Dallas stars to reunite for party

Larry Hagman played JR in the series

Cast members of TV show Dallas are to return to the Southfork Ranch to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Stars including Larry Hagman, Linda Gray and Patrick Duffy, have confirmed they will attend the reunion, which will be held in November.

The event will be open to the public, with a cast question-and-answer session and tours of the mansion.

Hagman, 76, who played central character JR Ewing, said he was looking forward to the event.

"I may not be able to do the 40th," said Hagman in an interview with the Dallas Morning News.

"Thirty years is pretty good, and the show is still very popular."

Tickets will go on sale on 22 August and will cost between $100 (£53) and $1,000 (£533).

Scheming

Dallas featured the antics of a wealthy Texas family that, amongst other things, drank and schemed to gain control of the family fortune.

However the reunion promises to be tamer.

"Larry and I will have a bowl of Mueslix and a small shot of prune juice and be in bed by nine o'clock," Duffy, who played Bobby Ewing, told the newspaper.

"We'll let people file by the bed and watch us go to sleep. I think we can hang with the best of them until midnight."

The series ran from 1978 to 1991 and was shown on BBC One in the UK.

A film version of the show is currently in production with John Travolta as JR and Shirley MacLaine as matriarch Miss Ellie.