Merle Haggard Played a Musician in a 1976 Episode of The Waltons
Acting gigs for
Merle Haggard, a country music legend and key cog in the Bakersfield Sound, range from an appearance alongside then-wife
Killers Three (1968) to a role in
Wag the Dog (1997). Yet those big screen appearances probably impress country folks less than Haggard s trip to
Haggard plays country singer Red Turner in
The Waltons season five episode The Comeback, which debuted on October 7, 1976. The Turner character first appeared in season two s The Gift and was originally portrayed by Ken Swofford. In The Comeback, Turner s still reeling from the death of his son, who d been played in The Gift by another favorite of classic country fans,