Hee Haw
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare
TV Flash files “Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare” as a desk essential hour — Hee Haw (1969–1992) on CBS / Syndicated, season 2, episode 1, aired 1970-09-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 30 of 405 in the Hee Haw guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1970-09-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “George Jones, Tammy Wynette” (S01E29). Next is “Charley Pride, Jeannie C. Riley” (S02E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Essential hour: “Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare”. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare is western royalty on a joke-book stage. Front-porch variety as television habit: the Honeys, the hay, the hits still the whole grammar.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare sit in the Hee Haw guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 30 of 405 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Hee Haw S02E01 air?
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Bobby Bare aired 1970-09-15 and is listed at 60 minutes.
CBS years or the syndication decades?
CBS cancelled it in the rural purge; the long life is syndication. Sample either stretch — Owens, Clark, and the cornfield are the court.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Buck Owens and Roy Clark hold a cornfield variety court: country hits, cornball sketches, Hee Haw Honeys, and rural syndication that outlived CBS's purge. Front-porch vaudeville as a long-running television habit. Music guests plus joke-book shamelessness that still smells like hay, overalls, and ratings.
Open on a cornfield that outlived the network that dumped it. Hee Haw (1969–1992), from John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt, mixes Nashville music with Laugh-In-style rapid sketches under Buck Owens and Roy Clark. Grandpa Jones and Minnie Pearl among the porch regulars; Hee Haw Honeys a phenomenon. CBS cancelled it in the rural purge; it then thrived for decades in syndication. One of television's longest-running variety hybrids — seventeen seasons, 405 hours. Front-porch vaudeville as a habit. If you came for a…
Filed against
- Buck Owens as Host / Performer
Buck Owens held Hee Haw's cornfield variety court with Roy Clark — country hits, cornball sketches, Hee Haw Honeys, rural syndication that outlived CBS's purge. Front-porch vaudeville as a long-running television habit. TV Flash files him…
- Roy Clark as Host / Performer
Roy Clark held Hee Haw's cornfield variety court with Buck Owens — country hits, cornball sketches, Hee Haw Honeys, rural syndication that outlived CBS's purge. Front-porch vaudeville as a long-running television habit. TV Flash files him…
- Grandpa Jones as Performer
Grandpa Jones held down Hee Haw as a performer in Buck Owens and Roy Clark's cornfield variety court — country hits, cornball sketches, Hee Haw Honeys, rural syndication that outlived CBS's purge. Front-porch vaudeville as a long-running…
- Minnie Pearl as Performer
Minnie Pearl’s howdy held Hee Haw’s cornfield court — Buck Owens and Roy Clark, country hits, cornball sketches, Hee Haw Honeys, rural syndication that outlived CBS’s purge. 1970s front-porch vaudeville as a long-running habit. TV Flash…