MAY 16, 1986 The most shocking cliffhanger since ‘Who Shot J.R.?’: It was all just a dream

Pamela Ewing wakes up to discover her supposedly dead ex-husband (and current fiancé) Bobby standing, very much alive, in the shower.

The true story behind n the season after Patrick Duffy “I ended up being one of very few people Dallas’ controversial left Dallas, the show took a different who was there when they filmed the shower return of Bobby Ewing bent. Producer Leonard Katzman had scene [where Duffy returns]. Katzman and the revelation that also left, and he was really the brains booked a stage—not where Dallas usually the previous season behind the show. The new producers shot at Lorimar, but over the hill at a small was all just a fantasy, were good guys, but they just didn’t get the feel studio in Hollywood. We built a shower, as told by Wayne Iof Dallas. The season’s stories were disappoint- and had Patrick in there, with a bar of Irish Farlow, Dallas unit production manager ing, and we started losing our ratings power. Spring soap. And so that nobody would know “[Series star] Larry Hagman wanted Patrick what we were doing, we had him say, ‘Good back, and Patrick said he would return if morning! I’m Patrick Duffy. This is Irish Katzman did. And so, just after the season’s Spring’ or something like that, as if he was shooting wrapped, Katzman returned—and filming a real commercial.T hen we cut it Watch CBS a Dallas Reunion: then had to figure out how to make the season down to just his first words, ‘Good morning!’ Return to Southfork rc disappear, like it had never happened. He and added it as a new scene at the end of the h ive on TV.com. decided, ‘We’ll make it a dream.’ season finale.”

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