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The Kallikaks aired from August 3-11, 1977 on NBC.
In the hopes of finding his fortune out west, Jasper T. Kallikak ( David Huddleston) had moved his family from their native Appalachia , where he had worked as a coal miner, to the small town of Nowhere, California. He had inherited a small, two-pump gas station there and figured that, as his own boss, he would improve his lot. Conniving and avaricious, Jasper lived by the theme song of this mini-series, always looking for a way to beat the system. With his overly affectionate wife Venus ( Edie McClurg), his social-climbing teenage daughter ,Bobbi Lou ( Bonnie Ebsen), and his mechanical genius preteen son, Junior ( Patrick J. Peterson), not to mention his German hired hand Oscar ( Peter Palmer) who could barely speak English, Jasper had quite a household. One member of the cast should have felt right at home with this hillbillies-move-west format. Bonnie Ebsen's father Buddy had spent most of the 1960's as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies.
Created by Roger Price and Stanley Ralph Ross, the series was produced by George Yanok.
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