Skip to content The characters were memorable.
The music was memorable.
And the adventures were designed to keep audiences coming back week after week.
Cooter Davenport fit perfectly into that world.
His garage provided a location where characters could meet, talk, plan and occasionally find solutions to their latest problems.
For Jones, the role brought widespread recognition and made his face familiar to audiences across the country.
But television fame can be complicated.
An actor may become so closely associated with one character that audiences begin to see the performer and the fictional personality as almost the same person.
Jones experienced that phenomenon throughout his life.
Even as his career expanded into politics and other pursuits, the name Cooter Davenport remained attached to him.