Evening Shade

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Evening Shade aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The sitcom starred Burt Reynolds as ex-professional football player "Wood Newton" who returns to rural Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a years-long losing streak.

The general theme of the show was the appeal of small town life and episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summming up the events of the episode always closing with the word ". . . in a place called Evening Shade".

The show is notorious for fading to obscurity due to being cancelled just short of the 100 episodes normally required for a sitcom to be syndicated into daily reruns.

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