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Dallas, Lorimar's Ewing-family saga, is still around. The Who-Shot-J.R.? mania of 1980, when 300 million viewers in 57 countries waited breathlessly for the most successful cliffhanger in entertainment history, has abated, but enough people still watch the supersoap that its rating this season is higher than, oh, thirtysomething's. On May 3, CBS will reunite many of the early cast members in a two-hour fantasy finale that leads J.R. through an It's a Wonderful Life-style tour of what Dallas would have been like without him. And tens of millions of viewers will...
...seeing an awakened and outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...
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