Knots Landing Synopsis

Hoping to ride the crest of its success with Dallas, CBS spun off this

series featuring the black sheep of the Ewing Family, Gary Ewing. Gary was a

weakened reformed alcoholic who had deserted his wife Valene Ewing, and then

remarried her and moved to Southern California to escape the formidable nature

of life with the Ewings in Dallas. All the equals in this series lived on the

same cul-de-sac in the quiet little community of Knots Landing. In addition to

being neighbors, their lives intertwined in other ways. Gary worked for Sid

Fairgate, owner of Knots Landing Motors, the local classic car dealership. Sid

and his wife Karen Fairgate had three teenage children: Eric Fairgate, Michael

Fairgate, and Diana Fairgate. The other two couples on the cul-de-sac were young

recording executive Kenny Ward and his attractive wife, Ginger, and Richard and

Laura Avery. Richard was an obnoxious, aggresive, unprincipled attorney who was

always lusting after other women a

Latest 'Knots Landing' News

The actors will reprise their roles as Gary and Valene Ewing in a three-episode arc when the TNT drama returns next year.

10.18.2012

B. Alan Orange