A figure from the mythical television series is dead. David Jacobs, the creator of Dallas and its spin-off West Coast, has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, his son has said. The producer and director died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank at age 84, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
Dallas cradled an entire generation. The series had 14 seasons, and remained number one in viewership for a long time. She will have given an appointment to her viewers from 1978 to 1991 for more than 350 episodes. David Jacobs will have been really present on the set only the first two seasons. He will then simply be a creative consultant, to be able to concentrate on other projects. He also participated in the spin-off Côte Ouest, which was also a hit, and in the return of Dallas between 2012 and 2014.
The creator of the series confided to our colleagues: “Dallas represents the beginning of an era that ends this year, in 2008, in which all our values ????as a people have been terribly screwed up. I think Dallas was trying — at least in my head and in my heart — to show it. It was never meant to glorify this world. »
He had also boasted of having written the first episodes – for what was initially to be a mini-series – without having set foot in the eponymous city, and that he had concentrated on making characters stereotyped.
He was also very proud of West Coast, the spin-off of Dallas, which he launched in 1979, comparing its original plot to Ingmar Bergman’s series Scenes from Married Life. The soap will have until its end, in 1993, a special place in the field of soap operas, by addressing subjects as varied as feminism, ecology or rape.
