HEE HAW - PREMIER + LAFFS

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Plot: Pickin' and grinnin', singin' and spinnin' tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television in 1969 with the arrival of Hee Haw as a summer replacement series for The Smorthers Brothers Comedy Hour. Each week co-hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark and the cast of comedians and musicians would welcome the biggest stars in country music to perform their songs and help deliver the one-liners. ; Conceived as a rural alternative to Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Hee Haw ranked in the top 20 nationwide when CBS dropped the show in 1971 in an attempt to 'de-countrify' the network's programming. It was quickly picked up and became the longest-running weekly syndicated original series in television history. The last 'new' episode aired in 1992. Looks like the non-network executives had the last hee-haw. For more information on HEE HAW visit the official website at www.heehaw.com.; ; As the first special guest artist to appear on Hee Haw, Loretta Lynn pulls no punches with her performance of 'Your Squaw Is On The Warpath,' one of her strong-willed feminist originals and a top hit of 1968. Charley Pride makes his first nationally televised appearance on this debut episode of Hee Haw singing a pair of Hank Williams classics, I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) and Kaw-Liga -- a concert favorite as well as a recent chart hit for Pride.; ; HEE HAW LAFFS presents the cream of the Kornfield Kounty comedy crop with routines by Grahdpa Jones, Roy Clark, Junior Samples, Archive Campbell and Lulu Roman, plus many others.;
• Cast: Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Buck Owens, Roy Clark, Junior Samples, Lulu Roman, Archie Campbell, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Jim Hager, Jon Hager, Sheb Wooley, Minnie Pearl, Donald Harron, Gordie Tapp, Jeannine Riley, Jennifer Bishop, Susan Raye, Cathy Baker, Gunilla Hutton, Bill Davis, Bob Boatman
• Director: Bill Davis
• Runtime: 1:20
• Company: Time Life
• Media Format: Series