The Real McCoys
Two's Company
TV Flash files “Two's Company” as hour 69 of 224 in the TV Flash guide — The Real McCoys (1957–1963) on ABC/CBS, season 2, episode 30, aired 1959-04-23, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E30: listed hour 69 of 224 in the The Real McCoys guide, hour 30 of 39 in season 2. It aired 1959-04-23 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Go Fight City Hall” (S02E29). Next is “The Tax Man Cometh” (S02E31).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Two's Company sit in the The Real McCoys guide?
S02E30 is listed hour 69 of 224 — hour 30 of 39 in season 2, season 2 episode 30.
When did The Real McCoys S02E30 air?
Two's Company aired 1959-04-23 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with Brennan's Grandpa Amos on the California farm — Crenna and the clan around him. The West-Virginia-to-Valley pitch is the joke.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Real McCoys moved a West Virginia clan onto a California farm years before rural sitcoms became a punchline. Walter Brennan's Oscar-heavy grandpa act sold country-family comedy as prime-time muscle. Watch it now to see the rustic formula that later powered The Beverly Hillbillies, without the oil-gush gag.
The look is Oscar-heavy grandpa on a California acreage — West Virginia manners dressed as farm comedy, rustic formula in original working order. The McCoy family relocates from the hills of West Virginia to a ranch in California's San Fernando Valley, led by cantankerous Grandpa Amos. ABC then CBS carried *The Real McCoys* from 1957 to 1963, 224 episodes across six seasons. Walter Brennan's three-Oscar gravitas doing sitcom grandpa duty; Richard Crenna as Luke; Kathleen Nolan as Kate; Lydia Reed as Hassie. Rural…
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- Walter Brennan as Grandpa Amos McCoy
Walter Brennan’s Grandpa Amos McCoy moved The Real McCoys onto a California farm — a West Virginia clan years before rural sitcoms became a punchline, country-family comedy as prime-time muscle. Oscar-heavy grandpa act selling rustic…
- Richard Crenna as Luke McCoy
Richard Crenna’s Luke McCoy farmed California as the young blood of The Real McCoys — Walter Brennan’s grandpa act, rustic sitcom muscle years before the punchline — after Our Miss Brooks’s faculty-lounge sarcasm. Country-family comedy as…
- Kathleen Nolan as Kate McCoy
Kathleen Nolan's Kate McCoy helped The Real McCoys plant a West Virginia clan on a California farm — 1950s country-family comedy as prime-time muscle, rustic formula before rural sitcoms became a punchline. TV Flash marks her as…
- Lydia Reed as Hassie McCoy
Lydia Reed kept the farmhouse young as Hassie McCoy on The Real McCoys — a West Virginia clan on a California farm, Walter Brennan’s Oscar-heavy grandpa act, country-family comedy as prime-time muscle years before rural sitcoms became a…
- Michael Winkelman as Little Luke
Michael Winkelman’s Little Luke put a kid on The Real McCoys’ California farm years before rural sitcoms became a punchline — 1950s West Virginia clan, Walter Brennan’s grandpa act as prime-time muscle. TV Flash files him as rustic…