Knots Landing Premiered Date, Network, Genre, Cast

Premiered Date

December 27, 1979

Genre

Soap Opera

Network

CBS

Cast

Alec Baldwin, Nicollette Sheridan, Lisa Hartman, William Devane, Michelle Phillips, Michele Lee, Donna Mills, Joan Van Ark, Julie Harris, Kevin Dobson, Ted Shackelford, Don Murray, John Pleshette, Constance McCashin, Kathleen Noone

Alec Baldwin

as Joshua Rush

Nicollette Sheridan

as Paige Matheson

Lisa Hartman

as Ciji Dunne/Cathy Geary

William Devane

as Greg Sumner

Michelle Phillips

as Anne Matheson

Michele Lee

as Karen Fairgate MacKenzie

Donna Mills

as Abby Cunningham Ewing Sumner

Joan Van Ark

as Valene

1925-2013

Julie Harris

as Lilimae Clements

1943-2020

Kevin Dobson

as Mack MacKenzie

Ted Shackelford

as Gary Ewing

Don Murray

as Sid Fairgate

John Pleshette

as Richard Avery

Constance McCashin

as Laura Avery Sumner

Kathleen Noone

as Claudia Whittaker

About Knots Landing

About

Spin-off of Dallas set in the eponymous, fictional coastal suburb of Los Angeles and centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle.

Trivia

The show was created by David Jacobs. It was inspired by the 1957 movie No Down Payment as well as the 1973 Ingmar Bergman TV mini-series Scenes from a Marriage.