1087:), who tries to trick Ben into doing a mission for an underground organization to kill Greg. When Valene's babies are threatened, Ben reluctantly agrees to assist Jean. With Mack's help, Ben foils the plan, although Jean continues to threaten him and his family which prompts Ben to leave the country at the end of the season. Laura angrily blames Valene for not telling her about the plot to kill Greg. Laura also tells Greg that she is pregnant, but he is not enthusiastic about it, and she refuses to have an abortion. In the meantime, Paige reveals that she faked her death in order to escape the control of her wealthy grandparents, although Karen doubts the story, believing her to be an impostor. Also, Paige had developed a romantic relationship with Michael, Karen's son, but she soon tires of him and starts romancing Peter. Abby's daughter Olivia's drug addiction has worsened, eventually leading to the injuring of Lilimae in a car accident, and Abby resorts to desperate measures to get her clean. When her drug dealer beats up her younger brother Brian, Olivia finally admits to her addiction and decides to get clean. Olivia then becomes friends with Peter, and develops a crush on him, although he is interested in Paige. Peter, having become state senator with Greg's support, goes to the extreme to hide the fact that Jill is his sister, who has started a relationship with Gary. When Jill and Peter have an argument, Jill is injured in a fall from and Peter flees the scene to avoid any link to her or the accident. Paige's mother,
982:, receives the endorsements of Mack and Karen, as well as Abby, who wanted to buy herself a senator. Greg hires Mack to lead his Senate Crime Commission investigating the sinister Wolfbridge Group. Abby convinces Greg to get her an illegal land variance to build on Lotus Point but, after pressure from Wolfbridge, Greg pins it on Mack in order to discredit his investigation, thus ending their friendship. While a fugitive from the police, Chip falls on a pitchfork and dies after seeing Cathy, thinking she was Ciji back from the dead. After Karen's recovery from her drug addiction, she and Diana reconcile. Wolfbridge forces Abby into making them her partners in the Lotus Point development. Mack investigates the land ownership at Lotus Point and Laura confesses that Apolune is Abby's company. Gary decides to divorce Abby as he cannot trust her. When Mack fakes Gary's death to snare Wolfbridge, Karen leaves him, believing his obsession with Wolfbridge has cost them their marriage. In the season finale, Mack tries to trick Wolfbridge leader Mark St. Clare into trying to kill Gary again, but St. Claire's assassin accidentally shoots Karen instead. Abby is kidnapped by the Wolfbridge Group when they realized they've failed.
1136:. When it is learned that Manny is selling illegal drugs through Lotus Point, Karen, Abby, and Gary try to stop him, but to no avail. Manny tells them that he will hold Paige and Michael hostage in Mexico unless they allow him to continue his dealings through Lotus Point. Gary takes an increased interest in Valene's twins, his biological children, much to the annoyance of Jill, who has moved in with Gary. Jill conceives an elaborate plan where she edits audio recordings of Ben's voice to make Valene think he was trying to contact her. In an effort to make Valene appear unstable, Jill steals the tapes, leaving Valene with no proof of Ben trying to contact her. In the season finale, Jill goes to Valene's home and, at gunpoint, she forces Valene to swallow sleeping pills, hoping it will appear that Valene has committed suicide. The following morning, Valene is found motionless on her bedroom floor.
1149:), kills his uncle when he tried to kill Mack. Paige seduced Greg and the two became a couple, although their relationship soon ended when Greg decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles. Realizing Paige would not make a good political wife, Greg instead marries Abby, although Paige keeps her job with Greg's company. Greg tried to regain custody of his daughter Meg from Mack and Karen, but he lost the case. Later, Mack goes through a mid-life crisis and quits his job, and thereby starts his own law practice. Following a health and safety report, the Lotus Point land has to be sold. However, it was soon revealed that Abby had falsified the report after she discovered that there was oil underneath Lotus Point, and created a company to conceal who was buying the resort from her partners. Paige exposed that the whole thing had been initiated by Abby and her cohort Ted Melcher (
1271:). Anne offers to divorce Greg so he can resume his relationship with her daughter Paige, whom he loves. Claudia decides to leave Knots Landing for Monaco, and at the airport, she runs into Anne and Nick, who are also leaving town. In the final scenes, back at Seaview Circle, Karen, Mack, Valene, and Gary prepare a barbecue as a new couple begin moving into Frank Williams' old home. Meanwhile, Abby arrives at the gathering and reveals that she has just purchased her old house in Seaview Circle. Valene simply smiles and welcomes Abby back, before she and Gary go home. Realizing Gary and Valene are happily reunited, Abby looks at Karen and comments "Just like old times, isn't it?". In the final shot, Karen watches Abby go inside her new home, mildly concerned as to what effect her return will have on the cul-de-sac, before smiling contentedly.
1209:), who was living with an abusive father. Jason later moves in with Mack and Karen, and dates Julie Williams. Frank, Julie's father, passes his lawyer bar exam and goes to work as an attorney at Mack's independent firm. Danny continues harassing Valene, and he soon assaults Gary with a baseball bat. After forcing Gary to drink alcohol, Danny puts him a car a sends it over a cliff, hoping to make his death appear accidental. However, the airbag saves Gary's life, but Danny is found dead in the Williams' swimming pool. In the investigation surrounding Danny's death, almost everyone is a suspect, although it was soon discovered that his death was accidental. Valene falls from a horse and suffers from psychiatric problems, but she soon recovers and she and Gary get married for the third time. Anne meets the scheming Italian Nick Schillace (
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extramarital affair storyline was nixed, and
Michelle Phillips, who had been signed to a contract, was written out for a couple of seasons before returning in 1990. When she did return, Anne did not pursue Mack. William Devane, who played Greg Sumner, re-wrote most of his character's dialogue, to the point where, in co-star Michele Lee's words, "most people (on set) were (probably) frightened of him". The Gary/Val/Abby triangle that provided story throughout the mid-1980s was suggested by Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark in 1980, and the producers hesitated for a year and a half before going through with it in 1982. The famous 1984 storyline where Valene's babies got kidnapped was originally envisioned as one of scheming Abby's plots. Donna Mills, who played Abby, acknowledged that her character was evil but did not think she was
953:), moves in with Valene and Lilimae, and trouble starts when he dates Diana and Ciji at the same time, later getting Ciji pregnant. Ciji insists on keeping the baby, much to Chip's annoyance and anger. Ciji also became close to Laura which angered Richard, and was also romantically linked to Gary. Ciji's dead body was later discovered on the beach, and there are many suspects, most prominently Gary, Valene, Chip, Richard and Abby. Richard realises his marriage is over and leaves Knots Landing, and Kenny and Ginger move to Nashville where she starts her music career. Karen learns that Chip's real name is Tony Fenice and that he's a fugitive wanted for assault and battery on a woman in Seattle, but is too late to stop Diana leaving town with him. The season ends with Gary sitting in jail, awaiting trial for Ciji's murder.
697:, and they convinced him to return home and visit Miss Ellie. At the same time, Lucy discovered that Valene had returned to Dallas and was working as a waitress in a diner, and began meeting with her in secret to avoid J. R.'s wrath. Lucy then engineered a meeting between her parents, which led to them reconciling and moving into Southfork together. J. R., upset and jealous that his parents were now lauding Gary's new start, saddled him with a failing company, the pressures of which led to him choosing to leave Southfork before he relapsed into drinking again. J. R. then forced Valene off the ranch again without letting her say goodbye to Lucy; instead, J. R. made out that Valene had abandoned her again, and taken a $ 5000 payoff from him. During these episodes on
1169:). Gary learns that Danny had beaten and raped Amanda, but when he tells Valene she refuses to believe him, and she ends up marrying Danny. However, when she realizes the truth, Valene tries to kick him out of her house. When Danny becomes violent, Valene takes her twins and moves in with Gary. The two rekindle their romance and eventually make plans to remarry. While drunk, Danny hits Pat Williams with his car, and she is left on life support in the hospital. When told that Pat is permanently brain dead, Frank decides to have her life support turned off. Olivia marries Harold, but they run into financial troubles when Abby cuts Olivia off financially. The couple soon make the decision to leave Knots Landing and move to Miami. Eric's wife Linda Fairgate (
1063:), Peter's sister, becomes Mack's new colleague, although Jill and Peter keep their relationship a secret as an effort to get revenge on the Galveston family for having wronged their family years before. Abby soon discovers that Sylvia is not Peter's mother and that Peter is not Galveston's son, therefore blackmailing Peter into paying her to keep their secret safe. In the meantime, Joshua becomes increasingly controlling and abusive towards Cathy, and in a moment of rage he tries to kill her but falls of the roof of a building and dies. Cathy soon starts an affair with Ben, who becomes her manager for her budding singing career but she later leaves town. Abby discovers that her daughter Olivia has developed a drug problem. A young woman named
1267:) begins terrorizing everybody with its sights set on the Sumner Group. Gary starts a relationship with Kate. In the series finale, Karen returns to Mack, and the presumed dead Valene returns, revealing she kidnapped by Treadwell's people, who had threatened to harm her for coming across secretive information and that it was another captor was in the car that exploded. Treadwell's mysterious partner is revealed to be Abby, who has been orchestrating the takeover of the Sumner Group all along. However, Greg stops Abby by threatening to reveal her dirty dealings while she was in Japan. As Treadwell prepares to kill Nick, who was working for him, Treadwell himself was killed by Vanessa Hunt (
1177:), visits him after a six-year estrangement and is shot dead in her father's office, making Greg believe that he had been the intended target. Greg himself had been shot by Mary Frances' activist boyfriend, Robert Scarrow (John David Bland), although he survives. Robert blames Greg for manufacturing poisonous chemicals that cause liver cancer, and he also admits to being the one that killed Mary Frances. Now broke, Paige's mother Anne returns to Knots Landing, in an attempt to cheat Paige out of an inheritance that her grandfather left her. Anne steals Paige's identity in an effort to obtain her daughter's money, although the plan soon goes awry. Paige soon falls in love with Tom Ryan (
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locked herself in the trunk of Gary's car, hoping to frame Gary for kidnapping her. When Jill dies in the trunk, Gary is charged with her murder, although Mack has the charges dropped when it is learned Jill had deliberately locked herself in the trunk. A con artist tried to extort money from Frank and Pat by threatening to reveal their whereabouts to the people that had threatened Pat's life years earlier. Mack halted the con artist, and used dental records from a deceased family to make him believe that the
Sollars (the Williamses' original surname) were dead. Paige and Michael were eventually able to get out of Mexico, and Manny Vasquez's nephew, Harold Dyer (
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but she discovers she suffered a "hysterical pregnancy". Meanwhile, Anne's old beau Nick returns and the two rekindle their affair and their old conniving ways. Mack seeks $ 1 million to get Mary
Robeson to stop the custody battle over Meg. Claudia gives Mack $ 500,000 from the Sumner Group, and gives the other half to Nick to start a restaurant. Paige demanded an audit, but Claudia cannot get the money from Nick back because he already spent it. Karen condemns Mack's handling of Mary Robeson's efforts to win custody of Meg. She leaves him and goes to New York to stay with her daughter Diana. A shady organization run by Daniel Treadwell (
1095:), whom Paige had said was dead, appears and tries to rekindle her love affair with Mack. When Mack refuses her advances, she turns her attention to Greg, who also turns her down, and she therefore leaves town. At the end of the season, Abby finds Olivia standing over Peter's dead body. With both assuming the other had killed Peter, Abby frantically buries his body under the soil at Lotus Point where cement is to be poured the following day. Some weeks later, believing she had successfully hidden Peter's body, Abby is informed by Karen that there is a crack in the cement foundations and that it has to be pulled up and redone.
1019:, but Gary finally finds her and brings her back to Knots Landing, where she rekindles her romance with Ben, but still believes her babies to be alive. Karen and Ben discover that Valene's doctor had paid off a nurse to assist in the kidnapping of Valene's children. Mack tracks down Valene's babies, who had been adopted illegally. Abby confides in Greg that she inadvertently caused the kidnapping of Valene's babies, but she now wants to get them back. In the season finale, Abby goes to Valene and tells her that she knows where her babies are, and the two go to the home of Sheila and Harry Fisher (Robin Ginsburg and
1205:), a man claiming to be her brother. Steve, who had been put up for adoption by Claudia, was the product of an affair between Claudia and Paul Galveston (her mother's dead husband, and Greg's biological father - which makes him both Greg's half-brother and nephew). Kate and Steve become good friends, but Claudia, who wants Steve gone, has him framed by placing a gun in his car. Since Steve was already a felon, the gun violated his parole and he was later gunned down trying to run away from the police. Mack befriends a high school student named Jason Lochner (
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when Laura learns she is pregnant, she decides to reconcile with
Richard and end her affair with Scooter. However, Richard loses his job and suffers a nervous breakdown, holds Laura hostage in their home at gunpoint. Laura subsequently sends Richard to a mental institution. After Karen passes up the opportunity to fund a methanol-powered vehicle project, Gary and Abby devote the majority of their time to making the deal without Karen's help. In the season finale, Valene discovers Gary and Abby's affair and leaves him.
903:), threatens to take her children from her. While separated from Kenny, Ginger starts a romance with the father of one of her students, although she and Kenny eventually reconcile. Near the end of the season, Jeff succeeds in taking Olivia and Brian from Abby, leaving her frantic. When Sid discovered some car parts that Gary and Abby had purchased were actually stolen, his brakes were tampered with to keep him from testifying in court. As a result, in the season finale, Sid's car plunges off a cliff.
1213:), with whom she romances and embarks on a series of illegal schemes in an effort to obtain wealth. Their plans backfire when Nick suddenly leaves town, leaving Anne homeless. Paige and Linda continue to despise one another, a mutual disliking that is further fueled when Linda has an affair with Greg. At the end of the season, Karen furiously pursues a group of teenagers after they paintball her for fun. A high-speed car chase results in a crash, and one of the teenagers in the crash is Jason.
1246:) in a partnership. A former flame of Pierce's, Victoria Broyard (Marcia Cross), informs Paige that Pierce had killed his previous girlfriend, but Paige does not believe her. Paige is later shot by Pierce (who was aiming for Greg, whom he hated), temporarily paralyzing her. Pierce then kidnaps Paige, and holds her hostage on his yacht. Mack and Greg rescue her after she and Pierce fall into the water. Pierce's body is never found, and it is presumed he drowned. Alex Barth (
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with no immediate plans of showing any more episodes. The BBC then brought the series back in
October 1986, picking up from the middle of season 3 where they last left off, but now it was screened in the afternoon as part of their new daytime line-up. The BBC continued to screen the series in an afternoon slot until the end, though UK audiences tended to be three to four years behind US audiences. The series concluded on the BBC in January 1996.
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Abby's uncle dies, leaving Abby and (by default) Karen a land inheritance at Lotus Point, California. Without Karen's knowledge, Abby schemes to build a resort on the land while cutting Karen out of her plans. Abby then forms a company called
Apolune, a secret subsidiary of Gary's corporation, and she convinces Gary to marry her so she can share the inheritance he got from his father. Valene begins a relationship with journalist Ben Gibson (
3159:, and he said, 'Is there any way we can make this a spin-off?' I just took one of the couples and made it, you know, Val and Gary who had already been created on the parent series and putting them into the mix, but when you have four couples and you change one, you sort of have to change the dynamic all the way around. However, once I wrote the script, remarkably little changed from the script and the pilot as you would see it."
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1153:), which infuriated Karen, who was determined to send Abby to jail for fraud. Abby narrowly avoided being imprisoned, and agreed to donate Lotus Point to city as a public park. Abby then leaves Greg and Knots Landing, accepting a Trade Envoy job in Japan (a job Greg himself wanted after losing the run for mayor). Paige, meanwhile, finds herself caught between Greg and Ted Melcher, one of whom is a murderer.
1250:), the nephew of the Galveston housekeeper, blackmails Claudia for refusing to allow his ailing mother to receive treatment, thus leading to her death. Claudia also takes a disliking to Joseph and she arranges for him to get another job, thus ending his romance with Kate. Gary, who had been left bankrupt after investing his money to Tidal Energy, moves back to Seaview Circle with Valene. Mary Robeson (
1108:, though he refuses to accept it. Laura leaves Knots Landing to die elsewhere, thus leaving Greg with their infant child, a daughter named Meg. Overcome with grief and feeling unable to raise the child himself, Greg asks Karen and Mack to adopt Meg, which they agree to. Meanwhile, Lilimae leaves town after starting a new romance, and Abby rekindles her love affair with her old flame, Charles Scott (
995:), whom Lilimae abandoned as an infant, arrives in Knots Landing and moves in with Lilimae and Valene. He soon starts a romance with Cathy, who has moved into the cul-de-sac with Laura and her children. Abby starts running a television station, World Pacific Cable, that Ben becomes a journalist for after Gary purchased it. Joshua also works at the station and later becomes a popular
966:), but after a one-night stand with Gary, she learns she is pregnant with twins. Valene decides not to tell Gary that he is the father, as he is now married to Abby, and as she had fallen in love with Ben. However, Ben could not accept that Valene was pregnant with another man's children and he and Valene break up. Abby hires a Ciji look-alike, Cathy Geary (also played by
1011:), and Galveston offers Gary the opportunity to develop Empire Valley, a large piece of real estate. Galveston soon dies, and he leaves his millions to Greg, who is proven to have been his son. Assuming he had been left Empire Valley, Greg resigns from the Senate, but is shocked to learn that the land had been left to Gary. Greg's devious mother, Ruth (guest star
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1987), and harbored resentment because the writing team, who had been represented by his wife, moved to a different agency. Joan van Ark, whose character was struck by a brain illness in season 12 and proceeded to thereafter go crazy, felt that Latham and
Lechowick had turned her character into the "village idiot." Joan Van Ark's and Donna Mills' favorite
434:, Seaview Circle. Throughout its 14-year run, storylines included marital strife, rape, murder, kidnapping, assassinations, drug smuggling, politics, addictions, 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
1003:), an influential lobbyist with shady connections, about her problem. As a favor to Abby, Scott arranges to have Valene's babies kidnapped at birth, though without Abby's approval. Valene is told the babies were stillborn, although she insists she saw them alive. Her mental health deteriorates and she leaves Knots Landing and goes to
1015:), comes to visit her son after Galveston's death. Ruth becomes close to Abby (since they have similar interests), but loathes Laura, who, by this time has started a relationship with Greg. Around this same time, Joshua and Cathy grow closer, and the two soon marry. Valene (still believing she is "Verna") becomes engaged to a man in
3255:. Cost cutting again plagued the series in its final season, when only 19 episodes were produced, and (with the exception of Michele Lee) regular cast members did not appear in every episode. Not wanting to compromise what he felt had been a good run, series creator David Jacobs described its end as a "mutual decision" between
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title, fades to black, and the title scrolls from right to left followed by a montage of clips of the show playing in small boxes. Each cast member is credited below a larger box showcasing a close-up of their character, accompanied by three or four smaller boxes showing that character in scenes with other characters.
1254:) arrives in Knots Landing and tells Valene she is Laura's biological mother and therefore Meg's real grandmother. Valene does not believe her, and while researching Mary in Florida, Valene is kidnapped. Later, when Paige gets into her car, she is horrified to see Pierce waiting for her in the back seat.
3067:, rumors began surfacing that both Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackelford would reprise their roles as Valene and Gary Ewing on the new series. Shackelford passed on the small role the producers offered him during the first season, but accepted a multi-episode role during the second. Shackelford returned to
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When Peter's body is discovered, Olivia is charged with his murder, although Abby steps in to take the blame for her daughter. It is soon learned, however, that Paige accidentally caused Peter's death, although no charges are made against her. Laura decides to make up with Valene, but then tells Greg
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Gary is cleared of Ciji's murder, and the police hunt for Chip who is now their prime suspect. He is eventually arrested but not before he and Diana are married, which strains her relationship with Karen who becomes so stressed that she becomes addicted to prescription painkillers. Meanwhile, Sid and
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In Israel, the show aired from 1990 on The Family
Channel (later on renamed as Channel 3) on Cable TV on Fridays evenings at 19:00 for the first four seasons. Later on, it aired on Sundays at 21:45 for the season-and-a-half that followed, from February 1992. In November 1992, the show was rerun from
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eventually outlasted it and garnered much critical acclaim. The series peaked during the 1983β84 season with a 20.8 rating (when it finished in 11th place) and a 20.0 rating for the 1984β85 season (finishing 9th). This can be attributed, in part, to more dramatic storylines as the series became more
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now showcases sandcastle structures of the cul-de-sac houses as well as some skyscrapers representing Los
Angeles on a beach. It is the only version of the opening without pictures of the cast. The camera twists through this sandcastle community with only the actors' names appearing. From the second
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features a rotating aerial shot of a
California beach which dissolves to a rotating aerial shot of roads and houses, gradually zooming in to a freeze-frame of the Seaview Circle cul-de-sac. The camera then zooms in to the top of each house in turn, showing a brief shot of the residents of each home.
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artists and bands had taken America by storm and the new style of music cues made good use of the synthesizer instead of a full orchestra. Bruce Miller was one of the main composers during this era. Updated orchestrations of the by-then familiar Lance Rubin cues were also re-arranged to be played by
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during the 1985β86 season, Bobby's death had an indelible impact on some of the characters (i.e. Gary struggling to deal with his brother's death and being comforted by his wife Abby, Abby and Greg then taking advantage of Gary's absence to control development of Empire Valley, and Valene naming her
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Greg kills Mark St. Clare, who was holding Abby hostage on a boat. After being shot, Karen refuses to have risky surgery, afraid that she would be paralysed or die like Sid did, but without it she only has months to live. Meanwhile, Gary and Abby reconcile and, along with Karen, they agree to become
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as a bookkeeper and briefly stays with the Fairgate family before leaving town. Valene's mother, Lilimae Clements, moves in with Gary and Valene, enabling Valene and Lilimae to gradually fix their estranged relationship. Laura plans to leave Richard and marry her real-estate sales boss, Scooter, but
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A year later, Valene appeared at Lucy's college hoping for a reconciliation. Still thinking Valene had run out on her, Lucy rebuffed her. However, with help from Bobby, Lucy and Valene reconciled again and they maintained their relationship. Shortly afterwards, Valene revealed to Miss Ellie that she
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had this aspect as well but was much more about the struggles of parenting, drug addictions, spousal issues and many of the evolving problems in the 1980s and early '90s. The reunion special showed such subjects as: women's power in the workforce, the HIV/AIDS crisis and the matter of safe sex, the
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on 26 April 1980, in a primetime Saturday night slot. Season 2 began a year later on May 8, 1981, now in a Friday night slot. Season 3 did not begin until September 16, 1983, but only the first 13 episodes of the season were shown, at which point the BBC pulled the series from its Friday night slot
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unveiled a new opening at the start of season 3. In what is probably the best-remembered introduction, the sequence designed by Gene Kraft begins with a fast-moving aerial shot of the ocean which then tilts up as it approaches the coastline, and the series title appears. The picture, except for the
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While trying to find Valene, Gary sees the car she was in explode. Greg decides to retire from the Sumner Group, and he leaves one third of the company to Claudia, a third to Paige, and the other third to Mack and Karen in a trust for Meg. Anne reveals she is pregnant, leading to Greg marrying her,
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Frank finds Valene unconscious and telephones for an ambulance. Valene survives and says that Jill had tried to kill her. While Jill has provided herself with an alibi, Valene's testimony is later proven true. With doubt on her innocence, Jill was left friendless and she thereby tied herself up and
1083:), an old friend of Greg and Mack's from law school, who had become bitter towards Mack, having blamed him for causing the death of his wife. Karen escapes and Phil is killed after being hit by a car. Ben returns to Valene, promising to make their marriage work but faces problems from Jean Hackney (
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began airing the series in its entirety starting from April 1, 2013. This was the first time the show had been rerun in the UK since the early 2000s when it was shown on UK Gold. Once CBS Drama completed the series in July 2014, the channel immediately began a second round of reruns, followed by a
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By the debut of the fourth season in 1982 the lushness of the 1980s was in full swing and background cues were changed to reflect that style. The new dramatic cues emphasized full orchestral arrangements as formerly middle-class Knots Landing became upwardly mobile. The background music of seasons
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had more input than actors on other 1980s primetime soaps. In 1987, the writers wanted Mack (Kevin Dobson) to have an extramarital affair with Anne (Michelle Phillips). Michele Lee, who played Mack's wife Karen, protested this to Jacobs, saying, "There has to be one stable couple on the show." The
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After a frantic battle to expose the illegal black market adoption, Valene's children are returned to her, whom she names Betsy and Bobby. Valene and Ben agree to raise the children as theirs, and the two soon marry. Abby successfully covers her tracks in the matter by simply telling Gary that she
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At the start of the third season, Sid undergoes surgery but dies of his injuries. Karen becomes the head of Knots Landing Motors, subsequently firing Abby, although she was soon rehired. Meanwhile, Abby and Gary start an affair, and Ginger gives birth to a daughter, Erin Molly, and makes Karen her
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debuted in 1975 and is still in production as of 2022. However, SNL is not traditionally included in the category of "scripted" shows, which in entertainment industry parlance means 30- to 60-minute sitcoms and dramas and excludes variety and sketch shows even if they are pre-scripted rather than
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for off-network broadcast in local markets by Lorimar in 1985. Before the show opening, each episode was preceded by a "Lorimar Presents" logo, followed by a narrated recap of the previous episode with the theme music played under. The first 190 episodes (the first eight seasons) were packaged in
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from 1986 to 1991) was controversial among both fans and actors. Their humor-imbued style of writing made them the favorites of Michele Lee, while John Pleshette felt they were "awful people." Pleshette, however, was not a regular cast member during their tenure (only making a guest appearance in
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first broadcast the series daily in late 1989 as part of its early afternoon schedule. It proved to be popular and was eventually given an early evening timeslot in February 1991 when RTΓ moved the show (after showing the first nine seasons) from a daily afternoon timeslot, to a weekly primetime
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made one final change to the opening credits by returning to the famous horizontal scrolling clips style, though with faster-moving, color-framed boxes which moved at different speeds and overlapped each other. This version was designed by Castle/Bryant/Johnsen to be "safe" for the
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about 20 miles north of the Pacific Ocean. The opening credits during the first two seasons were edited in such a way to make it appear that the cul-de-sac was closer to the beach. The aerial shots as seen in the opening and end credits from 1981 to 1987, were filmed at
1007:. She assumes the identity of Verna Ellers (a character from one of her books) and works as a waitress. Karen and Mack reconcile, and Karen eventually gets the operation she needs in order to make a full recovery. Gary befriends the aging millionaire Paul Galveston (
887:), move to Knots Landing. Abby starts working for her brother at Knots Landing Motors and immediately takes an interest in Richard, beginning a rather open affair with him, and she makes sure that Valene discovers Gary having an affair with Judy Trent (guest star
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storyline, it is made clear that Gary and Val had still been living together at their home in California, though had recently separated due to Gary's brief relapse into alcoholism due to financial worries. At the end of their appearances on the new series of
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In 1987, CBS demanded that production costs be cut. This meant the firing of two regulars, Constance McCashin and Julie Harris. Season 13 saw a large ratings drop for the show after writer/producers Bernard Lechowick and Lynn Marie Latham left to create
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as Bobby was never mentioned again). Empire Valley went awry when Gary learns that Galveston Industries and its partners were secretly building an underground espionage operation there. Gary subsequently blows Empire Valley up. Peter Hollister
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and creator David Jacobs had a health crisis and pulled back his involvement in production. Jacobs has publicly stated that the way he knew the show was in trouble was when waitresses at his favorite diner, whom he had heard gossiping about
650:) was thrilled to have him home. At his parents' insistence, J. R. started including him in dealings at Ewing Oil, but J. R. landed him with failing business deals and made it appear that Gary was at fault. These pressures forced Gary into
3383:. As the zig-zag panning continues, the cast montage appears, featuring black-and-white shots of the actors inside of small ovular cameos. The posed cameos were dropped in the 1988β89 season in favor of color close-ups taken from the show.
4282:). All remaining episodes were shown without a break (the end of each season was followed by the first episode of the next season the following week) until Christmas 1993 when the final episode was broadcast followed by the retrospective
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In Spain, the series was aired by the regional channels under the FORTA umbrella. The series did not arrive in Spain until at least 1992, and initially was only aired in various regions, normally in a weekday afternoon slot accompanying
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Photo credits for each of the main actors then appear superimposed over the shape of the cul-de-sac. In the pilot, however, it had the photo credits of the main actors shown superimposed over the house each of their characters live in.
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and clinical precision" of the production as opposed to the low-budget films and television series he had acted in up until this point. In particular, he wrote that Michele Lee "ran the set like a drill seargent and laid out all the
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had received a phone call for a "Mrs. Ewing" telling her where the babies could be found. Gary receives news of his brother Bobby's death and returns to Dallas for the funeral (Bobby Ewing's death was later explained as being a "
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episode of this season, the opening splits in two. The cutting takes place during the staff credits. The main theme is adapted as well. Between the two parts of the opening is presented a summary of events in the past episodes.
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evil. Fearing the audience would never forgive her character for kidnapping another woman's babies, she asked the writers to make the kidnappings a result of Abby's actions, but only by accident, and the writers complied.
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in September 1992 and ran through May 1993; as with the syndicated run, only the first 160 episodes (the first seven seasons) were broadcast. TNT would later become the first network to broadcast all 344 episodes of
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Kate blames Claudia for Steve's death and removes her mother from her life, but they soon reconcile when Claudia attempts suicide. After some months of living on the streets, Anne meets the shady Benny Appleman
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and Gary were still writing to each other. Gary returned to Dallas and mended his relationship with Jock, before marrying Valene for a second time. After they announced that they were planning to move to
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as Linda Fairgate (seasons 9 and 11β13), Eric's wife who has an affair with Michael, and uncredited as "Sally's Friend" (Season 10), with whom Gary accidentally strikes up a friendship over the phone;
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playing "alternative" versions of Gary and Valene (the episode depicted an alternate reality in which J. R. Ewing had never been born), there have been no real crossovers of story or characters from
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section, and were often played with a very sparse bass line accompaniment. It was the only aspect of the series ever to win an Emmy award, for the music orchestration during its 1979β80 season.
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In season four, Valene returns to the cul-de-sac and throws Gary out of the house, leaving him free to move in with Abby. He then inherits millions of dollars from his recently deceased father,
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cocaine epidemic in the 1980s, and the ever-growing spread of crime in America (Michele Lee's character Karen alluded to this in a famous speech about not feeling safe and being happy being a
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and sung in French by French male vocalist Claude Vallois). From 2000, the show was rerun from beginning to end on FoxLife, a now defunct satellite channel broadcasting on CanalSat provider.
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via an online petition at www.knotslanding.net for further releases, and Warner Home Video released season two on April 14, 2009. No further seasons have yet been announced for release.
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and, unable to cope with disappointing his family, he fled Southfork, leaving Valene and Lucy behind. Without Gary in his way, J. R. persecuted Valene until she left the ranch, and
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every Friday during past seasons, suddenly stopped discussing the show in late 1991. He attempted to save face by shutting down production on November 20, 1991, firing head writer
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producers and the CBS Network, saying, "We don't know if they would have picked us up anyway...but even if they had, we would have had to pare away more to survive."
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Jeff starts a plot to murder Karen, but he is eventually caught and imprisoned. With Greg's health on a downward spiral, his half-sister Claudia Whittaker (
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on September 24 in the same year. The show later returned to Hong Kong television on August 27, 1985, and continued airing on ATV until June 28, 1991.
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program. With business at Lotus Point reaching a low, Karen, Abby, and Gary agree to expand the marina to accommodate the business of Manny Vasquez (
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and Bobby's return was simply never addressed or even mentioned afterwards. Following this, no further crossover storylines were featured on
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initially turned down this idea, as they wanted something more "glitzy" to put on the air, with wealthier characters, which would become
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which also arrived late in Spain. Neither series completed their run in Spain and neither have been rescreened there in full or in part.
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in order to keep the two shows separate. She did, however, make a guest appearance in the first-season episode "Home is for Healing".
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as Peter Hollister (seasons 7β8), Jill Bennett's brother who poses as Paul's son and Greg's half-brother, eventually killed by Paige;
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began incorporating this into its background music during season 12. Lance Rubin's music cues were mostly phased out at this point.
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for three episodes and Van Ark returned for one. This was the first time the characters had been seen since the 1997 miniseries
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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
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soap opera-like, and the gradual inclusion of newer characters to interact with the original cast. By the 1988β89 season,
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as Paul Galveston (seasons 6 and 11), a millionaire industrialist who turns out to be Greg Sumner's biological father;
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as a spin-off series by way of incorporating the characters of Gary and Valene Ewing who were first introduced in
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in 1993, in a mid-afternoon timeslot. Unlike other Lorimar soaps, the series was never before broadcast on RTP.
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on May 6, 1980, and aired on the channel of that name until July 24, 1982, where it later changed its name to
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baby son after the late Bobby). When Bobby's death and the subsequent season were revealed to be a dream on
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ultimately outlasted it and garnered much critical acclaim. There were 344 episodes spanning 14 seasons of
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this manner, but only the first 160 episodes (the first seven seasons) were syndicated to local stations.
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In addition to the above, the characters of Gary and Valene Ewing appeared in the following episodes of
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improvised. In the majority of the U.S., SNL also airs later than the timeslots considered "primetime".
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as Charlotte Anderson (season 12), Julie's English teacher and Frank's first romance after Pat's death;
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as Sylvia Lean (seasons 7β8), a former fling of Paul Galveston's hired by Peter to pose as his mother;
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non-fiction reunion show in which stars Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark reminisce about the series.
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in the ratings, though audiences for both shows by this time were less than their earlier years.
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as Nick Schillace/Dimitri Pappas (seasons 12 and 14), bankrupt Italian playboy-turned-conman;
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and the character of Bobby was resurrected in the infamous "shower scene" at the end of the
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has not been seen in United States syndication since SOAPnet quit broadcasting it in 2005.
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the synthesizer, and the Immel/Huxley cues were similarly utilized, albeit less commonly.
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as Ted Melcher (seasons 10β11), Greg's murderous campaign manager when he runs for mayor;
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later acquired the rights to the series when it first went on the air in January 2000.
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and the last scripted primetime drama show that debuted in the 1970s to leave the air.
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partners in Lotus Point. Lilimae's secret son and Valene's half-brother, Joshua Rush (
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as Mary Robeson (seasons 13β14), a woman claiming to be Meg's biological grandmother.
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as Amanda Michaels (seasons 10β11), Danny's abused ex-wife and girlfriend of Gary;
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the beginning, every weekday evening at 20:45. All 14 seasons had aired by 1994.
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Valene and Gary become separately involved with another divorced couple, Danny (
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was released on DVD on March 28, 2006, in Region 1. Fans of the series lobbied
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producers decided to break tradition with the opening. The intro designed by
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as Steve Brewer (season 12), Claudia's illegitimate son by Paul Galveston;
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was moved to Thursday nights for the final four episodes of its run. When
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as Virginia Bullock (seasons 10β12), Lilimae's sister and Valene's aunt;
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as Julie Williams (seasons 9β13), Frank and Pat's teenage daughter;
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known as Seaview Circle. They meet their neighbors, Sid Fairgate (
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Devane is added to the opening credits from "Marital Privilege" (
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characters appear in this episode, but the set normally used as
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Thursday night slot on its sister channel Network Two (now
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Knots Landing.net (The Official Knots Landing Website)
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4231:in 1988 with a new lyrical theme song (composed by
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2811:Episode 12: "End of the Road, Part II". Featuring
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2578:Episode 6: "Home is For Healing" Guest starring
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465:Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
4803:Core Characters Return for Twist-Filled Finale"
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2944:Episode 14: "Comings and Goings". Featuring
2758:Episode 14: "Return Engagements". Featuring
2658:Episode 6: "New Beginnings". Guest starring
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2723:Episode 2: "Reunion, Part II". Featuring
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5859:1993 American television series endings
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4617:. 19 February 2023.
4252:on January 9, 1988.
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3910:September 13, 1990
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3841:(Episodes 1β26, 28)
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3768:(Episodes 2, 11β30)
3752:September 18, 1986
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3321:became popular and
3271:San Fernando Valley
3022:Pamela Barnes Ewing
2996:, the character of
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2011:Nicollette Sheridan
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1258:Season 14 (1992β93)
1217:Season 13 (1991β92)
1211:Lorenzo Caccialanza
1207:Thomas Wilson Brown
1189:Season 12 (1990β91)
1157:Season 11 (1989β90)
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5744:J.R.'s Masterpiece
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4896:. 21 January 1993.
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4858:2013-02-09 at the
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2602:Kristin Shepard
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685:) and his wife
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636:Charlene Tilton
624:Valene Clements
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2846:Joan Van Ark
2825:Valene Ewing
2821:Joan Van Ark
2797:Valene Ewing
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2768:Joan Van Ark
2750:Joan Van Ark
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2609:Larry Hagman
2569:Larry Hagman
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2450:Betsy Palmer
2414:Michael York
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2214:Stacy Galina
1958:Jill Bennett
1904:Lisa Hartman
1869:Alec Baldwin
1721:Julie Harris
1689:Kevin Dobson
1615:Joan Van Ark
1508:Sid Fairgate
1426:Kim Lankford
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1228:Philip Brown
1220:
1199:Stacy Galina
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1183:Chris Lemmon
1175:Stacy Galina
1167:Penny Peyser
1160:
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1110:Michael York
1102:
1085:Wendy Fulton
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1044:tenth season
1037:
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993:Alec Baldwin
989:
980:U.S. Senator
968:Lisa Hartman
960:
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939:Lisa Hartman
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897:Allan Miller
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269:Running time
263:David Jacobs
183:Stacy Galina
143:Alec Baldwin
138:Lisa Hartman
118:Kevin Dobson
113:Julie Harris
103:Joan Van Ark
73:Kim Lankford
55:David Jacobs
22:
5656:Who Done It
5464:Elena Ramos
5381:J. R. Ewing
5361:Bobby Ewing
5310:(2012β2014)
5302:(1978β1991)
5230:(1978β1991)
5168:Cathy Geary
5143:Laura Avery
4970:Vulture.com
4944:. July 2020
4814:October 29,
4782:October 29,
4750:27 February
4723:27 February
4696:27 February
4669:27 February
4490:Mike Kelley
4461:Marc Cherry
4122:DVD season
4033:syndication
3622:(Episode 6)
3492:(Episode 5)
3373:Sandy Dvore
3249:John Romano
3141:The Reunion
2998:Bobby Ewing
2924:Michele Lee
2672:Bobby Ewing
2664:J. R. Ewing
2653:J. R. Ewing
2635:J. R. Ewing
2624:Bobby Ewing
2613:J. R. Ewing
2598:Mary Crosby
2573:J. R. Ewing
2562:Bobby Ewing
2492:Lance Guest
2474:Joseph Gian
2456:Sam Behrens
2426:Lynne Moody
2396:Ava Gardner
2390:Howard Duff
2176:Larry Riley
2050:Tonya Crowe
1968:Teri Austin
1859:Joshua Rush
1829:Greg Sumner
1648:Donna Mills
1461:Michele Lee
1416:Ginger Ward
1236:Halle Berry
1203:Lance Guest
1179:Joseph Gian
1163:Sam Behrens
1118:Lynne Moody
1114:Larry Riley
1106:brain tumor
1061:Teri Austin
1013:Ava Gardner
1009:Howard Duff
1001:Jack Bannon
972:Greg Sumner
889:Jane Elliot
881:Tonya Crowe
877:Donna Mills
857:Karen Allen
833:J. R. Ewing
781:Michele Lee
600:black sheep
580:Kay O'Brien
543:itself was
428:Los Angeles
412:television
315:(1988β1993)
306:(1986β1988)
297:(1979β1986)
285:(1979β1982)
237:of episodes
178:Larry Riley
168:Tonya Crowe
148:Teri Austin
108:Donna Mills
78:Michele Lee
5848:Categories
5730:Blame Game
5505:Gary Ewing
5483:Supporting
5406:Ray Krebbs
5386:Lucy Ewing
5376:Jock Ewing
5371:Jack Ewing
5319:Characters
5158:Gary Ewing
5135:Characters
4522:References
4482:Twin Peaks
4237:Shuki Levy
4233:Haim Saban
4224:CΓ΄te Ouest
4098:Home media
4027:Reruns of
3460:Households
3253:Ann Marcus
3133:Lucy Ewing
2972:Gary Ewing
2903:Gary Ewing
2877:Gary Ewing
2860:Gary Ewing
2842:Gary Ewing
2817:Gary Ewing
2807:Gary Ewing
2789:Gary Ewing
2764:Gary Ewing
2729:Gary Ewing
2711:Gary Ewing
2584:Lucy Ewing
2530:crossovers
2498:Mark Soper
2486:Tracy Reed
2408:Ruth Roman
2402:Hunt Block
2362:Steve Shaw
2277:Cast notes
2262:Recurring
2226:Recurring
2188:Recurring
2152:Recurring
2141:Recurring
2098:Recurring
2062:Recurring
2026:Recurring
1983:Recurring
1942:Recurring
1916:Recurring
1894:Ciji Dunne
1794:Ben Gibson
1783:Recurring
1769:Recurring
1736:Recurring
1577:Gary Ewing
1518:Don Murray
1386:Kenny Ward
1293:Character
1240:Mark Soper
1130:John Aprea
1057:Ruth Roman
1053:Hunt Block
931:Jock Ewing
799:) and his
789:Steve Shaw
773:Don Murray
769:cul-de-sac
765:California
713:California
652:alcoholism
644:Miss Ellie
592:Gary Ewing
432:cul-de-sac
414:soap opera
357:1993-05-13
347:1979-12-27
272:60 minutes
252:Production
226:of seasons
158:Hunt Block
88:Don Murray
51:Created by
45:Soap opera
5677:TV movies
5663:Conundrum
5449:Ann Ewing
5346:Pam Ewing
5336:Liz Adams
5240:(2012β14)
4584:, pp. 4β5
4443:Alan Ball
4436:Pollyanna
4187:(Germany)
4176:Season 2
4149:Season 1
4142:Comments
4139:Region 4
4136:Region 2
4133:Region 1
4130:episodes
4081:CBS Drama
3239:Homefront
3095:Pam Ewing
3059:With the
2964:Conundrum
1286:Main cast
1017:Tennessee
1005:Tennessee
935:Jim Davis
787:), Eric (
729:episode "
695:Las Vegas
660:Tennessee
612:Jim Davis
587:Backstory
410:primetime
5833:Category
5797:"Time" (
5751:Legacies
5544:Episodes
5524:Families
5127:Episodes
5038:in 2004.
4975:New York
4856:Archived
4642:, pp. 61
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4596:, pp. 28
4516:episodes
4512:List of
4506:See also
4407:in 1988.
4377:Dubai 33
3451:Timeslot
3448:Episodes
3442:Premiere
3311:New wave
3206:blocking
2535:Episodes
1299:Seasons
437:Gunsmoke
61:Starring
5560:Seasons
5026:Bonanza
4551:May 28,
4499:Revenge
4421:special
4280:RTΓ Two
4092:Ireland
4055:SOAPnet
3981:1992β93
3947:1991β92
3905:1990β91
3869:1989β90
3825:1988β89
3791:1987β88
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3714:1985β86
3681:1984β85
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3601:1982β83
3559:1981β82
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3377:panning
1376:Reunion
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725:in the
443:Bonanza
365:Related
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340:Release
330:Network
218:English
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5704:(1998)
5696:(1996)
5688:(1986)
5287:Dallas
5236:Dallas
5226:Dallas
5209:(2005)
5199:(1997)
5048:Dallas
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4948:Feb 6,
4920:Feb 6,
4426:Dallas
4412:Legacy
4338:TV One
4324:Dallas
4023:Reruns
3457:Rating
3445:Finale
3439:Season
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3423:Dallas
3403:1990s.
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459:Family
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391:Dallas
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383:Dallas
378:(1997)
5218:Other
5187:Media
5013:Notes
4801:Knots
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4257:GMA 7
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803:wife
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767:in a
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672:Texas
656:Texas
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