TMC
09-22-2014, 03:43 PM
http://www.avclub.com/article/patrick-duffy-looks-back-famous-shower-scenes-and--209244
The actor: Veteran TV actor Patrick Duffy says he’s basically “only had three jobs” over the course of his career, but all three made major imprints in the annals of TV history: He was the Man From Atlantis in the ’70s, and the dad in a ’90s update of The Brady Bunch, Step By Step. But the role he will forever be tied to is to that of Bobby, the youngest son of the Ewing oil clan in Dallas. The CBS nighttime soap was a virtual powerhouse in the late ’70s through the ’80s; the episode featuring the answer to the famous cliffhanger question “Who shot J.R.?” remains one of the highest-rated television episodes in U.S. history. Duffy stayed with the show for 13 years (despite a one-year break from the series, which resulted in one of the most famous storyline re-starts ever filmed), with a TV cast so tight that he still refers to the actors that played his parents (Barbara Bel Geddes and Jim Davis) as “Mama” and “Daddy.”
Duffy, along with Larry “J.R.” Hagman, Linda “Sue Ellen” Gray, and other characters from the show’s classic era, joined the Dallas cast again when it reappeared in on TNT in 2012. The current season of Dallas 2.0 wraps up on September 22, with the Ewings enmeshed in their usual plotting, scheming, and backstabbing, and Bobby—now the patriarch—again trying to do the right thing in the center of it all. Patrick Duffy looks back on his decades-long career, remembering bad ’70s special effects, cliffhanger endings that rocked the nation, and his best friend, Larry Hagman, who passed away in 2012.
The actor: Veteran TV actor Patrick Duffy says he’s basically “only had three jobs” over the course of his career, but all three made major imprints in the annals of TV history: He was the Man From Atlantis in the ’70s, and the dad in a ’90s update of The Brady Bunch, Step By Step. But the role he will forever be tied to is to that of Bobby, the youngest son of the Ewing oil clan in Dallas. The CBS nighttime soap was a virtual powerhouse in the late ’70s through the ’80s; the episode featuring the answer to the famous cliffhanger question “Who shot J.R.?” remains one of the highest-rated television episodes in U.S. history. Duffy stayed with the show for 13 years (despite a one-year break from the series, which resulted in one of the most famous storyline re-starts ever filmed), with a TV cast so tight that he still refers to the actors that played his parents (Barbara Bel Geddes and Jim Davis) as “Mama” and “Daddy.”
Duffy, along with Larry “J.R.” Hagman, Linda “Sue Ellen” Gray, and other characters from the show’s classic era, joined the Dallas cast again when it reappeared in on TNT in 2012. The current season of Dallas 2.0 wraps up on September 22, with the Ewings enmeshed in their usual plotting, scheming, and backstabbing, and Bobby—now the patriarch—again trying to do the right thing in the center of it all. Patrick Duffy looks back on his decades-long career, remembering bad ’70s special effects, cliffhanger endings that rocked the nation, and his best friend, Larry Hagman, who passed away in 2012.