Dallas (1978)

Drama · Romance

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (18,526 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 ↑ +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 14
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 14 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1978)

7.68 avg 5 episodes 7.7 → 8.0 49 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Digger's Daughter	7.7	484
2	The Lesson	7.4	334
3	Spy in the House	7.7	310
4	Winds of Vengeance	7.6	316
5	Bar-B-Que	8.0	321

Season 2 (1978)

7.54 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 7.9 48 min avg

Rebound

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Reunion: Part 1	7.6	292
2	Reunion: Part 2	7.6	264
3	Old Acquaintance	7.3	254
4	Bypass	7.5	248
5	Black Market Baby	7.4	249
6	Double Wedding	7.4	241
7	Runaway	7.0	246
8	Election	7.7	243
9	Survival	7.6	239
10	Act of Love	7.6	244
11	Triangle	7.3	233
12	Fallen Idol	7.2	233
13	Kidnapped	7.4	228
14	Home Again	7.4	220
15	For Love or Money	7.7	217
16	Julie's Return	7.6	218
17	The Red File: Part 1	7.9	230
18	The Red File: Part 2	8.1	226
19	Sue Ellen's Sister	7.3	214
20	Call Girl	7.4	218
21	Royal Marriage	7.8	227
22	The Outsiders	7.4	206
23	John Ewing III: Part 1	7.8	219
24	John Ewing III: Part 2	7.9	214

Season 3 (1979)

7.70 avg 25 episodes 7.8 → 9.1 49 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Whatever Happened to Baby John?: Part 1	7.8	219
2	Whatever Happened to Baby John?: Part 2	7.8	205
3	The Silent Killer	7.4	201
4	Secrets	7.3	195
5	The Kristin Affair	7.7	195
6	The Dove Hunt	7.7	204
7	The Lost Child	7.3	205
8	Rodeo	7.5	202
9	Mastectomy: Part 1	7.3	192
10	Mastectomy: Part 2	7.1	193
11	The Heiress	7.5	193
12	Ellie Saves the Day	8.0	199
13	Mother of the Year	7.7	192
14	Return Engagements	7.7	194
15	Love and Marriage	7.4	188
16	Power Play	7.7	194
17	Paternity Suit	8.2	205
18	Jenna's Return	7.2	184
19	Sue Ellen's Choice	7.4	187
20	Second Thoughts	7.4	190
21	Divorce, Ewing Style	8.1	195
22	Jock's Trial: Part 1	7.9	195
23	Jock's Trial: Part 2	8.3	199
24	The Wheeler Dealer	8.1	198
25	A House Divided	9.1	354

Season 4 (1980)

7.64 avg 23 episodes 8.1 → 8.4 48 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	No More Mister Nice Guy: Part 1	8.1	214
2	No More Mister Nice Guy: Part 2	7.8	201
3	Nightmare	7.5	195
4	Who Done It?	8.2	240
5	Taste of Success	7.5	180
6	The Venezuelan Connection	7.5	190
7	The Fourth Son	8.0	190
8	Trouble at Ewing 23	7.5	181
9	The Prodigal Mother	7.3	183
10	Executive Wife	7.5	178
11	End of the Road: Part 1	7.6	169
12	End of the Road: Part 2	8.0	177
13	Making of a President	7.3	172
14	Start the Revolution with Me	7.4	163
15	The Quest	7.3	161
16	Lover, Come Back	7.6	170
17	The New Mrs. Ewing	7.6	170
18	The Mark of Cain	7.3	167
19	The Gathering Storm	7.5	163
20	Ewing vs. Ewing	7.6	165
21	New Beginnings	7.5	175
22	Full Circle	7.7	170
23	Ewing-Gate	8.4	198

Season 5 (1981)

7.65 avg 26 episodes 7.7 → 8.1 50 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Missing Heir	7.7	181
2	Gone But Not Forgotten	7.7	171
3	Showdown at San Ángelo	7.7	165
4	Little Boy Lost	7.7	164
5	The Sweet Smell of Revenge	7.2	165
6	The Big Shut Down	7.4	158
7	Blocked	7.5	160
8	The Split	7.6	161
9	Five Dollars a Barrel	7.8	165
10	Starting Over	7.8	163
11	Waterloo at Southfork	7.8	165
12	Barbecue Two	7.9	165
13	The Search	7.8	173
14	Denial	7.6	163
15	Head of the Family	7.4	162
16	The Phoenix	7.5	163
17	My Father, My Son	7.3	161
18	Anniversary	7.4	160
19	Adoption	7.6	167
20	The Maelstrom	7.6	155
21	The Prodigal	7.5	158
22	Vengeance	7.6	155
23	Blackmail	8.0	155
24	The Investigation	7.9	162
25	Acceptance	7.8	162
26	Goodbye, Cliff Barnes	8.1	161

Season 6 (1982)

7.78 avg 28 episodes 7.7 → 8.5 49 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Changing of the Guard	7.7	164
2	Where There's a Will...	7.6	160
3	Billion Dollar Question	7.5	157
4	The Big Ball	7.7	157
5	Jock's Will	8.0	157
6	Aftermath	7.5	150
7	Hit and Run	7.4	151
8	The Ewing Touch	7.3	149
9	Fringe Benefits	7.4	147
10	The Wedding	7.9	154
11	Post Nuptial	7.8	154
12	Barbecue Three	8.0	146
13	Mama Dearest	7.6	145
14	The Ewing Blues	7.7	146
15	The Reckoning	8.0	147
16	A Ewing Is a Ewing	7.8	147
17	Crash of '83	7.9	149
18	Requiem	8.1	150
19	Legacy	7.5	140
20	Brothers and Sisters	7.5	141
21	Caribbean Connection	7.9	142
22	The Sting	7.9	144
23	Hell Hath No Fury	7.8	143
24	Cuba Libre	7.7	141
25	Tangled Web	7.9	146
26	Things Ain't Goin' Too Good at Southfork	8.2	157
27	Penultimate	8.1	152
28	Ewing Inferno	8.5	171

Season 7 (1983)

7.71 avg 30 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 50 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Road Back	7.8	153
2	The Long Goodbye	7.8	144
3	The Letter	7.6	150
4	My Brother's Keeper	7.6	137
5	The Quality of Mercy	7.8	145
6	Check and Mate	8.0	144
7	Ray's Trial	7.8	149
8	The Oil Baron's Ball	8.0	149
9	Morning After	7.8	144
10	The Buck Stops Here	7.4	143
11	To Catch a Sly	7.7	139
12	Barbecue Four	7.8	143
13	Past Imperfect	7.5	134
14	Peter's Principle	7.2	139
15	Offshore Crude	7.4	135
16	Some Do... Some Don't	7.5	135
17	Eye of the Beholder	7.6	139
18	Twelve Mile Limit	7.6	133
19	Where Is Poppa?	7.6	139
20	When the Bough Breaks	7.5	139
21	True Confessions	7.6	135
22	And the Winner Is...	7.9	138
23	Fools Rush In	7.7	135
24	The Unexpected	7.6	135
25	Strange Alliance	7.4	137
26	Blow Up	7.7	142
27	Turning Point	7.6	135
28	Love Stories	7.9	137
29	Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie	8.3	148
30	End Game	8.5	177

Season 8 (1984)

7.58 avg 30 episodes 7.9 → 8.6 49 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Killer at Large	7.9	147
2	Battle Lines	7.6	143
3	If at First You Don't Succeed	7.7	138
4	Jamie	7.6	141
5	Family	7.6	139
6	Shadow of a Doubt	7.5	134
7	Homecoming	7.2	139
8	Oil Baron's Ball III	7.5	132
9	Shadows	7.2	131
10	Charlie	7.0	135
11	Barbecue Five	7.6	134
12	Do You Take This Woman?	7.6	136
13	Deja Vu	7.4	137
14	Odd Man Out	7.5	130
15	Lockup in Laredo	7.2	132
16	Winds of War	7.6	134
17	Bail Out	7.5	139
18	Legacy of Hate	7.8	140
19	Sins of the Fathers	7.6	132
20	The Brothers Ewing	7.5	131
21	Shattered Dreams	7.6	137
22	Dead Ends	7.6	133
23	Trial & Error	7.5	131
24	The Verdict	7.5	134
25	Sentences	7.4	132
26	Terms of Estrangement	7.7	135
27	The Ewing Connection	7.7	130
28	Deeds and Misdeeds	7.8	131
29	Deliverance	7.9	135
30	Swan Song	8.6	188

Season 9 (1985)

7.66 avg 31 episodes 7.8 → 8.5 48 min avg

Big finale

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Family Ewing	7.8	140
2	Rock Bottom	7.8	142
3	Those Eyes	7.6	125
4	Resurrection	7.7	130
5	Saving Grace	7.6	125
6	Mothers	7.5	124
7	The Wind of Change	7.9	130
8	Quandary	7.5	128
9	Close Encounters	7.9	130
10	Suffer the Little Children	7.6	126
11	The Prize	7.6	126
12	En Passant	7.5	126
13	Goodbye, Farewell and Amen	7.6	127
14	Curiosity Killed the Cat	7.6	125
15	The Missing Link	7.5	123
16	Twenty-Four Hours	7.6	125
17	The Deadly Game	7.7	120
18	Blame It on Bogota	7.7	126
19	Shadow Games	7.5	121
20	Missing	7.4	122
21	Dire Straits	7.6	126
22	Overture	7.5	121
23	Sitting Ducks	7.6	121
24	Masquerade	8.0	127
25	Just Desserts	7.6	122
26	Nothing's Ever Perfect	7.7	119
27	J.R. Rising	7.6	123
28	Serendipity	7.5	119
29	Thrice in a Lifetime	7.6	122
30	Hello... Goodbye... Hello	7.7	125
31	Blast from the Past	8.5	169

Season 10 (1986)

7.51 avg 29 episodes 7.2 → 8.1 48 min avg

Big finale

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Return to Camelot: Part 1	7.2	148
2	Return to Camelot: Part 2	7.3	136
3	Pari Per Sue	7.5	124
4	Once and Future King	7.4	125
5	Enigma	7.3	127
6	Trompe L'Oeil	7.5	119
7	Territorial Imperative	7.4	122
8	The Second Time Around	7.4	120
9	Bells Are Ringing	7.5	121
10	Who's Who at the Oil Baron's Ball?	7.6	125
11	Proof Positive	7.7	121
12	Something Old, Something New	7.5	121
13	Bar-B-Cued	7.7	125
14	The Fire Next Time	7.5	125
15	So Shall Ye Reap	7.2	121
16	Tick, Tock	7.4	119
17	Night Visitor	7.3	121
18	Cat and Mouse	7.5	123
19	High Noon for Calhoun	7.8	127
20	Olio	7.4	123
21	A Death in the Family	7.5	127
22	Revenge of the Nerd	7.7	122
23	The Ten Percent Solution	7.5	121
24	Some Good, Some Bad	7.5	118
25	War and Peace	7.4	117
26	Ruthless People	7.5	122
27	The Dark at the End of the Tunnel	7.8	125
28	Two-Fifty	7.6	120
29	Fall of the House of Ewing	8.1	139

Season 11 (1987)

7.26 avg 30 episodes 7.2 → 7.9 47 min avg

Big finale

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	After the Fall: Ewing Rise	7.2	131
2	After the Fall: Digger Redux	7.1	121
3	The Son Also Rises	7.0	118
4	Gone with the Wind	7.0	121
5	The Lady Vanishes	7.2	116
6	Tough Love	7.3	118
7	Last Tango in Dallas	7.3	122
8	Mummy's Revenge	7.0	117
9	Hustling	7.0	116
10	Bedtime Stories	7.2	115
11	Lovers and Other Liars	7.2	118
12	Brothers and Sons	7.5	117
13	Brother, Can You Spare a Child?	7.2	142
14	Daddy's Little Darlin'	7.1	129
15	It's Me Again	7.2	121
16	Marriage on the Rocks	7.1	130
17	Anniversary Waltz	7.6	119
18	Brotherly Love	7.3	117
19	The Best Laid Plans	7.1	119
20	Farlow's Follies	7.1	135
21	Malice in Dallas	7.2	115
22	Crime Story	7.2	115
23	To Have and to Hold	7.3	116
24	Dead Reckoning	7.4	117
25	Never Say Never	7.1	118
26	Last of the Good Guys	7.2	114
27	Top Gun	7.7	122
28	Pillow Talk	7.3	113
29	Things Ain't Goin' So Good at Southfork Again	7.7	119
30	The Fat Lady Singeth	7.9	121

Season 12 (1988)

7.34 avg 26 episodes 7.2 → 7.2 48 min avg

Season 12 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Carousel	7.2	121
2	No Greater Love	7.1	119
3	The Call of the Wild	7.2	114
4	Out of the Frying Pan	7.1	114
5	Road Work	7.2	120
6	War and Love and the Whole Damned Thing	7.2	118
7	Showdown at the Ewing Corral	7.5	118
8	Deception	7.5	112
9	Counter Attack	7.4	119
10	The Sting	7.8	118
11	The Two Mrs. Ewings	7.7	114
12	The Switch	7.3	113
13	He-e-ere's Papa!	7.2	113
14	Comings and Goings	7.1	120
15	Country Girl	7.2	119
16	Wedding Bell Blues	7.7	120
17	The Way We Were	7.0	116
18	The Serpent's Tooth	7.0	112
19	Three Hundred	7.8	118
20	April Showers	7.6	116
21	And Away We Go!	7.4	109
22	Yellow Brick Road	7.5	114
23	The Sound of Money	7.2	115
24	The Great Texas Waltz	7.3	117
25	Mission to Moscow	7.4	116
26	Reel Life	7.2	122

Season 13 (1989)

7.07 avg 27 episodes 6.8 → 7.3 48 min avg

Season 13 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Phantom of the Oil Rig	6.8	122
2	The Leopard's Spots	6.9	115
3	Cry Me a River of Oil	7.0	113
4	Ka-Booooom!	7.2	111
5	Sunset, Sunrise	7.2	116
6	Pride and Prejudice	7.1	111
7	Fathers and Other Strangers	7.4	114
8	Black Tide	7.4	115
9	Daddy's Dearest	7.3	119
10	Hell's Fury	7.1	114
11	Cally on a Hot Tin Roof	7.3	113
12	Sex, Lies and Videotape	7.3	114
13	A Tale of Two Cities	7.3	116
14	Judgment Day	7.1	111
15	Unchain My Heart	7.0	114
16	I Dream of Jeannie	7.0	117
17	After Midnight	7.0	114
18	The Crucible	7.1	117
19	Dear Hearts and Gentle People	6.8	117
20	Paradise Lost	6.8	116
21	Will Power	6.5	120
22	The Smiling Cobra	6.7	115
23	Jessica Redux	6.9	113
24	Family Plot	7.2	112
25	The Southfork Wedding Jinx	7.4	113
26	Three, Three, Three: Part 1	6.9	117
27	Three, Three, Three: Part 2	7.3	111

Season 14 (1990)

6.96 avg 22 episodes 6.7 → 6.8 50 min avg

Shape drift

Season 14 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	April in Paris	6.7	136
2	Charade	6.7	121
3	One Last Kiss	6.8	119
4	Terminus	7.0	123
5	Tunnel of Love	6.7	118
6	Heart and Soul	6.5	121
7	The Fabulous Ewing Boys	6.8	116
8	The Odessa File	7.0	115
9	Sail On	7.1	118
10	Lock, Stock and Jock	7.0	116
11	'S' Is for Seduction	7.1	118
12	Designing Women	7.1	117
13	90265	7.1	121
14	Smooth Operator	6.8	120
15	Win Some, Lose Some	6.8	115
16	Fathers and Sons and Fathers and Sons	7.1	115
17	When the Wind Blows	7.0	111
18	Those Darned Ewings	6.8	112
19	Farewell, My Lovely	7.2	114
20	Some Leave, Some Get Carried Out	7.5	119
21	The Decline and Fall of the Ewing Empire	7.5	128
22	Conundrum	6.8	189

Dallas (1978)

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