Dallas, episode four, Channel 5, review Back in the Eighties, Dallas (Channel 5) had some era-defining moments of its own, albeit in a glossier, trashier and decidedly more tongue-in-cheek way. Yet love, greed and the desperate quest for status were just as much the propellant for its torrid tales - and continue to be in the current, surprisingly entertaining revival. Last night's fourth episode saw Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and family packing up Southfork as they prepared to leave, still blissfully unaware that his oil-mad brother JR (Larry Hagman) was behind the fake "conservancy" he'd sold out to under the illusion that the ranch would stay forever a Texan demi-paradise where no oil-drilling would take place. There were a dizzying number of other sub-plots and storylines swirling around, mostly to do with the scarily interwoven sex lives of the younger Ewings. But most of the fun still focused on the endless dynastic struggle for control of Southfork. Not content with making billions from betraying Bobby, JR - thankfully now restored from clinical depression to his old, reliably evil, self - was blackmailing all around him, as much for the sake of mischief-making as anything else, it seemed. "Man, I hope I'm never on the wrong side of that smile," said his henchman Burn (Kevin Page), as JR plotted gleefully to cut his own son, John Ross (Josh Henderson) out of the deal. A quarter of a century on, that malicious twinkle in JR's eye has lost none of its power to entertain.