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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781419813276
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1419813277
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 09, 2005
Running Time: 1176 minutes
Sales Rank: 3520
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 02, 1978
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The series that invented the season cliffhanger and left the world guessing 'Who Shot JR?', is now available in this special 5-disc collector's set. Relive the drama, intrigue and deception of TV's most watched event of the 80's, complete with all 25 season three episodes and never-before-seen special features. Dallas recounts the tale of Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil, family and power. And Larry Hagman portrays petroleum magnate J.R. Ewing, whose pursuit of, in no particular order, money and clout knows no limits.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentary
Amazon.com:
Dallas: The Complete Third Season, originally broadcast in the fall of 1979 through early 1980, surely represents one of the most raucous and tantalizing years in the life of any television series in history. Murder, banking fraud, kidnapping, adultery, alcoholism, cancer, vengeance, a miscarriage, extortion, bribery, and astounding levels of betrayal both in business and private lives are just part of the catalogue of sins that make season 3 particularly juicy. Actually, what makes the 25 episodes in this box set so much fun to watch is a viewer's gradual awareness that every crime committed, every ethical breach or personal tragedy is part of an overall design, reverberating in dozens of directions and affecting multiple relationships and numerous schemes. As enjoyable as each program is on its own terms, it's quite clear that by the 25th episode, 'A House Divided,' in which a major character receives a surprise-ending comeuppance, that all chickens were intended to come home to roost in the last show's very clever script.
A remarkable number of story threads found their way into season 3. Starting with a two-parter concerning the kidnapping of a newborn baby belonging to J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), problems just keep on sprouting like weeds. First, there's Sue Ellen's emotional deep-freeze and refusal to nurture her child as a healthy mom should, which in turn prompts the childless Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) to free her maternal instincts toward J.R.'s son, much to the chagrin of J.R.'s brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Meanwhile, teenager Lucy (Charlene Tilton), abandoned daughter of missing Ewing son Gary (David Ackroyd), threatens to teach J.R.'s son, one day, to turn against the Ewing clan, inspiring J.R. to escalate plans to get rid of Lucy any way possible. (Gary, by the way, kicks into gear a famous Dallas spin-off by moving to Knots Landing, California.) Matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a mastectomy, making her worry that husband Jock (Jim Davis) will stop loving her, though he faces problems of his own when a skeleton found buried on Ewing property turns up near Jock's missing handgun. (Whoops.) Finally, J.R.'s almost Shakespearean manipulation of the sale of Asian oil fields to old family friends, just before those fields are nationalized, is brilliantly wicked stuff. His actions have enormous, grievous ramifications--not least of all for J.R. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Who Shot JR?
This DVD set was one to be had by all Dallas fans! It contained the most popular cliffhanger of all time....Who Killed JR? It could have been anyone who pulled the trigger, but I will let you see for yourself in Season 4. In this season, we see Sue Ellen being distant to her new baby for certain reasons. To take up the slack, Pam gives the baby the love it needs for now. We see more marital problems with JR/Sue Ellen. JR finds comfort with his sister-in-law, Kristin and Sue Ellen finds comfort in a new man, Dusty Farlow. Lucy decides to enter marriage to one of JR's cronies and then Lucy finds love in a college professor. I am not going to tell anymore, that is just some of what happens in Season 3. I know I am buying Season 4 and 5 to find out who shot JR? Enjoy!
Rating: - Dallas DVD 3rd Season
This was ordered as a christmas gift and it arrived in plenty of time. Appreciate the prompt shipment. The product was just as stated, excellent condition, never opened, usa dvd's of the 3rd season. Will keep seller in mind when ordering similar items.
Rating: - Wonderful Show
Dallas night in our house has become a weekly "date" for my husband and I. We were too young to remember the series the first time around, so this volume is terrific. The episodes are so creative and enticing - it doesn't really compare to anything on T.V. today.
Rating: - ol' boys of Dallas
watching this dvd set was great. I had forgotten how much went on in the lives of the Ewings. It was a regular night time soap opera of it's time. It was great fun to watch.
Rating:  - The greatest cliffhanger ever?
Season Three of the long-running primetime soap opera Dallas featured quite possibly one of the busiest television seasons ever and featured what is called the greatest cliffhanger in television history in the final episode.
Of course throughout its run, Dallas was known for having great cliffhangers, but in season three, the writers and producers really hit the nail on the head. To someone who was watching the show in 1980, the final scene of the final episode of season three probably came as quite a shock. I knew what was going to happen and I was still a little taken aback. That's what great television is all about.
And season three completely plays up to that moment right from the start. With all the lying and cheating and backstabbing that take place, the writers are building viewers up so that when the big moment happens, it seems justified, yet at the same time, still comes as a shock.
The shooting of Ewing Oil president JR Ewing (Larry Hagman) created quite a buzz in the television world and when it was revealed who shot him near the beginning of season four, that episode ranked as one of the top-rated television shows of all time. But surely just about everybody would say that JR deserved the bullets.
In the age of the Internet and all other forms of information, even though I have never seen an episode of Dallas beyond the first three seasons on DVD, I know who shot JR, but I still will buy season four and get the inside track on just ... Read More
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