Larry Hagman: To 'Dallas' and back again

Hagman, top right, joins his fellow 'Dallas' actors in a 1978 cast photo. (Back row, left to right: Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Hagman. Front row: Charlene Tilton, Jim Davis, and Linda Gray.)

The "who" in "whodunit" turned out to be Kristin Shepard, J.R.'s sister-in-law/mistress. But thanks to a Screen Actors Guild strike and Hagman's salary demands, viewers didn't find that out until November. But the answer was apparently worth the wait: 80 million people watched.

Hagman runs his lines by some hogs in Parker, Texas, while prepping for a scene in a 1996 'Dallas' reunion.

In 1997, Hagman tried working with a different kind of hog in the short-lived series 'Orleans.'

The Ewings kept squabbling even after 'Dallas' went off the air in 1991. Here, Hagman and Linda Gray, who played his first wife, Sue Ellen, pose while shooting the 1998 TV movie 'Battle of the Ewings.'

The Ewing boys (Hagman and Patrick Duffy) pose for a photo during 2004's 'Dallas Reunion: Return to South Fork.'

Why should David Hasselhoff have all the fun?: In 2008, Hagman traded his 10-gallon hat for some lederhosen to better fit in at Oktoberfest in Munich.

In 2006, Hagman signed on for a guest-star role on FX's then-hot plastic surgery drama 'Nip/Tuck.' He played an ailing, elderly man married to a much younger wife (Sanaa Lathan).

Hagman checks in on the 'Dallas'homestead, Southfork Ranch, in October 2008.

In 2010, TNT announced it was bringing 'Dallas'back to TV, focusing on the younger generations of the Ewing clan. The new version premiered on June 13, 2012. Josh Henderson, left, plays John Ross Ewing III, son of J.R. and Sue Ellen.

In June 2012, TNT renewed 'Dallas' for a second season that begins in January. Six episodes had been shot by the time of Hagman's death.

Hagman also starred in the television sit-com 'I Dream of Jeannie.' Hagman portrayed an astronaut whose life takes a strange turn when he finds a genie, portrayed by Barbara Eden, in a bottle.

In this June 4, 1965 photo cameraman Sam Rosen, left, and director Gero Nelson guide Hagman, as he emerges from a mockup of the Apollo space vehicle, filming at North American Aviation's Space Division in Downey, Calif.

In 1969 's season five of 'I Dream of Jeannie' Hagman's Major Tony Nelson and Eden's genie, Jeannie, were wed.

Hagman and Eden teamed up in March, 2006 to sign copies of the newly-released first season DVD of their television show at a bookstore in New York.

In Dec. 1985 Hagman played Santa Claus at the White House and received a kiss from first lady Nancy Reagan for his efforts.

Hagman portrayed 'Buck,' interpreting Russian for the President, played by Henry Fonda, in the 1964 political thriller 'Fail Safe.'

In July, 2004 Hagman bared his chest to show off his scar from his liver transplant surgery at the opening ceremonies of the 2004 U.S. Transplant Games in Minneapolis, Minn. He had previously battled cirrhosis of the liver as a result of heavy drinking, which led to a liver transplant in 1995.