Re: The 1997 reunion movie Back to the Cul-De-Sac. It was great seeing what the characters were up to 4 years later after the series end, but it was a bit of a letdown plot wise. As Chris B stated, it was a relief that Paige only had a cameo at the beginning.

They felt the need to bring back Kate and have her drop the bomb that Gary had gotten her pregnant and they have a 4-year-old daughter together. She is also sleeping with Brian.

Val writing the screenplay with the alcoholic screenwriter who winds up dead was contrived. Abby owing the IRS in back taxes was pretty funny. They freeze her assets, and she has to go back to work for Gary and assisting Karen.

Of course, Karen & Mack were screaming over Meg again and the secret about Greg being her father. Mack also having a midlife crisis during their 15-year anniversary was annoying.

Ann just kind of hung around Greg's place making bitchy comments. Of course, Greg was in the thick of things with everyone pretty much pissed off at him for one reason or another.

Diana, Michael, and Ginger come to Mack & Karens anniversary at Val and Gary's house. The Ewing home has miraculously grown in square footage in 4 years since viewers last saw it. The foyer is larger with a space for a grandfather clock and the stairs are pushed back about 6ft from the door, the floors are all on the same level instead of that weird step down, and the ceilings look about 10 to 12 ft tall. They now have the space to host a huge dinner party complete with catering staff....LOL

40 minutes ago, kalbir said:

I skipped the 1997 miniseries but I watched the 2005 reunion special. I thought Nicollette Sheridan appeared in the first part of the miniseries but I'm pretty sure she was absent from the reunion special.

They tried to get her to appear in the 1997 miniseries in a lead role but she turned them down. Ultimately, they were able to negotiate for her to film one scene once production had wrapped.

Edited yesterday at 04:20 AM1 day by Chris B

Is the reunion movie streaming anywhere?

On 1/5/2026 at 7:23 PM, 1974mdp said:

I've been rewatching the show on Plex. I didn't start really watching until Season 11 back when I was a teenager, so all the earlier seasons were basically brand new for me. I hated how Laura was basically given nothing to do her last few seasons until it was time for her to die. CM was such a phenomenal actress! I really had a huge appreciation for her watching those early seasons now as an adult.

I'm now in the early episodes of season 13....God, help me! You can see it going off the rails. I think the show held up pretty decently up until the end of Season 12.

I don't think I watched much of Season 14 when it originally aired. So, that will be mostly new to me, too. I know a lot has to do with Mary Robinson. At least they tried to make Laura part of the narrative sort-of at the end.

I was in my first two years of college during seasons 9 and 10 and I remember all the basic plot lines as I rewatch now on Plex. Currently in the last half of Season 10. The show had been a Thursday night habit back then and I really enjoyed it. Rewatching now on Plex, I catch all the holes and weaknesses and missteps, but it’s still good viewing. I’m getting a little worried because I know things start getting dicey in season 11 (including the introduction of Val the Village Idiot), but I watched back then and will again now. I suspect that by season 12 or 13 I wasn’t watching as faithfully back in those first-run days because some of the storylines are fuzzier in my memory. This probably because things got so bad on the show by those years.

I now watch one episode each night during and after dinner. That said, there’s still a few more months left to watch, but it will be weird not to be watching KL every day. I just hope nothing happens to the free streaming if the show. I was in the middle of the second to last season of Dallas when Prime pulled free viewing and it became available only for purchase. Granted, Dallas by that point was running in fumes, but I’d hoped to watch the entire series from beginning to end! Let’s hope I get to do that with KL!

2 hours ago, DanMan869 said:

The show had been a Thursday night habit back then and I really enjoyed it. Rewatching now on Plex, I catch all the holes and weaknesses and missteps, but it’s still good viewing.

Same here. Whenever the Lechowicks would just tell the story, and not attempt to play gotcha with the audience or hit you over the head with some soapbox issue, they did a pretty good job. They injected a lot of humor into the show, which helped them keep and gain new viewers, I think.

For me, S13 remains the point when making it through just one episode becomes a chore. Literally nothing worked that season. Not Pierce Lawton, not Tidal Energy, not Brian Johnston and Linda's murder and whatever the hell it all had to do with Greg, nothing.

Edited 23 hours ago23 hr by Khan

When the preview for next week highlights Anne Matheson being homeless… we know we’re in trouble

3 hours ago, yrfan1983 said:

When the preview for next week highlights Anne Matheson being homeless… we know we’re in trouble

LOL! A storyline like that leaves you with only two options: either the spoiled heiress reforms, which would have been death for a schemer like Anne; or she stoops even lower to get her money back...which she did, and which was awful to watch, and which made a marginally tolerable character even less tolerable in the end.

So, a comment I've made in the OLTL thread has brought this question to mind: as we all know, KL employed many former daytime actors over its' 14 seasons, including (off the top of my head) Ted Shackelford (AW), James Houghton (Y&R), Donna Mills (LIAMST), Jane Elliot (KL), John Considine (AW, Y&R), Allan Miller (GH, OLTL), Rosemary Prinz (AMC, ATWT, HTSAM, RH), Barry Jenner (AW), Jon Cypher (ATWT, GH, SaBa), Douglas Sheehan (GH), Alec Baldwin (TD), Peter Reckell (DAYS), Robin Strasser (AW, OLTL, PASSIONS, DAYS), Sam Behrens (GH, SuBe) Robert Desiderio (OLTL), Kathleen Noone (AMC, SuBe, PASSIONS), Philip Brown (LOVING/THE CITY, SFT), Marcia Cross (EON, OLTL) and Maree Cheatham (DAYS, GH, SFT). (Louise Sorel (Bess), Michael Sabatino (Chip), Hunt Block (Peter) and John Aprea (Manny) don't count here, since they worked in daytime after being on KNOTS). A long list, to be sure, but aside from Shackelford, Mills and maybe Baldwin and Sheehan, did any of these people (or any other daytime alumni who appeared on KL after working in daytime) ever get worthwhile material to play? Because, it seems to me the show wasted a lot of 'em.

(And is it just a coincidence that Val's two ex-husbands were both played by GH alumni, lol?)

14 minutes ago, Khan said:

LOL! A storyline like that leaves you with only two in options: either the spoiled heiress reforms, which would have been death for a schemer like Anne; or she stoops even lower to get her money back...which she did, and which was awful to watch, and which made a marginally tolerable character even less tolerable in the end.

Made worse by casting Stuart Pankin as the Benny character. Lord someone at Lorimar must have been a fan because he played a similar bumbling annoying character a multiple episode arc as well on FC during its final season. Like why?

Good to see others have their first experiences with Knots the later seasons of Knots as well. By the time Season 10 premiered my family had moved from WV to Colorado, so Knots was coming on at 9 instead (and I old enough to stay up later lol) and from that point I watched as much as I could between watching LA Law alongside it until Linda’s brutal murder left me in the cold the show wasn’t fun to watch anymore.

Edited 17 hours ago17 hr by soapfan770

54 minutes ago, Khan said:

KL employed many former daytime actors over its' 14 seasons

Of the CBS primetime soaps, Knots Landing probably had the most former daytime actors. Notice that most of the former daytime actors are from ABC and NBC shows. CBS had so much of their own daytime talent they could have used on their primetime soaps but for whatever reason that didn't happen.

49 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Made worse by casting Stuart Pankin as the Benny character. Lord someone at Lorimar must have been a fan because he played a similar bumbling annoying character a multiple episode arc as well on FC during its final season. Like why?

I remember Stuart Pankin mainly from the HBO skit comedy series " Not Necessarily the News" during the 80's. He was also a frequent guest on game shows during that era.

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

Made worse by casting Stuart Pankin as the Benny character.

ICAM!

2 hours ago, Khan said:

So, a comment I've made in the OLTL thread has brought this question to mind: as we all know, KL employed many former daytime actors over its' 14 seasons, including (off the top of my head) Ted Shackelford (AW), James Houghton (Y&R), Donna Mills (LIAMST), Jane Elliot (KL), John Considine (AW, Y&R), Allan Miller (GH, OLTL), Rosemary Prinz (AMC, ATWT, HTSAM, RH), Barry Jenner (AW), Jon Cypher (ATWT, GH, SaBa), Douglas Sheehan (GH), Alec Baldwin (TD), Peter Reckell (DAYS), Robin Strasser (AW, OLTL, PASSIONS, DAYS), Sam Behrens (GH, SuBe) Robert Desiderio (OLTL), Kathleen Noone (AMC, SuBe, PASSIONS), Philip Brown (LOVING/THE CITY, SFT), Marcia Cross (EON, OLTL) and Maree Cheatham (DAYS, GH, SFT). (Louise Sorel (Bess), Michael Sabatino (Chip), Hunt Block (Peter) and John Aprea (Manny) don't count here, since they worked in daytime after being on KNOTS). A long list, to be sure, but aside from Shackelford, Mills and maybe Baldwin and Sheehan, did any of these people (or any other daytime alumni who appeared on KL after working in daytime) ever get worthwhile material to play? Because, it seems to me the show wasted a lot of 'em.

(And is it just a coincidence that Val's two ex-husbands were both played by GH alumni, lol?)

Jenner had a good arc as Abby's ex husband.. it was a short, but effective arc that helped with establishing Abby as someone not to be messed with if you cross her.

Noone had potential as Claudia, she was just given a bad character that she couldn't make heads or tails out of. What baffled me was that Karen Fairgate, the know it all, was friends with her and hung out with her without ever sensing that she wasn't trust worthy. Claudia made Abby seem like a girl scout sometimes.

Otherwise, the other parts seemed more like short term cameos or badly written parts.