The Life of Country Music Icon Dolly Parton

In 1976, she premiered her syndicated television show, Dolly, giving her a new platform beyond records, concerts, and The Porter Wagoner Show. The program helped present her as a full entertainer, not only a country singer.

That same period marked the formal end of her long professional association with Porter Wagoner. After years of television exposure through his show, she was now trying to carry a series under her own name, and the pressure to succeed was growing.