Knots Landing (1979)
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Cast & Crew.
James Houghton
Kenny Ward / Writer
Kim Lankford
Ginger Ward
Michele Lee
Karen MacKenzie / Director
Constance McCashin
Laura Avery Sumner
Don Murray
Sid Fairgate
John Pleshette
Richard Avery / Director
Ted Shackelford
Gary Ewing
Joan Van Ark
Valene Ewing / Director
David Jacobs
Creator / Writer
Donna Mills
Abby Cunningham Ewing Sumner
Kevin Dobson
M. Patrick MacKenzie / Director
Michael Filerman
Creator
William Devane
Greg Sumner
John Romano
Producer / Writer
Lisa Hartman
Cathy Geary
Jerrold Immel
Main Title Theme Composer / Main Title Theme Composer / Music
Alec Baldwin
Joshua Rush
Nicollette Sheridan
Paige Matheson
Pat Petersen
Michael Fairgate
Tonya Crowe
Olivia Cunningham
Michelle Phillips
Anne Matheson
Larry Riley
Frank Williams
Stacy Galina
Kate Whittaker
Kathleen Noone
Claudia Whittaker
Doug Sheehan
Ben Gibson
Teri Austin
Jill Bennett
Julie Harris
Lilimae Clements
Claudia Lonow
Diana Fairgate
Hugh K. Gagnier
Director of Photography
Lorraine Senna
Director
Joseph L. Scanlan
Director
Alexander Singer
Director
Lawrence Kasha
Director
Bill Duke
Director
Kim Friedman
Director
Ernest Pintoff
Director
Jeff Bleckner
Director
Roger Young
Director
Linda Day
Director
Henry Levin
Director
Michael Preece
Director
Nicholas Sgarro
Director
Gabrielle Beaumont
Director
Sheldon Larry
Director
Beth Brickell
Director
James Sheldon
Director
Anita W. Addison
Director
Victor Lobl
Director
Peter Ellis
Director
Randa Haines
Director
Arthur Allan Seidelman
Director
Nancy Malone
Director
Michael Peters
Director
Michael Lange
Director
Charles Siebert
Director
Reza Badiyi
Director
Robert Scheerer
Director
John Patterson
Director
Joseph Manduke
Director
Paul Tucker
Director
Robert Phillips
Editor
Lance Rubin
Music
Robert Folk
Music
Ron E. Grant
Music
Richard Lewis Warren
Music
Bruce Miller
Music
Joel Rosenbaum
Music
Shirley Walker
Music
Christopher Klatman
Music
Bernard Lechowick
Writer
Lynn Marie Latham
Writer
James Stanley
Writer
Joel J. Feigenbaum
Writer
Stepfanie Kramer
Marni
Scott Hamner
Writer
Ann Marcus
Writer
Lisa Seidman
Writer
David Paulsen
Writer
Ron Cowen
Writer
Mona Houghton
Writer
Tricia Brock
Writer
Joel Steiger
Writer
Jack Turley
Writer
Robert Bielak
Writer
Stephen Tolkin
Writer
Melinda Culea
Paula Vertosick
Robin Strasser
Dianne Kirkwood
Lynne Moody
Patricia Williams
Charlene Tilton
Lucy Ewing
Sam Behrens
Danny Waleska
Ruth Roman
Sylvia Lean
Steve Shaw
Eric Fairgate
Paul Carafotes
Harold Dyer
Kent King
Julie Williams
Lorenzo Caccialanza
Nick Shillace
Betsy Palmer
Virginia Bullock
John Aprea
Manny Vasquez
Robert Desiderio
Ted Melcher
Maree Cheatham
Mary Robeson
Lar Park Lincoln
Linda Fairgate
Tom McFadden
Chris Wilson
Peter Reckell
Johnny Rourke
Michael York
Charles Scott
Brian Austin Green
Brian Cunningham
Bruce Greenwood
Pierce Lawton
Felicity Waterman
Vanessa Hunt
Shiri Appleby
Mary Frances (Age 10)
Emily Ann Lloyd
Betsy Ewing
Ronne Troup
Barbara
Adam Arkin
Mark Baylor
Pat Crawford Brown
Owner
France Nuyen
Dr. Carroll
Joseph Gian
Tom Ryan
John Lehne
Andrew Parkhurst
Don S. Davis
Warden Vernon Howard
Carol Jones
Linda Martin
Kathy Christopherson
Nurse
Jack Fletcher
Mr. Fletcher
Michael Kelly
Chuck Willis
Mary Fanaro
Sports Club Attendant
Tish Smiley
Nurse #2
Bradley Lieberman
Eddie Wilson
Molly David
Barbara / Mack's Secretary
Dan Ponce
Jason Avery (as Luis Daniel Ponce)
Howard Stover
Chris
Marie Thomas-Foster
Miss. Kotler
Stevie Vallance
Sylvie
Henry Holden
Guest
Tara St. Andrew
Marilyn
Tony Brafa
Nick Pietro / Patron
Richard Garrison
Paul Evans
Mary McKuen
Receptionist
Patti Yasutake
Nurse
Candi Milo
Nurse
Peter Jason
Security Expert
Jesse Jacobs
Mortician
Ann Convery
Officer Daling
David Hayward
David
Judy Kain
Construction Manager
Dennis Kelly
Ken Peterson
Ray Victor
Carl
Dennis Haysbert
Herta Ware
Helen Hunt
John Hancock
Iona Morris
Karen Hensel
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Ron Rifkin
Stephen Tobolowsky
Michael Laskin
Evan C. Kim
James Karen
Stacy Keach, Sr.
Catherine MacNeal
Harry Bellaver
Robert Harper
Alex Henteloff
Lisle Wilson
Henry G. Sanders
Robert DoQui
Christopher Allport
Carolyn Conwell
Gary Sinise
K.T. Stevens
Paul Linke
Dan Shor
Richard Sanders
Robert Rockwell
Jack Wagner
Patricia Hodge
Kevin Hagen
June Lockhart
Al Christy
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
T. C. Warner
Pam Grier
Marianne Muellerleile
Jim Raymond
Mitzi Hoag
Warren Munson
Jaime Lyn Bauer
Warren Burton
John Toles-Bey
Paul Comi
Conchata Ferrell
Virginia Capers
Kriss Turner
Reid Smith
Michael O'Guinne
John McLaughlin
Dale Swann
Phil Esposito
Rosemary Alexander
Michael Warren
Loyda Ramos
Wren T. Brown
Kimiko Gelman
Ken Jenkins
Dick O'Neill
Ryan McWhorter
Paul Nakauchi
Billy Curtis
George Cheung
Irene Olga López
Ian Abercrombie
Jack Tate
Patty Toy
Pamela Brull
George D. Wallace
Arthur Rosenberg
Matthew Faison
Cynthia Bain
Jesse D. Goins
Leigh French
Mimi Kennedy
Tony Becker
Happy Hairston
Parley Baer
Jane A. Rogers
Barbara Tarbuck
Jeff McCarthy
Fred Holliday
William Jordan
Kevin Kilner
Kristy Swanson
Frank Cassini
Robert Curtis Brown
Louis Di Bianco
Patrick Fischler
John Lafayette
Debra Christofferson
John Barrie
Brian Poth
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Christoph Krisea
Lesley Woods
Tom Fuccello
Bruce French
Justin Dana
Liz Sagal
Wendie Jo Sperber
John Carter
Richard Bull
Arlene Martel
Patricia Murray
Burr DeBenning
Lew Ayres
John F. O'Donohue
John DeMita
Cathianne Blore
Patricia Parris
Vladimir Kulich
Brian Dennehy
Earl Boen
Bruce Campbell
Shelby Leverington
Don Starr
Charles Douglass
Ann Doran
Conni Marie Brazelton
Cynthia Harris
Karen Allen
Don Barry
Raymond O'Keefe
Jordan Charney
Patricia Huston
Archie Lang
Scott Jones
Jim Ishida
Michael Paul Chan
Vasili Bogazianos
Rodney Saulsberry
J.C. Quinn
William Long Jr.
Peggy Pope
Ben Cooper
Dick Miller
Jonathan Estrin
Matt Battaglia
Brian Sheehan
Joseph Hacker
Diana Douglas
Robert Ito
Anthony Charnota
Herb Vigran
Dominique Jennings
Don Dubbins
Nathan Purdee
David Anthony Higgins
Joshua Devane
Stephen Macht
Robert Jayne
Allan Miller
Jon Cypher
Lance Guest
Philip Brown
Dennis Lee Kelly
Otto Felix
Rick Podell
Stuart Fratkin
Jerry Hardin
Cassie Yates
Robert Phalen
Molly Hagan
Ernie Sabella
Viveka Davis
Madison Mason
Louise Sorel
Bruce Gray
Carol Bruce
David James Elliott
Fran Bennett
Joseph Campanella
Don Stewart
Anthony Eisley
Arnold F. Turner
Harry Townes
Jason Bernard
Stuart Whitman
Herb Edelman
Millie Perkins
Danielle Brisebois
Yuji Okumoto
Joe Regalbuto
Ralph Wilcox
Ralph Manza
Daniel J. Travanti
Stefan Gierasch
Peter Fox
Sherri Stoner
Grace Zabriskie
William Bogert
Jean Sagal
Silvana Gallardo
Jeff Austin
Gary Grubbs
Lynn Cartwright
Sukie Smith
Reiner Schöne
Robert Brian Wilson
Walter Brooke
Cecile Callan
David Gale
Doug Savant
William Allen Young
Tracy Reed
William Boyett
Stuart Pankin
Joanna Pettet
Clayton Landey
Wendy Fulton
John Hostetter
David Ackroyd
Nancy Kwan
Celeste Yarnall
Helen Page Camp
Gregory Itzin
John Harrington Bland
Frank Birney
Alan Fudge
Burke Byrnes
Bruce Solomon
Don Hood
Clyde Kusatsu
Jerome Courtland
Director
Lillian Lehman
Katherine Moffat
Dick Christie
Charles Aidman
Barry Primus
David Haskell
Dana Ashbrook
Edith Atwater
Gene Dynarski
Beau Billingslea
Lisa Wilcox
Bernard White
Jana Marie Hupp
Howard Duff
Gary Grossman
Kenneth Tigar
Steve Susskind
Louis Giambalvo
Marcia Cross
Bennet Guillory
Rob Benedict
Billy Bob Thornton
Jeremy Roberts
Jeffrey Lynn
Diana Barrows
Breon Gorman
Edward Winter
Greg Collins
Frank Novak
Deborah Strang
Wendel Meldrum
Oliver Clark
Writer
Ned Bellamy
Gary Graham
Biff Manard
Paul Benjamin
Paul Rudd
Geoffrey Rivas
Daniel Gerroll
Terrence McNally
Ava Gardner
Barry Jenner
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 27, 1979
StatusEnded
Seasons14
Episodes344
Running Time44m
Content RatingNR
Genres
Wiki.
Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of four married couples living on a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle. Throughout its fourteen-year run, storylines included marital strife, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, politics, environmental issues, corporate intrigue, and criminal investigations. By the time of its conclusion, it had become the third-longest-running primetime drama on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Bonanza and the last scripted primetime drama show that debuted in the 1970s to leave the air.Knots Landing was created by David Jacobs (one-time writer of Family and later producer of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) in conjunction with producer Michael Filerman (who would also later co-produce Falcon Crest). Although a spin-off of Dallas, the concept predates that series, and was rebuffed by CBS in 1977, as the network wanted something more "saga-like". Jacobs then created Dallas, which the network accepted and premiered in 1978. After Dallas became a mega hit, Jacobs was then able to adapt Knots Landing as a spin-off series by way of incorporating the characters of Gary and Valene Ewing, first introduced in the parent series. The series was largely inspired by a 1957 movie No Down Payment and also by the 1973 Ingmar Bergman television miniseries Scenes from a Marriage.
Though initially not as popular in the ratings as Dallas, Knots Landing ultimately outlasted it and garnered much critical acclaim. There were 344 episodes spanning 14 seasons of Knots Landing from 1979 to 1993. In 1997, much of the cast reunited for a two-part miniseries titled Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac. In 2005, they reunited again for the non-fiction special Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again in which the cast reminisced about their time on the show. Dallas itself was revived in 2012, with Gary and Valene Ewing appearing in its second season. During nearly the entire run of the original series, Knots Landing occupied the same timeslot: Thursday nights at 10:00 p.m. For a while, it was moved to the 9:00 p.m. timeslot when Falcon Crest was moved to Thursday nights for its final season. When Falcon Crest ended its run, Knots Landing was moved back to its 10:00 p.m. timeslot and stayed there until it ended its run.