The BEST episodes of Hee Haw season 1
Every episode of Hee Haw season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hee Haw season 1!
Hee Haw was a long-running television variety show hosted by Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop. It was taped at WLAC-TV (now WTVF) and Opryland USA in Nashville. The show's name was derived from the sound a donkey makes when it brays.
#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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.
Watch Now:Amazon#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."
Watch Now:Amazon#5 - 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"
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - 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"
Watch Now:Amazon#7 - 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."
#8 - Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1970
Loretta Lynn - "To Make a Man." Loretta Lynn - "Wings Upon Your Horn." Charley Pride - "I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again." Charley Pride - "Anybody Going to San Antone." Roy Clark - "Foggy Mountain Breakdown." Buck Owens - "Kansas City Song." Grandpa and Ramona Jones - "You Are My Sunshine.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Loretta Lynn, Dillard and the Expedition
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1969
Music: Buck Owens, the Hagers, Susan Raye, and Don Rich - "Santa Looks a Lot Like Daddy" Loretta Lynn - "Blue Kentucky Girl" Roy Clark - "Right or Left at Oak St." Dillard and the Expedition - "Hickory Hollow" Grandpa Jones - "Stop That Ticklin' Me" Buck Owens - "Sam's Place" Loretta Lynn - "Wings upon Your Horns" All (entire cast) - "Silent Night"
#11 - Dottie West, George Jones, Chill Wills
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1970
Buck Owens, the Buckaroos, Susan Raye and the Hagers - "Memphis" Dottie West - "Paper Mansions" George Jones - "Love Bug" The Hagers "Jackson, Miss" Roy Clark - "September Song" George Jones - "Things Have Gone to Pieces" Grandpa Jones - "Dear Old Sunny South By the Sea"Dottie West - "Here Comes My Baby" Buck Owens and Susan Raye - "Fallin' for You" Sketches include several installments of "Dr. Campbell", "The Culhanes", "Dear Royella", "KORN News", "Hee Haw Amatuer Minute", and "Gordie's General Store". Also, "Archie's Barbershop", "Pfft, You Was Gone", "Hee Haw Players", "Pickin' and Grinnin'" and Stringbean reads a letter from home
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Connie Smith, Stan Hitchcock
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/25/1970
Buck Owens, Susan Raye and the Buckaroos - "Rovin' Gambler" Connie Smith - "Seattle" Stan Hitchcock - "Honey, I'm Home" The Hagers - "Loneliness Without You" Roy Clark - "The Last Letter" Connie Smith - "You and Your Sweet Love" Grandpa and Ramona Jones "Old Rattler" Buck Owens and Susan Raye - "We're Gonna Get Together"
Watch Now:Amazon#14 - Merle Haggard, Linda Ronstadt
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/1/1970
Buck Owens - "My Heart Skips a Beat" Linda Ronstadt - "Are My Thoughts with You?" Merle Haggard - "Every Fool Has a Rainbow" The Hagers - "Your Tender Loving Care" Roy Clark - "Maria Elena" Merle Haggard - "Jimmie's Texas Blues" Grandpa Jones - "Melinda" Buck Owens and Susan Raye- "Togetherness" Sketches include several installments of "The Cornfield", "Dr. Campbell", "Moonshiners", "Hee Haw Amateur Minute", "KORN News", and "Samuel B. Sternwheeler". Also, "Dear Royella", "Hee Haw Players", "Archie's Barbershop", "Gordie's General Store", "Hey Grandpa, What's for Supper?", "Pfft, You Was Gone", "Pickin' and Grinnin'" and Stringbean reads a letter from home.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - Charley Pride, Tammy Wynette, George Jones
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/27/1969
#17 - Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/10/1969
Music: Buck Owens - "Hello, Trouble" Waylon Jennings - "Delia's Gone" Loretta Lynn - "You Ain't Woman Enough" Grandpa Jones - "Banjo Sam" Roy Clark - "White Lightnin'" Susan Raye - "Maybe If I Close My Eyes" Roy Clark - "Orange Blossom Special" (played over a fast motion farm chase sketch) Buck Owens - "Above and Beyond" Loretta Lynn - "Wine, Women and Song" Sheb Wooley - "Big Ole, Good Ole Girl" Sketches include several installments of "The Culhanes", "KORN News", and "Pfft, You Was Gone". Also, "Archie's Barbershop", stories by Grandpa Jones and Junior Samples, "Hey Grandpa, What's For Supper?" and "Pickin' and Grinnin'
#18 - Loretta Lynn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Pride
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/7/1969
#19 - Tammy Wynette, Merle Haggard, Henson Cargill
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1970
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1970
Buck Owens performing "We Were Made For Each Other" Merle Haggard performing "I Take A Lot of Pride In What I Am" Hagers performing "Six-Days On The Road" Loretta Lynn performing "First City" Roy Clark performing "Meet Mister Callaghan" Merle Haggard performing "Today I Started Loving You Again" Loretta Lynn performing "Dear Uncle Sam" Buck Owens and Susan Raye performing "Love Is Strange"
Watch Now:Amazon#24 - Lynn Anderson, Hank Thompson, Buddy Alan
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1970
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