Tumbleweed Theater

Tumbleweed Theater is an American anthology television series starring western/comedy band Riders in the Sky which ran from 1983 to 1988.

The premise of the show was each week, the Riders would present a B-Western/Singing Cowboy movie from the 1930s and 40s and perform songs and sketches between the film.

The first "musical/comedy show" was a pilot shot on 1" type B tape from a borrowed video truck from Leon Russell (thanks to Jim Martin).

The remainder of the season (26 shows) was at WSMV studios (Knob Hill) (Larry Bearden as shader) (1" type C).

TNN would later revisit the idea of showing classic black and white B-Westerns with Roy Rogers' Happy Trails Theater and Gene Autry's Melody Ranch.