Evening Shade (1990)

Genre

comedy film, sitcom

Country

United States

Length

4 seasons, 100 episodes

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired pro football player returns to his small Arkansas hometown to coach a long-losing high school football team. The show follows his life with family and friends in a close-knit community.

lightheartedwarmnostalgicgentlefolksybittersweetdown-to-earthwholesome

What happens

Evening Shade is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 21, 1990, to May 23, 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Woodrow "Wood" Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas, to coach a high-school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his character's former team because he was a fan. The general theme of the show is the appeal of small-town life. Episodes often ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis, as his character Ponder Blue, summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-B-Q in Hot Springs National Park. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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