Evening Shade

She appeared in television adaptations of classic Hollywood films like A Letter to Three Wives, Sorry Wrong Number, Three Coins in a Fountain, in The Fountain, excuse me.

In the early 90s, she attempted to co-star with Reynolds on his sitcom Evening Shade, but the network was not fond of that idea.

And they replaced her with Mary Lou Henner.

After Delta Burke was fired from the sitcom Designing Women, producers offered Loni Anderson a role as her replacement, but they couldn't meet her salary demands.

Court.

What's the big guy who was on Evening Shade?

Charles Durning?

Yes,

... as the sleazy politician.

This was seen as his potential comeback film after years of a lot of flops, and obviously he has his TV show Evening Shade.

It seemed like there was that 70s renaissance happening in the 90s.

So Burt Reynolds coming in and there's that famous shot of him in the trailer where he's all oiled up in his underwear and his cowboy boots and his hat.

Hey, it's in the ballpark.

For a split second, Evening Shade.

[laughs]

Oh, all right.

She did that.

She had been on, um, Evening Shade.

Yeah, with Burt

... one episode of Evening Shade with Burt.

Uh- Uh, Dukes of Hazard, she was on one.

The band Mom's Home Man got to play on an episode of that.