27 Facts About Pam Ewing

1.

Pamela Jean "Pam" Barnes Ewing is a fictional character from the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas.

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2.

Pam Ewing initially was very distant from the cast and they assumed she didn't like them.

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3.

Pam Ewing's relationship with Patrick Duffy's character, Bobby, was a central component to the show, and when Duffy returned to Dallas in 1986, after being killed off a year earlier, the entire previous year had been written off as Pam's dream.

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4.

Pam Ewing was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest award for "Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role on a Prime Time Serial" in 1986, while sharing a nomination with Patrick Duffy for "Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time" in 1988.

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5.

Pam Ewing wanted to create a television show based on "family issues and examining relationships at the middle class level".

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6.

Pam Ewing initially conceived Pamela as the central character of the Texas-based serial.

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7.

Pam Ewing described her character as, "a semitrashy lady who marries into a rich Texas family".

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8.

Pam Ewing wanted it to be based around the entire clan and their lives as wealthy oil people living in Dallas, Texas.

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9.

Pam Ewing didn't do a lot of the hanging out social activities that a lot of us did because we were together so much.

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10.

Early on, Bobby's brother, JR Ewing, accuses Pamela of being a spy for her brother, Cliff Barnes, who is building a case against Ewing Oil, claiming that she passed a very important company file to Cliff.

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11.

In 1979, Pam Ewing is told by Digger's doctor that Digger was a carrier of neurofibromatosis, and that she and Cliff, as his children, were carriers; as neurofibromatosis is a potentially fatal disease to infants.

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12.

On Digger's deathbed, he tells Pam Ewing that she's not his biological child, but born after an affair her mother Rebecca had with Hutch McKinney.

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13.

Pam Ewing develops a notion – a dream born out of grief – that perhaps her mother isn't dead after all.

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14.

Baby issue continue to haunt Pam Ewing, after learning that she is unlikely to carry a child past the third month of pregnancy.

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15.

Pam Ewing is admitted to a psychiatric hospital where she can get the help she needs.

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16.

In soaring spirits, Pam Ewing quickly settles into her life as mother to Christopher, while Bobby handles the adoption proceedings.

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17.

Pam Ewing is shocked that Bobby had kept this from her but doesn't hesitate to fly to California with him to find the truth, preparing to fight whoever she had to in order to keep her son.

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18.

Pam Ewing is devastated – and angry – blaming the contest between JR and Bobby for her mother's death.

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19.

Pam Ewing then begins a relationship with wealthy businessman Mark Grayson, though he soon learns he has a terminal illness and apparently dies in a plane crash.

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20.

Pam Ewing is unable to accept this and begins searching for Mark, travelling the globe in her efforts, but without success.

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21.

The next morning, Bobby saves Pam Ewing from being hit by a car driven by her deranged half-sister, Katherine Wentworth, but the car hits him instead.

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22.

However, the morning after her wedding to Mark, Pam Ewing goes into the bathroom and finds Bobby in the shower – alive and well.

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23.

Pam Ewing made a brief appearance in the season 12 premiere, with a different appearance as a result of plastic surgery.

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24.

Pam Ewing tells her brother Cliff that she is happy in her new life and plans to marry her doctor David Gordon.

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25.

Pam Ewing underwent several surgeries in an attempt to reverse some of the badly scarred tissue left by the oil truck explosion.

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26.

Pam Ewing flew to Abu Dhabi to receive an experimental surgery but died on the operating table.

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27.

Pam Ewing shared a nomination with Patrick Duffy for "Favorite Super Couple: Prime Time" in 1988.

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