Fernwood 2Night

By the end of 1976, producer extraordinaire Norman Lear had a crisis on his hands. His cult-favorite sitcom Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman imploded when its star, Louise Lasser, went through emotional trauma that forced her to resign. But Hartman's hometown of Fernwood, Ohio (ZIP Code 45989) would not shrivel up. Toward the end of the next summer, a new set of characters emerged with a "talk show" called Fernwood 2Night, airing (originally) live from Channel 6 in Fernwood. The host of Fernwood 2Night was Barth Gimble, who had left a very successful talk show in Miami under circumstances similar to Louise Lasser's real-life breakdown. Barth returned to his home of Fernwood to start this new talk show on Channel 6. Immediately, he used it as a platform to deny the charges made against him in the Fernwood Courier ("There has never been a conviction"). But on the bright side, Barth did get in banter with interesting guests, his second banana Jerry Hubbard, and musical director Happy.

Aliases

Fernwood Tonight

English français

TheTVDB.com Series ID 76920
Status Ended
First Aired July 4, 1977
Recent September 30, 1977
Average Runtime 30 minutes
Genres Comedy Talk Show
Original Country United States of America
Original Language English
TV Type or Format Story-based Comedy
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Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season	From	To	Episodes
All Seasons
Specials			0
Season 1	July 1977	September 1977	65
Unassigned Episodes			0

Season	From	To	Episodes
Unassigned Episodes			65

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Season	From	To	Episodes
Season 1			0
Unassigned Episodes			65

Martin Mull
as Barth Gimble

Fred Willard
as Jerry Hubbard

Harry Shearer
as

Jim Varney
as

Bill Kirchenbauer
as

Eddie Robertson
as
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Barrie Youngfellow
as
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Robert B. Williams
as
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Troas Hayes
as
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Richard P Beebe
as
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Irma Siegel
as
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Lou Felder
as
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Felix Fisher
as
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Craig Richard Nelson
as
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Lou Moffatt
as
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Vernon Rowe
as
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Kenneth Mars
as
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Frank De Vol
as

Geraldine P
as
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Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Louis J. Horvitz	7	07/05/1977 - 07/13/1977
Hal Alexander	3	07/14/1977 - 07/18/1977
Howard Storm	1	07/19/1977
Louis J. Horvitz, Jim Drake	1	07/04/1977

Name	Number of Episodes	Dates
Norman Lear	N/A

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