The Forgotten 1990s Burt Reynolds Sitcom That You Should Watch (It's even better as an adult)

Evening Shade was a TV sitcom starring Burt Reynolds that aired on CBS from 1990-1994 when I was in high school...and I totally forgot about it! Until I stumbled upon it a few weeks ago on KZbin. There's a whole playlist of the entire series! This video shares the Evening Shade story and my reasons why you should watch it. The character that Burt Reynolds plays, Wood Newton, couldn't be more different than Turd Ferguson.
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[@sogeking9395]

Wow! I have never heard of this. After I get finished with moonlighting I will be sure to check this out.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

It’s really good. At the end of the video I tell you where you can find it. You won’t be disappointed! And moonlighting is so good too.

[@Rememberingcivilwarhistory7744]

I'm 41 I ise to watch this with my mom I remember whennthe kid shaved half his mustache off good episode

[@MrKaiserdurdenex]

I still watch Wings,Boston Legal, Becker, Yes Dear , The Pretender, X-Files, Deep Space Nine and Xena. And Grace Under Fire and reruns of Maude on occasion. Current TV programming ignores Gen X demographics.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Wow…I think you may have just given me another video idea. Thank you!

[@MrKaiserdurdenex]

@@mysocalledgenxlife Glad to be of help.

[@williamiwells]

Great retrospective. I need to go back and watch it too. It was probably pne of the last real "Family" shows my family agreed on to watch, rather than scatter to the other TVs in the house.

[@arielfangirlmendez]

I try the find this episode of this show the one episode featuring the guy who voice the beast from beauty and the beast

[@TheGadgetPanda]

Saw it a few times back in the day, had not thought about it since. It was not my thing then, and it looks even worse now. Sorry. Tastes vary.

[@Joy-s4x3r]

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[@1walicki]

This is a really good video you made highlighting so many aspects of the show and its production!!! I was gonna say something about the Mason and Dixon Line and then looked it up.. although unofficial in the Midwest, it’s so odd to me. I’ve spent a number of my 90s yrs exploring only the Northern States: OH, IA, IN, IL, MI, MN and mostly WI… I’ve never even considered what life & people were like below the M&D Line. It’s completely different and perhaps a lil more down home-ish it seems. I’ve had a number of college friends from MO (and also KC in KS) and Evening Shade really resonates in their personalities, in my opinion. I’m curious if you noticed any changes in Southern Midwesterners during the 90s after they were exposed to shows like Friends & Seinfeld? I saw Northern Midwesterners almost became NY City-ified and took to their own form of sarcasm.. was quite a bit more cruel than ironically funny.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

I never thought about life north of the Mason Dixon line until you just mentioned it. lol. I didn’t notice a lot of changes in the 90s due to any influence of New York based TV shows. At least where I’m from in Southeast Missouri. I mean the town I’m from looks and feels much the same in a lot of ways. I don’t feel as much social or comedy influences from the coasts as I do the economic…that’s when all the factories closed. Then the mom and pop shops closed after the super Walmart came to town. And the diners and local restaurants all turned into chains. Watching evening shade is a lot like watching my own childhood. Like I said, Linda Thomason grew up 45 miles down the road from me. So the culture and aesthetic of the show and the characters really resonate. Comedy in the Midwest and south has always been very Larry the cable guy and Jeff foxworthy and Theo Vaughn ish. With those Steve Martin records and some Eddie Murphy raw poppin up from time to time. Thanks for watching!

[@1walicki]

@@mysocalledgenxlife see now ya got me thinkin about comedy and coasts lol Here on the North East Coast we always fantasized about the left coast and never even considered the Middle Coast. I think that’s because of TV from the 80s CHiPs, Fall Guy, and many more etc. What I noticed when first lived in Milwaukee in the mid 90s was everyone was obsessed with more (what I saw as) non-intellectual comedy especially in movies like Ace Ventura, Austin Powers what-have-you. Maybe the North Midwest was more ruled by the pull of mostly Chicago and its more broad multi-culturism.. but there are a lot of bigger cities all over like Detroit, Indianapolis, and Cleveland. I can’t really think of a large city in the South Midwest, but hey, I’ve never even been. I imagine that movies, music & tv were carefully curated & sold to the South for a long time perhaps for many reasons. Something that’s gonna make me think a lot now about what I’ve never even known about portions of the USA I’ve never ever experienced.

[@madalinam6183]

I've been thinking about this show a lot this week. I just got Noises Off and seeing Marilu Henner in it, I immediately thought about Evening Shade.

[@Beatnic7]

Completely forgot about this show.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Me too. And that’s so unlike me! This was a favorite when I was a teenager.

[@heartsstillbeating1110]

I remember loving this show and watching it with my parents.

[@Elsewhen404]

I'm glad to have grown up before the Internet came into public use, which was formulated by the Department Of Defense in the 1960s, unless I have missed my history.

[@Elsewhen404]

Back in 1993, I made my own documentary titled "A Visit To The Real Evening Shade," because of my wanting to see what all the fuss was about. The DVD box set release, I wouldn't recommend it because of episodes being edited due to music rights issues. I guess Visual Entertainment Inc. and CBS Home Entertainment should have secured the rights to leave in the music that appeared in the episodes, original and unedited. The series wasn't a favorite of mine at first, due to personal problems I was going through in the early 1990s, it grew on me, but nowadays, my feelings are mixed about it. During the years it was on the air, I wrote letters, asking for autographed photos of Burt Reynolds and Marilu Henner. As for an Autism-themed movie, madam, the only one I would recommend is Mozart And The Whale, based on the late Asperger couple Jerry Newport and Mary Meinel.

[@NickyByloo]

I remember this. Good show.

[@b.p.879]

Linda Bloodworth wrote some of my favorite Mash episodes, like Springtime in season 3, which features her close friend and writing partner Mary Kay Place starring as Lt Louise Simmons, Radar's crush.

[@cassielengel00]

Thanks for making this… so interesting. I had never heard of this show and will check it out ❤

[@ericbickel5465]

You do such amazing research. I’m going to rewatch it checking out which cast members were there that week.

[@melissaisloud7404]

This show is still the first thing I think of when I think of Burt Reynolds.

[@johncollins1884]

@mysocalledgenxlifce Natalie, thanks for this retrospective on and about "Evening Shade" is it available to stream anywhere other than KZbin? Does the DVD set of the series have alott of extra features?

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Amazon has a few episodes you can stream, but not all. The dvd is just a basic box set, no special features. It’s not the greatest, but all the episodes are there.

[@pamelacurl8342]

good show

[@chrishayes4323]

This was a very funny show.

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

Agreed. A 90s Mayberry. Truly a delight.

[@chiefsideshow]

Are you kidding? I just started rewatching this because I used to watch it with my dad

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

It’s a good show!!

[@SuperMarioBrosIII]

​@@mysocalledgenxlife How about Out Of This World from 1987 to 1991 with Burt Reynolds voice only as Evie's dad Troy (uncredited!) 👽🌎📺✨

[@mysocalledgenxlife]

@@SuperMarioBrosIII get out of my head! Wait until you see my next video 😊

[@BethMDowney]

Watched this after your comment from the Miniseries part 2 video. Thanks so much for this retrospective! My mom to this day grumbles that Harry stole the idea from her (LOL)... she also came from a very small Arkansas town that had a notoriously awful basketball team and had written a play about it while she and Harry were in theater classes together at SAU. I'm sure it's just a coincidence (she still watched it and laughed right along with us). It was one of the few shows in my Gen X teen years (along with Designing Women) that treated Southerners, especially Southern women, with respect and intelligence and sophisticated humor, and not as Hollywood redneck stereotypes.