 The Real McCoys
 1 9 5 7 - 1 9 6 3 (USA)
224 x 30 minute episodes
The Real McCoys was a family show with a twist.
This
sitcom family was unlike the usual TV family: Amos McCoy was a
widower who headed the clan of his grandson and his wife, who in
turn were raising younger siblings not their own.
The Real McCoys also began a new category of sitcoms:
creator and producer Paul Henning was to specialise in
rural-oriented series about transplanted lifestyles.
Later
successes in his stable of shows included The Beverly
Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
Veteran character actor and three-time Oscar winner Walter
Brennan played the crackerbarrel patriarch of the McCoy clan, and
Richard Crenna played grandson Luke. Kathleen Nolan (pictured at
right with Brennan) played his
wife Kate.
The children, Little Luke and Hassie, were played by
Michael Winkelman and Lydia Reed, and Tony Martinez played
farmhand Pepino ("Si, senor Grandpa!").
Among the many supporting players were Andy Clyde (as George
MacMichael), who had been a featured comedian with the Mack
Sennett studio in silent film days and was paired with WC Fields
in several motion pictures of the 1920s.
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