JR Ewing has returned to Dallas.
With Larry Hagman reprising his role as the conniving Texas oilman, filming is under way at locations all over the city for TNT's new television series Dallas, which will also see the return of Patrick Duffy as JR.'s brother Bobby and Linda Gray as ex-wife Sue Ellen, along with a new generation of Ewings.
And, of course, the spotlight also returns to the city itself, with its distinctive skyline rising from the prairie.
"We're trying to give the show a real sense of place and Dallas has a real personality," said location manager John Patterson. "It's a city that does things in a big way. That's part of JR and part of what we try to give the show - a sense of the city, which is big, very well done, shiny, new and looking towards the future."
TNT has ordered 10 episodes of the series, to be shown next summer. Filming for the series, shot entirely in Dallas, began in mid-October and is expected to wrap in late January.
"There was just no way we were going to film anywhere else," said executive producer Cynthia Cidre, who also wrote the pilot for the new series, a "mix of the old world and the new world".
The original series, shown from 1978 to 1991, enjoyed popularity around the world as viewers tuned in to watch the scheming Ewing family. As the plot twisted and turned season after season, the series contributed to some of TV's most memorable moments.
After Bobby died in a season cliffhanger in 1985 after being hit by a car, the entire next season was revealed to have been a prolonged dream sequence when his former wife, with whom he had reconciled, wakes up to find him alive, taking a shower. The 1986-87 season then marked Duffy's return to the cast after a year-long absence.
And, of course there was the cliffhanger in 1980 that left the whole world in suspense. The catchphrase "Who shot JR?" became part of the common vernacular as viewers waited to find out who had fired on JR.
When viewers tuned in for the answer on November 21, 1980, the shooter was revealed to be JR's vengeful mistress, who was also his sister-in-law. That episode was seen by more people than any TV programme in history until then.
"That phrase. I don't think there's a country in this world that you could find someone who doesn't know what that is. And it all goes back to Dallas," said Josh Henderson, who plays JR and Sue Ellen's son, John Ross.
Henderson, who was born in Dallas and spent part of his childhood there, said that working with Hagman had been a little surreal.
"I find myself sometimes just looking at him sometimes going, 'Wow, this is really happening. This is really Dallas again and I'm really kind of family and kin to the JR," he said.
Hagman, who said returning to Dallas to film the legendary show again had been like "coming home", says that this time the plots are even more complicated.
"Everybody's double-dealing here. I mean everybody," he said.
Hagman, who was 80 in September, announced in October that he had been diagnosed with "a very common and treatable form" of cancer and planned to continue working on the reboot of Dallas. He underwent a liver transplant in the mid-1990s.
"As JR I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer," he said at the time. "As we all know, you can't keep JR down!"
Filming a scene this autumn, it is apparent that JR has lost none of his swagger. After striding into a sleekly-designed Dallas home in his Western blazer and cowboy boots, he sits down and begins deal-making.
"The best way to understand a man is to talk to his friends and his enemies," JR says. "My friends are in the statehouse. My enemies are going to be harder to find."
The actors rounding out the new generation are Jesse Metcalfe as Bobby's adopted son, Christopher Ewing; Julie Gonzalo as Christopher's fiancee, Rebecca Sutter; and Jordana Brewster as Elena Ramos, daughter of the cook at the Ewing family's Southfork Ranch who grew up to become a geologist and is John Ross' girlfriend and the former love of Christopher.