Who Shot R. R. Ewingsky?

The Russians, we learn, are green with envy over the success of Dallas and are filming a rival series of their own. Our correspondent in Moscow previewed a few sequences and sent back the following report.

The Russian series Siberia might have a fair chance of equaling Dallas if it weren’t for some ambiguities in the program arising out of the Communist system itself. The show depicts the activities of the Ewingsky family, a powerful clan of bureaucrats who live in a luxurious dacha (country house) and spend their time lying, cheating, and betraying one another. This premise, however, was evidently too much for the Censor, whose hand lies heavily upon the show. In the opening sequence, for instance, R. R. Ewingsky, the reprehensible elder son, is conversing with his wife, Suya Ellenovna.

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The Russians, we learn, are green with envy over the success of Dallas and are filming a rival series of their own. Our correspondent in Moscow previewed a few sequences and sent back the following report.

The Russian series Siberia might have a fair chance of equaling Dallas if it weren’t for some ambiguities in the program arising out of the Communist system itself. The show depicts the activities of the Ewingsky family, a powerful clan of bureaucrats who live in a luxurious dacha (country house) and spend their time lying, cheating, and betraying one another. This premise, however, was evidently too much for the Censor, whose hand lies heavily upon the show. In the opening sequence, for instance, R. R. Ewingsky, the reprehensible elder son, is conversing with his wife, Suya Ellenovna.