The Kallikaks is an American sitcom television series starring David Huddleston which centers around a family from Appalachia that moves to California to run a decrepit gas station.

[1][2] Jasper T. "J. T." Kallikak is a coal miner from Appalachia who inherits a run-down two-pump gas station in the fictional town of Nowhere, California.

Thinking that, as his own boss, he will have a better life, he moves his impoverished family — his overly affectionate wife Venus, his status-seeking teenage daughter Bobbie Lou, and his 10-year-old son Junior — from West Virginia to California to run the station.

J. T.'s boarder and only employee is Oscar Heinz, a German immigrant who can barely speak English and as a result often gets things mixed up.

The pumps at their gas station are rigged, and generally, their schemes to get ahead involve conning and cheating someone else.