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Dallas: The Early Years is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 22 march 1986 with David Marshall Grant

Dallas: The Early Years (1986)

Dallas: The Early Years
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Released in USA 22 march 1986
Length 3h
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical,    Romance
Rating68% 3.4366353.4366353.4366353.4366353.436635

Dallas: The Early Years is a made for television movie that first aired on March 23, 1986 on CBS during the ninth season of the TV series Dallas. It is a prequel to the series.

Synopsis

Written by series creator David Jacobs, the movie chronicles the exploits of John Ross "Jock" Ewing (Dale Midkiff), Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth Ewing (Molly Hagan), and Willard "Digger" Barnes (David Marshall Grant) from 1933 to the early 1950s, and firmly established the background story of TV's Dallas with the long and ongoing feud between Jock and Digger. Larry Hagman appears in the opening sequence as his character J.R. Ewing, being interviewed by a reporter who is researching the Barnes – Ewing feud.

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