‘Dallas’ at 40: The Inside Story Behind the Show That Changed Texas Forever

(via Texas Monthly)  From 1978 to 1991, the world capital of mergers and acquisitions, greed, champagne consumption and plot twists was a midsized horse farm east of Plano. Behind its wood rail fence stood a white frame house that wouldn’t have looked out of place in any luxury cul-de-sac. Three generations of billionaires shared that home, and for a long stretch of the eighties, they were the most popular television family in the country.  This was the Dallas… changing television and Texas forever.