• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

RIP: Larry Hagman at 81

He had already filmed parts of Season 2 of the current version of Dallas which premieres in late January so we'll still see him for a while yet.
 
Damn! The Grim Reaper catches up with Snively Whiplash.

Nobody had a better insincere smile than Hagman. :(
 
Sad that now only Barbara Eden and Bill Daily are the only ones left from I Dream Of Jeannie that are still with us. I Dream Of Jeannie showed off Larry's ability to do physical comedy as well as also being a part of Jeannie's magic and Roger's friendship with Major Nelson on the show as well as giving Dr. Bellows fits.

I wonder how they will figure Larry's death on the new Dallas that airs on TNT. Hopefully they won't do a copy of what they did when Jim Davis (Jock Ewing) on the original Dallas died in 1981 and have him die in a plane crash.
 
Maybe someone finally shot JR and was successful.

Or maybe this is just a hoax, his faked death is revealed in 2014, and he comes back in Season 3 to reveal that Season 2 was all just a dream. ;D

Or, he completes a mega-doublecrossing-deal, sits back in his office chair, smiles that JR smile, and then dies peacefully.
 
Sad to lose a popular Dallas character. Now we really won't know "Who Shot J.R."... RIP.

-crainbebo
 
Add to the RIP list Deborah Raffin, 59, who, while not
totally associated with television, had at least two
credits: the 1981 NBC miniseries "The Last Convertible"
and a short-lived ABC cop series, "Foul Play," the same
year.
 
Never watched a single episode of Dallas, either the original series not the remake. When I was a teen, he was Major Nelson and I thought he was the luckiest guy in the world having that gorgeous genie who would do his bidding...and all he ever told her to do was get back in her bottle. Great physical comedic actor in that series....also saw him in Oliver Stone's Nixon. RIP Larry
 
He had a brief role in the first Christopher Reeve "Superman"
movie as a soldier who insists on giving a seemingly-unconscious
Valerie Perrine mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

And before "Jeannie," he was lawyer Ed Gibson on "Edge Of Night"
for a couple of years (1961-63).
 
crainbebo said:
Sad to lose a popular Dallas character. Now we really won't know "Who Shot J.R."... RIP.

-crainbebo
Click to expand...

I'm guessing you are kidding. You DO know that Kristin Shepard (Sue Ellen's sister) shot JR, don't you?
 
Just using some satire there... :D But still, very sorry to lose Larry. A very big part of Dallas is gone.

-crainbebo
 
Interesting to note that the "who shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas (the one that revealed Kristin as the shooter) aired 32 years ago this week (November 21, 1980). I also thought it somewhat ironic that I learned of Hagman's death on a Friday evening.
 
I never watched Dallas but I watched I Dream Of Jeannie. NBC would not allow Barbara Eden to show her navel---way too risqué The series was initially filmed in black and white; NBC didn't want to waste money on color because nobody at the network thought the show would be successful. It ran for five years.

Remember the syndicated 1958-61 series Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges? Larry Hagman appeared on three episodes during the first season, each time playing a different character. He could do that then because he was pretty much unknown.
 
In the case of "I Dream of Jeannie," Hagman was no stranger to being around the US Air Force when it came to playing Captain (later Major) Tony Nelson, since he did serve in that branch of the DoD as a airman.
 
He also costarred with another future superstar of primetime
soaps, Donna Mills ("Knots Landing") on the short-lived 1971
NBC sitcom "The Good Life." They played a couple who chucked
their upscale lives to work as butler and maid for a tycoon played
by David Wayne. The show lasted only the fall of '71 and was
replaced in January 1972 by the second half of "Emergency!" (the
first half replaced Don Adams' failed "The Partners").
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom