Who Done It (Dallas) Who Done It (Dallas) "Who Done It" is the fourth episode of the fourth season (1980–81 season) and 58th overall of the American television series "Dallas". The episode was written by Loraine Despres, and revealed who had shot J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) in the third season finale "A House Divided". The perpetrator's fate was revealed in the subsequent episode one week later. For an eight-month-long period of media frenzy after the broadcast of "A House Divided" episode (wherein "Dallas" archvillain J.R. Ewing was shot by an unidentified perpetrator while working in his office), international oddsmakers created a set
Larry Hagman 1985. He was nominated for a "Soap Opera Digest" award seven times for Outstanding Villain on a Prime Time Serial, Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial, Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time and Outstanding Actor in a Comic Relief Role on a Prime Time Serial, and won five times. In 1984, co-star Barbara Bel Geddes left "Dallas", following a contract dispute that had resulted from her March 1983 quadruple heart bypass surgery. At one point, Hagman suggested to his real-life mother Mary Martin that she play Miss Ellie, but she rejected the suggestion and Bel Geddes