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, the creator of the hit TV show Dallas, has died at the age of 84. The influential writer and producer was also known for creating the US soap opera Knots Landing. Jacobs’s son Aaron ...

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 ...

David Jacobs, the creator of CBS primetime series “Knots Landing,” “Dallas” and “Paradise,” has died. He was 84. Jacobs, who battled Alzheimer’s for several years, died Sunday at Providence Saint ...

The writer and producer was best known for the aforementioned primetime soap operas, which went on to air a combined 700 episodes between the shows. Dallas was the first of the two, first debuting in ...

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 ...

David Jacobs, who created the smash 1980s primetime soaps Dallas and Knots Landing and was a two-time Emmy nominee for Homefront, died August 20 of Alzheimer’s complications at Providence St. Joseph ...

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 ...

David Jacobs, the man who brought more than 700 episodes of both “Dallas” and “Knots Landing” to televisions across the United States, has died at the age of 84. According to The Hollywood Reporter, ...