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Brian Damage
09-06-2010, 04:11 PM
Don't know much about this show but people were calling it a sitcom version of In the Heat of the Night. Is that a fair comparison?
Retro4Life
09-06-2010, 04:16 PM
Yeah, I'd say so. I think the show also wanted to capitalize on the fact of Jimmy Carter being President, but the parallels between ITHOTN are definitely there.
Brian Damage
09-06-2010, 04:25 PM
Yeah, I'd say so. I think the show also wanted to capitalize on the fact of Jimmy Carter being President, but the parallels between ITHOTN are definitely there.


Wow ok thanks for that, if that is the case, the sitcom sounds a little like a train wreck lol

In all fairness though, I never saw it. Thanks retro!
Retro4Life
09-06-2010, 04:45 PM
Wow ok thanks for that, if that is the case, the sitcom sounds a little like a train wreck lol

In all fairness though, I never saw it. Thanks retro!

Actually the show was quite funny. I'm a bit surprised it didn't last longer than two seasons. Check out some of the clips of it on YouTube, they kind of give you an idea of the humor of the show. :)
Stuck In The '70's
09-06-2010, 05:34 PM
Actually the show was quite funny. I'm a bit surprised it didn't last longer than two seasons. Check out some of the clips of it on YouTube, they kind of give you an idea of the humor of the show. :)
It was a very funny show. Reruns ran in NC for quite a few years after it ended and it would run 5 days a week too.

Chief Roy was sort of like Chief Gillespie and Jasper was kind of like Bubba although Jasper was really a racist. Bubba was just a good old boy. Curtis was a lot like Tibbs. Then you had Harley who could have been Parker's twin brother. :lol:
Retro4Life
09-06-2010, 05:47 PM
It was a very funny show. Reruns ran in NC for quite a few years after it ended and it would run 5 days a week too.

Chief Roy was sort of like Chief Gillespie and Jasper was kind of like Bubba although Jasper was really a racist. Bubba was just a good old boy. Curtis was a lot like Tibbs. Then you had Harley who could have been Parker's twin brother. :lol:

Yeah, all of the regulars were very good in their roles, it's a pity only a couple of them ever went on to other success. I actually talked to Harvey Vernon on a local Jerry Lewis telethon outlet back in the 70's and he was a very nice guy.
Stuck In The '70's
09-06-2010, 06:00 PM
Yeah, all of the regulars were very good in their roles, it's a pity only a couple of them ever went on to other success. I actually talked to Harvey Vernon on a local Jerry Lewis telethon outlet back in the 70's and he was a very nice guy.
Wow, you're lucky. Harvey Vernon was a very good actor and he really played Jasper well. Usually the ones that play the very bad guys are usually just the opposite in real life. Yea it's too bad most of the cast didn't go on to do much afterward. Victor French and Kene Holliday did the most after Carter Country. I really liked Richard Paul. He went on do be on some short lived shows afterward but he died back in the 90's.
Retro4Life
09-06-2010, 06:27 PM
^I always thought Richard Paul was a dead ringer for Jerry Falwell and if I'm not mistaken he actually played the Reverend in a TV movie at some point.

I think the lady who played "Clovis" also passed on, as well as Vernon and Victor French and Paul. And I just looked up the show on imdb; I didn't remember that Melanie Griffith was actually on the show for a while!
Stuck In The '70's
09-06-2010, 06:47 PM
^I always thought Richard Paul was a dead ringer for Jerry Falwell and if I'm not mistaken he actually played the Reverend in a TV movie at some point.

I think the lady who played "Clovis" also passed on, as well as Vernon and Victor French and Paul. And I just looked up the show on imdb; I didn't remember that Melanie Griffith was actually on the show for a while!
Did you ever see the Patty Duke sitcom Hail to the Chief? He played a Reverend in that one. He was yelling that Satan had taken over the white house because there was a woman President. :lol:

Yea I remember that Melanie Griffith was in it. I think she played a reporter or something.
Retro4Life
09-07-2010, 01:14 AM
^ No, never saw Hail to the Chief, but I wish I had.
studd911
09-14-2010, 05:38 PM
^ No, never saw Hail to the Chief, but I wish I had.
was carter county like the counter part of Barney Miller
Retro4Life
09-20-2010, 09:01 PM
Different setting and more of a gender mix, to be sure. I'd say Barney Miller's humor was a little more subtle, too, but I enjoyed them both.
jehobden
12-17-2010, 06:18 PM
^I always thought Richard Paul was a dead ringer for Jerry Falwell and if I'm not mistaken he actually played the Reverend in a TV movie at some point.

From what I've read, Richard Paul did play Jerry Falwell in the movie, The People vs. Larry Flynt, where Woody Harrelson played Flynt. Paul also played what appears to be a stereotypical takeoff on Falwell, "Rev. Billy Bob", who gave grief to Patty Duke's U.S. President character in her mid-80s sitcom, Hail to the Chief.
Since Carter Country had come and gone before I'd ever heard of Jerry Falwell or the Moral Majority, when I first saw Falwell, I thought to myself "He looks just like that fat mayor from Carter Country!".