Originally telecast September 14, 1976, as a CBS "General Electric Theater" special, Just an Old Sweet Song was the first of three pilots for Down Home, a proposed TV series created by filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Robert Hooks and Cicely Tyson star as Nate and Priscilla Simmons, the patriarch and ...more
Year: 1976 | Running Time: 78 minutes
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- Mary Alice - Helen Mayfield
- Edward Binns - Mr. Claypool
- Minnie Gentry - Aunt Velvet
- Eric Hooks
- Robert Hooks - Nate Simmons
- Lincoln Kilpatrick - Joe Mayfield
- Beah Richards - Grandma
- Cicely Tyson - Priscilla Simmons
- Kevin Hooks - Junior
- Robert Ellis Miller - Director
- Philip Barry Jr. - Producer
- Melvin Van Peebles - Screenwriter
- Ray Beal - Art Director
- Argyle Nelson, Jr. - Editor
- Melvin Van Peebles - Composer (Music Score)
- Peter Matz - Composer (Music Score)
- Terry K. Meade - Cinematographer
- Ira Hawkins - Singer






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