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Jon Millington's avatar

I think J.R. survived. Wasn’t the question “Who shot J.R.?”. But then wasn’t it all dreamt by Bobby? And wasn’t he the Man from Atlantis?

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The Editors's avatar

Thanks, Jon - edited the piece now

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

I actually watched the episode where the dead Bobby Ewing came out of the shower, largely because it was such an impressively mad thing for a soap to do.

Also, I only learned the other day that Man From Atlantis only ran for one series. It felt like it was a permanent fixture, but no, a mere bubble in Patrick Duffy’s career

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

Oh bum. I even went so far as to look up who *had* shot him (not the Poison Dwarf, apparently) and still managed to type that wrongly.

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Pete Wolf's avatar

I remember that TV in thief lane being on all the time. But I can't actually remember anything we watched. That's precisely because it was on all the time. Indeed it's moving wallpaper, but who remembers wallpaper? So thanks for refreshing my memory :).

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

Mind you, these are the only two programmes I can remember watching. And maybe Going For Gold, which may not get a Metropolitan article devoted to it, although I will no doubt shoehorn in somewhere that the theme was written by Hans Zimmer

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Emma Burnell's avatar

Both of these shows were absolutely instrumental to my teenage identity.

In the case of Big Night Out, really quite remarkably so, given I lost my virginity while the New Year's Eve show played in the background!

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

I don’t recall that act being on Novelty Island ;)

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Emma Burnell's avatar

I wouldn't let it lie!

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Tobias Sturt's avatar

Well, we now know what’s on the end of the stick

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Emma Burnell's avatar

You terrible man, terrible man, terrible, terrible terrible man.

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