HEE HAW {ED MCMAHON, THE BELLAMY BROTHERS} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of comedy/variety shows, featuring sketch comedy and country-and-western music. The program, featuring guests Ed and Victoria McMahon, opens with jokes about welfare recipients and the Hummin' Hee Haw Harmonica Players performing "Golden Flipper." Highlights include the following: a spoof of a consumer advocate show; an animated chicken; Nurse Goodbody getting pawed over; the Bellamy Brothers performing "What She Needs Is (Sugar Daddy)"; news from radio station KORN about escaped convicts and streaking; a series of jokes in the cornfield with cast members and the McMahons; a performance of "Rawhide" by Marty Stewart on mandolin, Jimmy Henley on banjo, James Hill on guitar and Roy Clark on the fiddle; sketches set at the post office and a service station; Buck Owens performing "I Drank Beer From Old Milwaukee"; the Rev. Grady's tale of a Baptist preacher with a twisted tongue; Canela Hutton performing "Livin' on Tulsa Time"; a series of ditties on strings by Buck and Roy, interspersed with jokes by the McMahons; a film about a bicycle equipped with a clock radio, a CB radio, and a television set, created by viewer Grady Daniel; a performance of "Dancing Cowboys, Singing Horses" by the Bellamy Brothers; a performance by Minnie Pearl and the All-Jug Band; a sketch about moonshine, set in a barber shop; Lisa the Weather Girl and her talking weather map; Buck and Ray performing "The Columbus Stockade Blues"; an animated skunk; and sketches set in a haystack, a hotel, and a general store. Also, McMahon tells a brief story and performs the song "Ci-gar-eettes and Whooskey and Wild, Wild Women." The program concludes with the cast's farewell song. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Syndicated
- DATE: 1980
- RUNNING TIME: 0:49:45
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:08264
- GENRE: Comedy; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Banjo music; Comedy; Country music; Music, popular (songs, etc.)
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1969-1971; Syndication - 1971-1993; The Nashville Network - 1996-1997
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Frank Peppiatt … Executive Producer
- John Aylesworth … Executive Producer
- Sam Lovullo … Producer
- Marcia Minor … Associate Producer
- Bob Boatman … Director
- Steve Schepman … Associate Director
- Bud Wingard … Writer
- Gordie Tapp … Writer
- Archie Campbell … Writer
- Don Harron … Writer
- Tom Lutz … Writer
- Barry Adelman … Writer
- Barry Silver … Writer
- Hager Brothers, The … Music Group
- Nashville Edition … Music Group
- The Buckeroos … Music Group
- Charlie McCoy and the Hee Haw Band … Music Group
- Bellamy Brothers, The … Music Group
- Marty Stewart … Instrumentalist
- James Hill … Instrumentalist
- Jimmy Henley … Instrumentalist
- Roy Clark … Host, Instrumentalist
- Ed McMahon … Guest
- Victoria McMahon … Guest
- Buck Owens … Cast, Performer
- Minnie Pearl … Cast, Performer
- Marty Stewart … Cast
- Archie Campbell … Cast
- Gordie Tapp … Cast
- Gunilla Hutton … Cast
- Jones, Louis M. "Grandpa" … Cast
- Junior Samples … Cast
- Lisa Todd … Cast
- Don Harron … Cast
- Lulu Roman … Cast
- Maryann Gordon … Cast
- Misty Rowe … Cast
- Gailard Sartain … Cast
- Rodney Stokeland … Cast
- Kenny Bright … Cast
- Linda Thompson … Cast
- Buck Trent … Cast
- John Henry Farr … Cast
- Brady Nut … Cast
- Mackenzie Colt … Cast
- George Lindsey … Cast
- Cathy Baker … Cast
- Grady Daniel