Knots Landing
Season 1 Episode 3
Air Date: January 10, 1980
Recap:
Karen’s two sons are talking about girls, while Karen is
making breakfast, Diana comes in and wants her to take her drive some of her
class mates to the observatory, she tells her that she already volunteered her
to take them. The boys argue about the
tomatoes Karen put on their plate, she gets upset with them. Sid comes over and asks her if the kids are
getting to her down. She tells him she
wants them to go on a vacation, just the two of them, he tells her that he
can’t get away from the dealership at the moment.
Richard comes over and wants them to come to the PTA
meeting, he’s running for the school board, and he wants to get a teacher out of the high
school because he is showing them videos about STD’s and has brought in convicts, drug users and
prostitutes. Richard leaves for work,
but makes Laura ask Karen to be sure to come.
Sid is late for the PTA meeting, Karen asks Richard when he
asks where he is, if he wants her to call him.
She goes to the payphone, but there is someone there already, he wants
her to give him a dime so he can keep talking, but she says she only has one
and her call is important too. He tells
her that he’ll let her use the phone if she smiles, she does when he makes a
funny face. Sid comes in just when she
starts to make her call.
Richard is listing off all the things the teacher has done,
he says that he’s given the students pregnancy test, brought in a drug user who
shoot up, but the teacher, David Crane, stands up and say that he never had a
drug user shoot up, it was a diabetic, but Richard just bypasses that little
bit of information, but brings up the shooting up part up. Richard has a petition, and wants to continue
the meeting outside, since the teacher showed up to defend himself. David shocks everyone by kissing Karen, he
tells them that that is how he teaches.
Karen is feeling great about herself, she gets the kids out
of the house for dinner, and gets a new dress.
She’s reading a magazine while waiting for Sid to come home, he calls
her and tells her that he’s got to work late.
She doesn’t tell him what she had planned. Val shows up, she knew about Karen’s plans,
since she gave her some candles earlier, she says that Gary just called
too. They decided to go to the school
board meeting, but first they eat Karen’s dinner.
Richard is going on about how they need to have David
removed from the school, David asks Karen what she thinks, since she’s got a
daughter in his class, she says that she supports what he’s doing, but she
doesn’t want her daughter to be so self reliant that she won’t come to her
parents for questions.. David wants
everyone to come to one of his classes and see what it’s really like, Richard
says that they don’t need to, but Karen says she’ll go.
Over coffee, Val confesses that she wouldn’t vote for
Richard if it wasn’t for Laura. David
comes over to them and thanks Karen for supporting him. They talk for a bit, they kind of leave Val
out of everything.
When Karen gets home she gets a call from David who wanted
to know she got home okay and wanted to say good night.
Richard, Laura and Karen all go to the class, where a
pregnant teenager is talking to the class, she is telling them what it’s like
for her. Richard thinks this just proves
his point, but Karen tells the teacher she is impressed that the students are
seeing for themselves what could happen to them. Karen plans to get the class together to make
posters to support David.
When she gets home she tells Richard that she will make sure
that the teacher isn’t removed. Richard
asks if it’s only because of his “curly blue eyes”? I have no clue what that even means, the guy
does have curly hair, but I don’t know how you can have curly eyes.
At the school, the kids are making signs and Karen is making
phone calls to parents getting their support.
David and Karen go for a walk.
David wants her to come over to his house the next day and have lunch
with him, she tells him she can’t. He
asks if she can’t or won’t. She tries to
change the subject and asks about the stars, he has her wish on the wishing
star, and when her eyes are closed he kisses her, and tells her that was his
wish. She says she needs to get back to
the kids.
When she and Diana get home, Sid is upset she was gone for
so long, and admits he’s also upset with Richard.
The next day Sid comes home with some amazing pots and pans
for Karen, they are none stick, he melts some cheese and makes her try it, like
it’s some gourmet cheese dip and not just a bit of butter and melty (burnt)
cheese. David and tells her that he
wants to see her, she says that she wants to see him too, he gives her his
address.
When she gets to his apartment, he tells her that he’s
getting more support than Richard is. He
offers her a glass of wine, after he gives it to her, she tells him she doesn’t
want it anymore.
Diana gets home and tells Sid that Richard lost the
election.
David leads Karen to his bedroom, he is talking a lot,
suddenly she tells him that she can’t do it, that this isn’t who she is. When he tells her she’s just scared, she
tells him that she isn’t, but being scared brought her to his place. She tells him that he’s made her feel young
again and sexy. She thanks him for that
and leaves. He tells her that it could
have been wonderful, and she says that it was.
When she gets home, she sees Richard taking all the signs
off the van, she tells him she’s sorry that he lost, he says that he’s a better
loser than a winner anyway. Karen finds
Sid in the garage and asks what he’s doing, she takes his hand and takes him
into the house to go to their room.
Final Thoughts: I
loved the final shot of the episode like it’s product placement for these pots
and pans, got to love the light hitting the pans.
Best Outfit: I picked Karen's dress just because it's not flattering on her at all.
Fight Count: 0
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