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Season 3 (1979-80)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
references:
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CBS Fridays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern
Lorimar production / Produced by Leonard Katzman
prod. nos. 188136 to 188160

3.1 (30) Dallas: Whatever happened to Baby John, Part 1
21Sep79 CBS / prod. no. 188136
After her accident Sue Ellen recovers in the hospital and goes back to theranch a few days later. But she is not
interested in her Baby at all. Cliff tries to get the Baby. J.R.'s two former associates Jebb Ames and Willie Joe Garr
are released from prison. In the meantime, the baby is kidnapped from the hospital.

3.2 (31) Dallas: Whatever happened to Baby John, Part 1
28Sep79 CBS / prod. no. 188137
Bobby thinks that it was Cliff who kidnapped the baby. Pam and Bobby do some investigation on their own. Ames and
Garr try to extort money from J.R. by saying they have the baby. Then Bobby and Pam find out what really
happened to John Ross III.

3.3 (32) Dallas: The silent Killer
5Oct79 CBS / prod. no. 188139
Digger Barnes visits his son Cliff. Digger collapses and the doctors discover he has a hereditary disease. Cliff
and Pam are alarmed because it means Sue Ellen's baby could die soon. That's because John Ross III also
could come from Cliff. Sue Ellen just keeps ignoring her baby.

3.4 (33) Dallas: Secrets
12Oct79 CBS / prod. no. 188138
Gary's wife Valene appears in Dallas to see Lucy. Cliff takes advantage of his position at the Office of Land
Management to block all drillings of Ewing Oil Company. Pam sees a doctor because of the hereditary disease in
her family. She learns she´s pregnant.

3.5 (34) Dallas: The Kristin Affair
19Oct79 CBS / prod. no. 188142
Pam tells Bobby about her pregnancy. But she says nothing about her disease. J.R. mortgages the Southfork Ranch
for his drillings in Asia. He´s very interested in his sister-in-law Kristin.

3.6 (35) Dallas: The dove hunt
26Oct79 CBS / prod. no. 188143
J.R. and Jock get wounded by sniper fire when two of Jock's enemies from the past catch up with him during a
hunting trip to Lousiana.

3.7 (36) Dallas: The lost child
2Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188140
Sue Ellen is unhappy with her marriage to J.R. and she looks for psychiatric help. Pam has an accident - she falls
down from her horse and loses her baby one more time. She tells Bobby about her hereditary disease.

3.8 (37) Dallas: Rodeo
9Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188145
Sue Ellen meets cowboy Dusty Farlow during a Southfork rodeo event. He´s the son of a rich Texas rancher. J.R.
is jealous of Sue Ellen and makes it very clear to Dusty. Digger comes to the rodeo to see John Ross III. But
there is no fight with Jock this time around.

3.9 (38) Dallas: Mastectomy, Part 1
16Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188146
Miss Ellie discovers a medical problem with her breast. She doesn´t tell Jock because in the past he left his
first wife Amanda because of her disease. Miss Ellie undergoes an operation to have her left breast removed.
Sue Ellen meets Dusty again and again.

3.10 (39) Dallas: Mastectomy, Part 2
16Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188147
Miss Ellie's tumor is completely removed along with her breast. But she falls into serious depression. She´s
afraid of losing Jock. J.R. keeps trying to get rid of Cliff and uses Alan Beam to do it.

3.11 (40) Dallas: The heiress
23Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188141
To frustrate Cliff's plans against the Ewings, J.R. hires young lawyer Alan Beam as his spy. Lucy discovers the
conspiracy but J.R. manages to turn things around again to make it look like he and Alan hate each other. Bobby
hears about J.R.´s plans in Southeast Asia and about the mortgaging of Southfork Ranch.

3.12 (41) Dallas: Ellie saves the day
30Nov79 CBS / prod. no. 188144
J.R.´s family is shocked to learn Southfork has been mortgaged. The drillings in Asia run into serious trouble
because of a typhoon and the banks demand their loans back. Miss Ellie saves the situation by releasing part of
the ranch for drilling but she has to go against her father's last will to do it.At the end of the episode she
tells J.R.: "I may never forgive you for this J.R."

3.13 (42) Dallas: Mother of the year
14Dec79 CBS / prod. no. 188149
J.R. thinks Sue Ellen is an unfit mother. She seeks psychiatric help. At the last minute, Ewing Oil succeeds
in starting drilling in the Asian fields.

3.14 (43) Dallas: Return engagement (Return engagements - plural - copyright title)
20Dec79 CBS / prod. no. 188148
Miss Ellie's sadness over Gary's (Ted Shackelford) birthday ends when she
learns he and Valene are back in Dallas and plan to remarry.

3.15 (44) Dallas: Love and marriage
21Dec79 CBS / prod. no. 188150
Pam takes care of Sue Ellen´s Baby for a few weeks. Because she doesn't have a child of her own, now she can´t
stand Sue Ellen´s coming back to her baby. There´s an argument with Bobby about his return to Ewing Oil.
Ray Krebbs meets Donna Culver.

3.16 (45) Dallas: Power play
4Jan80 CBS / prod. no. 188151
Lucy secretely meets Alan Beam. But all he is interested in is her family's money. He proposes to Lucy. But this
is just an intrigue of J.R. who wants to get rid of Lucy who, as he says, "is her daddy's only tie to Southfork".
Pam is promoted at her job once again and problems in her marriage are on the rise.

3.17 (46) Dallas: Paternity suit
11Jan80 CBS / prod. no. 188152
Digger tells a reporter that John Ross III could be his grandchild. The Ewings sue Digger Barnes for defamation.
And Cliff goes to court as well - to determine the baby's paternity. A blood test finally determines : J.R.
is the baby's father.

3.18 (47) Dallas: Jenna´s Return
18Jan80 CBSs / prod. no. 188153
Sue Ellen sees Dusty Farlow again. Pam agrees to go to Paris for a few days
on business and Bobby sees Jenna again while Pam is out of town.

3.19 (48) Dallas: Sue Ellen´s choice
1Feb80 CBS / prod. no. 188154
Bobby wants so save his marriage and asks Pam for help but she replies: "I don't think I can." Pam feels guilty
because she can´t have a baby. Sue Ellen wants a divorce. J.R. says he will never allow her to take John Ross
away from him. Because Sue Ellen knows she can't fight J.R. on this, she decides to leave Dusty.

3.20 (49) Dallas: Second thoughts
8Feb80 CBS / prod. no. 188158
J.R. keeps pressuring Alan Beam to marry Lucy very soon. Cliff resigns from the OLM to run in the elections for
Congress but J.R.'s intrigue is a success and Cliff runs out of campaign money all of a sudden. For the moment,
he is finished professionally and has nowhere to go. Bobby feels sorry for Cliff and decides to do some job hunting
for him. This provokes a furious reaction from J.R.. Jock frustrates J.R.´s plans for Lucy and Alan by offering Alan
a legal partnership in Dallas. Now J.R. tries to stop the marriage because there´s no longer anything in it for him.

3.21 (50) Dallas: Divorce - Ewing Style
15Feb80 CBS / prod. no. 188155
J.R. hears about Cliff´s new job at the district attorney's office. He tries to make Sue Ellen look like she's been
drinking again. Sue Ellen hires a "private eye" to prove J.R.'s infidelity to her but J.R. bribes the detective who
alters the reports which now say nothing bad about J.R. This makes Sue Ellen look like paranoid and obsessive in
front of the family.

3.22 (51) Dallas: Jock´s trial, part 1
22Feb80 CBS / prod. no. 188156
A skeleton is found on Southfork. Cliff runs the investigation into possible murder. Jock is arrested. Sue Ellen
drinks again as she hears about Dusty Farlow's death in a plane crash.

3.23 (52) Dallas: Jock´s trial, part 2
29Feb80 CBS / prod. no. 188157
Jock is released on bail. Digger is dying and confesses to having killed the man whose skeleton was found on the
ranch.It turns out it was Hutch McKinney -- a man with whom Digger's wife Rebecca had an affair. Digger killed him
in a rage upon finding out about the affair. Pam learns that it was Hutch who was her real father. All these years
she thought it was Digger... Digger dies but before that, he tells Pam that he has always cared for her, just like
she was his own daughter.

3.24 (53) Dallas: Wheeler dealer
14Mar80 CBS / prod. no. 188159
Pam is searching for her mother who might possibly still be alive. Jock, Miss Ellie, Bobby and Pam go to see Jock´s
former wife Amanda in a mental hospital. J.R. learns that the oil fields in Asia will be nationalized. He sells 75%
to the cartel and keeps the news of the impending nationalization from the cartel members.

3.25 (54) Dallas: A house divided (season 3 finale)
21Mar80 CBS / prod. no. 188160
The cartel members and J.R.'s banker are financially ruined after the nationalization of the Asian fields. Seth Stone,
one of the cartel members, kills himself. J.R. threatens to drive Kristin and Alan Beam out of town and he wants to
put Sue Ellen back into the sanitarium. Pam and Bobby leave Dallas when Bobby learns that J.R. shut down an oil field
to stop Cliff from having his portion of revenue based on an old agreement between Digger and Jock which Cliff has
found among Digger's papers.

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