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- Michele Lee. A Broadway veteran who was nominated for two Tony Awards, Michele Lee played the upbeat Karen Fairgate MacKenzie, the only character to appear in all 344 episodes of the series.
- William Devane. A charming villain who fans loved to hate, William Devane played politician Greg Sumner, an old college friend of Mack McKenzie (Kevin Dobson), who runs for Senate in Season 5.
- Kevin Dobson. A ruggedly handsome actor best known for playing Telly Savalas' young partner Det. Bobby Crocker on "Kojak," Kevin Dobson joined "Knots Landing" in its fourth season as good-guy federal prosecutor/detective Mack MacKenzie, who investigates the death of Karen Fairgate's (Michele Lee) husband.
- Alec Baldwin. We're betting many of you probably didn't even know that Alec Baldwin starred in a soap opera. In fact, the Hollywood A-lister was largely unknown to primetime audiences when he joined "Knots Landing" in its sixth season in 1984 as the doomed evangelist Joshua Rush, the abandoned son of Lilimae Clements (Julie Harris).
May 13, 2023 · The Dallas spinoff Knots Landing landed on CBS in 1979 and aired 14 soapy seasons of hook-ups, break-ups, and shake-ups before signing off 30 years ago, on May 13, 1993.
- Michele Lee (Karen MacKenzie) Karen MacKenzie is a mother of three and a community activist. After her husband, Sid has the most literal cliffhanger in television history after careening off a cliff, MacKenzie takes over Knots Landing Motors.
- Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing) Gary Ewing was first introduced to fans in the show Dallas. The second son of oil baron Jock Ewing and always left in J.R.’
- Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing) Valene Ewing, aka Val, had our sympathy for sure. For example, she was met with hardship after hardship, like having her firstborn daughter stolen.
- Kevin Dobson (Mackensie) Mackensie, or Mack, is Karen’s second husband and works as an attorney. The two meet after Sid’s killers’ charges were dropped.
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Linda Gray (Sue Ellen, Dallas): I’ve got the scoop! David Jacobs pitched Knots Landing to CBS, but he didn’t know that [CBS head] William Paley sent a memo saying, “We want something big, like Giant.” So David, who’d never been to Texas, went back and pitched Dallas, and after it was a hit they said, “Anything you want, David.” Joan Van Ark (Valene...
Donna Mills (Abby): Knots was the This Is Usof its time. These were middle-class people with problems. Joan: The times Knots was No. 1 in the ratings were when Val’s twins were stolen from her at birth, and when they were returned. I met Magic Johnsonat a party and he went on and on about it in detail! Michele Lee (Karen): That was my favorite arc ...
Donna: Ted and I would be doing shower scenes and he’d always drop his towel. He thought it was really funny — he did it for years! Ted Shackelford (Gary): I don’t think you could get away with that these days, but back then you did. That was a big shocker and great fun. Joan: What flashed in my mind was [guest star] Ava Gardner’s first day [in 198...
Don Murray (Sid): I was told by the producers that after I left [in 1981], things were not so happy between all the cast members for a while. But they got over that. Kevin Dobson (Mack): I never experienced any feuds, other than those days on the set where it’s like, “I don’t want to go near that one today.” But we’re all human. Joan: I better be c...
Michele: Near the end of the show, they cut back money. We were doing extremely well, but everybody gets a raise every year, so they asked actors to only be on X number of shows so they didn’t have to pay them for every one. I told them I wanted to be on every show. And I’d do it for nothing. Joan: It was never really so over-the-top that it wasn’t...
Donna: Joan, Michele and I are good friends and see each other often, and we see Ted fairly often. Bill [Devane], not so much, ’cause he’s kind of a recluse out in Indio, California. Joan: We’re genuinely connected. Ted’s my best friend — I love, love, love him. I think that’s why it lasted 14 years. There wasn’t a bad apple in the group. We became...
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.
The following is a list of episodes from Knots Landing in order by season. Season opens with Gary and Valene Ewing's move to Knots Landing, California from Dallas Texas. The pilot sees the introduction of series regulars: Karen Fairgate, Sid Fairgate, Laura Avery, Richard Avery, Ginger Ward and...
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Premise. Hoping to ride the crest of its success with Dallas, CBS spun off this series featuring the black sheep of the Ewing Family, Gary Ewing. Gary, a reformed alcoholic remarried his wife, Valene, and moved to the Southern California community of Knots Landing.
