Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, and Donna Mills, the stars of the beloved primetime soap opera Knots Landing, recalled their feelings about Dallas and similar series Dynasty on the latest episode of their We're Knot Done Yet podcast.

The ladies kicked off the episode by taking fan questions, and when one asked about Dallas and Dynasty, Mills shared that she never got to watch much of either one. "It seems to me that most of the time we were working," the 84-year-old said. "We had longer hours than most of the shows. I mean, we shot on the same lot as Dallas. The people from Dallas would go home at 5:00, and we'd be there till 10:00 at night."

Lee, 82, said she would "peek once in a while" at the Dallas set, noting, "I wanted to see what they were doing and how everybody looked — usually stunning."

She continued, "I thought they were relatable in some way. People want total escapism, and there was no identifiable thing that I could say, to me in terms of my life — it was what it was, and it was good for everybody at that time." However, she added, "I didn't think they were particularly great."

Mills noted, "David Jacobs himself, created both Dallas and Knots Landing, said that Dallas is about them — the wealthy and the flashy, whatever — and Knots Landing is about us. That's the feet on the ground. More basic, more real maybe, but very special."

While none of the ladies were asked to be on Dallas during their time on Knots Landing, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) and J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) each appeared on their show.

Mills recalled, "It was really fun for me because I had done another show with Larry Hagman. I did a show called The Good Life that was a half-hour situation comedy. When I first got here to California, we played a butler and a maid that decided to take those jobs and didn't know how to do them and that's where the comedy was."

She added, "It was a very cute show. And I knew him really well and he and his wife, Maj, had taken me under their wing because I was brand new, green as anything here in California, and they really looked out for me and they were great. So I knew him well and I loved him and I used to walk by — there was a passageway that I would go down often. It was right past Larry's trailer and and he had a curtain, you could only see the kind of the bottom. And I would walk by and he said, 'Ah, there's legs,'" she said with a laugh.

Van Ark, 82, agreed, "He's the best. He loved so much what he was doing. And he just he made it a game and fun and games wherever he was."

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