Knots Landing Fans, Take Note:- Page 5

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:12am

yup, thanks quise. that is him. now if i can only find a better photo.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:14am

thank god for soapnet because i wouldn't have known that otherwise!
*lol*

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:19am

i never watched it (or dynasty) but it seems that he was also on "the colbys" as senator cash cassidy in 1986-87.

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 1:21am

this is an interesting bit of an interview with kim lankford who played the actor's tv wife, ginger. apparently he wanted to leave the show and she didn't.

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In hindsight, one of the problems with Kenny and
Ginger was that they became sort of a one trick pony.
Kenny being bad, and Ginger harping on him. Were you
aware of this at the time? Were you in any position to
change the course of your storyline?



Kim Lankford: Well … I think I was. What happened was that Jim Houghton went to the producers and he wanted off the show. I did not know that. He told me after the fact. I believe that if they had let Ginger go ahead and have her affair and maybe if I had pushed for that affair, that might have changed the course of Kenny and Ginger. I did not want to leave the show.



AS: You did not want to leave but they felt like both Kenny and Ginger had to go.



Kim Lankford: Kenny wanted to go and they just couldn’t find a way at that time to fix it for Ginger. Now, my thing with David Jacobs was, “But you’re the god, you can find a way. And it can work like this: they get divorced.” How timely is that? Kenny can do his thing and Ginger can be a struggling single Mom and what would that invite into the cul de sac? But for a time David Jacobs wanted to spin off a show of Kenny and Ginger, but Jim didn’t want to do that.



AS: Why not?



Kim Lankford: I don’t know. He wanted to write. He wrote a couple of episodes, and like I said, I found this out after he had done this and we had our words about that. He and his sister had written a couple of episodes of Knots Landing and just … Jim I don’t think ever felt the feeling that we feel as an actor that you just need to perform. You know he never did stage. I don’t think in his heart of hearts that he was a performer. So to me, that’s the underlying thing of it. I think he was more comfortable writing and expressing himself that way.



I wanted to stay on the show and David Jacobs and Michael Filerman, they knew that.



AS: And was there ever a chance that you could have returned?



Kim Lankford: Well I did. I returned for the reunion shows. But I don’t know, then Knots Landing went such a crazy way, I didn’t come back to the show. I would come back if there was another reunion. There was a great scene in the reunion when I was talking to Karen and Val where I said if I had any idea what I was missing when I was away I would have divorced Kenny long ago. (Laughs)




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[Kristie-K2]

Posted: 12/3/05 at 2:04am

Dear Julie, now that's a star. Can't wait to see her at the Kennedy Honors!

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/5/05 at 8:57am

i'm still having flashbacks.

[BrendanStryker]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:31pm

KNOTS LANDING, Season One is released to DVD in March.

[BT]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:30pm

Poor Val.