Gary Ewing
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| Knots Landing and Dallas character | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by |
David Ackroyd (1978) Ted Shackelford (1979–2013) |
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| Duration | 1978–82, 1985, 1991, 2013 (Dallas) 1979–93, 1997 (Knots Landing) |
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| First appearance | September 23, 1978 Reunion, Part 1 (Dallas) |
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| Last appearance | March 18, 2013 Ewings Unite! (Dallas) |
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| Created by | David Jacobs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spin-off appearances |
Knots Landing Dallas (2012 series) |
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| Family | Ewing |
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| Father | Jock Ewing |
| Mother | Ellie Ewing |
| Stepfather | Clayton Farlow |
| Brothers |
J.R. Ewing Bobby Ewing |
| Half-brothers | Ray Krebbs |
| Spouse |
Valene Ewing (1961–62, 1979–83, 1991–) Abby Cunningham (1983–87) |
| Sons | Bobby Ewing II |
| Daughters |
Lucy Ewing Betsy Ewing Molly Whittaker |
| Grandparents | Aaron Southworth Barbara Southworth |
| Aunts and uncles | Jason Ewing Garrison Southworth |
| Nieces and nephews |
James Beaumont John Ross Ewing III Christopher Ewing Lucas Krebbs Margaret Krebbs Unnamed nephew (JR's son with Cally) Unnamed niece (JR's daughter with an unknown woman) |
| First cousins | Jamie Ewing Barnes Jack Ewing |
Garrison "Gary" Arthur Ewing is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera, Knots Landing, a spin-off of Dallas. The character of Gary Ewing was first played by actor David Ackroyd, in a 2-part Dallas episode entitled "Reunion", which broadcast in September 1978. Gary Ewing was the second son of oil baron Jock Ewing and Miss Ellie Ewing, the father of Lucy Ewing and the ex-husband of Valene Ewing. 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 December 1979. Ted Shackelford played Gary Ewing in Knots Landing for its entire fourteen seasons (1979–1993), while continuing to make occasional appearances in Dallas during that time. The character of Gary made his last Knots Landing appearance in 1997, in the reunion series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. Shackelford reprised his character for the new, updated version of Dallas in 2013.
From the outset, Dallas was centered on the lives of the wealthy Ewing family who lived in Dallas, Texas. Once the show became a success after the 5 episodes that made up season 1, the producers decided to expand the roles of certain characters. They introduced the parents of Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton), who had not been shown on-screen until that point. After the success of Dallas, Jacobs' presented his initial idea again and created Knots Landing, with some alterations of his original script. In an interview, Jacobs explained: " Well, that's pretty good, but you know-and then he pulled out the pages that we'd left for them a few years ago on Knots Landing, or a year before on Knots, and he said, 'Is there any way we can make this a spin-off?' I just took one of the couples and made it, you know, Val and Gary who had already been created on the parent series and putting them into the mix, but when you have four couples and you change one, you sort of have to change the dynamic all the way around. However, once I wrote the script, remarkably little changed from the script and the pilot as you would see it." Gary Ewing was originally played by actor David Ackroyd, but Ackroyd was unable to sign on for the spin-off, and the role was recast to Ted Shackelford.
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