December 27, 1979 –
Knots Landing, CBS’ spinoff of Dallas, premiered on this date. The show went on for 14 seasons, making it one of the longest running prime time drama, in television history.
Although it had outlasted all of its contemporaries (even Dallas) and was still in the top forty ratings, the network and the producers mutually agreed that that the show’s fourteenth season (1992-93) was to be its last, as further budget cuts would have to be made, should it have stayed on the air for a fifteenth season. The producers and the network decided that less episodes would be produced (nineteen) for the final season, and all actors and actresses were required to be absent from at least some of the episodes to save money. However, Michele Lee offered to forgo her usual salary, and film some episodes for union scale pay. She therefore became the only actress to appear in all three hundred forty-four episodes.
The Haus of Dcaligari 