Overview - Knots Landing

Overview

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 3

  Date first aired: 2005-12-02

• Name: Season 1

  Episode: 13

  In a seaside suburban paradise, four married couples struggle with the conflicts and passions that buffet every marriage.

  Date first aired: 1979-12-27

• Name: Season 2

  Episode: 18

  Adultery, rape and white-collar crime plague the families of seaside Knots Landing--with lethal consequences.

  Date first aired: 1980-11-20

• Name: Season 3

  Episode: 22

  Passions escalate as four couples battle temptation in a seaside suburban paradise.

  Date first aired: 1981-11-12

• Name: Season 4

  Episode: 22

  Lust, alcoholism and murder strike, causing further turmoil in the suburban cul-de-sac.

  Date first aired: 1982-09-30

• Name: Season 5

  Episode: 25

  William Devane joins the cast as the residents of Knots landing cope with a corrupt land-development deal, adultery, unwanted pregnancy and a Central American civil war.

  Date first aired: 1983-09-29

• Name: Season 6

  Episode: 30

  Alec Baldwin joins the cast. Control of the Ewing fortune rests on the fate of illegitimate twin babies--and the residents of Knots Landing resort to blackmail, kidnapping and murder.

  Date first aired: 1984-10-04

• Name: Season 7

  Episode: 30

  The residents of an idyllic seaside cul-de-sac face an ongoing feud over a corrupt land development deal and the supposed suicide of one of them. Ava Gardner joins the cast.

  Date first aired: 1985-09-26

• Name: Season 8

  Episode: 30

  Power struggles over politics, money and sex rock the idyllic seaside community of Knots Landing.

  Date first aired: 1986-09-18