The BEST episodes of Hee Haw

#1 - Tammy Wynette, George Jones and Faron Young

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/29/1969

AIRED: 6/29/69 Music: Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - "Love's Gonna Live Here" Grandpa Jones - "Night Train to Memphis" (includes a broken banjo string blooper) Tammy Wynette - "Stand by Your Man" George Jones - "White Lightning" Roy Clark - "Caravan" Faron Young - "She Went a Little Bit Farther" Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - "It Takes People Like You" George Jones - "Walk Through This World with Me" Tammy Wynette - "Take Me to Your World" Faron Young - "Wind Me up" Sketches include several installments of "The Cornfield", "The Culhanes", "Samuel B. Sternwheeler", "Gordie's General Store", "KORN News", "Moonshiners", and "Pfft, You Was Gone. Also, "Archie's Barbershop", "Pickin' and Grinnin'", "Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper?", and stories by Junior Samples and Grandpa Jones.

#2 - Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens, Eddie Fukano

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/20/1969

Roy Clark - "She Taught Me How to Yodel" (clips throughout the episode) Buck Owens - "Act Naturally" Merle Haggard - "Hobo Meditations" Eddie Fukano - "To Get Me Off Your Mind" Bonnie Owens - "Lead Me On" Roy Clark - "You Tried to Ruin My Name" Grandpa Jones - "Old Joe Clark" Buck Owens and Susan Raye - "Somewhere Between" Merle Haggard - "Today I Started Loving You Again" Eddie Fukano - "Columbus Stockade Blues" Sketches include several installments of "The Culhanes", "Pfft, You Was Gone", and "KORN News." Also, "Gordie's General Store", "Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper?", "Pickin' and Grinnin'", Grandpa Jones tells stories about his athletic brother and eating out at a restaurant, Junior Samples tells a story about his squirrel dog, and in "Archie's Barbershop", Archie tells the story of the Pee Little Thrigs.

#3 - Sonny James, Waylon Jennings, Connie Smith

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/6/1969

Sonny James - "Midnight Mood" and "Running Bear." Waylon Jennings - "Only Daddy" and "Lonely Weekends." Connie Smith - "Cry, Cry, Cry" and "Ribbon of Darkness." Buck Owens - "Crying Time" and "Sam's Place." Roy Clark - "Overdue Blues."

#4 - Vern Gosdin, Baillie and The Boys

Season 22 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1990

#5 - Ronnie McDowell, Jeannie Seely, Sheb Wooley

Season 13 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1982

Ronnie McDowell performs "It's Only Make Believe" and "Watchin' Girls Go By" on "Hee Haw." The week's musical guests also include Jeannie Seely and Sheb Wooley, who wrote the syndicated TV show's theme song. Roy Clark contributes a cover of "Louisiana Saturday Night"

#6 - Dolly Parton and Terry Lee McMillan

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/13/1969

#7 - Merle Haggard, Jack Burns

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/22/1969

Buck Owens, Don Rich, Susan Raye and the Hagers - "But You Know I Love You" Merle Haggard - "Mama Tried" The Hagers - "With Lonely" Roy Clark - "Yesterday When I Was Young" Merle Haggard - "Branded Man" Buck Owens and the Buckaroos - "Happy Times" Susan Raye - "Just Enough to Keep Me Hanging On" Grandpa Jones - "Mountain Dew"

#8 - Loretta Lynn and Charley Pride

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/15/1969

Music: Charley Pride - "Kaw-Liga." Charley Pride - "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)." Loretta Lynn - "Your Squaw's on the Warpath." Buck Owens - "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?" Roy Clark - "Sally Was a Good Old Girl." Sheb Wooley - "Flying Time." Grandpa Jones - "The Banjo Am The Instrument For Me." The Hagers - "Six Days on the Road."

#9 - Merle Haggard and Tammy Wynette

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1969

Buck Owens, Don Rich, the Hagers, and Diana Scott - "Gonna Roll Out the Red Carpet" The Hagers - "Gotta Get to Oklahoma" Tammy Wynette - "The Ways to Love a Man" Roy Clark - "Overdue Blues" Merle Haggard - "Okie from Muskogee" Tammy Wynette - "The 12th of Never" Buck Owens, Don Rich, the Hagers, and Susan Raye - "Big in Vegas"

#10 - Hank Williams Jr, Arlene Harden

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1972

Music: Buck Owens and the whole Hee Haw gang - "Love's Gonna Live Here" Hank Williams Jr - "Pride's Not Hard To Swallow" Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Roy Clark and Bobby Thompson - "Bully Of The Town" Arlene Harden - "Loving Man" (arrangement of 'Pretty Woman' for female vocalist) The Hagers - "Old Man (Take A Look At My Life)" Roy Clark banjo instrumental Buck Owens and the Buckaroos -"Ain't It Amazing Gracie" Roy Clark - "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" Gunilla Hutton - "Greatest Story Never Told" Buck Owens - "Foolin' Around" Hank Williams Jr - "Jambalaya (On The Bayou)"

#11 - Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1971

Buck Owens and the whole Hee Haw gang - "Truck Driving Man" Loretta Lynn - "I Wanna Be Free" Roy Clark - "For the Good Times" Conway Twitty - "Hello Darlin'" Buck Owens, Don Rich and the Buckaroos - "Uncle Pen at Home" The Hagers - "California on My Mind" Roy Clark and the whole Hee Haw gang - "Pig at Home in the Pen" Gordie Tapp - "Minnie Others" Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn - "Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries" Buck Owens - "Rocky Top" Sketches include several installments of "Gordie's General Store", "The Cornfield", "Samuel B. Sternwheeler", and "Moonshiners". Also, "Dr. Campbell", "Paulene and Pierre", "Pfft, You Was Gone", "Claude Strawberry, the Country Poet", "Archie's Barbershop", "Samples Sales", "The Culhanes", "Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper?", "Pickin' and Grinnin'", "KORN News", and Stringbean reads a letter from home.

#12 - Dennis Weaver, Buddy Alan

Season 12 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/1980

Buck Owens performs "Mountain Dew" and "Rednecks, White Socks And Blue Ribbon Beer" on "Hee Haw," and joins Kenny Price, co-host Roy Clark and actor Dennis Weaver on "Ashes Of Love." Owens' son, Buddy Alan, also performs, and Clark chips in a cover of the bluegrass song "In The Pines"

#13 - Earl Thomas Conley, Willis, Carlan & Quin

Season 13 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1981

Earl Thomas Conley makes his "Hee Haw" debut, performing "Fire & Smoke." Indie trio Willis, Carlan & Quinn does a bluegrass version of "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms," backed by Roy Clark on fiddle

#14 - Lacy J. Dalton, Porter Wagoner, Joe Maphis

Season 12 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/13/1980

Lacy J. Dalton sings "Crazy Blue Eyes" on "Hee Haw." The episode also features Porter Wagoner, Joe Maphis and The Hagers, who cover "Funny How Time Slips Away." The show's co-host, Buck Owens, performs "I'm A Ramblin' Man"

#15 - Bill Anderson, Mary Gordon Murray, Wayne Massey, Curly Putman

Season 12 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1981

"One Life To Live" cast members Bill Anderson, Mary Gordon Murray and Wayne Massey guest on "Hee Haw," with Murray and Massey covering "Don't Fall In Love With A Dreamer." Songwriter Curly Putman serves up a medley of "My Elusive Dreams," "Green, Green Grass Of Home" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

#16 - Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee

Season 12 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1981

Mickey Gilley and Johnny Lee perform "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" on "Hee Haw." Lee also delivers "One In A Million," while Gilley chips in "That's All That Matters." The show's hosts include Roy Clark and Buck Owens, who sings a future hit, "Streets Of Bakersfield"

#17 - Reba McEntire, T.G. Sheppard, Bruce Jenner

Season 12 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1981

Reba McEntire performs "(You Lift Me) Up To Heaven" and T.G. Sheppard sings "I Feel Like Loving You Again" on TV's "Hee Haw." The edition also features Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner

#18 - Chubby Wise, Sylvia, Paul Anka

Season 12 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1981

Fiddler Chubby Wise performs "Orange Blossom Special" on "Hee Haw," guesting alongside Sylvia and Paul Anka. Regular co-host Roy Clark sings "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes," while co-host Buck Owens covers "Good Hearted Woman"

#19 - Brenda Lee, Million Dollar Band

Season 12 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1981

Brenda Lee sings "Broken Trust" on television's "Hee Haw," where Buck Owens covers "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down." "Gentle On My Mind" is performed by The Million Dollar Band: Danny Davis, Floyd Cramer, Jethro Burns, Charlie McCoy, Johnny Gimble, Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins and Roy Clark

#20 - Helen Cornelius, Billy Grammer, John D. Loudermilk

Season 12 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/14/1981

Roy Clark sings "(There'll Be) Peace In The Valley (For Me)" to close an episode of "Hee Haw." Guests include Helen Cornelius, Billy Grammer and songwriter John D. Loudermilk, who does a medley of his compositions, including "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye," "Break My Mind" and "Abilene"

#21 - Dennis Weaver, Tom T. Hall, Tommy Hunter

Season 12 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1981

Tom T. Hall sings "Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)" on the week's edition of "Hee Haw," which also features Canadian Tommy Hunter on "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" and a 10-year-old performing "Harper Valley P.T.A." Buck Owens covers "Sawmill" and joins Kenny Price and Roy Clark on "Walk On By"

#22 - Rex Allen Jr., Eddy Raven, Margo Smith

Season 12 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1981

Rex Allen sings "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" on a telecast of "Hee Haw," and does "Teardrops On My Heart" with Rex Allen Jr. The edition also features Eddy Raven and Margo Smith, who performs "Cup Of Tea" with Allen Jr. Co-host Roy Clark also offers a cover of "Someday You'll Want Me To Want You"

#23 - Ray Price, Boxcar Willie

Season 12 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1981

Ray Price sings "Faded Love" and "Help Me Make It Through The Night" on the week's edition of "Hee Haw." The episode also features Boxcar Willie

#24 - Ray Charles, Slim Whitman

Season 12 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1981

Ray Charles performs "Take These Chains From My Heart" on TV's "Hee Haw." The episode also features musical guest Slim Whitman

#25 - Don Gibson, Jacky Ward, Million Dollar Band

Season 12 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1981

Don Gibson performs "(I'd Be) A Legend In My Time" on the week's edition of "Hee Haw." Jacky Ward sings "That's The Way A Cowboy Rocks And Rolls" and "Save Your Heart For Me." The Million Dollar Band--Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Roy Clark, Johnny Gimble, Boots Randolph, Danny Davis and Jethro Burns--covers "San Antonio Rose"