S09E26: Nothing's Ever Perfect
Having managed to regain control of Ewing Oil, J.R. sets his sights on Sue Ellen. Ray and Donna begin adoption procedures. Angelica makes plans to get revenge.
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Season 1
Digger's Daughter
S1E1 / 02 Apr 1978
The Lesson
S1E2 / 09 Apr 1978
Spy in the House
S1E3 / 16 Apr 1978
Winds of Vengeance
S1E4 / 23 Apr 1978
Barbecue
S1E5 / 30 Apr 1978
Season 2
Reunion (1)
S2E1 / 23 Sep 1978
Reunion (2)
S2E2 / 30 Sep 1978
Old Acquaintance
S2E3 / 07 Oct 1978
Bypass
S2E4 / 14 Oct 1978
Black Market Baby
S2E5 / 15 Oct 1978
Double Wedding
S2E6 / 21 Oct 1978
Runaway
S2E7 / 28 Oct 1978
Election
S2E8 / 05 Nov 1978
Survival
S2E9 / 12 Nov 1978
Act of Love
S2E10 / 19 Nov 1978
Triangle
S2E11 / 26 Nov 1978
Fallen Idol
S2E12 / 03 Dec 1978
Kidnapped
S2E13 / 17 Dec 1978
Home Again
S2E14 / 07 Jan 1979
For Love or Money
S2E15 / 14 Jan 1979
Julie's Return
S2E16 / 26 Jan 1979
The Red File (1)
S2E17 / 02 Feb 1979
The Red File (2)
S2E18 / 09 Feb 1979
Sue Ellen's Sister
S2E19 / 16 Feb 1979
Call Girl
S2E20 / 23 Feb 1979
Royal Marriage
S2E21 / 09 Mar 1979
The Outsiders
S2E22 / 16 Mar 1979
John Ewing III (1)
S2E23 / 23 Mar 1979
John Ewing III (2)
S2E24 / 06 Apr 1979
Season 3
Whatever Happened to Baby John? (1)
S3E1 / 21 Sep 1979
Whatever Happened to Baby John? (2)
S3E2 / 28 Sep 1979
The Silent Killer
S3E3 / 05 Oct 1979
Secrets
S3E4 / 12 Oct 1979
The Kristin Affair
S3E5 / 19 Oct 1979
The Dove Hunt
S3E6 / 26 Oct 1979
The Lost Child
S3E7 / 02 Nov 1979
Rodeo
S3E8 / 09 Nov 1979
Mastectomy (1)
S3E9 / 16 Nov 1979
Mastectomy (2)
S3E10 / 16 Nov 1979
The Heiress
S3E11 / 23 Nov 1979
Ellie Saves the Day
S3E12 / 30 Nov 1979
Mother of the Year
S3E13 / 14 Dec 1979
Return Engagements
S3E14 / 20 Dec 1979
Love and Marriage
S3E15 / 21 Dec 1979
Power Play
S3E16 / 04 Jan 1980
Paternity Suit
S3E17 / 11 Jan 1980
Jenna's Return
S3E18 / 18 Jan 1980
Sue Ellen's Choice
S3E19 / 01 Feb 1980
Second Thoughts
S3E20 / 08 Feb 1980
Divorce - Ewing Style
S3E21 / 15 Feb 1980
Jock's Trial (1)
S3E22 / 22 Feb 1980
Jock's Trial (2)
S3E23 / 29 Feb 1980
The Wheeler Dealer
S3E24 / 14 Mar 1980
A House Divided
S3E25 / 21 Mar 1980
Season 4
No More Mister Nice Guy (1)
S4E1 / 07 Nov 1980
No More Mister Nice Guy (2)
S4E2 / 09 Nov 1980
Nightmare
S4E3 / 14 Nov 1980
Who Done It?
S4E4 / 21 Nov 1980
Taste of Success
S4E5 / 28 Nov 1980
The Venezuelan Connection
S4E6 / 05 Dec 1980
The Fourth Son
S4E7 / 12 Dec 1980
Trouble at Ewing 23
S4E8 / 19 Dec 1980
The Prodigal Mother
S4E9 / 02 Jan 1981
Executive Wife
S4E10 / 09 Jan 1981
End of the Road (1)
S4E11 / 16 Jan 1981
End of the Road (2)
S4E12 / 23 Jan 1981
Making of a President
S4E13 / 30 Jan 1981
Start the Revolution With Me
S4E14 / 06 Feb 1981
The Quest
S4E15 / 13 Feb 1981
Lover, Come Back
S4E16 / 20 Feb 1981
The New Mrs. Ewing
S4E17 / 27 Feb 1981
Mark of Cain
S4E18 / 13 Mar 1981
The Gathering Storm
S4E19 / 27 Mar 1981
Ewing vs. Ewing
S4E20 / 03 Apr 1981
New Beginnings
S4E21 / 10 Apr 1981
Full Circle
S4E22 / 17 Apr 1981
Ewing-Gate
S4E23 / 01 May 1981
Season 5
Missing Heir
S5E1 / 09 Oct 1981
Gone, But Not Forgotten
S5E2 / 16 Oct 1981
Showdown at San Angelo
S5E3 / 23 Oct 1981
Little Boy Lost
S5E4 / 30 Oct 1981
The Sweet Smell of Revenge
S5E5 / 06 Nov 1981
The Big Shut Down
S5E6 / 13 Nov 1981
Blocked
S5E7 / 20 Nov 1981
The Split
S5E8 / 27 Nov 1981
Five Dollars a Barrel
S5E9 / 04 Dec 1981
Starting Over
S5E10 / 11 Dec 1981
Waterloo at Southfork
S5E11 / 18 Dec 1981
Barbecue Two
S5E12 / 01 Jan 1982
The Search
S5E13 / 08 Jan 1982
Denial
S5E14 / 15 Jan 1982
Head of the Family
S5E15 / 22 Jan 1982
The Phoenix
S5E16 / 29 Jan 1982
My Father, My Son
S5E17 / 05 Feb 1982
Anniversary
S5E18 / 12 Feb 1982
Adoption
S5E19 / 19 Feb 1982
The Maelstrom
S5E20 / 26 Feb 1982
The Prodigal
S5E21 / 05 Mar 1982
Vengeance
S5E22 / 12 Mar 1982
Blackmail
S5E23 / 19 Mar 1982
The Investigation
S5E24 / 26 Mar 1982
Acceptance
S5E25 / 02 Apr 1982
Goodbye, Cliff Barnes
S5E26 / 09 Apr 1982
Season 6
Changing of the Guard
S6E1 / 01 Oct 1982
Where There's a Will
S6E2 / 08 Oct 1982
Billion Dollar Question
S6E3 / 15 Oct 1982
The Big Ball
S6E4 / 22 Oct 1982
Jock's Will
S6E5 / 29 Oct 1982
Aftermath
S6E6 / 05 Nov 1982
Hit and Run
S6E7 / 12 Nov 1982
The Ewing Touch
S6E8 / 19 Nov 1982
Fringe Benefits
S6E9 / 26 Nov 1982
The Wedding
S6E10 / 03 Dec 1982
Post Nuptial
S6E11 / 10 Dec 1982
Barbecue Three
S6E12 / 17 Dec 1982
Mama Dearest
S6E13 / 31 Dec 1982
The Ewing Blues
S6E14 / 07 Jan 1983
The Reckoning
S6E15 / 14 Jan 1983
A Ewing is a Ewing
S6E16 / 28 Jan 1983
Crash of '83
S6E17 / 04 Feb 1983
Requiem
S6E18 / 11 Feb 1983
Legacy
S6E19 / 18 Feb 1983
Brothers and Sisters
S6E20 / 25 Feb 1983
Caribbean Connection
S6E21 / 04 Mar 1983
The Sting
S6E22 / 11 Mar 1983
Hell Hath No Fury
S6E23 / 18 Mar 1983
Cuba Libre
S6E24 / 25 Mar 1983
Tangled Web
S6E25 / 01 Apr 1983
Things Ain't Goin' Too Good at Southfork
S6E26 / 15 Apr 1983
Penultimate
S6E27 / 29 Apr 1983
Ewing Inferno
S6E28 / 06 May 1983
Season 7
The Road Back
S7E1 / 30 Sep 1983
The Long Goodbye
S7E2 / 07 Oct 1983
The Letter
S7E3 / 14 Oct 1983
My Brother's Keeper
S7E4 / 21 Oct 1983
The Quality of Mercy
S7E5 / 28 Oct 1983
Check and Mate
S7E6 / 04 Nov 1983
Ray's Trial
S7E7 / 11 Nov 1983
The Oil Baron's Ball
S7E8 / 18 Nov 1983
Morning After
S7E9 / 25 Nov 1983
The Buck Stops Here
S7E10 / 02 Dec 1983
To Catch a Sly
S7E11 / 09 Dec 1983
Barbecue Four
S7E12 / 16 Dec 1983
Past Imperfect
S7E13 / 23 Dec 1983
Peter's Principles
S7E14 / 06 Jan 1984
Offshore Crude
S7E15 / 13 Jan 1984
Some Do… Some Don't
S7E16 / 20 Jan 1984
Eye of the Beholder
S7E17 / 27 Jan 1984
Twelve Mile Limit
S7E18 / 03 Feb 1984
Where is Poppa?
S7E19 / 10 Feb 1984
When the Bough Breaks
S7E20 / 17 Feb 1984
True Confessions
S7E21 / 24 Feb 1984
And the Winner Is...
S7E22 / 02 Mar 1984
Fools Rush In
S7E23 / 09 Mar 1984
The Unexpected
S7E24 / 16 Mar 1984
Strange Alliance
S7E25 / 23 Mar 1984
Blow Up
S7E26 / 06 Apr 1984
Turning Point
S7E27 / 13 Apr 1984
Love Stories
S7E28 / 04 May 1984
Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie
S7E29 / 11 May 1984
End Game
S7E30 / 18 May 1984
Season 8
Killer at Large
S8E1 / 28 Sep 1984
Battle Lines
S8E2 / 05 Oct 1984
If at First You Don't Succeed
S8E3 / 12 Oct 1984
Jamie
S8E4 / 19 Oct 1984
Family
S8E5 / 26 Oct 1984
Shadow of a Doubt
S8E6 / 02 Nov 1984
Homecoming
S8E7 / 09 Nov 1984
Oil Baron's Ball III
S8E8 / 16 Nov 1984
Shadows
S8E9 / 23 Nov 1984
Charlie
S8E10 / 30 Nov 1984
Barbecue Five
S8E11 / 07 Dec 1984
Do You Take This Woman…
S8E12 / 14 Dec 1984
Deja Vu
S8E13 / 21 Dec 1984
Odd Man Out
S8E14 / 28 Dec 1984
Lockup in Laredo
S8E15 / 04 Jan 1985
Winds of War
S8E16 / 11 Jan 1985
Bail Out
S8E17 / 25 Jan 1985
Legacy of Hate
S8E18 / 01 Feb 1985
Sins of the Fathers
S8E19 / 08 Feb 1985
The Brothers Ewing
S8E20 / 15 Feb 1985
Shattered Dreams
S8E21 / 22 Feb 1985
Dead Ends
S8E22 / 01 Mar 1985
Trial and Error
S8E23 / 08 Mar 1985
The Verdict
S8E24 / 15 Mar 1985
Sentences
S8E25 / 29 Mar 1985
Terms of Estrangement
S8E26 / 12 Apr 1985
The Ewing Connection
S8E27 / 19 Apr 1985
Deeds and Misdeeds
S8E28 / 03 May 1985
Deliverance
S8E29 / 10 May 1985
Swan Song
S8E30 / 17 May 1985
Season 9
The Family Ewing
S9E1 / 27 Sep 1985
Rock Bottom
S9E2 / 27 Sep 1985
Those Eyes
S9E3 / 04 Oct 1985
Resurrection
S9E4 / 11 Oct 1985
Saving Grace
S9E5 / 18 Oct 1985
Mothers
S9E6 / 25 Oct 1985
The Wind of Change
S9E7 / 01 Nov 1985
Quandary
S9E8 / 08 Nov 1985
Close Encounters
S9E9 / 15 Nov 1985
Suffer the Little Children
S9E10 / 22 Nov 1985
The Prize
S9E11 / 29 Nov 1985
En Passant
S9E12 / 06 Dec 1985
Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
S9E13 / 13 Dec 1985
Curiosity Killed the Cat
S9E14 / 20 Dec 1985
The Missing Link
S9E15 / 03 Jan 1986
Twenty-Four Hours
S9E16 / 10 Jan 1986
The Deadly Game
S9E17 / 17 Jan 1986
Blame it on Bogota
S9E18 / 24 Jan 1986
Shadow Games
S9E19 / 31 Jan 1986
Missing
S9E20 / 07 Feb 1986
Dire Straits
S9E21 / 14 Feb 1986
Overture
S9E22 / 21 Feb 1986
Sitting Ducks
S9E23 / 28 Feb 1986
Masquerade
S9E24 / 07 Mar 1986
Just Desserts
S9E25 / 14 Mar 1986
Nothing's Ever Perfect
S9E26 / 21 Mar 1986
J.R. Rising
S9E27 / 04 Apr 1986
Serendipity
S9E28 / 11 Apr 1986
Thrice in a Lifetime
S9E29 / 02 May 1986
Hello, Goodbye, Hello
S9E30 / 09 May 1986
Blast from the Past
S9E31 / 16 May 1986
Season 10
Return to Camelot (1)
S10E1 / 26 Sep 1986
Return to Camelot (2)
S10E2 / 26 Sep 1986
Pari Per Sue
S10E3 / 03 Oct 1986
Once and Future King
S10E4 / 10 Oct 1986
Enigma
S10E5 / 17 Oct 1986
Trompe L'Oeil
S10E6 / 24 Oct 1986
Territorial Imperative
S10E7 / 31 Oct 1986
The Second Time Around
S10E8 / 07 Nov 1986
Bells Are Ringing
S10E9 / 14 Nov 1986
Who's Who at the Oil Baron's Ball?
S10E10 / 21 Nov 1986
Proof Positive
S10E11 / 28 Nov 1986
Something Old, Something New
S10E12 / 05 Dec 1986
Bar-B-Cued
S10E13 / 12 Dec 1986
The Fire Next Time
S10E14 / 19 Dec 1986
So Shall Ye Reap
S10E15 / 02 Jan 1987
Tick, Tock
S10E16 / 09 Jan 1987
Night Visitor
S10E17 / 23 Jan 1987
Cat and Mouse
S10E18 / 30 Jan 1987
High Noon for Calhoun
S10E19 / 06 Feb 1987
Olio
S10E20 / 13 Feb 1987
A Death in the Family
S10E21 / 20 Feb 1987
Revenge of the Nerd
S10E22 / 27 Feb 1987
The Ten Percent Solution
S10E23 / 13 Mar 1987
Some Good, Some Bad
S10E24 / 20 Mar 1987
War and Peace
S10E25 / 03 Apr 1987
Ruthless People
S10E26 / 10 Apr 1987
The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
S10E27 / 01 May 1987
Two-Fifty
S10E28 / 08 May 1987
Fall of the House of Ewing
S10E29 / 15 May 1987
Season 11
After the Fall: Ewing Rise
S11E1 / 25 Sep 1987
After the Fall: Digger Redux
S11E2 / 25 Sep 1987
The Son Also Rises
S11E3 / 02 Oct 1987
Gone with the Wind
S11E4 / 09 Oct 1987
The Lady Vanishes
S11E5 / 16 Oct 1987
Tough Love
S11E6 / 23 Oct 1987
Last Tango in Dallas
S11E7 / 30 Oct 1987
Mummy's Revenge
S11E8 / 06 Nov 1987
Hustling
S11E9 / 13 Nov 1987
Bedtime Stories
S11E10 / 20 Nov 1987
Lovers and Other Liars
S11E11 / 27 Nov 1987
Brothers and Sons
S11E12 / 04 Dec 1987
Brother, Can You Spare a Child?
S11E13 / 11 Dec 1987
Daddy's Little Darlin'
S11E14 / 18 Dec 1987
It's Me Again
S11E15 / 08 Jan 1988
Marriage on the Rocks
S11E16 / 15 Jan 1988
Anniversary Waltz
S11E17 / 22 Jan 1988
Brotherly Love
S11E18 / 05 Feb 1988
The Best Laid Plans
S11E19 / 12 Feb 1988
Farlow's Follies
S11E20 / 19 Feb 1988
Malice in Dallas
S11E21 / 26 Feb 1988
Crime Story
S11E22 / 04 Mar 1988
To Have and to Hold
S11E23 / 11 Mar 1988
Dead Reckoning
S11E24 / 18 Mar 1988
Never Say Never
S11E25 / 01 Apr 1988
Last of the Good Guys
S11E26 / 08 Apr 1988
Top Gun
S11E27 / 15 Apr 1988
Pillow Talk
S11E28 / 29 Apr 1988
Things Ain't Goin' So Good at Southfork, Again
S11E29 / 06 May 1988
The Fat Lady Singeth
S11E30 / 13 May 1988
Season 12
Carousel
S12E1 / 28 Oct 1988
No Greater Love
S12E2 / 04 Nov 1988
The Call of the Wild
S12E3 / 11 Nov 1988
Out of the Frying Pan
S12E4 / 18 Nov 1988
Road Work
S12E5 / 02 Dec 1988
War and Love and the Whole Damned Thing
S12E6 / 09 Dec 1988
Showdown at the Ewing Corral
S12E7 / 16 Dec 1988
Deception
S12E8 / 06 Jan 1989
Counter Attack
S12E9 / 13 Jan 1989
The Sting
S12E10 / 20 Jan 1989
The Two Mrs. Ewings
S12E11 / 27 Jan 1989
The Switch
S12E12 / 03 Feb 1989
He-e-ere's Papa!
S12E13 / 10 Feb 1989
Comings and Goings
S12E14 / 17 Feb 1989
Country Girl
S12E15 / 24 Feb 1989
Wedding Bell Blues
S12E16 / 24 Feb 1989
The Way We Were
S12E17 / 03 Mar 1989
The Serpent's Tooth
S12E18 / 10 Mar 1989
Three Hundred
S12E19 / 17 Mar 1989
April Showers
S12E20 / 31 Mar 1989
And Away We Go!
S12E21 / 07 Apr 1989
Yellow Brick Road
S12E22 / 14 Apr 1989
The Sound of Money
S12E23 / 28 Apr 1989
The Great Texas Waltz
S12E24 / 05 May 1989
Mission to Moscow
S12E25 / 12 May 1989
Reel Life
S12E26 / 19 May 1989
Season 13
Phantom of the Oil Rig
S13E1 / 22 Sep 1989
The Leopard's Spots
S13E2 / 22 Sep 1989
Cry Me a River of Oil
S13E3 / 29 Sep 1989
Ka-Booooom!
S13E4 / 06 Oct 1989
Sunrise, Sunset
S13E5 / 13 Oct 1989
Pride and Prejudice
S13E6 / 20 Oct 1989
Fathers and Other Strangers
S13E7 / 03 Nov 1989
Black Tide
S13E8 / 10 Nov 1989
Daddy Dearest
S13E9 / 17 Nov 1989
Hell's Fury
S13E10 / 01 Dec 1989
Cally on a Hot Tin Roof
S13E11 / 08 Dec 1989
Sex, Lies and Videotape
S13E12 / 15 Dec 1989
Tale of Two Cities
S13E13 / 05 Jan 1990
Judgment Day
S13E14 / 12 Jan 1990
Unchain My Heart
S13E15 / 19 Jan 1990
I Dream of Jeannie
S13E16 / 02 Feb 1990
After Midnight
S13E17 / 09 Feb 1990
The Crucible
S13E18 / 16 Feb 1990
Dear Hearts and Gentle People
S13E19 / 23 Feb 1990
Paradise Lost
S13E20 / 09 Mar 1990
Will Power
S13E21 / 16 Mar 1990
The Smiling Cobra
S13E22 / 30 Mar 1990
Jessica Redux
S13E23 / 06 Apr 1990
Family Plot
S13E24 / 13 Apr 1990
The Southfork Wedding Jinx
S13E25 / 27 Apr 1990
Three, Three, Three (1)
S13E26 / 04 May 1990
Three, Three, Three (2)
S13E27 / 11 May 1990
Season 14
April in Paris
S14E1 / 02 Nov 1990
Charade
S14E2 / 09 Nov 1990
One Last Kiss
S14E3 / 16 Nov 1990
Terminus
S14E4 / 23 Nov 1990
Tunnel of Love
S14E5 / 30 Nov 1990
Heart and Soul
S14E6 / 07 Dec 1990
The Fabulous Ewing Boys
S14E7 / 14 Dec 1990
The Odessa File
S14E8 / 21 Dec 1990
Sail On
S14E9 / 04 Jan 1991
Lock, Stock and Jock
S14E10 / 11 Jan 1991
S is for Seduction
S14E11 / 18 Jan 1991
Designing Women
S14E12 / 01 Feb 1991
90265
S14E13 / 08 Feb 1991
Smooth Operator
S14E14 / 15 Feb 1991
Win Some, Lose Some
S14E15 / 01 Mar 1991
Fathers and Sons and Fathers and Sons
S14E16 / 08 Mar 1991
When the Wind Blows
S14E17 / 29 Mar 1991
Those Darned Ewings
S14E18 / 05 Apr 1991
Farewell, My Lovely
S14E19 / 12 Apr 1991
Some Leave, Some Get Carried Out
S14E20 / 19 Apr 1991
The Decline and Fall of the Ewing Empire
S14E21 / 26 Apr 1991
Conundrum (1)
S14E22 / 03 May 1991
Conundrum (2)
S14E23 / 03 May 1991
Patrick Duffy
Bobby Ewing
Kimberly Foster
Michelle Stevens Ewing
Larry Hagman
J.R. Ewing
