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Dallas: The Complete Season 1 and 2 (5 Disc Box Set) [1978]

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 : Dallas: The Complete Season 1 and 2 (5 Disc Box Set) [1978]

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 7321900043724
Format: Box set, PAL, Subtitled
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDanishOriginal LanguageDutchOriginal LanguageSwedishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 5
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 2
Release Date: November 01, 2004
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 02, 1978




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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Dallas: The Complete First and Second Seasons is an American equivalent to those British mini-series about historical chapters in that country's royal monarchy. Full of family in-fighting, political intrigue crossed with personal triumph or disappointment, and plenty of sensational infidelities and betrayals, Dallas is a captivating story of a wealthy oil family's power and travails. It is also uniquely fun and daringly absurd, albeit with a straight face; this hugely successful, primetime soap opera began in the late 1970s and ran 14 seasons in all, built on a handful of primary relationships that stretch credulity but never descend into self-parody.

Not unexpectedly, Dallas begins with a Romeo and Juliet tale that instantly exposes an old feud between two families and strips the civilized veneer from several major characters. Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest of three sons of independent oilman Jock Ewing (Jim Davis), arrives at the Ewing clan's Southfork ranch just outside Dallas, Texas, with a new wife, Pam Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal). Pam is the daughter of Digger Barnes (David Wayne), an old business rival of Jock's and one-time suitor of the Ewing matriarch, Eleanor (or "Miss Ellie", played by Barbara Bel Geddes). Pam's also the sister of a state senator, Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), whose vendetta against the Ewings is played out in the legislature, imposing costly regulations on their business and holding committee investigations into questionable practices of company president J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman). Pam's status as the newest Ewing causes an uproar in the family (besides being a Barnes, she also dated the Ewings' genial but lonely foreman, Ray Krebbs, played by Steve Kanaly) and prompts Dallas' charming villain, J.R., to make many Iago-like attempts, over the first two seasons, to drive her from Bobby's arms. Pam has a different set of problems with the other, jealous Ewing women, including J.R.'s possibly barren and alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), and teenage Lucy (Charlene Tilton), daughter of exiled Ewing son Gary (Ted Shackleford). With new and old resentments flying and everyone deeply suspicious of everyone else's motives (even the ailing Jock doesn't trust J.R.), there's plenty of drama to chew on. Still, storylines are often larger than the sum of these parts, with lots of kidnappings, marital affairs, plane crashes, and shootings ratcheting up suspense. Dallas is pure pleasure, a little guilty, perhaps, but not a sin. --Tom Keogh



Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Not a bad price, brought it all back........
Ahhh, back to 1978! Loved it. Love the slim line packaging, cant work out why some folk can't grasp the fact they are on double sided discs.

As others have noted, there is the occasional wobble in sound and picture quality, but it is thirty years old (yikes!) and it doesnt detract from the experience.

Also, price is OK, shipping is fast. 5 stars from me.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Origins of an Original
Here we have it - the first of the classic "Dallas" DVD sets!

The series that originally started out as a TV mini-series (the first 5 episodes on this package now re-titled as 'Season 1') and eventually was responsible for coining the term 'Soap' as a blueprint for a number of imitations to come.

This groundbreaking, award-winning ratings-grabber told the story of the oil rich Ewing family, and focused on the trials and tribulations of their everyday lives of power, wealth, ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Missing Episodes
I hadn't realised the discs were double sided until reading another review on here. Nowhere on the packaging or discs does it mention this.

I was just about to return the boxed set to Amazon because there were episodes missing from each series, when I spotted the reference to double sided discs in another review!



Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Dissapointed
Being an avid Dalas Fane, I was expecting to watch in the comfort of my one living room the full Dalas senario, unfortunatelly all the DVD's received seem to only contain half of what is promissed on the cover.

This is most dissapointing due to the fact that at the end of the DVD, I was left in the middle of a series, missing half of what was expected and promissed on the cover.

Being a woman and technicaly inept, I asked my husdand to check that I was correctly using both the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Dallas :Seasions 1 and 2
"Dallas" was THE soap OF THE 70s/80s,i know it continued to the early 90s but was at its best in the 70s/80s.
The show started life as a mini-series in 1978,showing youngest son of the "Ewing Oil" empire Bobby(Patrick Duffy)marrying Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal)the daughter of his Daddy's- Jock(Jim Davis)-bitter enemy "Digger" Barnes,(David Wayne then Keenan Wynne)his alcholic ex partner,who blames Jock for "stealing" his share and for everything else,wrong with his life.
Miss Ellie(Barbara ... Read More




 

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