The Real McCoys
American television program
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history of television in the U.S.
- In Television in the United States: Rural humour
…television three years earlier with The Real McCoys (ABC/CBS, 1957–63)—a sitcom about a family who left the mountains of West Virginia to operate a ranch in California—the success of The Andy Griffith Show firmly established the rural comedy as a dominant genre of the 1960s.
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role of Brennan
- In Walter Brennan
…on the weekly situation comedy The Real McCoys, which lasted six years and 224 episodes. He went on to star in two additional TV series, Tycoon (1964) and The Guns of Will Sonnett (1967–69). Brennan’s last film, Smoke in the Wind (1975), was released posthumously; his son Andy was an…
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