History Series / KnotsLanding

* EstrangedSoapFamily: The Texas Ewings after Season Four. It ran both ways as Gary never turned up for major family events at Southfork after Bobby's death in the Dream Season - and seldom did beforehand. His absence from said events was never explained.

* EvilMatriarch: Greg's mother Ruth Galveston Sumner in Season Six.

** Gary, Valene and Abby in Season Three.

** Gary, Frank and Patricia in Season Ten. (Even for a soap opera character, Gary is involved in a lot of love triangles.) This is a somewhat odd example as, for once, Gary doesn't realise that he is in a love triangle as he never learns that Pat has feelings for him.

** In Season Eleven, Bobby and Betsy hate Valene's new boyfriend and eventual husband Danny. It turns out that they are much perceptive than she is.

* EightiesHair: Karen Fairgate, Abby Fairgate, Cathy Geary and Valene Ewing are some of the more prominent examples. Joan Van Ark refers to Val's "fe-mullet" 'do on the 2005 re-union show.
* CainAndAbel: JR Ewing and Gary.

** Valene has been married five times, the most of anyone in the ''Dallas'' / ''Knots Landing'' universe: she married and divorced Gary twice, then she married Ben Gibson and was (seemingly) widowed but she got a divorce instead of having him declared legally dead, then she married Danny Waleska (who died while they were in the process of getting a divorce) and then she married Gary for the third time. Gary married and divorced Abby between his second and third marriages to Valene.
** Abby is another. She was married to Jeff Cunningham (who is Olivia and Brian's father), then to Gary, then to Charles Scott and then to Greg. Her very brief marriage to Charles was annulled while the other three ended in divorce.

* TheyDo: Or more accurately They Do Again. After several missed opportunities, Gary and Valene reunite towards the end of Season Eleven and he proposes to her in the aptly titled season finale "Let's Get Married". They official get engaged in the Season Twelve premiere "Return Engagement". As previously mentioned, they tie the knot for the third time in the Season Twelve episode "The Last One Out".

** Karen, Mack, Meg and Jason are taken hostage in their house in "House of Cards".

** In Season Eleven, Bobby and Betsy hate Valene's new boyfriend and eventual husband Danny. It turns out that they are much pre perceptive than she is.

During the first few seasons, occasional guest appearances by ''Dallas'' cast would occur, especially Gary's brothers Bobby and J.R. (Larry Hagman). However, the last crossover between the two series would occur when Gary got the news that Bobby died at the beginning of their 7th season. Though Bobby's death was {{retcon}}ned from ''Dallas'', ''Knots Landing'' was not treated in the same way. In that series, Bobby remained dead, and the two series were treated separately from that point on.

''Knots Landing'' ran from December 27, 1979 (literally the tail end of the decade) until 1993. It's fondly remembered by its fans, but wasn't nearly as popular as ''Dallas'', though both were equal LongRunners (both went 14 seasons). Like Gary, it became something of a black sheep. It's only seen its first two seasons released on DVD.

* FakeBand: Kenny is the record producer for the bands Cosmic Steeple, a fake band populated by FakeBrits, and Kiwi Surprise, who are from New Zealand as their name suggests.

On the ''Dallas'' third season episode "Return Engagements" (December 21, 1979), a {{Poorly Disguised Pilot}}, Gary (Ted Shackleford) remarried ex-wife Valene Clements Ewing (Joan Van Ark), and Gary's mother bought them a house in California to get away from the other turmoil in the Ewing family. Their daughter Lucy, already almost an adult herself, did not resettle with them, and only appeared on this show as a guest in the first season. The house was one of several his brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy) was flipping to take advantage of California's housing boom at the time.

* {{Aborted Arc}}:

* {{As Himself}}: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Billy Curtis and Mike Douglas in "Svengali", Creator/DickSargent in "Weighing of Evils" and Mary Lou Retten in "Letting Go".

* {{Amicably Divorced}}: Although Gary and Valene's separation is extremely acrimonious, they eventually come to an understanding and remain close friends after their (second) divorce.

* {{Back for the Finale}}: Valene (who also came back for the ''Dallas'' finale) and Abby.
* {{Bar Brawl}}: Gary, while drunk, gets into one in "Bottom of the Bottle, Part I".
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}:

* {{Bratty Teenage Daughter}}:

* {{Breather Episode}}: "Birds Do It, Bees Do It", a light-hearted episode about sex, comes immediately after the conclusion of the Crazy Jill storyline which featured several very intense episodes.
* {{Eighties Hair}}: Karen Fairgate, Abby Fairgate, Cathy Geary and Valene Ewing are some of the more prominent examples. Joan Van Ark refers to Val's "fe-mullet" 'do on the 2005 re-union show.
* {{Cain and Abel}}: JR Ewing and Gary.
* {{Continuity Overlap}}
** Heavily averted and then some. Although Bobby's "resurrection" represented the permanent parting of the ways between the two show's continuities (at least until Gary and Valene's return in the ''Dallas'' {{Revival}} 27 years later), things had already been heading in that direction for several years. No ''Dallas'' characters appeared in ''Knots Landing'' after the latter's fourth season and, other than Bobby's death, the only major ''Dallas'' storyline that ever had a significant impact on ''Knots Landing'' was Jock's death as Gary inherited $10 million in his father's will. After the reading of said will in ''Dallas''' sixth season, Gary only made two further appearances on that series: in the ninth season premiere "The Family Ewing" in which he returned to Southfork for Bobby's funeral and in the {{Series Finale}} "Conundrum" which has a ItsAWonderfulPlot in which J.R. is shown what would have happened to the Ewings and others if he had never been born. "Conundrum" also marked Valene's only ''Dallas'' appearance after its fifth season.

* {{Cross Over}} with ''Series/{{Dallas}}'' (at least until Season 4, completely cut off by Dallas' "Dream Season")
* {{Deadly Closing Credits}}:
** A partial subversion in "Silent Mission". The Wolfbridge Group hires a hitman to kill Gary so that Abby will inherit his money and Lotus Point can remain open. A shooting takes place on Gary's ranch but the victim is not seen. Rather than the episode ending at that point, Valene arrives at the ranch and Mack tells her that Gary is dead. The next episode "Finishing Touches" is a textbook example of {{Our Hero Is Dead}}. It deals with the community's reactions to Gary's murder, especially those of Valene and Abby, and a funeral is held. It is revealed at the end of that episode that Gary is still alive. In the following episode "Yesterday, It Rained", it transpires that the hitman had killed Ray Geary, Cathy's ex-husband who was himself planning to kill Gary. Mack used the incident as a way to get to Wolfbridge.
** A more straightforward example occurred in "Survival of the Fittest". Ben has been ordered to kill Greg by Jean Hackney, who tells him that she will kill Valene and the twins if he refuses to comply. Ben confronts Greg in Ben's office at Galveston Industries with a gun and the episode ends with the sound of a shot being fired as the two men struggle with the gun. The next episode "In Mourning" is another example of {{Our Hero Is Dead}} in which Jean Hackney tells her superior that Greg is dead and that she saw a body bag leaving Galveston Industries. She then leaks the story of Greg's death to a newspaper in spite of the lack of conclusive proof that he is dead. While claiming that his "brother" is merely missing, Peter takes advantage of the situation by announcing his intention to take over control of Galveston Industries for the time being. Greg then turns up alive and well and Valene begins to worry that Ben is dead. The following episode "Nightmare" reveals that Ben is still alive and Mack, having convinced him to put the gun down, had him smuggled out of Galveston Industries in the body bag.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}:

* {{Disappointing Older Sibling}}: Eric, and to a lesser extent Michael, viewed Diana as such during her marriage to Chip in Season Five.
* {{Distaff Counterpart}}: Abby was introduced as the series' creator David Jacobs wanted a female J.R.
* {{Divorce Is Temporary}}: Eight years after their second divorce, Gary and Valene married for the third time in the 300th episode "The Last One Out".
* {{Dying Alone}}: Laura Avery Sumner when she goes off to a clinic to die of a brain tumor.
* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Mack's first name is Marion. This was not revealed to the audience until Season Eight, Mack's fifth season, when Karen reads a letter supposedly written by Anne (which she never sent to Mack) mentioning his first name in "The Inside Man". Karen's lack of reaction indicates that she was, unsurprisingly, already aware of this even if the audience weren't.
* {{Estranged Soap Family}}: The Texas Ewings after Season Four. It ran both ways as Gary never turned up for major family events at Southfork after Bobby's death in the Dream Season - and seldom did beforehand. His absence from said events was never explained.
* {{Even Evil Has Standards}}: Like her sometime brother-in-law and one-time lover J.R., Abby was never truly evil, "merely" extremely manipulative, ruthless and immoral in her personal and business dealings, but she does have occasional moments which illustrate this trope. The most notable occurs in Season Six in which she is guilt stricken over the fact that Valene's babies were kidnapped and secretly adopted as a result of an idle remark that she made to an unscrupulous lawyer about wishing that she could be rid of the babies. She later begins searching for them and tells Valene that they are still alive, though she doesn't reveal her admittedly indirect involvement. The original idea was that Abby would take the initiative in kidnapping the babies but Donna Mills objected on the grounds that the series' female viewers - who made up the bulk of its audience - would never forgive Abby and the storyline was changed as a result.
* {{Evil Matriarch}}: Greg's mother Ruth Galveston Sumner in Season Six.
* {{Fake Band}}: Kenny is the record producer for the bands Cosmic Steeple, a fake band populated by {{Fake Brit}}s, and Kiwi Surprise, who are from New Zealand as their name suggests.
* {{Family Man}}:

* {{Final Season Casting}}: Having been with the show since the beginning, Joan Van Ark (Valene) left the series at the end of Season Thirteen to do a sitcom which was never made.
* {{First Love}}:

* {{Flirty Stepsiblings}}: Michael Fairgate and Paige Matheson have an affair in Season Eight.
* {{The Fundamentalist}}:

* {{George Jetson Job Security}}: Paige Matheson, numerous times at the Sumner Group.
* {{The Ghost}}: A rather odd example in the case of Abby's son Brian. He was played by Bobby Jacoby in Seasons Two through Six. He was not seen at all in Season Seven in spite of numerous mentions and the fact that many scenes feature his home Westfork and his elder sister Olivia. Typically, when they were explained at all, his absences were explained by saying that he was staying at a friend's house or simply asleep. Brian returned to the screen in Season Eight where he was played by Brian Austin Green, who continued in the role until Season Ten and later returned for the miniseries ''Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac''. Before his return in Season Eight, Brian was in danger of following in the steps of his cousin Annie and becoming a victim of {{Chuck Cunningham Syndrome}}.
* {{Give the Baby a Father}}: Averted in the case of Ben and Valene. Ben proposes to Valene in Season Five when he thinks that she is pregnant with his twins but breaks up with her when he learns that Gary is the father. They eventually reconcile in Season Six some time after the babies are (seemingly) stillborn and marry in Season Seven, shortly after the babies are found alive and returned to Valene.
* {{Hands Off Parenting}}: Abby's usual parenting style until Olivia's drug problem in Season Eight. After that, she becomes much more hands on.
* {{Happily Married}}: Karen and Sid and, after Sid's death, Karen and Mack.
* {{Hostage Situation}}: The women of Seaview Circle are taken hostage by three armed robbers during Ginger's baby shower in "Moments of Truth".

* {{Identical Grandson}}:

* {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: Gregory Sumner.

* {{Killed Off for Real}}:

* {{Large Ham}}: Karen Fairgate on a few occasions, most notably in the pilot episode where she confronts Sid's {{Bratty Teenage Daughter}} who was staying with them for a week.
* {{Leaning on the Fourth Wall}}:

** In "Mixed Messages", Greg says, "These elevators really get a workout," an in-joke referring to the large number of scenes set in the elevators at the Sumner Group from Season Ten onwards.

* {{Like Father Like Son}}: Sid and his sons Eric and Michael are all very nice, principled and reliable. However, Michael, who always means well, does make his fair share of poor choices in life which his father and older brother would have avoided such as his affair with his stepsister Paige in Season Eight and his affair with Eric's wife Linda in Season Eleven.
* {{Long Runner Cast Turnover}}: Michele Lee (Karen) and Ted Shackelford (Gary) were the only actors who were regular cast members for all 14 seasons, though Joan Van Ark (Valene) was a regular for the first thirteen and returned for the {{Series Finale}}.
* {{Long Lost Relative}}: In the Season Six episode "Calculated Risks", Lilimae's nephew Joshua Rush turns up on Valene's doorstep, wanting to know more about his late mother. It doesn't take very long for Valene to figure out that Lilimae is Joshua's real mother and, after some understandable reluctance, Lilimae tells Joshua as much.
* {{Love Triangle}}:

** Karen, Mack and Anne in Season Eight.

** Greg, Paige and Anne in Season Twelve.

* {{Meddling Parents}}: Karen's children occasionally accuse her of being one, though she often has good reason for interfering in their lives, most notably when Diana marries the admitted murderer Chip Roberts in Season Five.

* {{Only In It For The Money}}: Abby's main reason for marrying Gary Ewing.
* OutOfGenreExperience: The Season Three episode "The Three Sisters" was a {{Paranormal Episode}} in which the women of Seaview Circle visit a supposedly haunted house.
* {{Open Minded Parent}}: Karen.
* {{Overprotective Dad}}: Sid.
* {{Parent with New Paramour}}: When Karen starts dating Mack in Season Four, Diana dislikes him intensely to begin with but she eventually grows to like him. On the other hand, her younger brothers Eric and Michael liked Mack right from the start, though it did take Eric some time to get used to no longer being the man of the house after Karen and Mack married and Mack moved in with them in "A New Family".
* {{Parental Abandonment}}: Lilimae abandoned both Valene and Joshua in order to pursue her country music career, which never took off. She eventually came to deeply regret her actions and both of her children forgave her years later. In Joshua's case, however, it was less straightforward as his father told him that his mother was dead and he was initially under the impression that Lilimae was his maternal aunt.
* {{Parents Walk In at the Worst Time}}:

* {{Promotion to Opening Titles}}:

** Lisa Hartman (Cathy) in Season Six. This is a less straightforward example than the others as she played Ciji in Season Four and the {{Identical Stranger}} Cathy in Season Five.

* PsychoExGirlfriend: Gary and Valene have trouble with both their own and each other's exes.

** In two tragic cases, {{Real Life Writes the Plot}} as Steve Shaw, who had played Eric Fairgate since the pilot, died in a car accident in 1990 while Larry Riley, who played Frank Williams, died of AIDS related renal failure in 1992.
** In several other cases, {{the Bus Came Back}}. Richard returned for the Season Nine two-parter "Noises Everywhere" [[spoiler: for Laura's funeral]], Abby returned for the {{Series Finale}} "Just Like Old Times" and the {{Reunion Show}} miniseries ''Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac'' while Ginger, Michael, Olivia, Brian and Diana also all returned for the miniseries, after an absence of 14 years in Ginger's case. Having been absent since the beginning of Season Six, Diana had previously returned for three episodes in Season Fourteen. In the meantime, she had been mentioned almost as infrequently as Gary was on ''Dallas''.
* {{Present Absence}}: After his death in Season Three, Sid's absence hangs over Karen, their children and Abby for most of the year, less so afterwards. Although his death did not have as big an impact as either Jock's death or Bobby's (temporary) death in ''Dallas'', his presence was felt throughout the rest of the series in small ways.
* {{Real Life Writes the Plot}}: In addition to the aforementioned examples concerning the early deaths of Steve Shaw and Larry Riley, both of Constance [=McCashin=]'s pregnancies were written into the show. Laura was pregnant with Daniel in Seasons Three and Four and with Meg in Season Eight.
* {{Really Gets Around}}: Kenny Ward; who has been having extra-marital relations behind Ginger's back since the first season. Could also extend to Gary Ewing.
* {{Remarried to the Mistress}}:

* {{Required Spinoff Crossover}}: Three episodes of the first season feature ''Dallas'' regular characters: Bobby appeared in "Pilot", J.R. appeared in "Community Spirit" and Lucy appeared in "Home is for Healing". There were four such episodes in Season Two: Kristin Shepard appeared in "Kristin" ([[spoiler: coming less than month after it was revealed that she shot J.R., her appearance was no doubt designed to capitalise on the record breaking ratings experienced by ''Dallas'']]), J.R. appeared in both "A Family Matter" and "Designs" and Bobby appeared in "The Loudest Word". There were none in Season Three but it happened twice more in Season Four, which was the last time that any ''Dallas'' character appeared in ''Knots Landing'': J.R. appeared in "Daniel" and both he and Bobby appeared in "New Beginnings", the second part of a two-part crossover with ''Dallas'' and the only ''Knots Landing'' episode to feature all three of Jock and Miss Ellie's sons.

** Although she played a major role in the pilot episode, Sid's daughter from his first marriage Annie is never seen again, is mentioned only twice more and is nowhere to be seen after Sid's death in Season Three. As such, Annie is a textbook, if minor, example of {{Chuck Cunningham Syndrome}}.

* {{Serial Spouse}}:

* {{Sex with the Ex}}:

* {{Shut Up Kiss}}: Cathy Geary does this to Gary when he yells at her for trying to be look-alike Ciji Dunne.
* {{Sibling Triangle}}: Michael has an affair with his brother Eric's wife Linda in Season Eleven.
* {{Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome}}: The show generally avoided this as Claudia Lonow (Diana), Steve Shaw (Eric), Pat Petersen (Michael) and Tonya Crowe (Olivia) all remained with the series for years, eleven in Shaw's case (until his death) and twelve in Petersen's case, so their characters aged in real time (at least until Season Seven in Michael's case). The only children on the series who were played by multiple actors were the younger ones: Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing, Meg [=Mackenzie=], Brian Cunningham and Jason Avery. Except for the pilot (in which he was played by Justin Dana), Jason was played by Danny Gellis until 1982 when he was replaced by Danny Ponce, who played the character until 1986. Even this is not an example of SORAS since Ponce was actually a year and a half younger than Gellis. Jason actually seems to suffer from the opposite affliction, which is much less common: Reverse Aging Syndrome. When the 13-year-old Danny Ponce left ''Knots Landing'' during its seventh season to star as Willie Hogan in ''Series/{{The Hogan Family}}'' (otherwise known as ''Valerie'' and ''Valerie's Family''), he was replaced by the 9-year-old Matthew Newmark. The character consequently grew younger in terms of his behaviour. Had Jason remained with the series after Season Nine, he could very well have reverted to infancy by Season Ten or Eleven.
* {{Spinoff Sendoff}}: In the pilot, Bobby appeared to help Gary and Valene settle into the cul-de-sac.

* {{Strict Parents Make Sneaky Kids}}: A minor example. Ginger's younger sisters Jill and Cindy because of their incredibly strict mother Jana.
* {{Surprise Incest}}: Played with. Towards the end of Season Eight, Anne tells Mack that Greg, not him, is Paige's father. Karen and Mack are concerned that Paige may unwittingly be having an incestuous relationship with her uncle as she was dating Greg's half-brother Peter Hollister at the time. It turns out that they need not have worried since Anne was merely being vindictive and Mack is indeed Paige's father. Greg and Anne never had sex, though it wasn't because of any lack of trying on Greg's part. Besides which, even if Greg had been her father, it still wouldn't have been incest since Peter wasn't actually Greg's half-brother, something which the audience knew but Karen and Mack didn't.
* {{Suspiciously Similar Substitute}}: In Seasons Ten to Twelve, Valene's aunt Virginia "Ginny" Bullock is one for her own sister Lilimae, who left in Season Nine.
* {{Teen Pregnancy}}: A major part of Gary and Valene's backstory is that she became pregnant with Lucy when she was fifteen.
* {{The Alcoholic}}: Gary Ewing.
* {{They Do}}: Or more accurately They Do Again. After several missed opportunities, Gary and Valene reunite towards the end of Season Eleven and he proposes to her in the aptly titled season finale "Let's Get Married". They official get engaged in the Season Twelve premiere "Return Engagement". As previously mentioned, they tie the knot for the third time in the Season Twelve episode "The Last One Out".
* {{Those Two Guys}}: Mort Tubor and Bob Phillips.

* {{Title Sequence}}/ EvolvingCredits: For the first season, an opening montage featuring overhead frame of the cul de sac and the cast members in alphabetical order. Also accompanied by a catchy jazz tune composed by Jerrold Immel. This was replaced in Season 3 by the most well-known version, a montage of clips of the show playing in small boxes going by from right to left. Replaced again in Season 9 by a slow panning shot over a painting similar to the splattered style of Jackson Pollock. That was soon replaced in Season 11 by sandcastle structures of the cul-de-sac houses as well as some skyscrapers representing Los Angeles on a beautiful beach, which was replaced in Season 12 by..... the return of the across-the-screen style of scrolling clips. Although this time, it had faster moving, color-framed boxes.
* {{Uncanny Family Resemblance}}: Mary Frances Sumner and Kate Whittaker are identical cousins in [[Series/ThePattyDukeShow true Patty Duke style]].
* {{Why Did You Make Me Hit You}}: This comes up in Season Seven when Joshua starts physically abusing Cathy.
* {{Witness Protection}}: The Williams family (Frank, Patricia and Julie) who moved next door to Karen and Mack Mackenzie. Their real names are Jerry and Samantha Sollars. Samantha testified against some mobsters who are after them so the whole family assumed new identities and moved to Knots Landing to be safe.
* {{Your Cheating Heart}}: Richard Avery very much so. Gary Ewing as well; Kenny Ward as well plus he {{Really Gets Around}}

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--->'''Valene''': "Every time we wait, something goes wrong. We don't get together. Every time we put it off, we have some kind of delay. Something happens and we don't get married. It's like a comedy."

* {{The Fundamentalist}}: Joshua in spades.

* {{Serial Spouse}}: Valene has been married five times, the most of anyone in the ''Dallas'' / ''Knots Landing'' universe: she married and divorced Gary twice, then she married Ben Gibson and was (seemingly) widowed but she got a divorce instead of having him declared legally dead, then she married Danny Waleska (who died while they were in the process of getting a divorce) and then she married Gary for the third time. Gary married and divorced Abby between his second and third marriages to Valene.

** Charles Scott was Abby's first love when she was a 19-year-old junior college student in Philadelphia in the late 1960s. He was first mentioned, though not by the name, in the Season Eight finale "Cement the Relationship". The Their relationship was shown in flashbacks in the Season Nine episode "Love In". Charles was from a very wealthy family while Abby was working her way through college as a bookkeeper in the garage where Sid worked. Abby entertained the notion of marrying Charles but his family forced him into marrying a young socialite named Judith. He told Abby that he wanted to continue their relationship but she was not interested in being his mistress. He showed up at Lotus Point 20 years later in Season Nine and they began a new relationship, though it transpired that he had ulterior motives for re-entering her life.

* {{Jerkass}}: Richard Avery takes the cake, also Gary when he's been drinking.

** [[spoiler: Jill accidentally killed herself while trying to frame Gary for her kidnapping, in season 10.]]

* {{Leaning on the Fourth Wall}}: In "A Little Assistance", Eric says, "Living in this cul-de-sac is like living in the middle of a soap opera."

* {{Parents Walk In at the Worst Time}}: In the series' very first scene, Sid comes home from work early because of a bad cold and finds his daughter Annie in his and Karen's bed with a random guy.

** Stacy Galina (Kate) and Kathleen Noone (Claudia) in Season Thirteen, having both had recurring roles in Season Twelve. Similar to Lisa Hartman, Stacy Galina had first appeared as another character, Kate's cousin Mary Frances Sumner in four episodes of Season Eleven.
* PutOnABus: Numerous examples of characters ultimately leaving Knots Landing for various reasons, including Kenny, Ginger, Richard, Diana, Michael, Olivia, Cathy, Ben ([[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome who actually disappeared]]), Frank, and most notably, Abby.

* {{Remarried to the Mistress}}: Gary marries Abby in Season Five.

* {{Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome}}: The show generally avoided this as Claudia Lonow (Diana), Steve Shaw (Eric), Pat Petersen (Michael) and Tonya Crowe (Olivia) all remained with the series for years, eleven in Shaw's case (until his death) and twelve in Petersen's case, so their characters aged in real time (at least until Season Seven in Michael's case). The only children on the series who were played by multiple actors were the younger ones: Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing, Meg [=Mackenzie=], Brian Cunningham and Jason Avery. Except for the pilot (in which he was played by Justin Dana), Jason was played by Danny Gellis until 1982 when he was replaced by Danny Ponce, who played the character until 1986. Even this is not an example of SORAS since Ponce was actually a year and a half younger than Gellis.
** Jason actually seems to suffer from the opposite affliction, which is much less common: Reverse Aging Syndrome. When the 13-year-old Danny Ponce left ''Knots Landing'' during its seventh season to star as Willie Hogan in ''Series/{{The Hogan Family}}'' (otherwise known as ''Valerie'' and ''Valerie's Family''), he was replaced by the 9-year-old Matthew Newmark. The character consequently grew younger in terms of his behaviour. Had Jason remained with the series after Season Nine, he could very well have reverted to infancy by Season Ten or Eleven.

* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Mack and, to a lesser extent, Karen.

* {{Embarrassing First Name}}: Mack's first name is Marion.
** This was not revealed to the audience until Season Eight, Mack's fifth season, when Karen reads a letter supposedly written by Anne (which she never sent to Mack) mentioning his first name in "The Inside Man". Karen's lack of reaction indicates that she was, unsurprisingly, already aware of this even if the audience weren't.

* {{Serial Spouse}}: Valene has been married five times, the most of anyone in the ''Dallas'' / ''Knots Landing'' universe: she married and divorced Gary twice, then she married Ben Gibson and was (seemingly) widowed but she got a divorce instead of having him declared legally dead, then she married and divorced Danny Waleska and then she married Gary for the third time. Gary married and divorced Abby between his second and third marriages to Valene.

* {{They Do}}: Or more accurately They Do Again. After several missed opportunities, Gary and Valene reunite towards the end of Season Eleven and he proposes to her in the aptly titled season finale "Let's Get Married". As previously mentioned, they tie the knot for the third time in the Season Twelve episode "The Last One Out".

** Stacy Galina (Kate) and Kathleen Noone (Claudia) in Season Thirteen, having both had recurring roles in Season Twelve.

** Gary, Valene and Danny in Season Eleven. Similar to the above but further complications arose due to Valene's not believing Gary when he told her that Amanda raped Gary.
** Gary, Valene and Amanda in Season Eleven, again subject to the aformentioned issues.

* {{Serial Spouse}}: Valene has been married five times, the most of anyone in the ''Dallas'' / ''Knots Landing'' universe: she married and divorced Gary twice, then she married Ben Gibson and was (seemingly) widowed, then she married and divorced Danny Waleska and then she married Gary for the third time. Gary married and divorced Abby between his second and third marriages to Valene.

** Again with the Fairgates! In the Season One episode "Let Me Count the Ways", Michael is said to be 12 years old. In the Season Seven episode "High School Confidential", when he is arrested for drug possession after Olivia's marijuana is found in his episode, he tells the police that is a senior in high school, which is consistent with his age six years earlier. However, he is clearly still in school throughout Season Eight with no mention of him having to repeat his senior year. Not only that but he celebrates his 18th birthday in the Season Nine premiere "Missing Persons" when he should be celebrating his 20th. It is conceivable that he could have been a senior at 16 but it's rather unlikely. In the later Season Nine episode "A Fair Race", it is confirmed that Michael is still in school, almost two years after he should have graduated. He seemingly (finally!) finished high school at the end of that season, though this was not confirmed until the Season Ten episode "Cabin Fever" in which it was revealed that he was going to start college in a few weeks. He is studying Business even though Karen would prefer that he study English Literature. Michael starts college at some point before "Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the Lead Pipe", two episodes after "Cabin Fever", and is first seen on campus in the following episode "Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Wrench". In the later Season Ten episode "Birds Do It, Bees Do It", Michael is said to be one year older than Olivia when he was originally three (or possibly even four) years older than her. Two episodes later, Karen says that Michael was 12 around the time that she started dating Mack, which was at the beginning of Season Four. To add even further confusion (insofar as that's possible), Michael celebrates his 21st birthday in the Season Eleven episode "What a Swell Party This Is", a little over two years after his 18th.

** Again with the Fairgates! In the Season One episode "Let Me Count the Ways", Michael is said to be 12 years old. In the Season Seven episode "High School Confidential", when he is arrested for drug possession after Olivia's marijuana is found in his episode, he tells the police that is a senior in high school, which is consistent with his age six years earlier. However, he is clearly still in school throughout Season Eight with no mention of him having to repeat his senior year. Not only that but he celebrates his 18th birthday in the Season Nine premiere "Missing Persons" when he should be celebrating his 20th. It is conceivable that he could have been a senior at 16 but it's rather unlikely. In the later Season Nine episode "A Fair Race", it is confirmed that Michael is still in school, almost two years after he should have graduated. He seemingly (finally!) finished high school at the end of that season, though this was not confirmed until the Season Ten episode "Cabin Fever" in which it was revealed that he was going to start college in a few weeks. He is studying Business even though Karen would prefer that he study English Literature. Michael starts college at some point before "Mrs. Peacock in the Library with the Lead Pipe", two episodes after "Cabin Fever", and is first seen on campus in the following episode "Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory with the Wrench". In the later Season Ten episode "Birds Do It, Bees Do It", Michael is said to be one year older than Olivia when he was originally three (or possibly even four) years older than her. Two episodes later, Karen says that Michael was 12 around the time that she started dating Mack, which was at the beginning of Season Four.

* In "Mixed Messages", Greg says, "These elevators really get a workout," an in-joke referring to the large number of scenes set in the elevators at the Sumner Group from Season Ten onwards.

* In "Mixed Messages", Greg says, "These elevators really get a workout," a in-joke referring to the large number of scenes set in the elevators at the Sumner Group.

** Mack, Karen and Paula in Seasons Ten and Eleven.