Time slot, 1970's. Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, Texas Stadium, and the Cowboys. Dallas, Big D, America's Team and the Super Bowl. The perfect representation of the best city in Texas. By comparison, nothing else could compete with such a fanatical love affair with the Cowboys, right? Wrong!

On April 2, 1978 the television series “Dallas” arrived on CBS. Originally, only 5 episodes were filmed as a mini-series. Some executives at CBS had already predicted failure, even Larry Hagman, who played the notorious J.R. Ewing in the series, couldn't predict what direction the wind would blow. Hagman had scored success and failure in television, so he was a voice of experience.

The series was set, of course, in Dallas, and oil and money were the main characters of the show. Hagman, along with his co-stars, were merely the pawns in the game of wealth. Manipulating and being manipulated. Every episode seemed to explode with what co-star Patrick Duffy called the three B's....booze, broads, and booty. And maybe some backstabbing here and there for good measure. Anyway, the show continually left their audience on the edge, including the most famous episode in television history, "Who shot J.R."?

After 13 seasons, the series concluded on May 3, 1991 with 357 episodes. It became the #1 ranked show on network television in seasons 4 and 6, before tailing off to #61 in its' final year. In 2008, Warner Home Video will have the first 9 seasons available on DVD.