Knots Landing 1979 repeated in the UK on CBS Drama - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Steve_uk · 11-18-2015, 02:36 PM

Does anybody remember the above show, following the lives of four couples residing in their luxury detached homes located in a Los Angeles cul-de-sac a stone's throw from the beach and beautiful Pacific Ocean?

Opening credits presciently offer what the show sells:glamour and sex all tastefully set against the backdrop of a saxaphone riff,where we find a traditional romance of Darby and Joan couple Karen and Sid Fairgate,Gary offering Valene a kiss on the settee, Constance McCashin seductively unbuttoning John Pleshette's red pyjamas, and a young couple whose names escape me peering enquiringly out of a window clad in bathrobes.

So far in the series Karen Fairgate, whom Joan Rivers labelled the show's First Lady has turned down a proposition from her daughter's boyfriend, her neighbour Laura Sumner was raped by a man she picked up at a bar, Lucy the Poison Dwarf of Dallas appeared and vowed to stay with parents Gary and Valene(but appears to have disappeared in tonight's episode) and now I'm mid-way through a group of Hell's Angels terrifying sunbathers, giving suburban housewife Michele Lee the opportunity to flaunt her tight, honed physique.

It's all redolent of a time when a man did a fair day's work for a fair day's pay and returned home to find his cookie cutter wife clad in a pinny preparing dinner for the family, who would sit round the dining table and actually talk to one another. The programme requires no intellectual effort after a hard day's work, the actors are intentionally pleasing on the eye..in fact it's so bad it's good. https://youtu.be/edzaiysEE_I

11-18-2015, 02:36 PM	#1
Steve_uk Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jun 29, 2012 Location: Manchester UK Posts: 5,803	Knots Landing 1979 repeated in the UK on CBS Drama Does anybody remember the above show, following the lives of four couples residing in their luxury detached homes located in a Los Angeles cul-de-sac a stone's throw from the beach and beautiful Pacific Ocean? Opening credits presciently offer what the show sells:glamour and sex all tastefully set against the backdrop of a saxaphone riff,where we find a traditional romance of Darby and Joan couple Karen and Sid Fairgate,Gary offering Valene a kiss on the settee, Constance McCashin seductively unbuttoning John Pleshette's red pyjamas, and a young couple whose names escape me peering enquiringly out of a window clad in bathrobes. So far in the series Karen Fairgate, whom Joan Rivers labelled the show's First Lady has turned down a proposition from her daughter's boyfriend, her neighbour Laura Sumner was raped by a man she picked up at a bar, Lucy the Poison Dwarf of Dallas appeared and vowed to stay with parents Gary and Valene(but appears to have disappeared in tonight's episode) and now I'm mid-way through a group of Hell's Angels terrifying sunbathers, giving suburban housewife Michele Lee the opportunity to flaunt her tight, honed physique. It's all redolent of a time when a man did a fair day's work for a fair day's pay and returned home to find his cookie cutter wife clad in a pinny preparing dinner for the family, who would sit round the dining table and actually talk to one another. The programme requires no intellectual effort after a hard day's work, the actors are intentionally pleasing on the eye..in fact it's so bad it's good. https://youtu.be/edzaiysEE_I