Who Shot JR? - Do you remember???

On March 21, 1980, J.R. Ewing was shot by a mysterious assailant! The whole world was shocked and wanted to find out who the assailant was. But the truth wouldn't be revealed until November that year when the third season of Dallas began to air on TV. During those few summer months in 1980, the question of "Who shot JR?" was a hot topic on almost every social occasion.

The following has been copied from another website: "Streets had emptied on March 21st 1980, the night JR got shot; they emptied again on November 21 when Kristin coughed......as brazenly as ever... Fifty three countries tuned in to the shooting, the headline making news of which helped sell the series to another eleven countries by the time it came back on air again..."

The person who shot JR turned out to be Kristin Shepard, the sister-in-law and JR's mistress, played by Mary Crosby.

Sue Ellen Ewing, JR's long suffering wife, was played by Linda Gray.

JR Ewing, played by Larry Hagman as the greedy oil baron in Dallas was the most popular actor in the eighties! Before playing the scheming JR Ewing, Larry Hagman played the handsome astronaut in I Dream Of Jeannie with Barbara Eden, the 2000-year-old genie! He was so lovable then! Well, as JR Ewing, he was also lovable in another sense - a cunning character with so much shrewdness that viewers just loved to hate!