... actually ran from 1979 to 1993. It outlasted Dallas, which started in 1978 and ended in 1991.
The premise behind Knots Landing was that Gary Ewing (the black sheep of the Ewing family – played by a different actor) reunites with his teenage sweetheart, and his mother (Miss Ellie) buys them a house in Los Angeles.
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