Dallas – Saison 1-2 – DVD – Import (2012) – Warner Bros.

IDallas: The Complete First and Second Seasons/I is an American equivalent to those British mini-series about historical chapters in that country's royal monarchy. Full of family in-fighting political intrigue crossed with personal triumph or disappointment and plenty of sensational infidelities and betrayals IDallas/I is a captivating story of a wealthy oil family's power and travails. It is also uniquely fun and daringly absurd albeit with a straight face this hugely successful primetime soap opera began in the late 1970s and ran 14 seasons in all built on a handful of primary relationships that stretch credulity but never descend into self-parody. p Not unexpectedly IDallas/I begins with a Romeo and Juliet tale that instantly exposes an old feud between two families and strips the civilized veneer from several major characters. Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) youngest of three sons of independent oilman Jock Ewing (Jim Davis) arrives at the Ewing clan's Southfork ranch just outside Dall