November 20, 1976 (12 pages)

Hee HawNothing to snort at By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The cornfield stage set is still in place. And so are the jokes grown there. “Hee Haw,” country music’s version of ‘The Lawrence Welk Show,” continues to be one of the most successful syndicated TV shows on the air. The show, in its eighth season, has an estimated spilieare of 48. 1nillien persons, ay 1 inition trons 4 year ago. . It is on 227 stations and shown in every major American television market except Boston. There’s a waiting list for advertisers. Cast members and show officials cite some basic reasons for the success: appeal to the family, simple humor and the popularity of country music. “Hee Haw,” like the Welk show, got its start on network television, but unlike the Welk show, its network life was short. But-the show has proved, as, did Welk, that the networks don’t have all the answers for gauging show . Welk says he’s got more stations in syndication than he did on the network. “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and that’s the way we’ve been on this show,” host Buck Owens said during in break in taping at the WIVF studio in downtown Nashville. “We’ve been straight — not too clever,’’ he said. ‘“The most important thing is the meld of music, comedy and different kinds of comedy. We took oil and water and mixed it and it stayed mixed. “We are bein’ and actin’ like what people thought we ere, instead of trying to be sophisticated and actin’ like we weren’t. We went the other way, like the Beverly Hillbillies. We depict ourselves. I don’t say or do anything I normally wouldn’t do. I can say ‘ain’t.” Sam Lovullo, the show’s short, balding producer, agrees: “We leave people a as they are,” said Lovullo, who would pass for Curly of the Three Stooges. ‘‘You almost see yourself at home as being that way. “It’s family oriented. We reach all classes, all ages and both men and women. “Also, the country music plays a big ‘ack Country music is story telling about things like love and divorce — things people identify with.” Those connected with the show predict continued success. “We’'ll be on a long time,” said Lovullo. ‘“‘Hee Haw’ is the Grand Ole Opry of TV.” Owens says: “I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go 15 years in production and another 15 years in reruns. It would be easy to alter the shows by using bits and pieces from one show and parts of another. “Ten years from now, there still will be a lot of ‘Hee Haw’ new or old. It’ll be like ‘I Love Lucy.” Informality reigns on the set. There are no wardrobes or makeup rooms or stuffy executives ip nteca apa “People just sit around and watch and laugh,” Lovullo said. ~ -Wevada County Nugget — Saturday, November 20, 1976 — Page3 Make your own belt BUCKLES Choose from 4 styles of solid brass buckle blanks with matching leather inserts. Assorted stamping tool designs. You might want to inlay the buckle blanks with exotic woods, stones, resins or any number of things. The possibilities are unlimited. Solid Brass Buckle Blanks .. 4.25 £0. Pre-Cut Leather Inserts .. 45¢Eo. Stamping Tools .... 2.75£a nee —— br. 23-1274 Weekdays "tl 6 Pt. Se he SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1976 SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 THE WAY IT WAS (6) Joe Louis and ‘Two Ton’ Tony Galento relive their world heavyweight ip fight, held June 28, 1939 at Yankee Stadium in ret York. (30 min.) 4:30 3-That Good Ole Nashville Music 9:00 MOVIE: “BILLY JACK” (3) There’s never been anything like it! See the super-powered action picture that stirred up a storm that’s still raging and set box-office records clear.across America! Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack (@ hrs. 20 min.) Ed 7-13-Hoilmes & Yoyo . 12:00 2-Soul Train 8:00 2-Voice of Agriculture 3-Kidsworld 5-12-Sports Spectacular oo” 5-10-12-Sylvester and Tweety read abhor gy pine wi aged Aa Maverick 7-13 Jobber [aw 40-Novie: “The Americano” deMovie: “Pabott and Costello Meet the 6:30 "Sie From Lincoln Center (Special) 9-Sesame Street npc of the Lone Ranger Invisible Man‘’ 7.13.What's Happening! ! 31-Movie: “Samadhi” 12:30 3-Mister Ed 5:00 2-Candid Camera 7 uals aes 36-Yoga for Health 44-Adventures of the Lone Ranger 3-Pop Goes the Country 9:00 3-Movie: "Billy Jack” 44-Music and the Spoken Word 12:30 3-Mister Ed 6Adams Chronicles 10 C1012 All In the Family 8:30 2-Overseas Mission 5-10-12-Way Out Games 9-Infinity Factory : 7.13Starsky & Hutch . 5-10-12-Clue Club 1:00 2-Tarzan 13-Movie: “Get Christie Love!’’ i : a eee ee naw ae Toon 31-P.T.L. Club Telethon Continues B is . eve 5 mpics 46 Public attains 6-Electric Company ae, WO OS praniaigesaate Created 0.700 Club 7-13-College Football: USC vs. UCLA 5:30 2-Movie: “PT 109” 4M. : 9:00 2-Asians Now! 36-Movie: “Deadline at Dawn” 9-Vegetable Soup Chariot : 3-Mc Duff 1:30 a ie —o Kit, nt Pemicchigd ” §.10-12-Alice Fe eee Seer: ee ee ee vie: “Tarzan and the Huntress” “Getting On © 3 5 #-Duke Ellington: Love You Madly 36-Movie: ‘Night Song” 5 Vibrations for a New People 9-Rebop Aka 44-Big Blue Marble 6-Rebop we i 36-1 Spy ” ‘ia: Senate Seed 10-Who, What, How Do You Know? 31-P.T.L. Club Telethon ssn Sara oes 7-13-College Football Pregame Show 12-Dusty’s Treehouse 40-Invaders . Visions: “Liza’s Pioneer Diary” 9-Zoom 4-Novie: “Planet of Blood’ 44-Emergency One! -00 2.Movie: “Human Duplicators” 44-Wrestling 2:30 5-Movie: ‘The Perils of Pauline” 6:30 3-Andy Williams 1 9:45 7-13-College Football 10-Big Blue Marble 5.7-12-13-News pa — ~ 10:00 2-Our Men in the Capitol 12-Friends of Man éFiring Line i2-Dolly "Land of the Lost saaaner Tanna Wooad Couple 36-Movie: ‘“The Magnificent Dott’ Stems eachiny 12-Pop Goes the country 36-Movie: ‘The Jade Mask’ @-Movie: “Frankenstein Must Be f 36-Movie: “Ni 7:00 3-Hee Haw . 10:30 byt 44-Movie: we poor Little Rich Girt” 5-12-13-Lawrence Welk Reaves Sherlock Holmes Faces "" 3-Big John, Little John 3:30 6-Lilias, Yoga and You zoey score] 11:20 3.News 5-10-12Shazam! tsis 10-Movie: “They Ran for Their Lives 9.Firing Line 11:30 .“5-10-Peter Marshall 6-9-Rebop H pro {s Easy Livin’ Countr ivavies “Downhill Racer” 7.-News 'g y in’ y «ae 4-Movie: “Sherlock Holmes and the =, Ron 44. Adam.12 Ton tne Sidatines wine re Voice of Tivovle: “Godzilla” 4:00 2-Hee Haw 7:30 6Once Upon a Classic . satiate ~ 11:00 3-Kids from C.A.P.E.R. 3-3-Nashville on the Road 7Lat's Moke 9 Deel: 13-Mission: Impossible " ” 36¢Movie: “Alarm on 83rd Street” oer war ao eres teen 11:45 7-Movie: “Psych-Out” 11:30 Spree 9-Psyche and S 8:00 2Movie: “Frankenstein Created Woman’ hed $ Jen Casual : ‘Muggs -NFL Game of the 3-Emergency! =e 510-12-Ark 1 airtel aa eyo lz Mery Tyler Moore 12:00 Movie: “The Curse of the Mummy's 6-Mister Rogers @ Wrestling 6 The Way It Was 9-Crockett’s Victory Garden 3-P.T.L. Club Telethon Continues eco

Hee HawNothing to snort at By JOE EDWARDS Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The cornfield stage set is still in place. And so are the jokes grown there. “Hee Haw,” country music’s version of ‘The Lawrence Welk Show,” continues to be one of the most successful syndicated TV shows on the air. The show, in its eighth season, has an estimated spilieare of 48. 1nillien persons, ay 1 inition trons 4 year ago. . It is on 227 stations and shown in every major American television market except Boston. There’s a waiting list for advertisers. Cast members and show officials cite some basic reasons for the success: appeal to the family, simple humor and the popularity of country music. “Hee Haw,” like the Welk show, got its start on network television, but unlike the Welk show, its network life was short. But-the show has proved, as, did Welk, that the networks don’t have all the answers for gauging show . Welk says he’s got more stations in syndication than he did on the network. “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, and that’s the way we’ve been on this show,” host Buck Owens said during in break in taping at the WIVF studio in downtown Nashville. “We’ve been straight — not too clever,’’ he said. ‘“The most important thing is the meld of music, comedy and different kinds of comedy. We took oil and water and mixed it and it stayed mixed. “We are bein’ and actin’ like what people thought we ere, instead of trying to be sophisticated and actin’ like we weren’t. We went the other way, like the Beverly Hillbillies. We depict ourselves. I don’t say or do anything I normally wouldn’t do. I can say ‘ain’t.” Sam Lovullo, the show’s short, balding producer, agrees: “We leave people a as they are,” said Lovullo, who would pass for Curly of the Three Stooges. ‘‘You almost see yourself at home as being that way. “It’s family oriented. We reach all classes, all ages and both men and women. “Also, the country music plays a big ‘ack Country music is story telling about things like love and divorce — things people identify with.” Those connected with the show predict continued success. “We’'ll be on a long time,” said Lovullo. ‘“‘Hee Haw’ is the Grand Ole Opry of TV.” Owens says: “I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go 15 years in production and another 15 years in reruns. It would be easy to alter the shows by using bits and pieces from one show and parts of another. “Ten years from now, there still will be a lot of ‘Hee Haw’ new or old. It’ll be like ‘I Love Lucy.” Informality reigns on the set. There are no wardrobes or makeup rooms or stuffy executives ip nteca apa “People just sit around and watch and laugh,” Lovullo said. ~ -Wevada County Nugget — Saturday, November 20, 1976 — Page3 Make your own belt BUCKLES Choose from 4 styles of solid brass buckle blanks with matching leather inserts. Assorted stamping tool designs. You might want to inlay the buckle blanks with exotic woods, stones, resins or any number of things. The possibilities are unlimited. Solid Brass Buckle Blanks ... 4.25 £0. Pre-Cut Leather Inserts .... 45¢Eo. Stamping Tools ....... 2.75£a nee —— br. 23-1274 Weekdays "tl 6 Pt. Se he

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1976 SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS 8:00 THE WAY IT WAS (6) Joe Louis and ‘Two Ton’ Tony Galento relive their world heavyweight ip fight, held June 28, 1939 at Yankee Stadium in ret York. (30 min.) 4:30 3-That Good Ole Nashville Music 9:00 MOVIE: “BILLY JACK” (3) There’s never been anything like it! See the super-powered action picture that stirred up a storm that’s still raging and set box-office records clear.across America! Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack (@ hrs. 20 min.) Ed 7-13-Hoilmes & Yoyo . 12:00 2-Soul Train 8:00 2-Voice of Agriculture 3-Kidsworld 5-12-Sports Spectacular oo” 5-10-12-Sylvester and Tweety read abhor gy pine wi aged Aa Maverick 7-13 Jobber [aw 40-Novie: “The Americano” deMovie: “Pabott and Costello Meet the 6:30 "Sie From Lincoln Center (Special) 9-Sesame Street npc of the Lone Ranger Invisible Man‘’ 7.13.What's Happening! ! 31-Movie: “Samadhi” 12:30 3-Mister Ed 5:00 2-Candid Camera 7 uals aes 36-Yoga for Health 44-Adventures of the Lone Ranger 3-Pop Goes the Country 9:00 3-Movie: "Billy Jack” 44-Music and the Spoken Word 12:30 3-Mister Ed 6Adams Chronicles 10 C1012 All In the Family 8:30 2-Overseas Mission 5-10-12-Way Out Games 9-Infinity Factory : 7.13Starsky & Hutch . 5-10-12-Clue Club 1:00 2-Tarzan 13-Movie: “Get Christie Love!’’ i : a eee ee naw ae Toon 31-P.T.L. Club Telethon Continues B is . eve 5 mpics 46 Public attains 6-Electric Company ae, WO OS praniaigesaate Created 0.700 Club 7-13-College Football: USC vs. UCLA 5:30 2-Movie: “PT 109” 4M. : 9:00 2-Asians Now! 36-Movie: “Deadline at Dawn” 9-Vegetable Soup Chariot : 3-Mc Duff 1:30 a ie —o Kit, nt Pemicchigd ” §.10-12-Alice Fe eee Seer: ee ee ee vie: “Tarzan and the Huntress” “Getting On © 3 5 #-Duke Ellington: Love You Madly 36-Movie: ‘Night Song” 5 Vibrations for a New People 9-Rebop Aka 44-Big Blue Marble 6-Rebop we i 36-1 Spy ” ‘ia: Senate Seed 10-Who, What, How Do You Know? 31-P.T.L. Club Telethon ssn Sara oes 7-13-College Football Pregame Show 12-Dusty’s Treehouse 40-Invaders . Visions: “Liza’s Pioneer Diary” 9-Zoom 4-Novie: “Planet of Blood’ 44-Emergency One! -00 2.Movie: “Human Duplicators” 44-Wrestling 2:30 5-Movie: ‘The Perils of Pauline” 6:30 3-Andy Williams 1 9:45 7-13-College Football 10-Big Blue Marble 5.7-12-13-News pa — ~ 10:00 2-Our Men in the Capitol 12-Friends of Man éFiring Line i2-Dolly "Land of the Lost saaaner Tanna Wooad Couple 36-Movie: ‘“The Magnificent Dott’ Stems eachiny 12-Pop Goes the country 36-Movie: ‘The Jade Mask’ @-Movie: “Frankenstein Must Be f 36-Movie: “Ni 7:00 3-Hee Haw . 10:30 byt 44-Movie: we poor Little Rich Girt” 5-12-13-Lawrence Welk Reaves Sherlock Holmes Faces "" 3-Big John, Little John 3:30 6-Lilias, Yoga and You zoey score] 11:20 3.News 5-10-12Shazam! tsis 10-Movie: “They Ran for Their Lives 9.Firing Line 11:30 .“5-10-Peter Marshall 6-9-Rebop H pro {s Easy Livin’ Countr ivavies “Downhill Racer” 7.-News 'g y in’ y «ae 4-Movie: “Sherlock Holmes and the =, Ron 44. Adam.12 Ton tne Sidatines wine re Voice of Tivovle: “Godzilla” 4:00 2-Hee Haw 7:30 6Once Upon a Classic . satiate ~ 11:00 3-Kids from C.A.P.E.R. 3-3-Nashville on the Road 7Lat's Moke 9 Deel: 13-Mission: Impossible " ” 36¢Movie: “Alarm on 83rd Street” oer war ao eres teen 11:45 7-Movie: “Psych-Out” 11:30 Spree 9-Psyche and S 8:00 2Movie: “Frankenstein Created Woman’ hed $ Jen Casual : ‘Muggs -NFL Game of the 3-Emergency! =e 510-12-Ark 1 airtel aa eyo lz Mery Tyler Moore 12:00 Movie: “The Curse of the Mummy's 6-Mister Rogers @ Wrestling 6 The Way It Was 9-Crockett’s Victory Garden 3-P.T.L. Club Telethon Continues eco