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11-03-04, 12:44 PM
from www.usatoday.com
Best nail-biters from the ranch
After J.R. Ewing was shot on March 21, 1980, the Dallas season-ending cliffhanger became one of TV's most anticipated events. Two cliffhangers will be re-enacted Sunday on the CBS special Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork (9 p.m. ET/PT), and the results of a CBS.com poll asking Dallas fans to rate their top 10 favorites also will be revealed. Here is a list of all 13 Dallas cliffhangers, along with their resolutions. USA TODAY's William Keck, a Dallas devotee, rates each cliffhanger's shock value with exclamation points. (Related story: 'Dallas' revisited: Oil is thicker than water)
1979 Sue Ellen battles for life as J.R. and Cliff wonder who fathered her newborn son. J.R.'s the daddy.
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1980 Who shot J.R.? Everyone wanted to do it, but it was Sue Ellen's kid sis, and J.R.'s mistress, Kristin Shepard, who pulled the trigger.
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1981 Whose body is floating in the Southfork pool? Kristin again, and J.R. pushed her.
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1982 Cliff overdoses; will he survive? Yup.
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1983 Who'll survive the Southfork inferno? Everyone.
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1984 Who shot Bobby? Pam's crazy half-sister, Katherine Wentworth.
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1985 Katherine plows down Bobby with her car. He's dead and buried, but ...
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1986 "Good morning." What is presumed-dead Bobby doing in Pam's shower? The whole 1985-86 season was just Pam's bad dream.
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1987 Will Pam survive her fireball car crash? Yes, but she disappears from the hospital and never sees her family again.
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1988 Sue Ellen shoots J.R. after he hurls her lover off a skyscraper balcony. J.R. survives the shooting and the murder rap.
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1989 Before she leaves Dallas, Sue Ellen gets her revenge by showing J.R. a biopic she produced that exposes his wicked ways. If he ever hurts her again, she'll release the film to the world. Sue Ellen relocates to London and never releases the film.
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1990 J.R. is thrown into a sanitarium. He gets out.
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1991 The series ends with J.R., having lost his company and family, contemplating suicide. Bobby hears a gunshot in J.R.'s bedroom, rushes in and discovers ...? Viewers had to wait until the 1996 reunion movie, J.R. Returns, to find out that J.R. is still kickin'.
!!
Best nail-biters from the ranch
After J.R. Ewing was shot on March 21, 1980, the Dallas season-ending cliffhanger became one of TV's most anticipated events. Two cliffhangers will be re-enacted Sunday on the CBS special Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork (9 p.m. ET/PT), and the results of a CBS.com poll asking Dallas fans to rate their top 10 favorites also will be revealed. Here is a list of all 13 Dallas cliffhangers, along with their resolutions. USA TODAY's William Keck, a Dallas devotee, rates each cliffhanger's shock value with exclamation points. (Related story: 'Dallas' revisited: Oil is thicker than water)
1979 Sue Ellen battles for life as J.R. and Cliff wonder who fathered her newborn son. J.R.'s the daddy.
!!
1980 Who shot J.R.? Everyone wanted to do it, but it was Sue Ellen's kid sis, and J.R.'s mistress, Kristin Shepard, who pulled the trigger.
!!!!
1981 Whose body is floating in the Southfork pool? Kristin again, and J.R. pushed her.
!!!
1982 Cliff overdoses; will he survive? Yup.
!
1983 Who'll survive the Southfork inferno? Everyone.
!!
1984 Who shot Bobby? Pam's crazy half-sister, Katherine Wentworth.
!!
1985 Katherine plows down Bobby with her car. He's dead and buried, but ...
!!!
1986 "Good morning." What is presumed-dead Bobby doing in Pam's shower? The whole 1985-86 season was just Pam's bad dream.
!!!!
1987 Will Pam survive her fireball car crash? Yes, but she disappears from the hospital and never sees her family again.
!!
1988 Sue Ellen shoots J.R. after he hurls her lover off a skyscraper balcony. J.R. survives the shooting and the murder rap.
!!!
1989 Before she leaves Dallas, Sue Ellen gets her revenge by showing J.R. a biopic she produced that exposes his wicked ways. If he ever hurts her again, she'll release the film to the world. Sue Ellen relocates to London and never releases the film.
!
1990 J.R. is thrown into a sanitarium. He gets out.
!
1991 The series ends with J.R., having lost his company and family, contemplating suicide. Bobby hears a gunshot in J.R.'s bedroom, rushes in and discovers ...? Viewers had to wait until the 1996 reunion movie, J.R. Returns, to find out that J.R. is still kickin'.
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