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Dallas really had a lot of nerve with its season 9 finale — and it even disgruntled some of the show's own stars.

In the now-infamous 1986 episode, the prime-time CBS soap resurrected Patrick Duffy's character, Bobby Ewing, who had been killed off at the end of the prior season, and retconned season 9 as a lengthy dream of Ewing's wife, Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal).

The decision not only incensed viewers, it also upset some of the cast members whose storylines were rendered completely invalid.

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"It was about a 10 percent audience loss, at least from that, because people were offended to see the [death] storyline just tossed," Steve Kanaly, who played Ray Krebbs, told PEOPLE during a recent reunion ahead of the show's 45th anniversary in September.

"I don't want to mention them, but various cast members were pissed because their storylines were lost as a result of that," Kanaly added. "And it had a big impact."

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