Editing Hee Haw (section)

=== Creation ===
''Hee Haw's'' creators, [[Frank Peppiatt]] and [[John Aylesworth]], were both Canadian-born writers who had extensive experience in writing for variety shows. Inspired by the enormous prior success of rural sitcoms of the 1960s, especially on CBS, which included the small-town sympathetic ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]'', followed by the country-parodying ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[Petticoat Junction]]'' and ''[[Green Acres]]'', [[Peppiatt and Aylesworth]] sought to create a variety show catering to the same audience—although neither one had a firm grasp on rural comedy.<ref name=latimes>{{cite news|first=Greg|last=Braxton|title=rank Peppiatt dies at 85; co-creator of 'Hee Haw' |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2012-nov-09-la-me-frank-peppiatt-20121109-story.html|work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 9, 2012 |access-date=December 3, 2012}}</ref>

The producers selected a pair of hosts who represented each side in a divide in country/western music at the time: [[Buck Owens]] was a prominent architect of the California-based [[Bakersfield sound]] and one of the biggest country hitmakers of the 1960s. [[Roy Clark]], who had worked in Washington, D.C., and [[Las Vegas]], was a stalwart of Nashville's [[Music Row]] known for his skill at mixing music and comedy onstage. Both Clark and Owens had been regular guests on ''[[The Jimmy Dean Show]]'' during Peppiatt and Aylesworth's time writing for that series. Peppiatt and Aylesworth brought on two fellow Canadian writers with more experience in rural humor, [[Gordie Tapp]] and [[Don Harron]]; Harron would appear in the recurring role of "Charlie Farquharson", the rural anchorman for station KORN. The producers also scored a country comedy expert familiar to rural audiences in [[Archie Campbell (comedian)|Archie Campbell]], who co-starred in and wrote many of the jokes and sketches, along with Tapp, George Yanok and comedian [[Jack Burns]] (who himself had briefly replaced [[Don Knotts]] on ''The Andy Griffith Show'') in the sixth season.