Evening Shade — Season 1, Episode 10: Hooray for Wood
Comedy • 30 min • 4 seasons, 100 episodes • ★ 5.8/10
Episode synopsis
Wood gets a bit part when a movie company and its temperamental star arrive to shoot a Civil War mini-series.
About 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.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1A Day in the Life of Wood Newton
- E2There Once Was A Boy Named Wood
- E3Whatever Happened to Clutch Newton?
- E4Sadie Hawkins Dance
- E5Fast Women
- E6The Moustache Show
- E7All for Charity
- E8Something to Hold Onto
- E9Mr. Mom
- E11The Wood Who Stole Christmas
- E12Wood and Ava and Gil and Madeline
- E13Wood's Thirtieth Reunion