“Landing Knots” is the second longest-running prime-time television drama in television history. The show was launched by “Dallas” in December 1979 and ran for 344 episodes through May 1993.
It all started in 1979, when Gary’s mother, Ellie Ewing, bought Gary and Val their home in Seaview Circle. Gary’s brother Bobby brought them from “Dallas” to California. Karen then returned to her marriage to her first husband, Sid, who owned and operated Knots Out Motors, a local auto dealership.
Karen Gary and Val in the neighborhood hosted a dinner party with an obstacle course.
Laura and Richard Avery were far from a model couple. Karen and Sid lived next door to Gary and Val’s house. At that time they had one son, Jason, and a few years later, a second son, Daniel.
Newlyweds Ginger and Kenny Ward, like Gary and Val, recently moved to the cul-sac. Kenny was the author of the act who met Ginger when he was a struggling performer. Kenny of course promised Ginger the moon after his career, but all he got was Kenny’s job taking care of him.
It wasn’t too long after that drunken Gary crashed the car. At the same time, Sid’s sister, Abby Fairgate, floats into town. Karen knew Abby was a troublemaker, but Karen used it. Sid’s family seemed to have more than their share of troublemakers, including Sid’s daughter Annie from his first marriage.
Abby got a job with Node Motors and it wasn’t long before she and Gary Sid got mixed up in some theft auto partsauto /a> the common mess. Abby was a cashier at Knots Lando Motors. The abbess was armed with sworn books to conceal what was really going on. When Sid realizes, and the feds are stuck, a shotgun is fired at Sid’s car. At the same time, Abby’s first husband shows up and takes her two kids.
Sid is paralyzed by an accident and – against Karen’s wishes – opts for an operation that could help him regain use of his body. But the operation was not a success and Sid died in men.
Meanwhile, Abe had brought her children back, setting up her ex-husband, and soon began to set her sights on Richard. Conobia and Richard used to plead their right of kinship before Laura, Richard’s wife.
This also happened when Karen’s brother Joe Cooper came to town and stayed with Karen, Eric, Michael and Diana for about a year.
Not long after, a weary abbess sees Richard in Gary, who has been the beneficiary of a huge land change since his recently deceased father, Jock. But Gary was the black sheep of the family – Jock’s and JR had no cruelty and he had the truth. he had a penchant for cards, booze and ladies when he was young – so Jock Gary left him money in trust. Gary felt such a slap in the face and Jock’s final statement to Gary that Gary had been defeated.
It wasn’t long before Abby’s nails were dug in so deep that Gary Val and Abby wound up with last name “Exuberant” for the first time. Of course, Abby wouldn’t come right out and tell Val the truth about that matter with Gary.
This is about when Mack Mackenzie came into the picture. He was the prosecutor working on the Sid Fairgate murder case. He and Joe Cooper tried to keep Karen from killing herself while Sid went after the killers. Eventually, Karen framed Sid’s killers and, at the same time, fell in love with Mack.
Even before Abby and Gary got married, Gary slept with Val at one point. And Val conceived.
Ciji Dunne was a recording artist discovered by Gary and Kenny. Gary developed a case for Ciji but was eventually killed. Gary is locked up for murder. He was on a drunken binge the night of the murder, and could not remember where he had been. Diana, Karen’s daughter, saw this guy, Chip Roberts, who lived with Valene and her mother. Chip wasn’t really Chip, but some guy named Tony and he had an affair going with Ciji and later killed her. Chip and Diana go on a run and Chip bumps himself after falling from the impact of seeing Cathy Geary, a woman Gary met who was a dead ringer for Ciji. It turns out that the reason Gary met the same mirror for Ciji was that his wife Abby hired Cathy to make Gary preoccupied with Cathy.
Shortly after this, Greg Sumner floats into town. Greg and Mack were old law school chums. Grego was running for state senator. His daughter Maria Francesca came to live with Karen and Mack for a while.
Due to the biological machinations of Greg’s father, Paul Galveston, Greg had sold his race to the Wolfbridge Group, a cartel of morally bankrupt business leaders. After Greg is out of state, Karen is shot by a sniper aiming at Gary, and Abbey is taken away by the leader of Wolfbridge.
Greg then got involved with Gary in another venture called Valley Empire. Gary thought there was a lot of land for development but it was really a secret to explore an institution hidden under a suburban planned community. When Gary found out the truth, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, Val’s twins were born aborted – except they weren’t. Abby would have passed on a business partner so that her life would be easier if it weren’t for Val’s twins. So the business partner arranged with a crooked doctor to have the twins sold on the black market and tell Val the twins were stillborn. After finding out that Abby was complicit in this arrangement and realizing that she was almost found out, she reunited Val and her twins.
Around the same time, Val met a new man – Ben Gibson. He was a journalist. But at last it came out that he had already had a scout before. John Hackney was deceived by a double agent, and pushed to the slaughter of Sumner’s herd. With the help of Mack, Ben saves Greg, himself and his family. Ben disappeared to protect his family or go after Jean Hackney who was on the run.
Olivia’s daughter, Abby, has developed a drug problem. Abby pulled it together and helped her daughter through it. Grego’s supposed brother, Peter Hollister pointed out, was finally wrapped up dead and under the children’s park in the case of Gary, the co-owner, and Karen real estate< /a> venture, Lotus Point.
Gregory Sumner had the same love/hate relationship he had with Laura Avery whose ex-husband walked out on her and didn’t even bother to say goodbye. Richard mortgaged his house, left all his debts and just left.
Laura eventually married Greg in late 1985 and became pregnant. Greg didn’t want to have any more kids because of how he felt he would end up with Mary Frances. As Greg got pregnant, Laura learned she was dying of a brain tumor. Laura decided to go to a private clinic – which is where she went to die alone.
Greg realized that he didn’t have the skills to be a single parent and gave Meg to Karen and Mack. .
Karen got caught around her getting kidnapped when Mack’s illegitimate daughter Paige went out to Knots. Anne had a kid named Mack that she never knew. Paige was involved with Peter Hollister before he died.
Paige’s mother came out to Nodos and rented Laura’s house.
Although Peter told Greg his brother, he wasn’t. And Peter’s older sister was Mack’s group supervisor from work: Jill Bennett. Jill made a story for Mack but I’m not interested. Jill and Gary started seeing each other and pretty soon, Gary and Abby broke up.
Eventually, Jill tried to kill Val by forcing Val to confess to her death, and of course no one believed Val when she said that Jill was really the killer. Of course, the truth came out in the end, but not before Jill killed herself, and her body stuck in Cary’s trunk.
Just when it looked like Gary and Val might actually get back together, Val’s aunt Virginia introduced her to computer expert Danny Waleska.
Valens met Danny and married him. Gary met a girl on the phone who led her to his friend Sally for some time and bumped into him. The phone girl, Amanda, ironically married Danny. Gary and Valene realized that they were dating two divorcees and thought it was funny. But it was no laughing matter when Danny kidnapped his wife Amanda and left town. Valene decided to marry Danny. Later, Valene saw Danny’s anger and stabbed him in the chest in Mack’s office.
Pat and Frank Williams moved into Laura’s house after Laura died. It turns out that Pat, Frank and Julie’s daughter were in the witness protection program after Pat testified against the wrong doctors.
Val’s crazy drunk husband Danny Pat ran over with his car.
Danny continued to terrorize the neighborhood until he drunkenly drowned in a swimming pool, in front of French girl Julie.
That’s also about Paige going to work with Gregory Sumner. And Paige and Sumner actually started a romance.
Just when Paige thought Greg was going to propose, he actually married Abby. At the same time, Abe set up a private Murakame facility, which he used to cheat Karen and Gary out of their real estate. estate‘s properties at Lotus Point. It was finally revealed that Abby was stationed with the embassy in Japan, who had actually been gunning for Greg.
Before the abbess finally left, he was informed that he had had a conversation with his daughter Olivia, who had gone away and married Harold, a former enforcer of the commons. They had more than their fair share of problems with each other. Basically, poor Olivia couldn’t act because she had no money.
Karen’s son Michael also joined the Sumner Company when he developed a computer-virus detector that Sumner wanted to have. Eric, Michael’s brother, comes home from college with his new wife, Linda. Eric has gone on assignment to Saudi Arabia, leaving his wife Linda to stay with Karen and Mack. Linda and Michael had an affair.
Eric returned, Eric and Linda divorced, Linda and Michael got together, Linda dumped Michael, got involved in some kinky sex, and wound herself up dead.
Paige didn’t want to jump to Gregory now that his ex-wife had left him. He took his place with crooked cop Tom Ryan. Tom and Paige were going to get married, but Sumner reached out to Tom to stop her.
Devastated, Paige returned to Greg and they got busy. When she realizes that she has a vasectomy and can’t have kids, she breaks up the fight, and Linda Fairgate climbs the stairs to watch Gregory’s bed even further. Linda thought invincible. When an old friend, Brian Johnston, an engineer going out to Knots as Linda’s old boyfriend, took a liking to Paige and wanted her back in bed. When Paige realized his antics, she dressed him up while he was on a videotape tour. Later that night, Brian went to Linda’s apartment for some romantic love and to hide from Greg. When Linda couldn’t find Brian, she began to get nervous so that her videotape with him would surface. The only videotape that existed was of Paige dressing Brian. Johnston killed Linda.
Gary and Val finally entered. Gary literally bumped into Joseph Barringer, a physicist who was working on something called Tidal Energy – which involves use. energy across the ocean. Greg loved this idea and came into competition with Gary. Eventually Gary lost all his money in Tidal Energy.
Karen and Mack became foster parents to Jason Lochner, who was physically abused by his father.
Grego’s daughter returned to town, but Maria Francisca was killed by a sniper in the office. Shortly after the same Mary Frances Kate cousin together with Greg’s sister Claudia.
Paige falls in love with Pierce Lawton, another in a long line of mysterious men in Paige’s life who turns out to have something of a major character flaw. Psychotic drill.
Greg has a life and estate change in ownership of the Sumner Group 1/3 to Mack and Karen in trust for Meg, 1/3 for Paige, and 1/3 for Claudia.
Val, after two successful books, was tagged in a biography by his publisher, Greg Sumner. When Val runs into a woman who claims her son is having an affair with Laura and that Meg isn’t really Greg’s daughter, she tells Greg who makes sure she’s fired. Val goes to Florida to investigate this incident causing even more of a rift between her and Gary. Grego knows that this mysterious woman is Mary Robeson, Laura’s mother, who was in prison for writing phony checks and doing scams.
Valene finds out who this mysterious woman is and frantically calls Karen, telling her that Mary Robeson is Meg’s grandmother and not to let Meg out of her sight. Val disappeared and was eventually thought to be dead in the car.
Mary Robeson blackmailed Mack and Karen. Mack tried to return it. Mary was found dead. Mary was killed by her brother Coro.
Val is not dying. It turns out that she was kidnapped by this bad guy, Treadwell, who was trying to capture Sumner’s gang. Val was too close to figuring out the truth about the whole thing. Mary and Joe Robeson worked for Treadwell.
Because Val was presumed dead for a year, Gary got romantically involved with Greg’s niece Kate. Val returned to the exposed Knots after her captors escaped. At the same time, Abby returned to Knots Landing – it happened when Treadwell was involved in an attempt to take over the Sumner Group.
Treadwell died. Val and Gary are joined. He returned to the convent in the cul-de-sac.
