B. J. and the Bear

Bring back old memories? B. J. and the Bear a comedy-drama television series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. The series starred Greg Evigan and Claude Akins. Greg Evigan stars as B.J. Billie Joe McKay, a professional freelance itinerant trucker who traveled the country's highways in a red and white Kenworth K-100 cab over semi truck with his pet chimpanzee, Bear named for Bear Bryant, the famed college football coach; this explains the chimp's choice of headwear. He was constantly harassed by Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo Claude Akins. Ben Cooper appeared in an episode of B.J. and the Bear and continued his "Waverly" character in The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo. In 1981, when the show returned from hiatus, B.J. had settled down to run Bear Enterprises, a trucking company based in Los Angeles. His nemesis was Rutherford T. Grant Murray Hamilton, the corrupt head of the state's Special Crimes Action Team, who was a silent partner in a competing trucking company. Because of Grant's harassment, B.J. was unable to hire experienced truckers, and he was forced to hire several beautiful young female truckers, including Grant's daughter Cindy Sherilyn Wolter, and another busty blonde nicknamed "Stacks" Judy Landers.