Just an Old Sweet Song (1976)
- Director(s):
- Robert Ellis Miller
Synopsis of Just an Old Sweet Song
Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of three pilots for Down Home, a proposed TV series created by filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Hooks and Cicely Tyson star as Nate and Priscilla Simmons, the patriarch and matriarch of a middle-class Detroit family. Upon learning that their grandmother (Beah Richards) is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla pack up their kids and head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings. Robert Hooks' real-life sons (Kevin and Eric Hooks) appear as his screen sons, Junior and Highpockets. Just an Old Sweet Song was followed by two 60-minute sequels in 1978: Kinfolks (in which Madge Sinclair replaced Cicely Tyson as Priscilla Simmons) and Down Home. Alas, none of the three films yielded a weekly series. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Just an Old Sweet Song
- Mary Alice - Helen Mayfield
- Minnie Gentry - Aunt Velvet
- Robert Hooks - Nate Simmons
- Beah Richards - Grandma
- Kevin Hooks - Junior
- Edward Binns - Mr. Claypool
- Eric Hooks
- Lincoln Kilpatrick - Joe Mayfield
- Cicely Tyson - Priscilla Simmons
- Director(s):
- Robert Ellis Miller
- Writer(s):
- Melvin Van Peebles
- Producer(s):
- Philip Barry Jr.
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