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...The return of Ian McDiarmid’s camply cackling Emperor (last seen exploding three episodes ago) is the most spurious Lazarus-like comeback since Bobby Ewing reappeared in the shower in Dallas....
...religiously than Top of the Pops were Crossroads, set in a modest Midlands motel run by the ever-reasonable Meg Richardson, and Dallas, set in an immodest Texas ranch owned by the ever-unreasonable oilman JR Ewing...
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