The WORST seasons of Knots Landing

Every season of Knots Landing ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst seasons of Knots Landing!

Hoping to ride the crest of its success with Dallas, CBS spun off this series featuring the black sheep of the Ewing Family, Gary Ewing. Gary was a weakened reformed alcoholic who had deserted his wife Valene Ewing, and then remarried her and moved to Southern California to escape the formidable nature of life with the Ewings in Dallas. All the equals in this series lived on the same cul-de-sac in the quiet little community of Knots Landing. In addition to being neighbors, their lives intertwined in other ways. Gary worked for Sid Fairgate, owner of Knots Landing Motors, the local classic car dealership. Sid and his wife Karen Fairgate had three teenage children: Eric Fairgate, Michael Fairgate, and Diana Fairgate. The other two couples on the cul-de-sac were young recording executive Kenny Ward and his attractive wife, Ginger, and Richard and Laura Avery.

Last Updated: 3/1/2025Network: CBSStatus: Ended

5.50

4 votes

#1 - Season 1

First Aired 12/28/1979

In a seaside suburban paradise, four married couples struggle with the conflicts and passions that buffet every marriage.

7.00

1 votes

#2 - Season 12

First Aired 9/14/1990

As two residents of the cul-de-sac confront mortality, the others living in Knots Landing continue to plot and scheme--and face surprising reversals of fortune.

7.00

1 votes

#3 - Season 11

First Aired 9/29/1989

Love and new relationships interweave with insidious plots, adultery and death as a serial murderer insinuates himself among the residents of the cul-de-sac.

7.00

1 votes

#4 - Season 9

First Aired 9/25/1987

From the discovery of a body buried in concrete to gun-running and murder over sexual jealousy, multiple crises shatter the peace in the cul-de-sac.

7.00

2 votes

#5 - Season 8

First Aired 9/19/1986

Power struggles over politics, money and sex rock the idyllic seaside community of Knots Landing.

7.00

2 votes

#6 - Season 4

First Aired 10/1/1982

Lust, alcoholism and murder strike, causing further turmoil in the suburban cul-de-sac.

7.00

2 votes

#7 - Season 3

First Aired 11/13/1981

Passions escalate as four couples battle temptation in a seaside suburban paradise.

7.00

2 votes

#8 - Season 2

First Aired 11/21/1980

Adultery, rape and white-collar crime plague the families of seaside Knots Landing--with lethal consequences.

8.00

1 votes

#9 - Season 13

First Aired 9/13/1991

Passion, sex and violence buffet the small, seaside community of Knots Landing.

8.00

1 votes

#10 - Season 10

First Aired 10/28/1988

Financial schemes, intrigue, murder and lust culminate in the possible expulsion from the cul-de-sac of one of the neighbors.

8.00

2 votes

#11 - Season 7

First Aired 9/27/1985

The residents of an idyllic seaside cul-de-sac face an ongoing feud over a corrupt land development deal and the supposed suicide of one of them. Ava Gardner joins the cast.

8.00

2 votes

#12 - Season 6

First Aired 10/5/1984

Alec Baldwin joins the cast. Control of the Ewing fortune rests on the fate of illegitimate twin babies--and the residents of Knots Landing resort to blackmail, kidnapping and murder.

8.33

3 votes

#13 - Season 5

First Aired 9/30/1983

William Devane joins the cast as the residents of Knots landing cope with a corrupt land-development deal, adultery, unwanted pregnancy and a Central American civil war.

8.50

2 votes

#14 - Season 14

First Aired 10/30/1992

After fourteen years of lust, greed and betrayal, passions explode in this final season of "Knots Landing."