Pam isn't even mentioned!!
Did anyone else think it was odd that Pam wasn't even mentioned in this movie??
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I did wonder why Pam wasn't mentioned. I don't now what happened to her. Can you send me some information as to what happened? I think she and Bobby adoped the little boy who was, by then, grown up to about 17 years of age or so.
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She was critically injured a burning car wreck, which gave her burns over most of her body, severly damaging her face. She didn't want Bobby and Christopher to be burdened with her medical problems. She was too proud. She escaped from the hospital, never to be seen again. A couple of seasons later another woman was supposed to be her look-alike and Bobby started to fall for her. But it was then said it wasn't the real Pam after all.
Bobby raised Christopher on his own, he re-married April, who was killed the last season by Sheila Foley.
In the tv movie, Chistopher was grown-up, I believe they said he was about to enter college?
Hope this helps :)
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Before the look alike showed up in season 13, in the first episode of season 12, Pam did make one appearance (not Victoria Principal, but Pam). Cliff went to see her after Jordan Lee had tipped him off. Pam claimed that she was marrying her plastic surgeon and did not want to ever see Cliff, Bobby or Christopher again. After Cliff left, Pam revealed to the doctor (who she did was actually not romantic with) that she was terminally ill and would die within a few months, and that's why she wanted to stay away and make her loved ones think she didn't want them.
Cliff (not knowing of Pam's terminal illness) left and was crushed by Pam's feelings but kept the news from Bobby (although April, who had accompanied Cliff on his trip to see Pam) later revealed it to Bobby, and Cliff confirmed)
So, as far as our information goes, the real Pam died during season 12, but nobody knew about it.
Ironically, the actress who played the "look alike" in season 13 was the same actress who played the "real" Pam in season 12. However, it was clearly not meant to be the same character. Since Cliff in season 12 immediately recognized the actress as Pam and is season 13, Cliff knew it wasn't really Pam, but just someone who looked like her.
What I thought at the time was that the look-alike was SO much like Pam that they could have just re-cast the part using her to play the role.
But of course they didn't.
The new "Dallas" series resolves this issue in the last two episodes of the 2013 season. Pamela married Dr. David Gordon - the man with her in the season 12 episode - and that he performed reconstructive surgery on her after the accident. But shortly after completing the surgery, she learned that she had pancreatic cancer. She went to Abu Dahbi for an experimental treatment, which failed, and she died shortly afterward.
Because Pamela left her 1/3 ownership of Barnes Global to Christopher, Cliff paid off Dr. Gordon to keep Pamela's death a secret, so the Ewing family wouldn't gain power in Cliff's company.
The adherence that the current series has to the original series - even the last few seasons, when ratings were way down - is extraordinary. However, the current series disregards the two made for TV movies in between.
"Because Pamela left her 1/3 ownership of Barnes Global to Christopher, Cliff paid off Dr. Gordon to keep Pamela's death a secret, so the Ewing family wouldn't gain power in Cliff's company.
The adherence that the current series has to the original series - even the last few seasons, when ratings were way down - is extraordinary. However, the current series disregards the two made for TV movies in between."
Except there was no Barnes Global in the original series. I believe the new writers were confused with Barnes-Wentworth Oil, Wentworth Industries and Wentworth Tool & Dye. Cliff sold Barnes-Wentworth Oil in season 12 of the original Dallas. Wentworth Industries was a publicly traded company, with Pam and Katherine ending up with Rebecca's shares when she died. Wentworth Tool & Dye was split up three-ways between Pam, Katherine and Cliff when Rebecca died. Katherine offered to buy Cliff's 1/3 share at the end of season 7, below market value, of course. That was shortly before she shot Bobby and went on the lam, so I don't recall if the sale occurred.
This movie was made to basically establish the next Generation of Ewings, a grownup John Ross and Christopher. Because they only had two hours, they couldn't mention all the characters of Dallas and Pam had been long gone from the original series after being severely burned in a car crash and claims that she had a terminal disease and was dying.
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