television shows

If you grew up in the 1960s, you probably still remember the lyrics to this theme song:

Henry Colman, who died on Nov. 7 at age 89 in Los Angeles, began his career in network television when the medium was in its infancy, as an assistant to the director of Kraft Television Theatre in 1951. He went on to become an executive who had a hand in some of the most popular shows from the…

It's odd to think that a native of Canada created one of the most quintessentially American programs ever to air on television, one that celebrated the rough-hewn, folksy humor of the rural South and the musical genre that its people loved.