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Morton &amp; Hayes
Morton & Hayes was a comedy television series, shown Wednesday nights at 8:30 on CBS. The series was centered on the "rediscovered" work of a fictitious comedy duo; each episode presented a newly discovered Morton & Hayes comedy short from the late 1930s or early 1940s.
Six episodes were shown from July 24 to August 28, 1991. The series pilot, entitled "Partners In Life", aired approximately a year earlier on August 31, 1990, featuring a somewhat modified premise and
actual series) played Eddie Hayes, while Joe Guzaldo played Chick Morton. As in the series, Reiner introduced the show ... but here in the character of "Max King III", the grandson of the producer of the original Morton & Hayes films. The faux-40s Morton & Hayes film shown in this pilot was in color, not black-and-white, and according to Reiner, the comedy duo was more of a "Hope–Crosby type team“ in this pilot than the Abbott & Costello or Laurel And