The Real McCoys - Cancellation

Cancellation

For its first three seasons, The Real McCoys was the lead-in program on the ABC Thursday lineup for The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom, which aired from 1957-60. The Pat Boone series was succeeded in 1960 by Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons. For several seasons, The Real McCoys followed The Donna Reed Show.

Although the series had ranked in the Top 10 the entire time it was on ABC, it fell into disfavor after being sold to CBS. It was cancelled in the summer of 1963. Factors in the cancellation were the changes in the series (the death of the character Kate), its new Sunday evening time slot opposite NBC's Bonanza, and CBS's concentration on another rural show, Buddy Ebsen's The Beverly Hillbillies, which had become the #1 entry on television.