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Back in the 1980s, I was a fairly die-hard Dallas fan, although I did miss an episode here and there, so I'm not as knowledgeable as some other Dallas fan FReepers. I remember back then being very sympathetic with Bobby.

However, after watching the new shows (which I liked, for the most part) - and maturing some 30+ years - I really want J.R. and John Ross to get back into power. Geez, drill baby drill on South Fork! (I would)

Bobby and his son Christopher appear squishy and liberal to me... ugh! That doesn't fit in Texas, IMO. "Alternative energy? Leaving South Fork to a conservancy?" Bah humbug!

A couple of stupid questions: Didn't Bobby die back in the original series, or was that a dream (can't remember)?

When did Bobby marry his current wife, Ann?

I see by the Ewing Family Tree that Kristin Shepard (the girl who shot J.R.) is "deceased" - what what the story with that again (can't remember)?

Thanks in advance.... :o)

I understand Bobby’s actions cause he did promise his momma that he would never allow drilling which I guess could ruin the land or something, I know nothing about drilling or ranching.

I usually remember the political stuff on shows, Bobby started out as a democrat running against Cliff Barnes in a democrat primary for State Senate (Bobby won but later resigned for some reason) early in Dallas’s run. Later on allusions were made to him being a Republican (and Ray’s wife Donna too even though she seemed like a liberal bitch). I guess they changed parties with the rest of Texas except for Perry who waited till 1989.

The season where Bobby was dead was Pam’s dream, that’s what they decided when Duffy came to back to the show. Too bad cause there were some interesting plot developments that season like Jock being alive (with plastic surgery played by a different actor), when the show started back the new Jock was changed to a con artist pretending to be Jock. And it was the only season where JR got full control of Ewing oil after Pam sold him dead Bobby’s shares.

The famous Bobby is alive scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMR5setaS7I

Kristin Shepard fell in the Southfork pool and drowned in one the season finales, with the end scene being Cliff Banres (who the found the body, her death not actually being shown) accusing JR of killing her.

Was not a diehard fan of the first-run original “Dallas” yet I saw many of the episodes. Bobby did die but the powers that be made the entire season of his death all a dream Pam had while he was in the shower.

IMHO the character of Bobby always was and still is a pansy liberal fantasy of how we Texans should really be in the ‘real’ East/West Coast elites’ world that only flies over us unwashed, political incorrect common folk—

Believe Bobby's new wife, Ann, is only new to the reboot and BTW while she says she never misses with her shotgun, she sure did, letting the perp get away when she had the dead drop on him.

And finally, by Googling to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Shepard ) to refresh my memory, I found “Kristin... was found drowned in the Southfork Ranch swimming pool, after having overdosed on drugs and hitting her head after losing consciousness and falling over the railing of the upper balcony. After Kristin's death, it was learned that her husband, Jeff Faraday, and not J.R., was the father of her child, who had become Bobby and Pam's adopted son, Christopher Ewing. Kristin had miscarried the child she had conceived with JR.”

Now that I have done my early morning chore, I can get on to today's... heavy drinking--

Well, Bendy, it is the only way to start... or end a day!

Bobby Ewing: I remember the whole season was written off as a dream.

The chick that shot J.R.? I have no idea.

I was very young when Dallas came out and at best was a casual viewer later in the series run.