Knots Landing

In a reuniting of the original cast members, Knots Landing Back to the Cul-De-Sac features the popular and infamous friends and families of the second longest running prime time entertainment drama in television history

Let Me Count The Ways: Diana's teacher is being harassed by Richard (who wants a position on the school board) for his unorthodox teaching methods. Karen, in the throes of mid-life uncertainty, goes to a school meeting to find out more about the teacher and ends up falling for him. Thoughts of an affair bring her life back into focus. The Lie: Feeling unappreciated, Laura goes to a cocktail lounge and meets a sleazy artist. He invites her to sit for him in his studio and he rapes her. She hides the truth from Richard as the police look for the wrong man.

Pilot Episode: Val and Gary arrive in Knots Landing, escorted by Bobby Ewing. Sid's teenage daughter Annie (Karen Allen) is visiting and Val tries to patch things up between her and Sid. In the pilot, we witness the first of many backyard bar-b-ques go awry. Community Spirit: That old devil J.R. Ewing is causing trouble in Knots Landing, and Karen rallies the neighborhood against his proposed off shore drilling site. Their uneasy 'big gun' Gary, has to go up against his older brother.

The story of a Texas family headed by oil magnate J.R. Ewing whose lives revolve around money, family, and the pursuit of power.Item Type: DVD MovieItem Rating: NRStreet Date: 08/09/05Wide Screen: noDirector Cut: noSpecial Edition: noLanguage: ENGLISHForeign Film: noSubtitles: noDubbed: noFull Frame: yesRe-Release: noPackaging: Sleeve

Dallas: The Complete Third Season, originally broadcast in the fall of 1979 through early 1980, surely represents one of the most raucous and tantalizing years in the life of any television series in history. Murder, banking fraud, kidnapping, adultery, alcoholism, cancer, vengeance, a miscarriage, extortion, bribery, and astounding levels of betrayal both in business and private lives are just part of the catalogue of sins that make season 3 particularly juicy. Actually, what makes the 25 episodes in this box set so much fun to watch is a viewer's gradual awareness that every crime committed, every ethical breach or personal tragedy is part of an overall design, reverberating in dozens of directions and affecting multiple relationships and numerous schemes. As enjoyable as each program is on its own terms, it's quite clear that by the 25th episode, "A House Divided," in which a major character receives a surprise-ending comeuppance, that all chickens were intended to come home to roost in the last show's very clever script. A remarkable number of story threads found their way into season 3. Starting with a two-parter concerning the kidnapping of a newborn baby belonging to J.R. (Larry Hagman) and Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), problems just keep on sprouting like weeds. First, there's Sue Ellen's emotional deep-freeze and refusal to nurture her child as a healthy mom should, which in turn prompts the childless Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) to free her maternal instincts toward J.R.'s son, much to the chagrin of J.R.'s brother, Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Meanwhile, teenager Lucy (Charlene Tilton), abandoned daughter of missing Ewing son Gary (David Ackroyd), threatens to teach J.R.'s son, one day, to turn against the Ewing clan, inspiring J.R. to escalate plans to get rid of Lucy any way possible. (Gary, by the way, kicks into gear a famous Dallas spin-off by moving to Knots Landing, California.) Matriarch Miss Ellie (Barbara Bel Geddes) faces a mastectomy, making her worry that husband Jock (Jim Davis) will stop loving her, though he faces problems of his own when a skeleton found buried on Ewing property turns up near Jock's missing handgun. (Whoops.) Finally, J.R.'s almost Shakespearean manipulation of the sale of Asian oil fields to old family friends, just before those fields are nationalized, is brilliantly wicked stuff. His actions have enormous, grievous ramifications--not least of all for J.R. --Tom Keogh

Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/20/2010 Rating: Nr

Nineteen eighty-two was a very good year for prime-time soaps. Dallas, in its fourth season, revealed who shot J.R., Dynasty heated up in its second season with the addition of Joan Collins, and Falcon Crest made its auspicious debut. Neither as wickedly fun nor campily over the top as its predecessors in its inaugural season, Falcon Crest added a touch of class to this genre of infinite guilty pleasures. The venerable Jane Wyman, a casting coup, stars as Angela Channing, the iron-willed matriarch who will stop at nothing to maintain her power as head of Falcon Crest Winery and the surrounding Tuscany Valley. Robert Foxworthy, not the snappiest grape on the vine, costars as Charles Gioberti, Angela's nephew, who inherits a share of the winery in the wake of his father Jason's death. He moves west to make a new life for his troubled family, including wife Maggie (Susan Sullivan), a freelance writer; hotheaded son Cole (William R. Moses), an aspiring archaeologist; and angsty teenaged daughter Vickie (Jamie Rose), especially unhappy in her new surroundings. "I can't breathe in that house," she complains to Cole in the episode "Dark Journey," just before running away to San Francisco, where she unwittingly becomes enthralled to a pornographer. Falcon Crest was referred to as "Dallas with grapes," but there is one key difference. Larry Hagman's J.R. took great and gleeful pleasure in plotting his rivals' downfalls. Angela is a tough old bird, but whether she's hiring Charles's disreputable former war buddy to sabotage his crop or undermining his campaign for the County Board, she seems to get no particular kick out of her machinations to drive Charles and family out of the valley. What she and Falcon Crest needed was a more formidable and equally cunning opponent. Enter David Selby as Richard Channing in season 2. Until then, we have Lorenzo Lamas as Angela's spoiled nephew and dangerously eager coconspirator and plenty of dark secrets and uncovered family skeletons to propel the season forward, principally Charles's growing suspicions that Angela isn't telling the truth about his father's death (well founded, as the audience knows from the pilot episode). One Very Special Episode features Lana Turner in her first screen role in more than a decade as Chase's mother. Anyone hoping for a Dynasty-esque catfight between Turner and Wyman will be disappointed, but the two screen legends are great verbal sparring partners. A special shout-out, too, to Chao-Li Chi as Chao-Li, Angela's very faithful butler and chauffeur, as well as Ana Alicia as Melissa, who livens things up as a scheming wine heiress who loves Cole but submits to an arranged marriage with Lance. Though it serves up some cheese with its wine, Falcon Crest has aged well, and its first season can be savored in episode sips or in one intoxicating gulp. --Donald Liebenson

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A teeny, tiny show business memoir.

Raised in New York City by parents obsessed with becoming actors, Claudia Lonow found the success her parents desperately wanted when she became a TV actress and later a producer and comedian. Her collection of short essays includes three alarmingly candid, ironic, and funny stories about her insecure, at times misspent, youth. The first tells of her first two crushes, one of which winds up killing the other's father. In "Mary Destiny," Lonow gives a behind-the-set look at her first acting role and an account of the drugs she decided to take before watching her televised debut alone. "Indignity" is Lonow's self-assessment as she watches a sex-club orgy, part of a bizarre plan to secure a boyfriend's love. Vivid writing and a brisk pace bring these stories to life, while laugh-out-loud moments make them totally satisfying. --Paul Diamond

A teeny, tiny show business memoir.