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Dallas: The Complete Third Season

Description

The series that invented the season cliffhanger and left the world guessing "Who Shot JR?", is now available in this special 5-disc collector's set. Relive the drama, intrigue and deception of TV's most watched event of the 80's, complete with all 25 season three episodes and never-before-seen special features. Dallas recounts the tale of Texas sons and daughters whose lives revolve around oil, family and power. And Larry Hagman portrays petroleum magnate J.R. Ewing, whose pursuit of, in no particular order, money and clout knows no limits.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentary

Dallas: The Complete Third Season, originally broadcast in the fall of 1979 through early 1980, surely represents one of the most raucous and tantalizing years in the life of any television series in history. Murder, banking fraud, kidnapping, adultery, alcoholism, cancer, vengeance, a miscarriage, extortion, bribery, and astounding levels of betrayal both in business and private lives are just part of the catalogue of sins that make season 3 particularly juicy. Actually, what makes the 25 episodes in this box set so much fun to watch is a viewer's gradual awareness that every crime committed, every ethical breach or personal tragedy is part of an overall design, reverberating in dozens of directions and affecting multiple relationships and numerous schemes. As enjoyable as each program is on its own terms, it's quite clear that by the 25th episode, "A House Divided," in which a major character receives a surprise-ending comeuppance, that all chickens were intended to come home to roost in the last show's very clever script.

A remarkable number of story threads found their way into season 3. Starting with a two-parter concerning the kidnapping of a newborn baby belonging to J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), problems just keep on sprouting like weeds. First, there's Sue Ellen's emotional deep-freeze and refusal to nurture her child as a healthy mom should, which in turn prompts the childless Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) to free her maternal instincts toward J.R.'s son, much to the chagrin of J.R.'s brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Meanwhile, teenager Lucy (Charlene Tilton), abandoned daughter of missing Ewing son Gary (David Ackroyd), threatens to teach J.R.'s son, one day, to turn against the Ewing clan, inspiring J.R. to escalate plans to get rid of Lucy any way possible. (Gary, by the way, kicks into gear a famous Dallas spin-off by moving to Knots Landing, California.) Matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a mastectomy, making her worry that husband Jock (Jim Davis) will stop loving her, though he faces problems of his own when a skeleton found buried on Ewing property turns up near Jock's missing handgun. (Whoops.) Finally, J.R.'s almost Shakespearean manipulation of the sale of Asian oil fields to old family friends, just before those fields are nationalized, is brilliantly wicked stuff. His actions have enormous, grievous ramifications--not least of all for J.R. --Tom Keogh

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-03-17
Summary: "Dallas"

Enjoyed every minute of the Series. I liked it the first time it aired and like it even better now that it is on DVD, so I can watch it over and over again.
The Ewings of Southfork are very entertaining.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-03-01
Summary: "This is a quite BORING season!"

I love Dallas. I am not giving the acting or actors a 3 but the season itself. I just find this season rather boring. Other than just a few exciting moments and the "who shot JR?" I think the overall season is quite boring compared to the excitement the others have. I usually can't wait to see the next episode and I am on the edge of my seat with my eyes glued to the set in a trance, but not with this season. The first 8 episodes are really slow. I expected this season to start of with a bang because how season 2 ended with Sue Ellen being in the crazy ward.

I grew up with Dallas but I am now looking at it as an adult. My story on Dallas is that I found seasons 7 and 9 for 6 bucks each so I bought them and got hooked!! I wanted to start from the beginning so I bought seasons 1&2 and loved it! Seeing that there were so many seasons I knew I would end up spending a fortune so I started to check them out at the Library. So I am so glad that season 3 was the one I got from the Library because I would be upset that I wasted my money. Since they are at the Library I am going to keep on going because I have a feeling that season 4 is going to get back to more excitement. Like I said before, the rating is on the season and not the actors or the disk themselves.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-02-06
Summary: "Dallas The complete third season"

I purchased this DVD. I started watching the 3rd and 4th DVD these DVD were all scratched
they kept freezing. I had to purchase a scratch repair kit and fix these DVD's I was going
to purchase more Dallas complete Seasons. I do not think I will be purchasing through Amazon
I feel these were used DVD'S

Thank You
Kasieann Stough

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-10-29
Summary: "A Review from one who has started at the beginning."

I'm new to "Dallas" only having seen brief random snippets here and there up to now when it was syndicated on broadcast TV years ago and I was channel surfing. I am now watching the DVDs from the very beginning. So far, I believe this Season (called "Season 3" but really this is Season 2 since "Season 1" on DVD was in fact the miniseries) is a step down in quality. Now video quality has definitely gone up compared to the prior season box set (colors are snappier and the video a bit sharper), instead I'm talking about a bit of a decline in the show as a whole. Some people have applauded the cast changes made in this season, but I prefer the original versions of Kristen, Digger Barns and Gary Ewing. The plots (writeres) now have the cast members also liking to talk to themselves in this season. I don't think the shark has been jumped yet, but there is a bit of a letdown in my opinion, thus the 4 stars instead of 5 stars.

I got a brand new set of discs and yet disc 1 on both sides has several places where the show would stop entirely, yet the discs are physically pristine. I checked on a brand new DVD player to determine this isn't a problem that can (almost always) happen with older players. I also noticed this issue to a much lesser extent on a small part of one episode in Season 1/2. Be warned, hopefully you won't have a problem.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-04-23
Summary: "The Original Desperate Housewives...and Husbands!"

Well you just can't beat dallas for good old fashioned drama! If you watch desperate housewives these days you'll definitely enjoy Dallas. Basically a soap opera in prime time in it's day, I discovered it while trying to find something to watch when there's basically nothing on TV. No commercials obviously is a plus too with watching them on DVD. Lately, I've turned to alot of old TV shows on DVD that I was too young to watch growing up but make for good TV these days when all there is on is Un-reality TV!