Dallas

Episode 1: "No More Mister Nice Guy, Part 1" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/7/1980

JR is hospitalized after being shot by a mystery assailant.
Episode 2: "No More Mister Nice Guy, Part 2" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/9/1980

JR undergoes a second surgery to remove the bullet from his spine. Gary arrives in Dallas to offer support to his family. Jock puts Bobby in charge of Ewing Oil. 
Episode 3: "Nightmare" (recap)
​Original airdate: 11/14/1980

Bobby continues to have difficulties running Ewing Oil. Lucy goes on a date with Mitch. Jock finds the pistol that was used in JR's shooting. 
Episode 4: "Who Done It" (recap)
​Original airdate: 11/21/1980

Sue Ellen is arrested and jailed for JR's shooting before the real culprit is revealed.
Episode 5: "The Taste of Success" (recap)
Original airdate: 11/28/1980

Kristin is shipped off to California. Sue Ellen and JR hit the sheets, which puts a kick-start in their shitty marriage. Bobby secures the financing needed to purchase an oil refinery.
Episode 6: "Venezuelan Connection" (recap)
​Original airdate: 12/5/1980

JR tries to push Bobby out of Ewing Oil by sabotaging his business deals. Lucy hosts a barbecue/pool party and invites Mitch, but it doesn't go well. Pam is hopeful when she learns that her long lost mother might still be alive.
Episode 7: "The Fourth Son" (recap)
​Original airdate: 12/12/1980

Bobby gets to the bottom of the sunken oil tanker mystery. Ray learns that Jock is his bio dad.
Episode 8: "Trouble at Ewing 23" (recap)
​Original airdate: 12/19/1980

A disgruntled ex-Ewing Oil employee threatens to blow up the oil wells on Ewing 23. Cliff's romance with Donna Culver goes public.
Episode 9: "The Prodigal Mother" (recap)
​Original airdate: 1/2/1981

Pam experiences a mix of emotions when she locates her long lost mother. Bobby wants another bank loan to finance a lucrative oil deal with the cartel. Lucy proposes to Mitch. 
Episode 10: "Executive Wife" (recap)
​Original airdate: 1/9/1981

Lucy announces to the Ewings that she and Mitch are tying the knot. Pam gets increasingly irked at Bobby when he continues cancelling their lunch and dinner plans. 
Episode 11: "End of the Road, Part 1" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/24/1981

The Ewing womenfolk throw Lucy a bridal shower. Bobby becomes desperate to find $12 million so he can enter into the cartel's lucrative Gulf oil deal. Mitch's mother and sister arrive in Dallas.
Episode 12: "End of the Road, Part 2" (recap)
​Original airdate: 1/31/1981

Lucy and Mitch wed in a lavish ceremony at Southfork. Alex Ward continues to flirt with and pursue Pam. Bobby announces to JR and Jock that he's stepping down as president of Ewing Oil.
Episode 13: "Making of a President" (recap)
Original airdate: 1/30/1981

JR hires a savvy PR consultant to revitalize his image. Bobby starts a new venture within Ewing Oil. Afton gets a job as a restaurant singer.
Episode 14: "Start the Revolution With Me" (recap)
​Original airdate: 2/6/1981

JR sets a dangerous plan in motion to regain control of his oil leases in Southeast Asia. Pam and Alex grow closer during an out-of-town business trip. Sue Ellen suspects she's being followed.
Episode 15: "The Quest" (recap)
​Original airdate: 2/13/1981

Bobby accepts Donna's invitation to run for the state senate. JR continues to flirt with Leslie Stewart, who continues to rebuff his advances. Pam ends her extramarital friendship with Alex Ward.
Episode 16: "Lover, Come Back" (recap)
​Original airdate: 2/20/1981

Sue Ellen learns that Dusty is alive, but paralyzed from the waist down after surviving the plane crash she assumed he died in. Ray and Donna become engaged. JR is elated when he regains ownership of his Southeast Asian oil leases.
Episode 17: "The New Mrs. Ewing" (recap)
​Original airdate: 2/27/1981

JR gets miffed at Leslie when she talks out of turn during a cartel meeting. Alex Ward hires Lucy as Miss Young Dallas to curry favor with Pam. Bobby wins a seat in the state senate. Ray and Donna tie the knot.
Episode 18: "The Mark of Cain" (recap)
​Original airdate: 3/13/1981

Bobby attends his first senate committee meeting that will determine the outcome of the Takapa quandary. Lucy's new modelling career causes tension in her marriage. JR tries to convince Leslie to remain in Dallas.
Episode 19: "The Gathering Storm" (recap)
​Original airdate: 3/27/1981

Jock's and Miss Ellie's marriage continues to deteriorate. Cliff is intrigued when he learns details about the Southeast Asian counter-revolution. Mitch continues to be irked by Lucy's modelling career.
Episode 20: "Ewing vs. Ewing" (recap)
​Original airdate: 4/3/1981

Bobby defuses the Takapa quagmire by proposing a compromise. Cliff suspects that JR may have financed the Southeast Asian counter-revolution. Clint gives Sue Ellen an ultimatum.
Episode 21: "New Beginnings" (recap)
​Original airdate: 4/10/1981

JR rescinds his offer to sell Ewing Oil to Westar Oil, a decision that makes a new enemy of Jeremy Wendell. Sue Ellen ends her extramarital affair with Clint Ogden and decides to focus on motherhood. Afton unwittingly reveals to Cliff new intel about JR's connection to the Southeast Asian counter-revolution.
Episode 22: "Full Circle" (recap)
​Original airdate: 4/17/1981

Pam is devastated when she learns she's unable to carry a baby to term. Dusty makes a reappearance in Sue Ellen's life. Cliff presents the senate committee with documents that implicate JR in the financing of the Southeast Asian counter-revolution. Kristin Shepard returns to Dallas.
Episode 23: "Ewing-Gate" (recap)
​Original airdate: 5/1/1981

JR manages to convince the senate committee that he had no part in financing the Southeast Asian coup. Sue Ellen is foiled in her attempt to remove Baby John from Southfork. Kristin threatens to blackmail JR with a paternity lawsuit.