No, I was certainly not a fan of this program when it first aired on television as young boys were not viewers of late night soap operas. Having been on a DALLAS kick lately (I own all the DVDS of the series that are currently available) I added KNOTTS LANDING to my netflix queue. (nope, I was not crazy enough to purchase the DVD boxed set) The series, which was a spin-off of DALLAS, was HARDLY a series designed to make people question their place in the universe. It was a simple minded series that dealt with family, love and marital woes.

During the series we get threats of divorce, adultury, rape (disgustingly used ever so often for cheap ratings points in the 1970's and 1980's quite often) and a TWO PARTER on alcoholism! Where did all this melodrama take the series?

Ahem....within a couple of years the program would shift to being essentially a CRIME soap as the sappy love story themes got, well, super sappy. This is not to say that the 1979-1980 first season wasn't enjoyable. In fact, it is so politically incorrect by today's standards that your jaw might drop when you watch it. (I don't think the political incorrectness was designed on purpose as much as this is what happens when male writers try and write for a female audience and bungle things up along the way)

Perhaps I am a bit down on the series, mainly because it is a somewhat simple minded first season that really wasn't working the way it was supposed to. However, it is also a decidedly unserious display of seriousness that is somewhat fun to watch these days. To a great degree, there is far too much seriousness on TV these days that one yearns for the days when television was more fun to watch and was not weighted down by attempts to make the programs more cutting edge and dark...attempts that usually only succeed in making the programming more boring.