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Speaker 1: Jump mission with James and Amanda feel old not really

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Speaker 1: keep your hands off me?

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Speaker 2: Then eight.

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Speaker 1: Do you realize it's been forty two years to the

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Speaker 1: day that the famous words rang out? Who shot Jr?

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Speaker 2: From Dallas?

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty? Yes, in nineteen eighty on this day

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Speaker 1: there was that incredible scene. Jr. Was sitting at his

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Speaker 1: desk drinking coffee in a darkened office. He hears a

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Speaker 1: noise and then this happens. Yeah, are you in here? Hello?

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Speaker 1: Who's kill? The orchestra as well? It was called shot

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Speaker 1: heard around the world and it was so true.

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Speaker 2: Why did he get shot again?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll give you the storyline, shall I? Do you know?

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Speaker 1: Fans had to wait eight months to find out because

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Speaker 1: it was the cliffhanger, the first ever cliffhanger at the

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Speaker 1: end of a season, and then there was an actor

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Speaker 1: strike and so they had to wait eight months to

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Speaker 1: find out. And everyone at first thought that it was Sueellyn,

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Speaker 1: his drunk wife, but it wasn't her. It was her sister,

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Speaker 1: who Ja I was having an affair with, and the

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Speaker 1: sister had taken the gun. I didn't really watch much

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Speaker 1: of Dallas, but the sister the gun from Suellen shot

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Speaker 1: him then put it back in Suwellen's gun cabinet, which

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Speaker 1: is why they thought it was her.

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Speaker 2: Would it be fair to say that Dallas was this

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Speaker 2: era's succession?

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Speaker 1: Well, no, it was even more popular than that. This

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Speaker 1: is until the finale of mash And we spoke about

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Speaker 1: that recently. Who Shot Jr. Episode was the most watched

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Speaker 1: television show of all time.

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Speaker 2: Like I know a vernacular. Everyone talked about Who Shot Jr.

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Speaker 2: I don't think I ever frame of Dallas.

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Speaker 1: Well, it was incredibly popular. They say here that where

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Speaker 1: are we? Three hundred million people in ninety countries watched Dallas.

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Speaker 1: The Queen mother was obsessed with Dallas and in those

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Speaker 1: months between him being shot and discovering who did it, families,

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Speaker 1: office pools, people put bets on who the shooter was.

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Speaker 1: T shirts boasted I shot Jr. Remember all that the

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Speaker 1: NOLDI songs. It was incredibly massive and it changed television

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Speaker 1: forever because it really Hollywood realized they could use cliffhangers

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Speaker 1: to keep viewers buzzing about these shows even in the

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Speaker 1: off season. So the first time we've seen that and

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Speaker 1: news twenty four to seven networks like CNN got a

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Speaker 1: boost from the attention given to the show. It kept

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Speaker 1: reporting on rumors and twists. So that was the beginnings

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Speaker 1: of news programs talking about popular culture shows. Time critic

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Speaker 1: Richard Carlis credits Dallas with paving the way for more

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Speaker 1: addictive TV shows. Hill Street Blues, thirty something, all those

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Speaker 1: ones that had slight cliffhangers.

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Speaker 2: To them and gets shot at the end.

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Speaker 1: Everyone would get shot at the end. We'd never seen

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Speaker 1: it before. Incredible, wasn't it. So that was on this

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Speaker 1: day in nineteen eighty seems like about twenty years ago.

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Speaker 1: That's forty two years ago.

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Speaker 2: Cheapers. It's like, remember the end of Hey Dad.

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Speaker 1: That was a weird cliffhanger that happened again. He went

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Speaker 1: to prison before that.

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Speaker 2: Sadly, that's real life. At the end, Dad left the

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Speaker 2: house but with all the kids, and an uncle came

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Speaker 2: over and took over the kids. I took over the

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Speaker 2: running of the house. And then a video blew up

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Speaker 2: the whole house.

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Speaker 1: And did they know that was the end? Because some shows,

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Speaker 1: I was knowing it's the end, so I'll put the

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Speaker 1: kettle on and then you never see them again.

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Speaker 2: I think the three people that were watching it at

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Speaker 2: that stage were no okay.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember when the TV show what was the

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Speaker 1: one where the crocodile munched.

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Speaker 2: The wife returned to Eden?

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Speaker 1: Returned to Eden and apparently it was incredibly popular all

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Speaker 1: around the world, but Australia didn't care that much. After

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Speaker 1: season four, five, six, seven, eight, so they had Peter Cousins,

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Speaker 1: the actor being tied up kidnapped and they thought, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll film the next season the big cliffhanger, and the

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Speaker 1: so everyone disbanded. But Europe Poland in particular was obsessed

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Speaker 1: for them. So Peter Cousins by then had had a haircut,

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Speaker 1: and so the first scene is him tied up with

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Speaker 1: had given him a haircut.

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Speaker 2: That's plausible, that's Polish. Oh they love their haircuts, don't they.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's