 Bobby had been killed off in the final episode of the 1984–85 season, and Patrick Duffy left the show for a year.Bobby returned to the show in the famous "shower scene" right at the end of the 1985–86 season.The subsequent "dream revelation" at the start of the 1986–87 season, wrote off Bobby's accident, his death and all but the final scene of the 1985–86 season, as a dream of Bobby's fiancée and ex-wife, Pamela Barnes Ewing (Victoria Principal).