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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Evening Shade

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    Despite its impressive cast of well-known actors, its amiable and comfortably familiar small-town setting, and its well-written scripts, Evening Shade failed to attract the attention of viewers, and the CBS show was cancelled after just one year.

    Burt Reynolds played the show’s central character, Woodrow “Wood” Newton – a former star athlete at Evening Shade High School in Arkansas, who went to college on an athletics scholarship, became a professional footballer, retired and then returned to Evening Shade to coach the Evening Shade Mules football team at his old high school.

    In spite of Wood’s background, however, the Mules had failed to win a game in two years.

    Family members included Marilu Henner as Wood’s wife, Ava – to whom he had been married for 16 years – and their four children, Taylor (a quarterback on the high school team), Molly, Will and the baby, Emily.

    Other regular characters on the show were Wood’s friends Dr Harlan Eldridge (played by veteran character actor Charles Durning); Ponder Blue (the philosophical owner of Ponder Blue’s Barbecue Villa who also narrated the series); Evan Evans (Ava’s father and publisher of the local Evening Shade Argus); Frieda Evans (Ava’s pushy aunt), Merlene Eldridge (Dr Eldridge’s lusty young wife); and Herman Stiles, a wimpy-looking maths teacher whom Wood took under his wing and served as the assistant football coach.

    Ava’s father, Evan, eventually married the town’s dimwitted stripper, Fontana Beausoleil – who later discovered she was the daughter of Merlene Eldridge and had been given up for adoption.

    The Mules finally won a game in 1993, breaking their 57-game losing streak, and Wood ran for and was elected mayor of Evening Shade.

    Wood (Woodrow) Newton
    Burt Reynolds
    Ava Evans Newton
    Marilu Henner
    Taylor Newton
    Jay R Ferguson
    Molly Newton
    Melissa Martin (1)
    Candace Hutson (2)
    Will Newton
    Jacob Parker
    Emily Newton
    Alexa Vega
    Dr Harlan Eldridge
    Charles Durning
    Merlene Eldridge
    Ann Wedgeworth
    Ponder Blue
    Ossie Davis
    Evan Evans
    Hal Holbrook
    Frieda Evans
    Elizabeth Ashley
    Herman Stiles
    Michael Jeter
    Fontana Beausoleil
    Linda Gehringer

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