THE REAL MCCOYS TV INTRO

[DazReht]

Gosh Darnet Pepino....WE AIN'T HOME!

[Barking914]

"Amos McCoy and the girls and the boys, they are all right here on the Real McCoys!!" I do remember that part of the theme intro. Again, I think I have lived the best generation of classic TV. God bless you Walter and Richard, ya done right "boya!"

[lavernemariebutler]

Thanks for that. Didn't know. Love this kind of tv trivia.

[WytZox1]

Long before NEWHART had Larry, his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl, the Real McCoys had 2 brothers named Luke. The show jumped the shark when the producers decided to kill off the Kate character and send Little Luke off to military school.

[zeuqzavaj]

anybody who does the research will find

brennan did that limp in about every other thing

he did. Even robin williams got some mileage

out of him in "good morning vietnam".

[susannreno]

Richard Crenna was such a handsome thing. There were LOTS of handsome actors in the fifties.

[lavernemariebutler]

@susannreno Have you seen Crenna in "The Sand Pebbles" ? He should have been

nominated for an Oscar. Well worth the watch. Also Steve McQueen (scene stealing)

Oscar  nominated performance with a very young Candice Bergen,

[keithwarner]

My favorite character was "Little Pepino" 

[lavernemariebutler]

Loved Brennen in THE GUNS OF WILL SONNETT. I think he must have been playing grandpa roles when he was in his 30s. My favorite Richard Crenna movie is The Sand Pebbles, in which he should have won an Oscar.

[keithwarner]

@lavernemariebutler I loved Brennen as the father of a bumbling outlaw clan in "Support Your Local Sheriff!" (1969) With James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan,

Harry Morgan.

[WytZox1]

@lavernemariebutler -- Walter Brennan also appeared as a traim conductor in Columbia's very 1st 3 Stooges short (Women Haters). FYI: Although he did that distinct limp thruout the run of TRM, he didn't do it in the pilot episode.

[nycruise]

I always had the hots for both Luke and Little Luke. Incest anyone??? Oh - and then "Pepino" - what a WETBACK MEXICAN. I used to cringe seeing him (I'm Mexican) but then he was always helpful with the family so why not like him? Finally - Lydia Reed - what a bitch! I never understood her appeal but I liked her and hated her at the same time. I remember one episode where she was trying to act professionally in a commercial or something like that and she bombed. Somehow it all felt "right."

[MrRonnieG]

I remember reading, long long ago, an interview with Walter Brennan. He was discussing his role as Grandpa McCoy and explained that, in order to walk with the hesitation, he imagined walking with a raw egg under the heel of one foot to create his "gimpy" style that Grandpa McCoy featured in the show. I was 10 years old when the Real McCoys first aired in 1957.

[ohsnapiam59]

Walter Brennan...the only actor to win three Best Supporting Oscars. Tied with Jack Nicholson for the most acting Oscars ever won by a male actor.

[bchfront]

No one might ever in a million years guess there would be a connection between this opening theme and The Marx Bros.' "Duck Soup", or "Who's Sorry Now?" but there sho 'nuff is. The theme was composed by the wonderfully talented composer Harry Ruby.

[jaytf1231]

Funny thing. Richard Crenna who was on the Real McCoys was in a movie with Matt Dillon in 1983 called The Flamingo Kid. In the movie Matt Dillon is a teenager out of high school who gets a job at an exclusive beach club on Long Island in the summer of 1963. Richard Crenna is one of the big wigs at the club and he invites Dillon to his home. While at his home Crenna's character has the TV on and on it you see it's the Real McCoys with Crenna on the show. Janet Jones Gretskys wife is also in it.

[circusitch]

@jaytf1231 Unfortunately these silly things don't happen often enough. But it is great when they do.

[spacepatrolman]

@jaytf1231 They made a big thing out of that when they promoted the movie when crenna did the hillside stranglers made for tv movie he played a detective that dated a woman that ran away from them and went back and was fixated with them that was a composite character there was never any one person that did all that the cops were helping the murderers with rides in the police car crenna died of cancer of the pancreas like michael landon and henry mancicni

[redfordforpresident]

There's the V-shaped UFO.

[YaesuFT736R]

Watched this very young years ago. Thanks! LUKE!!!

[juliemacish]

Used tp watch it as a kid and to see this now brings back warm memories of years gone by.

[steve7138]

Wish they would put this back on CMT weekdays, the way they did about 10 years ago

[IstvanN1961]

Walter Brennan played old man even in the 1930 when he was young!

[verdew8181]

wow, I have actually not seen this since I was about 11 years old, about 49 years ago. I had forgotten the part about coming from West Virginia to sunny Californ-i-ay" so it awoke a dormant component in my brain!

[Lisica2008]

@verdew8181 Ha ha! I remember watching this when it was on CBS when I was about four years old. At the time, I could never understand why Amos McCoy pronounced the state names as "Californee" and "Virginee."

[charlesthepoet2004]

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THANKS.

[TheTreacle52]

The original " waltons" Richard crenna was a hottie, the whole family was wonderful!!!

[dennisconnolly1]

Thank You..

[mistressofaminer]

"Dag nabitt, gotta hitch in my giddyup", Kate, ya left the warshboard on the stove again", dag nabitt". Luke go find a needle in a haystack".

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Thanks for the memories.

George Vreeland Hill

[brizpeg47]

AAaah! Lovely show. As we usually got very old American shows when TV first started in Australia, this sort of show is so much a part of my childhood. Thanks for the memories.

[ftrovat1]

What was the name of the mexican hired help on the show?

[TheIllinoisjones7]

@ftrovat1 Pepino, not sure of the spelling.

[LittleBirdPathfinder]

Absolutely love this one! Thanks for posting........this takes me back many/many years!

[StigmataBOB1]

Amassing that no one hear knows what the real McCoy is. That is the name of a sea captain. Whisky used to be brought to Boston, from south, and watered down. McCoy brought it from Cuba and not watered down. So in Boston if you said you wanted the real McCoy, it meant you wanted the whisky brought from Cuba and not watered down.

[etbella3]

The Real McCoys. Oy Vay. No kosher slaughtering on this show. They were always kind to animals. Tim McVeigh. Oy Vay. Kind to animals. Humans -- not so much.

[kat6550]

The Real McCoys was one of my favorite TV shows when I was a youngster.

[elc1960]

Great show, however this isn't the original version of the theme song. The original is sung by '50s pop singer Jimmie Rodgers and has slightly different lyrics. It appears on "Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 4 - Black & White Classics".

[rentatrip1]

PAPENIS THE ORIGINAL WETBACK

[galesayers]

@rentatrip1 that was a racist remark. If it was a joke, it was a bad one. Completely reprehensible. Inexcusable.

[MZVIRB]

andy oleh and frank were his 3 best friends

[Mr76Yearsago]

I always thought that the pairing of Walter Brennan and Andy Clyde was one of the best in the history of television. The actors worked so well off each other in the series.

[Mr76Yearsago]

Despite being a brilliant Academy Award winning actor, Walter Brennan typecast himself as every babyboomer's Grandpa by doing this series. Walt Disney picked up on it and cast him similiarly in five different movies in 60's , and , of course, Brennan perpetuated it himself in "The Guns of Will Sonnet" in 1967

[WSenator1]

@Mr76Yearsago - And Walter Brennan was also typecast as a lovable old codger as well. If you saw some of his films ("The Westerner" and "My Darling Clementine") he played some EVIL s.o.b.'s. They were about as far from Amos McCoy as you could get!

[cu29640]

The days of great sitcoms are long gone for sure.

[jonahbegone]

I recall this show as a little boy. Sort of an early version of the Beverly Hillbillies, to judge by the song lyrics (WV to Cal).

[1093caleb]

I was looking for his Dragnet and saw they were all gone too. I had his hotmail email, so I wrote him. He got suspended because they accused him of posting Warner Bros cartoons, which had been removed. He said he hasn't decided if he's going to go through all that work again. He was pretty devastated

[all4mePope]

does anyone know what happened with WMAV01 video clips...I know it was suspended...(why ?)

[AngelHeadBigFlirt2]

all the music videos made by WMAV01 have been removed

and that persons channel has been suspended

are there anyone else who makes videos of the Real Mccoys????

[jewgirl952]

Probably my very earliest memory was hearing that song. I was still a baby, but vaguely remembered the words.

[retrospect1973]

I remember watching this

as a little girl

[jx14aby]

@retrospect1973

I was a little boy and this image is imbedded in my brain as clearly as my brother and sisters.