Garrison "Gary" Arthur Ewing is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera, Knots Landing, a spin-off of Dallas.
26 Facts About Gary Ewing
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The character of Gary Ewing was first played by actor David Ackroyd in a 2-part Dallas season two episode "Reunion" in 1978.
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Gary Ewing was the middle son of oil baron Jock and Miss Ellie Ewing, the father of Lucy Ewing and the ex-husband of Valene Ewing.
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Over a year later, the part of Gary Ewing was recast for the spin-off Knots Landing with actor Ted Shackelford in the role, and Gary became one of the main stars of the series in 1979.
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The character of Gary made his last Knots Landing appearance in 1997 in the reunion series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac.
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Gary Ewing was born in early January 1944 to oil baron Jock Ewing and his wife Miss Ellie Ewing of Dallas, Texas.
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Gary Ewing was their second son having been conceived just before Jock went off to Europe to fight in World War II.
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Gary Ewing became a teenage father, and an alcoholic due to the pressures that were put on him.
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Gary married Valene Ewing in January 1961, when Gary was 17 and Valene was 15.
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Valene was pregnant, and many months into the pregnancy, Valene pestered Gary Ewing to take her to visit his family at the Southfork Ranch.
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Gary Ewing and Valene's daughter, Lucy, was born in the fall of 1961.
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Under the pressure, Gary Ewing took to heavy drinking, became violent, and eventually walked out on his family.
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In 1978, Gary Ewing bumped into his brother, Bobby, and Bobby's wife, Pam, in Las Vegas.
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Gary made a few more appearances in Dallas after his move to California; namely the 2 episodes after JR was shot, Lucy's first wedding to Mitch Cooper, 2 episodes where Gary received 10 voting shares in Ewing Oil from an absent Jock and Gary then giving these 10 voting shares to Lucy, the reading of Jock's will, Bobby's "funeral" in the first episode of the dream season, and in the final episode "Conundrum" in which JR was shown how the world would have turned out if he had never been born.
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Gary Ewing meets Valene for the first time when they are both middle aged and they take a liking to each other.
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Gary Ewing settled down into his new life in California, had a great marriage and was good at his job.
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Gary Ewing's aggression and violence from falling off the wagon, eventually made Gary Ewing admit out loud to himself and to other members of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, that he was an alcoholic.
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Gary Ewing became close friends with an up-and-coming singer he discovered, called Ciji Dunne, until Ciji was tragically murdered.
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Gary Ewing initially believed that he might have killed her while heavily drunk, but he later realized that he didn't, and he was acquitted.
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When Jock was declared legally dead as a result of a plane crash in South America, Gary Ewing stood to inherit millions of dollars.
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Gary Ewing soon married Abby, as she secretly started her own company, Apolune.
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Gary Ewing then met Cathy Geary, who looked a lot like Ciji and began a new friendship with her and had her dress and sing like Ciji too.
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Gary Ewing was extremely happy at his wife still being alive, and they got back together.
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Gary Ewing returned to Dallas in 2013 to help his brother, Bobby, stop their nephew, John Ross, from drilling for oil on Southfork.
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Gary Ewing informs Bobby that he fell off the wagon again and he and Valene had separated.
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Later, Sue Ellen calls Valene and she comes to Dallas, where she and Gary Ewing reunite and return to their home in California.