Twenty years after it finally bit the dust the epic TV drama, 'Dallas', returns.
“We shot the pilot with myself, Larry Hagman and Linda Gray and a younger cast including my son,” Patrick Duffy told RTÉ TEN this week at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. The man who played the indestructible Bobby Ewing was delighted to be returning to South Fork two decades after he rode into the TV sunset.
“We are just so damn smart we didn’t lose a dime,” Duffy quipped of the Ewings’ fortunes through the recent recession. I now perform the function of Jock and Miss Ellie because the actors have both died and we are not going to cast them. So I am the head of the Ewing family system at the ranch and I have a new wife, played by Brenda Strong – the actress who is the voice of the narrator on Desperate Housewives.”
The pilot will be screened in the US this autumn. “The producers will make a decision at the end of this month whether they will want to film the first full season based on the pilot,” says Duffy. “If they do decide to pick it up we will start shooting in October.”
