Jill attacks Val ---Knots Landing season 9 scene--- PART 1

[DISCOVEGASGUY]

Poor Val ! 

[TheMardevilfan]

VERYYYYYY CREEPY! GAVE ME NIGHTMARES AS A KID! BUT MY FAVORITE KNOTS STORYLINE BY FAR!

[RollerDisc88]

If Jill was smart, she wouldve made val drink a bottle of wine

[Imfromaroundtheblock]

Yea. This was just creepy! I was 15 when this aired.......My grandma was the queen of prime time soaps. She watched every one of them but this was her favorite out of all of them. RIP meme

[njpavid22]

This was an excellent story line. Val was absolutely amazing when she seemed to be crazy!

[themirrorsofmymind]

At the time this aired, I wasn't yet watching Knot's. My oldest sister and our mother were fans and I remember them, in the front room, talking (LOUDLY) at the TV. ("Aw, come on girl! Shut the damn hair dryer off and call the police! White women get on my nerves... Always brushing their hair when somebody's tryin' to kill 'em.") So, I wound up coming in the room to see what they were talking about. I think I watched regularly from then on...

[crevrath]

defo one of the best cliff hangers of the show. You really didnt expect Jill to go this far . She had been a well established fairly stable character for three years before this , villains tend to not be around for too long before showing their nasty side, I always remember the shock of seeing this and wat led to Jills actions,with Ben Gone and Gary and val bonding over the twins . it was truly plausable, Well done again knots , miles ahead from Dallas etc with believable stories for its time

[rees276]

she only got caught cos she didn't catch an STD

[JRPHILLIPS75]

I remember this like it was yesterday. so chilling. what a great story.

[jasongentryjones]

Jill looks like Velma from Scooby Doo!

[themirrorsofmymind]

@jasongentryjones Jinkees!

[themirrorsofmymind]

@jasongentryjones I'm sorry I couldn't stop myself.

"Velma from Scooby doo..."

CLASSIC!

[SuperJeff1999]

One of the BEST season finale's of Knot's, Love, Love, Love this show

[DISCOVEGASGUY]

This was the best episode of a TV show in the whole history of TV in my opinion. Superb, haunting, nail-biting, riveting !

[qweretrretet]

i'm i wrong or did val took off a pair of leather gloves from the wardrobe?

[TheJaking87]

Lucky for Jill, that she found those rubber gloves in Val's kitchen, since she didn't have any of her own.

[gregorycrowns]

@TheJaking87 - She pseudo-planned it...it wasn't luck! Later, she says..."I bought this gun in your name and it will have your fingerprints all over it." - i.e. the gloves are Val's, and Jill didn't touch anything in the house until she got to the sink to slip them on. You have a good eye for detail, though.

[koollatter]

"Dynasty" and "Dallas" got much more attention, but this season finale...WOW...Jill is one of the greatest villains in TV history.

[gregorycrowns]

@koollatter Jill's character degenerated into (psychopathic) `evil' gradually, beginning with her chance meeting with Abby, who says, "Let the second Mrs. Ewing give the `soon-to-be' third Mrs. Ewing a friendly warning (sic)....The first Mrs. Ewing doesn't go away - ever(!)"

[gregorycrowns]

@koollatter

Jill's villainy was gradual, and it was very well-planned and intricate storyline. After the new year of `88, she begins her plan. She takes a `dead-end' case at her paralegal job - an old woman who's a master forger(!) The woman agrees to `work' for her in order to have her sentence commuted. Jill later tries to bump her off, but she dies in the hospital anyway - but not before Jill gets three letters and one note from her in Ben's and Val's handwriting for her master plan!

[TheJaking87]

This is one of KL's finest moments. The first 30 minutes of the show concentrated almost entirely on Jill and Val, slowly building up to Val being forced to take the pills.

[gregorycrowns]

@TheJaking87 Me again! The work that went into it was incredible. Even watching the scenes out of order on YouTube is hard because of how horrifying they are. There's no good reason for terrorizing a person, but do you think any of Jill's complaints about Val are valid?

[TheJaking87]

@gregorycrowns Jill's actions were way off the scale. However, she had good reason to feel resentful towards Val, because of all the time that Gary was spending with her.

As Abby once said to Jill in the Season eight 'Nightmare' episode: "The first Mrs. Ewing never goes away." It was that comment that sparked off Jill's initial insecurities.

[drlee2]

I just re-watched this storyline and what's amazing (and scary!) is how REALISTIC it seems! I mean, I believe that this could actually happen!

[gregorycrowns]

@drlee2 Absolutely! It was adapted from the ultra-successful feature film "Fatal Attraction" only a year earlier. There were harbingers in the fall of `87, and then it began right after the new year, starting with Jill finding Gary in bed with Valene and confronting Valene, saying..."I thought Abby was going to be the one to come between me and Gary. You!...You could give Abby Ewing lessons in manipulation!!!!" - i.e. the beginning of the end (this was the eighth season `cliffhanger').

[gregorycrowns]

@drlee2 I may have responded to you before, but it bears repeating. Most of it is extremely plausible (with a few minor details that I noticed at different points in the show). How safe are any of us from some sociopathic violence?

[drlee2]

@gregorycrowns Agree. KNOTS was actually way before it's time in a lot of the storylines it presented. And it didn't talk down to the viewer and treat it like an idiot!

[qweretrretet]

why did she wear val's gloves? couldn't she bring an own pair?

[mcarps7]

Fantastic. I hope night time soaps make a comeback. I've had enough of reality and legal dramas.

[gregorycrowns]

@mcarps7 Amen. I wouldn't hold my breath, though. They take a lot more work to produce than other dramas, and are harder to syndicate.

[gregamo]

Great Post! Everyone remember that Warner Brothers is releasing Season 2 in Mid-April, so get out there and buy!

[Ladybug76]

Aww Man! I remember this. Oh crazy Jill. I remember she would always be like "Poor Val" LOL!

[ksbaxter]

I remember I saw two pictures of this of Soap Opera Digest years ago, I really liked them.

[esperantol]

thx for this great videos. My favorite episode from "Knots Landing"

[scifimlb]

hi....u have all the seasons on dvd?...how?....and how can i get them....really interested in getting the whole series of this...please please let me know...michael

[pdlbean]

it's funny to think that this show started in '79 and ended after I was born. I wish they would release more than just season 1 on DVD. I fell in love with this show after my mom bought the first season.

[tmattrope]

Thanks for posting this, this is one of the BEST stories they ever did on Knots Landing with Jill Bennett. This is inspiring me to buy the DVD for this season.

[gregorycrowns]

@tmattrope Jill shows sociopathic behavior by the spring of `88. She buys a wedding dress and `imagines' herself at a ceremony. She also gets tapes of Ben's voice (he was a TV anchor) and makes new tapes of his voice. This is so Val will think he's really speaking into her voice mail. The only thing I don't know is how she got hold of a soporific drug powerful enough to `knock out' someone all night (her would-be lover that she meets in San Francisco that weekend and invites back to her room).

[maxineweiss]

Do you have the episodes before this? Like, where she goes to San Francisco and drugs that guy, and then the car won't start.....

[BobbyDamiano]

That episode was called, "The Perfect Alibi."

[gregorycrowns]

@BobbyDamiano Absolutely! It was the next to last episode of the season, and a lot of work went into it. Jill pretends to find another woman's lipstick on Gary's shirt just before leaving for San Francisco for the weekend. This is so she'll have justification for a one-night stand when she's supposed to marry Gary in a few more months. Once she's out the door, her psychopathic mind goes to work.

[TheJaking87]

@gregorycrowns During that episode 'The Perfect Alibi', it seemed Jill left nothing to chance, including her interchange of hairstyle and outfit, during the airport and plane scenes.

[gregorycrowns]

@maxineweiss I'd forgotten the part about the rented car's engine stalling. More astounding is how she planned it all. Flirting on the outgoing flight so people will remember her, coming on to a guy at the convention, getting him to drink a drugged drink, etc. This was the eighth season cliffhanger, and it was so intricate they had to break it down into two episodes (Teri Austin was made into a major cast member the following season, getting billed in the opening credits).

[TheJaking87]

@gregorycrowns It's a shame they had to wait until Season ten, to include Teri Austin in the opening credits, especially since she'd already been an integral cast member for the previous three seasons.

[TheJaking87]

@gregorycrowns It's convenient how that guy, David Lamb, woke from his drugged sleep, just after Jill returned to their hotel room, enabling him to believe they had spent the whole night together.