On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...
Griffith later admitted that the decision to bring Warren into Mayberry was a mistake. In Richard Kelly’s 1981 book The Andy Griffith Show, Griffith recalled how he and producer Bob Ross met Burns and ...
A fter the tremendous success of The Andy Griffith Show, it makes perfect sense that star Andy Griffith thought he could easily transition his career to movies. But as he shared in a ...