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Summary Hoping to ride the crest of its success with Dallas, CBS spun off this series featuring the black sheep of the Ewing Family, Gary Ewing. Gary, a reformed alcoholic remarried his wife, Valene, and moved to the Southern California community of Knots Landing. Originally, the series focused on the four married couples who resided in the cul-...

Directed By: Robert Becker

Written By: David Jacobs, Parke Perine

  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Mar 7, 1985
  • TV-PG
  • CBS
  • Mar 7, 1985
Knots Landing
S6 • Episode 22
A Piece of the Pie
Air Date: Mar 7, 1985
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Summary Hoping to ride the crest of its success with Dallas, CBS spun off this series featuring the black sheep of the Ewing Family, Gary Ewing. Gary, a reformed alcoholic remarried his wife, Valene, and moved to the Southern California community of Knots Landing. Originally, the series focused on the four married couples who resided in the cul-...

Created By: David Jacobs

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 4, 1984
Buying Time
The police lose Abby, who was kidnapped by Mark St. Claire. Karen is told that she will need surgery to remove the bullet.
Episode 2 • Oct 18, 1984
Calculated Risks
Episode 3 • Oct 25, 1984
Hanging Fire
Greg tells the police he shot St. Claire in self defense and Abby backs him up. Gary tells Abby he is taking back the company and has made several changes. Gary ends his affair with Cathy and Val guesses that Lilimae is Josh's real mother.
Episode 4 • Nov 1, 1984
A Little Help
Greg tells Abby they will never work together again. Josh discovers that Lilimae is his real mother.
Episode 5 • Nov 8, 1984
Ipso Facto
Abby finds out that Gary is the real father of Val's unborn babies.
Episode 6 • Nov 15, 1984
Truth and Consequences
Episode 7 • Nov 22, 1984
Love to Take You Home
Karen serves Mack with divorce papers. Josh and Cathy sleep together. Scott Easton has lunch with Mitch Ackerman. Val goes to see her obstetrician, but she has been called away to a conference, and there is a new doctor - Mitch Ackerman.
Episode 8 • Nov 29, 1984 • 1 h
Tomorrow Never Knows
Val goes into labour and is put under sedation. However, she remains conscious and hears the babies cry and the nurse saying that they are healthy. When Val comes round, Dr. Ackerman tells her that the babies were stillborn.
Episode 9 • Dec 6, 1984
We Gather Together
No one believes Val when she says that her babies are alive. No one, that is, except Abby, who is concerned that her lawyer Scott Easton may have arranged for them to be kidnapped immediately after they were born.
Episode 10 • Dec 13, 1984 • 1 h
Message in a Bottle
Valene's increasingly erratic behaviour is a major source of concern to Ben, Lilimae and Joshua. After learning that Scott Easton is dead, Abby asks Dr. Ackerman where the babies are but he tells her that she is sick.
Episode 11 • Dec 20, 1984
Distant Locations
After a brief sojourn in Nevada, an increasingly unstable Val travels to Tennessee under the name Verna Ellers and gets a waitressing job in a diner. Meanwhile, everyone tries to locate her.
Episode 12 • Dec 27, 1984
Uncharted Territory
Galveston asks Gary to get involved with Empire Valley. Val hears a report about her disappearance but doesn't respond to it. Karen has trouble with her hands functioning properly and she tells Mack.
Episode 13 • Jan 3, 1985
Weighing of Evils
Karen agrees to have the surgery. Abby knows where Val is but keeps it to herself. Josh's TV appearances prove popular. Abby wants to be part of Empire Valley but Galveston refuses as she is a woman.
Episode 14 • Jan 10, 1985
#14 with a Bullet
Karen's spinal surgery goes well. Galveston realises Abby that she knows where Val is. Greg tells Mack to investigate Galveston Industries for the Tidal Basin murders.
Episode 15 • Jan 17, 1985
Inside Information
Greg tells Laura about Galveston being his father. Abby confronts Val but she doesn't recognize her and Parker asks Val to marry him after discovering that she is Valene Ewing. Gary flies to Tennessee.
Episode 16 • Jan 24, 1985
Out of the Past
Gary tries to help Val regain her memory but she thinks he is crazy and tells her new boyfriend, Parker, that she will marry him. Karen unknowingly tells Galveston about Mack's investigation.
Episode 17 • Jan 31, 1985
Lead Me to the Altar
Before her wedding to Parker, Gary shows Val her picture on the back of her book "Nashville Junction". Abby worries that Mack will discover her connection to Val's missing babies. Joshua berates Cathy about her life.
Episode 18 • Feb 7, 1985
Fly Away Home
Val finally regains some memories and agrees to return home with Gary. Mack believes that Empire Valley is a cover for something bigger. Galveston tells Abby that he will tell Gary about being the twins' father but he suffers a stroke.
Episode 19 • Feb 14, 1985
Rough Edges
Val begins therapy and remembers her troubled past with her mother. Abby tries to find evidence on Scott Easton regarding Val's babies.
Episode 20 • Feb 21, 1985
The Emperor's Clothes
Episode 21 • Feb 28, 1985
The Deluge
Episode 22 • Mar 7, 1985
A Piece of the Pie
Episode 23 • Mar 21, 1985
The Forest for the Trees
Joshua proposes to Cathy and she accepts. Abby manipulates Coblentz into telling her everything he knows. Karen meets Val's nurse but doesn't get any answers.
Episode 24 • Mar 28, 1985
A Man of Good Will
Ben tells Karen to stop going on about the twins being alive. Greg offers to buy Gary out of Empire Valley. Joshua bullies Cathy into wedding plans. Gary learns that Galveston has left Empire Valley to him in his will.
Episode 25 • Apr 4, 1985
For Better, for Worse
Episode 26 • Apr 11, 1985 • 1 h
Four, No Trump
Episode 27 • May 2, 1985
A Price to Pay
Episode 28 • May 9, 1985
One Day in a Row
Ben discovers that Ackerman has a motive for stealing Val's babies. Ruth helps Abby get Scott Easton's notebook pages.
Episode 29 • May 16, 1985
Vulnerable
Val's nurse confirms that Ackerman stole the babies. When Karen and Mack confront him, Ackerman shoots himself in the head.
Episode 30 • May 23, 1985
The Long and Winding Road
Greg asks Laura to marry him. Mack tracks the babies down to Harry and Sheila Fisher. Abby tells Val that the babies are alive and she takes her to the Fisher's home, where Harry drives away with one of the twins.
14 Seasons

Top Cast

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Michele Lee

Karen MacKenzie, Karen Fairgate, Karen Mackenzie

Ted Shackelford

Gary Ewing

Joan Van Ark

Valene Ewing, Valene Gibson, Valene Waleska

Kevin Dobson

M. 'Mack' Patrick MacKenzie, Mack MacKenzie

William Devane

Gregory Sumner, Greg Sumner

Donna Mills

Abby Ewing, Abby Cunningham, Abby Sumner

Pat Petersen

Michael Fairgate

Constance McCashin

Laura Avery, Laura Avery Sumner

Nicollette Sheridan

Paige Matheson, Anne Winston

Julie Harris

Lilimae Clements

Tonya Crowe

Olivia Cunningham, Olivia Cunningham Dyer, Olivia

Doug Sheehan

Ben Gibson

Steve Shaw

Eric Fairgate

Teri Austin

Jill Bennett

Larry Riley

Frank Williams

Lisa Hartman

Cathy Geary, Cathy Geary Rush, Ciji Dunne

Victoria Ann Lewis

Peggy

Michelle Phillips

Anne Matheson, Anne Matheson Sumner

Joseph Cousins

Bobby Gibson Ewing, Bobby

Claudia Lonow

Diana Fairgate

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