Very disappointing...

best movie i've ever seen.

An Exercise In Nonsense

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Knots Landing started off as a spin off to Dallas,dealing with Lucy's Mum and Dad,Gary and Valene remarrying and moving to a Southern California Cul De Sac after Miss Ellie buys them a house,to make up for all the ill treatment they both suffered from the Ewings. Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackleford were both excellent throughout the entire run as was the wonderful Michele Lee who through the seasons lost her beloved husband Sid(Don Murray)got his murderers convicted and married the fiery Mack(Kevin Dobson) Karen was the only character to appear in all the Knots episodes and she was the voice of the people,in one episode when she spoke of wanting to be able to trust people,send cash in the mail etc. After a fairly quiet first season,the Cul De Sac was rocked by the arrival of Sid's sister Abby(Donna Mills)who stole Gary from Val and really brought sex and scandal to Knots Landing. Donna Mills played the part with great gusto and humour,when she left around season 10,she was sorely missed. When popular character Ciji Dunn(Lisa Hartman) was killed off,the was an outcry from fans,so the writers,created a new character lookalike Cathy Greary(Lisa Hartman again)with the plot being Abby hiring a lookalike to send Gary off the rails while she spend his inheritance! When Joan Van Ark left in the last season,Val appeared to die in a car crash but returned in the two episode finale,she'd been kidnapped for a year,a happy ending for the show!. The show didn't shrink from the reality of death though,with Sid's death and later popular character Laura(Constance McCashin)dying from brain cancer. A great show with a great cast,special mention also to William Devane for a great performance as Greg Sumner. It deserved its very long run!

Knots Landing was the best TV show that was ever made. I've watched many soaps, comedies and dramas over the years but never from start to finish. Most usually start to tail off after the first few years. Even the biggest soaps here in the UK all ended up going bad or becoming contrived. The same happened with Dallas and Dynasty. After a few really exciting years, they both become full of nonsense. Knots Landing didn't though. After the first four years of average excitement, the show just got better and better. The best years were the fifth and sixth but even the years that followed saw great drama, excitement, great acting, great stories. The show just was great full stop.The stories were the best part because they were so exciting. In the earlier quieter years when the show was set on the cul-de-sac there were still exciting moments such as the time Sid's car was tampered with and went over a cliff into the ocean, then there was Gary and Abby's affair which led to the break up of the Ewing's marriage. A split that lasted for 9 years. That was the great thing about this show. It lasted so long and had such a loyal cast who stayed with it for years that the stories could unravel in a realistic timespan.I will never forget when Val's babies were stolen as part of an illegal adoption ring. Unlike the other TV shows that would've concentrated more on the actual kidnapping process, Knots Landing looked on the story from a different perspective - of the heartbroken mother who'd been told her babies were stillborn. My own mum lost a baby when I was a small girl so I could identify with this story myself and it was written so well, so sensitively and acted to perfection. Then after dealing with the emotional effect on Val, they dealt with the exciting part - starting the investigation into searching for the babies' whereabouts when Val's good friends Mack and Karen started to believe there was something more sinister going on.The finale that year was the best episode they ever produced and better than anything Dallas, Dynasty or even Eastenders over here has produced. Really gripping stuff.Things got a little quieter after that, but there were still many great stories to look forward to such as Olivia's drug addiction. Peter Hollister's murder, Laura's tearjerking death which showed the two finest individual acting performances on the show's history from Constance McCashin and William Devane.Even in the later years, the show was still brilliant. The best moment coming when Jill Bennett tried to kill Val. That was the second best cliffhanger that was produced - very exciting and very tense because of the way Jill planned everything out to a tee. Then they brought in the character of Linda Fairgate to help fill the void left by Donna Mills who had left by then. She was a brilliant TV bitch. The story with Mack and the foster kid who'd been abused by his real life father was just amazing and heart wrenching to watch.The 13th and 14th years weren't just as consistent but there were still some good stories like the time novelist Val had to write a book for Greg Sumner and the time Paige was shot. Then there was the psycho Grandmother who turned up trying to kidnap little Meg who had been adopted by the Mackenzies after Lauras death. The best story was the last big one though when the evil business tycoon tried to take over Greg Sumner's business and attempted to kill half the cast on the way to getting it. The final twist came in the final episode when it was revealed that his business partner was the character of Abby played by Donna Mills who returned for the final episode. Then Gary and Val reconciled after everybody thought Val had been killed in a car accident (because Joan Van Ark who played Val also returned for the final episode) and then Greg and Paige reunited.I think I have outlined some of the main stories that happened during the show's long run. I have forgotten about some other major stories like the Treadwell espionage storyline, the Jean Hackney trying to kill Greg story and Michael Fairgate having an affair with his brother's wife and the time Joshua Rush (played by the famous Alec Baldwin) fell off a roof of a skyscraper after beating up his wife. On top of all that, the show could be very funny at times and the characters were all best friends with each other just like real life. Hopefully I have given some inclination though to what this series was like that it will hopefully entice someone new into watching the show the next time it is repeated on UK Gold or some other UK or US network. It has already been run three times before but will probably be shown again in the future because it was very popular.My advice to anybody thinking about watching next time it is shown is to watch it because you will fall in love with it's stories, it's characters, it's theme tune (the best ever). It was marvelous and the best TV show ever made.

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!