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Hee Haw, the Glossary

Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop.^[1]

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1960s American musical comedy television series
1960s American sketch comedy television series
1970s American musical comedy television series
1980s American musical comedy television series
1990s American musical comedy television series
Bluegrass music
Country music television series
Rural society in the United States
Television series by Gaylord Entertainment Company
Television shows adapted into plays

Academic dress

Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have obtained a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergraduate students at certain old universities).

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Aerobics

Aerobics is a form of physical exercise that combines rhythmic aerobic exercise with stretching and strength training routines with the goal of improving all elements of fitness (flexibility, muscular strength, and cardio-vascular fitness).

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Alice Ripley

Alice Ripley (born December 14, 1963) is an American actress, singer, songwriter and mixed media artist.

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Almanac

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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American frontier

The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few contiguous western territories as states in 1912.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Anne Randall

Anne Randall (born Barbara Ann Burrus; September 23, 1944) is an American model and actress.

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Archie Campbell (November 7, 1914 – August 29, 1987) was an American comedian, writer, and star of Hee Haw, a country-flavored network television variety show.

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Bakersfield sound

The Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California.

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Bandstand

A bandstand (sometimes music kiosk) is a circular, semicircular or polygonal structure set in a park, garden, pier, or indoor space, designed to accommodate musical bands performing concerts.

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Barbi Benton

Barbi Benton (born Barbara Lynn Klein; January 28, 1950) is an American retired model, actress, television personality, and singer.

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Bernie Brillstein

Bernard Jules Brillstein (April 26, 1931 – August 7, 2008) was an American film and television producer, executive producer, and talent agent.

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Bicentennial Minutes

Bicentennial Minutes was a series of short educational American television segments commemorating the bicentennial of the American Revolution. Hee Haw and bicentennial Minutes are CBS original programming.

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Big band

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Billy Jim Baker

Billy Jim Baker is a professional clown and songwriter.

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Blowing a raspberry

Blowing a raspberry, razzing or making a Bronx cheer, is to make a noise similar to flatulence that may signify derision, real or feigned.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Booing

Booing is an act of publicly showing displeasure for someone or something, such as an entertainer or an athlete, by loudly yelling "Boo!" and sustaining the "oo" sound by holding it out.

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Boots Randolph

Homer Louis "Boots" Randolph III (June 3, 1927 – July 3, 2007) was an American musician best known for his 1963 saxophone hit "Yakety Sax", which became the signature tune of The Benny Hill Show.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Broadcast network

A terrestrial network (or broadcast network in the United States) is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source.

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Buck Owens

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader.

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Buck Trent

Charles Wilburn "Buck" Trent (February 17, 1938 – October 9, 2023) was an American country music instrumentalist.

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Cathy Baker (actress)

Cathy Baker (born January 21, 1947) is an American actress, best known for her work on the American television variety show Hee Haw.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Charlie McCoy

Charlie McCoy (born Charles Ray McCoy, March 28, 1941) is an American harmonica virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist in country music.

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Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 22, 1976, to June 24, 1981, producing five seasons and 115 episodes. Hee Haw and Charlie's Angels are television shows adapted into comics.

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Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics was an American comic-book publishing company that existed from 1945 to 1986, having begun under a different name: T. W. O. Charles Company, in 1940.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), also known as "Mister Guitar" and "the Country Gentleman", was an American musician who, along with Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, helped create the Nashville sound, the country music style which expanded its appeal to adult pop music fans.

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Circle Country

Circle Country, previously known as Circle, is a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service owned by Gray Television as part of its PowerNation Studios division. Hee Haw and Circle Country are American country music.

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Citizens band radio

Citizens band radio (CB radio) is a land mobile radio system, a system allowing short-distance one-to-many bidirectional voice communication among individuals, using two-way radios operating near 27 MHz (or the 11-m wavelength) in the high frequency or shortwave band.

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Clip show

A clip show is an episode of a television series that consists primarily of excerpts from previous episodes.

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Clogging

Clogging, buck dancing, or flatfoot dancing is a type of folk dance practiced in the United States, in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm.

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CMT (American TV channel)

CMT (originally standing for Country Music Television) is an American pay TV network. Hee Haw and CMT (American TV channel) are American country music.

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Colonel Homer

"Colonel Homer" is the twentieth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

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Colonel Tom Parker

Thomas Andrew Parker (born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk; June 26, 1909 January 21, 1997), commonly known as Colonel Parker, was a Dutch-American musical entrepreneur.

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Comic timing

Comic timing or comedic timing emerges from a performer's joke delivery: they interact with an audience—intonation, rhythm, cadence, tempo, and pausing—to guide the audience's laughter, which then guides the comedic narrative.

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Conway Twitty

Harold Lloyd Jenkins (September 1, 1933 – June 5, 1993), better known by his stage name Conway Twitty, was an American singer and songwriter.

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Cornbread

Cornbread is a quick bread made with cornmeal, associated with the cuisine of the Southern United States, with origins in Native American cuisine.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Cowboy

A cowboy is an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks.

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Cowboy hat

The cowboy hat is a high-crowned, wide-brimmed hat best known as the defining piece of attire for the North American cowboy.

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Cripple Creek (folk song)

"Cripple Creek" is an Appalachian-style old time tune and folk song, often played on the fiddle or banjo, listed as number 3434 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

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Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass

Danny Davis (May 29, 1925 – June 12, 2008) was an American country music band leader, trumpet player, vocalist and producer, best known as the founder and leader of the Nashville Brass.

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Dave & Sugar

Dave & Sugar was a pop-styled American country music trio which enjoyed its peak success in the mid- to late-1970s.

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David "Stringbean" Akeman

David Akeman (June 17, 1915 – November 10, 1973) better known as Stringbean (or String Bean), was an American singer-songwriter, musician, comedian, and semiprofessional baseball player best known for his role as a main cast member on the hit television show Hee Haw and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career in country music.

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Don Harron

Donald Hugh Harron, (September 19, 1924 – January 17, 2015) was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer.

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Don Juan (poem)

In English literature, Don Juan, written from 1819 to 1824 by the English poet Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays the Spanish folk legend of Don Juan, not as a womaniser as historically portrayed, but as a victim easily seduced by women.

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Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian.

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Don Rich

Donald Eugene Ulrich (August 15, 1941 – July 17, 1974), best known by the stage name Don Rich, was an American country musician who helped develop the Bakersfield sound in the early 1960s.

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Doyle Holly

Doyle Floyd Hendricks (June 30, 1936 – January 13, 2007), known by the stage name Doyle Holly, was an American musician best known as the bass guitar player of the country music band Buck Owens and the Buckaroos and for his solo hit songs "Queen Of The Silver Dollar" and "Lila".

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Drag queen

A drag queen is a person, usually male, who uses drag clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes.

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Dysphemism

A dysphemism is an expression with connotations that are derogatory either about the subject matter or to the audience.

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Early Morning Rain

"Early Morning Rain," sometimes styled as "Early Mornin' Rain," is a song written, composed, and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.

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Eefing

Eefing (also written eeephing, eephing, eeefing, eefin, or eefn') is an Appalachian (United States) vocal technique similar to beatboxing, but nearly a century older.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Hee Haw and Family Guy are television shows adapted into comics.

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Farmer's daughter

The farmer's daughter or farm girl is a stock character and stereotype in fiction for the daughter of a farmer, who is often portrayed as a desirable and naïve young woman.

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Faron Young

Faron Young (February 25, 1932 – December 10, 1996) was an American country music producer, musician, and songwriter from the early 1950s into the mid-1980s.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Floyd Cramer

Floyd Cramer (October 27, 1933 – December 31, 1997) was an American pianist who became famous for his use of melodic "whole-step" attacks.

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Frank Peppiatt

Frank Peppiatt (March 19, 1927 – November 7, 2012) was a Canadian (naturalized American) television producer and screenwriter, considered a pioneer of the variety show genre.

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Fred Silverman

Fred Silverman (September 13, 1937 – January 30, 2020) was an American television executive and producer.

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Freeze-frame shot

In film and video, a freeze frame is when a single frame of content shows repeatedly on the screen—"freezing" the action.

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Fringe time

In broadcast programming fringe time refers to two dayparts -.

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Frozen meal

A frozen meal (also called TV dinner in Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal is ultra-processed food portioned for an individual.

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Gailard Sartain

Gailard Sartain (born September 18, 1946) is a retired American actor who frequently played characters with roots in the South.

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Garth Brooks

Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country singer and songwriter.

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George Jones

George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter.

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George Lindsey

George Smith Lindsey (December 17, 1928 – May 6, 2012) was an American actor and stand-up comedian, best known for his role as Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D. and his subsequent tenure on Hee-Haw.

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George Richey

George Richey (born George Baker Richardson; November 30, 1935 – July 31, 2010) was an American songwriter and record producer.

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Goober Pyle

Goober Pyle is a fictional character in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and its sequel series Mayberry RFD.

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Gordie Tapp

Gordon Robert Tapp, (June 4, 1922 – December 18, 2016) was a Canadian entertainer, best known as a radio and television presenter, comedian and a CBS broadcaster.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Grady Nutt

Grady Lee Nutt (September 2, 1934 – November 23, 1982) was a Southern Baptist minister, humorist, television personality, and author.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a regular live country-music radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the time of year. Hee Haw and Grand Ole Opry are country music television series.

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Grandpa Jones

Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and old time/country music singer.

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Graveyard slot

A graveyard slot (or death slot) is a time period in which a television audience is very small compared to other times of the day, and therefore broadcast programming is considered far less important.

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Great American Family

Great American Family is an American cable television network.

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Green Acres

Green Acres is an American television absurdist sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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Gunilla Hutton

Gunilla Hutton (born May 15, 1944) is a Swedish-born American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her roles as the second Billie Jo Bradley (1965–1966) on Petticoat Junction and as a regular cast member in the television series Hee Haw until 1992.

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Hager Twins

The Hager Twins, also known as the Hager Brothers and The Hagers, were a duo of American country music singers and comedians who gained fame on the TV series Hee Haw.

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Hee Haw

Hee Haw is an American television variety show featuring country music and humor with the fictional rural "Kornfield Kounty" as the backdrop. Hee Haw and Hee Haw are 1960s American musical comedy television series, 1960s American sketch comedy television series, 1960s American variety television series, 1969 American television series debuts, 1970s American musical comedy television series, 1970s American sketch comedy television series, 1970s American variety television series, 1980s American musical comedy television series, 1980s American sketch comedy television series, 1980s American variety television series, 1990s American musical comedy television series, 1990s American sketch comedy television series, 1990s American variety television series, 1997 American television series endings, American country music, American television series with live action and animation, bluegrass music, CBS original programming, country music television series, first-run syndicated television programs in the United States, rural society in the United States, television series by Gaylord Entertainment Company, television shows adapted into comics and television shows adapted into plays.

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Honky-tonk

A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, honky tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.

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Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States. Hee Haw and Hot Country Songs are American country music.

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Hot rod

Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, classic, or modern and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimized for speed and acceleration.

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House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play at an establishment.

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Irlene Mandrell

Ellen Irlene Mandrell (born January 29, 1956) is an American musician.

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Jack Burns

John Francis Burns (November 15, 1933 – January 27, 2020) was an American comedian, actor, voice actor, writer and producer. During the 1960s, he was part of two comedy partnerships, first with George Carlin and later with Avery Schreiber.

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Jana Jae

Jana Jae (born August 30, 1943) is an American country and bluegrass fiddler.

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Jeannine Riley

Jeannine Brooke Riley (born October 1, 1940) is an American actress.

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Jennifer Bishop

Jennifer Bishop aka Jenifer Bishop (born 1941) is an American film and television actress who was active from the early 1960s through to the 1970s.

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Jerry Brightman

Gerald Warner "Jerry" Brightman (September 1, 1953 – March 9, 2015) was an American pedal steel guitarist who played for Buck Owens and The Buckaroos and featured on television's Hee Haw along with performing on many top 10 records with Buck, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, and others.

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Jimmy Henley

James V. "Jimmy" Henley (September 2, 1963 – March 22, 2020) was an American banjo player who played bluegrass music.

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Jimmy Riddle

James Lawrence Riddle (September 3, 1918 – December 10, 1982) was an American country musician and multi-instrumentalist best known for his appearances on the country music and comedy television show Hee Haw.

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John Aylesworth

John Bansley Aylesworth (August 18, 1928 – July 28, 2010) was a Canadian television writer, producer, comedian, and actor, best known as co-creator of the American country music television variety show Hee Haw, which appeared on network television for two years and then ran for decades in first-run syndication.

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John Henry Faulk

John Henry Faulk (August 21, 1913 – April 9, 1990) was an American storyteller and radio show host.

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Johnny Cash

John R. Cash (born J. R. Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Johnny Gimble

John Paul Gimble (May 30, 1926 – May 9, 2015) was an American country musician associated with Western swing.

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Jonathan Winters

Jonathan Harshman Winters (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013) was an American comedian, actor, author, television host, and artist.

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Juba dance

The Juba dance or hambone, originally known as Pattin' Juba (Giouba, Haiti: Djouba), is an African-American style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks (clapping).

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Junior Samples

Junior Samples, born Alvin Samples Jr. (April 10, 1926 – November 13, 1983) was an American comedian best known for his 14-year run as a cast member of the television show Hee Haw.

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K.d. lang

Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress.

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Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathryn Lee Gifford (née Epstein; born August 16, 1953) is an American television presenter, singer, songwriter, actress, and author.

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Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns

Kenneth Charles "Jethro" Burns (March 10, 1920 – February 4, 1989) was an American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro with Henry D. "Homer" Haynes.

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Kenny Price

James Kenneth Price (May 27, 1931 – August 4, 1987) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Knock-knock joke

The knock-knock joke is an audience-participation joke ending with a pun; a knock-knock joke is primarily a child's joke, though there are exceptions.

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KORN (AM)

KORN (1490 kHz, KORN News Radio 1490) is an AM radio station licensed to serve Mitchell, South Dakota.

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KORN-FM

KORN-FM (92.1 FM, KORN Country 92.1), is a country music radio station with its studio based in Mitchell, South Dakota.

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Larry Gatlin

Larry Wayne Gatlin (born May 2, 1948) is an American country and Southern gospel singer-songwriter.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.

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Laugh track

A laugh track (or laughter track) is an audio recording consisting of laughter (and other audience reactions) usually used as a separate soundtrack for comedy productions.

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Leisure suit

A leisure suit is a casual suit consisting of a shirt-like jacket and matching trousers (pants),, Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

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Linda Thompson

Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950) is an American songwriter, former actress and beauty pageant winner.

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Lip sync

Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced, the same as the word sink), short for lip synchronization, is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.

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List of television shows notable for negative reception

This list includes a number of television shows which have received negative reception from both critics and audiences alike, some of which are considered the worst of all time.

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Little Jimmy Dickens

James Cecil Dickens (December 19, 1920 – January 2, 2015), better known by his stage name Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and songwriter famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size (4'10"), and his rhinestone-studded outfits (which he is given credit for introducing into live country music performances).

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston.

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Loretta Lynn

Loretta Lynn (April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lulu Roman

Lulu Roman (born Bertha Louise Hable on May 6, 1946) is an American comedian, singer, and author.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino,; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick.

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Marianne Gordon

Marianne Gordon (born January 28, 1944) is an American actress.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated MC or emcee, is the official host of a ceremony, staged event, conference, convention, or similar performance.

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Mayberry R.F.D.

Mayberry R.F.D. (abbreviation for Rural Free Delivery) is an American television series produced as a spin-off continuation of The Andy Griffith Show.

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Mechanical bull

A mechanical bull, also known as a bucking machine, is a device that replicates the sensation of riding a bucking animal, such as a rodeo bull or horse, popularized by Sherwood Cryer.

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Merle Travis

Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States.

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Michael Dann

Michael Harold Dann (September 11, 1921 – May 27, 2016) was an American television executive.

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Mike Snider (musician)

Mike Snider (born May 30, 1961) is an American banjo player and humorist.

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Million Dollar Band (country music group)

The Million Dollar Band was an all-star group of session musicians that often performed on the Hee Haw television variety show from August 1980 through November 1988.

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Minnie Pearl

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.

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Misty Rowe

Mistella Rowe (born June 1, 1952) is an American actress.

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Mitchell, South Dakota

Mitchell is a city in and the county seat of Davison County, South Dakota, United States.

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Moonshine

Moonshine is high-proof liquor, traditionally made or distributed illegally.

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Moose

The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.

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Music Row

Music Row is a historic district located southwest of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States.

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NAMM Oral History Program

The NAMM Oral History Program is an oral history project and archive of recordings of interviews with people from all aspects of the music products industry, including music instrument retailers, musical instrument and product creators, suppliers and sales representatives, music educators and advocates, publishers, live sound and recording pioneers, innovators, founders, and musicians.

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Nashville sound

The Nashville sound is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the 1950s in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, officially the City of Oklahoma City, and often shortened to OKC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma History Center

The Oklahoma History Center (OHC) is the history museum of the state of Oklahoma.

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One-line joke

A one-liner is a joke that is delivered in a single line.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Opryland USA

Opryland USA (later called Opryland Themepark and colloquially "Opryland") was a theme park in suburban Nashville, Tennessee.

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Paramount Network

Paramount Network is an American basic cable television channel owned by the MTV Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Media Networks, a division of Paramount Global.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Pat Woodell

Patricia Joy Woodell (July 12, 1944 – September 29, 2015) was an American actress and singer, best known for her television role as Bobbie Jo Bradley from 1963 to 1965 on Petticoat Junction.

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Peppiatt and Aylesworth

Peppiatt and Aylesworth were a Canadian television comedy team.

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Petticoat Junction

Petticoat Junction is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from September 1963 to April 1970.

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Popular culture

Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.

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Prime Time Access Rule

The Prime Time Access Rule (PTAR) was an American television broadcasting regulation enforced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from September 13, 1971, to August 30, 1996.

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Priscilla Presley

Priscilla Ann Presley (née Wagner, formerly Beaulieu; born May 24, 1945) is an American businesswoman and actress.

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Punch line

A punch line (also punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh.

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Quilt

A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber.

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Real People

Real People is an American reality television series that originally aired on NBC from 1979 to 1984, Wednesdays from 8 pm to 9pm Eastern Time.

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Rerun

A rerun or repeat is a rebroadcast of an episode of a radio or television program.

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Review

A review is an evaluation of a publication, product, service, or company or a critical take on current affairs in literature, politics or culture.

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RFD-TV

RFD-TV is an American pay television channel owned by Rural Media Group, Inc.

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Roni Stoneman

Veronica Loretta Stoneman (May 5, 1938 – February 22, 2024) was an American bluegrass banjo player and comedian widely known as a cast member on the country music show Hee Haw.

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Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for six seasons from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. Hee Haw and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In are 1960s American sketch comedy television series, 1960s American variety television series, 1970s American sketch comedy television series, 1970s American variety television series and television shows adapted into comics.

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Roy Acuff

Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter.

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Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018) was an American singer, musician, and television presenter.

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Rubber chicken

A rubber chicken is a prop used in comedy.

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Running gag

A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.

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Rural purge

The "rural purge" of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the 1970–71 television season.

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Ryman Hospitality Properties

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. is a hotel, resort, entertainment, and media company named for one of its assets: the Ryman Auditorium, a National Historic Landmark in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Sam's Place

"Sam's Place" is a 1967 country song written by Red Simpson and recorded by Buck Owens.

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Sheb Wooley

Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Shotgun Red

Shotgun Red is a puppet best known as a co-host for the television talk show Nashville Now, which aired from 1983–1993 on The Nashville Network (TNN).

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians.

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Slim Pickens

Louis Burton Lindley Jr. (June 29, 1919 – December 8, 1983), better known by his stage name Slim Pickens, was an American actor and rodeo performer.

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Smothers Brothers

The Smothers Brothers were a duo of American folk singers, musicians, and comedians consisting of siblings Tom and Dick Smothers.

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Sons of the Pioneers

The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups.

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Soul Train

Soul Train is an American musical variety television show. Hee Haw and Soul Train are 1970s American variety television series, 1980s American variety television series, 1990s American variety television series and first-run syndicated television programs in the United States.

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Southern belle

"Southern belle" is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. Hee Haw and Star Trek: The Next Generation are first-run syndicated television programs in the United States and television shows adapted into comics.

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Susan Raye

Susan Raye (born October 8, 1944) is an American country music singer.

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Sweatshirt

A sweatshirt is a long-sleeved pullover shirt or jacket fashioned out of thick, usually cotton, cloth material.

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Talking blues

Talking blues is a form of folk music and country music.

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Tammy Wynette

Tammy Wynette (born Virginia Wynette Pugh; May 5, 1942 – April 6, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.

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Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times, called the St.

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Television criticism

Television criticism (also called TV criticism or TV reviewing) is the act of writing or speaking about television programming to subjectively evaluate its worth, meaning, and other aspects.

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Tennessee Ernie Ford

Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and western, pop, and gospel musical genres.

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That's Incredible!

That's Incredible! is an American reality television show that aired on the ABC television network from 1980 to 1984.

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom television series that was aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color. Hee Haw and the Andy Griffith Show are television shows adapted into comics.

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The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Hee Haw and the Beverly Hillbillies are television shows adapted into comics and television shows adapted into plays.

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The Bickersons

The Bickersons was a series of radio and television comedy sketches which began in 1946 on NBC radio.

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The Buckaroos

The Buckaroos were an American band led by Buck Owens in the 1960s and early 1970s, who, along with Merle Haggard's The Strangers, were involved in the development and presentation of the "Bakersfield sound." Their peak of success was from 1965 to 1970.

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The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present is a trade paperback reference work by the American television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, first published by Ballantine Books in 1979.

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The Critic

The Critic is an American primetime adult animated sitcom revolving around the life of New York film critic Jay Sherman, voiced by Jon Lovitz.

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The Delmore Brothers

Alton Delmore (December 25, 1908 – June 9, 1964) and Rabon Delmore (December 3, 1916 – December 4, 1952), billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneer singer-songwriters and musicians who were stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s.

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The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American music and comedy television variety show that was hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 29, 1969, to June 13, 1972, on CBS. Hee Haw and the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour are 1960s American musical comedy television series, 1960s American variety television series, 1969 American television series debuts, 1970s American musical comedy television series, 1970s American variety television series and CBS original programming.

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The Jimmy Dean Show

The Jimmy Dean Show is the name of several similar music and variety series on American local and network television between 1963 and 1975. Hee Haw and the Jimmy Dean Show are 1960s American musical comedy television series, 1960s American sketch comedy television series, 1960s American variety television series, 1969 American television series debuts, 1970s American musical comedy television series, 1970s American sketch comedy television series, 1970s American variety television series, CBS original programming and first-run syndicated television programs in the United States.

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The Kendalls

The Kendalls were an American country music duo, consisting of Royce Kendall (born Royce Kuykendall in Saint Louis, Missouri, September 25, 1934 – May 22, 1998) and his daughter Jeannie Kendall (born October 30, 1954).

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The Lawrence Welk Show

The Lawrence Welk Show is an American televised musical variety show hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk. Hee Haw and The Lawrence Welk Show are 1960s American variety television series, 1970s American variety television series, 1980s American variety television series and first-run syndicated television programs in the United States.

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The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka

"The Lawrence Welk-Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka" is a song made famous by country music singer Roy Clark.

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The Nashville Network

The Nashville Network, usually referred to as TNN, was an American country music-oriented cable television network. Hee Haw and The Nashville Network are American country music.

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The Oak Ridge Boys

The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet originating in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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The Red Green Show

The Red Green Show is a half-hour Canadian television comedy program that aired on various channels in Canada and the U.S. from April 4, 1991 until April 7, 2006.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. Hee Haw and the Simpsons are American television series with live action and animation and television shows adapted into comics.

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The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour is an American comedy and variety show television series hosted by the Smothers Brothers and initially airing on CBS from 1967 to 1969. Hee Haw and the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour are 1960s American sketch comedy television series, 1960s American variety television series, 1980s American sketch comedy television series, 1980s American variety television series and CBS original programming.

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Time Life

Time Life is an American company formerly known for its production company and direct marketer conglomerate known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Train station

A train station, railroad station, or railroad depot (mainly North American terminology) and railway station (mainly UK and other Anglophone countries) is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload passengers, freight, or both.

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Truck stop

A truck stop, known as a service station in the United Kingdom, and a travel center by major chains in the United States, is a commercial facility which provides refueling, rest (parking), and often ready-made food and other services to motorists and truck drivers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw

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