Dallas and Knots Landing

Seven hundred episodes across two series that shared a family, then stopped agreeing about whether a man was dead.

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Where to start with Dallas and Knots Landing

Dallas first, and Knots Landing whenever you like. The two shows share a family and nine early episodes, and then in 1986 they stopped sharing a reality, which is the single most useful thing to know before you start either of them.

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    Dallas, season 1 to season 3 Dallas

    Season one is five episodes, made as a standalone miniseries with no series order behind it. Season three contains Return Engagements, which sends Gary and Valene to California and launches the other show a week later.

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    Knots Landing, from season 1 Knots Landing

    Started a week after Return Engagements and explains itself from scratch. Bobby Ewing appears in three episodes across its first four seasons and J.R. and Miss Ellie drop in occasionally, and that is the extent of it.

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    Dallas, seasons 8 to 10 Dallas

    Season eight ends by killing Bobby Ewing, season nine is the year that turns out to be a dream, and season ten undoes it in its opening minutes.

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    Knots Landing season 7, and the split Knots Landing

    This is where the two shows part company. Knots Landing treated Bobby's death as real and built storylines on it, never applied the retcon, never mentioned his return, and simply stopped crossing over. From September 1986 the two are in incompatible continuities and there is no in-universe explanation, because the producers chose not to attempt one.

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    Dallas (2012) Dallas

    Forty episodes on TNT, twenty-one years later, and it follows the original rather than restarting it.

Then what? The television films run J.R. Returns then War of the Ewings for Dallas, and Back to the Cul-de-Sac for Knots Landing. The two reunion specials are interviews rather than story.

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Dallas

  • Dallas 1978, 14 seasons, 357 episodes

Knots Landing

  • Knots Landing 1979, 14 seasons, 344 episodes

Television Films and Reunions

  • Dallas: The Early Years 1986
  • Dallas: J.R. Returns 1996
  • Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac 1997
  • Dallas: War of the Ewings 1998
  • Dallas Reunion: Return to Southfork 2004
  • Knots Landing Reunion: Together Again 2005

The Revival

  • Dallas 2012, 3 seasons, 40 episodes

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