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], home of the Ewing family]]
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] (in cowboy hat),
Linda Gray,
Jim Davis,
Charlene Tilton,
Victoria Principal,
Patrick Duffy, and
Barbara Bel Geddes]].
Dallas is a highly popular, long-running
American prime-time
television soap opera that originally ran from 1978 to 1991. It revolved around the Ewing family, a wealthy
Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The show debuted in April 1978 as a five-part
miniseries on the
CBS network, then was broadcast on that network for 13 seasons, from Saturday,
September 23,
1978, to Friday,
May 3,
1991.