ROSS at the ranch:




"We have been using the child as a pawn in our fights. He doesn´t want to live with me, he wants to stay at SOUTHFORK, and I want to do the best for him..."

G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, GEORGE PETRIE, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, OMRI KATZ, BURKE BYRNES, TERRENCE McNALLY, JOSHUA HARRIS, DEBORAH TRANELLI and JAMES L. BROWN. FIRST AIRED ON 12/6/85.
13/204: "GOODBYE, FAREWELL, AND AMEN"
W: WILL LORIN
D: LINDA DAY

J.R. asks SUE ELLEN to come back at SOUTHFORK, since he knows that she would lose the boy´s custody doing so. At the same time JENNA doesn´t want to keep on dating JACK.

ANGELICA checks out that J.R. didn´t receive the information from GREECE.

Before leaving DALLAS, PATRICIA works out her problems with her daughter and SUE ELLEN ends up returning to the ranch. Upset by the news, MANDY turns to CLIFF with vengeance in her mind...




G.S.: MARTHA SCOTT, GEORGE PETRIE, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DON STARR, ROBERT WALKER Jr. (HARDING DEVERS), PAUL SORENSEN, RESEANNA CHRISTIANSEN. FIRST AIRED ON 12/13/85.
14/205: "CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT"
W: DEANNE BARKLEY
D: LARRY HAGMAN

PAM gets a mysterious package from South America, while JACK hits the road with destiny unknown after being rejected by JENNA again.

"I won´t let you get me out of your life because I know we can work it out together..." – he had told her before.
"You and I have nothing to work out" – she answers roughly.

CLIFF reports MANDY about J.R. and ANGELICA after-hours meetings. After watching it with her own eyes, MANDY decides to get even once and for all.




G.S.: MERETE VAN KAMP, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, TERRENCE McNALLY, PHILIP LEVIEN (LEE McHENRY), ROBERT WALKER Jr., DEBORAH TRANELLI, TERRENCE SCAMMELL, BRADFORD ENGLISH and ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN. FIRST AIRED ON 12/20/85.
15/206: "THE MISSING LINK"
W: BILL TAUB
D: LINDA DAY

ANGELICA is worried by JACK´s disappearance, but J.R. assures that he will be back on time to attend the CARACAS Convention. MATT CANTRELL returns to DALLAS unaware that his childhood friend BOBBY is dead.

When PAM understands how valuable MATT´s emerald mine was for BOBBY, she promises him to keep the investment of EWING OIL on his business.




"You better begin to trust me, or I swear you that we´re going to have a very bad time, and we´ll bitter each other lives´ as partners, " PAM says to J.R. trying to convince him.

During an inspection in a field, JAMIE, who is now working with CLIFF at B.W., suffers a serious accident that puts her life in danger...

G.S.: BARRY JENNER, SAM MELVILLE (DR. DAVID KENFIELD), MORGAN WOODWARD, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, PHILIP LEVIEN, DEBORAH RENNARD, DEBORAH TRANELLI, S.L. RETTINO, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN and MARC SINGER as MATT CANTRELL. FIRST AIRED ON 1/3/86.
16/207: "24 HOURS"
W: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: ROBERT BECKER

JAMIE´s life depends on JACK being found before 24 hours so he can donate his blood, of a very rare type.




On the other side, MARK and SUE ELLEN seek for other donors, and J.R. himself offers a reward to the person who can track down JACK. JENNA is the only one who has a slight idea of where he can be and everyone is desperate to find him. "Nothing good ever happens to anyone who loves me...", JENNA murmurs in front of the family.

G.S.: MARC SINGER, BARRY JENNER, SAM MELVILLE, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ and RUSSELL JOHNSON (Sheriff WYATT MANSFIELD). FIRST AIRED ON 1/10/86.
17/208: "THE DEADLY GAME"
aka DEADLY GAME
W: BILL TAUB
D: LARRY HAGMAN




JAMIE´s health condition remains critical, though she seems to respond positively to JACK´s blood. J.R. uses the GRAISON Research computers to analyse JACK´s blood thus discovering that he and JAMIE had the same parents.

ELLIE secretly buys the companies that CLAYTON has been selling.
"You can´t keep buying everything he is selling," she is warned by her friend PUNK, "You´ll go broke if that keeps up."

At the same time, J.R. smells rats and decides to sell his share of the MARINOS business out to the cartel.




G.S.: MARC SINGER, BARRY JENNER, SAM MELVILLE, MORGAN WOODWARD, MERETE VAN KAMP, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, DON STARR, ROBERT WALKER Jr., FERN FITZGERALD, DEBORAH TRANELLI, PAUL SORENSEN and ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN. FIRST AIRED ON 1/17/86.
18/209: "BLAME IT ON BOGOTÁ"
W: PETER DUNNE
D: ROBERT BECKER

J.R. and MATT are allied to discredit PAM in front of everybody so J.R. can kick her out of EWING OIL.

PAM herself decides to fly to LOS GATOS, COLOMBIA, in order to visit the mine, against MARK´s wishes.

J.R. provides CLIFF phony information to make him associate with her sister.

At last MATT and PAM arrive at COLOMBIA, where they are received by intriguing police chief RUEDA.




G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY (RUEDA), BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, LAURENCE HADDON, DON STARR, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, JOSHUA HARRIS, DEBORAH TRANELLI, PAUL SORENSEN, TOM FITZSIMMONS (DOCTOR), ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN, S.L. RETTINO. FIRST AIRED ON 1/24/86.
19/210: "SHADOW GAMES"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM
D: ROY CAMPANELLA II

J.R. has noticed that GRACE and JACK are a couple and is convinced that it´s part of ANGELICA´s tactics. “Babe, you look many things but innocent is not one of them" –J.R. remarks to GRACE.

CLAYTON finds out that ELLIE had bought his companies and considers it a gesture of love. At the end, he decides to sell everything out and devote himself to the ranch.

MATT and PAM leave for LOS GATOS in the mine´s direction. NICHOLAS gets news that threaten their MARTINIQUE project.



G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, GEORGE PETRIE, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, FRANK ALETTER (FLOYD ERICSON), DON STARR, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, JOSHUA HARRIS, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN, S.L. RETTINO, PAUL SORENSEN. FIRST AIRED ON 1/31/86.
20/211: "MISSING"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: MICHAEL HOEY

When MATT regains conscience, he discovers that the camp has been destroyed and PAM is missing.

Once at LOS GATOS, he reports J.R. about it and the latter decides to fly to COLOMBIA and check out if his alliance with MATT has not been discovered. "I never forget people who does me favors, nor people who denies them too." – J.R. assures to the Police Chief RUEDA.

Also MARK and CLIFF travel down there. ANGELICA suspects that J.R. may have guessed her intentions and orders GRACE to seduce JACK.

Meanwhile CLIFF, MARK and MATT get a message from PAM´s kidnappers.




G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, JOSHUA HARRIS, and S.L. RETTINO.

NOTE: THIS IS THE ONLY "DALLAS"´S EPISODE WITHOUT VICTORIA PRINCIPAL IN IT (UNTIL SHE LEFT AT THE SEASON 9 CLIFFHANGER). FIRST AIRED ON 2/7/86.
21/212: "DIRE STRAITS"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: BRUCE BILSON

MARK and CLIFF are relentlessly trying to set PAM free. The ransom sum turns out to be surprisingly low: 100.000 dollars.

When MATT takes time to return after delivering the ransom, MARK´s worst fears are confirmed. “BOBBY´s dream...has become PAM´s nightmare” – a scared CLIFF says.


But the next morning PAM is released. Meanwhile, MANDY confesses J.R. that she was spying on him for CLIFF, without knowing that he was giving her phony information:
"I couldn´t stand the idea of sharing with another woman, I had to punish you..."

G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, ROBERT PINE (JENNA´S PSYCHOLOGIST), SHALANE McCALL, DEBORAH RENNARD and WILLIAM PRINCE as ALEX GARRETT. FIRST AIRED ON 2/14/86.
22/213: "OVERTURE"
W: HOLLACE WHITE & STEPHANIE GARMAN
D: COREY ALLEN




J.R. invites SUE ELLEN to go with him to the big oil conference at MARTINIQUE, but she rejects his overtures. J.R.´s reaction doesn´t take long: he orders his detective to dig in the past of JERRY KENDERSON, SUE ELLEN´s workmate.





At the same time, RAY starts a friendship with a young deaf boy called TONY. JENNA is going through a serious emotional crisis.





G.S.: MARC SINGER, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, WILLIAM PRINCE, JOSHUA HARRIS, S.L. RETTINO, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN, JAMES L. BROWN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO as TONY. FIRST AIRED ON 2/21/86.
23/214: "SITTING DUCKS"
W: SUSAN HOWARD
D: LINDA DAY



J.R. contacts lawyer ALEX GARRETT, who tells him to watch out for ANGELICA:
"MARINOS is not a menace to you, but I can´t say the same about ANGELICA NERO..."

Even so he decides to go to MARTINIQUE with JACK. “If this is the new SUE ELLEN, I don´t like the result" – a cynical J.R. says when she speaks out her intentions: “I do, a lot...” – she answers.





Back in DALLAS, PAM realizes that she must continue her life and overcome BOBBY´s death. On their way to the CARIBBEAN, J.R. asks JACK to pose as DIMITRI, for EWING OIL´s sake.





G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DEBORAH RENNARD, PETER FOX (DR. FORD), PHIL LEVIEN, WILLIAM PRINCE, JOSHUA HARRIS, and S.L. RETTINO. FIRST AIRED ON 2/28/86.

NOTES: THIS IS THE FIRST OF TWO EPISODES WRITTEN BY DONNA´S PERFORMER. PICTURES #4 & 5 SHOW A SCENE EDITED OUT IN THE FINAL DVD VERSION.
24/215: "MASQUERADE"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D. LARRY HAGMAN



At MARTINIQUE, J.R. makes an appointment with ALEX GARRETT at the Masquerade Ball. When ANGELICA witnesses JACK and GRACE´s reconciliation, she loses the confidence on her assistant.

Unwillingly PAM reveals JENNA that she and BOBBY were planning to re-marry. When JENNA tells her: “You couldn´t possibly understand ´cause I was the one who was cheated out of marrying BOBBY”, PAM asnwers: “No, I was! I´m sorry JENNA, but BOBBY said that you knew...”



At the Ball, J.R. gets the information he needs to understand the scheme that ANGELICA has set up. JERRY asks SUE ELLEN to have a closer relationship. After the chaos caused by ANGELICA and her henchmen, J.R. points out to JACK:
“I think that the masquerade is over...”




G.S.: BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, WILLIAM PRINCE, S.L. RETTINO, CONROY GEDEON and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 3/7/86.
25/216: "JUST DESSERTS"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: LINDA GRAY

Havoc wreaks at the Masquerade Ball when ANGELICA introduces JACK as DIMITRI. After a maremagnum of shooting, GRACE and NICHOLAS pass to law disposition and explain ANGELICA´s wicked plot to assassinate "DIMITRI" in public.



At DALLAS, JENNA eventually remembers the facts that were upsetting her and accepts that it was PAM and not her who was going to marry BOBBY. Also, PAMELA decides to sell CHRISTOPHER´s EWING OIL share to J.R., finally.

Looking up to JOCK´s picture, he proudly says: “Well dad…It took me a lot of time and work, but, finally...it´s all mine!”



G.S.: BARRY JENNER, MERETE VAN KAMP, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DON STARR, DEBORAH RENNARD, FERN FITZGERALD, RAYMOND ST. JACQUES (INSPECTOR REMY), WILLIAM PRINCE, PAUL SORENSEN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 3/14/86.

NOTE: THIS IS THE FIRST EPISODE DIRECTED BY LINDA GRAY.
26/217: "NOTHING´S EVER PERFECT"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: BRUCE BILSON

J.R. is jubilant when PAM tells him her decision to sell CHRISTOPHER´s share. However he feels a little remorse: “At last I own it 100 per cent, Bobby...but I´d give it all up to have you to fight wit again”. In order to carry out this deal and also the one planned with the cartel, J.R. asks for a billion dollar loan.

JENNA decides to leave SOUTHFORK and visits BOBBY´s grave.

Meanwhile ANGELICA obtains fake documentation: “I have a lot of travelling to do and many debts to pay”. She tracks down NICHOLAS at ZURICH and kills him with a pin hat.



G.S.: BARRY JENNER, GEORGE PETRIE, GEORGE CHAKIRIS, LAURENCE HADDON, KEITH CHARLES, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, DON STARR, DEBORAH RENNARD, JAMES L. BROWN, JOSHUA HARRIS, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 3/21/86.
27/218: "J.R. RISING"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: LINDA DAY

J.R. is told that, if he defaults any of the loan payments, he might lose EWING OIL. At COLOMBIA, MATT finds a big emerald deposit, so RUEDA´s interferences suddenly become a kind collaboration.

DONNA and RAY start the proceedings for TONY´s adoption, but they are afraid that his sentence for MICKEY´s death may cause trouble.

MARK and PAM are making the arrangements for their wedding, as SUE ELLEN learnts about J.R. and MANDY´s breakup. Determined to get even, ANGELICA enters the country with a false identity...



G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, BARRY JENNER, LAURENCE HADDON, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, JILL ANDRE (ADOPTION OFFICER), HUGH GILLIN, PENELOPE WINDUST (MRS. CRANE), DON STARR, FERN FITZGERALD, JOSHUA HARRIS, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN, PAUL SORENSEN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 4/4/86.
28/219: "SERENDIPITY"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: BRUCE BILSON

Oil prices drop makes J.R. shut down the oldest wells. JAMIE calls on him to beg him to let CLIFF in peace. SUE ELLEN tells JERRY that she wants to give her husband another chance.
"There´s magic between us - J.R. reveals – I know, and you know too SUE ELLEN..."



The KREBBSES find out that TONY has been through emotional rejections. Meanwhile ANGELICA is arrested for speeding and carrying a gun, though she is soon released and continues on her way...straight to DALLAS.

G.S.: MARC SINGER, ALEJANDRO REY, BARRY JENNER, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, PENELOPE WINDUST, JILL ANDRE, DEBORAH RENNARD, FERN FITZGERALD, JOSHUA HARRIS, S.L. RETTINO, ROSEANNA CHRISTIANSEN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 4/11/86.
29/220: "THRICE IN A LIFETIME"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: JERRY JAMESON

J.R. has made his life almost perfect: at last he has control of EWING OIL and SUE ELLEN admits that there is something special between them. MARILEE pressures CLIFF to join the cartel in their fight against J.R.

The adoption application is denied due to RAY´s criminal record. ANGELICA orders a very special briefcase to an explosive expert.

JACK disagrees with the fact that CLAYTON and RAY hired an old cowboy, BEN STIVERS, to take care of the ranch, and decides to leave DALLAS.



G.S.: MARC SINGER, BARRY JENNER, KEITH CHARLES, SHALANE McCALL, OMRI KATZ, JILL ANDRE, TUCK MILLIGAN, FERN FITZGERALD, JOSHUA HARRIS, SOLOMON SMANIATTO, S.L. RETTINO and STEVE FORREST as BEN STIVERS. FIRST AIRED ON 5/2/86.
30/221: "HELLO, GOODBYE, HELLO"
W: LEONARD KATZMAN
D: NICK HAVINGA

J.R. angrily threatens ALEX GARRETT when he discovers that he has shut down the MARINOS wells, since he will face bankruptcy without them.
"I have trouble with the company and I don´t know how to work it out..." – he confesses SUE ELLEN. "When all this is through, I´ll remember who has supported me..."

During a fund-raising party, SUE ELLEN realizes that J.R. has changed and decides to sleep with him again.
"Do you think you can live with only one woman?" – she asks him later.
"If you are that woman, yes." – he says without hesitation.

The ranch´s new foreman, BEN, is a familiar face to both ELLIE as PUNK ANDERSON...

ANGELICA awaits J.R. at an underground park lot and points at him with a gun, as she says: “We have some unfinished business...”



G.S.: BARRY JENNER, MORGAN WOODWARD, KATE REID, GLENN CORBETT, LAURENCE HADDON, PHILIP LEVIEN, JILL ANDRE, FERN FITZGERALD, S.L. RETTINO, DEBORAH TRANELLI, J.L. BROWN and SOLOMON SMANIATTO. FIRST AIRED ON 5/9/86.
31/222: "BLAST FROM THE PAST"
W: J.J. FEIGENBAUM & PETER DUNNE
D: MICHAEL PREECE

Concerned that his empire may collapse, J.R. agrees to make business with ANGELICA, who is out of her hideout to offer him some papers that will give him power over ALEX GARRETT. At gunpoint, ANGELICA makes him get into his car and, afterwards, she sends him a proof of the documents she wants to sell him.
"Two million dollars is a very low price for saving EWING OIL..." – she says in a very cynical tone.

J.R. is happy to have them verified and agrees to pay her what she is asking. They set an appointment at the office next Sunday, so they can make the exchange.




MARK reminds PAM that his illness is only in remission, but she answers: “The most important thing is to live each day to the fullest and, as long as you do, they´ll be the happiest days in your life”. PAM and MARK get married at his mansion garden. Minutes before the ceremony, ELLIE expresses to PAM all her motherly love.



The EWINGS and the BARNESES reunite at the family event. DONNA and RAY have finally adopted TONY. JACK refuses to re-consider to stay in DALLAS, but he promises JAMIE that he will let her his sportscar while he is away.

J.R. gives SUE ELLEN a new engagement ring when they resume their married life. He postpones a family outing on Sunday morning in order to meet ANGELICA at the office, but she makes him wait for an hour.

When ANGELICA shows up, she switches on the detonator timer of the explosive briefcase and time begins to run: “I´m not wanted for murder, I´m wanted for questioning”. J.R. and ANGELICA exchange a few angry words, during which she promises that one day she will kill him and JACK.

At that moment, J.R. calls the police in, after they heard everything so they can arrest ANGELICA: “Call them off if you don´t want to die...You fool, you and JACK are both as good as dead if JACK is not dead already. It´s too late J.R. It´s too late!”, she screams as she is taken away.



Worried, J.R. phones his cousin. JACK and JAMIE are about to get into his sportscar and leave to the airport, when JACK hears the phone ringing and walks back to answer, letting JAMIE waiting at the car. When J.R. asks JACK if he is o.k., both men hear a blast. JACK´s car has been blown up and set in fire. J.R. rushes out of the office heading JACK´s apartment.

Upset about his being late, SUE ELLEN decides to drive to town and find out what has happened. She knows that he was going to meet ANGELICA and is feeling danger. J.R. leaves on one elevator just when SUE ELLEN enters the office from the other elevator. Seconds later, the briefcase blows out and destroys the EWING OIL offices...



(PAM´S DREAM END)




The morning supposedly after her wedding, PAM wakes up after hearing the water running. She walks into the bathroom, opens the shower door and sees a man who looks exactly like BOBBY EWING, who says:
"Good morning..."



END OF THE EPISODE AND SEASON 8

G.S.: OMRI KATZ, TUCK MILLIGAN, THOMAS OGLESBY, GARRET SMITH, ROBERT ROCKWELL, JOSHUA HARRIS, DEBORAH RENNARD, DEBORAH TRANELLI, S.L. RETTINO, J.L. BROWN, SOLOMON SMANIATTO and PATRICK DUFFY as...

FIRST AIRED ON 5/16/86.
COMING SOON, TRIVIA DOSSIER OF SEASON 8, DREAM SPECIAL AND SYNOPSES OF SEASON 9.
Season 8 of DALLAS is available on US DVD since July 15th 2008.
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