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If you can still hum the tune to the Dallas theme song, it might come as a surprise to realise that the show was last on our screen 45 years ago. And if that doesn’t make you feel old, the remaining stars of the hit show recently got together for a reunion.

Before Netflix became a thing, South Africans could all be found in front of their TVs on Monday nights at 18:00PM. Dallas time was a treat for those who had to sit through NP-approved television, and if you wanted your mother to make you a sarmie during this time, you would be shit out of luck.

Dallas originally aired in South Africa on the old SABC channel TV1 (which became SABC2 in 1996), in the 1980s and 1990s.

For those of you who were born after Google came along, the American primetime soap opera was centred around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The main premise was the bitter and longtime rivalry between the Ewings and the Barnes family.

In the very first episode the Barnes daughter, Pamela (Victoria Principal) eloped with an Ewing son, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). What followed was a bitter rival that saw some of the most explosive and controversial soapy-ness you could ever ask for.

J.R. Ewing in particular stood out as one of the best ‘bad guys’ to ever grace our TV screens, and anyone who watched the show can still recall his underhanded tactics and devilish charm. He also always had a glass of bourbon in his hand – something that has become the trademark for upity bad guys in the future.

Larry Hagman, who played the patriarch of the Ewing family sadly passed away in 2012, but his grinning menace is still fondly remembered by Generation X.

The cast reunited at Oscar’s in Palm Springs, California, ahead of the show’s 45th anniversary, and included Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Charlene Tilton, Audrey Landers, Steve Kanaly, Joan Van Ark, Sheree Wilson, and Cathy Podewell, as well as director Michael Preece.

 

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Ahh, the glory days of television. For those of you in an office, hit the play button on the below video featuring the Dallas theme song, and then watch your older colleagues come running.

“Is that the Dallas theme?!”

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