Desc: Dallas: The Early Years: Directed by Larry Elikann. With David Marshall Grant, Dale Midkiff, Molly Hagan, David Patrick Wilson. Digger Barnes is furious when his friend Jock Ewing starts dating the love of his life Ellie Southworth. He is also convinced that Jock has cheated him out of his share in their oil fields. And so begins the decades long Barnes-Ewing feud.