Only one episode a week? Why ‘stinge-watching' is back
These questions have something in common: viewers had to wait for the answers. In the supreme cliffhanger of television history, in 1980 fans of Dallas endured or enjoyed eight months of speculation before the shooter's identity was revealed. Visiting Britain during that febrile hiatus (extended by a writers' strike), Larry Hagman, who played J.R., is said to have been quizzed about the mystery by the Queen Mother.
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