I never really watched this show although the credits are very familiar to me. If I wanted to catch up with it now, it would take me some time as it ran for fourteen seasons! Wow - that's pretty impressive. It also starred William Devane who is one of those actors I know when I see him in something but can never place. I just had to look him up. He was, of course, in 24.
And Donna Mills naturally. This is classic soap territory with a California setting and blonde, glam women. Marvellous.
The trouble with Knots Landing was Valeen (not sure about the spelling) who was THE wettest character ever
ReplyDeleteValene (according to Wikipedia). She was Lucy Ewing's mother!
ReplyDeleteAhh, thanks for the correct spelling. In the Dallas novel I had she had Lucy at 14 - something both the tv show Dallas and Knot's Landing conveniently forget to mention!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE that you had a Dallas novel!
ReplyDeleteIt was the novel that the show was based on and went into much more detail about the Jock/Miss Ellie/Digger Barnes relationship. In fact now I think about it it was mainly about those 3 rather than JR and Bobby!
ReplyDeleteMy Dynasty novels (yes,I had more than 1) were based around the show.
ReplyDeleteI sure knew how to live in the 80's!
In fact, the more I think about it I'm convinced that JR was Lucy's dad in the book. Ok, I'm off to trawl the internet to track down the book!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's available on Kindle!
ReplyDeleteDon't think I haven't checked! It's not, more's the pity
ReplyDelete*tut* An oversight.
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