FAQ

The Yellow Rose of Texas perhaps?

Towards the end of season 2 (season 3 on the dvds), JR had enough enemies to over-populate a small country and everyone was a suspect, including Miss Ellie for driving away Bobby and Pam, not to mention Valene and Gary Ewing. In the season finale, three gunshots are fired by an unknown assailant in JR's office, and JR drops to the ground, crippled with pain. In the season 3 opener, Sue Ellen was determined to shoot JR while under the infulence and is arrested for the attempted murder of JR, and cannot recall the events of the night he was shot. The truth is soon told however, four episodes into the new season, that Kristin is indeed the one who shot JR. She offered a heavily-intoxicated Sue Ellen a drink at her apartment, knowing she would put the gun down to take it. Sue Ellen collapsed with drunkenness, and Kristin made her way to JR's office, planting the gun in Sue Ellen's bedroom to frame her. However, JR did not press charges against Kristin because she was pregnant with his child, and he banished her to California in order to avoid a scandal. Kristin soon miscarried JR's child and quickly got pregnant again with Jeff Farraday's child, then passes him off as JR's lovechild.

In season 7 (season 8 on the dvds), Jenna Wade wanted to marry Bobby since she had been released from prison. Bobby decided that he couldnt marry Jenna since he already loved Pam, he later proposed to Pam and they were overjoyed to be back together. It is the following morning where Pam's dream begins, which means Donna is still pregnant, Bobby is still alive and Katherine Wentworth never died in the car-crash. Pam then woke up at the end of season 8 and opened the shower to Bobby, alive and well.

In the 14th season finale in 1991, JR had lost his company to Cliff Barnes, his wife and children had left him, and Bobby now owned Southfork, which was empty after every family member had left one-by-one. JR began drinking heavily and started to hallucinate and hear voices. He was confronted by the Devil and was shown what the world would have been like without him. In the final scene of the series, JR picked up a pistol, ready to commit suicide, and Bobby entered the room as a shot was fired.

However, in the Dallas reunion movie JR Returns that aired five years later in 1996, it is revealed that JR shot the mirror in which he was plagued with hallucinations of the devil. JR plotted to win back his company from Cliff Barnes and Bobby and Sue Ellen became his partners in Ewing Oil. Another Dallas TV movie, War Of The Ewings, was shown in 1998 that continued this story. However, a new series of Dallas aired in 2012 which ignored both of the TV movies from the 1990s and continued the story 20 years after the last episode of the original series.