Great 50's t.v. Walter Brennan was excellent as the crotchety old Grandpa. Luke was occasionally a bit too simple-minded but the wife kept him from goofing up too bad. The  supporting cast was perfect as well. The show was about a family from West Virginia that moved out to California to farm. A show where family values were paramount. They were poor but they got by with help from each other and their neighbors. The reruns I watched a few years ago had some sound track issues. Any time there was music playing like during the intro music there is a lot of distortion in the higher frequencies. Quite irratating. Otherwise I enjoyed watching the old shows.

Couldn't get any more backwoods and hicky than this one.

I am very much in agreement with most of my fellow reviewers. Errol was correct to note a similarity between the Real McCoys and the Andy Griffith Show. The Real McCoys comes from the stable of shows created by Sheldon Leonard. In my opinion, Sheldon Leonard never had his name attached to a bad show. He was instrumental in bringing to television: The Danny Thomas Show (Make Room For Daddy), The Real McCoys, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, and Gomer Pyle USMC. The quality of the Real McCoys is similar to the other programs mentioned in that they were all comedy shows with no jokes. The humor was in the personalities of the characters. There are almost no wise cracks or put downs in any of these programs. (The exception being the wise crack exchanges between Buddy and Mel on the Dick Van Dyke Show. While still holding true to the basic formula, the Dick Van Dyke Show probably had the most humorous scripted lines) But it was the personality of the characters and not so much the dialoge that gave these shows their humor. Perhaps that is the indefinable quality that SolenoidDH was speaking about. I also agree with SolenoidDH that there was excellent chemistry with the cast, as was the case with all of Mr Leonard's creations. In my opinion, the Real McCoys lost a significant part of its soul when Kathy Nolan left the series. Walter Brennan made the show, but without Kate the viewers felt as if there had been a death in the family. All in all it remained a quality show from beginning to end. Over forty years later it's still one of the best half hours a person can spend in front of the TV.

This show has an indefinable quality. There is a warmth to it, good chemistry among the actors. It is vastly under-rated. Walter Brennan was one of a kind. Also, the characters have unexpected names: Luke, Little Luke (?), and Hassie - not the kind of names you would expect someone to make up. I wish I could express what is special about this program, but the words aren't there. It was just really good, where (with most of the plots, at least) everything came together just right. It's a shame that it is rarely shown.

I allways liked this show.

I have great memories of this show. It reran on TNN about a year or so ago.

This is a great show that is way underrated and isn't seen by enough people. I don't know why it isn't in reruns more often. The cast is great, especially Walter Brennan. The show was able to be very funny but also could be warm and sentimental. It was similar to Andy Griffith in that regard and in other ways as well.

The Real McCoys sounds like a good show, but belive me, it's extremly boring and it makes The Andy Griffith Show seem like god.