List of Knots Landing episodes

Sid is accused of rape by a hitchhiker and Sid's sister Abby Cunningham arrives in Knots Landing.

Sid has a blood clot which will permanently paralyze him unless he is operated on. However, there's a 40% chance the operation could kill him. Karen doesn't want him to get the operation, but Sid insists and makes Karen sign his consent form. Sid tells his family how much he loves them and later dies on the operating table.

Karen meets Marion Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie after barging into the Federal Prosecutor's office, where he is handling Sid's case. Gary tries to talk to Val following their split and Abby sends J.R. chapters from Val's book "Capricorn Crude".

Gary wants to get back with Val and even Lilimae tries to help. He also becomes entranced by a beautiful singer called Ciji. Mack continues to help Karen and Ginger becomes jealous of Ciji and Kenny's working relationship.

Gary goes to Dallas for the reading of Jock's will and Abby turns up to surprise him. Gary inherits millions from Jock, but is disgruntled by the terms of the will thinking his father never had any faith in him. Val is also in Dallas on a book signing tour and J.R. informs her about owning the publishing company behind her book.

Ciji's body is discovered and a murder case begins with many people as suspects. Later, Gary is charged with her murder.

Val is booked by the police after her confession and Abby makes Gary sign over power of attorney to her. Lilimae tells Chip he started the mess between Gary and Val because he leaked the transcript to the tabloids. Val is released and Richard secretly leaves Laura and Knots Landing.

Laura calls the police to find Richard, believing he is Ciji's killer. Chip and Diana decide to leave for New York. A private investigator tells Lilimae he is looking for a dangerous man called Tony Fenice and he shows her a picture of Chip. By the time Karen finds out, she discovers Diana has already left with Chip and becomes frantic. Gary's hearing approaches but he doesn't co-operate and appears resigned to spending the rest of his life in jail for murder.

Mack believes Chip killed Ciji and a search begins for him. Karen is upset that Diana has gone with Chip. A mystery man helps Val when she is bombarded by reporters. The murder charge against Gary is dropped due to lack of evidence.

Diana tells Karen that Chip killed Ciji for her. Abby has five days to marry Gary as he will then inherit 10% of Ewing Oil and she wants it to become community property.

Eric persuades Diana to testify. Laura advises Gary to leave Val alone. Gary and Abby marry, but while at a hotel on their honeymoon he meets a woman who looks exactly like Ciji.

Karen is told that a piece of the shattered bullet is lodge in her spine and must have risky surgery to remove it but she refuses because of what happened to Sid. Lilimae's nephew arrives to stay with her and wishes to know about his mother. Greg finds Abby and shoots St. Claire.

Ben proposes to Val but she declines and he believes she can hear her babies cry. Karen tells Ben of her and Mack's investigation. Greg asks Abby to get Gary out of Empire Valley and suggests that if Gary knows he is the father of Val's twins his interest in Empire Valley will disappear. Mack is offered the chance to become a senator.

Greg gets angry with Coblentz over Frank Elliot's death. Joshua envisages his and Cathy's demise. Joshua takes up street preaching. Val dismisses him and drags Lilimae away. Mack tells Gary that no-one must know about his investigating Elliot's death, including Abby or Karen. Lilimae goes street searching for Joshua and begs him to come home. Greg tells Abby how dangerous Coblentz is. Mack, Karen, Val and Lilimae talk about getting Joshua committed, Lilimae refuses. Lilimae goes off to find Joshua. Joshua is hiding in Cathy's car when she leaves the TV station. Lilimae finds Joshua holding Cathy off the edge of a building. Joshua falls, on his own.

Peter says he doesn't want to be Senator. Gary returns from Dallas with news that his family won't fund the cleanup at Empire Valley. Karen tells Abby that she'll never sell to Greg. Gary tells Val he wants to take back Empire Valley from the twins. Ben decides to become Cathy's tour manager. Abby tells Peter he will accept Greg's offer to become Senator. Peter signs a deal with Peter. Ben tells Val he's going on tour with Cathy for six weeks. Lilimae is angry with Cathy and slaps her. Gary gives Empire Valley to Greg. Abby and Peter sleep together. Ben tells Val he has to get away and leaves. Paige Matheson shows up and tells Mack she is his daughter.

Paige tells Mack her mother died a year ago. Karen has gone missing. Eric sees his mother's car parked at Lotus Point. Abby and Peter sleep together. Paige tells her story to Michael. Gary finds Peter's car at Abby's and takes Olivia off to stay in a hotel. Mack reports Karen missing to the police. Gary and Olivia find Jill waiting for him at the hotel. Cathy tells Ben she never wanted to hurt Val. Val goes to the beach house and finds evidence of Ben and Cathy's affair. She smashes the place up. Karen wakes up in a cellar having been kidnapped. Eric accuses Greg of having something to do with Karen's disappearance. Gary goes to find Val on the beach. Karen comes face to face with her kidnapper.

Abby sleeps in Olivia's room to stop her using drugs. She then smashes the bathroom door in when Olivia locks it. Finding Olivia has hidden drugs in the bathroom, she removes the bathroom door and tells Olivia she will no longer have any privacy at all. Olivia gets Brian to pick up some schoolwork books from her friends, but they contain drugs. Olivia takes Abby's keys but she finds out and they fight. Abby gets Olivia's room wired up by a security firm so she can't go out. When Abby finds out how Olivia is using Brian to bring her drugs, Olivia tells Abby that the dealers are expecting their money or they will take it out on Brian. Brian returns home with bruises which horrifies Olivia so much that she finally gives up all of her hidden drugs to Abby and agrees to get clean. Meanwhile, Mack goes East to see Anne.

Laura and Greg name their baby Meg. Greg tells Paige that he isn't her father. Abby fires Paige but Karen rehires her. Ben phones Val and tells her that he'll keep in touch with her as he's on the move. Greg tells Peter to settle down with someone. Peter thanks Jill for burning Sylvia's letter but she throws him out. Val phones Ben's news service who have no listing of him. Olivia confronts Paige about Peter, but Paige tells her about Peter and Abby. Olivia shouts at Abby about her involvement with Peter. Now enemies, Paige and Abby have a confrontation. Paige and Peter argue at Lotus Point and she throws plates at him. After vigorously washing her hands, Abby comes out of the bathroom at Lotus Point to find Olivia leaning over Peter's dead body. They look at each other questioningly.

Laura tells Greg she has an inoperable brain tumour. He takes her from doctor to doctor looking for a different diagnosis. Laura tells him she's not seeing any more specialists. Greg says he's not going to Meg's christening because he's seen his last church. People hold a farewell party for Laura at Lotus Point. Greg visits a doctor Laura refused to see. His car gets towed away and he wanders the streets. Meg gets christened while Greg sits in his car. He eventually goes into the church. Laura decides to go to a clinic alone, Greg says she's going there to die without him and it isn't being fair to him. She says she doesn't want him to see her die. She phones Karen to say goodbye and gives Meg to Greg and leaves for the clinic alone.

Al asks Lilimae to marry him. Lilimae says they should live together, not get married. They eventually drive off together. Greg receives word that Laura has died.

Everyone gathers at Greg's after Laura's death including Richard Avery. When Richard discovers that nobody went to the clinic with Laura when she was dying, he takes his anger out on the others. Gary tells Val that he respected how Laura turned her life around. Val argues with Karen about how Karen didn't tell her Laura was dying. Richard wants to know why Greg keeps Peter's ashes on the coffee table. Greg says he always wanted to be the centre of attention. Laura's remains are sent to the wrong mortuary. Mack says Laura is determined not to come back. Everybody laughs. Mack helps Greg pick out a casket for Laura.

Everyone is gathered at Greg's after Laura's funeral. Jill finds out from Richard that Peter's ashes are on Greg's coffee table and she steals them. Jill asks Paige how she can sleep at night after Peter's death and then whacks her in the back with her bag which contains the urn of Peter's ashes. Mack takes his frustrations out on Karen, Michael and Paige. Jill scatters Peter's ashes off a mountainside. Laura's close friends watch video messages she left and Val and Karen cry watching them. Greg watches the rest of the tape by himself and cries.

Greg phones Mack from home whilst pretending to be in New York. Mack and Karen suffer sleepless nights with Meg crying. A devious Irishman named Johnny Rourke heads to Knots Landing to see his former girlfriend Paige. Paige delivers Greg's painting and questions why he isn't in New York like he told Mack and Karen. He replies "I am in New York." Val tells Gary they should just be ex-husband and wife. Jill tells Gary that she told Val that he's a free man and that Val must not want him any more if she doesn't want to see him. Charles' wife phones and he decides he has to go back home and leave Abby. A woman named Patricia Williams and her 12-year-old daughter Julie move into Laura's old house. Greg phones Karen to say he has been held up in New York. Johnny buys a gun in a bar. Charles returns to Abby and tells her he loves her.

Karen invites the Williamses (now including Pat's husband Frank) to dinner. Judith suggests Charles postpone their divorce until after their joint business successfully concludes. Abby conspires with Greg disrupt their venture. Val refuses Gary's request to legally acknowledge him as the twins' father. Frank is alarmed to learn Mack is an investigator, and Mack assumes Frank is a cop. Judith secretly records Abby and Greg discussing their scheme and threatens to report them to FCC for insider trading, but Charles ends up giving the tape to Abby. A paranoid Frank destroys his couch when it is delivered a day late. Michael tells Jody he doesn't love her.

Karen becomes suspicious of the Williamses when Pat is at first reluctant to be interviewed by the local newspaper and then later learns that although Pat and Frank consented to the interview, they refused to have their picture taken. Val stubbornly refuses to recant her deposition testimony and acknowledge Gary is the twins' father. She later changes her mind. Charles suggests to Abby that Lotus Point expand the marina and even offers to provide the investment capital for the project. Abby is shocked to learn later that Charles drafted plans for the marina expansion five months earlier. A man named Manny Vasquez and his nephew Harold are both pleased that Charles is making progress on their "plan" for Lotus Point. Charles convinces Olivia that Abby did not break up his marriage. Abby hires a PI to investigate Charles' business dealings and finances. Mack and Karen observe Pat leaving late at night with a woman.

The court finds probable cause that Gary killed Jill and denies him bail. Jill's landlord finds Gary's car key near the building. Frank and Mack determine Jill planned to get married to Gary. Frank lashes out at Pat for not believing in him. Geologist and co-conspirator Rick Hawkins tells Abby she will need an environmental impact report before she can drill for oil at Lotus Point. Karen sees the twins perform a magic trick with rope and theorizes that Jill killed her self. Once Jill's print is found inside a hole in Gary's trunk, Mack recounts for the DA Jill's diabolical plan to frame Gary for her "murder." Without disclosing her connection to Murakame, Abby convinces Ted to handle the company's PR. Paige tells Greg he married Abby because he's afraid of her -- and he should be. The DA drops all charges against Gary.

Greg tells Abby their "business arrangement" (marriage) is over. Karen and Gary try to find evidence against Abby. The reporter tells Ted that she will need proof that Abby defrauded her partners before she can print the story. Greg allows Paige to keep her Sumner Group apartment but does not want Paige to know he's behind her staying. Rick's death is reported in the newspaper. Paige goes to the police with her suspicions that Ted is involved in Rick's death, but they find her story incredible. Harold and Olivia honeymoon in their apartment. Harold tells Paige she has a post office box key. Abby tells Paige she's a "6" on the Abby scale. When Abby suggests an annulment, Olivia tells her she wants to live on her own. Abby takes Olivia's credit cards and car. At her press conference, Abby claims she bought Murakame only recently to save it from oil drilling. She donates the Lotus Point land to the state as wildlife preserve. Abby is chosen as U.S. trade representative to Japan. While she is in Japan, Abby asks Karen to look after Olivia. Mack and Karen make plans to vacation in the mountains. Paige tries, unsuccessfully, to locate the post office box. Abby shows Ted photos of him tinkering under the hood of "Nagata's" car. She says Rick sent them to her, and as long as nothing happens to her, the police will never see them. She also notifies him that Rick sent Paige a note incriminating him. Karen volunteers Mack to drop Paula off on their way to their mountain vacation. Greg reveals that he stopped the drilling permits on Lotus Point. Abby and Brian leave Knots Landing. Ted claims Abby and Greg set him up and are trying to kill him.

Harold calls Olivia to apologize, but she says she’s having the marriage annulled. The police tell Val that they cannot remove Danny from the home without a court order. Olivia lies to Gary to get money, but later returns it. Karen gives a fan attention, much to Diane and Jeff’s concern. Paige is not happy that Anne is trying to date Greg. Anne suggests to Tom that Paige and Greg may have feelings for each other. Tom later proposes to Paige. Danny throws Val’s possessions onto the lawn after she moves to Gary’s ranch. Pat gets a job at a hospital. Danny changes the locks, insisting he will have Val’s house as community property. Olivia joins Harold in Miami. A stalker leaves Karen a creepy note.