The Jimmy Dean Show: Episode 209

Before the opening title, Rowlf at his typewriter asks if the audience has heard of Peyton Place. He teases his own version, Kennel Place, with the first episode to appear later tonight. He remains at the typewriter during the announcer's cast intro. 
When his own spot begins, Rowlf reads from his typed script: "Presenting the new twice-a-week serial about the lives and loves of small-town dogs, Kennel Place, or, Peyton Place with tail." After finishing the intro, Rowlf narrates the opening in the room of teenage Airedale Allison. Her mother enters and says- "Hi, Rowlf!" as Jimmy Dean enters. Sticking to his script, Rowlf says "Hi, Mom" and asks to go to the dance with Rodney the retriever. Jimmy says yes before catching himself and asks what Rowlf's doing. Rowlf explains it's his new TV show, and Jimmy quips that if it's a hit, he can sell the movie rights to 20th Century Fox Terrier. 
Rowlf proceeds to explain the convoluted plot and enormous cast. It mostly involves Allison's complicated love life, and participants include her steady Hubert, the son of the rich cocker spaniel who owns the dog biscuit factory; the St. Bernard (town drunk) secretly engaged to Allison; the St. Bernard's dachshund son-in-law (because of the height difference, they don't see eye to eye); and the aforementioned retriever Rodney, who's actually in love with the daughter of the town baby doctor-slash-mailman ("He delivers litters!") As Rowlf introduces Bertha the Beagle, Sam the Schnauzer, and Constance the Collie to the mix, Jimmy says you need a score board to keep track of all the characters. Rowlf says that's how he plans to make money, selling score cards for a dollar each. "In the next episode, they elope." "Who elope?" "That'll cost you a dollar." ("Haven't you ever heard of pay TV?")
Rowlf asks Jimmy to do a script reading with him, of the big love scene (which Rowlf originally says as "love song" by mistake). As often happens, Jimmy is just cracking up by this point. The scene involves rugged retriever Rodney and dainty Airedale Allison. Jimmy is to read Allison's line. Soap opera organ music begins and Rowlf sets the scene with a knock at the door. The set lights dim, while Jimmy's cracking up again. In the "John!" "Marsha!" soap opera tradition, the initial dialogue consists of repeated "Hello, Rodney"/"Hello, Allison." Rowlf explains to Jimmy that's how TV serials work: "It takes twenty minutes for the characters to get acquainted." 
As the script continues, Jimmy-as-Allison has something to tell Rodney. Rowlf's melodramatic, lip trembling "You mean...?" cracks Jimmy up again. Still laughing, Jimmy struggles to say "I cannot marry you." Rowlf quips "You cannot deliver your lines, either," starting him off again, but pats Jimmy's head consolingly. Finally resuming, Jimmy's Allison says she's going to leave Rodney for good ("Good" from Rodney/Rowlf). Then comes a prolonged repeated goodbye between the two. Jimmy keeps coming back into the frame, and with higher voice, to add another "Goodbye, Rodney" ("Cool it, Allison!") Rowlf teases that the next episode involves much physical violence from Sam the Schnauzer towards Bertha the Beagle: he punches her in the mouth, tries to drown her, and pushes her off the cliff. Bertha worries that he's losing his love for her. Rowlf then segues into the song "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" (or in this case, "Dear Hounds and Gentle Puppies") with Jimmy joining in. At the song's conclusion, "Rodney" and "Allison" exchange a final goodnight, ending with Jimmy kissing Rowlf. 
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