The series originally aired in 1968 as a continuation of The Andy Griffith Show … do you remember what happened? When Andy ...

The Andy Griffith Show , Don Knotts, 1961 Notes de Vise, "Don very cleverly and consciously played against that image with ...

In the late 1950s TV was relatively new in our rural community. Those in my age group felt very fortunate to have that “snowy ...

it seems clear that the Griffith Show was not really about a father and his son, nor a widower and his aunt. It was about a sheriff and his deputy. The bond between Andy and Barney was the essence ...

By the show’s eighth season in 1968, Griffith was ready to shed his Andy Taylor sheriff uniform for newer roles, as he told the Archive of American Television in 1998. “[Barney Fife actor Don ...

When The Andy Griffith Show made its debut in 1960 ... Opie (Ron Howard), the value of honesty or reminding Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts) about the importance of humility, his lessons were ...

Most of the other stars – Andy Griffith; Don Knotts, who played his deputy, Barney Fife; and the actors who played Aunt Bee and Floyd the Barber – they've all passed on. After all, it's been ...

“That was golden for us,” Mr. Griffith told the Star, “that Barney should be the comic and Andy should be the straight man. And after that we added the other comedic characters, and it ...

Howard told the magazine Griffith and Knotts made it easy to be creative in front of cameras because they shared a mutual respect for each other’s talent. “Andy was the world’s greatest ...