Correction: I am one of the certified Olde Pharts around here, and Dallas was AFTER my time, not before or during. By the time J.R. and company took over the airwaves, I had already mostly quit watching television.
I basically have not watched television regularly since 1972/1973 when I left home. For one thing, I didn't have one, and for the other too busy living with my own real life to bother with other people's nonsense.
A couple short periods I have stayed somewhere that had a TV on a lot, and around the time of the first Gulf War we got given a TV and stuck to it following news for a while. When they put on an ad for a violent and sex filled show to be aired later that night, in the middle of a Sunday afternoon showing of "Sound of Music" that we were watching with our kids, it got put away for good.
Then there have been a couple lonely stretches in hotel rooms working out of state, where I got to sample all the crap that we haven't been missing. I did get hooked on "Castle" because of NF (firefly) and the concept of a writer's imagination solving crimes. We have it all on DVD except the last season.
Ladypine found out about and ordered a DVD for the Canadian series "Heartland" of which we have watched three episodes and it seems promising. Grandpa "Jack" is pretty much me
So ... yeah - I only know "JR" from hearsay, but I remember him from "I Dream of Jeannie"
