Dallas: J.R. Returns Dallas: J.R. Returns Dallas: J.R. Returns is a 1996 American made-for-television drama film and is the first of two "Dallas" reunion films, produced after the series went off the air in 1991. It originally aired on CBS on November 15, 1996, and was rerun as part of TV Land's salute to 50 years of Warner Bros. Television. The cliffhanger ending of the 1991 "Dallas" series finale is resolved. The gunshot J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) fired was at the mirror, not himself (despite there being no sound of shattered glass when he pulled the trigger). Several years later, J.R. is in
David White (actor) lucrative advertising accounts. This is the role for which he would become best-known both during his life and posthumously. Larry Tate's baby boy Jonathan was named after White's son. Following the end of "Bewitched", White was a popular character actor on numerous television series for the next decade, ranging from "The Love Boat", "Remington Steele", "The Rockford Files", "Columbo: Identity Crisis", "What's Happening!!", "Rhoda", "Quincy, M.E.", "Cagney & Lacey" and "Dallas". He played the role of J. Jonah Jameson in the pilot episode of the television series "The Amazing Spider-Man". His final role came in 1986 on an episode of