Roll Out! is a sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season. Starring Stu Gilliam and Hilly Hicks, and featuring Ed Begley, Jr. and Garrett Morris, the series was set in France during World War II and was loosely based on the 1952 film Red Ball Express.
One of the early episodes of M*A*S*H, titled "White Gold," cast Hilly Hicks as an opportunistic truck driver. This became the template for Roll Out!, and Hicks w...
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Roll Out! is a sitcom that aired Friday evenings on CBS during the 1973-1974 television season. Starring Stu Gilliam and Hilly Hicks, and featuring Ed Begley, Jr. and Garrett Morris, the series was set in France during World War II and was loosely based on the 1952 film Red Ball Express.
One of the early episodes of M*A*S*H, titled "White Gold," cast Hilly Hicks as an opportunistic truck driver. This became the template for Roll Out!, and Hicks was teamed with TV and nightclub comedian Stu Gilliam.
Actor Jimmy Lydon, familiar as a juvenile lead in the 1940s, was cast as an Army captain. His character's name was Henry Aldrich: the same name he used in Paramount's comedy features of the forties.
In an effort to cash in on the success of M*A*S*H, CBS decided to air another Army comedy. Instead of Army medics, Roll Out! highlighted the pratfalls of the supply drivers of the 5050th Quartermaster Trucking Company of the U.S. Third Army's Red Ball Express, whose staff was mainly African...
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