The TNN run actually started in the summer of 1996. I graduated high school that year and I remember big ads in SOD with the 70's cast photo stating " Southfork Opens It's Gates Again on TNN". I tuned in and watched the entire run. Yes, the episodes were heavily edited and sometimes you could tell they were sped up as they looked jittery and time compressed. Also, that same year CBS did the reunion " J.R. Returns".
TNN became defunct by the end of the 90's. Gaylord hired a CEO that dismantled Opryland theme park and shut down TNN which operated from there. After he was canned the new CEO was like " What the heck was that guy thinking". Much like Eddie Lampert dismantled Kmart & Sears by getting rid of Marthat Stewart, Jaclyn Smith, and Bob Vila.
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