Series · Comedy
Evening Shade (1990)Season 4
YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND LAUGHTER... IN A PLACE CALLED EVENING SHADE!
Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as 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 former team because he is a fan. The general theme of the show is the appeal of small town life. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The show's final episode saw the guest appearances of Willie Nelson and Buzz Aldrin as escaped convicts on the run from authorities, the final scene being a spectacular shoot-out reminiscent of the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-be-que, which is situated on Albert Pike Blvd. and South Patterson St. in Hot Springs National Park.
- Creator
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- Writers
- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Kim Friese, Brent Briscoe
- Network
- CBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- September 21, 1990
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Burt ReynoldsWood Newton
Marilu HennerAva Evans Newton
Hal HolbrookEvan Evans
Charles DurningHarlan Elldridge
Ann WedgeworthMerleen Elldridge
Michael JeterHerman Stiles
Jay R. FergusonTaylor Newton
Ossie DavisPonder Blue
Elizabeth AshleyFreida Evans- Jacob ParkerWill Newton
Candace HutsonMolly Newton- Melissa Reneé MartinMolly Newton
Alice Ghostley
Bobbie Ferguson
Charles Nelson Reilly
Doug McClure
Christian Hoff
Rick Hurst
Fred Applegate
Leslie Nielsen
Episodes
0/26 watched- Episode 1: Four Naked Women30 min · Sep 20, 1993
- Episode 2: One Down, Three to Go30 min · Sep 27, 1993
- Episode 3: One Hot Game30 min · Oct 4, 1993
- Episode 4: Witness for the Prosecution30 min · Oct 11, 1993
- Episode 5: Kiss of the Ice Cream Woman30 min · Oct 18, 1993
- Episode 6: Night of the Living Newtons30 min · Oct 25, 1993
- Episode 7: The Dance30 min · Nov 1, 1993
- Episode 8: Wood and Evan's Excellent Adventure30 min · Nov 8, 1993
- Episode 9: Small Town Girl30 min · Nov 15, 1993
- Episode 10: Where There's Smoke30 min · Nov 22, 1993
- Episode 11: Chain of Fools30 min · Nov 29, 1993
- Episode 12: Sleepless in Arkansas30 min · Dec 13, 1993
- Episode 13: The Proof is in the Pudding30 min · Dec 20, 1993
- Episode 14: The People's Choice30 min · Jan 3, 1994
- Episode 15: Educating Calvin30 min · Jan 10, 1994
- Episode 16: Paint the Town Nude30 min · Jan 17, 1994
- Episode 17: The Perfect Woman30 min · Jan 31, 1994
- Episode 18: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Wood30 min · Feb 7, 1994
- Episode 19: The Fabulous Frazier Girls30 min · Feb 28, 1994
- Episode 20: I Did, I Did30 min · Mar 7, 1994
- Episode 21: Mr. Newton Goes to Hot Springs30 min · Mar 14, 1994
- Episode 22: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wood?30 min · Mar 28, 1994
- Episode 23: Wood Climbs to New Heights30 min · Apr 11, 1994
- Episode 24: Mama Knows Best30 min · May 9, 1994
- Episode 25: The Odder Couple30 min · May 16, 1994
- Episode 26: I Left My Ring in Evening Shade30 min · May 23, 1994
