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Gene Williams Show Now at the Branson Star Theater (Formerly The Yakov Smirnoff Theater beside Olive Garden on Hwy. 76)

The Gene Williams Country Music Television Show, the program that reaches more than 50 million households each week from Branson, Mo., is taped live at the Branson Star Theatre, formerly the Yakov Smirnoff Theatre beside Olive Garden on Hwy. 76.

Gene Williams, creator, producer, and star of the Lucas Oil sponsored Gene Williams Country Music Television Show, has announced the 2009 Show Schedule at his Theater. The 2009 Schedule and show times can be viewed by clicking here.

“For more than seven years we’ve taped my show at various, wonderful locations around Branson. I am happy to be in the Branson Star Theatre, formerly the Yakov Smirnoff Theatre beside Olive Garden on the world famous Hwy. 76. I know my audience will be comfortable there and we can have the benefit of the state-of-the-art lights and sound,” said Williams.
The next taping of the "Gene Williams Country Music Television Show" is Sunday, Feb 15, at the the Branson Star Theatre, formerly the Yakov Smirnoff Theatre beside Olive Garden on Hwy. 76.

The next taping of the "Gene Williams Country Music Television Show" is Sunday, Feb 15, at the Branson Star Theatre, formerly the Yakov Smirnoff Theatre beside Olive Garden on Hwy. 76. The show is taped live with a studio audience with free admission. Doors to the theater open at 1 p.m. Taping dates will follow approximately every third Sunday: Feb. 15, March 8, etc.

Mickey Gilley Replaces Ed McMahon as Gene Williams TV Show Announcer

Gilley holds the record for the most number of repeat appearances as a guest star on the Lucas Oil sponsored Gene Williams Country TV Show and has even hosted the show. From the Hollywood Walk of Fame to Gilley’s in Texas and then Branson, Gilley has had his own theater in the entertainment town since the ‘90s.

"My friend Mickey Gilley has supported me for the nearly eight years I have been doing my show in Branson. He substituted as a host several years ago when I was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. He has helped me tremendously and has been a regular guest. He talks about my show at every show he does in his Mickey Gilley Theatre and I return the favor on my show and talk about his live show here in Branson and his great career in country music," said Williams who began his country music television show in Arkansas 45 years ago.

"Among his 17 number-one hits biggest hits are Room Full of Roses, Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time, and the remake of Stand by Me. Early in my country music career I was booking country artists in different venues, and I put Mickey on my stage in Horseshoe Bend, Ark. It’s important to me that after decades, we are still great friends," said Williams.

Seen coast-to-coast and border-to-border and broadcast to more then 50 million homes weekly the Gene Williams Country Television Show is taped live at the Gene Williams Theatre inside the Branson Mall. The show’s co-host Katie Lynn is also one of Gilley’s Urbanettes and has worked with Gilley for more than eight years. Williams and Katie Lynn interview a celebrity guest each week and the guest and Katie Lynn perform with Williams’ Country Junction Band.

In addition to Gilley and McMahon, the TV show’s guests have included the Oak Ridge Boys, Roy Clark, Barbara Fairchild, Sons of the Pioneers, the Osmonds, Johnny Cash’s band The Tennessee Three, the Blackwood Brothers, Helen Cornelius, Johnny Lee, Little Jimmy Dickens, Porter Wagoner, Wanda Jackson and more.

"My good friend Ed McMahon was one of my first guests when I started my television show in Branson and I appreciate his introducing me each week with his characteristic ‘Herrrre’s Gene.’ After all these years, it was time for a change and Mickey willingly filmed a new opening and closing. Look for other country artists joining in soon and perhaps a mixture of celebrities including Ed McMahon on future shows," Williams said.

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