He is perhaps best known for his role as landlord Ralph Furley on the 1970s TV sitcom Three’s Company and for his bumbling deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show; he also appeared in a string of movies for Disney. Knots Landing was a prime-time soap opera, a spinoff of Dallas; it followed the melodramatic antics of a California family and their friends. It ran from 1979-1993. A rolling hitch knot is a knot tied from a rope to another rope or a rod. They’re primarily used in sailing.