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The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that
aired from 1960 to 1968. The show centered around Andy Taylor, (played by
Andy Griffith), a rural
sheriff who rarely carried a gun. The series was an immediate hit with its
audience, and still enjoys success in syndication. Its whistled theme song ("The
Fishin' Hole", by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, with unsung lyrics by
Everett Sloane) is quickly identified by a significant portion of the public. The executive producer of the show was Griffith's manager, Richard O. Linke. However, it was producer Aaron Ruben's (writer for The Phil Silvers Show), Sheldon Leonard's (producer of The Danny Thomas Show), and Andy Griffith's attention to the scripts that was credited for giving the show its enduring quality. The Andy Griffith Show was based around widowed Sheriff Andy Taylor, raising his young son Opie (Ron Howard) in the rural North Carolina town of Mayberry. Sheriff Taylor was also the town's justice of the peace dispensing summary judgments. He apparently had jurisdiction in the surrounding county as well. The first episode begins with their family housekeeper getting married (by Andy) and moving away. This sets up the arrival of Andy's Aunt Beatrice (Frances Bavier; called Aunt Bee by nearly everyone) who moves in to help take care of Opie. Barney Fife (Don Knotts) had just been hired as Andy's deputy sheriff. (Barney was Andy's cousin, a fact mentioned only three times, early in the first season.) Barney and the three members of the Taylor household made up the nucleus of the show. Before long, other eccentric characters were introduced, including auto mechanic Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors from 1962-1964, whose role was spun-off into the series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and his cousin Goober Pyle aka "Goober Beasley" in one early script (George Lindsey), town drunk Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), hell-raising mountain man Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris), Aunt Bee's busybody best friend Clara Edwards (Hope Summers), absentminded barber Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), and the rest of the townsfolk. In 1964, Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut) was added to the show as a love interest for Sheriff Andy Taylor, and before long she was Andy's main girlfriend, until the series ended in 1968. DVD sets of "The Andy Griffith Show" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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