Synopsis: One of TV’s biggest hits of the era,
The Real McCoys (1957-1963) paved the way for other rural comedy shows, including
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.,
The Beverly Hillbillies,
Petticoat Junction and
Green Acres. When a happy-go-lucky West Virginia mountain family moves to a ranch in California’s San Fernando Valley, anything is likely to happen.
Starring Grampa Amos McCoy (three-time Academy Award-winner
Walter Brennan) – a porch-rockin’, gol-darnin’, consarnin’ old codger with a wheezy voice – who loves to meddle in other people’s affairs, neighbors and kin alike. Joining him are grandson Luke (
Richard Crenna); Luke’s new bride, Kate (
Kathleen Nolan); teenage sister, “Aunt” Hassie(
Lydia Reed); 11-year-old brother, Little Luke (
Michael Winkelman); musically inclined farm hand, Pepino (
Tony Martinez); and their argumentative neighbor, George MacMichael (
Andy Clyde). George’s spinster sister, Flora (
Madge Blake), has eyes for Grampa but, alas, it’s not meant to be.
This Season #2 collector’s set includes all 39 half-hour episodes (1958-59).