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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

David Jacobs, a writer who gave television audiences the prime-time soap operas “Dallas” and “Knots Landing,” juggernauts of the airwaves that debuted in the late 1970s and held millions of viewers in ...