Knots Landing
originally aired on CBS
Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of Dallas, it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles. It was the third-longest-running primetime drama on U.S. television after Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The series was largely inspired by a 1957 movie No Down Payment and also the 1973 Ingmar Bergman television miniseries Scenes from a Marriage.