DALLAS: The Early Years Movie (with bonus intro)

Digger Barnes is furious when his friend Jock Ewing starts dating the love of his life Eleanor Southworth. He is also convinced that Jock has cheated him out of his share in their oil fields. And so begins the decades long Barnes-Ewing feud. This made-for-television film attempts to fill in the missing early years of the fortunes and follies of the Ewing and Barnes families for fans of the long-running DALLAS TV Series (1978-1991). While focusing on the triangle of Jock – Ellie – Digger, the movie also features Jock’s brother Jason (David Wilson) and Ellie’s father Aaron (Hoyt Axton) as starring characters. It shows the origin of Ewing Oil, and Jock’s schemings to make it big, and it deals with the inter-family relations of the Ewings, the Barnes, and the Southworths; also showing Jock’s first marriage to Amanda Lewis, and Ellie’s relationship with her brother Garrison and mother Barbara. J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) provides the opening narration for the film. The story