Knots Landing
Knots Landing Logo (Seasons 9-10)
Genre	Soap opera
Created by	David Jacobs
Starring	William Devane Kevin Dobson Julie Harris Lisa Hartman Michele Lee Constance McCashin Donna Mills Don Murray Michelle Phillips John Pleshette Ted Shackelford Nicollette Sheridan Joan Van Ark
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	344 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	44 Minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	December 27, 1979 – May 13, 1993
External links
IMDb profile

Knots Landing was a primetime television soap opera that aired for 14 seasons, from December 27th, 1979 to May 13th, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show initially centered around the lives of four married couples residing in a cul-de-sac called Seaview Circle. Though initially intended to be a "scenes from a marriage" type drama series, storylines also included rape, murder, kidnapping, assasinations, drug smuggling, corporate intrigue and criminal investigations. By the time of its conclusion, Knots Landing had become one of the longest-running primetime dramas on U.S. television after Gunsmoke, and tied second place with Bonanza (although Bonanza had made far more episodes). ^[1] Knots Landing Logo (seasons 9-10) File links The following pages link to this file: Knots Landing ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... David Jacobs is a writer for television, most memorable for being the creator of the two dramas Dallas and Knots Landing. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Kevin Dobson is US actor, born March 18, 1943, in Queens, New York. ... Actress Julie Harris photo taken by Carl Van Vechten 1952 Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan) is an American actress. ... Lisa Hartman (b. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Constance McCashin (born June 18, 1947 in Chicago) is an American actress. ... On the cover of Playboy, November 1989 Main title caption for Knots Landing. ... Don Murray has been the name of more than one person of note: Don Murray (clarinetist) (1904-1929) jazz musician Don Murray (drummer) of the group The Turtles Don Murray (actor) Don Murray (writer) Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the Boston Herald This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Michelle Phillips, far right, with her fellow band members when with The Mamas & the Papas in the late 1960s. ... John Pleshette is an American actor, best known for being part of the original cast of the long-running prime-time television drama Knots Landing playing Richard Avery. ... Categories: Pages needing attention | Actor stubs | American actors ... Nicollette Sheridan (born Colette Sheridan on November 21, 1963) is a Golden Globe nominated British actress, primarily on soap operas, movies and television. ... Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943 in New York, New York, sometime credited as Joan Van Arc) is an actress who is best known for playing Larry Hagmans troubling sister-in-law and Michele Lees neighbor and best friend, Valene (Val) Clements Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Knots Landing // 1. ... radio and United States. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... PrimeTime is a television newsmagazine from ABC News. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... For the musical group, see Cul de Sac (group). ... PrimeTime is a television newsmagazine from ABC News. ... The cast of radios Gunsmoke: Howard McNear (Doc), William Conrad (Matt), Georgia Ellis (Kitty) and Parley Baer (Chester) Gunsmoke is the longest-running American radio and television Western drama created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. ... The Bonanza logo was superimposed upon a map of a wild west frontier area. ...

Knots Landing was created by David Jacobs (one-time writer of Family and later producer of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) and Michael Filerman (who also co-produced Falcon Crest), who were initially rebuffed by CBS in 1978, as the network instead accepted the more "saga-like" Dallas. After Dallas became a hit, CBS asked Jacobs to revisit Knots Landing, hoping to find similar success. The series was based on the 1973 Ingmar Bergman movie, Scenes from a Marriage, but with four marriages. Though initially not as popular as Dallas, Knots Landing would progress through fourteen seasons (eventually outlasting Dallas itself) and would win much critical acclaim. The show starred Tony-nominated Broadway singer and actress Michele Lee as Karen Fairgate MacKenzie, the feisty matriarch of the cul-de-sac, who is the only star that appeared in every episode of the series and currently holds the record for most appearances as a character on American primetime television (344 episodes). The series intially performed more modestly in the ratings in comparison to Dallas, and it peaked during the 1983-84 season with a 20.8 rating (finishing in 11th place) and a 20.0 rating for the 1984-85 season (when it finished 9th). This can be attributed, in part, to more dramatic storylines as the series became more soap-opera like, and the gradual inclusion of newer characters to interact with the original cast. By the 1988-89 season, Knots Landing was ahead of Dallas in the ratings, though audiences for both shows by this time were significantly less than their earlier years. David Jacobs is a writer for television, most memorable for being the creator of the two dramas Dallas and Knots Landing. ... The cast of Family. ... Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action television series based on the Superman comic books. ... Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera about the feud between the Channings and the Giobertis, two separate rich wine families in West Central California, around San Francisco in a fictional town, Tuscany Valley. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ... Ingmar Bergman   (IPA: in Swedish) (born July 14, 1918) is a Swedish stage and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the twentieth century. ... Scener ur ett äktenskap (roughly translated as Scenes from a Marriage) is a Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... Tony can mean any of the following: a slang word for Cocaine Tony Award a nickname for the male names Antoine, Antony, Antonio, Anthony, and Manraj, and for the female name Antoinette. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Years after the show ended, in 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part television movie called Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 2005, they reunited again for a nonfiction special called Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac was a miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Background

Gary Ewing was the middle son and the black sheep of the Ewing family from "Dallas". Gary was an alcoholic, whose father Jock and older brother J.R. had never treated as an equal. The insecure Gary met Valene when he was 17-years-old and she was 15-years-old. They were married briefly and Gary left Southfork Ranch (and later Valene). With Gary gone, J.R. had Valene followed and run out of town as he took her daughter (and manipulated Gary) away from her. Years later, Valene and daughter Lucy reconnected and this caused Valene and Gary to reunite. They remarried and Gary's mother Miss Ellie bought the couple a house in California. Garrison Arthur Ewing, Gary Ewing, was a character in the American television series Knots Landing and also in the television series Dallas, played by Ted Shackelford (1979-1993) and briefly played by David Ackroyd (1978-1979). ... Black sheep is a derogatory colloquialism in the English language meaning an outsider or one who is different in a way which others disapprove of. ... Jim Davis as Jock Ewing on the main title caption from the TV Series Dallas. ... Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing John Ross J.R. Ewing, Jr. ... Valene Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing, also known as Val , was a character in the American television series Knots Landing and also in the television series Dallas, played by Joan Van Ark. ... Charlene Tilton as Lucy Ewing on the main title caption from the TV Series Dallas. ... Barbara Bel Geddes as Ellie Ewing Farlow on the main title caption from the TV Series Dallas. ...

Plot summaries

Season One (1979-1980)

13 Episodes (1-13) Nielsen Ranking: #30, Nielsen Rating: 20.0

Produced by: Joseph B. Wallenstein

Knots Landing title card (seasons 1 and 2)

Upon arriving in California, Gary and Val (Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark) met their neighbors: Sid and Karen Fairgate (played by Don Murray and Michele Lee), the self-described “neighborhood Brady Bunch.” Together, they had three teenaged children, Eric (Steve Shaw), Diana (Claudia Lonow) and Michael (Patrick Petersen). Richard and Laura Avery (John Pleshette and Constance McCashin), the struggling couple; and Kenny and Ginger Ward (James Houghton and Kim Lankford), the clueless newlyweds. In the show's first episode, which aired on December 27, 1979 on CBS, a giddy Valene, still with a thick southern accent, ran on the beach, proclaiming that she’d never before seen the ocean. Valene, ashamed she had not achieved the education level of her friends and neighbors, studied to get her diploma. Image File history File links Original Knots Landing Logo This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links Original Knots Landing Logo This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Categories: Pages needing attention | Actor stubs | American actors ... Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943 in New York, New York, sometime credited as Joan Van Arc) is an actress who is best known for playing Larry Hagmans troubling sister-in-law and Michele Lees neighbor and best friend, Valene (Val) Clements Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on... Don Murray (born Donald Patrick Murray on July 29, 1929, in Hollywood, California) is an American actor. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ... The Brady Bunch was a US television situation comedy, based around a large family. ... Steve Shaw (born 1975) is a Republican candidate and former investment banker currently positioning himself against incumbent Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former City Councilman Tom Ognibene in September 2005. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Patrick Petersen is an American actor best known for his role as Michael Fairgate in the television drama Knots Landing. ... John Pleshette is an American actor, best known for being part of the original cast of the long-running prime-time television drama Knots Landing playing Richard Avery. ... Constance McCashin (born June 18, 1947 in Chicago) is an American actress. ... James (Jim) Houghton (b. ... Kim Lankford (b. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (362nd in leap years). ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...

Gary took a job at Sid’s car shop, Knots Landing Motors. He did such a good job that in the season finale, he was promoted. Unfortunately, Gary got drunk at his promotion party, causing a binge in the two-part season finale, “Bottom of the Bottle.” Meanwhile, Ginger caught her record producer husband, Kenny, cheating on her with a singer, Sylvie (Louise Vallance), and broke up with him. When Richard wanted to borrow money from Laura's father, Laura allowed him on the condition that Richard let her go to work. Richard was forced to relent, and Laura saw that she did not have to live by her husband's rules all the time. A binge is any behavior indulged to excess. ... Louise Vallance, (born Stephanie Louise Vallance, going by Stevie Vallance in some credits) was born in Montréal, Québec, is an actress that predominantly does voice acting. ...

Karen and Sid Fairgate (Michele Lee and Don Murray) became friends with Gary and Val Ewing (Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark)

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Season Two (1980-1981)

18 Episodes (14-31) Nielsen Ranking: #28, Nielsen Rating: 19.0

Produced by: Joseph B. Wallenstein

Knots Landing came back in season two with the introduction of Sid Fairgate’s sister Abby (Donna Mills). Abby was 14 years his junior, and he’d always been oblivious of her scheming ways, but Karen was suspicious of almost everything Abby did. When Abby took a job at Knots Landing Motors, she helped Gary out of a bind with mobsters by going to his brother J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman). Abby also went out of her way to make sure Val found out Gary was cheating on her with Judy Trent (Jane Elliott), the attractive wife of a man he was sponsoring in Alcoholics Anonymous, Earl Trent. Even though Abby set her sights on Gary, she temporarily settled for Richard, taking no great effort to conceal the affair from Laura, who took on a career in real estate and began a flirtation with her boss, Scooter Warren (Allan Miller). Abby abruptly dumped Richard when her ex-husband Jeff Cunningham (Barry Jenner) threatened to take her children away, setting the precedent that men were rather disposable to her. Viewers discovered exactly how scheming Abby could be when the women of Knots Landing held a baby shower for Ginger and were interrupted by criminals who held them hostage; Abby seduced one of the thugs, helping to save them. Abby preceded both Alexis Carrington on "Dynasty" and Angela Channing on "Falcon Crest" as US TV's first lead villainess by more than a year. On the cover of Playboy, November 1989 Main title caption for Knots Landing. ... Mobster is a slang term for a person who participates in organized crime, which is known as belonging to the Mob. In western stories and movies, cowboys as mobsters are known as outlaws. ... Larry Hagman (born on September 21, 1931) is a popular American actor who is famous for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television soap opera Dallas and Major Anthony Nelson on the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. ... Jane Elliott is an American actress, best known for her roles in television soap opera. ... Logo for AA Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society for recovering alcoholics. ... Allan Miller (born 14 February 1929 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. ... Barry Jenner as William Ross on DS9. ...

Ginger began dating the father of one of her students while separated from Kenny, but took Kenny back upon discovering that she was pregnant. When Sid discovered the car parts Gary and Abby had been buying were actually stolen, his brakes were disconnected in order to keep him from testifying to this in court. Season Two ended with Sid Fairgate’s car going off a cliff.

Sid's (Don Murray) death shocked the Fairgate family and viewers.

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Season Three (1981–82)

22 Episodes (32–53) Nielsen Ranking: Not in Top 30, Nielsen Rating: ?

Produced by: Joseph B. Wallenstein

Sid was paralyzed after his car went off the cliff. He asked Karen to sign papers allowing him to undergo life-risking surgery in order to re-gain use of his legs. Karen very reluctantly agreed to sign; Sid subsequently died, leaving Karen a widow with three children. She took over Knots Landing Motors, firing Abby, but not Gary. Karen would be forced to hire Abby back due to the fact that Abby’s style of bookkeeping could not be easily deciphered.

Ginger became annoyed as Kenny refused to take interest in her aspirations as a singer. Valene attempted to forge a bond with her mother Lilimae (Julie Harris), who moved in with her and Gary. Lilimae had all but abandoned her as a child in her hopes to be a country music singer. Karen's brother, Joe Cooper (Stephen Macht) took on a job as a bookkeeper at USC and briefly stayed with the Fairgate family. Laura began an affair with her boss Scooter after years of being unhappily married to Richard. She planned to leave Richard, but then discovered she was pregnant. She planned on aborting the pregnancy, but decided not to after Richard got physically violent. Richard was becoming the company pimp after being asked to supply entertainment by his boss for some clients at his lawfirm, a pattern that kept repeating itself. This was eventually revealed on the news, and Richard's employer denied any cooperation with him. After losing his job, Richard became depressed and had a nervous breakdown. An incident erupted and Richard was sent to a mental institution. Actress Julie Harris photo taken by Carl Van Vechten 1952 Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925 in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan) is an American actress. ... Stephen Macht is an American actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 1st 1942. ... Doheny Library. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

After Karen passed up the opportunity to fund a methanol-powered vehicle project, Gary and Abby devoted hours to making it work without her help. Abby made repeated passes at Gary, and finally they slept together. Valene discovered this in the season finale, leaving the cul-de-sac in tears. Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, carbinol, wood alcohol, wood naptha or wood spirits, is a chemical compound with chemical formula CH3OH. It is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colourless, flammable, poisonous liquid with a distinctive odor that is somewhat milder and sweeter than ethanol (ethyl alcohol). ...

Everyone was a suspect in Ciji's (Lisa Hartman) death

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Season Four (1982–83)

22 Episodes (54–75) Nielsen Ranking: #20, Nielsen Rating: 18.6

Produced by: Peter Dunne

With the charges dropped against Sid Fairgate’s killers, an angry Karen marched into the office of federal prosecutor M. Patrick “Mack” McKenzie (Kevin Dobson). Mack was as upset as Karen about it, and the two of them proceeded to bring the men to justice. Meanwhile, they fell in love, and married half-way through the season. Valene returned to Knots Landing and later became a best-selling author, though it was bittersweet without Gary, who had vacated the cul-de-sac along with his new girlfriend, Abby. Gary had inherited millions after his father, Jock Ewing, died, and decided to go into the record business. He teamed up with Kenny, producing the record of the beautiful Ciji Dunne (Lisa Hartman). The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. ... Kevin Dobson is US actor, born March 18, 1943, in Queens, New York. ... Lisa Hartman (b. ...

Upon finding a suicide note at the cul-de-sac house, a guilty Laura decided to reconcile with Richard. Richard then proceeded to open a restaurant, Daniel (so named after their newborn son). Abby financed the restaurant, and in a cross-promotion, proceeded to demand that Ciji sing there every night. Ginger resented Ciji, as Kenny spent a lot of time worrying about Ciji’s career and almost no time at all on Ginger’s. Laura and Ciji became best friends, which prompted the insecure Richard to fear the women were having a lesbian relationship. A lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. ...

Meanwhile, Valene’s publicist Chip Roberts (Michael Sabatino) played on the sympathies of Lilimae, who foolishly thought he was her soulmate, to let him live with them. Chip began dating Karen’s daughter Diana and Ciji at the same time, and panicked when he impregnated Ciji. He was also upset with Ciji after she discovered his true identity, Tony Fenice. In season four, Knots Landing, which had been a top 30 show during its first two seasons and barely top 40 after Sid's death, finally became a huge ratings success. The climax came when Ciji’s dead body washed up on the beach. Gary's life collapsed as he once agained turned to the bottle to escape his problems. However, this time things went from bad to worse when he woke up on the beach that the dead body of Ciji was discovered, and, of course, his drinking caused him not to remember anything of the night before. He was arrested for her murder. Val tried unsuccessfully to clear his name by confessing to the crime, but Gary remained the prime suspect and prepared to go to trial as the season wrapped up. Michael Sabatino Michael Sabatino (born June 25, 1955 in Venice, California) is an American actor. ...

After Ciji’s death, Laura refused to forgive Richard for being mean to her best friend while she was alive. He finally left Knots Landing for good, returning only for a funeral four years later. Kenny and Ginger also left Knots Landing, with Kenny being offered a job in Nashville. In the season finale, the characters prepared for Gary’s trial, while Lilimae discovered Chip’s real identity. However, Diana and Chip had already skipped town, leaving Karen shocked and in tears. For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ...

Season Five (1983–84)

25 Episodes (76–100) Nielsen Ranking: #11, Nielsen Rating: 20.8

Produced by: Peter Dunne

Valene (Joan Van Ark) began dating journalist Ben Gibson (Douglas Sheehan)

In the season premiere, Gary was acquitted of Ciji’s murder due to a lack of evidence. Chip and Diana fled town as Chip became the primary suspect. Meanwhile, Valene began dating reporter Ben Gibson (Douglas Sheehan). Diana married Chip while on the run with him. Even though Chip confessed to Diana that he’d killed Ciji, the state had no case without her testimony. When it looked as though Chip would walk, Lilimae took matters into her own hands by running down Chip with her car. Meanwhile, a relative of Abby and Sid's died, and both she and Karen received a land inheritance at Lotus Point, California. Abby then secretly formed Apolune Corp., a subsidiary of Gary’s company, forcing her enemy Laura, whom Gary hired for her expertise in real estate and to keep an eye on Abby, to look the other way as she broke the rules. Abby convinced Gary to marry her in order to get half of his 10% inheritance of Ewing Oil. However, before marrying Abby, Gary first slept with Valene one last time. By the time Valene discovered she was pregnant (with twins!), she was in love with Ben, but he couldn’t take the fact that she was pregnant with another man’s babies and they broke up. Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 5 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 5 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Douglas Sheehan (born April 27, 1949) is an American actor best known for playing Ben Gibson throughout four seasons of the prime-time drama Knots Landing from 1983 to 1987. ...

Greg Sumner (William Devane) brought politics (and scandal) to Knots Landing

Abby hired Ciji’s look-alike Cathy as a farmhand to keep Gary distracted so he wouldn’t learn about her crooked business practices. When Chip (who had been hiding out at the ranch with Diana) saw Cathy, he thought he was seeing a ghost and freaked out, falling on a pitchfork. This impaled and killed him, ending his reign of terror. The ordeal with Diana, who now refused to talk to Karen, caused Karen to become progressively more depressed, and she began becoming addicted to pain killers. State Senator Greg Sumner (William Devane), who was running for US Senator, received the endorsements of Mack and Karen, as well as Abby, who wanted to buy herself a senator. Greg hired Mack to lead his Senate Crime Commission investigating the crooked Wolfbridge Group, and when Abby convinced Greg to get her an illegal land variance to build on Lotus Point, Greg pinned it on Mack, ending the 20-year friendship of Greg and Mack permanently. Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 5 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 5 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Chief Justice Associate Justices Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Politics Portal      The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the bicameral United States Congress, the... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In zoning, a variance is an administrative exception to land use regulations, generally in order to compensate for a deficiency in a real property which would prevent the property from complying with the zoning regulation. ...

Meanwhile, Wolfbridge forced Abby to let them become her partners in the development of Lotus Point. When Mack discovered that Apolune owned all the land in Lotus Point, except Karen and Abby’s inheritances, he thought Apolune was a division of Wolfbridge. However, Laura finally confessed that Appolune was Abby’s company. When Gary discovered this, he decided to divorce Abby in a violent rage. She ran to Greg, who was in bed with Laura. When Mack faked Gary’s death to get Wolfbridge, Karen left him, believing his obsession with Wolfbridge had cost her everything. In the exciting season finale (and one-hundredth episode), Mack tried to trick Mark St. Claire (Joseph Chapman), the head of the Wolfbridge Group, into attempting to shoot Gary, but St. Claire’s assassin hit Karen instead. Abby was kidnapped by the Wolfbridge Group when they realized they had failed. Joseph Chapman is an American actor, noted for his appearances in various television series. ...

Season Six (1984–85)

30 episodes (101–130) Nielsen Ranking: #9, Nielsen Rating: 20.0

Produced by: Peter Dunne/Lawrence Kasha Lawrence Kasha (December 3, 1933 - September 29, 1990) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre producer and director, playwright, and stage manager. ...

Knots Landing title card (seasons 3–8)

Greg Sumner killed Mark St. Claire, who was holding Abby (whose hair miraculously lost six inches despite the fact that the season 6 premiere was set immediately after the season 5 finale) hostage on a boat. After being shot, Karen, when faced with the same surgery predicament as Sid, declined to be operated upon, and was given 6 months to live. Lilimae’s son Joshua (Alec Baldwin), whom she’d abandoned as a baby, came to live with her and Valene. He began dating Cathy, who’d moved in with Laura. Image File history File links Knots Landing logo. ... Image File history File links Knots Landing logo. ... Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ...

When Gary purchased Ben’s television station, Abby began running it. One night, she was reading Ben’s notes, and found one addressed to Valene. She was shocked to learn that Gary was the father of Valene’s babies. Abby told Scott Easton (Jack Bannon), a man working for Lotus Point, about her issue, and he had Valene’s babies kidnapped after their birth (without Abby’s knowledge or consent). Valene was told that the babies were stillborn, and when she insisted that she’d heard them crying, nobody believed her. Valene, heartbroken over the loss, left Knots Landing for Tennessee, where she developed psychosomatic amnesia, calling herself Verna Ellers (a character from one of her novels) and becoming a waitress. Meanwhile; Gary, Karen, and Abby (who was forgiven by Gary for her season 5 scheming) agreed to become partners in Lotus Point. Jack Bannon is an actor from Los Angeles, California. ... A psychosomatic illness is one with physical manifestations and supposed psychological cause, often diagnosed when any known or identifiable physical cause was excluded by medical examination. ... Amnesia or amnæsia (from Greek ) (see spelling differences) is a condition in which memory is disturbed. ...

Karen refused to take Mack back, but did so on Gary’s insistence after she confided to him that she was dying. Mack convinced Karen to have the surgery correcting her back problem, and she came out without a scratch. Meanwhile, industrialist Paul Galveston befriended Gary, and offered Gary a chance to develop on Empire Valley, a large piece of real estate. Gary agreed, and soon began construction. Galveston died, however, leaving his company to Greg Sumner, who was revealed as Galveston’s son. Assuming he would inherit Empire Valley, Greg resigned from the Senate. Unfortunately for Greg, Galveston left it to Gary. Greg’s mother Ruth Galveston paid him an extended visit. She took a liking to Abby and paid Abby to pretend to have slept with Greg in order to break Greg and Laura up.

Religious Joshua (Alec Baldwin) married chanteuse Cathy (Lisa Hartman)

Cathy and Joshua married, though on their wedding day she had second thoughts, due to the fact that fame on Abby’s television network had warped the initially innocent Joshua. “Verna” became engaged in Tennessee. Gary finally found her and brought her back to Knots Landing. She re-united with Ben, but still refused to believe that her babies were dead. Karen and Ben did some investigating and discovered that Valene’s doctor had paid off a nurse, and when they tracked down the doctor, he killed himself. Abby, full of guilt (though not technically guilty), tracked down Valene’s babies. In the season finale, Abby and Val, Mack and Ben, and Gary and Karen each independently arrive at the Fisher house. Valene gets out of Abby's car and hears a baby--one of her babies--cry. She begins stepping towards the Fisher house. The adoptive father, Harry Fisher, passes in front of the house in his car, and his wife, Shiela Fisher, sees him and shouts: "Harry, go! They want to take the babies..." The next minute was directed in suspenseful slow-motion, ending with Valene making eye contact with her second stolen baby as it passes her on the road. The producer called it "an emotional cliffhanger." This season finale, titled "The Long and Winding Road" after a Beatles song, ranked as the #1 program for the week in the Nielsens. Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 6 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Image File history File links Knots Landing Season 6 Capture This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ...

After a year of searching, Valene (Joan Van Ark) got her twin babies back.

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Season Seven (1985–86)

30 episodes (131–160) Nielsen Ranking: #17, Nielsen Rating: 19.5

Supervising Producer: David Paulsen Produced by: Lawrence Kasha

In the season premiere, Valene waited restlessly outside the house of the couple who had her babies. She (and the audience) didn’t have to wait long; the babies were returned to her in episode 2. Valene and Ben agreed to raise the babies together, and they married. Also married this year were Laura and Greg, whose estrangement ended when he convinced her that his mother was out of their lives for good. Abby received a phone call about Bobby's death, and Gary headed back to Dallas for the funeral. Empire Valley went awry when Gary discovered that Galveston Industries and its partners were secretly building an underground espionage operation there. Gary blew up Empire Valley to stop this and ceased his development there. Gary blamed Abby, who had helped Greg and gone behind his back. This proved to be the last straw for the Ewing marriage, and Gary informed Abby at the end of the season that he would divorce her. Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ...

Meanwhile, Gary rocked the boat for the Gibsons as he bequeathed part of Empire Valley to Val's kids Bobby and Betsy, who were being raised as Ben's children. Peter Hollister (Hunt Block) became Greg’s new secretary, and Jill Bennett (Teri Austin) became Mack’s new colleague. These two characters initially had nothing to do with one another but it was ultimately revealed that they were siblings of a family that had been swindled by Paul Galveston and wanted revenge. Jill abandoned her side of the plan when she fell in love with the now-single Gary, while Peter, in going through Greg’s files, discovered a woman named Sylvia Lean (Ruth Roman) who’d been receiving monthly payments from Galveston Industries for over 20 years. She had given birth to Galveston’s now-deceased son, whom Peter pretended to be, demanding compensation from Greg. Abby discovered the truth and demanded 51% of Peter’s compensation in return for keeping it secret, but when Peter discovered that Abby had known that Valene’s babies had been kidnapped from the start, he used this against her. Hunt Block is an American actor. ... Teresa Teri Austin is a Canadian-born actress. ... Ruth Roman (born December 22, 1922 - died September 9, 1999) was an American actress. ...

Joshua became increasingly violent and abusive toward Cathy, who left him. Not wanting to lose her, he decided that they should die together. He proceeded to try to throw Cathy off of a tall building, but Lilimae arrived in time to stop him. She disowned Joshua, and he stumbled, shocked. He proceeded to fall of the roof and a sad Lilimae spent the rest of the season mourning him, while Cathy moved on to Ben, whose marriage to Valene was failing due to the continued threat of Gary, who by then knew that he was the father of her twins. Ben cheated with Cathy and in the season finale, prepared to leave Valene and go on a singing tour with her as her manager. After feeling emotionally distraught, Abby's rebellious daughter, Olivia (Tonya Crowe) had discovered a drug problem, and needed help. Meanwhile, a beautiful young girl named Paige Matheson (Nicolette Sheridan) arrived at Mack’s door claiming to be his daughter. If that wasn’t enough of a shock for him, his wife Karen didn’t come home from work at Lotus Point that night. She had "just disappeared." Tonya Crowe (born 1971) is an American actress, best known for playing Olivia Cunningham in Knots Landing from 1980 to 1990. ... As Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives. ...

Season Eight (1986–87)

30 episodes (161–190) Nielsen Ranking: #26, Nielsen Rating: 16.8

Produced by: Lawrence Kasha

Olivia's (Tonya Crowe) drug problem turned Abby's (Donna Mills) life upside-down

Karen's kidnapper turned out to be Phil Harbert (Louis Giambalvo), an old friend of Greg's and Mack's who was bitter toward Mack, whom he blamed for having caused the death of his wife. Mack suspected Greg for the kidnapping, but ultimately believed that Greg had nothing to do with it. Ben returned to Valene and promised to make their marriage work, however this promise was compromised when he was contacted by Jean Hackney (Wendy Fulton), who had once tricked Ben into doing a mission for an underground organization. This organization wanted Ben to kill Greg Sumner, and when Ben and Valene’s children were threatened, he finally agreed to do this. Luckily, he didn’t succeed, although Jean Hackney’s insistence on following him meant that he had to flee the country and leave Valene at the end of the season. Laura refused to forgive Valene for Ben's plan to kill Greg and ended their friendship. Knots Landing Season 8 Capture File links The following pages link to this file: Knots Landing ... Knots Landing Season 8 Capture File links The following pages link to this file: Knots Landing ... Louis Giambalvo (b. ... William Dwight Schultz (born November 24, 1947), a stage, television and film actor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

Laura announced to Greg that she was pregnant. He didn’t want the baby, but upon the birth of their daughter, discovered that he wanted to be a father after all. Speaking of new fathers, Mack had a difficult time handling Paige, who moved in with the Mackenzies and seduced Karen’s son Michael. When Karen discovered Paige Matheson was dead, Paige told the Mackenzies she’d faked her own death in order to escape her overbearing, rich grandparents. Paige’s mother (and Mack’s first love) Anne (Michelle Phillips) arrived in Knots Landing to be with her daughter, whom she’d believed dead for a whole year. Anne moved in to Laura’s house on the cul-de-sac, which was up for rent after Laura decided to move in with her husband Greg. Anne attempted to seduce Mack, but ultimately failed. She left Knots Landing, dejected, and after a year of instability the Mackenzie marriage came out stronger. Michelle Phillips, far right, with her fellow band members when with The Mamas & the Papas in the late 1960s. ...

Meanwhile, Abby’s daughter Olivia became increasingly rebellious, turning to drugs. When her drug dealer beat up her younger brother Brian, she gave all her drugs to Abby, who then encouraged her daughter’s friendship with Peter Hollister. Olivia’s friendship turned to crush. However, Peter was only interested in Paige, who also took a job at Lotus Point. At the end of the season, Abby walked out of the bathroom drying her hands, and found Olivia standing over Peter’s bloody body. They both assumed the other had killed him, and Abby shooed Olivia away from the scene. She hid Peter’s corpse under the soil where cement was to be poured the next day. In the final scene of the season, Karen informed Abby that there was a crack in the cement, and it would probably have to be re-poured.

Season Nine (1987–88)

Val (Joan Van Ark) and Karen (Michele Lee) mourned the death of their friend Laura (Constance McCashin)

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Produced by: Lawrence Kasha/Mary-Catherine Harold

A melancholy Laura extended the olive branch to Valene at Karen's insistence. It was revealed that Paige was the one who’d accidentally caused the death of Peter. No charges were brought against her, but Abby swore that she would make Paige pay for having framed Olivia for the crime. Laura revealed to Greg that she was dying of cancer. Greg refused to accept it, and Laura left him to go to a clinic, where she died. Laura’s funeral brought the return of Richard, who moved his and Laura’s sons back to the east coast with him and his new wife. Mack got drunk at Laura's funeral (although Valene, angry that Karen had hidden from her the news of Laura's pending death, informed him that he was the only one who thought he was being cute). Greg was left to raise Meg, his daughter with Laura. When Karen and Mack, who was in the midst of a mid-life crisis, offered to adopt the child, Greg reluctantly agreed. Paige began to work for Greg as his personal assistant, and began to find herself increasingly attracted to him. Lilimae left Knots Landing after falling in love, and Valene was left without her or Ben. Gary therefore took an increased interest in their twins. Valene’s resistance to this was an annoyance to Jill, who was living with Gary and didn’t like him paying attention to anybody except for her. Jill made an elaborate plan where she edited audio recordings of Ben’s voice to make Valene think Ben was trying to contact her. She also had forged letters made promising a return. Jill then stole the tapes of Ben’s messages and the letters, leaving Valene with no proof when she tried telling people. Jill then, while on a business trip in San Francisco, secretly drove back to Knots Landing and forced Valene to take a whole bottle of sleeping pills in order to make it look like Valene had killed herself. Olive branch Olive branch is a colloquial term referring to a concession or a gesture of peace, as well as a peace symbol. ... A mid-life crisis is an emotional state of doubt and anxiety in which a person becomes uncomfortable with the realization that life is halfway over. ... Fraternal twin boys in the tub The term twin most notably refers to two individuals (or one of two individuals) who have shared the same uterus (womb) and usually, but not necessarily, born on the same day. ... Sound is a disturbance of mechanical energy that propagates through matter as a longitudinal wave, and therefore is a mechanical wave. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

After Laura’s death, Frank and Pat Williams (Larry Riley and Lynne Moody) and their daughter Julie (Kent Masters-King) moved onto the cul-de-sac. Mack and Karen were suspicious of them at first, but became their friends upon discovering they were actually in the Witness Protection Program. Business at Lotus Point began to slow down, and Karen, Gary, and Abby agreed to expand the marina to accommodate the business of Manny Vasquez (John Aprea). Meanwhile, Paige, Michael, and Paige’s boyfriend Johnny Rourke (Peter Reckell) went on an archaeological dig in Mexico. When it became apparent that Manny Vasquez (John Aprea) was selling drugs through Lotus Point, its owners tried to stop him. He told them that Paige and Michael would not re-enter the United States until he was allowed to conduct business at Lotus Point. Larry Riley is an American actor, best known to television viewers for his role as Frank Williams in the prime-time soap opera Knots Landing. ... Lynne Moody is an American actress who has made many appearances in television. ... Kent Masters-King is an American actress, noted for her performances in soap opera. ... John Aprea (born March 4, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an Italian-American actor, best known for in movies for his role as Young Sal Tessio in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and on television as Lucas Castigliano on the soap opera Another World, from 1989 to 1992. ... Peter Reckell, on Days of Our Lives. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ... John Aprea (born March 4, 1941 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an Italian-American actor, best known for in movies for his role as Young Sal Tessio in The Godfather: Part II (1974) and on television as Lucas Castigliano on the soap opera Another World, from 1989 to 1992. ...

Greg (William Devane) and Abby (Donna Mills) got hitched, much to the chagrin of Paige (Nicollette Sheridan)

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Season Ten (1988–89)

28 episodes (220–247) Nielsen Ranking: #27, Nielsen Rating: 16.1

Co-Executive Producer: Lawrence Kasha Produced by: Mary-Catherine Harold/Lynn Marie Latham/Bernard Lechowick

Nobody believed Valene when she said that Jill had tried to kill her. Jill had a solid alibi, for she had slipped drugs into a man’s drink and brought him to her hotel room. He passed out, but she was there when he woke up the next morning so he suspected nothing. Jill had actually left for Knots Landing during the night. When the man got an STD and Jill and Gary’s tests turned up negative, Gary decided to do some investigating. He discovered that the man remembered nothing of the night he had supposedly slept with Jill. Finally, everybody believed Valene’s story. Jill was left friendless, and she tied herself up and put herself in Gary’s trunk so he’d be framed for trying to kill her. Jill actually did die, unfortunately, and Gary was suspected for her death. Luckily, Mack was able to get the charges dropped (as he had done with Paige a season earlier) when a hidden fingerprint was found that proved Jill closed the trunk on herself. STD is an abbreviation used in several different contexts that stand for different terms. ...

A con artist tried to extort money from Frank and Pat by threatening to reveal their location to the men who had threatened Pat's life when she testified against them. Mack halted the con artist, and used dental records from a deceased family to make the men believe that the Sollars family (the original identity of the Williamses) was dead. The young crowd was able to get out of Mexico, and Manny Vasquez’s nephew Harold Dyer (Paul Carafotes) (who was also dating Abby’s daughter Olivia) killed his uncle when his uncle tried to kill Mack. Paige seduced Greg and the two began dating. Unfortunately, Greg wanted to become mayor of Los Angeles and he realized the much-younger Paige would not make a good political wife. He asked Abby to marry him instead, and Abby got her revenge against the broken-hearted Paige, who kept her job at Greg’s company nonetheless. A confidence trick, confidence game, or con for short, (also known as a scam) is an attempt to intentionally mislead a person or persons (known as the mark) usually with the goal of financial or other gain. ... Paul Carafotes is an American actor, possibly best known for playing Harold Dyer in the television drama Knots Landing from 1988 to 1990. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

Mack had another mid-life crisis and quit his job, opening a private practice. Meanwhile, continued tough times at Lotus Point meant that it had to be sold. Abby was thrilled to discover that there was oil underneath Lotus Point, and secretly created the Murakame Corporation, which she told her colleagues was Japanese so they wouldn’t know she was the one buying out Lotus Point. Paige discovered that it was just a front, and Abby barely avoided being brought up on fraud charges. She left Greg (and Knots Landing) for a job in Japan, singing "Don't Worry, Be Happy" in the limousine as she pulled away, unpunished for her various evil deeds during her nine-season tenure. Dont Worry, Be Happy is the title and famous principal lyric of a song by popular musician Bobby McFerrin, the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, holding that position for two weeks in September of 1988. ...

Paige (Nicollette Sheridan) found new love with dirty cop Tom (Joseph Gian)

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Season Eleven (1989–90)

29 episodes (248–276) Nielsen Ranking: Not in Top 30, Nielsen Rating: ?

Co-Executive Producer: Lawrence Kasha Produced by: Mary-Catherine Harold/Lynn Marie Latham/Bernard Lechowick

Valene and Gary became involved with divorced couple Danny and Amanda Waleska, respectively. Danny (Sam Behrens) had beaten and raped Amanda (Penny Peyser), but Valene was uncharacteristically blind to this. Valene proclaimed that she loved Danny more than she’d ever loved Gary or Ben. As Danny became more and more abusive and distant, Valene finally realized the truth, and proceeded to kick him out of her house. Meanwhile, Paige fell in love with Tom Ryan (Joseph Gian), a dirty cop. The two planned on getting married, but on the day of their wedding, Tom became a “runaway groom.” Instead, Gary proposed to Valene, who accepted. Karen started a talk show, but began to be stalked by what seemed to be an obsessed fan. It was actually one of her producers, who had been put up to it by another producer Dianne Kirkwood (Robin Strasser) who couldn’t stand Karen. Karen’s stalker was ultimately put to justice when his accomplice betrayed him. Danny refused to give up on Valene, and one night while drunk driving on the cul-de-sac, he ran down Pat Williams. Sam Behrens Sam Behrens is most notably recognized from his role as Gregory Richards in Aaron Spellings Sunset Beach. ... Penny Peyser (born 9 February 1951 in Irvington, New York, United States) is an actress. ... Joseph Gian is an American actor. ... A runaway bride is a bride who runs away from the wedding chapel, usually shortly before the ceremony. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Robin Strasser, in a still from One Life to Live. ... At law, an accomplice is a person who actively participates in the commission of a crime, even though they take no part in the actual criminal offence. ...

Olivia married Harold, but they had monetary woes due to Olivia’s mother Abby's choice to cut Olivia off financially upon her move to Japan. They left the show mid-season, before Olivia had a chance to scheme for money as her mother had. Karen’s son Eric left his wife Linda at the Mackenzie household. Linda carried on with Eric’s brother Michael, then proceeded to divorce Eric. She was shown the door at the Mackenzie household. Paige’s mother Anne returned to Knots Landing penniless, and took up with Greg. Meanwhile, Greg’s daughter Mary Frances (Stacy Galina) visited him after a 6-year estrangement between them. She had been involved in underground crime rings, and was murdered. Stacy Galina is an American actress, best known for her role in the television drama Knots Landing. ...

Season Twelve (1990–91)

27 episodes (277–303) Nielsen Ranking: Not in Top 30, Nielsen Rating: ?

Co-Executive Producer: Lawrence Kasha Produced by: Mary-Catherine Harold/Lynn Marie Latham/Bernard Lechowick

Frank had Pat’s life support disconnected and she died. Greg’s sister Claudia (Kathleen Noone) and his niece Kate (who looked exactly like the late Mary Frances) moved to Knots Landing as talented tennis player Kate began attending college. Kate met Steve (Lance Guest), a man claiming to be her brother, at school, and it was revealed that Steve, who had been put up for adoption by Claudia, was the product of a tryst between Claudia and Paul Galveston. When Claudia planted a gun on former felon Steve and he fled from the police, the police shot and killed Steve. Mack took a liking to a high schooler named Jason Lochner (Thomas Wilson Brown), who, it was revealed, was being beaten by his father. Mack, in yet another mid-life crisis, regained the memories of his own physical abuse at the hands of his father, and took Jason into the Mackenzie household. Kathleen Noone (born January 8, 1945 in Hillsdale, New Jersey) is a well-known American soap opera actress. ... Lance Guest (born July 21, 1960 in Saratoga, California) is an American actor. ... Thomas Wilson Brown is an American actor, best known for his role as Jason Lochner in the television drama Knots Landing. ...

Valene and Gary got together and were briefly happy after Danny’s murder (by Julie, as revenge for her mother’s death), but a fall off a horse led to a campy storyline where Valene went insane. After a season of irrational behavior (most notably frying the twins’ pet hermit crabs) Valene was miraculously cured, and she proceeded to marry Gary. Anne met Italian Nick Schillace (Lorenzo Caccialanza), with whom she both fell in love and spent the season scheming. Ultimately, their plans all backfired, and in the season finale, Anne was left homeless. Meanwhile, Paige and Linda competed at the Sumner Group (the re-named Galveston Industries), and when Linda started sleeping with Greg, it became about more than just money. Hermit crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infra-order Paguroidea, distinct from the true crabs in the infra-order Brachyura. ... Lorenzo Caccialanza is an Italian-born American actor, best known for his work on Knots Landing as Michelle Phillips gigolo boyfriend who disappears when things get rough. ...

Season Thirteen (1991–92)

22 episodes (304–325) Nielsen Ranking: Not in Top 30, Nielsen Rating:?

Co-Executive Producer: John Romano (ep. 304–318) Supervising Producer: Joseph Hardy Senior Producer: Ann Marcus (ep. 319–325) Produced by: Mary-Catherine Harold

Kate blamed Claudia for Steve's death and cut her mother out of her life, but they reconciled after Claudia took an overdose of pills. After Nick left her, Anne was left homeless and bankrupt, wanting to be rich more than ever. She started an advice show on night-time radio which became a smash hit. Linda was murdered by the crazy Brian Johnston, who then proceeded to hold the Mackenzies hostage for an entire episode. Jason left the Mackenzie household for a program in Sweden while Julie left Knots Landing for the east coast. Frank dated Debbie Porter (played by the then-unknown Halle Berry). Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an award-winning American actress. ...

Gary invested in a project that turned tidal waves into usable electric energy. The man behind it, Joseph Barringer (Mark Soper) became Kate’s boyfriend. Paige, who felt it was a good idea, joined Gary, along with her new boyfriend Pierce. A former flame of Pierce's, Victoria Broyelard (Marcia Cross), showed up and revealed that Pierce had killed his previous girlfriend. Unfortunately for Paige, she didn’t believe it. Paige was shot by Pierce (aiming for Greg, whom he hated) and temporarily paralyzed, giving a delusional Pierce (who thought she was the previous, pregnant girlfriend he’d already killed) a chance to kidnap her. Mack and Greg rescued Paige and Pierce was arrested. Alex Barth (Boyd Kestner), the nephew of the Galvestons' housekeeper, turned up and blackmailed Claudia over the fact that she refused to help her ailing mother with her medication and thus allowed her to die, but Claudia came clean to Greg, saying that she wanted to end their mother's pain. Claudia disliked Joseph and asked Greg to get him a job away from Kate. When this happened, Gary, who had tied up all his money in Tidal Energy, was left bankrupt. Valene attempted to console him, and the two of them spent the rest of the season enjoying a happy marriage. Unfortunately, Valene was given an assignment. She was to write a biography on Greg Sumner. Mary Robeson (Maree Cheatham) told Valene that she was Meg’s grandmother, as she was Laura’s biological mother. Valene refused to believe it, and when she investigated Mary Robeson further, she was kidnapped in Florida. tidal wave is the crest of a tide as it moves around the Earth. ... Mark Soper (Born July 19, 1959) is an American actor, best known for his role as Joseph Barringer in the television series Knots Landing and his role in The World According To Garp. ... Marcia Anne Cross (born March 25, 1962 in Marlborough, Massachusetts) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. ... Boyd Kestner is an American actor, who came to prominence due to his role as Alex Barth in the television drama Knots Landing. ... Maree Cheatham (born 2 June 1942 in Oklahoma) is an American actress, best known for her television appearances. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Largest metro area Miami Area  Ranked 22nd  - Total 65,795[1] sq mi (170,304[1] km²)  - Width 361 miles (582 km)  - Length 447 miles (721 km)  - % water 17. ...

Season Fourteen (1992–93)

19 episodes (326–344) Nielsen Ranking: Not in Top 30, Nielsen Rating: ?

Co-Executive Producer: Barbara Corday Supervising Producer: Ann Marcus Produced by: Mary-Catherine Harold

Gary believed Valene dead when he saw a car with her in it blow up. Greg attempted at the end of season 13 to retire from the Sumner Group, leaving one-third to Claudia, one-third to Paige, and one-third to Mack and Karen (in a trust for Meg). However, Anne’s surprise pregnancy by him prompted him to return to Knots Landing to marry here. When Anne discovered she had suffered from hysterical pregnancy, her marriage to Greg became miserable. Anne was finally rich, but unhappy. She longed for Nick, who had returned to Knots Landing. When Mack sought out $1,000,000 from Claudia under the table to bribe Mary Robeson to stop seeking custody of Meg, Claudia gave him only $500,000 and gave the rest to Nick to start a restaurant. When Paige demanded an audit, Claudia had to ask Nick for the $500,000 back. Unfortunately, Nick had already spent it and attained for Claudia $500,000 from a different source. It turned out a man named Nigel Treadwell (Daniel Gerroll) and his mysterious partner had been trying to take over the Sumner Group with this $500,000. Karen didn’t believe Mack would do something like that and left him, staying with Diana in New York City. False pregnancy, also known as pseudopregnancy or pseudocyesis, is a condition that mimics pregnancy. ... Daniel Gerroll (born 16 October 1951 in London, England) is an actor, best known for his appearances on American television. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

In the two-hour series finale that aired on CBS back on May 13 1993, Karen returned to Mack, and Nick’s accomplice Vanessa Hunt (Felicity Waterman) killed Treadwell, paving the way for Valene to return to Gary. Treadwell’s partner was revealed as none other than Abby, who, returning for the first time in four years, told Greg that she would be taking over the Sumner Group. Unfortunately, Abby was left with nothing as Greg threatened to reveal her dirty dealings in Japan. Tom, in charge of the investigation of Mary Robeson’s murder (it was her brother), and Paige began falling in love again. In the finale, however, Anne offered Greg a divorce and he was free to get back together with Paige, finally. Claudia and Anne both coincidentally made plans to go to Monaco, and on the way to the airplane, they fought over Nick. In the final scene, a new couple moved onto the cul-de-sac in Frank’s old house. "It’s probably their first house", mused Valene, who had miraculously survived her year-long kidnapping in Florida. Gary went to get charcoal for the fire, when another car pulled up. To his surprise, Abby got out of it! She informed Mack, Karen, Gary, and Valene that she’d bought Claudia’s house (which had been hers when she lived on the cul-de-sac). Valene rushed Gary away from Abby as Mack went to start cooking. Abby was left with Karen, to whom she proclaimed, "Just like old times, isn’t it?" Felicity Waterman is an actress best known for her role as Vanessa Hunt during the final two seasons of the television drama series Knots Landing. ...

Credited cast

Ted Shackelford (Original cast) as Garrison Arthur "Gary" Ewing.

The son of Jock and Ellie Ewing, first introduced in the TV series "Dallas". Gary, the middle Ewing son between J.R. and Bobby, was the family black sheep. The true love of Valene's life and father of their daughter Lucy (from Dallas).

Joan Van Ark (Original cast) as Valene "Val" Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing (1979-1992, 1993).

The true love of Gary's life, and the mother, of Dallas' Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton). After moving to Knots Landing with Gary, she became Karen's neighbor and best friend.

Michele Lee (Original cast) as Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie.

First married to Sid Fairgate, later to Mack McKenzie. The mother of Diana, Eric and Michael Fairgate. She and Mack later adopted "Meg", (Laura's daughter with Greg Sumner). Karen worked as a community activist and eventually at Knots Landing Motors and Lotus Point.

Don Murray (Original cast) as William Sidney Fairgate (1979-1981).

Karen's first husband, and the owner of Knots Landing Motors. Sid was killed when his car was sabotaged.

John Pleshette (Original cast) as Richard Avery (1979-1983, 1987).

A lawyer, and a cruel, shallow man. Unhappily married to Laura, he struggled to assert himself after she launched a successful career in real-estate. He later left town without his family and divorced Laura.

Constance McCashin (Original cast) as Laura Avery Sumner (1979-1987).

The wife of Richard Avery, and later, Greg Sumner. She was a real estate agent. She died of cancer.

James Houghton (Original cast) as Kenny Ward (1979-1983).

A record producer who at first cheated on his wife Ginger, but reformed upon the birth of their daughter Erin Molly.

Kim Lankford (Original cast) as Ginger Ward (1979-1983).

A kindergarten teacher who wanted to be a singer, she was jealous of her husband's involvement in Ciji Dunne's career.

Claudia Lonow (Original cast) as Diana Fairgate (1979-1984, 1993).

Karen's daughter who fell in love with the evil Chip (Michael Sabatino). She left Knots Landing to study in New York City.

Patrick Petersen (Original cast) as Michael Fairgate (1979-1991).

Sid and Karen's younger son who would later have an affair with his brother Eric's wife, Linda.

Donna Mills as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner (1980-1989, 1993).

Sid's sister, and the neighborhood troublemaker. She destroyed Gary and Val's marriage, and later married/divorced Gary herself. Abby also worked with her sister-in-law, Karen, at Lotus Point. Near the end, she also married Greg, who did most of the scheming, next to her.

Tonya Crowe as Olivia Cunningham Dyer (1980-1990).

Abby's rebellious daughter who became addicted to cocaine.

Julie Harris as Lilimae Clements (1980, 1981-1987).

Valene's mother who moved in with Valene and proceeded thereafter to interfere with her daughter's life.

Kevin Dobson as Marion Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie (1982-1993).

Karen's second husband who was determined, charming and sometimes secretive. He was an attorney who worked for the governor before opening his own private practice.

Lisa Hartman as Ciji Dunne (1982-1983)/Cathy Geary Rush (1983-1986).

Ciji and Cathy were both singers. Almost everyone in Knots Landing was suspect for Ciji's murder. Next season, Ciji's doppelgänger Cathy Geary showed up after being released from prison.

Douglas Sheehan as Ben Gibson (1983-1987).

Valene's second husband. He was a journalist at Abby's television station.

William Devane as Greg Sumner (1983-1993).

Mack's ex-best friend and classmate who attended law school with him and even offered him a job working for the crime commission. Initially a politician, Greg became a businessman after inheriting the corporation of his father (Howard Duff). Greg schemed with or against Abby most of the time.

Alec Baldwin as Joshua Rush (1984-1985).

Lilimae's son who was abandoned by her as a baby. He came on Knots Landing as a rather innocent young preacher. After marrying Cathy, he became extremely violent and eventually went crazy, dying after accidentally falling off a roof.

Teri Austin as Jill Bennett (aka Dorothy Simpkins) (1985-1989).

Gary's mistress who died accidentally, stuffing herself in his trunk so it would seem like he'd kidnapped her.

Nicollette Sheridan as Paige Matheson. (1986-1993).

Mack's daughter with Anne Matheson and Karen's step-daughter. She engaged in a May/December romance with Greg Sumner among others.

Michelle Phillips as Anne Winston Matheson Sumner (1987, 1989, 1990-1993).

Paige's mother and Mack's first love, she competed with her daughter for Greg's affections.

Larry Riley as Frank Williams (1988-1992)

Frank moved to Knots Landing with his wife Pat and daughter Julie as part of the witness protection program. He eventually took a job in Mack's law firm.

Kathleen Noone as Claudia Whittaker (1990-1993)

Greg Sumner's sister, who moved to town under the guise of accompanying her daughter for college; in reality, she wanted to meddle in Greg's affairs.

Stacy Galina as Kate Whittaker (1990-1993)

Claudia's daughter who resembled Greg's late daughter Mary Frances. She was a tennis player, but after Gary Ewing caused her arm to break (thus ruining her career) she set her sights on him.

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Other major characters

Bobby Jacoby as Brian Cunningham #1 (1980-1985)

Stephen Macht as Joe Cooper (Karen's brother) (1981-1982)

Michael Sabatino as Chip Roberts (aka Tony Fenice) (1982-1983)

Joanna Pettet as Detective Janet Baines (1983)

Danielle Brisebois as Mary-Frances Sumner #1 (1983-1984)

Laurence Haddon as Dr. Mitch Ackerman (1984 - 1985)

Hunt Block as (Senator)Peter Hollister (1985-1987)

Brian Austin Green as Brian Cunningham #2 (1986-1989)

Wendy Fulton as Jean Hackney (1986-1987)

Joshua Devane as Young Greg Sumner (1986-1987; 1990)

Lar Park Lincoln as Linda Fairgate (1987, 1989-1991)

Peter Reckell as Johnny Rourke (1988-1989)

Lynne Moody as Pat Williams (1988-1990)

Kent Masters-King as Julie Williams (1988-1991)

Paul Carafotes as Harold Dyer (1988-1990)

Melinda Culea as Paula Vertosick (1988-1990)

Robert Desiderio as Ted Melcher (1988-1989)

Sam Behrens as Danny Waleska (1989-1990)

Joseph Gian as Det. Tom Ryan (1989-1991, 1993)

Lorenzo Caccialanza as Nick Schillace/Dimitri Papas (1990-1991, 1992-1993)

Bruce Greenwood as Pierce Lawton (1991-1992)

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Karen Allen (1979) (as Annie Fairgate)

Helen Hunt (1980) (as Betsy)

Gary Sinise (1980) (as Lee Maddox)

Ava Gardner (1985) (as Ruth Galveston)

Dick Sargent (1985) (as Himself)

Ruth Roman (1986) (as Sylvia Lean)

Doug Savant (1986-87) (as Young Mack MacKenzie)

Michael York (1987-88) (as Charles Scott)

Red Buttons (1987) (as Al Baker)

Stuart Whitman (1990) (as Willis #2)

Halle Berry (1991) (as Debbie Porter)

Marcia Cross (1991-92) (as Victoria Broyelard)

Mary Lou Retton (1992) (as Herself)

Billy Bob Thornton (1992) (as a Logger)

David James Elliott (1991-92) (as Bill Nolan)

Howard Duff (1984-85, 1990) (as Paul Galveston)

Lance Guest (1991) (as Steve Brewer)

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Behind the scenes

The actors had more input than actors on other 1980s primetime soaps. In 1987, the writers wanted Mack (Kevin Dobson) to have an extramarital affair with Anne (Michelle Phillips.) Michele Lee, who played Mack's wife Karen, protested this to David Jacobs, saying, "There has to be one stable couple on the show." [1] The extramarital affair storyline was nixed, and Michelle Phillips, who had been signed to a contract, was written out for a few seasons before returning in 1990. When she did return, Anne did not pursue Mack. William Devane, who played Greg Sumner, re-wrote most of his character's dialogue, to the point where, in co-star Michele Lee's words, "most people (on set) were (probably) frightened of him." [2] The Gary/Val/Abby triangle that provided story throughout the mid-1980s was suggested by Ted Shackelford and Joan van Ark in 1980, and the producers hesitated for a year and a half before going through with it in 1982. [3] The famous 1984 storyline where Valene's babies got kidnapped was originally envisioned as one of scheming Abby's plots. Donna Mills, who played Abby, acknowledged that her character was evil but didn't think she was that evil. Fearing the audience would never forgive her character for kidnapping another woman's babies, she asked the writers to make Abby cause the kidnappings by accident, and the writers complied.

The writing team of Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham (the head writers from 1986 to 1991) was controversial among both fans and actors. Their humor-imbued style of writing made them the favorites of Michele Lee, while John Pleshette felt they were "awful people." Pleshette, however, was not a cast member during their tenure and harbored resentment because the writing team, who had been represented by his wife, moved to a different agency. [4] Joan van Ark, whose character was struck by a brain illness in season 12 and proceeded to thereafter go crazy, felt that Latham and Lechowick had turned her character into the "village idiot." Joan van Ark and Donna Mills' favorite "Knots Landing" writer was Peter Dunne, [5] who was responsible for making Knots Landing a top ten show in 1984. Lynn Marie Latham is an American TV writer. ...

In 1987, CBS demanded that production costs be cut. This meant the firing of two regulars, Constance McCashin and Julie Harris. Season 13 saw a large ratings drop for the show after creator David Jacobs had a health crisis and pulled back his involvement in production. Jacobs has publicly stated that the way he knew the show was in trouble was when waitresses at his favorite diner, whom he had heard gossiping about Knots Landing every Friday during past seasons, suddenly stopped discussing the show in late 1991. He attempted to save face by shutting down production on November 20, 1991 [6], firing head writer John Romano, and replacing him with Ann Marcus. Cost cutting again plagued the series in its final season, when only 19 episodes were produced, and regular characters did not appear in each episode. In one episode in the final season ("My Kingdom for a Horse"), only 3 of the 8 season 14 regulars appeared (Devane, Phillips, and Lee.) Not wanting to compromise what he felt had been a good run, series creator David Jacobs described its end as a "mutual" decision between Knots Landing's producers and the CBS Network, saying, "We don't know if they would have picked us up anyway...but even if they had, we would have had to pare away more to survive."

Music

Knots Landing's background music was always a very important part of the show. The theme song, which lasted all 14 seasons (being updated each season to stay with the times), was composed by Jerrold Immel. Immel, along with Craig Huxley composed the background music for the pilot. The original background music cues by Immel and Huxley were never fully abandoned by the show, and were heard as late as the final season. The early Knots Landing background music cues heavily emphasized the brass section, and were often played with a very sparse bass line accompaniment. It was, in fact, the only aspect of the series ever to win an Emmy award, for the music orchestration during its 1979-80 season. Jerrold Immel (born 9 September 1936 in Los Angeles, California) is a United States television composer, whose most famous work is the theme tune to the soap opera Dallas. ... Craig Huxley (Born on November 22, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Craig Hundley) is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning musician and producer who has been involved in a variety of entertainment-related projects since childhood. ... For other uses, see Brass (disambiguation). ...

By season 4 of Knots Landing, the lushness of the 1980s was in full swing and Knots Landing's background cues reflected that style. The new dramatic cues emphasized full orchestral arrangements as formerly middle class Knots Landing became upwardly mobile. The background music of seasons 4–7 was frequently composed by either Lance Rubin or Ron Grant. Ron Grant is the name of: Ronald Grant, the President & Chief Operating Officer of AOL LLC Ron Grant, one of the longest-serving staff and Kit Manager at Reading Football Club Category: ...

Season 8 introduced a completely new score for "Knots Landing." By 1986 New Wave artists and bands had taken America by storm and the new style of music cues made good use of the synthesizer instead of a full orchestra. Bruce Miller was one of the main composers during this era. Updated orchestrations of the by-then-familiar Lance Rubin cues were also re-arranged to be played by the synthesizer, and the Immel/Huxley cues were similarly utilized, albeit less commonly. New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, phase distortion, or Scanned synthesis. ... Bruce Miller, American Attorney born 1945. ...

In the early 1990s, soft contemporary acoustic music became popular and Knots Landing began incorporating this into its background music during season 12. Lance Rubin's music cues were completely phased out at this point. Patrick Gleeson and Kennard Ramsey composed during this period. Acoustic music can refer to music that solely or primarily uses acoustic instruments, such as the acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, piano, cello, and voice. ...

Opening Credits

Knots Landing ran five completely different styles of opening credits over its 14 years, in contrast to Dynasty, which stuck to the same style, and Dallas, which changed in its final seasons to a variation on its original style. Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to May 10, 1989. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ...

The original opening credits of Knots Landing were used only in seasons 1 and 2. These credits were designed by Wayne Fitzgerald. In an overhead view of the cul-de-sac, the camera zooms into the houses which are shown with their occupants. Then clips of the cast members play inside of the paved section of the cul-de-sac as they are credited.

In season 3, the opening credits were changed. In what is probably the best-remembered introduction to the show, Gene Kraft's "scrolling credits" incorporated various clips of the show. Against a black background, scenes of each regular character scrolled from right to left across the screen. Each character received one big box that showed that character in a scene alone, accompanied by 3 or 4 smaller boxes showing that character with other characters.

The opening credits for seasons 9 and 10 featured the camera panning slowly over a painting done by Sandy Dvore. The painting showcased splattered blotches of paint, and was similar to the style of Jackson Pollack. As the camera moved over the painting, the actors posed inside of small ovular boxes. Season 9 portraits were cold, some might say pretentious, black and white studio shots. In Season 10 they were dropped in favor of color close-ups taken from the show. Complementing these new opening credits was a more demure, sophisticated sounding theme song. Sandy Dvore is an American artist. ... Jackson Pollock in 1950 Pollocks Galaxy, a part of the Joslyn Art Museums permanent collection Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 - August 11, 1956) was an influential American artist and a major force in the abstract expressionism movement. ...

In season 11, the show broke with tradition in its new credits designed by Castle/Bryant/Johnsen. Season 11's opening credits featured no clips of the actor's faces. This sequence shows a beach on which there are sandcastles that resemble the houses of the cul-de-sac, as well as some skyscrapers representing Los Angeles. The camera twists through this sandcastle community as the actors' names come on screen with no accompanying headshots. Castle Bryant Johnsen is a television computer artistry group, working specifically in the field of title sequences. ...

The final opening credits, used during seasons 12, 13, and 14, were a return to tradition. Also designed by Castle/Bryant/Johnsen, these credits paid homage to the famous scrolling credits by Gene Kraft. The two were very similar, since both featured clips of the actors moving from right to left across the screen. However, this version was designed to be "safe" for the 1990s. The boxes featuring the clips had colored "frames" around them, and the boxes were all different shaped rectangles. In addition, the "clip boxes" in this version all move at different speeds, while the Kraft opening credits had them all moving at the same speed. Castle Bryant Johnsen is a television computer artistry group, working specifically in the field of title sequences. ...

DVD release

Knots Landing Season 1 DVD. Actors from left to right: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Don Murray, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin and John Pleshette.

The first season of Knots Landing was released on DVD on March 28, 2006 in a five-disc set which includes all 13 episodes from season one. The set also includes a featurette/clip from the 2005 Together Again reunion show in which stars Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark reminisce about the series, and the pair also provide an audio commentary on two full episodes. There has been no official announcement regarding the release of subsequent seasons, but representatives from Warner Home Video remarked in an online chat entitled "Home Theater Forum" on May 7, 2007 that they had no current plans to release subsequent seasons because Season 1 DVD sales were "softer than expected." Image File history File links Knots_Landing_1. ... Image File history File links Knots_Landing_1. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

The 1997 reunion mini-series Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac was available on VHS, but is now no longer produced. Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac was a miniseries that served as a reunion show for the primetime soap opera Knots Landing. ...

Who lived where

Knots Landing's signature cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle, was actually Crystalaire Place in Granada Hills, California. Granada Hills is a district of the City of Los Angeles located in the San Fernando Valley. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ...

16961 Seaview Circle

• Kenny Ward (Seasons 1–4)
• Ginger Ward (Seasons 1–4)
• Erin Molly Ward (Seasons 3–4)

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• Abby Cunningham (Seasons 2–4, reunion)
• Brian Cunningham (Seasons 2–4)
• Olivia Cunningham (Seasons 2–4)
• Gary Ewing (Season 4)
• Claudia Whittaker (Seasons 12–14)
• Kate Whittaker (Season 12)
• Alex Barth (Season 13)

Seaview Circle. Left: Valene's House. Middle: Karen's House. Right: Laura and Richard's House

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• Richard Avery (Seasons 1–4)
• Laura Avery (Seasons 1–8)
• Jason Avery (Seasons 1–8)
• Daniel Avery (Seasons 4–8)
• Cathy Geary (Seasons 6, 7)
• Anne Matheson (Season 8)
• Patricia Williams (Seasons 9–11)
• Frank Williams (Seasons 9-13)
• Julie Williams (Seasons 9-13)

16972 Seaview Circle

• Karen Fairgate Mackenzie (Seasons 1-14, reunion)
• Sid Fairgate (Seasons 1-3)
• Diana Fairgate (Seasons 1-4)
• Michael Fairgate (Seasons 1-12)
• Eric Fairgate (Seasons 1-9)
• Mack Mackenzie (Seasons 4-14, reunion)
• Mary Frances Sumner (Season 5)
• Paige Matheson (Seasons 8-10, 13)
• Linda Fairgate (Season 11)
• Meg Mackenzie (Seasons 9-14, reunion)
• Jason Lochner (Seasons 12-13)

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• Gary Ewing (Seasons 1-3, 13-14, reunion)
• Valene Ewing (Seasons 1-13, reunion)
• Lilimae Clements (Seasons 3-9)
• Chip Roberts (Season 4)
• Joshua Rush (Seasons 6-7)
• Cathy Geary (Seasons 6-7)
• Bobby Ewing (Seasons 7-14, reunion)
• Betsy Ewing (Seasons 7-14, reunion)
• Ben Gibson (Seasons 7-8)
• Aunt Ginny (Seasons 10-12)
• Danny Waleska (Seasons 11-12)

Trivia

• The location of the cul-de-sac was Crystalaire Place in Granada Hills, CA. The site is actually several miles from the ocean: the opening credits during season 1 & 2 used special effects to "move" the cul-de-sac to a location near the beach.

• Ted Shackelford and Michele Lee were the only cast members to stay with the series throughout its entire run. Joan Van Ark left the series at the end of the 13th season and returned for the final episode. Donna Mills joined the show at the beginning of the second season and left at the end of the tenth season, also returning for the finale. Kevin Dobson joined at the beginning of the fourth season and William Devane joined well into the fifth season.

• Michele Lee was the only actor to appear in all 344 episodes of the series. In the final season, she voluntarily took a pay cut so she could be in every episode. Her character, Karen, was the only character to live on the cul-de-sac for the entire run of the show.

• In the 1985 - 1986 season, Shackelford crossed over to Dallas for Bobby Ewing's funeral. On the 1986 Dallas season premiere, it was revealed that the entire past season (including Bobby's death) had been a dream. This issue was never addressed on Knots Landing.

• Only Bobby, J.R., Kristen and Lucy ever crossed over to Knots Landing from their home show even though interior scenes were filmed on adjacent sound stages. Lucy visited her parents once during the first season, and they visited her for her wedding to Mitch on Dallas. Lucy never met her twin siblings or her grandmother Lilimae. Kristin stayed with Gary and Val during Knots Landing's second season after shooting J.R. Bobby and J.R. each made appearances during the first, second, and fourth seasons of the spin-off.

• Actors Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark first met on the set of Wonder Woman while filming the episode Time Bomb.

• Between the fifth and thirteenth seasons of Knots Landing, Ted Shackelford's character owned a ranch, Westfork. In real-life, it is called Sandstone Horse Sales, a place for horse racing and breeding located in Thousand Oaks, California.

• In the 1986 - 1987 season, two future Desperate Housewives stars, Doug Savant and Nicolette Sheridan, played young Mack Mackenzie and young Anne Matheson in flashbacks in various episodes.

• In the 1991 - 1992 season, Nicolette Sheridan also starred with another future Desperate Housewives co-star, Marcia Cross who played Victoria Broyard the ex-lover of Sheridan's character Paige's ex-lover Pierce Lawton.

• Larry Riley was diagnosed with AIDS in 1990, after being HIV-Positive for 3 years. Nobody on the Knots set was aware of his illness as Riley told them that he was suffering a kidney failure. He died in between the thirteenth and fourteenth seasons.

• In the cartoon series, The Simpsons, Homer took their dog, Santa's Little Helper to get neutered at a place called "Nuts Landing".

• In the season 3 episode Letting Go, Karen took off her wedding ring. The wedding ring Karen was wearing was in fact Michele Lee's.

• The series was filmed on the soundstage where the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz was filmed.

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See also

• List of Knots Landing episodes

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Footnotes

1. ^ Both Bonanza and Knots Landing were eclipsed in 2004 by Law & Order.

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Sources

Roush, Matt. "Series to End After 14 Years". USA Today. January 11, 1993.

• Nielsen Rating Information from the following source:

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• Exclusive web Interviews ©KnotsLanding.net 2006
• Some actors quotations from the following website:

http://www.knotslandingonline.com/. Interviews ©Arthur Swift.

International

• In the UK, the series premiered on BBC1 in April 1980, in a primetime Saturday night slot. Season 2 began a year later (mid 1981), now in a Friday night slot. Season 3 was not shown until late 1983, and then only half of it was shown, at which point the BBC pulled the series from its Friday night slot with no immediate plans of showing any more episodes. The BBC then brought the series back in late 1986, picking up from the middle of season 3 where they last left off, but now it was screened in the afternoon as part of their new daytime line-up. They continued to screen the series until the end, though UK audiences tended to be some 3 - 4 years behind the US.
• In France, the show was known as "Côte Ouest" (translated as "West Coast") and was firstly shown on TF1 with a new lyrical theme song (in French). Actually, the shows is rerun from the beginning on FoxLife, a satellite channel broadcasting on CanalSat provider. (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Côte_Ouest_%28feuilleton_télévisé%29)
• In Germany, the show was known as "Unter der Sonne Kaliforniens" (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unter_der_Sonne_Kaliforniens)
• In the Philippines, it was formerly aired on GMA 7.

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External links

• Knots Landing on IMDB
• KnotsLanding.Net Official Guide to the Series
• Dallas Universe - Knots Landing
• Fan site (German language)
• Fan blog (French language)
• SOAPnet KL Page
• 2005 cast reunion photo
• official website of cast member Danielle Brisebois