:00:35. > :00:39.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Alex Jones. And Matt Baker. We
:00:39. > :00:49.have got our stetsons on to welcome the ultimate bad boy oil baron who
:00:49. > :00:53.
:00:53. > :00:58.gripped the road in the '80s. It is JR Ewing himself, Larry Hagman.
:00:58. > :01:02.Larry, so good to see you. Before we came on air, Larry shaped our
:01:02. > :01:07.hats for us so that we were looking right. They were a mess. And you
:01:07. > :01:12.have even got cowboy boots on. Don't joke, they are not fun. They
:01:12. > :01:19.are made for riding on horses, not walking around London. But you do
:01:19. > :01:26.feel at home around here. I lived in St John's Wood for five years.
:01:26. > :01:32.1961 till 1966. It was wonderful. Very different back then. Well, I
:01:32. > :01:36.don't know. The smell of London is here. It has just got more people.
:01:36. > :01:42.We also read that you are partial to hat. You are wearing a lovely
:01:42. > :01:47.Stenson, but you have a collection of them? I collect hats. My friends
:01:47. > :01:51.send me hands from everywhere in the world, so I have a few thousand.
:01:51. > :01:55.We do you keep them? I don't know, my wife hides them. I am not
:01:55. > :02:01.kidding. I must have a thousand hats. I have not the faintest idea
:02:01. > :02:09.where most of them are. But some are really expensive, aren't they?
:02:09. > :02:19.This one was $5,000. That is a hell of a hat. What material is that?
:02:19. > :02:28.
:02:28. > :02:35.is beaver. The other one is some kind of flannel. Made in Australia?
:02:35. > :02:40.Then I had better say nice things. That is a good hat. But is it
:02:40. > :02:47.really a working man's hat? I will lay it down that way. Because if
:02:47. > :02:51.you don't, your luck runs out. know lots of people at home have
:02:51. > :02:55.cowboy hats and they never have the excuse to put them on, so tonight
:02:55. > :02:59.is the night for all of you out there with a cowboy hat. If you
:02:59. > :03:03.have one, get it on and come back to the telly and take a picture of
:03:03. > :03:11.yourself, and we will show some later. People who have been on hen
:03:11. > :03:14.nights will have loads. I have a fight. Now, Larry, Dallas was
:03:14. > :03:17.constantly in the headlines back in the day. Later, we will meet a mum
:03:17. > :03:27.and daughter who made the papers in Texas for their special connection
:03:27. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:34.with your show back in the 1980s. Eighties, '90s? Long time ago. Now,
:03:34. > :03:39.everyone remembers that JR Ewing was shot, but can you remember who
:03:40. > :03:43.did it? Our very own cowgirl Lucy Siegle launches her own debts and-
:03:43. > :03:50.style investigation. A JR Ewing epitomised the money,
:03:50. > :03:54.oil and glamour that made Dallas and '80s soap smash hit. It -- in
:03:54. > :04:02.scenes where alpha males regularly locked horns... Somehow, the
:04:02. > :04:06.ruthless businessman always won. am going to nail you. You have to
:04:06. > :04:10.be a man. The show spawned probably the most famous whodunnit in
:04:10. > :04:18.television history, gripping an estimated 350 million viewers
:04:18. > :04:23.across the globe, with one infamous storyline. Stealing into the office
:04:23. > :04:28.of the mean old Texan oil baron, an unknown assailant fires two 38
:04:28. > :04:34.calibre slugs into JR Ewing, leaving him for dead. A nail-biting
:04:34. > :04:38.end to its third season. The sound that followed was of millions of
:04:38. > :04:43.viewers in the UK falling off their seats. One question was on their
:04:43. > :04:48.lips - who shot JR? It seemed everyone wanted to know whodunnit,
:04:49. > :04:54.from the Queen Mother to US President Jimmy Carter. I came to
:04:54. > :05:02.Dallas to find out confidentially who shot JR. Possibly the most bet
:05:03. > :05:06.upon showing TV history, the series even spark some odd tributes.
:05:06. > :05:14.Speculation over the shooter's identity was rife, but now we all
:05:14. > :05:22.know who did it, don't we? Who shot JR? Oh, um... That was a long time
:05:22. > :05:30.ago. Your man Cliff? I thought it was so Welland. It was a dream.
:05:30. > :05:37.can't say. I will not say. I don't remember who shot JR. Gerard was a
:05:37. > :05:40.man with a long list of enemies, from bamboozled oil barons to his
:05:40. > :05:46.wife Sue Allen, Cliff Barnes and what about Miceli? Actually, she
:05:46. > :05:50.was his mum. When the heavily guarded first episode of Dallas
:05:50. > :05:54.series four arrived in the UK, it even made the 9 o'clock News.
:05:54. > :05:58.secret of whodunit is contained in videotape brought into Heathrow
:05:58. > :06:02.Airport by an American security guard. And a long eight months
:06:02. > :06:08.after the shots were fired, the nation held its collective breath,
:06:08. > :06:14.waiting for the cliffhanger to be resolved. Even after 30 years, you
:06:14. > :06:19.want to know who did it. Ready? Dramatically, the camera tilts up
:06:19. > :06:26.to reveal of JR's sister-in-law and mistress Kristin Shepard had pulled
:06:26. > :06:31.the trigger. I thought it was so well and! De twas Kristin all along.
:06:31. > :06:35.And she had a very famous dad. and Crosby was her father, and my
:06:35. > :06:41.mother worked for him -- with him for two and a half years on his
:06:42. > :06:51.radio show in the '40s. Did you meet him as a younger lad? I never
:06:51. > :06:56.did, but I went to school with his sons. Small world. Actor who shot
:06:57. > :07:01.JR. Did you know the outcome, or is it true that only Sue Allen, from
:07:01. > :07:10.the cast, or Linda Gray, knew who it was? I didn't know and I don't
:07:10. > :07:14.think anybody else did. But she says, it was you, Christin, who
:07:14. > :07:22.shot JR. She had to do that in a voice-over, and that was how she
:07:22. > :07:26.found out. Barras is back, 21 years on, it will be on in September on
:07:26. > :07:30.Channel 5 -- Dallas. We know the background. It was about two
:07:31. > :07:35.families. I was a big fan. Before we see the new version, let's
:07:35. > :07:40.remind ourselves of summed up as just relationships between yourself
:07:40. > :07:44.and Solent. There were some great scenes. They wanted to see if you
:07:44. > :07:48.could make it through the ceremony without passing out. I admit, I
:07:48. > :07:53.fell off the wagon. I had a few drinks, but that is over now. I
:07:53. > :07:59.will stop drinking. So Llewellyn, don't bother with that story on my
:07:59. > :08:04.account, honey. We both know if you are a lush. Was it hard keeping a
:08:04. > :08:09.straight face during that scene? didn't, I was laughing inside.
:08:09. > :08:13.did have great chemistry with Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, so much so
:08:13. > :08:20.that you were great friends. still are. We have lunch or dinner
:08:20. > :08:24.a few times a month. What was it about you three? Were just struck a
:08:24. > :08:30.chord and worked with each other for 13 years, happily. How often do
:08:30. > :08:34.people do that? Are you friends? course. But when the phone call
:08:34. > :08:38.came and they said, we are thinking of bringing Barras back, was it an
:08:38. > :08:43.easy decision for the three of you that that would be a great thing?
:08:43. > :08:47.Will heard about it for two years, and finally, someone sent us a
:08:47. > :08:52.script. And they read it, and I waited to see what they thought
:08:52. > :09:00.before I bothered. Usually, it is dreadful. But it was quite good, or
:09:00. > :09:10.doable. So I said, you want to do it? And they said yeah, let's do it.
:09:10. > :09:11.
:09:11. > :09:15.Linda Gray said, you will do it. what do we need to know about J are
:09:15. > :09:20.in the last 21 years? What has happened to him? I don't really
:09:20. > :09:28.know. You haven't seen any of this? For not the new series. I don't
:09:28. > :09:32.know how much I can tell you, because there is a secret. If you
:09:32. > :09:38.have a cousin in America, they will tell you. We will show people a
:09:38. > :09:48.clip now what you with your son, John Ross junior. Bobby was always
:09:48. > :09:49.
:09:49. > :09:59.a fool. Stubborn as a mule. And particularly hare-brained about
:09:59. > :10:02.
:10:02. > :10:12.Christopher. He was not even a Ewing. On what grounds are you
:10:12. > :10:14.
:10:14. > :10:18.contesting my mother's will? Mental incompetence. That is the great
:10:18. > :10:22.thing about the new Dallas, there is a new generation of Ewings
:10:22. > :10:27.coming in, including Jesse Metcalfe from Desperate Housewives playing
:10:27. > :10:33.Bobby's son. It must have been overwhelming for them to do the
:10:33. > :10:37.first read-through of the first day on set. Did they seem nervous?
:10:37. > :10:42.They say they work, but I don't think so. I never give advice. You
:10:42. > :10:47.can't give a kid advice. These are seasoned actors, they are not just
:10:47. > :10:51.coming in off the street. They have done this for a living for a long
:10:51. > :10:58.time. They have proved themselves. Did you snap straight back into
:10:58. > :11:04.that character? Of course. It was like coming home. Is there any part
:11:04. > :11:10.of you that thinks it was such a big success, maybe it was a mistake
:11:10. > :11:16.to bring it back? At my age, darling, it is worth the gamble.
:11:16. > :11:20.What have I got to lose? You can see Dallas on Channel 5 from early
:11:20. > :11:23.September. The now, time for some real-life drama as Mike Dilger
:11:23. > :11:30.investigates a dangerous beast that is popping up in parts of the
:11:30. > :11:36.country and causing havoc. Not as toxic as JR, but pretty troublesome
:11:36. > :11:41.nonetheless. In 2006, here in the leafy suburbs
:11:41. > :11:45.of west London, a mysterious alien outbreak had government agencies on
:11:45. > :11:50.high alert. 30 people from one estate near Kew began to suffer
:11:50. > :11:55.from a mysterious, itchy rash on exposed parts of their body,
:11:55. > :11:57.bloodshot eyes and some even had difficulty breathing. Richmond
:11:57. > :12:02.environmental health was immediately called in to
:12:02. > :12:06.investigate. At first, it was suspected to be biting mosquitoes,
:12:06. > :12:10.attractive to a nearby water plant. But this theory was quickly
:12:10. > :12:13.eliminated. Whilst looking for further clues in the surrounding
:12:13. > :12:17.environment, they discovered a strange coincidence. Damaged oak
:12:17. > :12:22.trees in the area were found to bear similarities to these photos
:12:22. > :12:24.taken in southern Europe, along with strange, nest-like are
:12:24. > :12:30.structures on the bark of the affected trees which were made by
:12:30. > :12:34.an unidentified organism. Local experts were stumped. The answer
:12:34. > :12:37.finally came when photos were sent to leading entomologist Martin
:12:37. > :12:42.Townsend, who identified the creatures as the non-native and
:12:42. > :12:45.highly toxic caterpillars of the Coke recessionary moth. The moth
:12:45. > :12:51.themselves are harmless, it is only the caterpillars that cause
:12:51. > :12:53.problems. It has a black band along the back. There are minute hairs a
:12:53. > :12:58.long but backbend which are like little barbs. They become detached
:12:58. > :13:02.and float in the air, causing a nasty rash, which can be persistent.
:13:02. > :13:07.Very rarely, it can cause a life- threatening condition. The moths
:13:07. > :13:11.were introduced to Britain absently with imported foreign oak trees,
:13:11. > :13:17.and since their discovery in west London, more nests have been found
:13:17. > :13:21.in Pangbourne, Sheffield and Leeds. One expert tried to stop the spread,
:13:21. > :13:25.Dr Mark Townshend. Can it be contained? I at the moment, with
:13:25. > :13:31.the level of resources being devoted to it, it will be hard to
:13:31. > :13:35.contain her. They are covering an area of 100 square kilometres now.
:13:35. > :13:39.It can be done, but it will be hard work. To remove the species from
:13:39. > :13:44.Britain entirely may prove impossible, but just as they do in
:13:44. > :13:48.Europe, UK councils are now eradicating nested trees as soon as
:13:48. > :13:52.they are spotted near populated areas. I am going to see how they
:13:52. > :13:56.do that here in healing. I can see the oak tree, but not the
:13:56. > :14:03.caterpillars. The fuel to the second branch across, follow it
:14:03. > :14:07.down. Underneath, you see the little ball? I can see it.
:14:07. > :14:11.Presumably, the caterpillars are abundant inside? To which the nest,
:14:11. > :14:15.we need a cherry picker, but first, I need to get dressed for the job.
:14:15. > :14:19.These suits are standard practice on the Continent, because exposures
:14:19. > :14:22.to the caterpillar's toxic hares can result in life-threatening
:14:22. > :14:28.anaphylactic shock, and the camera crew are not taking any chances
:14:28. > :14:32.either. In 2007, several soldiers were rushed to hospital after
:14:32. > :14:37.refusing to wear such protection. Thus clearing nests in southern
:14:37. > :14:43.Europe. This is the secret weapon, an industrial vacuum cleaner, used
:14:43. > :14:46.to remove asbestos fibres from old buildings. This will suck up not
:14:46. > :14:56.only the caterpillars and the nest, but any extra hairs flying around
:14:56. > :14:57.
:14:57. > :15:03.in the air. This must be the most unusual place I have ever used a
:15:03. > :15:08.vacuum cleaner. But vacuuming them up is not the end of the story. The
:15:08. > :15:11.only way to completely destroy the caterpillar's harmful toxins is to
:15:12. > :15:16.incinerate the contents of these vacuum cleaners, along with the
:15:16. > :15:20.suits we are wearing at over 600 degrees centigrade. Thankfully,
:15:20. > :15:25.there are now much stricter regulations on imported oak trees.
:15:25. > :15:29.Hopefully, no more caterpillars will be brought into Britain.
:15:29. > :15:39.Personally, I never like to see a species eradicated at the hands of
:15:39. > :15:41.
:15:41. > :15:48.man, but it is a health and safety You looked a bit like Ghost Busters.
:15:48. > :15:52.I was suited and booted. Those tiny hairs are serious business. As of
:15:53. > :15:57.recently, a new infestation has been found in Bromley and the nests
:15:57. > :16:01.are so numerous that they are trying to contain them. It is an
:16:01. > :16:04.ongoing problem. We about scaring the living daylights out of the
:16:04. > :16:12.people, they can approach caterpillars but these once you
:16:12. > :16:15.have got to watch out for them. the moment the youngsters are in
:16:15. > :16:21.the gregarious nests so if you see a lot of gregarious caterpillars in
:16:21. > :16:26.oak trees, let the environmental health know. Do they sting you?
:16:26. > :16:32.they have little tiny hairs that can fly off and get into your
:16:32. > :16:38.throat. Really? They are not the only thing giving the Forestry
:16:38. > :16:42.Commission a headache at the minute. The Asian longhorn beetle as of
:16:42. > :16:47.20th March 12 they recently found in Tunbridge Wells. It doesn't
:16:47. > :16:57.cause harm to humans. They were found coming from China in packing
:16:57. > :16:58.
:16:58. > :17:07.crates. They live in here for several years. It takes them a long
:17:07. > :17:17.time to turn into adults. This is the thing that causes the damage to
:17:17. > :17:24.
:17:24. > :17:32.the trees. Where is the mouth? chomps through the wood amount they
:17:32. > :17:40.caused so much damage that whole trees had to be chopped down within
:17:40. > :17:50.100 metres radius. They ended up with 65 trees which were found and
:17:50. > :17:50.
:17:50. > :17:58.they could end up, colonising Britain. Potentially they are still
:17:58. > :18:08.here. We don't want you to feel left out so we did get you a
:18:08. > :18:09.
:18:09. > :18:16.stetson as well. Larry might want to shape it. I met him before we
:18:16. > :18:26.came on and he put his hand out for a fist pomp and I shook it. I am so
:18:26. > :18:29.
:18:29. > :18:39.pathetic. The only one today! of people at home have got their
:18:39. > :18:39.
:18:39. > :18:47.stetsons out. This is Chris, and she went to the
:18:47. > :18:57.trouble of taking a photo of you and went upstairs wearing this top,
:18:57. > :18:57.
:18:57. > :19:02.rodeo queen 1978, unbelievable. This is Emily from Horsham. You are
:19:02. > :19:07.at an icon, Larry. Time now to celebrate the work of an inventor
:19:07. > :19:14.from Derby who went to extraordinary lengths to save lives.
:19:14. > :19:18.Over to Marty Jopson. Edgar Pask was called the bravest man in the
:19:18. > :19:23.RAF never to have flown an aeroplane. During World War Two he
:19:23. > :19:27.put his life on the line many times but his research led to the
:19:27. > :19:37.development of the modern life jacket and that has saved countless
:19:37. > :19:41.
:19:41. > :19:45.lives around the world. In the 1940s, Edgar Pask was investigating
:19:45. > :19:51.ways of improving the survival chances of aircrew who had baled
:19:51. > :19:56.out of their aeroplanes. This included coming into the sea to
:19:56. > :20:04.watch people being rescued. He was presented with a disturbing sight -
:20:04. > :20:08.men wearing life jackets, but face down in the water, dead. The fear
:20:08. > :20:11.was that they died not from injuries sustained in battle but
:20:11. > :20:17.because the life jackets they were wearing didn't keep their heads
:20:17. > :20:27.above water if they blacked out. Circumstances surrounding these
:20:27. > :20:27.
:20:27. > :20:32.deaths have to be handled carefully. He began his research, but there
:20:32. > :20:40.was a problem. Nobody had found an accurate way of testing how to do
:20:40. > :20:44.this in the 1940s. The reason being that imitating an unconscious
:20:45. > :20:48.person in water is impossible because the body will always
:20:48. > :20:53.automatically protect itself, giving on realistic results. He
:20:53. > :20:58.realised there was only one way to test how an unconscious body reacts
:20:58. > :21:03.when it is wearing a lifejacket, and that was to test it on an
:21:03. > :21:10.unconscious human being, and who better than himself? That was his
:21:10. > :21:16.Eureka moment. He became the guinea-pig for his own experiment,
:21:16. > :21:19.which these remarkable photographs show. He got dressed up in the full
:21:19. > :21:27.battle out for it and put whatever flotation device they were testing,
:21:27. > :21:33.then laid down at the side of the pool and was anaesthetised. Once
:21:33. > :21:38.out cold, he was set adrift in the pool. The only thing keeping him
:21:38. > :21:44.alive was the tune that fed him air and more anaesthetic to keep him
:21:44. > :21:51.knocked out. Sometimes he sank, sometimes flipped over, sometimes
:21:51. > :21:55.floated nicely. A very dangerous experiment to do. After every Test,
:21:55. > :22:00.Edgar Pask had to be hospitalised but this didn't put him off pushing
:22:00. > :22:05.things further. He in studios were already making propaganda films but
:22:05. > :22:11.he got them to contribute in a different way, by commandeering
:22:11. > :22:16.their wave tank. The model ships normally filmed being tossed around
:22:16. > :22:20.for high seas were replaced by a knocked out Edgar Pask. This is
:22:20. > :22:25.very rare footage of him in conditions you would find in the
:22:25. > :22:29.Channel. All of these experiments gave vital information about how
:22:29. > :22:34.life jacket of the altered so they always looked unconscious people on
:22:34. > :22:39.to their back. He had to play around with the buoyancy quite a
:22:39. > :22:44.lot, but one thing he found was the optimum place to put it allowed the
:22:44. > :22:50.body to rotate and float at about 45 degrees, allowing your airways
:22:50. > :22:55.to stay clear. By placing a crutch strap to keep the lifejacket in
:22:55. > :23:00.place actually allowed the lifejacket to rotate successfully.
:23:00. > :23:05.His pioneering work started the ball rolling for the life jackets
:23:05. > :23:15.we see all over the world today, including these ones worn by the
:23:15. > :23:15.
:23:15. > :23:22.RNLI. What better place to test it out than their centre in Poole.
:23:22. > :23:30.They can recreate a storm. Even in these high seas, I feel completely
:23:30. > :23:39.safe. This buoyancy device here keeps me off my back. If I turnover,
:23:39. > :23:43.it just pops me over again. It is all thanks to Edgar Pask. There is
:23:43. > :23:47.no doubt these experiments took their toll on his health, but by
:23:47. > :23:55.putting his life on the line for others, it allowed lifejackets
:23:55. > :24:00.today to save hundreds if not thousands of lives.
:24:00. > :24:03.That film was extraordinary. Next time you are on the aeroplane and
:24:04. > :24:10.watching them give the demonstration, think of Edgar Pask.
:24:10. > :24:14.We have mentioned how big Dallas was in 1980, so big that thousands
:24:14. > :24:20.of people entered a competition run by the BBC show Nationwide to send
:24:20. > :24:25.a family out to Southfork to meet the whole cast of Dallas. This is
:24:25. > :24:31.the story of how Nationwide followed her mother and daughter
:24:31. > :24:41.from Crewe and travelled them out to Texas. Leonora and Katie were
:24:41. > :24:46.
:24:46. > :24:50.stars from the moment they landed. Dallas, at last! Leonora was not
:24:50. > :24:55.just a secretary from an English town, she was a celebrity - they
:24:55. > :24:59.were fascinated by her. By the end of the first day, they could have
:24:59. > :25:09.been few of the citizens here who didn't know of the gun and trees
:25:09. > :25:26.
:25:26. > :25:32.from Crewe -- gallantries. Hello, it is charming to meet you. This is
:25:32. > :25:39.my daughter, Katie. Can I give you a little something, which is a very
:25:39. > :25:44.small token. It is a shilling, and English chilling. I hope you will
:25:44. > :25:49.keep that and sometimes remember me. I certainly will. It is something
:25:49. > :25:59.you don't dream will happen to you. We really are here, it is
:25:59. > :26:00.
:26:00. > :26:08.incredible. 32 years on, Leonora and daughter Katie are here! Nice
:26:08. > :26:18.to see you. There you are, old friends now. How good to see you.
:26:18. > :26:19.
:26:19. > :26:28.I'm bumping like that because I am strange. Or cool! That kind, did
:26:28. > :26:33.that go where the hats went? I hope not! For how did you feel seeing
:26:33. > :26:38.that because it was a long time ago? You yes, 32 years. Was a
:26:38. > :26:44.strange watching it back? Embarrassing. We will come back to
:26:44. > :26:49.that in a minute because the idea was to come up with a plot of what
:26:49. > :26:53.happened when JR got shot, so what was your idea? That nobody else did
:26:53. > :26:59.it, but in fact he was not really shot but he was wearing a bullet-
:26:59. > :27:06.proof vest and a corrupt policeman shot him, but of course he just
:27:06. > :27:12.fell down. He wasn't shot, he got better. That is pretty good. I was
:27:12. > :27:16.the only one... Everybody else said... For can they use that in
:27:16. > :27:22.the new series? You should be in the new series, you look great in
:27:22. > :27:28.that hat. Use four the competition, and then
:27:28. > :27:33.Katie you were dragged in to go with your mum. We still look a bit
:27:33. > :27:37.embarrassed by the whole thing. Was it traumatic? It was very
:27:37. > :27:47.overwhelming. People didn't get on aeroplanes and fly halfway across
:27:47. > :27:47.
:27:47. > :27:52.the world to meet stars and it was just a total shock. Were we
:27:52. > :27:58.everything you expected us to be? Be Go and better. Did you get
:27:58. > :28:05.sucked in with your whole life, Dallas, Leonora? It is a big place,
:28:05. > :28:10.Big Country, big people. Everything was so big for a midget like me.
:28:10. > :28:17.The must be over the moon it is coming back? Yes, we did know it
:28:17. > :28:20.was coming back. It is nice to have you both here. We have been asking
:28:20. > :28:24.people all night to send in pictures and we have had a lot. The
:28:24. > :28:29.most successful call out we have most successful call out we have
:28:29. > :28:35.ever done apparently. This is William from Norfolk.
:28:35. > :28:41.This is Samantha. This is Ali the sheriff from Twickenham. Owen from
:28:41. > :28:47.Liverpool, or is it Usain Bolt? For these were taken whilst watching
:28:47. > :28:52.the television. There is Robert in Glasgow. Nick from Crouch End in