My 12-year-old miniature schnauzer Czerny died earlier this month. As friends here know, he wasn’t just my puppy — he was my support dog and...

Knots Landing Season 4 was a transitional year, in which the tone was heightened and the format broadened, but the story-lines themselves -...

The first half of Knots Landing Season 12 is a shot of pure adrenaline. The rest is what happens once the rush wears off. In my essay on S...

It's a little hard, when looking back at Knots Landing Season 10, to separate fact from fiction. It's famously the season when the ...

Previously , on Knots Landing : At its best, Knots Landing Season 1 encapsulates a sexual freedom emblematic of its time, and a middle-cla...

By the late '80s, my passion for Knots Landing had become more like an obsession. I wasn't just watching it live and taping it to V...

Knots Landing Season 6 asks: can you build a successful primetime-soap season atop just one great storyline? -- and surprisingly, the answe...

Knots Landing premiered on CBS in 1979 and remained there till May of 1993; by the time it went off the air, it had become the second longe...

If you've never watched Knots Landing Season 8, here's the season in a nutshell. Paige is dead! No, not really. Anne is dead! No, n...

Knots Landing Season 4 is like a clever puppy you've just brought home from the pound, and criticizing it is a bit like disciplining th...

In the days before the internet and social media, there was little uproar when a good show went bad. No fanzines started ragging on it regul...

Over its fourteen seasons, Knots Landing saw its share of soft reboots and wholesale revamps. Sometimes they occurred at the start of a sea...

In the beginning, Knots Landing was about four married couples living in a cul-de-sac in Southern California. But as the show grew in popul...

How bad does a show have to get before you bail? I'm 56 now. My earliest television memory is an episode of Lost in Space called "...

The great soap writer Ann Marcus was first brought aboard Knots Landing in 1981, to shore up the series after a shaky Season 2, and here...

Greg Sumner : Abby, you don't believe in anything. Abby Ewing Sumner : That's not true: I believe in money... and power... And in t...

Some random thoughts for a stormy Saturday morning... Ann Marcus (August 22, 1921 – December 3, 2014)

I had occasion to rewatch Knots Landing Season 3 over the summer, and when I was done, I thought of the film The Way We Were , with Barbra ...