The required funds were supplied by a rancher named Donald McCoy, who became the film's producer.

In later seasons, harmonica player Charlie McCoy joined the cast and eventually formed the Hee Haw Band, which became the house band for the rest of the series ' run.

She became the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them Ramón Novarro, William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy.

After DeForest Kelley in 1964 stated his non-interest in playing the role, Roddenberry cast Nimoy because he knew him from a guest appearance in his pilot The Lieutenant ; after Roddenberry saw Nimoy's thin face and sharp features, no other actors were considered-Kelley, on the other hand, would later be cast as Dr. McCoy, the highly emotional human who became Spock's frequent foil.

Her marriage and recording début came in 1929, to and with Kansas Joe McCoy, when a Columbia Records talent scout heard them playing in a Beale Street barbershop in their distinctive ' Memphis style ,' and their song " Bumble Bee " became a hit.

When they arrived at the new ranch, which had been in the family ( it was originally owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who had died ), they gained a Mexican ranch hand named Pepino Garcia, played by the Puerto Rican-born Tony Martinez, who worked with them and eventually became a part of the family.

Miller soon became a first call session musician, gracing well over 500 albums, a short list of which includes Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Mariah Carey, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Grover Washington Jr., Donald Fagen, Bill Withers, Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Me ' shell Ndegé Ocello and Flavio Sala.

In addition to Orbison, Monument became home to a number of others including: Robert Knight, Kris Kristofferson, Jeannie Seely, Boots Randolph, Dolly Parton, Ray Stevens, Cindy Walker, Tony Joe White, Charlie McCoy, Willie Nelson, Tommy Roe, The Velvets, Connie Smith, Larry Jon Wilson, Larry Gatlin and Robert Mitchum.

McCoy also became the first Finnish artist to have a gold record in the US, when Samantha Fox recorded a cover of The Suicide Twins ' song " The Best Is Yet to Come ".

During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, McCoy AFB became a forward operating base for more than 120 F-100 Super Sabre and F-105 Thunderchief fighter bombers and the primary such base for U-2 reconnaissance aircraft flying over Cuba.

Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's " When the Levee Breaks " was reworked by Led Zeppelin, and became one of that group's most famous songs.

Following his departure from the series in Season 5, former Marine Danny McCoy ( Josh Duhamel ), Ed's former protégé, became the Montecito's new President of Operations.

That became the general opinion among New York sportwriters and another version of the genesis of the expression " the real McCoy " is that in later fights, the writers would invariably question whether " the real McCoy " would be fighting tonight.

After Mrs. Mors allegedly took her own life, McCoy claimed he became faint and could not remember anything further, including participating in the wild crime spree the following morning.

* Jay Andrews ( overnights ) worked from 1981 to 1984 and became the first McCoy show morning producer.

In 2008, Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child recorded her own version of his R & B hit " Daylight " with Travis McCoy of the Gym Class Heroes, which became a hit in the UK Singles Chart, where it was previously released as a single by Womack in 1976.

Vesterinen soon became the band's manager after talking with McCoy and Monroe.

A line dance which was called Hustle became an international dance craze in 1975 following Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony's song " The Hustle ".

Although he was not the first permanent white settler ( that distinction falls to a Baptist minister named Isaac McCoy who arrived in 1825 ), Campau became perhaps the most important settler of Grand Rapids when, in 1831, he bought what is now the entire downtown business district of that city from the federal government for $ 90.

He worked on a number of articles, three of which became books: Alexander Wilson: Naturalist and Pioneer ( 1961 ), The Real McCoy ( 1971 ), and The Hidden Northwest ( 1972 ).

The show became known in its Radio 1 incarnation for its cast of telephone characters created and performed by Gavin McCoy, Peter Dickson, Richard Easter and Phil Cornwell.

They moved into McCoy Stadium, where they remain today, and became known as the Pawtucket Red Sox.

They gained much more respect than McCoy and Quintal, who became alcoholics.

The television movie also starred Eric Roberts, Daphne Ashbrook, and the outgoing Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy.

McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

McCoy returned to the role of the Seventh Doctor in 1997, recording new audio for the video game Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors.

In the 2012 Doctor Who audio drama Gods and Monsters, Weyland was revealed to be an Elder God, and that he has been manipulating the Seventh Doctor ( Sylvester McCoy ) and some of his companions.

Ian Paisley, Andrew Gilligan, Ned Sherrin, Seventh Doctor & Sylvester McCoy, Sir Menzies Campbell, Ringo Starr, Nick Robinson, Sir Alex Ferguson, Alan Carr, John Reid, Stephen Fry

Sylvester McCoy would return as the Seventh Doctor three years later in the 1996 telefilm, while Peter Davison, after joining Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy in the Big Finish audio dramas series, would reprise the role of the Fifth Doctor 14 years later in " Time Crash "-another Children in Need special.

* An original draft of the script featured Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, meeting the Brigadier, Nicholas Courtney, en route to a UNIT reunion-and becoming involved in a battle with a crashed spaceship full of Cybermen.

From 1991 to 1997, all the books except the final one involved the Seventh Doctor, who was portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy.

In October 2012 an adaptation of Benny's debut story, Love and War will be published with Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace.

Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor

Not having expected to be producing season twenty-four, Nathan-Turner was left with little time to prepare, hiring inexperienced Andrew Cartmel as script editor on the advice of a friend who had run a BBC Drama Script Unit course that Cartmel had attended, and casting little-known Scottish actor Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

In 1990, an unspecified K-9 unit appeared with Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace in an episode of the children's education programme Search Out Science entitled Search Out Space, which was included as an extra on the release of the Doctor Who story Survival by the BBC.

Sophie Aldred has voiced Ace for several audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, alongside Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and, in some stories, Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield or Philip Olivier as Hex.

Bonnie Langford played Mel once again in the 1993 charity special, Dimensions in Time, and has voiced the character in a series of audio plays from Big Finish Productions, alongside Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy as the Sixth and Seventh Doctors.

" Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy opined that Piper was " wonderful in the role " and the relationship between her and the Doctor was " quite extraordinary ".

According to McCoy and script editor Andrew Cartmel, a number of Seventh Doctor stories were intended to satirise or protest the rule of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh incarnation of the Doctor, Silver Nemesis reflected a darker turn in Doctor Who storylines, with the intention being to reveal the secrets of the Doctor.

* The Seventh Doctor ( parts 1 & 4 ) — Sylvester McCoy

She also appears in two Doctor Who audio plays opposite Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace, as well as in over 50 audio plays based solely on Bernice.

In 1991, " The Wheel of Fortune ", then the only episode known extant, was released on VHS as part of The Hartnell Years ( BBCV 4608 ), presented by Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, with McCoy giving a brief're-cap ' of events before and after the segment, with additional information concerning its ' lost ' companions.

He had previously appeared in the show itself as a Time Lord in the 1969 serial The War Games opposite Second Doctor Patrick Troughton and later guested in the 1993 Doctor Who radio play The Paradise of Death alongside Third Doctor Jon Pertwee and the 2003 Doctor Who audio drama Flip-Flop alongside Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

* The Seventh Doctor — Sylvester McCoy