This is a clip from "Survival", the 9th episode (14th overall) of the second season of the 1978-91 CBS soap "Dallas". This episode originally aired Sunday, November 12, 1978.
The Ewing family is on full high alert as word comes back to Southfork that a private plane carrying J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Bobby (Patrick Duffy) has crashed during a violent storm. Family matriarch Eleanor Southworth "Miss Ellie" Ewing (Barbara Bel Geddes) makes the decision to keep the news a secret from her husband John Ross "Jock" Ewing, Sr. (Jim Davis), as he is recovering from bypass surgery from a heart attack he had a few weeks earlier.
The situation is made more fraught when Miss Ellie answers the door to a persistent Dallas news reporter who managed to sneak onto the heavily guarded ranch and is trying to get a quote for his story. This becomes the last straw for Miss Ellie, who seethes her rage at the reporter for intruding on the family's grief. She instructs ranch foreman Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly) to get the shotgun from the front closet.
Ray gives Ellie the gun. She then points the gun at the reporter and threatens him off of the land, which he does leave in a hurry. Ray informs Ellie that he will send a few armed men down to the spot where the reporter sneaked on in order to avoid another intrusion.
Ellie breathes a sigh of relief, goes back in the house and shuts the door, and is stunned to see a fraught, furious Jock standing on the stairs. It becomes clear to her that he overheard everything that has happened with his sons and Ellie's threat to the reporter. He tearfully asks why she didn't tell him. She breaks down and confesses that she was afraid of what the news might do to him.
Jock tenderly comes down the stairs and asks Ellie when will she understand that he is okay before embracing her.
