brilliant actors, brilliant editing

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

That's what somebody said when they wanted to talk to God. Anyway, Knots Landing had a lot more than Dallas did in the way of great characters. The cast was first rate starring Michele Lee, Joan Van Arks, Donna Mills, Julie Harris, Constance McCashin, William Devane, Nicolette Sheridan, etc. Who could forget Nicolette Sheridan and William Devane's characters playing cricket? The female roles were equally strong as the male roles. I forget who played Michele Lee's husband. I loved Constance McCashin in her role. She was superb but her character died. The show was popular because it was character based and the writing was far better than the other sister soaps. The families on this show never appeared super-rich like their mother show, Dallas. Ted Shackelford plays a Ewing living in California. The fact that this show had a consistent following and guest stars including Alec Baldwin, Michelle Phillips, and many others proved that this show was a force to be reckon with.

Knots Landing has got to be one of the best shows ever to grace our TV sets. The show that started out as a spin off of another good show Dallas turned into a guaranteed hour of enjoyable tv. Yes the show had its good and bad episodes but you always knew you could look foward to seeing your favorite neighbors on the Cul-Da-Sac Seaview Circle. By far the greatest female character on the show was Karen Fairgate Mackenzie(Michele Lee), she was married to the 2 greatest men ever Sid Fairgate(Don Murray) the owner of Knots Landing Motors and after his death she met and married Mack Mackenzie(Kevin Dobson)a lawyer. I enjoyed these two together most, they had such great chemistry together on screen they actually were believable as a married couple. When Abby(Donna Mills) arrived the show became even better, her character was always after someones husband and usually ended up with him. Sumner(Bill Devane) was another great addition to the show, his character brought a comic humor with the words he chose to use in tense drama situations. Then you had the Val(Joan Van Ark) and Gary(Ted Shackelford) the two childhood lovers who you just knew would always be together even if a few marriages got in between them. The show also had some other great characters like Laura(Constance McCashin), Richard (John Pleashette), Paige(Nicolette Sheridan), Lilimae(Julie Harris), Claudia(Kathleen Noone), Anne(Michelle Phillips), Frank(Lary Riely), Olivia(Tonya Crowe). Knots also had a ton of guest stars like Ava Gardner, Alec Baldwin, Lisa Hartman Black, Red Buttons,and Pam Grier just to name a few. Overall this show still holds up to todays standards and hopefully it will be put on DVD soon so everyone can enjoy it.

KL was aired 3 times in the early '90 and the people in the Middle East loved it very much as it shows what an American would be(I don't know if it's a real life!)It is now aired again and people are watching it everyday at 10 GMT.When it first aired (that would be in the early '90)I wasn't old enough to watch it or didn't care till I was very impressed with my fav character Peter Hollister.He was the best thing that ever happened to the show.I was about 8 back the but he really charmed me.He played the best villains role among the others.The big mistake was (as the usual)killing him.He was such a cutie!

I've always found it a bit disingenuous of (creator) David Jacobs and (executive producer) Michael Filerman to claim that "Knots Landing" was about real-life, middle-class American life. As much as I enjoyed the series as a whole, and feel that it is an excellent example of the prime-time soap genre, that description really only applies to the first 4 years of the show, when the focus was on the 5 families who lived on Seaview Circle. After the arrival of William Devane's Greg Sumner at the beginning of the 5th Season, "Knots Landing" started coming up with outlandish, ridiculous storylines (the Wolfbridge Group? Val's Babies? Empire Valley, anyone?) rivalling anything on Dynasty or Falcon Crest. "Dallas" in California is the best way to describe the show's transformation during this time. I found the 1983-87 years to be heartless and dreary as a whole, and the series reclaimed its footing only with the arrival of the Williams family (Larry Riley, Lynne Moody, and Kent Masters-King) on the cul-de-sac. Their presence helped to refocus the show back to its roots. The show's best storyline was the Chip/Ciji story in the 1982-83 season. My only complaint with that year was that John Pleshette, Kim Lankford, and James Houghton's characters were phased out by the end of it, and the wonderful Joanna Pettet was sadly underused as a sympathetic police detective. As wonderful as most of "Knots Landing" was, I still view it as a missed opportunity to side-step the conventions of the 1980s prime-time soap genre.