Keeping Dallas Alive with Guest Stars

TNT’s Dallas carries on after the death of J.R. Ewing with guest stars from the old show, at least in the next two episodes.

Joan Van Ark will be returning as Valene Ewing. Joan says she actually only appears in one episode while Gary was in three. So we’ve already seen Gary in two. Maybe Valene will swoop into Dallas and rescue Gary from Sue Ellen’s manipulative clutches.

Whatever, what’s interesting is Joan Van Ark’s revelation on why Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills’ character, Gary’s second wife after the conniving vixen stole him from Valene for a while) can never appear on Dallas 2012 – there’s a conflict over the character rights. Van Ark says the same thing applies to her twins with Gary, Bobby and Betsy. They can’t be on Dallas either. So there’s also no chance of Gary’s daughter Molly (with Kate Whitaker) ever showing up either, unless that situation changes.

And the week after that, Audrey Landers will return as Afton Cooper, Pamela Rebecca’s momma. Although their relationship has been less than ideal, a crisis concerning Pamela’s pregnancy will bring Afton to the rescue. Landers says she only regrets that she never gets to see Cliff, who is out of town on business. Probably because they don’t want to show the three of them together so you can sit there and say how the hell did those two have a Hispanic looking kid?

Whatever, here is an awesome fan-made youtube we found showing clips with Cliff and Afton.