About Knots Landing
- Released on December 27, 1979
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Main Cast of Knots Landing
Michele Lee plays Karen MacKenzie (344 episodes)
Constance McCashin plays Laura Avery Sumner (219 episodes)
Ted Shackelford plays Gary Ewing (344 episodes)
Joan Van Ark plays Valene Ewing (325 episodes)
Donna Mills plays Abby Cunningham Ewing Sumner (234 episodes)
Kevin Dobson plays M. Patrick McKenzie (269 episodes)
William Devane plays Greg Sumner (269 episodes)
Julie Harris plays Lilimae Clements (188 episodes)
Secondary Cast of Knots Landing
James Houghton plays Kenny Ward (75 episodes)
Kim Lankford plays Ginger Ward (75 episodes)
Don Murray plays Sid Fairgate (53 episodes)
John Pleshette plays Richard Avery (75 episodes)
Lisa Hartman plays Cathy Geary (60 episodes)
Alec Baldwin plays Joshua Rush (60 episodes)
Nicollette Sheridan plays Paige Matheson (125 episodes)
Pat Petersen plays Michael Fairgate (56 episodes)
Tonya Crowe plays Olivia Cunningham (29 episodes)
Michelle Phillips plays Anne Matheson (97 episodes)
Larry Riley plays Frank Williams (78 episodes)
Stacy Galina plays Kate Whittaker (68 episodes)
Kathleen Noone plays Claudia Whittaker (68 episodes)
Doug Sheehan plays Ben Gibson (115 episodes)
Teri Austin plays Jill Bennett (28 episodes)
Julie Harris
Claudia Lonow
Stepfanie Kramer plays Marni (2 episodes)
Viveka Davis
Leigh French
Kevin Hagen
William Boyett
Al Christy
T. C. Warner
Kale Browne
Michael Dante
Robert Harper
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Jaime Lyn Bauer
Vincent Schiavelli
Dinah Lenney
Steven Gilborn
David Ackroyd
Mike Douglas
Greg Finley
Russell Johnson
Helen Page Camp
Red Buttons
Rosalind Cash
Beau Billingslea
Louis Giambalvo
Gary Graham
Walter Brooke
Robert Brian Wilson
Reiner Schöne
Sukie Smith
O.C. Smith
Sydney Lassick
Jan Burrell
Reid Shelton
Gene Dynarski
Edith Atwater
Jeff Corey
Frank Novak
Terry Kiser
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Dana Ashbrook
Patricia Hodge
Robert Krimmer
Rosemary Prinz
Bert Remsen
Daniel Zacapa
Tim Choate
David Haskell
Sonny Shroyer
Lynn Cartwright
Tracy Reed
Gary Grubbs
Silvana Gallardo
Warren Burton
William Allen Young
Tony Frank
Nathan Purdee
Albert Salmi
Don Dubbins
Nancy Kwan
James Sloyan
Jack Stauffer
Melinda Culea plays Paula Vertosick (9 episodes)
Barry Primus
Jerry Lacy
Charles Aidman
Darby Hinton
Robin Strasser plays Dianne Kirkwood (17 episodes)
Dick Christie
Dick Sargent
Mary Lou Retton
Evan C. Kim
Dominique Jennings
Celeste Yarnall
Lynne Moody plays Patricia Williams (41 episodes)
Troy Byer
Ernie Sabella
Martin E. Brooks
Candi Milo
Stephen Tobolowsky
Molly Hagan
Iona Morris
Sherri Stoner
Peter Fox
David Anthony Higgins
Stefan Gierasch
William Bogert
Grace Zabriskie
Daniel J. Travanti
Herta Ware
Jack Wagner
Herb Vigran
Ava Gardner
Robert Rockwell
Richard Sanders
Tony Becker
Happy Hairston
Parley Baer
Paul Linke
K.T. Stevens
Carolyn Conwell
Lelia Goldoni
Christopher Allport
Robert DoQui
Charlene Tilton
Jack Bannon
Kristy Swanson
Lisle Wilson
Alex Henteloff
Harry Bellaver
Diana Douglas
Stacy Keach, Sr.
Sam Behrens plays Danny Waleska (32 episodes)
Cathianne Blore
John DeMita
Allan Miller
John F. O'Donohue
Robert Phalen
Lew Ayres
Burr DeBenning
Jane A. Rogers
Katherine Moffat
Paul Comi
Patricia Murray
Oliver Clark
Ruth Roman plays Sylvia Lean (19 episodes)
Lew Horn
Hal Williams
George Wallace
Ralph Manza
Ralph Wilcox
Lillian Lehman
Graham Jarvis
Jerome Courtland
Cassie Yates
Steve Shaw plays Eric Fairgate (76 episodes)
Paul Carafotes plays Harold Dyer (36 episodes)
Bill Erwin
Jim Calvert
Sandy Kenyon
Kent King plays Julie Williams (59 episodes)
Jerry Hardin
Arlene Martel
Lorenzo Caccialanza plays Nick Shillace (29 episodes)
Richard Bull
Brandon Maggart
John Carter
Michelle Joyner
Wendie Jo Sperber
Liz Sagal
Billy Vera
Betsy Palmer plays Virginia Bullock (28 episodes)
Justin Dana
Anthony Eisley
Tom Fuccello
Lisa Wilcox
Don Stewart
S.A. Griffin
Wendy Fulton
Priscilla Pointer
Douglas Rae
David Carroll
Jason Bernard
Scott Sommer
Joseph Campanella
Joseph Hoover
Lesley Woods
Harry Townes
Jonathan Estrin
Terrence McNally
Dick Miller
Chuck McCann
Fran Bennett
Ben Cooper
John Aprea plays Manny Vasquez (12 episodes)
Peggy Pope
Don Stroud
Christoph Krisea
Julio Oscar Mechoso
John C. Becher
Brian Poth
Robert Desiderio plays Ted Melcher (25 episodes)
Arthur Rosenberg
John Barrie
David James Elliott
Peter Brandon
Debra Christofferson
Don Hood
Joe Regalbuto
Bruce Solomon
John Lafayette
Burke Byrnes
Louis Di Bianco
Daniel Gerroll
Carol Bruce
Robert Curtis Brown
Frank Cassini
Louise Sorel
John Lawlor
Catherine MacNeal
Bibi Besch
Robert Symonds
Mary Crosby
Don Barry
Danielle Brisebois
Arnold F. Turner
Arthur Burghardt
Joanna Pettet
Joseph Hacker
Brian Sheehan
Cynthia Harris
Conni Marie Brazelton
Ann Doran
Maree Cheatham plays Mary Robeson (10 episodes)
Charles Douglass
Don Starr
Lar Park Lincoln plays Linda Fairgate (44 episodes)
Shelby Leverington
Tom McFadden plays Chris Wilson (1 episode)
Biff Manard
Jon Cypher
Peter Reckell plays Johnny Rourke (24 episodes)
Robert Fields
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Michael York plays Charles Scott (10 episodes)
James O'Sullivan
Robert Ito
Frank Birney
Steven Ameche
Patrick Duffy
Julie Cobb
Stephen Macht
K Callan
Edward Winter
Breon Gorman
John Harrington Bland
Greg Collins
Richard Herd
Diana Barrows
Jeffrey Lynn
Pat Crawford Brown
Jeremy Roberts
Billy Bob Thornton
Millie Perkins
William Long Jr.
Liam Sullivan
J.C. Quinn
Rodney Saulsberry
Vasili Bogazianos
Michael Paul Chan
Earl Boen
Jane Elliot
Richard Venture
James Luisi
Bennet Guillory
Dani Minnick
William Cort
Matthew Faison
Susan Krebs
Cynthia Bain
Lance Guest
John Hancock
Karen Hensel
Ron Rifkin
Jim Ishida
Scott Jones
Brian Austin Green plays Brian Cunningham (31 episodes)
Michael Laskin
Archie Lang
Patricia Huston
Ronne Troup
Jordan Charney
Raymond O'Keefe
Deborah Benson
Tad Horino
Terry Wills
Bruce Greenwood plays Pierce Lawton (22 episodes)
Anthony Charnota
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
France Nuyen
Felicity Waterman plays Vanessa Hunt (21 episodes)
Shiri Appleby plays Mary Frances (Age 10) (1 episode)
Wendel Meldrum
Patricia Parris
Barry Jenner
Emily Ann Lloyd plays Betsy Ewing (42 episodes)
Joshua Devane
Pamela Brull
Patty Toy
Jack Tate
Jesse D. Goins
Irene Olga López
George Cheung
Billy Curtis
Paul Nakauchi
Ryan McWhorter
Dick O'Neill
Adam Arkin plays Mark Baylor (6 episodes)
Paul Rudd
Ken Jenkins
Kimiko Gelman
Wren T. Brown
Loyda Ramos
Virginia Capers
John Hostetter
Michael Warren
Howard Duff
Clayton Landey
Rosemary Alexander
Phil Esposito
Philip Brown
Dale Swann
Marianne Muellerleile
Stuart Pankin
David Dunard
Billie Bird
David Gale
John Brandon
Fredric Cook
Rick Podell
Cecile Callan
Otto Felix
Dennis Lee Kelly
Paul Benjamin
Randy Vasquez
Robert Jayne
Herb Edelman
Gary Bayer
Peter Hobbs
Jim Raymond
Mitzi Hoag
John McLaughlin
Michael O'Guinne
Reid Smith
Kriss Turner
Joseph Gian plays Tom Ryan (38 episodes)
Gary Grossman
Warren Munson
Kathy Christopherson
John Lehne plays Andrew Parkhurst (4 episodes)
Fred Holliday
William Jordan
Stuart Whitman
Arthur Roberts
John Toles-Bey
Don Mirault
Bunny Summers
Don S. Davis plays Warden Vernon Howard (1 episode)
Carol Jones plays Linda Martin (1 episode)
Jack Fletcher plays Mr. Fletcher (1 episode)
Michael Kelly plays Chuck Willis (1 episode)
Mary Fanaro plays Sports Club Attendant (1 episode)
Tish Smiley plays Nurse #2 (1 episode)
Bradley Lieberman plays Eddie Wilson (1 episode)
Molly David plays Barbara / Mack's Secretary (7 episodes)
Dan Ponce plays Jason Avery (as Luis Daniel Ponce) (1 episode)
Howard Stover plays Chris (1 episode)
Marie Thomas-Foster plays Miss. Kotler (1 episode)
Stevie Vallance plays Sylvie (3 episodes)
Henry Holden plays Guest (1 episode)
Tara St. Andrew plays Marilyn (1 episode)
Tony Brafa plays Nick Pietro / Patron (2 episodes)
Richard Garrison plays Paul Evans (1 episode)
Mary McKuen plays Receptionist (2 episodes)
Crew of Knots Landing
Writing
Sound
Editing
Directing
Camera
Production
- James Houghton
- Kim Lankford
- Don Murray
- John Pleshette
- Lisa Hartman
- Alec Baldwin
- Nicollette Sheridan
- Pat Petersen
- Tonya Crowe
- Michelle Phillips
- Larry Riley
- Stacy Galina
- Kathleen Noone
- Doug Sheehan
- Teri Austin
- Julie Harris
- Claudia Lonow
- Stepfanie Kramer
- Viveka Davis
- Leigh French
- Kevin Hagen
- William Boyett
- Al Christy
- T. C. Warner
- Kale Browne
- Michael Dante
- Dennis Haysbert
- Robert Harper
- Kathryn Leigh Scott
- Jaime Lyn Bauer
- Vincent Schiavelli
- Dinah Lenney
- Steven Gilborn
- David Ackroyd
- Mike Douglas
- James Saito
- Greg Finley
- Russell Johnson
- Gary Oldman
- Jessica Walter
- Helen Page Camp
- Red Buttons
- Rosalind Cash
- Beau Billingslea
- Gregory Itzin
- Louis Giambalvo
- Wolf Muser
- Gary Graham
- Michael Dorn
- Walter Brooke
- Robert Brian Wilson
- Reiner Schöne
- Sukie Smith
- O.C. Smith
- Sydney Lassick
- Jan Burrell
- Reid Shelton
- Gene Dynarski
- Edith Atwater
- Jeff Corey
- Frank Novak
- Terry Kiser
- Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
- June Lockhart
- Dana Ashbrook
- Patricia Hodge
- Robert Krimmer
- Rosemary Prinz
- Bert Remsen
- Daniel Zacapa
- Tim Choate
- David Haskell
- Sonny Shroyer
- Ned Bellamy
- Lynn Cartwright
- Tracy Reed
- Gary Grubbs
- Jeff Austin
- Silvana Gallardo
- Warren Burton
- Marcia Cross
- William Allen Young
- Tony Frank
- Nathan Purdee
- Albert Salmi
- Don Dubbins
- Nancy Kwan
- James Sloyan
- Jack Stauffer
- Melinda Culea
- Barry Primus
- Jerry Lacy
- Charles Aidman
- Darby Hinton
- Robin Strasser
- Dick Christie
- Dick Sargent
- Mary Lou Retton
- Evan C. Kim
- Dominique Jennings
- Celeste Yarnall
- Lynne Moody
- Troy Byer
- Ernie Sabella
- Martin E. Brooks
- Candi Milo
- Stephen Tobolowsky
- Molly Hagan
- Mimi Kennedy
- Iona Morris
- Sherri Stoner
- Peter Fox
- David Anthony Higgins
- Stefan Gierasch
- Jean Sagal
- William Bogert
- Grace Zabriskie
- Daniel J. Travanti
- Herta Ware
- Jack Wagner
- Herb Vigran
- Leslie Hope
- Ava Gardner
- Robert Rockwell
- Richard Sanders
- Tony Becker
- Happy Hairston
- Parley Baer
- Dan Shor
- Paul Linke
- K.T. Stevens
- Gary Sinise
- Carolyn Conwell
- Ray Wise
- Lelia Goldoni
- Christopher Allport
- Robert DoQui
- Charlene Tilton
- Kevin Kilner
- Jack Bannon
- Kristy Swanson
- Lisle Wilson
- Alex Henteloff
- Harry Bellaver
- Diana Douglas
- Stacy Keach, Sr.
- Jana Marie Hupp
- Sam Behrens
- James Karen
- Cathianne Blore
- John DeMita
- Allan Miller
- John F. O'Donohue
- Robert Phalen
- Lew Ayres
- Burr DeBenning
- Jane A. Rogers
- Larry Hagman
- Katherine Moffat
- Barbara Tarbuck
- Paul Comi
- Patricia Murray
- Oliver Clark
- Ruth Roman
- Lew Horn
- Hal Williams
- George Wallace
- Ralph Manza
- Ralph Wilcox
- Lillian Lehman
- Stuart Fratkin
- Graham Jarvis
- Jerome Courtland
- Cassie Yates
- Steve Shaw
- Paul Carafotes
- Bill Erwin
- Jim Calvert
- Sandy Kenyon
- Kent King
- Jerry Hardin
- Arlene Martel
- Lorenzo Caccialanza
- Richard Bull
- Brandon Maggart
- John Carter
- Madison Mason
- Michelle Joyner
- Wendie Jo Sperber
- Bernard White
- Liz Sagal
- Billy Vera
- Betsy Palmer
- Justin Dana
- Anthony Eisley
- Bruce French
- Tom Fuccello
- Lisa Wilcox
- Don Stewart
- Matt Battaglia
- S.A. Griffin
- Wendy Fulton
- Priscilla Pointer
- Douglas Rae
- David Carroll
- Jason Bernard
- Scott Sommer
- Joseph Campanella
- Joseph Hoover
- Lesley Woods
- Harry Townes
- Jonathan Estrin
- Terrence McNally
- Dick Miller
- Bobby Hosea
- Chuck McCann
- Fran Bennett
- Doug Savant
- Ben Cooper
- John Aprea
- Peggy Pope
- Don Stroud
- Christoph Krisea
- Julio Oscar Mechoso
- John C. Becher
- Brian Poth
- Clyde Kusatsu
- Robert Desiderio
- Arthur Rosenberg
- John Barrie
- David James Elliott
- Peter Brandon
- Debra Christofferson
- Don Hood
- Joe Regalbuto
- Bruce Solomon
- Peter Jason
- John Lafayette
- Burke Byrnes
- Yuji Okumoto
- Patrick Fischler
- Louis Di Bianco
- Daniel Gerroll
- Carol Bruce
- Robert Curtis Brown
- Frank Cassini
- Bruce Gray
- Louise Sorel
- John Lawlor
- Catherine MacNeal
- Bibi Besch
- Robert Symonds
- Mary Crosby
- Don Barry
- Karen Allen
- Danielle Brisebois
- Arnold F. Turner
- Arthur Burghardt
- Joanna Pettet
- Joseph Hacker
- Brian Sheehan
- Cynthia Harris
- Conni Marie Brazelton
- Ann Doran
- Maree Cheatham
- Charles Douglass
- Don Starr
- Lar Park Lincoln
- Shelby Leverington
- Tom McFadden
- Biff Manard
- Jon Cypher
- Peter Reckell
- Alan Fudge
- Robert Fields
- Michael Bowen
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
- Michael York
- James O'Sullivan
- Robert Ito
- Eric Stoltz
- Frank Birney
- Steven Ameche
- Patrick Duffy
- Julie Cobb
- Stephen Macht
- K Callan
- Bruce Campbell
- Edward Winter
- Breon Gorman
- John Harrington Bland
- Greg Collins
- Jenny Gago
- Richard Herd
- Diana Barrows
- Jeffrey Lynn
- Pat Crawford Brown
- Jeremy Roberts
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Millie Perkins
- Henry G. Sanders
- William Long Jr.
- Liam Sullivan
- J.C. Quinn
- Rodney Saulsberry
- Vasili Bogazianos
- Michael Paul Chan
- Earl Boen
- Brian Dennehy
- Jane Elliot
- Richard Venture
- James Luisi
- Rob Benedict
- Bennet Guillory
- Dani Minnick
- William Cort
- Matthew Faison
- Susan Krebs
- Cynthia Bain
- Lance Guest
- Helen Hunt
- John Hancock
- Karen Hensel
- Ron Rifkin
- Jim Ishida
- Scott Jones
- Brian Austin Green
- Michael Laskin
- Archie Lang
- Patricia Huston
- Ronne Troup
- Jordan Charney
- Raymond O'Keefe
- Deborah Benson
- Tad Horino
- Sab Shimono
- Terry Wills
- Vladimir Kulich
- Bruce Greenwood
- Geoffrey Rivas
- Anthony Charnota
- Ji-Tu Cumbuka
- France Nuyen
- Felicity Waterman
- Shiri Appleby
- Wendel Meldrum
- Patricia Parris
- Barry Jenner
- Emily Ann Lloyd
- Casey Sander
- Joshua Devane
- Pamela Brull
- Patty Toy
- Jack Tate
- Jesse D. Goins
- Ian Abercrombie
- Irene Olga López
- George Cheung
- Billy Curtis
- Pam Grier
- Paul Nakauchi
- Ryan McWhorter
- Dick O'Neill
- Adam Arkin
- Paul Rudd
- Ken Jenkins
- Kimiko Gelman
- Conchata Ferrell
- Wren T. Brown
- Loyda Ramos
- Virginia Capers
- Halle Berry
- John Hostetter
- Michael Warren
- Howard Duff
- Clayton Landey
- Rosemary Alexander
- Phil Esposito
- Philip Brown
- Dale Swann
- Marianne Muellerleile
- Stuart Pankin
- David Dunard
- Billie Bird
- David Gale
- John Brandon
- Fredric Cook
- Rick Podell
- Cecile Callan
- Otto Felix
- Dennis Lee Kelly
- Paul Benjamin
- Randy Vasquez
- Robert Jayne
- Herb Edelman
- Gary Bayer
- Peter Hobbs
- Jim Raymond
- Mitzi Hoag
- John McLaughlin
- Michael O'Guinne
- Reid Smith
- Steve Susskind
- Kriss Turner
- Deborah Strang
- Kenneth Tigar
- Joseph Gian
- Gary Grossman
- Jeff McCarthy
- Warren Munson
- Kathy Christopherson
- John Lehne
- Fred Holliday
- William Jordan
- Stuart Whitman
- Arthur Roberts
- John Toles-Bey
- Don Mirault
- Bunny Summers
- Don S. Davis
- Carol Jones
- Movita
- Jack Fletcher
- Michael Kelly
- Mary Fanaro
- Tish Smiley
- Bradley Lieberman
- Molly David
- Dan Ponce
- Howard Stover
- Marie Thomas-Foster
- Stevie Vallance
- Henry Holden
- Tara St. Andrew
- Tony Brafa
- Richard Garrison
- Mary McKuen
- Patti Yasutake