David Jacobs, who more than anyone invented the modern prime-time soap opera when he created “Dallas,” the long-running CBS series about an amoral oil baron and his feuding family, and followed it a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Jacobs, the writer and producer who changed the face of television in the 1980s by creating the primetime soap operas Dallas ...

David Jacobs We will dearly miss David Jacobs’ uniqueness, generosity, vitality and humor who passed from this life on January 14, 2012. Born March 29, 1923 in San Francisco to Ralph and Lena Jacobs, ...

TV creator David Jacobs, best known as the brains behind “Dallas” and spinoff “Knots Landing,” died on Sunday in Burbank, California. He was 84. The Baltimore-born writer-producer passed away just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported the story, Jacobs died after a years-long fight against Alzheimer’s and ...

TV writer David Jacobs, who created the classic primetime soap Dallas as well as its long-running spinoff Knots Landing, has died at the age of 84. Jacobs died on Sunday of complications from a series ...