Knots Landing

Creato da: Michael Filerman | David Jacobs |
Genere: Dramma | Soap |

Numero di stagioni: 14
Numero di episodi: 344
Data prima messa in onda: 1979-12-27
Data ultima messa in onda: 1993-05-13

Approfondimenti

Before filming California: Cricket (1982), when the show reran in syndication, there was a bit of a [...]	D
From the fifth through the thirteenth season, Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) owned a ranch called West [...]	D
Mack's and Greg's law school professor was named Jacobs, which was a reference to the show's creator [...]	D
Lisa Hartman-Black and Stacy Galina both played characters that were killed off. They re-appeared in [...]	D
When Kevin Dobson came to the show, he was initially unhappy about the role. However, his popularity [...]	D
In February 1992, when Larry Riley had been on the show for five years, audiences were shocked by hi [...]	D
When the show debuted, episodes were largely self-contained rather than serialized. Beginning in Sea [...]	D
When production of the series was about to begin, David Ackroyd who created the role of Gary Ewing, [...]	D
Karen Fairgate MacKenzie's maiden name was: Cooper.	D
Michele Lee (Karen Fairgate MacKenzie), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing) and Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing) [...]	D
Sid Fairgate's real first name was William.	D
The Season Nine episodes California: Noises Everywhere: Part 1 (1987) and California: Noises Everywh [...]	D
Since joining the cast for the 4th season, Kevin Dobson had appeared in each and every episode, unti [...]	D
Michele Lee divorced her real-life husband James Farentino during the show's early days. In the scen [...]	D
Before the series, and after Dallas (1978), Joan Van Ark and Ted Shackelford were cast as a couple a [...]	D
Michele Lee was frequently on the set, and on the lot, to shoot each day, when it was filmed at MGM [...]	D
Only six actors played the same character on the series on the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s: Miche [...]	D
At first, Michele Lee didn't want to do the drug storyline, saying that Karen does not have a depend [...]	D
After Don Murray's departure from the show, the producers of the show wanted Michele Lee's character [...]	D
In order for William Devane to play Senator Gregory Sumner for the show's fifth season, though he di [...]	D
A new arrangement of the series' theme tune, composed by Jerold Immel, was made for every season.	D
Several celebrities to get their careers started on this series include: Halle Berry, Billy Bob Thor [...]	D
Michele Lee (Karen Fairgate MacKenzie), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing) and Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing) [...]	D
During the first few seasons, there was a certain amount of interplay between this show and Dallas ( [...]	D
Donna Mills left the show near the end of the series' tenth year to focus on other projects. She joi [...]	D
California: Ties That Bind (1988), California: Down Came the Rain and Washed the Spider Out: Part 2 [...]	D
Producers originally had Sid Fairgate survive the car crash. Don Murray asked to be released from hi [...]	D
Although almost every character attended Lotus Point Country Club, in real-life, the studio filmed t [...]	D
Upon Constance McCashin's termination from the show, in late 1987, due to budget cuts, the writers c [...]	D
Joan Van Ark departed from the show at the end of the thirteenth season to star in a sitcom that was [...]	D
As ratings started to fall but costs were still escalating for all the US primetime soaps in the lat [...]	D
During the 13th season, it saw a huge ratings drop for the show after writer/producers Bernard Lecho [...]	D
Before the series, William Devane worked with Joan Van Ark in the TV movie Giochi di guerra (1981), [...]	D
In order for the series to be more like Dallas (1978), it was Michele Lee's, David Jacobs's and Mich [...]	D
Nicolette Sheridan would later star in Desperate Housewives - I segreti di Wisteria Lane (2004), whe [...]	D
When that show debuted, the series was not highly rated, so, the producers thought they brought in a [...]	D
Donna Mills claimed that she did all her own make-up for her character Abby Ewing. Mills released he [...]	D
Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing), Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing), Larry Hagman (J. R. Ewing), Patrick Duffy [...]	D
Steve Kahan later played another character named Nick Morrison in Berrenger's (1985). Like Californi [...]	D
In order for Michele Lee to perform the Pollyanna speech, the writers said that they wanted Karen to [...]	D
When Joan Van Ark was the producers's David Jacobs's and Michael Filerman's first and only choice fo [...]	D
Although Karen Allen was primarily the very first guest on the show, Patrick Duffy was also among th [...]	D
Chynna Phillips (the real-life daughter of Michelle Phillips) was the producers' first choice to pla [...]	D
Before writer Peter Dunne had Linda Gray do the alcoholic storyline on the parent show Dallas (1978) [...]	D
The show was up and against Hill Street giorno e notte (1981) with strong male demographics, and thi [...]	D
This popular soap opera premiered on Friday, December 27, 1979, on CBS at 10:00 PM EST/9:00 PM PST, [...]	D
Despite not guest-starring on Dallas (1978), Michele Lee was producers David Jacobs's and Michael Fi [...]	D
For the last several years of the series, Kevin Dobson had a wonderful on- and off-screen chemistry [...]	D
Karen is the only character to have lived in the same house, for the entire run, in the center of th [...]	D
Gary Ewing's real name is Garrison. He was named after his mother's brother.	D
Although on-camera, Abby was not best buddies with either Karen or Val, off-camera, Donna Mills rema [...]	D
Before the series, Kevin Dobson worked with Joan Van Ark on an episode of Il tenente Kojak (1973). V [...]	D
M. Patrick MacKenzie's first name is Marion.	D
After writing 8 episodes, John Pleshette left the show near the end of the fourth season, hoping to [...]	D
The writers wanted Mack MacKenzie to have an extramarital affair with Anne Matheson. Michele Lee, wh [...]	D
Richard Avery's law firm did some work for a company that's connected with Gary Ewing's family, whic [...]	D
Michele Lee admitted in Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again (2005) that she had a crush on Kevin D [...]	D
Constance McCashin had both real-life pregnancies in each of the storylines. First, it was during th [...]	D
Throughout the series run, Kevin Dobson was very protective of Michele Lee, off-camera as well as on [...]	D
Many viewers were angry about Don Murray's departure from the show. Consequently, a massive stage le [...]	D
After Donna Mills left the show, the Val/Gary storyline was revisited, because viewers were ready to [...]	D
Before Karen Fairgate MacKenzie worked at Lotus Point, she would also be a community activist, who u [...]	D
Two cast members remained with the series from the first episode in 1979, until the final episode in [...]	D
Michele Lee (Karen Fairgate MacKenzie), Ted Shackelford (Gary Ewing) and Joan Van Ark (Valene Ewing) [...]	D
After Dallas (1978) ended on May 3, 1991, Knots Landing became the longest running American primetim [...]	D
On one episode California: Fair Warning (1992), when Gary and Val moved back to the cul-de-sac, the [...]	D
Upon casting, Patty Duke was David Jacobs's and Michael Filerman's first choice for Laura Avery, whe [...]	D
Although it had outlasted all of its contemporaries (even Dallas (1978)) and was still in the top fo [...]	D
California (1979) and its sister series Dallas (1978) each lasted fourteen seasons.	D
At the beginning of the third season, Don Murray (Sid Fairgate) had decided to leave the show, to fo [...]	D
Throughout the series run, Val and Greg were the only two characters to have married 4 four times, w [...]	D
John Pleshette was the first choice for Richard Avery and won the role, because of his friendship wi [...]	D
David Jacobs came up with, and tried to sell the concept of this show (five families living in a cul [...]	D
Several references to Miss Ellie (Gary's mother) have been made on the show, though Barbara Bel Gedd [...]	D
In addition to the stars like Ted Shackelford and Joan Van Ark who played the same characters on "Da [...]	D
The series' signature cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle, was actually Crystalaire Place in Granada Hills, a [...]	D
Almost a year after the series ended, Kevin Dobson (M. "Mack" Patrick Mackenzie) and Nicollette Sher [...]	D
This is the first and only soap opera dealing with middle-class families.	D
In an interview, Donna Mills said she chose to depart from the series because she was growing tired [...]	D
Both Mack MacKenzie and Greg Sumner had the same girlfriend, Anne Winston, however, Anne gave birth [...]	D
For the kidnapping storyline, Karen was forced to cut her hair because actress Michele Lee had had h [...]	D
For many years, Knots Landing lived in the shadow of its parent show Dallas but never attained the s [...]	D
The house Miss Ellie gave to Gary was located right next to the house of Karen & Sid Fairgate's (lat [...]	D
Bruce Greenwood played Democrat U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Thirteen Days (2000). He and Willi [...]	D
The series was the longest running live-action spin-off series in American prime time television his [...]	D
How Kevin Dobson created the name of Marion Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie, was in real life, he has a dau [...]	D
David Jacobs explains how he came up with the title: "I couldn't think of anything to name it, and i [...]	D
In 1985, Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) got a phone call telling him his brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) [...]	D
After Lisa Hartman-Black's character, Ciji Dunne, was killed off at the end of the '82-'83 season, t [...]	D
After being a huge fan of the show from the beginning, Kevin Dobson got the role of M. Patrick "Mack [...]	D
In the episode California: Love and Death (1992), almost everybody attended the funeral of Valene Ew [...]	D
The storyline of the Gary, Val and Abby love triangle had been brought up by Ted Shackelford and Joa [...]	D
The writers asked Larry Riley to come in after Lynne Moody, as a recurring role of Frank Williams, j [...]	D
After receiving offers, for either NBC or ABC, in requesting an availability to star in his own seri [...]	D
Michelle Phillips first joined the series as scheming Anne Matheson in 1987, for a fixed number of e [...]	D

Connessioni

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Doom Patrol: 1917 Patrol	D
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Cuori senza età: In a Bed of Rose's	D
For Pete's Wake!	D
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Una bionda per papà: Boys Will Be Boys	D
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Dallas: The Early Years	D
Dallas: Return Engagements	D
The Larry Sanders Show: The List	D
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.153	D
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La mamma è sempre la mamma: War of the Roses	D
The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story	D
WatchMojo: Top 10 Surprising TV Shows Banned in Other Countries	D
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MsMojo: Top 10 Greatest Primetime Soap Operas	D
This Is Us: Family Meeting	D
The Middle: Film, Friends and Fruit Pies	D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Killer Shrews	D
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Willy, il principe di Bel Air: M Is for the Many Things She Gave Me	D
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Red Oaks: The Anniversary	D
Celebrated: Alec Baldwin	D
Quattro donne in carriera: Working Mother	D
Dirty John: More to It Than Fun	D
Bentornato fantasma	D
Hollywood and the Muslim World	D
Battle of the Network Stars IX	D
Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac	D
I Simpson: Like Father, Like Clown	D
Night of 100 Stars II	D
SOAPnet Salutes ABC Daytime	D
Dallas	D
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: Halloween Hootenanny: Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Meyers	D
The Knots Landing Block Party	D
My First Mister	D
Il Saturday Night Live: Brandon Tartikoff/John Cougar	D
La mamma è sempre la mamma: Mama's Cousin	D
Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again	D
Derrick contre Superman	D
Jeopardy!: Episode #25.37	D
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hangar 18	D
Sposati con figli: God's Shoes	D
Il Saturday Night Live: James Woods/Don Henley	D
Jeopardy!: Episode #22.78	D
The Fake News Show: Episode #1.2	D
Beverly Hills, 90210: Wildfire	D
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La piccola grande Nell: Alabamy Bound: Part 2	D
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Il Saturday Night Live: John Goodman/Garth Brooks	D
Quattro donne in carriera: And Justice for Paul	D

Domande

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Errori

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Frase

Laura Avery Sumner: You are such a slut! Abby Fai [...]	D
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: [talking ab [...]	D
Laura Avery Sumner: Look, I'm just going away for [...]	D
Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie: I don't want you [...]	D
Paige Matheson: For years, you have lied, cheated [...]	D
Garrison Arthur 'Gary' Ewing: [handing Abby a copy [...]	D
Anne W. Matheson Sumner: You're only here with Mac [...]	D
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: Give it to [...]	D
Gregory Sumner: I thought I heard someone splashin [...]	D
Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner: Oh, by the [...]	D
Paige Matheson: You don't know the meaning of the [...]	D
Valene Ewing Gibson Waleska: Now, I mean it, Abby. [...]	D
Lilimae Clements: I know love is blind, but is it [...]	D
M. "Mack" Patrick MacKenzie: Your dad hit you. Ja [...]	D
Laura Avery Sumner: How about this dress for her f [...]	D
Lilimae Clements: [looking at a hair product] Cont [...]	D

Elenchi

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Stagioni

N		Titolo	Soggetto	Data della prima messa in onda	Numero di episodi
0		Speciali		2005	3	D
1		Stagione 1		1979	13	D
2		Stagione 2		1980	18	D
3		Stagione 3		1981	22	D
4		Stagione 4		1982	22	D
5		Stagione 5		1983	25	D
6		Stagione 6		1984	30	D
7		Stagione 7		1985	30	D
8		Stagione 8		1986	30	D
9		Stagione 9		1987	29	D
10		Stagione 10		1988	28	D
11		Stagione 11		1989	29	D
12		Stagione 12		1990	27	D
13		Stagione 13		1991	22	D
14		Stagione 14		1992	19	D

Cast

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