Reruns of the old cornpone comedy-variety usher "Hee Haw" are coming back.
The one-hour programs will air at 8 p.m. Eastern time each Sunday source Sept. 7 on cable's RFD-TV, which bills itself as "rural America's near important network."
"`Hee Haw' and RFD-TV is a match made in heaven," Patrick Gottsch, the channel's give way and president of the United States, said Monday in announcing the deal.
"Hee Haw" was on the air somewhere for 28 years - first on CBS for two long time starting in 1969, and then in first-run syndication for two decades. Reruns aired on the old Nashville Network cable station from 1994 to 1997 and briefly on CMT in 2006.
Country performers Roy Clark and Buck Owens were co-hosts, Clark for the entire run and Owens for 17 seasons.
The evince, which got its key out from the sound of a donkey braying, originated as a country translation of "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In."
RFD, based in Omaha, Neb., with production facilities in Nashville, has been on the air since December 2000 and is available in 35 million homes. Its programming includes livestock auctions, tractor pulls, rodeo events, cooking shows and variety programs. It also simulcasts "Imus in the Morning" featuring receiving set personality Don Imus.
Many segments of "Hee Haw" pictured people in overalls and straw hats who lived in Kornfield Kounty. Regulars included George Lindsey, Junior Samples, Minnie Pearl, Archie Campbell, Roy Acuff, Misty Rowe, Lisa Todd, Gunilla Hutton, Barbi Benton and the Hager twins.
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