#1: The Title Knots Landing Was a Wordplay Accident
Creator David Jacobs admitted the title came together almost by accident. He was picturing Palos Verdes, a peninsula south of Los Angeles filled with quiet cul-de-sacs, but couldn’t land on a name. “Landing” felt right — lots of coastal places use it.
“Knots” came from a private joke. Jacobs liked the idea of marriage as something people get tied into — sometimes literally knotted together. The pun stuck, giving Knots Landing a deceptively calm name that hinted at tangled relationships beneath the sunny, suburban surface.