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 (18,281 votes)
Seasons: 14
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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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	466
2	The Lesson	7.4	325
3	Spy in the House	7.7	302
4	Winds of Vengeance	7.6	307
5	Bar-B-Que	8.0	313

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	284
2	Reunion: Part 2	7.6	256
3	Old Acquaintance	7.3	245
4	Bypass	7.5	240
5	Black Market Baby	7.4	240
6	Double Wedding	7.4	232
7	Runaway	7.0	237
8	Election	7.6	233
9	Survival	7.6	228
10	Act of Love	7.6	234
11	Triangle	7.4	224
12	Fallen Idol	7.2	224
13	Kidnapped	7.4	221
14	Home Again	7.4	212
15	For Love or Money	7.7	209
16	Julie's Return	7.6	210
17	The Red File: Part 1	8.0	222
18	The Red File: Part 2	8.1	218
19	Sue Ellen's Sister	7.3	207
20	Call Girl	7.4	211
21	Royal Marriage	7.8	220
22	The Outsiders	7.4	200
23	John Ewing III: Part 1	7.8	214
24	John Ewing III: Part 2	7.9	209

Season 3 (1979)

7.69 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	212
2	Whatever Happened to Baby John?: Part 2	7.8	198
3	The Silent Killer	7.4	195
4	Secrets	7.2	189
5	The Kristin Affair	7.7	189
6	The Dove Hunt	7.7	199
7	The Lost Child	7.3	199
8	Rodeo	7.5	196
9	Mastectomy: Part 1	7.3	185
10	Mastectomy: Part 2	7.1	187
11	The Heiress	7.4	187
12	Ellie Saves the Day	8.0	193
13	Mother of the Year	7.7	187
14	Return Engagements	7.7	189
15	Love and Marriage	7.4	184
16	Power Play	7.7	190
17	Paternity Suit	8.2	200
18	Jenna's Return	7.1	180
19	Sue Ellen's Choice	7.4	182
20	Second Thoughts	7.4	186
21	Divorce, Ewing Style	8.1	191
22	Jock's Trial: Part 1	7.9	191
23	Jock's Trial: Part 2	8.3	195
24	The Wheeler Dealer	8.1	194
25	A House Divided	9.1	349

Season 4 (1980)

7.65 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	211
2	No More Mister Nice Guy: Part 2	7.8	198
3	Nightmare	7.4	192
4	Who Done It?	8.2	237
5	Taste of Success	7.5	177
6	The Venezuelan Connection	7.5	186
7	The Fourth Son	8.0	184
8	Trouble at Ewing 23	7.5	178
9	The Prodigal Mother	7.3	179
10	Executive Wife	7.5	175
11	End of the Road: Part 1	7.6	166
12	End of the Road: Part 2	8.0	174
13	Making of a President	7.3	168
14	Start the Revolution with Me	7.4	160
15	The Quest	7.3	158
16	Lover, Come Back	7.6	167
17	The New Mrs. Ewing	7.7	167
18	The Mark of Cain	7.3	164
19	The Gathering Storm	7.6	160
20	Ewing vs. Ewing	7.6	163
21	New Beginnings	7.6	173
22	Full Circle	7.7	168
23	Ewing-Gate	8.4	196

Season 5 (1981)

7.68 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 8.1 50 min avg

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Missing Heir	7.8	178
2	Gone But Not Forgotten	7.7	168
3	Showdown at San Ángelo	7.7	162
4	Little Boy Lost	7.7	161
5	The Sweet Smell of Revenge	7.3	162
6	The Big Shut Down	7.4	155
7	Blocked	7.5	157
8	The Split	7.7	158
9	Five Dollars a Barrel	7.8	161
10	Starting Over	7.8	160
11	Waterloo at Southfork	7.8	162
12	Barbecue Two	7.9	162
13	The Search	7.8	170
14	Denial	7.6	160
15	Head of the Family	7.5	159
16	The Phoenix	7.5	160
17	My Father, My Son	7.4	158
18	Anniversary	7.5	157
19	Adoption	7.7	164
20	The Maelstrom	7.6	153
21	The Prodigal	7.5	156
22	Vengeance	7.6	153
23	Blackmail	8.0	153
24	The Investigation	8.0	160
25	Acceptance	7.8	160
26	Goodbye, Cliff Barnes	8.1	159

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	163
2	Where There's a Will...	7.6	158
3	Billion Dollar Question	7.5	155
4	The Big Ball	7.7	155
5	Jock's Will	8.0	156
6	Aftermath	7.5	150
7	Hit and Run	7.4	151
8	The Ewing Touch	7.3	149
9	Fringe Benefits	7.4	146
10	The Wedding	7.9	153
11	Post Nuptial	7.8	153
12	Barbecue Three	8.0	146
13	Mama Dearest	7.6	145
14	The Ewing Blues	7.7	145
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	140
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	143
3	The Letter	7.6	149
4	My Brother's Keeper	7.6	136
5	The Quality of Mercy	7.8	144
6	Check and Mate	8.0	143
7	Ray's Trial	7.8	148
8	The Oil Baron's Ball	8.0	148
9	Morning After	7.8	143
10	The Buck Stops Here	7.4	142
11	To Catch a Sly	7.7	138
12	Barbecue Four	7.8	142
13	Past Imperfect	7.5	133
14	Peter's Principle	7.2	137
15	Offshore Crude	7.4	134
16	Some Do... Some Don't	7.5	134
17	Eye of the Beholder	7.6	138
18	Twelve Mile Limit	7.6	132
19	Where Is Poppa?	7.6	138
20	When the Bough Breaks	7.5	138
21	True Confessions	7.6	134
22	And the Winner Is...	7.9	137
23	Fools Rush In	7.7	134
24	The Unexpected	7.6	134
25	Strange Alliance	7.5	136
26	Blow Up	7.7	141
27	Turning Point	7.6	134
28	Love Stories	7.9	136
29	Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie	8.3	147
30	End Game	8.5	176

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	146
2	Battle Lines	7.6	141
3	If at First You Don't Succeed	7.7	137
4	Jamie	7.6	140
5	Family	7.6	138
6	Shadow of a Doubt	7.5	133
7	Homecoming	7.2	138
8	Oil Baron's Ball III	7.5	131
9	Shadows	7.2	130
10	Charlie	7.0	134
11	Barbecue Five	7.6	133
12	Do You Take This Woman?	7.6	135
13	Deja Vu	7.4	136
14	Odd Man Out	7.5	129
15	Lockup in Laredo	7.2	131
16	Winds of War	7.6	133
17	Bail Out	7.5	138
18	Legacy of Hate	7.8	139
19	Sins of the Fathers	7.6	131
20	The Brothers Ewing	7.5	130
21	Shattered Dreams	7.5	135
22	Dead Ends	7.6	132
23	Trial & Error	7.5	130
24	The Verdict	7.5	133
25	Sentences	7.4	131
26	Terms of Estrangement	7.7	134
27	The Ewing Connection	7.7	129
28	Deeds and Misdeeds	7.8	130
29	Deliverance	7.9	134
30	Swan Song	8.6	186

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	139
2	Rock Bottom	7.8	140
3	Those Eyes	7.6	124
4	Resurrection	7.7	129
5	Saving Grace	7.6	124
6	Mothers	7.5	123
7	The Wind of Change	7.9	129
8	Quandary	7.5	127
9	Close Encounters	7.9	129
10	Suffer the Little Children	7.6	125
11	The Prize	7.6	125
12	En Passant	7.5	125
13	Goodbye, Farewell and Amen	7.6	126
14	Curiosity Killed the Cat	7.6	124
15	The Missing Link	7.5	122
16	Twenty-Four Hours	7.6	124
17	The Deadly Game	7.7	119
18	Blame It on Bogota	7.7	125
19	Shadow Games	7.5	120
20	Missing	7.4	121
21	Dire Straits	7.6	125
22	Overture	7.5	120
23	Sitting Ducks	7.6	120
24	Masquerade	8.0	126
25	Just Desserts	7.6	120
26	Nothing's Ever Perfect	7.7	118
27	J.R. Rising	7.6	122
28	Serendipity	7.5	118
29	Thrice in a Lifetime	7.6	121
30	Hello... Goodbye... Hello	7.7	124
31	Blast from the Past	8.5	168

Season 10 (1986)

7.50 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	147
2	Return to Camelot: Part 2	7.3	135
3	Pari Per Sue	7.5	123
4	Once and Future King	7.4	124
5	Enigma	7.3	126
6	Trompe L'Oeil	7.5	118
7	Territorial Imperative	7.4	121
8	The Second Time Around	7.4	119
9	Bells Are Ringing	7.5	120
10	Who's Who at the Oil Baron's Ball?	7.6	124
11	Proof Positive	7.7	120
12	Something Old, Something New	7.5	120
13	Bar-B-Cued	7.7	124
14	The Fire Next Time	7.5	124
15	So Shall Ye Reap	7.2	120
16	Tick, Tock	7.4	118
17	Night Visitor	7.3	120
18	Cat and Mouse	7.5	122
19	High Noon for Calhoun	7.8	126
20	Olio	7.4	122
21	A Death in the Family	7.5	126
22	Revenge of the Nerd	7.7	121
23	The Ten Percent Solution	7.5	119
24	Some Good, Some Bad	7.5	117
25	War and Peace	7.4	115
26	Ruthless People	7.5	120
27	The Dark at the End of the Tunnel	7.7	123
28	Two-Fifty	7.6	119
29	Fall of the House of Ewing	8.1	137

Season 11 (1987)

7.24 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	129
2	After the Fall: Digger Redux	7.1	119
3	The Son Also Rises	7.0	116
4	Gone with the Wind	7.0	119
5	The Lady Vanishes	7.2	114
6	Tough Love	7.2	116
7	Last Tango in Dallas	7.3	120
8	Mummy's Revenge	7.0	115
9	Hustling	7.0	115
10	Bedtime Stories	7.2	114
11	Lovers and Other Liars	7.1	116
12	Brothers and Sons	7.5	115
13	Brother, Can You Spare a Child?	7.2	140
14	Daddy's Little Darlin'	7.1	126
15	It's Me Again	7.2	119
16	Marriage on the Rocks	7.0	127
17	Anniversary Waltz	7.6	117
18	Brotherly Love	7.3	115
19	The Best Laid Plans	7.1	117
20	Farlow's Follies	7.0	133
21	Malice in Dallas	7.2	113
22	Crime Story	7.2	113
23	To Have and to Hold	7.3	114
24	Dead Reckoning	7.3	115
25	Never Say Never	7.1	116
26	Last of the Good Guys	7.2	112
27	Top Gun	7.7	120
28	Pillow Talk	7.3	111
29	Things Ain't Goin' So Good at Southfork Again	7.7	117
30	The Fat Lady Singeth	7.9	119

Season 12 (1988)

7.30 avg 26 episodes 7.1 → 7.2 48 min avg

Season 12 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Carousel	7.1	119
2	No Greater Love	7.0	115
3	The Call of the Wild	7.2	111
4	Out of the Frying Pan	7.1	111
5	Road Work	7.1	117
6	War and Love and the Whole Damned Thing	7.2	115
7	Showdown at the Ewing Corral	7.5	115
8	Deception	7.5	109
9	Counter Attack	7.4	116
10	The Sting	7.8	115
11	The Two Mrs. Ewings	7.6	111
12	The Switch	7.2	110
13	He-e-ere's Papa!	7.1	110
14	Comings and Goings	7.1	116
15	Country Girl	7.1	115
16	Wedding Bell Blues	7.6	117
17	The Way We Were	7.0	113
18	The Serpent's Tooth	6.9	109
19	Three Hundred	7.8	115
20	April Showers	7.6	114
21	And Away We Go!	7.3	107
22	Yellow Brick Road	7.4	110
23	The Sound of Money	7.2	112
24	The Great Texas Waltz	7.3	114
25	Mission to Moscow	7.4	112
26	Reel Life	7.2	118

Season 13 (1989)

7.05 avg 27 episodes 6.7 → 7.3 48 min avg

Season 13 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Phantom of the Oil Rig	6.7	116
2	The Leopard's Spots	6.9	110
3	Cry Me a River of Oil	7.0	108
4	Ka-Booooom!	7.1	106
5	Sunset, Sunrise	7.2	110
6	Pride and Prejudice	7.1	105
7	Fathers and Other Strangers	7.3	108
8	Black Tide	7.4	108
9	Daddy's Dearest	7.2	113
10	Hell's Fury	7.1	108
11	Cally on a Hot Tin Roof	7.2	107
12	Sex, Lies and Videotape	7.3	108
13	A Tale of Two Cities	7.3	110
14	Judgment Day	7.1	105
15	Unchain My Heart	6.9	108
16	I Dream of Jeannie	7.0	111
17	After Midnight	7.0	108
18	The Crucible	7.1	111
19	Dear Hearts and Gentle People	6.8	111
20	Paradise Lost	6.8	110
21	Will Power	6.5	114
22	The Smiling Cobra	6.7	110
23	Jessica Redux	6.9	108
24	Family Plot	7.2	107
25	The Southfork Wedding Jinx	7.3	108
26	Three, Three, Three: Part 1	6.9	113
27	Three, Three, Three: Part 2	7.3	106

Season 14 (1990)

6.93 avg 22 episodes 6.6 → 6.9 50 min avg

shape-drift

Season 14 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	April in Paris	6.6	131
2	Charade	6.6	116
3	One Last Kiss	6.7	114
4	Terminus	7.0	118
5	Tunnel of Love	6.7	113
6	Heart and Soul	6.5	116
7	The Fabulous Ewing Boys	6.7	111
8	The Odessa File	7.0	110
9	Sail On	7.1	113
10	Lock, Stock and Jock	7.0	111
11	'S' Is for Seduction	7.0	112
12	Designing Women	7.0	111
13	90265	7.1	115
14	Smooth Operator	6.8	114
15	Win Some, Lose Some	6.8	109
16	Fathers and Sons and Fathers and Sons	7.0	109
17	When the Wind Blows	6.9	105
18	Those Darned Ewings	6.8	106
19	Farewell, My Lovely	7.2	108
20	Some Leave, Some Get Carried Out	7.5	113
21	The Decline and Fall of the Ewing Empire	7.5	122
22	Conundrum	6.9	182

Dallas (1978)

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