Southfork Ranch
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Plano, Texas
Plano is a city in the state of Texas, located mostly within Collin County. The city's population was 259,841 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Texas and the 71st most populous city in the United States. Plano is located within the metropolitan area commonly referred to as...
; it contains the Ewing Mansion, which was the setting for the 1978 - 1991 television series Dallas
Dallas (TV series)
Dallas is an American serial drama/prime time soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing...
. The ranch is located at 3700 Hogge Drive in Parker, Texas
Parker, Texas
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.
History
The house was built in 1970 by Joe Duncan and was known as Duncan Acres, named after his family. The property was originally 200 acre (0.809372 km²) in size. The "Mansion" at Southfork Ranch is actually a 4769 sq ft. house with a 957 sq ft (88.9 m²) enclosed garage that was turned into a den/card room.The TV series' exteriors were shot on the ranch beginning with the second season (1978–1979) of Dallas, and shot there until 1989 when the series' production shifted entirely to Lorimar Studios
Lorimar Productions
Lorimar, later known as Lorimar Television and Lorimar Distribution, was an American television production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros., active from 1969 until 1993...
(now Sony Pictures Studios
Sony Pictures Studios
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) in California
California
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. The reunion movies J.R. Returns
Dallas: J.R. Returns
Dallas: J.R. Returns is the first of the two Dallas reunion movies to air after the series went off the air. It originally aired on CBS on November 15, 1996, and recently was rerun as part of TV Land's salute to 50 years of Warner Bros. Television....
(1996) and War of the Ewings
Dallas: War of the Ewings
Dallas: War of the Ewings was the second of the two Dallas reunion movies. It aired on CBS on April 24, 1998, a little less than a year and a half after the first movie, Dallas: J.R...
(1998) returned to the ranch, along with the reunion special Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork
Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork
Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork was a 90-minute retrospective special celebrating the long-running primetime television series Dallas which aired on CBS on Sunday November 7, 2004....
(2004). War of the Ewings in 1998 was the only time filming was done inside the real ranch for dramatic purposes (Return to Southfork in 2004 was a retrospective, and not a genuine "episode").
In 1993-94, the ranch was featured prominently in the Little Texas
Little Texas
Little Texas is an American country music band founded in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988 by Tim Rushlow , Brady Seals , Del Gray , Porter Howell , Dwayne O'Brien , and Duane Propes . Signed to Warner Bros...
music video God Blessed Texas.
The ranch is currently an event and conference center, owned by Forever Resorts. Daily tours of the Ranch and Ewing Mansion are offered for an admission fee of $9.50 for adults. It is home to the KLTY-FM
KLTY-FM
KLTY is a Christian contemporary music radio station owned by Salem Communications with studios located in Irving, Texas, near Dallas. The format is similar to the "Fish" branded stations Salem owns elsewhere and its slogan is: "Safe for the Whole Family"...
radio Christian concert Celebrate Freedom, held annually during the Independence Day
Independence Day (United States)
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celebration, and to the July 4, 2009 "America's Tea Party," which an organizer claimed drew an estimated crowd of 25,000 to 35,000 attendees.