Carter Country 

The comic exploits of a redneck sheriff and his educated black deputy in a small Georgia town.

Creators:

Douglas Arango, Phil Doran, Bernie Orenstein

Stars:

Victor French, Kene Holiday, Guich Koock

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Victor French	...	Chief Roy Mobey 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Kene Holiday	...	Sergeant Curtis Baker 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Guich Koock	...	Deputy Harley Puckett 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Barbara Cason	...	Cloris Phebus 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Richard Paul	...	Mayor Teddy Burnside 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Vernee Watson	...	Lucille Banks 44 episodes, 1977-1979
Harvey Vernon	...	Deputy Jasper DeWitt, Jr. 44 episodes, 1977-1979

Storyline

In this light-hearted, comic variation of "In the Heat of the Night," a white police chief and his officers (including a newly arrived black officer) must keep the peace in a small town located in the Southern USA.

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Plot Keywords:

sergeant | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Did You Know?

Trivia

George Kennedy was the first choice to play Chief Roy Mobey, but he turned it down.

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Quotes

Mayor Teddy Burnside: I'm Mayor Teddy Burnside. Your mayor by a landslide.

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Connections

Referenced in Pink Lady: Episode #1.2 (1980)

User Reviews

A very funny Southern "Barney Miller" type show,

To say that Carter Country was based on the show "In The Heat of the Night" is pretty much stretching the imagination. Granted it has a college-educated black man working as a Sergeant in a Sheriff's department full of red-necks but that is as about as far as you can go with the similarities. If I remember right this was an ABC sitcom. It was put on the air to capitalize on then President Jimmy Carter's name (after all he was from Georgia and I believe the setting was in Georgia). But if you actually watched the show you recognized that they were taking liberties with ABC hit police comedy "Barney Miller". Like Barney Miller the show dealt with the workings of the small Sheriff's department and the type of crime, criminals and other things that they had to deal with. Almost all of the action took place in the sheriff's office (Barney Miller was in the 12th precinct)and occasionally you saw the home of the Sheriff or the deputies.

I suppose other similarities can drawn looking at shows like "Beverly Hillbillies", "Petticoat Junction", "Green Acres", even "The Andy Griffith Show" as these shows also were about rural people, some from the South.

Carter Country was an extremely funny, well-written show that just never got off the ground and that was too bad. I mean when idiotic stereotyping shows like "Dukes of Hazzard" can last as long as it did you would think Carter Country should have had a better chance.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 September 1977 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Turteltaub-Orenstein-Yorkin Productions (TOY)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min (43 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1