The Real McCoys

The Real McCoys

From the hills of West Virginia, Amos McCoy moves his family to an inherited farm in California. Grandpa Amos is quick to give advice to his three grandchildren and wonders how his neighbors ever managed without him around.

Genre: ComedyFamily

Cast:Walter BrennanRichard CrennaKathleen NolanTony MartinezMichael WinkelmanLydia ReedAndy ClydeMadge BlakeJanet De GoreJon LormerButch PatrickWillard WatermanStanley FarrarRobert FoulkMarjorie BennettEva NordeEddie QuillanOlan Soule


1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Farmer Took a Wife

Thu, Jul 16, 1959

The McCoys expect company: Kate's pickle-brained ex-beau and his wife.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Game Warden

Thu, Jul 23, 1959

There's a new game warden in town, and his name is George MacMichael.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Screen Test

Thu, Jul 30, 1959

Grampa resists tapping the cookie jar of the $25 needed to pay for Hassie's screen test.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Work No More, My Lady

Thu, Aug 6, 1959

Grampa and Luke give Kate a break from her family chores, including the cooking.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ The Garden Club

Thu, Aug 13, 1959

Kate is expecting some women from the Garden Club to visit, and is nervous about them asking her to join. Of course, Grampa makes the wrong impression and Kate is sure that she will not get the invite.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ The Weaker Sex

Thu, Aug 27, 1959

A new female neighbor makes a bad impression on Grampa by being better than him at almost everything.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Fighter and the Lady

Thu, Sep 3, 1959

Luke is set up by a traveling show to take part in a boxing match. Kate objects which leaves Grandpa to defend the McCoy family honor.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Gas Station

Thu, Sep 10, 1959

George opens a gas station, and he makes the mistake of hiring Amos.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Grandpa Fights the Air Force

Thu, Sep 17, 1959

Amos sneaks into an air base to complain about jet noise over the farm and accidentally touches classified material so when Luke and Kate come looking for Grandpa, they are all suspected of espionage.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Girls at Mom's Place

Thu, Sep 24, 1959

Grandpa and Kate are upset when Luke sells food on credit to a failing restaurant run by a widow and her daughter, but the McCoy patriarch softens his "no credit" stance considerably when he learns that the proprietress is attractive and spunky.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ The Politician

Thu, Oct 8, 1959

The McCoys are initially honored by a visit from supposedly "pro-farmer" Congressional candidate Jim Slade, but they decide to turn the tables when they learn that he has never been a farmer and is interested mainly in self-aggrandizement.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Pepino Takes a Bride

Wed, Oct 14, 1959

Granpda urges Pepino to marry his new girlfriend Rosita when he notices improvements in his work ethic, but the McCoys must first help him obtain a dowry by making a favorable impression on the girl's demanding Uncle Lopez.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Hot-rodders

Thu, Oct 22, 1959

Grandpa is stubbornly opposed to Hassie's friendship with hot rod enthusiast Eddie Collins and must be convinced that the young man is a serious engineering student and mechanic rather than a "hooligan".

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Ghostbreakers

Thu, Nov 5, 1959

To join a secret club known as the "Imperial Demons", Little Luke must go into an abandoned "haunted" house at night and succeed in taking a light all the way to the top floor.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Marriage Broker

Thu, Nov 12, 1959

Grampa tries to marry off a friend in danger of being deported.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ How to Build a Boat

Thu, Nov 19, 1959

Grampa and Luke attempt to build a rowboat.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ The Artist

Thu, Nov 26, 1959

After Amos mocks George's painting, cheap junk dealer Daggett pays twenty dollars for a painting by George at the McCoy farm so Amos encourages George's painting to be his manager unaware that Daggett has actually paid for the frame.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ The Perfume Salesman

Thu, Dec 3, 1959

Luke tries to sweeten the McCoy bankroll - by selling barn perfume.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ The Television Set

Thu, Dec 10, 1959

Everyone in the family wants to buy a TV with the $15 in the cookie jar. Well, almost everyone - Grampa wants a power saw, instead.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ The Lawsuit

Thu, Dec 17, 1959

George drives into a ditch on the McCoys' property, breaking their water pipe in the process. Grampa claims he posted a warning sign, but George claims there was no sign. A lawsuit ensues.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ The Town Councilman

Thu, Dec 24, 1959

Grampa manages George's campaign for town councilman.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Cousin Naomi

Thu, Jan 7, 1960

George's conniving cousin Naomi is nothing but trouble for the McCoys.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ The Bowling Champ

Thu, Jan 28, 1960

Kate becomes upset when she learns that Luke is teaching an attractive (and unattached) young woman how to bowl, but at Grandpa's urging she turns the tables by convincing a handsome younger man to provide her with bowling lessons of her own.

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ The Talk of the Town

Thu, Feb 4, 1960

Little Luke writes an essay revealing a secret about Grampa.

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ Once There Was a Man

Thu, Feb 11, 1960

Luke's recently married henpecked cousin Charlie and his wife come to visit.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Weekend in Los Angeles

Thu, Feb 18, 1960

Grampa, Luke, and Kate spend the weekend at a posh hotel in Los Angeles, while there to attend the Sons of the Mystic Nile convention.

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ First Date

Thu, Mar 3, 1960

Little Luke is highly resistant to the idea of taking tall and awkward Agnes Maypole to a school party, but when Grandpa finds the girl to be kind and considerate he becomes equally determined to compel the boy to honor his commitment to go ahead with the date.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ How to Discover Oil

Thu, Mar 10, 1960

Troubles flow when Grampa and George think they've struck oil on plots of land they've recently agreed to trade to each other.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ A House Divided

Thu, Mar 17, 1960

Granpa causes problems when he questions the way Kate disciplines the younger McCoys.

30Season 3

S3.E30 ∙ Foreman of the Jury

Wed, Aug 3, 1960

Grampa sues the electric company for leaving a gate open on the property, causing the death of his bull. The company wants to settle, but of course Grampa is sure he will win once he discovers that George is on the jury.

31Season 3

S3.E31 ∙ One for the Money

Wed, Aug 10, 1960

12-year-old Little Luke gets his first job as a paperboy, but when it comes time to deposit his earnings in the family cookie jar general fund, he chooses to spend the money on himself, instead.

32Season 3

S3.E32 ∙ That Was No Lady

Wed, Aug 17, 1960

Kate's newfound determination to wear a strapless dress to a church dance causes a rift in the McCoy family.

33Season 3

S3.E33 ∙ The Tycoon

Tue, Aug 23, 1960

Grampa refuses to join the Grange co-op, so he strikes out on his own to make his fortune in the egg business.

34Season 3

S3.E34 ∙ Where There's a Will

Tue, Aug 30, 1960

Grampa inherits some antique furniture from his recently deceased 94-year-old Uncle Willie.

35Season 3

S3.E35 ∙ The Jinx

Tue, Sep 6, 1960

Harm befalls members of the McCoy clan when sharing a task with Cousin Orval so, when Orval visits the McCoy farm, Grandpa and Luke hastily develop excuses to avoid chores involving Orval despite Kate's fragile skepticism.

36Season 3

S3.E36 ∙ The Delegates

Tue, Sep 13, 1960

Both Amos and George stoop to dirty politics, while campaigning for a trip to San Francisco as a delegate representing the Ancient and Loyal Order of the Sons of the Mystic Nile.

37Season 3

S3.E37 ∙ The Gigolo

Tue, Sep 27, 1960

In hopes of staving off foreclosure, Amos courts the elderly spinster holding the mortgage on the McCoy farm.

38Season 3

S3.E38 ∙ Teenage Wedding

Mon, Oct 3, 1960

When 16-year-old Hassie and her boyfriend Jerry impetuously announce their engagement, Grandpa's apparent approval causes considerable consternation among Luke, Kate, and Jerry's fastidious grandfather, J. Luther Medwick.

39Season 3

S3.E39 ∙ McCoys, Ahoy

Fri, Oct 7, 1960

Amos struggles against conflicting state government and military timetables to save a destroyer named after a West Virginian patriot when the ship is docked in Long Beach where it is to be scrapped.