Delta (TV series)

This article is about the television series. For other uses, see Delta (disambiguation).

Delta
Format	Comedy - Sitcom
Created by	Miriam Trogdon
Starring	Delta Burke Bill Engvall Beth Grant Earl Holliman Gigi Rice Nancy Giles
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	17
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jay Kleckner Delta Burke Co-Executive
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	September 15, 1992 – August 25, 1993

Delta is a short-lived U.S television sitcom series produced by ABC starring Delta Burke. Burke plays a woman who leaves her life behind to pursue her dream as a country music singer. Burke, most popular for her role as Suzanne Sugarbaker in the popular CBS sitcom Designing Women, reportedly utilized her own singing talents for the role of Bishop, and dyed her familiar brunette hair blonde to play the role. The series premiered September 15, 1992, to healthy ratings following the ABC blockbuster Roseanne. The series then moved to Thursday nights opposite FOX's The Simpsons, and ratings began to sink. The show was pulled from the schedule and returned to ABC the following Spring for six episodes before finally being canceled. In an attempt to infuse ratings, Burke brought her brunette hair back that spring (even re-filming the show's opening title sequence to correspond with the change in hair color), in the sake of familiarity, but it did little to save the series.

The theme song for the show was Reba McEntire's 'Climb That Mountain High' which was not a charted Reba single. The tune appears on the 1990 MCA album Rumor Has It.

The show received one Golden Globe Award nomination, to co-star Earl Holliman for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a TV-Series".

Cast

• Delta Burke as Delta Bishop
• Earl Holliman as Darden Towe
• Gigi Rice as Lavonne Overton
• Bill Engvall as Buck Overton
• Beth Grant as Thelma Wainwright
• Nancy Giles as Connie Morris

Programming History

Dates	Broadcast time (ET)
September 1992	Tuesday 9:30-10:00 pm
September 1992-December 1992	Thursday 8:00-8:30 pm
April 1993	Tuesday 9:30-10:00 pm
July 1993-August 1993	Wednesday 9:30-10:00 pm

External links

• Delta at the Internet Movie Database