Two clips. First, the opening from Movin’ On, the trucker series starring Claude Akins and Frank Converse, with Merle Haggard doing the theme music.
I have fond memories of this series, but the usual (“nostalgia is a moron”) caution applies. Fortunately, you don’t have to spend a lot of money to confirm or refute my thesis: you can watch all of the first season on Hulu for free. (It does not look like the pilot is included.)
Second, a series that I don’t have fond memories of, but which I recall my brother loving when he was a child. It isn’t on Hulu, but people have been uploading episodes to YouTube.
I know, I know: how can you go wrong with a man and a monkey? I guess there’s something about the plots that rubbed me the wrong way, as opposed to what I recall as the relative realism of Movin’ On. On the other hand, I do have to give the series credit: it did with one man (and a monkey) what it took The A-Team four men to do.
(My brother was also a big fan of The A-Team. I never got into it, but I do believe it was a better show than B.J. and the Bear.)