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Evening Shade

Season 4 1993 - 1994

  • 1993-09-20T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 13h (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy
Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his former team because he is a fan. The general theme of the show is the appeal of small town life. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The show's final episode saw the guest appearances of Willie Nelson and Buzz Aldrin as escaped convicts on the run from authorities, the final scene being a spectacular shoot-out reminiscent of the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-be-que, which is situated on Albert Pike Blvd. and South Patterson St. in Hot Springs National Park.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1993-09-20T04:00:00Z

4x01 Four Naked Women

Season Premiere

4x01 Four Naked Women

  • 1993-09-20T04:00:00Z30m

After the women play a joke on them, the guys get even by locking them out of Fontana's house—while they're clad in Fontana's stripper costumes.

1993-09-27T04:00:00Z

4x02 One Down, Three to Go

4x02 One Down, Three to Go

  • 1993-09-27T04:00:00Z30m

Ava has a hard time adjusting when Taylor moves out ioto his own apartment.

1993-10-04T04:00:00Z

4x03 One Hot Game

4x03 One Hot Game

  • 1993-10-04T04:00:00Z30m

Wood and Frieda get locked inside a sauna while everyone else in Evening Shade sweats out the football team's first game of the season.

4x04 Witness for the Prosecution

  • 1993-10-11T04:00:00Z30m

Ava and Harlan go head to head in court when he is a witness for an insurance company.

4x05 Kiss of the Ice Cream Woman

  • 1993-10-18T04:00:00Z30m

Herman has some bad news for the returning Margaret (who has some for him in return). Herman confesses that he cheated on Margaret by kissing the ice cream woman—but only after Margaret confesses to kissing a man during her trip to Greece.

4x06 Night of the Living Newtons

  • 1993-10-25T04:00:00Z30m

Wood tries to allay Emily's fear of scary costumes by letting her pick out his Hallowe'en attire.

1993-11-01T05:00:00Z

4x07 The Dance

4x07 The Dance

  • 1993-11-01T05:00:00Z30m

Wood is more than a wee bit upset when he has to deal with Molly dating boys; meanwhile, Herman discovers that he's Scottish.

With Nub out sick, Wood and Evan takes over his newspaper route as the ladies run his other errands.

1993-11-15T05:00:00Z

4x09 Small Town Girl

4x09 Small Town Girl

  • 1993-11-15T05:00:00Z30m

A Hollywood movie star takes a liking to Evening Shade—and decides to buy the whole town and turn it into a tourist attraction.

1993-11-22T05:00:00Z

4x10 Where There's Smoke

4x10 Where There's Smoke

  • 1993-11-22T05:00:00Z30m

Freida returns from her health farm jaunt determined to stop smoking, with Herman's help.

1993-11-29T05:00:00Z

4x11 Chain of Fools

4x11 Chain of Fools

  • 1993-11-29T05:00:00Z30m

A new restaurant threatens Ponder's business, so the gang agree to participate in a serious of bizarre commercials.

1993-12-13T05:00:00Z

4x12 Sleepless in Arkansas

4x12 Sleepless in Arkansas

  • 1993-12-13T05:00:00Z30m

Ava and Wood accompany a nervous Herman to a singles bar.

4x13 The Proof is in the Pudding

  • 1993-12-20T05:00:00Z30m

Ava is upset when she is forced to imprison her own father for refusing to divulge a journalistic source.

1994-01-03T05:00:00Z

4x14 The People's Choice

4x14 The People's Choice

  • 1994-01-03T05:00:00Z30m

Disaster is on the ballot when Harlan and Ima both run for mayor.

1994-01-10T05:00:00Z

4x15 Educating Calvin

4x15 Educating Calvin

  • 1994-01-10T05:00:00Z30m

When Wood's delinquent cousin Calvin returns to Evening Shade, he decides to stay at the Newtons' until he earns his high school diploma.

1994-01-17T05:00:00Z

4x16 Paint the Town Nude

4x16 Paint the Town Nude

  • 1994-01-17T05:00:00Z30m

1994-01-31T05:00:00Z

4x17 The Perfect Woman

4x17 The Perfect Woman

  • 1994-01-31T05:00:00Z30m

The town gets an eyeful when Merleen takes up painting nudes—using Harland and Wood as her first subjects.

1994-02-07T05:00:00Z

4x18 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Wood

4x18 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Wood

  • 1994-02-07T05:00:00Z30m

Wood must humiliate himself in order to inherit $1 million.

4x19 The Fabulous Frazier Girls

  • 1994-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

Merleen's sisters ask her to join their singing act.

1994-03-07T05:00:00Z

4x20 I Did, I Did

4x20 I Did, I Did

  • 1994-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

On their anniversary, Ava and Wood plan to reaffirm their vows—a plan that includes bachelor and bachelorette parties.

The town is bankrupt and it's up to Mayor Wood to fix the problem; and he starts by attending a mayors conference in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Wood fields an offer from an old football chum who wants him as the new quarterback coach for the Atlanta Falcons.

4x23 Wood Climbs to New Heights

  • 1994-04-11T04:00:00Z30m

A suitor professes his love for Molly on the town's water tower.

1994-05-09T04:00:00Z

4x24 Mama Knows Best

4x24 Mama Knows Best

  • 1994-05-09T04:00:00Z30m

Mutual attraction develops between Ava's college pal and Taylor.

1994-05-16T04:00:00Z

4x25 The Odder Couple

4x25 The Odder Couple

  • 1994-05-16T04:00:00Z30m

To avoid becoming infected with chicken pox, Wood moves in with Taylor.

Nub becomes a chimney sweep. Meanwhile, Frieda's ex-husband returns with an unusual proposal: he wants to get married again, and wants Frieda to return his grandmother's ring so he can give it to his new spouse.

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