Larry Hagman again with Eden on stage in the play "Love Letters" at the College of Staten Island in New York and the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. The appearance marked the first time the two performers had acted together since Eden appeared with Hagman in a five-episode arc on "Dallas" in 1990. In 1978, Hagman was offered two roles on two television series that were debuting. One was for "The Waverly Wonders" and the other for "Dallas", in the role of conniving elder son and businessman J.R. Ewing. When Hagman read the "Dallas" script at his wife's suggestion,
Beware! The Blob on the ground, melting a small portion of it, which oozes toward the sheriff and envelops his feet as he is speaking on camera to a nationwide television audience. Larry Hagman previously directed episodes of "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Good Life" and went on to do the same for several episodes of "Dallas" and "In the Heat of the Night" (the only series he directed for that he never acted on). This would be his only feature film as a director. To cast the film, Hagman recruited friends from the motion picture industry, (some of whom were literally