Evening Shade - Season One (1990)

OLDIES LOVER

DVD ARRIVED VERY QUICKLY & IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND SELLER & WOULD USE AGAIN. July 21, 2008

LOVED it~ I never watched this before this set~ WOW great series~!

I never watched this series when it was on from 1990-1994~

I purchased this set because of the reviews~ I AM 100% THRILLED WITH THE DVD SET~ this series is very very good~

Burt Reynolds is a VERY former winning football HERO returned home as "very" LOOSING hometown football coach MOST FUNNY~ ADD wife Marilu Henner as his DA wife~ the humor is LOW key so it has timeless humor~ the main couple are great fun~ but the side characters have depth and are great~ add Charles Durning~ Elizabeth Ashley~ Ossie Davis~ and many more~ FANTASTIC WRITING~

The hometown HUMOR and feel makes this series still FRESH and enjoyable over 14 years later~ very like the Newhart in feel.

BETTER than I expected~ I can hardly wait for the next three Seasons but no doubt CBS video will take years go them out~

I GIVE IT A SOLID 8 OUT OF 10 FOR HUMOR, ACTING AND VERY EXCELLENT WRITING~ GREAT SERIES~ July 8, 2008

Burt Reynolds at his best

"Evening Shade," a CBS-TV series that ran from 1990-94, holds a special place in the Burt Reynolds canon... Reynolds acted prodigiously on TV and in film throughout the 1960s, '70s and '80s, but this was one of his best and longest-lived roles, playing Wood Newton, a retired NFL player who has become a high school football coach for a perpetually losing small town team. The show was a half-hour sit-com dramedy with a high-powered cast that also included Ossie Davis, Hal Holbrook and Marilu Henner -- Reynolds directed almost half the episodes, but one of the show's strengths was how well he shared the spotlight. Reynolds is unhurried and relaxed, a mature actor in a mature, middle-aged role. The show's rhythms are familiar: in its cosmopolitan-professional-settling-in-a-small-town premise, it strongly recalls the second Bob Newhart show, including the large cast of wacky locals; there is also a domestic aspect of the show that recalls shows like "Family Ties," et al., but with an occasionally adult, raunchy edge (in the pilot episode, for example, Coach finds out that his late-in-life vasectomy failed, and that he and Marilu are now expecting another child) While the show conformed to some of the formulas of network TV, it also had its own unique tone and charms. Fans will be happy to see Season One out on DVD; newcomers may be charmed as well. (Joe Sixpack, Slipcue film reviews) June 30, 2008

Soak up the SHADE

Evening Shade is a 1980's throw back to the great TV of the 1960's. Burt Reynolds leads a cast veteran actors in a modern day Andt Griffith show.

Wood Newton (Reynolds) is a former pro American Football player who has retired and returned to his childhood home with his wife (Marilu Henner) and his kids, the small town of Evening Shade, Arkansas. He's now the coach of the local high school football team. His assistant Herman Stiles (Micheal Jeter) acts like a Barney Fife to Wood's Andy. There is his friend Ponder Blue (Ossie Davis, who looks like he is having a ball doing this), The town Doctor and his wife (Charles Durning and Ann Wedgeworth) and Wood's Father in Law (Hal Holbrook)

One could wish this DVD would have Reynolds, Holbrook, Durning or Henner doing an audio commentary track. However this aint happening

We have lost the talents of Micheal Jeter and Ossie Davis. This show is a showcase to their acting talents.

so go get some shade and bask in its laughter

Bennet Pomerantz Audioworld June 1, 2008

Burt Reynolds' Finest Hour

The cast on this show is superb. Every small town has a version of "Nub",mine has 5. I have waited years to revisit this wonderful show and have checked regularly to see its availability. I can't wait until my episodes arrive and I can get the popcorn ready for a marathon viewing. May 25, 2008

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