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IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM – Dad Gone Wild

IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM – Dad Gone Wild
IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM




“You’re nothing more than a clever prostitute. You accepted the conditions in which you found yourself and you triumphed.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime

 

Growing up, the most popular show in the country was “Dallas”. For those of you too young to remember, “Dallas” was a nighttime soap centered on a Texas oil family and their many machinations. Each season ended with a cliffhanger, with the intent of holding viewers’ interest over the Summer until new episodes debuted in the Fall.

This was all before the rise of cable TV, so I understand if you younger folks are a little confused, but bear with me. The most successful cliffhanger was when antagonist J.R. Ewing was shot and we all spent the summer trying to decipher who the killer was. The phrase, “Who shot J.R.?” was on everyone’s lips throughout the summer.

In 1986, the “Dallas” producers tried once tried to catch lightning in the bottle by kicking off the season with the jealous Katherine running down the popular Bobby with her car because she was in love with him, Bobby later died in the hospital. The season unfolded from there, until the last episode in which Bobby’s ex-wife Pamela awoke in her bed, the entire year had been nothing but a CONTINUE READING: IT WAS ALL JUST A DREAM – Dad Gone Wild