KNOTS LANDING: THE QUESTION GAME (TV)
Summary
One in this night-time drama serial, spun off from the series "Dallas," about the residents of the small southern California community of Knots Landing. Highlights of this episode include the following: Linda Fairgate meets with Brian Johnston, who is hiding out at a motel, and he tells her he killed the private detective hired by his wife to follow him; Johnston demands that Linda go to San Francisco and retrieve his gold coins or he will show Greg Sumner the video he made of himself and Linda having sex; Paige is seen in a series of scenes having romantic rendezvous with Pierce Lawton; Kate Whittaker is furious with her mother Claudia because she believes Claudia planted a gun on Steve Brewer so that he wouldn't get any of Greg Sumner's fortune; Claudia tries to explain what happened, but Kate cuts her off and says she hates her; Gary tells a delighted Professor Joseph Barringer -- who is working on a concept for a device that derives energy from ocean waves -- that he wishes to finance a prototype; Larry Riley, who is serving as Karen MacKenzie's lawyer, and her husband Mack tell her she must convince the D.A. that she's innocent of killing a teen; Paige and Pierce play a question game in which each must answer very personal questions about his or her past; Kate moves to a new apartment without giving Claudia a forwarding address; Claudia tells Greg she called the police on Steve to save Kate from being shot by him; Benny Appleman asks down-on-her-luck Anne Matheson to help him take pictures of an adulterous liaison for money; Karen is questioned by the D.A., who says he will make a deal if she pleads guilty to reckless endangerment, which infuriates Mack; the media pounce on Karen on her way out of the D.A.'s office, telling her she has become a hero of the public for supposedly striking back at gang violence; when Pierce tells Paige he's falling in love with her, Paige warns him that their relationship is moving too fast; Gary and Mack bring Barringer's "Tidal Power" idea to Greg Sumner, who turns them down while actually stealing the idea; Karen attempts to attend the funeral of dead teen Danny Morgan but is told to leave; Greg informs Kate that her mother did not plant the gun; Gary tells Barringer that Sumner passed on the project, but he himself has decided to finance it; after Benny and Ann botch their undercover photo job, Ann suddenly has an idea: She asks Benny to shoot nude photos of her which they will sell to a "Lears"-like magazine; Linda returns to Johnston with the coins and receives the compromising sex video in return; Paige admits to Pierce that she is in love with him; Linda pays a visit to Johnston's wife and says she knows where her husband is. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 19, 1991 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:46:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:30912
- GENRE: Drama, night-time serial
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, night-time serial
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1979-1993
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Michael Filerman … Executive Producer
- David Jacobs … Executive Producer, Created by
- John Romano … Co-Executive Producer
- Joseph Hardy … Supervising Producer
- Mary-Catherine Harold … Producer
- James Stanley … Producer, Writer
- Joel Okmin … Co-Producer
- Richard Winnie … Associate Producer
- Nicholas Sgarro … Director
- Donald Marcus … Story Editor
- James Magnuson … Story Editor
- Patrick Gleeson … Music by
- Jerrold Immel … Theme Music by
- William Devane … Cast, Gregory Sumner
- Kevin Dobson … Cast, M. Patrick (Mack) MacKenzie
- Stacy Galina … Cast, Kate Whittaker
- Michele Lee … Cast, Karen Fairgate MacKenzie
- Kathleen Noone … Cast, Claudia Whittaker
- Michelle Phillips … Cast, Anne Winston Matheson
- Larry Riley … Cast, Frank Williams
- Ted Shackelford … Cast, Gary Ewing
- Nicollette Sheridan … Cast, Paige Matheson
- Van Ark, Joan … Cast, Valene Ewing
- Stuart Pankin … Cast, Benny Appleman
- Lar Park Lincoln … Cast, Linda Fairgate
- Mark Soper … Cast, Joseph Barringer
- Bruce Greenwood … Cast, Pierce Lawton
- Philip Brown … Cast, Brian Johnston
- Michelle Joyner … Cast, Lynette
- Joseph Cousins … Cast, Bobby
- Deborah Strang … Cast, Ida Morgan
- Emily Ann Lloyd … Cast, Betsy
- Buck Taylor … Cast, Fred Morgan
- Jenny Lester-McKeon … Cast, Mrs. Johnston
- Mark Schneider … Cast, D.A. Reese
- Mary Fanaro … Cast, the Sports Club Attendant
- Robert Mason Ward … Cast, Mr. Framingham
- Debra Jo Fondren … Cast, Framingham's Playmate
- Charles C. Stevenson, Jr. … Cast, the Minister
- Elaine Bartolone … Cast, the Chambermaid
- Dean Hill … Cast, the Man
- Marina Zenovich … Cast, Reporter #1
- John Nielsen … Cast, Reporter #2
- Dominique Jennings … Cast, Reporter #3