Knots Landing

[soapfan770]

And it was the best and last Dallas crossover too at least for Dallas characters being on Knots…Gary would of course appear on Dallas after Bobby’s death in the dream season.

I know in Season 5 we have a scene of Abby speaking to an unscreen & unheard Ellie on the phone and Gary travels to Dallas towards the end of Season 7…but I don’t think Dallas ever acknowledged anything going on Knots other than “Gary & Val out in California…”

A pity Abby didn’t have her own centered “Abby Takes (or Does? lol) Dallas” crossover. 

[kalbir]

Even with the crossovers, Knots Landing never felt like a second hour of Dallas in a different setting. Knots Landing was able to carve its own identity apart from Dallas, and I think a big part of that was Knots Landing being community-based whereas Dallas was family/business conflict-based.

[soapfan770]

Which was definitely for the best, and one of the rarer examples. We saw what clusterf*CK the Colby’s was to Dynasty, which indeed only amounted to as a “second hour” or night of the show. 

[Soapsuds]

Donna, Michelle, and Joan will be at the Dallas Experience in Texas in August.

[kalbir]

Knots Landing was a spinoff done right. The Colbys was a spinoff done wrong. At least Aaron Spelling learned his lesson by time 90210/Melrose came along, in that Melrose cut the ties w/ 90210 fairly early and there were no crossovers afterwards.

[Khan]

I agree.  Moreover, because KL was community-based rather than family-based, they had the freedom to introduce and to write off characters as needed in order to keep the show fresh.  Did losing characters like Abby, Ben and Laura hurt KL in the long run?  Absolutely.  On the other hand, KL never became as repetitive as DALLAS and DYNASTY, nor did it become as unrecognizable as FC.

If anything, I think MP left 90210 in the proverbial dust after awhile, forcing 90210 to get soapier just to maintain some of its' audience.

[Chris 2]

The big reason Knots worked so well, separately from Dallas, is that it was not conceived as a spinoff of Dallas. So it was never a faded copy of Dallas; it had its own identity. That said, it was respectful of its ties to the parent show (at least until Bobby’s “death”) and the crossovers worked well.

[DRW50]

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[Paul Raven]

And Gary and Val had not been regular characters on Dallas.

It would be different if Bobby and Pam moved to LA and Knots.

Whereas Jeff and Fallon had been a part of Dynasty from the start so there was a stronger connection to the mothership.

[Soapsuds]

Yes, it was season 4 of Knots Landing and season 6 of Dallas.

 

I had just begun watching the back-to-back episodes this evening.