KNOTS LANDING: Season 2 (1980-81) Clip (Mr. Sid's Wild Ride

KNOTS LANDING: Season 2 (1980-81) Clip (Mr. Sid's Wild Ride - Extended Version)

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These are the final seconds to "Squeezeplay", the second season finale for the 1979-93 CBS drama "Knots Landing", a spin-off of the popular 1978-91 drama "Dallas". This was the 18th and final episode of the second season (31st overall). Sadly, this episode marks the final regular appearance of original cast member Don Murray as Sid Fairgate, though he does appear in two more episodes in the next season before departing the series. Sid's death marked the first time that a lead character on a prime time television series had been killed off. This episode originally aired Thursday, March 26, 1981.
Tensions are high at Sid Fairgate's (Don Murray) car dealership Knots Landing Motors. His longtime employee Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) copped to buying stolen car parts for the firm using money he borrowed from his brother J.R. After being questioned by the FBI, Gary and Sid join up with the Feds for a sting operation. The sting is successful and the crooks are hauled off to jail. The FBI then informs Gary and Sid that they will have to testify, so they place guards with them. Meanwhile, one of the mechanics on the crooks' payroll lets out the brake fluid in Sid's car.
Rushing home to get to his sister Abby (Donna Mills), whose children were kidnapped by her bitter ex-husband Jeff, Sid and an FBI agent are driving down Pacific Coast Highway when he realizes that he has no brakes. The car goes out of control as he narrowly avoids hitting people before crashing through a freeway embankment, down to the beach below. The scene freezes on Sid's horrified face.
This plot was set to accommodate the wishes of Don Murray, who decided to leave "Knots Landing" in 1981 to focus on other projects.

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@scorpleeon 6 ай бұрын

Man I watched this every week in high school. Where has the time gone.

@josebro352 6 ай бұрын

Same. Watched it every Thursday night in the 80s . The world is so different today. Never thought it would be the way that it is.

@devarnburks8132 5 ай бұрын

NEVER forget this episode watched I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL THIS SHOW WAS MY EVERY THURDAYS NITE 9 PM

@dianesemenza6302 3 жыл бұрын

Losing Don Murray big shock. He was great on show

@Maestrohbill 6 ай бұрын

RIP Don Murray who not only killed it but got killed in this scene

@johnnasiatka5636 Жыл бұрын

This was before the show got serialized. The show basically had self contained episodes where most problems got resolved in one episode. Then came along Abby who was the only resident of the Cul de sac that wasn’t married as all the other families were had married heads in the house. The original premise had the show about the lives of four couples living on one street with each week a different story line featuring a different family. Then Abby had to first wreck Richard and Laura’s marriage before separating Val and Gary for well over a decade. This was when the story arcs really developed into lasting long time before resolutions. This was the first cliff hanger to start the whole serial stories.

@Texaslawhorn 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting juxtaposition from Sid's tense "Oh my God" to the bouncy closing theme.

@jllore1917 4 жыл бұрын

The first principle character of a primetime soap to be killed. Very shocking and Knots kept Don Murray in the opening sequence of the first few episodes of the next season to keep the viewers guessing about Sid's fate.

@jasonraczkowski6001 3 жыл бұрын

A few years later Don Murray regretted leaving the show . When the show got real popular in the mid to late 80s don Murray said he wished he hadn't left.

@jllore1917 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonraczkowski6001 He made a huge mistake. However, as a loyal fan, Kevin Dobson really came into his own as Mac McKenzie. Sid's death was very shocking.

@Texaslawhorn 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonraczkowski6001 I wonder what the show would have been like if Don/Sid had stayed? So much that happened afterwards was fallout from his death.

@jasonraczkowski6001 3 жыл бұрын

@@Texaslawhorn yeah well there would have been no mac McKenzie That's for sure. Diana' would have stayed . Sid would have fired Gary for having an affair with abby Greg Sumner may still have happened Sid would have grown his business especially with lotus point SIDS engine would have gone public Mac McKenzie was very involved with things and investigations etc Sid was laid back Frankly the show would have been way different. In fact it may have not lasted as long. Mac McKenzie was a way better character than sid

@Texaslawhorn 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonraczkowski6001 Good points. I don't think it would have lasted as long, but who knows. I was born in 1982 and remember my mom watching the show in the late '80s and early '90s, and so I only knew Karen and Mack. I had no idea about Sid until I watched it in reruns years later. As great a couple as Karen and Mack were I prefer Karen and Sid.

@QueenAlexis556 4 жыл бұрын

Knots Landing creeped me out when I was younger. Especially the scenes with Chip & Ciji (1984-1985)

@jbro8934 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. The scene with her body floating in the ocean at night gave me the shivers.

@pillsie 2 жыл бұрын

If a box set were available I'd probably buy it.

@whyayetv 3 жыл бұрын

So imagine UK viewers watching this. We saw Sid go off the cliff in May 1981- but the BBC decided not to show season 3 until September 1983! Yes, we had to wait more than two years to find out what happened. The frustration pre-internet TV schedulers caused knows no limits. Short of trying to find anyone who knew someone Stateside, there was no way of finding out.

@magkatcar 3 жыл бұрын

Noooo, what?? You're kidding, lol. That's funny. Yeah pre-internet definitely!

@whyayetv 3 жыл бұрын

@@magkatcar you want to know what’s also funny, Katrina? I’m from Durham!

@magkatcar 3 жыл бұрын

@@whyayetv lol, you don't say. That is a funny little coincidence. 😊

@davidtyson4949 3 жыл бұрын

The bbc ruined this show,if they had respected it it would have built up a huge audience...idiots

@brianalejandro5746 4 жыл бұрын

Sid was a great character, even though I didn't care for some of his macho sentiments he always tried to do the right thing. I was shocked when he was killed. .... very scary scene!

@magkatcar 3 жыл бұрын

I was stunned they killed him off too. I mean really killed him off, where there would be no soap opera comeback. He was a major major character so that was why it was shocking and I loved loved loved Sid and Karen. Did I say loved? Lol

@PajafromPrague Жыл бұрын

Hey i saw you already :) I just started to watch it from season 1 . Its great . Yeah Sid was a great person . He doesent deserve to end this way . And now im downloading season 3 . I thoaght the man who broke breaks is weird then when to Michael got the chocolate i thoaght he s the traitor . Dont tell me how the traitor will end . But i hope life with Roy and Frank . Or 25 years . And when after years i download season 7 because i started from 8 .I saw i mistaken in the scene where i thoaght Gary said what did you call me . That wasnt Gary that was Joshua :D Valene s brother . Im not surprised i mistaken them they look similar :D And to Gary talking about a father how he is suppose to be . That was not Mack but Ben :)

@kevinriley6320 8 ай бұрын

This wasn't a cliffhanger finale. It was a cliff over.

@clgil77 4 жыл бұрын

Didn't he have to pump the brakes b4 he went down that ocean road??

@robertscott8344 9 ай бұрын

But didn't the accelerator was getting at the height too that the engine was getting heated and the motor needed more pressure from the miles he was going?

@rocheanspencer9979 3 жыл бұрын

He had another show he was developing and starting in but show ended up flopping while knots went around for 13 seasons ..he choose wrong turn like his character did.

@jbro8934 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad he didn't turn in the opposite direction away from the ocean. He woulda just smashed into the mountain.

@alfonsogreen2722 5 жыл бұрын

Sid seems like a good man. I dont understand how they do that 2 him

@jbro8934 5 жыл бұрын

He inadvertantly got involved with Gary selling stole auto parts. They sabotaged his car because he knew too much. The reason for it was because Don Murray, the actor, wanted a bigger salary so they wrote him out of the show.

@pillsie 5 жыл бұрын

It's a tv show. Not real people in a not real town.

@kateclemons5921 3 жыл бұрын

Don Murray left the show Sadly. He did state he regretted the decision.

@jasonraczkowski6001 3 жыл бұрын

@@jbro8934 and Gary got his $$$$ to buy the stolen parts.....he got the $$$ from his brother JR..

@magkatcar 3 жыл бұрын

@@kateclemons5921 Oh, I didn't know he said he later regretted it. I can see why though.

@JPBAMA 3 жыл бұрын

Sid always did drive like a bat out of hell, even when he pulled out of the driveway. I'm not surprised he went off the cliff. He should have turned to the right. He zigged when he should have zagged.

@scottaznavourian3720 6 ай бұрын

They can't figure out how they didn't realize it was him for over a season Give emcredit....their first cliffhanger was a literal cliffhanger 😂

@jad8123 3 ай бұрын

I always wondered if Sid had survived & continued on how Abby would have navigated her treacherous ways. Would she have had affairs with Richard & Gary? Would Sid have stood up for her? I guess we’ll never know. I liked Sid & Karen but Mack brought so much to character & the show itself. Good memories.