Carter Country Boned the Fish When...

[TMC]

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Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. The show was set in the fictional small town of Clinton Corners in Georgia, and featured Victor French as police chief Roy Mobey and Kene Holliday as city-bred, college-educated, black Sergeant Curtis Baker.

[Mr. Television]

One of the most underrated sitcoms of the 70's. I loved the whole cast. It's too bad it only lasted 2 years.

[Retro4Life]

Nope, never. I always liked this show and got to talk to "Jarvis" once during a Jerry Lewis telethon! Nice guy.

[comedyfreak]

Originally Posted by Stuck In The '70's

One of the most underrated sitcoms of the 70's. I loved the whole cast. It's too bad it only lasted 2 years.

Me too it was my favorite at the time.

[TMC]

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• Other Thoughts:
  
  A show about a black cop working for a good ol' boy Police Chief? We're laughing already.
  "Handle it Roy, Handle it!"
  This show didn't jump the shark as much as started in the sharks mouth.
  Melanie Griffith ruined this show!!! She was the high school "cub reporter" brought in that last season, to try to lure younger demographics, I guess. She was irritating and wasted a lot of time hamming for the camera. She also could not get her lines out without giggling. She made the few respectable characters come off as buffoons with her little "pranks". Granted, the writing was never that great; it was typical 70s comedy schlock in the vein of "Chico and the Man". "Barney Miller" it wasn't, but it had enough comic relief without Griffith's "antics". BTW, don't expect a reunion show; Victor French, Richard Paul and Barbara Cason are all dead (and I believe Harvey Vernon is too).
  Carter Country jumped the shark when they did that god-awful episode where the sheep were dying and there were lights in the sky, and they all thought it was from UFOs. One character even went so far as to utter the high-quality line, "just like in that movie Close Encounters!" I was only eight at the time, and even I knew it was O-V-E-R.
  I remember the episode when Roy has to give a eulogy during the big football game he bet on. He decides to listen to the game through an earpiece and try to relay the score to the guys at the funeral. I was only about 8 or 9, but I remember laughing my ass off. Maybe you guys should create a special category called "One Shining Moment", used when a bad show pulls an upset and creates good TV
  What a crock! "We've got a 'hillbilly' president, let's make a show in his home state using all the southern stereotypes". How about "Ford Country", with a bunch of klutzy yes-men. Or "Reagan Country" with a cast of right wing reactionaries and astrologists. (On that note, maybe a "Clinton Country" would have been a hit.)
  The only thing I remember about this turkey is the name of the town, "Clinton Corners". Foreshadowing?
  Jumped day one, in an attempt to cash in on the first deep south president of the TV age. What happened when some clerk at the studio was sent to make copies of scipts for Andy Griffith, Heat of the Night, and Hee Haw and he mixed the pages up? The result was Chief Andy Bunker and Mr. Barney Tibbs and like Hee Haw, it was not funny.
  To those who feel the show had no redeeming value, I would like to point out that Victor French was a good actor and extremely good at comedy - an example was when Roy went on TV and is intimidated by the "thousands and thousands of eyes...!" that he feels are upon him. He freaks out, knocks the microphone out of kilter, and there is a loud blast of feedback...that entire scene was off-the-wall funny!!
  If it wasn't for Victor French, the show would have been entirely unwatchable. The show was a late production from Bud Yorkin, Norman Lear's former partner, and it was a lame attempt at Lear-like "relevance." It used to amaze me when the gray-haired redneck cop would make Archie Bunker-type wisecracks to the black guy (forgot his name), and the black guy would just nod his head and smile, probably wishing he could belt the guy. I worked at an L.A. video store in the '80s, and the black guy used to come in all the time and rent XXX flicks!
  This show is very underrated. It never got a chance to find its audience. I still remember Richard Paul's "Hanlet, Hanlet"(Handle It, Handle It)to this day.

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Originally Posted by TMC

https://web.archive.org/web/20070225...ptheshark.com/

• Other Thoughts:
  
  A show about a black cop working for a good ol' boy Police Chief? We're laughing already.
  "Handle it Roy, Handle it!"
  This show didn't jump the shark as much as started in the sharks mouth.
  Melanie Griffith ruined this show!!! She was the high school "cub reporter" brought in that last season, to try to lure younger demographics, I guess. She was irritating and wasted a lot of time hamming for the camera. She also could not get her lines out without giggling. She made the few respectable characters come off as buffoons with her little "pranks". Granted, the writing was never that great; it was typical 70s comedy schlock in the vein of "Chico and the Man". "Barney Miller" it wasn't, but it had enough comic relief without Griffith's "antics". BTW, don't expect a reunion show; Victor French, Richard Paul and Barbara Cason are all dead (and I believe Harvey Vernon is too).
  Carter Country jumped the shark when they did that god-awful episode where the sheep were dying and there were lights in the sky, and they all thought it was from UFOs. One character even went so far as to utter the high-quality line, "just like in that movie Close Encounters!" I was only eight at the time, and even I knew it was O-V-E-R.
  I remember the episode when Roy has to give a eulogy during the big football game he bet on. He decides to listen to the game through an earpiece and try to relay the score to the guys at the funeral. I was only about 8 or 9, but I remember laughing my ass off. Maybe you guys should create a special category called "One Shining Moment", used when a bad show pulls an upset and creates good TV
  What a crock! "We've got a 'hillbilly' president, let's make a show in his home state using all the southern stereotypes". How about "Ford Country", with a bunch of klutzy yes-men. Or "Reagan Country" with a cast of right wing reactionaries and astrologists. (On that note, maybe a "Clinton Country" would have been a hit.)
  The only thing I remember about this turkey is the name of the town, "Clinton Corners". Foreshadowing?
  Jumped day one, in an attempt to cash in on the first deep south president of the TV age. What happened when some clerk at the studio was sent to make copies of scipts for Andy Griffith, Heat of the Night, and Hee Haw and he mixed the pages up? The result was Chief Andy Bunker and Mr. Barney Tibbs and like Hee Haw, it was not funny.
  To those who feel the show had no redeeming value, I would like to point out that Victor French was a good actor and extremely good at comedy - an example was when Roy went on TV and is intimidated by the "thousands and thousands of eyes...!" that he feels are upon him. He freaks out, knocks the microphone out of kilter, and there is a loud blast of feedback...that entire scene was off-the-wall funny!!
  If it wasn't for Victor French, the show would have been entirely unwatchable. The show was a late production from Bud Yorkin, Norman Lear's former partner, and it was a lame attempt at Lear-like "relevance." It used to amaze me when the gray-haired redneck cop would make Archie Bunker-type wisecracks to the black guy (forgot his name), and the black guy would just nod his head and smile, probably wishing he could belt the guy. I worked at an L.A. video store in the '80s, and the black guy used to come in all the time and rent XXX flicks!
  This show is very underrated. It never got a chance to find its audience. I still remember Richard Paul's "Hanlet, Hanlet"(Handle It, Handle It)to this day.

Never watched this show. Thanks for telling me what it was like.