Christmas or no Christmas

[Pamela Barnes]

Will we finally see a Ewing christmas episode now?

I really hope not. Its part of the Dallas myth that they don't have Christmas.

[Sarah]

There can be no talk of any holidays or birthdays!!! lol

[Pamela Barnes]

They can have a birthday as long as it involves a kidnap :D

[Sarah]

They can have a birthday as long as it involves a kidnap :D

Well obviously!! Or a murder!:partytime

[Luke]

I would love to see Southfork decorated at Christmas. Both inside and out.
There are many Dallas myths, I am hoping the new show keeps some, but busts some as well.

[madondallas]

A one of special would be good.
Away from the storyline. Happy, nice and festive. Just everyone having a good time at southfork.
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[Matthew Blaisdel]

Or maybe something little improvised, like they did on Knots Landing in "Noises everywhere" after Lauras death. Or flipping roles for fun. I remember Susan Howard said something in her interview that off camera she once dressed and getting make-up exactly like BBG and then stood in front of her on stage and BBG was shocked.. lol
Something like this, but then really ON show, but as a stand-alone, that doesn't affect the real storylines. Would have loved that on real Dallas too..

[madondallas]

Yeh. Everyone around the piano singing. Shame Howard Keel is no longer with us. I bet he could have sung a great version of White Christmas.
Clayton - (in a deep christmasy voice) 'I'm dreaming of a white christmas...in Dallas.
Just like the one in the first episode.'

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[James from London]

Happiness should be discouraged at every opportunity on DALLAS.

[Sid Fairgate]

I seriously hope not. Obviously there were things that happened on the show that took place off-screen. I'd like Christmas to remain one of those things.

[ProdicalSon]

I always thought of the BBQ's and Oil Baron's Balls as the "Dallas" version of holiday episodes.

[Jessie]

I would like to see a Christmas show it would be fun seeing the house all decorated with a tree watching them sitting in the living room singing Christmas carols and drinking eggnog.. It won't happen but it would be fun.

[Pamela Barnes]

I would hate it, it would be like sacrilidge.

Unless it had some form of comedy element and was the worse Christmas ever.

[Sarah]

When do you think their birthdays would have been just out of interest?

I love astrology.

JR is supposed to be 9 years older than Sue Ellen.

[Bobby's Angel]

I had never really thought of that before - maybe because if we had seen birthdays and christmas on the show it would have felt like 'real life' and we watched to escape from 'real life'!!

[artic.chunkies]

What about christmas presents at southfork, what would Miss Ellie buy for her boys?? lol

[Wanderer11]

I do not want to see Christmas in the new show. It just wouldn't feel right.

[Mrs. JR Ewing]

I want Christmas.. and I want it to be like National Lampoons Christmas Vacation..where JR can't get the lights going and he has a melt down and abuses Sue Ellen who drinks all the egg nog and than all hell breaks loose..and some one beats someone with a phone and throws an oil lamp and burns down the Ewing Christmas tree...yeah..thats my kind of Ewing Christmas!!! (xmas3)

[Mike]

No Christmas, Dallas never had Christmas so why give them one now :D

[Cliff Barnes]

Anything is possible I guess, it would be interesting to see it. However I think fans would rather not see it in lieu of getting to see the Barbecue and Oil Baron's Ball again. That being said we don't need those either per se, they weren't there early on nor towards the end, but it seems like a good idea for now.

[ProdicalSon]

I may have made mention somewhere before, but I always thought of the BBQ and Oil Baron's episodes as the Dallas version of Christmas.

[BlackPython]

I like to see a Halloween episode - with Miss Ellie or Jock returning from the grave... :)

[Garrison]

I'd be very surprised if the people making this show

1.) Watched enough episodes of Dallas as research to know there was never a holiday episode

2.) Would ignore the fact that ratings for holiday episodes generally do better than regular episodes even if they knew and cared

[Barbara Fan]

What about christmas presents at southfork, what would Miss Ellie buy for her boys?? lol

I wouldnt spend too much on them not when they got a horrible Italian sculpture on the wedding annversary and worse still and little expense spared a cheap photo album! worthy of Superdrug

last of the big spenders those Ewings lol

[RachelD]

The UK drama series Upstairs Downstairs (pre-dated Dallas, shorter run, but just as popular) had only one Christmas episode, but it was one of the most-watched of them all. Viewers seem to love Xmas specials.

I think that a Christmas get-together at the outset of the new Dallas would be a realistic way of re-introducing the family to the audience, all assembled together for a party at the ranch. Something untried such as an opening seasonal episode (as opposed to the bbq) would also mark a new era for the show, a fresh beginning, which is what the writers probably want. They could still have the bbq and Oil Barons' Ball later, and scenes at Cattleman Club, Scalinis etc, but I think that the writers need to start off with their own stamp.

[southfork78]

I remember JR mentioned Christmas once sometime during the early seasons. He was speaking to Sue Ellen and mentioned something about a gift they had gotten at Christmas.