Larry Hagman was briefly replaced by Donna Reed for the 1984–1985 season, before Bel Geddes returned in better health for the 1985–1986 season. By the end of its 14th season in 1991, ratings had slipped to the extent that CBS decided to end "Dallas". Hagman was the only actor to appear in all 357 episodes. He had also made five guest appearances on the "Dallas" spin-off series "Knots Landing" in the early 1980s. Some years after "Dallas" ended, Hagman appeared in two subsequent "Dallas" television movies: "" in 1996, and "" in 1998. Hagman reprised his role as J.R. Ewing in TNT's
Larry Hagman with his maternal grandmother, Juanita Presley Martin, in Texas and California while his mother became a contract player with Paramount in 1938. In 1940, Hagman's mother met and married Richard Halliday before giving birth to a daughter, Heller, the following year. Hagman attended a strict academy, Black-Foxe Military Institute. When his mother moved to New York City to resume her Broadway career, Hagman again lived with his grandmother in California. A few years later, his grandmother died and Hagman joined his mother in New York City. In 1946, Hagman moved back to his hometown of Weatherford and attended Weatherford High