In Dallas it was Dr Ellby. Sometimes I wondered if he was a kind of Zen devotee who waited to steer his patients towards "balance".
The sessions tend to show Sue Ellen pacing Dr Ellby's office talking about her marriage problems and the other men she slept with. Given the Ewings were worth millions, he must have been well paid.
In the 1970s, you often get psychologists in TV shows or films. Always very well dressed. You get the impression it was more fashionable back then.
I saw a psychiatrist once in my life - young, female and attractive. At the time I was a terrible mess. The third session, she switched roles and became the patient instead. She told me her decision to be a Doctor had been a terrible mistake. She told me the patients only ever talked about themselves and nobody else.