Boone (TV series)

infobox television
show_name = "Boone"
format = Drama
picture_format = Color (1983-1984)
runtime = 60 minutes
starring = Thomas "Tom" Byrd
Barry Corbin
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Andrew Prine
Elizabeth Huddle
Julie Anne Haddock
Amanda Peterson
Robyn Lively
Greg Webb
country = United States
network = NBC
first_aired = September 26, 1983
last_aired = August 11, 1984
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 13
imdb_id = 0084989

"Boone" is a 13-week dramatic television series which was broadcast on NBC from 1983–1984. It starred, principally, Tom Byrd and Barry Corbin. Byrd (at age 23) played teenager Boone Sawyer, who aspired for a career in rock and roll music, despite the advice of his stern father, Merit Sawyer, played by Corbin. The setting of the series is Tennessee, and the time frame is the 1950s, when great changes began to occur in popular music. Boone Sawyer is motivated by the success of Elvis Presley. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126069/ Thomas Byrd] at the Internet Movie Database] Ten weekly episodes began airing on September 26, 1983, and three remaining segments were broadcast in the summer of 1984, the last on August 11. The series was created by the author Earl Hamner, Jr. of Virginia, whose CBS series "The Waltons" and "Falcon Crest" were far more successful than "Boone". [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084989/ "Boone"] at the Internet Movie Database]

Ronnie Claire Edwards, an Oklahoma City native who played Corabeth Godsey, the bossy wife of storekeeper Ike Godsey (Joe Conley) in "The Waltons", played Aunt Dolly in "Boone". [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250329/ Ronnie Claire Edwards] at the Internet Movie Database] Other stars included Elizabeth Huddle as Boone's mother, Faye Sawyer, veteran actor Andrew Prine as A. W. Holly, Julie Anne Haddock as Amanda, Robyn Lively as Banjo, Amanda Peterson as Boone's young sister, Squirt Sawyer, and Greg Webb as Boone's friend, Rome Hawley. A critic described "Boone" as "an excellent show that didn't get a chance" in the fierce competition of network television though in retrospect "That's Incredible" with John Davidson on ABC and "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" with Bruce Boxleitner and Kate Jackson on CBS may not have seemed such formidable rivals in the Monday 8 p.m. Eastern slot. Thereafter, Byrd, a native of the Philippine Islands who was reared in Florida, starred in other network programs. In 1995, he was cast as Lou Waller, the ex-jock sportscaster with a secret he fears could ruin his career, in "Live Shot", a drama series from Rysher Entertainment broadcast on UPN. Corbin, originally from Lamesa, Texas, later joined the cast of CBS's "Northern Exposure" and has been a character actor in numerous films. [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0179224/ Barry Corbin] at the Internet Movie Database]

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