Jock Ewing (dallas)
Jim Davis
Jim Davis’s Jock Ewing is Dallas as the table the oil opera had to sit at — Southfork land, a seating chart with a ranch attached, the father the cliffhanger generation had to come home to. Who shot J.R. taught TV how to own a summer; Jock is the brand of the name. On TV Flash he is the Ewing gravity: Texas, contracts, a still that looks like a will.
Davis plays Jock as the reason Southfork is not only J.R.’s smirk. David Jacobs built a Texas oil family and then watched the bad son steal the series; Patrick Duffy’s Bobby is the good-son lighting, Linda Gray’s Sue Ellen the marriage as a crime scene. CBS, 1978 to 1991. Jock is the land. The dream season, cast contracts, international mania — all the soap’s industrial weather. The table still needs a head. He photographs as that head: ranch, money, a patriarch the schemers have to orbit.
s01e01 is the table getting names, oil-opera seating chart before the country learned the question. s01e05 is Southfork as a photocall with brisket, early proof the barbecue is a political convention. s03e25 is the leak — a summer becomes a product; spoiler culture gets its founding carpet. Jock is Ewing gravity in those hours. Who shot J.R. taught TV how to own a summer. Jock is the brand of the name. A still that looks like a will.
TV Flash files him under prime-time mythology that outlived any one shooting. Event spoiler culture starts with this family. Watch the oil, the driveway, the living room that behaves like a boardroom. Davis is the board. Reboot-proof lore still sits in that chair.
Larry Hagman’s grin as a weapon. The father the cliffhanger generation had to come home to. Start at the named table. Stay for the barbecue as convention, then the leak. Texas, contracts, land. The seating chart has a ranch attached. He is the head of it.
FAQ
Where should I start with Jim Davis on Dallas?
s01e01, the table gets names — oil-opera seating chart before the country learned the question. Jock is the land. Then s01e05, Southfork as a photocall with brisket.
Lead, supporting, or ensemble?
Patriarch as gravity. J.R. steals the series; Davis is the table the opera has to sit at — ranch, will, the father cliffhangers come home to.
What hour still shows the turn?
s03e25, the leak. A summer becomes a product; spoiler culture gets its founding carpet. Watch the still that looks like a will when the country learns the question.
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- CBS — via catalog credits
- Lorimar Television — production
- Lorimar-Telepictures — production
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More with Jim Davis
- ShowDallasWho shot J.R.? — the cliffhanger that taught TV how to own a summer.
- The Carpet ReportThe Summer America Spent Asking Who Shot J.R.Dallas taught television how to own a summer: Southfork seating charts, Larry Hagman’s grin as a weapon, and a cliffhanger that turned spoiler culture into national weather.
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