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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArchieLucasCarringtonEwing1989" data-source="post: 49750" data-attributes="member: 95">With Knots Landing and Dallas there wasn't really a strong link between the shows, with the exception of Gary and Val, but even then neither character had lived in Texas for years by the time 1979 rolls around, and they never started out as Dallas regulars in the first place, after Gary's attendance toBobby's "funeral" in 1985 there aren't anymore crossovers until the Dallas series finale six years later in 1991, and in both instances they took place in a characters dream, Pam and JR's respectively, so I could watch Knots Landing before I could watch Dallas as the storylines, the setting, the type of characters are so far removed from each other they could well be different showsWith The Colby's however both Fallon and Jeff were so ingrained into the Dynasty-verse from the very beginning that you had to watch Dynasty in order to catch up with the Colby's in a way, the whole premise of The Colby's was Jeff trying to find Fallon in LA and to get to know his Colby relatives, the set up of both shows were so similar, I could almost class both seasons of The Colby's as two extra Dynasty seasons, the only difference was that The Colby's was probably better written than Dynasty, which at the time was going through its worst years.</blockquote>