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{{short description|1990 American television series 1990–1994}}
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{{Infobox television
| image              = Evening Shade (television logo).png
| caption            =
| genre              = [[Sitcom]]
| creator            = [[Linda Bloodworth-Thomason]]<ref>{{cite news |title=The Sitcom Behind the Sitcom: Television: The countdown to an 'Evening Shade' rehearsal can be comedic. Just ask writer and producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 29, 1990 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-29-ca-2635-story.html |access-date=December 12, 2010 |first=Irv |last=Letofsky}}</ref>
| developer          = 
| starring           = {{Plainlist|
* [[Burt Reynolds]]
* [[Marilu Henner]]
* [[Michael Jeter]]
* [[Jay R. Ferguson]]
* [[Hal Holbrook]]
* [[Ossie Davis]]
* [[Charles Durning]]
* [[Elizabeth Ashley]]
* [[Ann Wedgeworth]]
* Linda Gehringer
* Charlie Dell
* [[Candace Hutson]]
* Jacob Parker
}}
| narrated           = Ossie Davis
| opentheme          = Instrumental theme <br /> by [[Sonny Curtis]] (1990–92)  <br /> Theme with lyrics <br /> by [[Bobby Goldsboro]] (1992–94)
| endtheme           = 
| num_seasons        = 4
| num_episodes       = 101
| list_episodes      = List of Evening Shade episodes
| country            = United States
| language           = English
| executive_producer = {{Plainlist|
* Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
* [[Harry Thomason]]
* Burt Reynolds
}}
| producer           = 
| camera             = 
| runtime            = 30 minutes <br /> (with commercials)
| company            = {{Plainlist|
* Bloodworth/Thomason Mozark Productions
* Burt Reynolds Productions
* [[MTM Enterprises]]
* [[CBS Productions]]
}}
| network            = [[CBS]]
| first_aired        = {{start date|1990|9|21}}
| last_aired         = {{end date|1994|5|23}} 
}}

'''''Evening Shade''''' is an American [[sitcom]] that aired on [[CBS]] from September 21, 1990, to May 23, 1994. The series stars [[Burt Reynolds]] as Woodrow "Wood" Newton, an ex-professional [[American football|football]] player for the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]], who returns to rural [[Evening Shade, Arkansas]], to coach a high-school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his character's former team because he was a fan.<ref>{{cite news |title=TELEVISION: The Dawning of 'Evening Shade': How the producing team of Harry and Linda Thomason lured Burt Reynolds and other movie heavyweights to a sitcom |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=February 17, 1991 |url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-02-17-ca-1839-story.html |access-date=December 12, 2010 |first=David |last=Wallace}}</ref>

The general theme of the show is the appeal of small-town life. Episodes often ended with a closing narration by [[Ossie Davis]], as his character Ponder Blue, summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-B-Q in [[Hot Springs National Park]].