I wonder why Morgan Fairchild never made an appearance (as far as I know) on KL.  She certainly made her presence known and felt on all the other Lorimar-produced soaps, lol.

It's always such a treat to see these ladies still together and being active.  Loni Anderson's recent passing (which they talk about toward the beginning of the episode) is a grave reminder that that generation of lovely actresses will not be around that much longer.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

I wonder why Morgan Fairchild never made an appearance (as far as I know) on KL.  She certainly made her presence known and felt on all the other Lorimar-produced soaps, lol.

It's always such a treat to see these ladies still together and being active.  Loni Anderson's recent passing (which they talk about toward the beginning of the episode) is a grave reminder that that generation of lovely actresses will not be around that much longer.

Morgan was more suited to FC, FR and even  Dallas than the more down to earth KL.

And visually Morgan was probably too close to Donna Mills and would have played the same type of character.

And when Jenna returned to Dallas, the character was much more sympathetic and relatable than anything Morgan ever played on the primetime soaps.

On 10/20/2025 at 10:08 PM, kalbir said:

I really admire those here that stuck it out through the final four seasons. For me they were a chore to get through and Paige practically eating the show during the final four seasons didn't help matters either.

LOL what helps me is that it was obviously Latham era of Knots that was my first exposure to the show. Yet even for younger early teen me Linda Fairgate’s murder was too much so I still don’t care for much for the final 2 seasons at all, although years later I can certainly see how the losses of both Laura and Abby affected this show a lot.

Morgan Fairchild on Knots? LOL to that too. Had she been cast I could totally see her playing some recurring gig like Karen’s producer Dianne Kirkwood in Season 11 that Robin Strasser found herself miserably in. 

I still would’ve like to have seen Morgan back as Jenna on Dallas, but alas. She wasn’t a good fit for Falcon Crest either (where as I thought both Jill Jacobson and Jane Badler fit in more naturally) and she had obviously big footprints to fill as Racine on Paper Dolls after Joan Collins perfectly played Racine  in the movie.

I’ve been rewatching the entire series from the beginning on Plex over the last half-year-plus and have enjoyed the majority of it so far. I originally started watching the show on broadcast TV/CBS around the time of S10 when I was in college. I was well aware of Knots before then from it being “related” to Dallas, it being part of pop culture, and seeing the occasional episode here and there (I remember having watched Ciji washing up on the rocks a few years before, but somehow it didn’t draw me in as a regular viewer of the show—WTH?!), but KL wasn’t part of my regular TV watching. That fall of 1988, I was taking a night class and would get home, still wide awake from school, and would turn on the show. From there, I watched through the end of the series. I already knew its best years were behind it, but rewatching it has shown me how great it generally was.

Currently, I’m in the middle of S8 and last night’s viewing was episode 9 (“Brothers and Mothers”) where Eric and Michael had their bar room brawl in Karen’s recently redecorated living room (I bet Steve Shaw and Pat Petersen loved getting to play that with the stuntmen!) the season certainly feels off from the previous 2 or 3 seasons, but there are (and will be) tiny gems in the rest of the season. (Olivia’s drug problems blowing up!)

What has really annoyed me the most about S8 so far? Who in the eff approved the music director re-orchestrating and re-recording the theme music on a Casio keyboard??!!? I’m trying to be funny—but I’m also 100% serious. You can tell that it’s all been done on a synthesized keyboard. I might be a little more understanding if they’d rearranged it in the fashion of upcoming seasons, but… it’s the same basic arrangement only done on a synthesizer. Having watched Dallas on Freevee/Prime (and having that yanked away from being FREE to watch right in the first third of Season 14), I’m used to themes being rearranged and tweaked over the years, but… at least Dallas’ theme always sounded as though they used an orchestra along with any synthesizers stuck there to embellish!

There’s plenty of missteps in S8 to be irritated by, but this robot theme is currently working one of my last nerves each night and I thought I’d share that with other fans!

Edited October 23Oct 23 by DanMan869

30 minutes ago, DanMan869 said:

I’ve been rewatching the entire series from the beginning on Plex over the last half-year-plus and have enjoyed the majority of it so far. I originally started watching the show on broadcast TV/CBS around the time of S10 when I was in college. I was well aware of Knots before then from it being “related” to Dallas, it being part of pop culture, and seeing the occasional episode here and there (I remember having watched Ciji washing up on the rocks a few years before, but somehow it didn’t draw me in as a regular viewer of the show—WTH?!), but KL wasn’t part of my regular TV watching. That fall of 1988, I was taking a night class and would get home, still wide awake from school, and would turn on the show. From there, I watched through the end of the series. I already knew its best years were behind it, but rewatching it has shown me how great it generally was.

Currently, I’m in the middle of S8 and last night’s viewing was episode 9 (“Brothers and Mothers”) where Eric and Michael had their bar room brawl in Karen’s recently redecorated living room (I bet Steve Shaw and Pat Petersen loved getting to play that with the stuntmen!) the season certainly feels off from the previous 2 or 3 seasons, but there are (and will be) tiny gems in the rest of the season. (Olivia’s drug problems blowing up!)

What has really annoyed me the most about S8 so far? Who in the eff approved the music director re-orchestrating and re-recording the theme music on a Casio keyboard??!!? I’m trying to be funny—but I’m also 100% serious. You can tell that it’s all been done on a synthesized keyboard. I might be a little more understanding if they’d rearranged it in the fashion of upcoming seasons, but… it’s the same basic arrangement only done on a synthesizer. Having watched Dallas on Freevee/Prime (and having that yanked away from being FREE to watch right in the first third of Season 14), I’m used to themes being rearranged and tweaked over the years, but… at least Dallas’ theme always sounded as though they used an orchestra along with any synthesizers stuck there to embellish!

There’s plenty of missteps in S8 to be irritated by, but this robot theme is currently working one of my last nerves each night and I thought I’d share that with other fans!

Agreed. There were a lot of shifts in Season 8, some good, some bad.

And I never thought we'd see Eric and Michael brawling 😂

5 hours ago, DanMan869 said:

Who in the eff approved the music director re-orchestrating and re-recording the theme music on a Casio keyboard??!!?

It does have that "showroom demo" feel to it, doesn't it, lol?

The Season 8 theme does sound like it was remixed on a Casio keyboard because it was the mid 80s and let's remix everything on synchs and Casio keyboards LOL

I do laugh at the prospect of Morgan joining Knots Landing because she would totally be a fish out of water.  Morgan just doesn't have the suburban mom vibe that Lee, Van ark, Constance, nor Mills (yes Donna Mills) had.  It's a shame Paper Dolls didn't take off because she was the best part of that prime time where she played a character that sounded somewhat like Morgan herself (Morgan grew up in Texas, came to NYC and reinvented  herself... and her character in Paper Dolls appeared to have grown up in Wisconsin and reinvented herself in NYC as a modeling agency owner).

27 minutes ago, Soaplovers said:

and her character in Paper Dolls appeared to have grown up in Wisconsin and reinvented herself in NYC as a modeling agency owner.

I can just see Racine's original portrayer - Dame Joan Collins of Paddington, London - playing a modeling agency owner who hails from Wisconsin, lol.

Edited October 24Oct 24 by Khan

Agreed on the Season 8 theme being my least favorite of all the themes.

So after re-watching the Peter Hollister seasons I still have so many questions. I don’t know if these questions were addressed in the series and I missed them, (I feel like I watch the episodes pretty closely, but maybe not)

Did Greg Sumner ever find out that Peter wasn’t really his brother?

If not, did Sumner ever find out that Jill was Peter’s sister? If he did know that Jill was Peter’s sister, did he think Jill was his sister too?

Was Gary the only one who knew Jill and Peter were brother and sister? Did Gary only think that Jill was also Sumner’s sister or did he know that Peter and Sumner weren’t really related either?

I know Gary told Mack that Jill was Peter’s sister and about her Dottie Simpsons after Jill’s death, but I don’t remember anyone else really knowing.

I know Abby knew that Peter and Sumner weren’t really related, but did she know Jill and Peter were?

I’m so lost with who did and didn’t know about Jill and Peter.

Making my way through Season 6 and I've got two things to say about Mary Kathrun. First off, I thought she was played by Michelle Johnson, who popped up on Dallas in the spring of 1985 (nope, it's Whitney Kershaw). Next, it seems like they could have brought Mary back in the episodes leading up to and after Alec Baldwin's departure. I feel like Mary could/should have fit into Leslie Hope's role as Linda.

6 hours ago, Franko said:

Making my way through Season 6

Season 6 was Knots Landing best season. Everything culminates during the final 10 episodes of that season and those episodes to me were the peak of the series.

14 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Season 6 was Knots Landing best season. Everything culminates during the final 10 episodes of that season and those episodes to me were the peak of the series.

I agree.  The next several seasons have their bright spots, but never again was the storytelling on KNOTS more cohesive than it was during S6, with Bobby and Betsy's kidnapping affecting everyone else on the canvas.  (Plus, I think writing Joshua into a corner the next season - to the point where there was no other direction for his character to go - might've been the first, true mistake KL made in its' run).

58 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Season 6 was Knots Landing best season. Everything culminates during the final 10 episodes of that season and those episodes to me were the peak of the series.

 

39 minutes ago, Khan said:

I agree.  The next several seasons have their bright spots, but never again was the storytelling on KNOTS more cohesive than it was during S6, with Bobby and Betsy's kidnapping affecting everyone else on the canvas.  (Plus, I think writing Joshua into a corner the next season - to the point where there was no other direction for his character to go - might've been the first, true mistake KL made in its' run).

Lorimar made a fatal mistake/error of judgement typical of what we saw hurt P&G soaps time and time again: a lot-flip flopping the crew.

Flip-flopping Dunne and Paulsen didn’t work at all for the 85-86 season and they both were gone afterwards.

If anything Paulsen should’ve been sent to Falcon Crest in ‘85 and probably could have gotten the show focused again. 
 

Did Michael Filerman make that bone headed decision?

43 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Did Michael Filerman make that bone headed decision?

If it wasn't him, then it was Leslie Moonves', or whoever was in charge of Lorimar at that time.

I agree that moving David Paulsen over to FC (instead of to KL) would've been JUST the shot in the arm that that show needed.  In fact, I think he would've gotten FC more than even Earl Hamner did.

1 hour ago, Khan said:

(Plus, I think writing Joshua into a corner the next season - to the point where there was no other direction for his character to go - might've been the first, true mistake KL made in its' run).

Joshua descent into madness and eventual death was the start of Knots Landing tanking to me.