The Magic of TV and a few fun facts - Southfork Ranch part 2

The long driveway I told you about in the earlier post...well our tour guide had some real interesting facts to tell all of us.

To make the driveway appear longer than what it was they would keep shooting the driveway and spice the shots.

To make it appear like Jock was bringing up dust on his Cadillac wheels (the show shows the driveway like it is dirt when it is actually black top) they would put flour on the wheels and in the driveway and the actor portraying Jock, would have to make sure the tires would hit the mark.

For the pool scenes they would tie a rope around the actor (in the pool) waist and someone on the other end would keep pulling them back as they would swim so it would appear as though the pool was olympic size.

When JR looked over the second floor balcony and found Kristin dead in the pool, they actually had a net to catch her in and then transfer her to the pool. If she really did fall from the balcony she would have fallen in shrubs, then there was concrete and then the pool. That would have been some stunt.

Mirror were placed around the pool to make it look olympic size

All this was TV magic.

Jock's Cadillac

We were told that when the show ended they couldn't find the Cadillac until one day when a worker was getting some bales of hay to discover that the car had been buried in the hay.

This was a small arena but in the show of course it looks larger than life for rodeos.

From the second floor back balcony looking over the 360 acres.

Back of the house, second floor balcony that leads to JR and Sue Ellen's bedroom. The covered patio on the right is where many scenes were shot of them having breakfast.

Um...not olympic size

Last day....interior pics