Knots Landing
Soap & telenovelaHeightened, continuing melodrama.This show: 9/10Long-runnerA show whose sheer longevity shapes how it's watched.This show: 9/10Suburban underbellyDark currents beneath tidy suburban surfaces.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 8/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 7/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Michele LeeTed ShackelfordJoan Van ArkKevin DobsonWilliam DevaneDonna Mills
Written by
David Jacobs
Starring
Michele LeeTed ShackelfordJoan Van ArkKevin DobsonWilliam DevaneDonna Mills
Written by
David Jacobs
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Knots Landing Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | E30 | ||
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| S1 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| S2 | 7.5 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 8.2 | |||||||||||||
| S3 | 7.6 | 8.6 | 9.1 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 7.3 | 6.9 | 7.0 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 6.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.5 | |||||||||
| S4 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.5 | |||||||||
| S5 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 9.2 | ||||||
| S6 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 9.3 | |
| S7 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9.1 | 7.8 | 8.5 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 8.7 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.4 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 7.4 | 8.7 | 9.0 | 8.6 | |
| S8 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 9.1 | 9.0 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 9.2 | |
| S9 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 8.3 | 9.6 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 9.4 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 9.0 | ||
| S10 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 9.3 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.8 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.5 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 9.0 | 8.2 | |||
| S11 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 7.4 | 8.2 | 7.6 | 7.3 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 7.4 | 8.9 | 8.9 | 8.7 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.6 | ||
| S12 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 7.3 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 8.1 | ||||
| S13 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.4 | |||||||||
| S14 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.3 | 7.9 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 6.6 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 8.1 | 9.0 | 9.1 |
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About
"Suburban soap opera with surprising staying power"
Knots Landing follows a handful of families living on a quiet cul-de-sac in suburban California, spun off from the glitzier world of Dallas but set closer to ground level. Marriages fray, businesses rise and collapse, secrets surface, and neighbors become entangled in each other's lives across a run that stretches well over a decade. The tone is soapy but grounded, trading oil-baron excess for domestic tension and slow-building melodrama. It rewards patience: episodes lean on relationships and community more than shock twists, making it feel more like a long-form character study than a typical prime-time soap.
Watch it for
the slow-burn neighborhood drama that swaps glamour for believable domestic tension.
Maybe skip if
you need fast plotting rather than long, patient character-driven storytelling.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
All Seasons
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Season 11979
7.61K1313h
In a seaside suburban paradise, four married couples struggle with the conflicts and passions that buffet every marriage.
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Season 21980
7.51K1818h
Adultery, rape and white-collar crime plague the families of seaside Knots Landing--with lethal consequences.
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Season 31981
7.61K2222h
Passions escalate as four couples battle temptation in a seaside suburban paradise.
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Season 41982
8.01K2222h
Lust, alcoholism and murder strike, causing further turmoil in the suburban cul-de-sac.
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Season 51983
8.31K2525h
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.
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Season 61984
8.11K3030h
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.
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Season 71985
8.59603030h
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.
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Season 81986
8.68893030h
Power struggles over politics, money and sex rock the idyllic seaside community of Knots Landing.
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Season 91987
8.48422929h
From the discovery of a body buried in concrete to gun-running and murder over sexual jealousy, multiple crises shatter the peace in the cul-de-sac.
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Season 101988
8.27932828h
Financial schemes, intrigue, murder and lust culminate in the possible expulsion from the cul-de-sac of one of the neighbors.
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Season 111989
8.17702929h
Love and new relationships interweave with insidious plots, adultery and death as a serial murderer insinuates himself among the residents of the cul-de-sac.
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Season 121990
8.26712727h
As two residents of the cul-de-sac confront mortality, the others living in Knots Landing continue to plot and scheme--and face surprising reversals of fortune.
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Season 131991
7.85662222h
Passion, sex and violence buffet the small, seaside community of Knots Landing.
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Season 141992
7.75911919h
After fourteen years of lust, greed and betrayal, passions explode in this final season of "Knots Landing."
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Michele Lee Karen MacKenzie, Karen Fairgate, Karen Mackenzie
Ted Shackelford Gary Ewing
Joan Van Ark Valene Ewing, Valene Gibson, Valene Waleska
Kevin Dobson M. 'Mack' Patrick MacKenzie, Mack MacKenzie
William Devane Gregory Sumner, Greg Sumner
Donna Mills Abby Ewing, Abby Cunningham, Abby Sumner
Pat Petersen Michael Fairgate
Constance McCashin Laura Avery, Laura Avery Sumner
Nicollette Sheridan Paige Matheson, Anne Winston
Julie Harris Lilimae Clements
Crew
David Jacobs
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