Gailard Sartain, the character actor and comedian whose breakthrough role on Hee Haw launched a career of playing Southern ...

Minnie Pearl and“Grandpa” Jones, plus comics Junior Samples and Lulu Roman. Hee Haw also helped cement the sexpot status of Petticoat Junction stars Jeannine Riley and Gunilla Hutton.

The long-running CBS variety hour debuted June 15, 1969 and made unlikely weekly TV stars of country music icons Roy Clark, Buck Owens, Minnie Pearl and“Grandpa” Jones, plus comics Junior ...

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