Dallas
Lock, Stock and Jock
TV Flash files “Lock, Stock and Jock” as hour 344 of 356 in the TV Flash guide — Dallas (1978–1991) on CBS, season 14, episode 10, aired 1991-01-11, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E10: listed hour 344 of 356 in the Dallas guide, hour 10 of 22 in season 14. It aired 1991-01-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Sail On” (S14E09). Next is “S is for Seduction” (S14E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
J.R. confronts James for fathering Cally's child. Cliff and Liz get engaged. Carter's alibi lets him down. LeeAnn De La Vega dissolves Ewing Oil , strikes up a partnership with J.R. Bobby returns from Paris and resumes his search for Sheila Foley.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Lock, Stock and Jock sit in the Dallas guide?
S14E10 is listed hour 344 of 356 — hour 10 of 22 in season 14, season 14 episode 10.
When did Dallas S14E10 air?
Lock, Stock and Jock aired 1991-01-11 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start — the miniseries or the shooting?
Start with Digger’s Daughter so the table has names, then the first barbecue, then the 1980 cliffhanger and its answer. You can sample the dream-season aftershock without fourteen seasons of leases.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it to see spoiler culture get invented in public: a Texas oil table, a villain America loved, and a summer-long question that made appointment TV feel like a crime scene. The dream season is the delete that still starts fights.
The shot was not the story. The summer was the story. March 1980, CBS, J.R. Ewing on the floor of an office, and then months of a country asking a question like it was a relationship status. Who shot J.R.? was not a plot point. It was a premiere-night soft launch of event television: every magazine cover a red carpet, every barstool a group chat, every publicist pretending the secret could hold. Larry Hagman made villainy photograph as charm. If you only watched the official stills — the hat, the oil, the ranch —…
Filed against
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- Linda Gray as Sue Ellen Ewing
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