DALLAS SEASON 8 TV DVD REVIEW

If you don’t count the miniseries as season 1, then this is actually season 7, the supposed last season for Patrick Duffy when he left the series the following season to seek other opportunities. This season was defiantly packed with an attempted murder, weddings, a kidnapping sudden wealth and a death! Barbara Bel Geddes was having medical problems so she left for a while and was replaced by actress Donna Reed as Miss Ellie. This role was Donna Reed’s final TV performance before her death a year later. This season set contains 30 episodes from the 8th season and the extra on the set is a featurette about Dallas’ costume designer, Travilla.

VIDEO

The video quality is fairly good; There are a few specks and film dirt but not much. The episodes were not remastered. Episodes are also uncut.

Audio

Was originally recorded in Mono. Audio quality is also in Mono.


Disc 1- Side A
1. “Killer At Large”-with Martin E Brooks and Dennis Haysbert
2. “Battle Lines”-with Mitch Ryan
3. “If At First You Don’t Succeed”
Side B
4. “Jamie”-with Jenilee Harrison and Randolph ManTooth
5. “Family”-with William Smithers
6. “Shadow of A Doubt”

Disc 2- Side A
7. “Homecoming”-with Donna Reed
8. “Oil Barron’s Ball III”-with Morgan Woodward
9. “Shadows”
Side B
10. “Charlie”
11. “Barbeque Five”
12. “Do You Take This Woman”

Disc 3- Side A
13. “DeJa Vu”-with James Cromwell
14. “Odd Man Out”
15. “Lock Up In Laredo”

Side B
16. “Winds of War”
17. “Bail Out”
18. “Legacy Of Hate”

Disc 4-Side A

19. “Sins of the Fathers”
20. “The Brothers Ewing”
21. “Shattered Dreams”
Side B
22. “Dead Ends”
23. “Trial and Error”
24. “The Verdict”

Disc 5-Side A
25. “Sentences”
26. “Terms of Estrangement”-with Dack Rambo
27. “The Ewing Connection”-with John Zaremba
Side B
28. “Deeds and Misdeeds”-with John Larch
29. “Deliverance”
30. “Swan Song”-with Morgan Brittany, Jared Martin and David White



Extras

Disc 1-4: None

Disc 5-: Dallas Makeover-Travilla Style- (09:50)


Verdict

I watched this series from the get go and this season had some really good and strong stories. Defiantly pick up this season!


Rating: ****!