Dallas: Cliff finally ends the Barnes and Ewing Feud.

[@nateboytwo]

What a beautiful well acted scene 💜💜💜

[@stuartkeen5234]

That’s one of the most heartfelt scenes I have ever seen . Both of them in a league of their own when it comes to acting.

[@SaxonC]

Great scene between two great theater actors! Dallas picked the best actors for the original cast! Perfect!

[@TippiGordon]

Ken Kercheval was this show's secret weapon. JR, Miss Ellie, Sue Ellen, and Bobby were all top-notch, obviously, but man, Cliff was just the perfect foil. Devious when he had to be, but probably the most complex, most human character on the whole show.

[@andrewbullers6302]

I agree. The main characters you mentioned were so over the top. Cliff and Ray were you more real, genuine human type characters.

[@neerasinha-frazer2094]

Cliff was extremely complex

[@robertscott8344]

​@@andrewbullers6302Rey and Cliff was a great notch but the ewings were the leaders there power were over the top that no one could handle.

[@drlee2]

Cliff was a huge contributor to the show’s entertainment value even in the later seasons. JR really needed Cliff as a foil. They perfectly complemented each other.

[@victornewman4886]

God Bless Barbara and Ken two of Dallas' finest actors and greatly missed!

[@royalwedding777]

It was scenes (and acting) like this that set Dallas apart from Dynasty and the other nighttime soaps. They did not have Top Tier Actors such as Barbara Bel Geddes and Ken Kercheval.

[@paulinec6021]

RIP Ken Kercheval, a wonderful Cliff barnes on Dallas

[@aaord7872]

This was a great scene.

[@Reneebenson]

miss ellie was so graceful

[@shannonreynolds624]

YES. Barbra Bel Geddes started out as a stage actress first and had that thing that so many stage actors have which puts them in a class by themselves. My favorite is Colleen Dewhurst and if you think about Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn they were also in that class as is Kathy Bates. I don't know what it is about those who start on stage and go on to film and how they set themselves apart the way they do. I would imagine that it has something to do with having a level of professionalism because they are in front of a crowd all the time and cannot do a retake. I have noticed that with actors who start out on film but then go on to do stage work and how much more better they are afterwards.

[@TheAutisticCapricorn811]

And full of hope too.

[@derekmathews1818]

I wish Pam, and Jock Ewing would have LIVED to see this. I always said it about Cliff Barnes, that if he hadn't put so much of himself into that Ewing/Barnes feud, he ACTUALLY could have done well for himself. But he was stubborn just like his father, and the whole time the Ewing/Barnes feud was based on a lie. I do agree with Cliff on one thing, I think JR, and him would have hated each other regardless of what their last names were. Overall, I knew Jock Ewing never screwed Digger Barnes. That's how this whole Barnes/Ewing feud got started.

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

Derek Mathews in the early years movie , jock tried so hard to help digger and tried to do right by him .

[@najeenixon1834]

Digger could've ended the feud on his death bed by admitting that Jock never stole from him in the first place. He admitted to framing him for Hutch McKinney's death though.

[@Janovus]

Well according to the series finale if J.R. had never been born Cliff would have never pursued the feud and instead stayed in politics eventually becoming the Vice-President...

[@jamescressey3390]

@@najeenixon1834 Digger loved Miss Ellie enough to admit he killed Hutch and attested to the fact that he wasn't Pam's father

[@stevenzaremba5100]

Cliff best Dallas character

[@CescoCDN]

Great scene, great memories, long-lasting lessons.

[@nateboytwo]

Love that he mentions Pam 💗

[@jonstefanik9400]

Cliff was right. The feud with him and J.R. surpasses Jock's feud with Digger.

[@VLNevada]

Exactly. JR wasn’t going to let anyone get in his way from controlling Ewing oil. That also includes his own family.

[@chavalabobbyful]

Cliff ended the feud, but he resurrected it.

[@zt1053]

From this point on it was just more his personal hatred of jr

[@threetreasures7698]

That’s what he’s needed and been so hungry for (understandably so) - a loving hug infused with compassion. Cliff was hungry for a family, with all its complex dynamics, headed by a strong but fair and loving mother and father. As I matured (I was born in 1957) and re-watched this show with my mind and my heart, it was easy for me to perceive his wounded soul and how his action or reactions were just his way of surviving and protecting himself. Oh, he was a piece of work alright, but he had more of a legitimate reason than JR or Bobby to be so combative. Cliff envied what they had: family. Something he also wanted and needed. We ALL want to be part of either a strong, supportive, loving family - either our birth family or one of our own choosing.

[@user-zr6pl6nb6z]

Good analysis.

[@dzanier]

Well said.

[@philt5782]

The beautiful Barbara Bel Geddes. Lovely lady and actress. And then there's Cliff. Ken Kercheval. I still watch Dallas today. Thank the lord for dvd's

[@darrylskylar8757]

Such a great scene, too bad Pam wasn’t there to witness this.

[@georgemoore528]

That hug.

[@johntaylor6345]

I love the feuds between JR and Cliff. 2 great characters played by 2 brilliant actors. Larry and Ken.

[@zt1053]

The Barnes Ewing feud was dragged on by the personal hatred Cliff and JR had. Digger just wanted what thought he was owed and even Jock felt sorry Cliff sometimes.

[@jonimichalski69]

Cliff barns treated Ellie better Than Her own children Did . now just Because Cliff ended the feud didn't mean That none of Them could Stop JR

[@threetreasures7698]

True!!

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

A beautiful scene

[@chriisnapolion9881]

RIP ms Barbara and ken

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Get my vote for the best scene in Dallas. Love that departed characters are lovingly referenced. Both actors knock it out of the park and give credit to to the director of this episode - Patrick Duffy !!

[@zt1053]

Cliff wanting to help Dandy showed even he had a decent and caring side.

[@alanstrong55]

Such fueds must be resolved.

[@ddmck1972]

This is a real shame because Cliff never ended the feud. It continued right where he became head of a committee where he had the power to put Ewing Oil out of business (Bobby convinced him otherwise), and then finally, at show's end, Cliff got full control of Ewing Oil and was swimming in it like a pig in shit. And then much later, on the TNT Dallas, he had become so evil and corrupt where the feud was still going on with Cliff willing to kill his own daugher and grandchildren on an oil rig to get even with the Ewings. Miss Ellie would have been ashamed of Cliff for going back on everything he said. Cliff could have just moved on, tried again at a different career, or just run his business away from the Ewings. It never worked out that way. I always thought it was pecuiliar that Cliff wouldn't run his oil business from somewhere like California or Louisiana where oil is quite plentiful. Maybe he could have averted the BP disaster.🤣

[@sotyfan73]

I agree, as much as I loved the new Dallas series, looking back there was no need to turn Cliff into such a villain. They could have easily brought in a new character for that.

[@vgsr7435]

The writers seem to have forgotten this scene.

[@bdsnook3]

@@vgsr7435 or never bothered to see it

[@ddmck1972]

@@vgsr7435 More like ignored it like they did those two TV movies. When something takes time to make, not to mention how it costs money to do it, the fans can't just ignore them. Those movies should have made it into the series' continuity and maybe just had a show without Cliff Barnes.

[@forestgeorge8855]

Some of it was bad writing, but by the beginning of the last season when James wants Cliff to attack JR, he refuses to do it because of Bobby losing April. Which seems very out of character when they brought Cliff back in the reboot relaunch and made him a monster that covered up Pam’s death, etc.. Then again, Dallas was rebooting stuff even when it was still a series. The dream season and then Pam’s exit rebooted the series. Then adding Carter McCay as a foil (almost a villain) fully conformed the reboot of the series during the series last three years. The movies in the 90’s had their own timeline that was erased by the TNT series. You’d expect to see characters, outside of Hagman because he really died, to just start stepping out of showers because it seemed like at a certain point they just retconned stuff to fit their narrative.

[@jons7023]

Anyone know what season this was? I remembered Miss Ellie being SO much older but now @ 50 watching this clip she doesn’t seem so old @ all.

[@andrewbullers6302]

I believe this is season 12 on the dvd.

[@shuban]

Damn onions

[@robertosso5210]

the guy who played young digger on dallas the early years looks alot like cliff

[@jameskennedy4377]

That Dandy storyline was atrocious.

[@zt1053]

It helped Cliff see he was wrong about what supposedly happened to digger

[@justinp5661]

This doesn't jive with the new dallas.

[@devinbiz]

Many things did not line up with the new version

[@johnwilson1851]

Too bad the truce didn't last.

[@patbrooks9823]

Would have been a great scene for a final episode. Instead, the merry-go-round went back to the feud when writers got block and ratings dropped.

[@neerasinha-frazer2094]

Too bad this epiphany Cliff had didn’t last

[@dannyl7969]

JR took poor old Cliff down - thats what he gets for bamging Sue-Ellen

[@PungiFungi]

The ending of the feud didn't last, did it?

[@jimhills1920]

“Time has not been kind to that face. But I could still recognize the smell of brimstone and crazy.” J.R. to Cliff Barnes in Dallas reboot.

[@travisjames3517]

I’m surprised they mentioned Pam.

[@jaredjlinden]

This should have been Cliff’s exit from the show. It could have carried on with Wendell as the main villain. Pam was gone and the feud was over.

[@chrisnapolion9568]

That he was

[@travisjames3517]

Sad they didn’t keep the feud over.

[@grecosgreecedaz6026]

Jr cliffs brother should have made that a great story

[@reinholdkorner6473]

Barbara Bel Geddes ( Miss Ellie) the best on Dallas 👍 🤎 R.P Barbara Bel Geddes 🙏 🕯 R.P Ken Kercheval ( Cliff) 🙏🕯