Every one of these characters left a lasting impression that has endured a whole lifetime! I have never grown tired of watching the episodes the last 62 years! I love every one of them!
The power with Andy is that I felt he was the smartest person in town. Always plays like he’s just a simple man but his eyes are observing. And always helps to patch things up as well as learn lessons from the other characters. If he had played it more comical then his character would not have given the viewers the secure and humble person that helped to balance all the nutty characters in town.
@@fair2middlin not entirely, the intent was for Andy to be the comical relief and you can see it in the first season. However Andy realized that Barney was the true comic relief and Andy started playing the straight guy. Even Andy's accent changed and he became less Southern in the way he spoke.
Also when Deputy Fife screwed things up like shooting a gun by accident, Andy would just look at him and take his gun away. Or he would have to tell Fife to relax and back off on writing too many tickets or throwing people in jail. Andy was always the steady character.
What separates "The Andy Griffith Show" from sitcoms of more recent decades are the following: 1. Each recurring role character was considered a real person who was never made fun of nor who made fun of the other characters. 2. Each storyline was based on believable happenings. 3. The scripts were not filled with "put down" jokes, "fabrications," and one-up replies by comedy writers, aimed to fill dialogue with curse words and/or sexual references. Today's humor is garbage (for the most part) compared to the wholesome humor as portrayed in 60's sitcoms ("The Andy Griffith Show'" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" are two such memorable classic programs.
Barney did refer to Thelma Lou’s cousin Mary Grace as “a dog” several times in one episode, which really surprised me. That’s the only really nasty incident I can recall from TAGS. My favorite character might be Floyd the barber. He had such a funny and genuine quirky delivery of his lines & priceless facial expressions. My favorite episode might be “The Manicurist”; Barbara Eden was great with perfect comedic delivery. Watching the men in the barber shop falling all over themselves trying to escape volunteering for a manicure was hysterically funny. The first season was good but Andy’s accent was way over the top. His character fell into line much more honestly when he went with his natural southern accent and acted more responsible. By second season he’d gotten it right. I loved his many scenes with Opie (who was my same age when the show started) where he has just the right “wise dad” advice. And love and discipline too. I always got a kick out of the Darlings. I never liked Ernest T; he was beyond the pale irritating and just plain ridiculous. Also loved the episode where Barney bought the car from the “little old lady” who later played Grangma Walton, Ellen Corby. And the classic Christmas episode with “Scrooge” Ben, who was perfect & Ellie sang “Away in a Manger”; it hit all the right Christmas spirit heartstings spot on!
@@Treechris23 Barney also called the girls dogs when talking to Andy at Mrs. Wiley's party. Barney also said a women is "uglier than homemade soap" in another episode.
Don Knotts made the show what it was. Andy's recognition of the need to allow Don to be the comic and him to be the straight man may have been one of the most genius choices in television history!
@Tony Smith Wasn’t the first Season Barneyless ? From what I remember Don Knotts called Andy Griffin and pitched the idea of “ you need a Deputy “ and Griffin agreed and then the show found its voice
@@dagnabbit6187 No, Barney was in the first season from the very first show. He told Andy he needed a deputy based off the pilot that was on The Danny Thomas Show. But Barney was definitely in the first season.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 Well maybe there were episodes Barney wasn’t in and that confused me . I Googled it and you are right . Well at least I was right about how Knotts got the job.
@@dagnabbit6187 yes there were several episodes that Barney didn't appear during the first 5 seasons. Some of those episodes that Barney didn't appear in were actually pretty good, but Barney definitely made the show better.
I absolutely adored the Andy of Mayberry. Millions of us tuned in every week to watch Andy of Mayberry. I was watching it not long ago on ABC channel at 8:00 PM's...
My daddy managed a small town grocery store that was a part of a cbain. He made signs like that to go in the store windows. He had a great way of printing, making letters and numbers stand out about the specials of the week. This was a few years after he was discharged from serving in WWII.
My daddy managed a small town grocery store that was a part of a chain. He made the signs of the specials of the week that went in the windows. He had a great way to print the letters and numbers that stood out . This was soon after he was discharged from the army after World War II.
My favorite episode has always been "Aunt Bea's Pickles". The kerosene cucumbers, oh my what a hoot. "Opie the Birdman" was amazing as well. The best line ever was at the end when Opie released the birds. "Gee Paw, the cage sure seems empty. Yes son it sure does, but don't the trees seem nice and full."
I believe the episode was called, "The Pickle Story". It IS hilarious from beginning to end. Especially funny is when barney goes out to the Junction to get rid of aunt Bee's "Kerosene Cucumbers" as barbey called them. It is hard for myself as a diehard fan of thr show to actually choose any particular favorite. One more note. This clip is called "The CHARACTER Andy hated not the actor. After seeing this a while ago, I am on full agreement with Andy on this. Every town needs a mayor but the very idea of city and county in the sane building and the mayor being over the sheriff is too far fetched. I'm sure Don Knotts felt the same way. BTW Andy having a deputy was Don's idea and he really added a lot of zest to the show! The two were inseparable until Don's death.
@@jackkircher1755 I would love to be able to go back to those days ....it was so much peaceful than today ..im sure everyone has their own great memories...
Aunt B's pickles? I don't remember seeing that one. You see the one where a suspect was accused of something, ? Been so long ago, I don't remember. Aunt B was on the jury, they were going to send him to prison , but Aunt B , had this feeling he was not guilty. Towards the end of the show, they caught the real person who did it , great episode. With time not stopping, we have lost many actors. RIP to every single one of them.
@@Fargo2024 Mayberry was an and still is a wonderful place. The reality is it was during the Vietnam war years or Korean war. JFK assassination etc. But Mayberry I visist most nights like tonight and fall into a peaceful sleep :)
They were actually the best of friends according to countless other videos, and articles. I feel he misrepresented what actually happened with the contracts. Andy loved Don like a brother and it was mutual.
I have my favorite episode recorded. It's the one where Opie was saving his money and wouldn't give any to a charity so he could buy his girlfriend Charlotte a coat.
Susan, that is my favorite because he was stubborn but wouldn't relent in holding on to more than 2 more pennies and just giving one 1cent to charities. He wanted to hold on to save for that little girl that needed a new sweater or coat. I just love Opie for wanting to save for his girlfriend. LOL
These mini-documentaries always mention Don Knott's Universal Movie Contract issue, but Andy and Don were always tight, very close friends with no issues.
Griffith told Knotts to look for future opportunities since he planned on ending the show after 5 seasons. After changing his mind, Griffith was not stupid enough to think Knotts could get out of his other commitments. He mentioned 'trouble' between them. So much trouble that Knotts appeared in several episodes as a one off guest shot. Hmmmm.
@@bowtieguy377 Really? I didn't know that. That's very interesting. Thank you for the information. Don Knotts was a really good and funny actor in that movie.
I agree, I liked the Dillards music. You want believe it, but I live in Chicago Illinois but I liked the country, hillbilly, music. Ernest T was a hilarious, funny, character too.
@@regeniapope4089 even as a child, I could always tell when the actors were really playing the instruments. A great example is the Marx brothers. Harpo, and Chico, it was quite obvious too, but Groucho was a very good guitar player. One movie, he's playing guitar, while riding in a boat. Dont recall the name of the movie, and he isnt playing for long but easy to see he could play quite well.
Miss Ellie was my favorite of all the women Andy dated. I really enjoyed seeing a smart, educated, lovely young lady get the best of Andy. Since these actors didn't like each other off screen, it made their performance in the show even more layered to see.
Timeless show, still fun to watch after all this time. Combination of all the characters and guest stars made the show. Miss Ellie (Elinor Donahue) was beautiful like a flower in a field.
Miss Ellie would have made a great wife for Andy in my opinion. Beautiful, intelligent, and self-assured. I couldn't stand the Helen Crump character, she seemed very domineering and unlikable.
@@don_cc123 I agree. I guess that Andy had trouble playing off of Elinor when shooting. The chemistry just wasn't there. Elinor didn't think that the male writers wrote well for her part. She was definitely nice to watch.
I liked when Mayor Stoner realized he had been tricked in letting the band represent the own. The look on his face when they start playing on the bus was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
My favorite mayor was Mayor Pike. Thank you for the video. I watch every episode I can. Thanks to cable I watch The Andy Griffith show 4 hours a day during the week. I love this show and never get tired of it.
I remember when Andy got into trouble with Aunt Bea's birthday present. He wanted to give her canning stuff! She was eyeing a beautiful bed jacket. Andy had to trade his beloved fishing pole to the Mayor in order to get it from him to give to Bea.
I remember an episode explaining why Otis always came into the jail and locked himself up. Andy was talking to a visitor (forget who) when Otis stumbled in, took the keys off the peg next to the cell, entered the cell, closed and locked the cell door, reached through the bars to put the keys back on the peg and then curled up in bed, leaving the visitor dumbfounded. Andy explained it was just too time consuming to go out and arrest Otis every time he got drunk, so Andy had made Otis a Deputy so he could just arrest himself whenever he had too much to drink. Otis, being a dedicated Peace Officer, always fulfilled his duty! BTW, there were also a couple of episodes when Andy actually needed an extra Deputy and a SOBER Otis donned a uniform and stepped up to the plate!
Pyke smiled but Stoner was always serious as could be! "Hollywood comes to Mayberry" was my favorite Pyke episode while "the loaded goat" was my favorite stoner episode.
Barney was always my favorite character and I couldn’t watch it after he left. All the characters were wonderful but Barney was needed for the comedic timing. He played so well against Otis, Floyd and the other characters that is was funny to see Andy have to referee the arguments or shutdown their crazy schemes and ideas.
@@russgrunert4730 when I'm watching reruns, I'll change the channel as soon as I see Warren walk through the door. The only exception is the episode where Barney comes back and meets Warren. But, even in that episode, Warren is a Friggin Idiot.
So many great episodes, I have a ton of favorites, especially the one with the guy from out of town who needed his car fixed. And any of the episodes with Ken Lynch, who always played some kind of law enforcement heavy.
The episode "Mr McBeevee" always got to me! It was so endearing that a dad believed his son! The end always cracked me up when Andy calmly said, "Mr. McBeevee," then he came down from the tree and shook his hand! I Loved Opie, he was so young and cute as a button!
@@sassysavageshannon6205, those are the days when TV shows had a moral message for their viewers. The times were innocent and sweet. I also loved watching: "Little House on the Prarie." Always a great message in each episode. Sadly, in these times, the shows on TV have no meaning to them. All respect and morals have been thrown out the window! Anything goes on TV, even the commercials have no boundaries, and some are embarrassing to watch! TV has crossed the line when it comes to: "sex and violence! Most talk shows subjects have no limits. Then we wonder why a lot of kids today have no respect.
That episode makes me cry every time. Especially when Andy says "but, i believe in Opie". it's a defining character moment for both Opie and Andy. We all know Opie is a good kid and Andy starts to fully realize just how good of a kid he is. He's still a kid and will make mistakes, but at his core, he's always going to do his best to do the right thing.
I loved the way that Andy Griffith was allowed to have church scenes where the actors and actresses were singing old fashioned Christian hymns to the old fashioned Christian music. He was also allowed to have an actor play an old fashioned preacher giving a good sermon. They even had a chorus in the church who sang old fashioned Christian hymns with old fashioned Christian music! Everyone dressed up for church too. I go to an Independent Baptist church and we sing old fashioned Christian hymns to old fashioned Christian music. We have a preacher who preaches old fashioned sermons. We members dress up for church too. Yes, all of the men wear suits with ties and all of the ladies, including me, wear dresses to church. 💒🙏🕊
That’s beautiful! I see that happening around my neighborhood with some of the seniors and their children and grandchildren. It’s a beautiful site to see! 🥰
Don and Andy remained very good friends from before the show. Andy visited Don on the day Don died. Andy and Don talked briefly. Andy sang at Dons bed side.
Love him or hate him, ole Ben the stingy store owner was pretty good in his roles; and I liked the old bank guard, too. Clean, good fun without all today’s put down , insulting jokes.
I still watch the Andy Griffith show on a pretty regular basis. They play several episodes daily on TVLand & MeTV... People had respect for each other back then, unlike most people today, unfortunately!... I wish I lived in those more innocent times! I always say that I was born too late!
TVLand chops a lot off the episodes, which originally ran 25 minutes. Now the episodes are only 20 min long. Thank Paramount, everything they touch turns into shit, packed full of overamped tv commercials. Look what they did to CBS... 'Nuff said.
Andy was a great single father to Opie . His life lessons to Opie were stern and caring at the same time .When he has Opie listen to the baby birds crying for their mother I absolutely cry like a baby .
I have seen them all many times & never get sick of them. Jack Nicholson had a small role in one episode, back before he became a big movie star. Best sitcom ever.
Yes, Jack's wife in the episode you speak of left her baby at the front door of the sheriff's office. Andy gave them a good lecture when they came back to claim the baby.
I have the cd collection and watch it nightly. I never tire of it and fall asleep watching it. I wish they still had the set on the 40 acre lot. I definitely would of visited it when I could. R.I.P to the great characters of Mayberry.
I've gone to sleep to the first five seasons for 11 years now. It's the perfect noise cover for an early to bed guy... No foul language. No violent outbursts. No explosions (save Barney shooting the floor). And once I'm tired, I just roll over, and watch the show on the back of my eyelids - then I'm out. And I liked their "little, fat mayor" the best. He was always very agreeable - in the end. But Andy was right. The Sheriff is an elected official who runs his office as he sees fit... ... But Aaron did have a Midas touch. Peace to all.
That's the thing, when you watch it takes you back to a peaceful time when right was right and wrong was wrong. Women were women and men were men. Now everything is completely insane. It's getting so you caint trust anyone.
My Grandma raised me. This was our jam. As well as random 1932 onwards things and stories. She passed in 2017 tho while I was out of the country. 🥰 missing my Grammy y'all. Even missing those boring pbs shows plus infomercials about the music mixes of the 60s 70s and 80s weekends and repeat vhs tapes😆👌thanks for the non drug induced flashback 🥰✌
He was good friends with Howard McNear. You see him in the clip with Robert Conrad when they were on the radio version of Gun Smoke. I have read that he gave the eulogy at McNear's funeral.
Love the "Barney Buys a Car" episode. All the regular cast members were there along with Gomer Pyle and Thelma Lou. Great character roles by Ellen Corby and Allan Melvin as well. Melvin seemed to show up again and again in this series, but my memory says he played a different character in each appearance.
The Andy Griffith Show in the town of Mayberry is a place I want to live today. A friendly small town community where neighbors actually cared about human beings and no technology to screw with the minds of young people today. 2021 is a far cry to the simplicity of life in the 60s
Do remember it was fictional. While the values were there, they were not always practiced. Folks who grew up in a small town can verify that - as with all places, there was good and there was bad. The difference is in a small town everyone knows it so usually folks are careful because they know everyone will know.
@@politicallyincorrect869 That totally depends on the small town. In theory they are; however, some are horrible unless you are in the group in control. It's why so many people leave small towns when they are grown.
"Aunt Bee" was burnt out from acting the same old character. She mentioned that. Andy Griffith said Frances Bavier was "too sensitive." That show is still great even on this day and forward!
Maybe she was, but there is still only one Aunt Bee. The role was made for her. I think she did a good job. She was an excellent actress. Maybe she wanted them to widen her role or give her more opportunities in her role on the show, who knows?
Pike was a more likeable Mayor that Stoner. Pike seemed more laid back and was probably well liked by the town; whereas Stoner came across as a tinhorn politician who was more concerned with his image than the town and it's people. Rafe Hollister was a prime example. Even though he won for his beautiful singing voice, Stoner didn't like his looks; completely judging a book by its cover. He then became even more of a weasel by giving (making it sound more like an oder actually) Andy the job of telling Rafe he couldn't represent the town. It was a similar situation for Pike when Otis was to be awarded a plaque for the efforts of his ancestor Nathan Tibbs; While he was concerned about Otis being awarded a plaque, his concern was understandable since it was likely that Otis would show up drunk; which fortunately he didn't.
Pike was a more likeable guy for sure but I actually liked Mayor Stoner because of the episodes he was in. He was younger and could do some physical comedy like the time he got mauled by a bear in the bushes... Good stuff!
I've been watching it every work day during the pandemic while I work from home. I've probably seen all of the black and white episodes 20 times. They had a bunch of later famous guest stars like Barbara Eden, Jerry Van Dyke, Gavin McCloud, Don Rickles, Lee Van Cleef and Buddy Ebson. The most wholesome show ever.
@@grant1739 he was IMO...weirdly funny though. I believe nearly 100% would say that Barney was the funniest character on that show and likely any show at any time in tv history. I have to include Hank Kimball on Green Acres as funny as anyone ever as well.
Through a mutual friend, I had breakfast with Betty Lynn in Mt. Airy about two years ago and she was amazing. Very current on politics & current events...her memory from the show was if it was filmed five years ago. She said she still watches it when it's on TV and that the actors came to set with a very serious attitude because film was so expensive and that "breaking character" or laughing would cost money.
I liked Mayor Pike better for the most part. There was just one time that Stoner was really funny. That was when he got hammered on the spring water in Barney and the Governor.
10 years ago today on July 3rd 2012 millions of Americans mourned the death of Andy Griffith but his legacy as a beloved tv icon will never be forgotten the world misses him everyday and we will always love him
My favorite episode was when Opie accidentally killed a bird who had babies in a nest. I did the same thing as a kid but it was with a daisy b-b rifle. I felt so bad when I saw the bird fall to the ground and seen that it was dead. It made me cry. The next favorite episode was where Barney got the whole town to help find Helen and Andy who were thought to be in a cave that had a cave-in. Barney has been wrong so many times that Andy didn't want him to be wrong on this major one that involved so much work digging through racks and dirt. Andy and Helen had found a way out, and were in no danger. They heard about Barney setting up an attempt to save them on the radio so they went back into the cave where they could be rescued. After the rescue, Barney's girl said Barney is such a great guy and Andy's girl said so is Andy. Very touching. Excellent!!!
Sadly, we just lost " *Maggie Peterson Mancuso* (January 10, 1941 - May 15, 2022) appeared in episodes of _The Andy Griffith Show_ (notably as Charlene Darling), _Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C._ and _Mayberry R.F.D._ She has appeared in the films _Angel in My Pocket_ (with Andy Griffith), _The Love God Maggie Peterson Mancuso (January 10, 1941 - May 15, 2022) appeared in episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (notably as Charlene Darling), Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. and Mayberry R.F.D. She has appeared in the films Angel in My Pocket (with Andy Griffith), The Love God? (with Don Knotts) and the TV movie Return to Mayberry (as Charlene Darling). T.V. movie _Return to Mayberry_ (as Charlene Darling). *She's now n Heaven with her family & friends, and friends from Mayberry!*
Ernest T was my absolute favorite. My father enjoys the Darlings. I think my favorite scene is when Ernest T steals the bride. "Oh Charlene. Say you'll be mine. You will be mine. Say you'll be my belovded." 😆 And Barney takes the veil off. "I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on Earth." Then he chases him back to Andy with a shotgun. 😆 Or they lock him up and he escapes. Also when he's on a rampage when he doesn't get his uniform. Barney keeps saying "He's a nut." 😆 Ernest T should have been on more. I can only remember 3-4 episodes with him.
Favorite Mayor was Pike. Having a Mayor "over" Andy was good for the show. It kept Andy in check to a point but challenged Andy to outsmart his superiors but not in a confrontational way.
Andy was right for not wanting a Mayor since the Mayor worked for the city whereas the sharif's office was a COUNTY branch. I'm glad there were only a few episodes involving the STATE police.
When I met "Mayor Stoner" it was at a staged radio show where I was doing several characters and he was our guest. I couldn't help myself, and launched into "Barney Fife", which kind of freaked him OUT, to tell the truth! He said it was "too real", and asked that I not do it, again. LOL
It was a great show and I have nothing bad to say about it. It portrayed a sweet little town with family values and also had a very personal side to it.
@@jamessilva7991 Well, yeah....Still do! But among some 721 voices I do. Barney, Andy, Gomer, Goober, Floyd, Aunt Bea, mostly. The funniest ones. ;) You can check out G2tube if you want more voices, but my Barney was used for a British cartoon called "Matisse", as the dog catcher. He can also briefly be heard on my voice demo on Facebook, if you like. G2voices is the page.
I grew up living really close to Andy, he was a cool dude, he collected old cars and would give us rides sometimes, he had one car that was so old it didn’t have a steering wheel, it had a tiller like a sailboat, push it forward for left, pull towards you right, he had a son named Sam who died of an OD at a young age, he was a nice man who was not pretentious as much of Hollywood was, also knew Ron and Clint Howard but not very well, Clint was a stoner and was chill, Ron I didn’t know very well but he seemed cool, Cheers🤙🏽🍀💚🏄🏻♂️🍻
When you watch TV shows and movies, you are entering into a fantasy world. I am sure you thought to yourself many times, "Oh yeah, as if that would happen in real life."
@@lynettepalecek3141 I think it was also the writing. During the color years even the episodes where Barney made an appearance weren't as magical as the first 5 seasons.
@@thisisme3238 Barney was the highlight of the show, but it was also the supporting cast, writers, producers, etc that made it all possible. It was like a great rock and roll band that captured lightning in a bottle.
The early years were the best when Andy was still somewhat country. In the late years he was more dignified and when Warren came on the show, that was the end of it. When the show changed to Mayberry RFD, that was like watching paint dry.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 I had read that somewhere. Jerry found his perfect role as Luther Van Dam on the show Coach. That was a great show, well written.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 I never really watched Coach but what I saw of it I enjoyed. The one episode he played on TAGS, I thought he did a pretty good job, but the fans would have rejected anyone replacing Barney at the point. I think the show should have done a better job of preparing the fans for Barney leaving the show. I feel like if the fans could have had a proper goodbye they may have accepted a replacement for Barney a little easier.
@@PegasusBYU It wasn't just Warren, almost all of the characters, even the ones we loved like Otis, Ernest T, and Goober, became silly and boring in the later years.
Tough call between mayors. Pike was hilarious in the "Hollywood Come to Mayberry" episode. Especially when they debate over whether they will make fun of the "fat little mayor". And Stoner was such a buffoon. I loved the episode where he denies (initially) the Mayberry Band to go to Raleigh. Then Andy brings in some ringers to convince Stoner otherwise. The episode ends with the band leaving town in a bus playing music in a God awful fashion as Stoner realizes he had been had. Great television!
The Andy Griffith show is the best!!!!!! It show's family value's, kindness, and loving family living!!!! I watch it everyday, and record it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...... 🥀🥀🥀🥀.... From the Motor City!!!!!....
@@JillKirchner yes, but Don Knotts wanted some ownership in the show, that was one of the reasons he left the show. Andy Griffith said it was miscommunication.
@@nealbarkett8512 you are correct. We always hear Don left because he thought the show was ending after 5 seasons, that may have been part of it, but he also wanted part ownership in the show and Andy wouldn't give it up
I liked mayor Pike. Mayor Stoner was a jerk. However, one of my most favorite episodes was Barney and the Governor.Otis spiked the spring water. Mayor Stoner and Barney get smashed.
I think it played well that there was a boss over Andy but that Andy was smarter and ultimately, in selfless ways always came out on top. This created some fun plots and story lines.
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I am sorry I must be honest. I loved very much watching the show. I was a country girl too. I remember the Mayors but Andy was my main focus. It never mattered about the Mayor being there or not. Andy and his son would be what my eyes wanted to see the most.
i thought the most of them both, they each had a flare about them, that helped the show. but i will say this, once Gomer and Barney left the show, it was never the same. thanks for these great video's.
My kids, who are 17 and 23 know this show 50 plus years after it was made. I don't think anyone will know, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" 50 years from now.
@@martyzielinski1442 I said I like the show, but Andy and Opie aka Ron themselves developed into modern thinkers who would likely agree with me. Times were better for select people only.
My favorite mayor of "The Andy Griffith Show" was mayor Pyke. He tried hard to lead the town of Mayberry and Andy always made it seem like it was the mayor who made the right decision regardless of the matter. "We tried to tell 'em, didn't we Andy?" Of course, mayor Stoner was good, too. Mayor Pyke wins my vote.
There were blacks living in Mayberry in those days, perhaps because the blacks came out exclusively after dark? I'm thinking that Mayberry may have been a SUNDOWN TOWN! Somebody please explain this...was it because North Carolina had a city ordinance providing integration?
My parents had introduced me to the Andy Griffith Show WAYYYY back in the 1990’s (I was born in 1991) & I have ALWAYS ADORED the innocence & Purity of the Good People of Mayberry, North Carolina. I have ALWAYS wondered “Where is the town of Mayberry? Is it a real place or not?” It is SO GOOD to see that it was a fictional town based off of Andy Griffith’s actual Home Town...
I grew up with the town of Mayberry and thought Andy was a great father figure who always seemed to have the right words to say. I will still watch the ole show from time to time and still enjoy it.
I still watch The Andy Griffith Show most every day during the week in mini-marathons on a several different networks. It’s a little harder to find the show on the weekends however. I remember when I was a kid and my daddy loved watching it. I didn’t care for it much back then though. Since I am older now than my parents were back then, I really see why he liked the show so much. In fact, I was born toward the last years of the Andy Griffith Show series in December of 1966. Especially being from and living in Kentucky, the land of the Bluegrass so to speak, I absolutely love the Bluegrass style music that Andy and The Darlings play. I have listened to it my whole life. I think Barney has to be my favorite character other than Andy. But we can’t forget Otis, Ernest T. and Gomer either! I don’t believe I will ever get burned out on this show.
I like how you are using original content, rather than unrelated pics. So many stories I see on FV & other short story channels include pics & video clips with actors that are unrelated to the topic & main content.
I used to hike in Franklin Canyon where they filmed the opening scene & My grandparents lived around the corner from Desilu Gower Studios where they filmed many of the interiors, 'that Desilu Gower Studio used to be RKO Pictures on Melrose & Gower- next to Paramount Pictures, I Loved that old Hollywood neighborhood... 'They had So much happening all the time on that section of Melrose Ave between Plymouth & N Bronson Ave, Movies, Television, etc... Incl. Nickodell Melrose Restaurant, Tasty cuisine & So much Hollywood history inside those walls
I Would like to find a book "How to be more like Andy Taylor", had such high self-esteem he let Barney have some of his, encouraging Barney, make Barney appear to be the hero etc. Andy Taylor knew who he was and was Ok with who he was.
I liked Pykes voice. Parley had a good voice too. Andy always knew how to put Mayor Stoner "in HIS place" Many examples (Mayor up a tree) When he got a "snoot full" when Gov. car got tagged (and Gov. didn't even know know Stoner was?!!! LOL!) The Loaded Goat (when he denies the real reason why the underpass is coming to Mayberry) He was a "stuffed shirt" that needed to have the air let out every now and then.
Even as a little kid, I understood the concept that a COUNTY sheriff would not be under the direct authority of a small town mayor. Notice how the name of the county that Andy would Sheriff of is never mentioned in the show?
"As a deputy of the county of Mayberry, I swear to uphold the laws and regulations therein, set to by statute 426C, county rules and regulations, put there by this date, city of Mayberry, county of Mayberry, thereon." -- ep. 80, "High Noon in Mayberry"
Mark of a great character actor that you always recognize them, smile when you see them, and cannot for the life of you remember their name and little of what they have done.
I moved from a big city to a small town in Texas in 89 they didnt even have MTV yet. This was on though The Andy Griffith Show lol. I loved it ever since when I get in a low mood I put on Andy.I left that small towm and moved back East What a mistake. 60 now and a small town like that would be right up my alley. SEE YA ALL REAL SOON HEAR ?
I'm 70 yrs old and watch it everyday. No cussing nothing but wholesome TV anyone can watch.
Thanks for watching!
Every one of these characters left a lasting impression that has endured a whole lifetime! I have never grown tired of watching the episodes the last 62 years! I love every one of them!
The power with Andy is that I felt he was the smartest person in town. Always plays like he’s just a simple man but his eyes are observing. And always helps to patch things up as well as learn lessons from the other characters. If he had played it more comical then his character would not have given the viewers the secure and humble person that helped to balance all the nutty characters in town.
Also, everyone cared about everyone else's feelings (unlike real life)! Goober and Gomer were included and cared about.
Andy was always the 'straight' man. His character was always written that way
@@fair2middlin not entirely, the intent was for Andy to be the comical relief and you can see it in the first season. However Andy realized that Barney was the true comic relief and Andy started playing the straight guy. Even Andy's accent changed and he became less Southern in the way he spoke.
Barney gave Andy more trouble and problems than anybody ever did🤣 I watch this every night and fall asleep to it.
Also when Deputy Fife screwed things up like shooting a gun by accident, Andy would just look at him and take his gun away. Or he would have to tell Fife to relax and back off on writing too many tickets or throwing people in jail. Andy was always the steady character.
What separates "The Andy Griffith Show" from sitcoms of more recent decades are the following: 1. Each recurring role character was considered a real person who was never made fun of nor who made fun of the other characters. 2. Each storyline was based on believable happenings. 3. The scripts were not filled with "put down" jokes, "fabrications," and one-up replies by comedy writers, aimed to fill dialogue with curse words and/or sexual references. Today's humor is garbage (for the most part) compared to the wholesome humor as portrayed in 60's sitcoms ("The Andy Griffith Show'" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" are two such memorable classic programs.
And almost no one was married.
Opie's newspaper bordered on making fun of people when barney joked about blonde from a bottle but hey it was funny I love Andy.G
Barney did refer to Thelma Lou’s cousin Mary Grace as “a dog” several times in one episode, which really surprised me. That’s the only really nasty incident I can recall from TAGS. My favorite character might be Floyd the barber. He had such a funny and genuine quirky delivery of his lines & priceless facial expressions. My favorite episode might be “The Manicurist”; Barbara Eden was great with perfect comedic delivery. Watching the men in the barber shop falling all over themselves trying to escape volunteering for a manicure was hysterically funny. The first season was good but Andy’s accent was way over the top. His character fell into line much more honestly when he went with his natural southern accent and acted more responsible. By second season he’d gotten it right. I loved his many scenes with Opie (who was my same age when the show started) where he has just the right “wise dad” advice. And love and discipline too. I always got a kick out of the Darlings. I never liked Ernest T; he was beyond the pale irritating and just plain ridiculous. Also loved the episode where Barney bought the car from the “little old lady” who later played Grangma Walton, Ellen Corby. And the classic Christmas episode with “Scrooge” Ben, who was perfect & Ellie sang “Away in a Manger”; it hit all the right Christmas spirit heartstings spot on!
@@Treechris23 Barney also called the girls dogs when talking to Andy at Mrs. Wiley's party. Barney also said a women is "uglier than homemade soap" in another episode.
I agree 💯%! 🙂
I loved these old shows. It was was a time when people still respected each other. Every episode had a lesson.
Yeah... but it wasn't preachy!
Very true.
Yes
Awesome
One of my favorites growing up and still to this day. I watch it every weekday when I get home from work.
Don Knotts made the show what it was. Andy's recognition of the need to allow Don to be the comic and him to be the straight man may have been one of the most genius choices in television history!
@Tony Smith Wasn’t the first Season Barneyless ? From what I remember Don Knotts called Andy Griffin and pitched the idea of “ you need a Deputy “ and Griffin agreed and then the show found its voice
My favorite show was Barney buying the car.
@@dagnabbit6187 No, Barney was in the first season from the very first show. He told Andy he needed a deputy based off the pilot that was on The Danny Thomas Show. But Barney was definitely in the first season.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 Well maybe there were episodes Barney wasn’t in and that confused me . I Googled it and you are right . Well at least I was right about how Knotts got the job.
@@dagnabbit6187 yes there were several episodes that Barney didn't appear during the first 5 seasons. Some of those episodes that Barney didn't appear in were actually pretty good, but Barney definitely made the show better.
I absolutely adored the Andy of Mayberry. Millions of us tuned in every week to watch Andy of Mayberry. I was watching it not long ago on ABC channel at 8:00 PM's...
I LOVE that hand-painted sign in the grocery store window: "10 lb. bag of potatoes, 29 cents" .... Back then a Dollar WAS A DOLLAR!
And the average hourly wage was A DOLLAR and a QUARTER an HOUR! MAGA my ass!
My daddy managed a small town grocery store that was a part of a cbain. He made signs like that to go in the store windows. He had a great way of printing, making letters and numbers stand out about the specials of the week. This was a few years after he was discharged from serving in WWII.
My daddy managed a small town grocery store that was a part of a chain. He made the signs of the specials of the week that went in the windows. He had a great way to print the letters and numbers that stood out . This was soon after he was discharged from the army after World War II.
@@marystephens8850 I am very happy to know that I sparked that memory for you Mary. ... very nice.
@@northalabama2264 Now now now....the democrats wouldn't LET him!
My favorite episode has always been "Aunt Bea's Pickles". The kerosene cucumbers, oh my what a hoot. "Opie the Birdman" was amazing as well. The best line ever was at the end when Opie released the birds. "Gee Paw, the cage sure seems empty. Yes son it sure does, but don't the trees seem nice and full."
I believe the episode was called, "The Pickle Story". It IS hilarious from beginning to end. Especially funny is when barney goes out to the Junction to get rid of aunt Bee's "Kerosene Cucumbers" as barbey called them.
It is hard for myself as a diehard fan of thr show to actually choose any particular favorite.
One more note. This clip is called "The CHARACTER Andy hated not the actor. After seeing this a while ago, I am on full agreement with Andy on this. Every town needs a mayor but the very idea of city and county in the sane building and the mayor being over the sheriff is too far fetched. I'm sure Don Knotts felt the same way. BTW Andy having a deputy was Don's idea and he really added a lot of zest to the show! The two were inseparable until Don's death.
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@@jackkircher1755 I would love to be able to go back to those days ....it was so much peaceful than today ..im sure everyone has their own great memories...
Aunt B's pickles? I don't remember seeing that one. You see the one where a suspect was accused of something, ? Been so long ago, I don't remember. Aunt B was on the jury, they were going to send him to prison , but Aunt B , had this feeling he was not guilty. Towards the end of the show, they caught the real person who did it , great episode. With time not stopping, we have lost many actors. RIP to every single one of them.
@@Fargo2024 Mayberry was an and still is a wonderful place. The reality is it was during the Vietnam war years or Korean war. JFK assassination etc. But Mayberry I visist most nights like tonight and fall into a peaceful sleep :)
Named one of my cats Mr. McBeevey! Love Andy Griffith and all who worked to create this fine program.
I live an hour from Mt Airy. The town is a sweet little place dedicated to Andy. You can even stay overnight in his childhood home.
Awesome.
And Mayberry is just a wide spot in the road off of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
I grew up about an hour south of Mt Airy also, In Yadkinville NC
@@tommyhaynes9157 that's actually closer then an hour. I'm just south of Salisbury. Straight up 85 to 40.
@@sallybeaver9110 Are the folks as friendly as in the TV show?
You'd never know there was ever a problem between Andy and anybody....Great show!
I still watch it from time to time.
They were actually the best of friends according to countless other videos, and articles. I feel he misrepresented what actually happened with the contracts. Andy loved Don like a brother and it was mutual.
@@1967puravida Andy and Don were best friends in everyday life.
The show never gets old … The episodes with Ernest T. Bass are always my favorites !!!!!
My favorites too❣️
Thanks....I did my best
@@ernesttbass6420 😄 And your best was EXCELLENT 💯
I loved it when he tried to join the Army
Mine to!!😘😘
I have my favorite episode recorded. It's the one where Opie was saving his money and wouldn't give any to a charity so he could buy his girlfriend Charlotte a coat.
Great choice Susan .
The only thing wrong with that episode, no Barney.
I love that one!
Susan, that is my favorite because he was stubborn but wouldn't relent in holding on to more than 2 more pennies and just giving one 1cent to charities. He wanted to hold on to save for that little girl that needed a new sweater or coat. I just love Opie for wanting to save for his girlfriend. LOL
Poor Horatio!
Every character played an amazing role on this historic family comedy if only tv shows was like this today I believe it will be a better world
Andy and Don were good friends to the end. They met on a Broadway show which became a movie in 1955, "No time for Sergeants"
@Matt B.uhv
@@sherylanifowoshe1635 What is "uhv"?
These mini-documentaries always mention Don Knott's Universal Movie Contract issue, but Andy and Don were always tight, very close friends with no issues.
Amen!
Griffith told Knotts to look for future opportunities since he planned on ending the show after 5 seasons. After changing his mind, Griffith was not stupid enough to think Knotts could get out of his other commitments. He mentioned 'trouble' between them. So much trouble that Knotts appeared in several episodes as a one off guest shot. Hmmmm.
Yup, there was zero animosity about Don leaving, and he made guest appearances every year after he left. Best friends to the end.
@@stonefree1911 Yes Sir and Andy even helped out with the writing of Ghost and Mr. Chicken!
@@bowtieguy377 Really? I didn't know that. That's very interesting. Thank you for the information. Don Knotts was a really good and funny actor in that movie.
Especially enjoyed the episodes with the Darlings (Dillards). They "literally" played their respective instruments. Superb
I agree, I liked the Dillards music. You want believe it, but I live in Chicago Illinois but I liked the country, hillbilly, music. Ernest T was a hilarious, funny, character too.
I love those episodes. I play several of their songs on the banjo! God bless you.
they were great!!
@John Collins hadn't heard that. I love Linda too!
@@regeniapope4089 even as a child, I could always tell when the actors were really playing the instruments. A great example is the Marx brothers. Harpo, and Chico, it was quite obvious too, but Groucho was a very good guitar player. One movie, he's playing guitar, while riding in a boat. Dont recall the name of the movie, and he isnt playing for long but easy to see he could play quite well.
Miss Ellie was my favorite of all the women Andy dated. I really enjoyed seeing a smart, educated, lovely young lady get the best of Andy.
Since these actors didn't like each other off screen, it made their performance in the show even more layered to see.
Timeless show, still fun to watch after all this time. Combination of all the characters and guest stars made the show. Miss Ellie (Elinor Donahue) was beautiful like a flower in a field.
Miss Ellie would have made a great wife for Andy in my opinion. Beautiful, intelligent, and self-assured. I couldn't stand the Helen Crump character, she seemed very domineering and unlikable.
@@don_cc123 I agree. I guess that Andy had trouble playing off of Elinor when shooting. The chemistry just wasn't there. Elinor didn't think that the male writers wrote well for her part. She was definitely nice to watch.
One f my favorite television series. Characters and all. No negativity.
Except for Aunt Bee wanting to cut off Barney's head when he got the motorcycle...lol
There are small towns in East Texas very similar to Mayberry.
I liked when Mayor Stoner realized he had been tricked in letting the band represent the own. The look on his face when they start playing on the bus was hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣
I love the fact that I grew up 30 minutes away from Mt pilot... Winston Salem... living in Florida I still watch Andy every night
My favorite mayor was Mayor Pike. Thank you for the video. I watch every episode I can. Thanks to cable I watch The Andy Griffith show 4 hours a day during the week. I love this show and never get tired of it.
Thanks for watching, Judy!
The best show ever, period!
seinfeld wings cheers all in the family I love lucy newhart frasier
@@suzycreamcheesez4371 I agree with all those. Hard to pick with such great choices.
@@slade7354 true! aloha nui loa!!
I remember when Andy got into trouble with Aunt Bea's birthday present. He wanted to give her canning stuff! She was eyeing a beautiful bed jacket. Andy had to trade his beloved fishing pole to the Mayor in order to get it from him to give to Bea.
I love that episode. God bless you.
That was the second episode that I loved.
Totally moronic show.
When I saw that episode, had to look up "bed jacket". Always learning something new!
@@randywhite531 What is wrong with you?
Why make an ugly comment like that?? If you don't like the show just scroll on.
I like Otis he was funny. Hope everyone is staying safe and has a good day.
And Earnest T Bass
Otis was the only one married and drank a lot
@@vernitaporter7864 yeah and locked him self up
I remember an episode explaining why Otis always came into the jail and locked himself up. Andy was talking to a visitor (forget who) when Otis stumbled in, took the keys off the peg next to the cell, entered the cell, closed and locked the cell door, reached through the bars to put the keys back on the peg and then curled up in bed, leaving the visitor dumbfounded. Andy explained it was just too time consuming to go out and arrest Otis every time he got drunk, so Andy had made Otis a Deputy so he could just arrest himself whenever he had too much to drink. Otis, being a dedicated Peace Officer, always fulfilled his duty! BTW, there were also a couple of episodes when Andy actually needed an extra Deputy and a SOBER Otis donned a uniform and stepped up to the plate!
To Vernita Porter: Right. And I am sure your parents weren't married either.
This is still one of my favorite shows. I have seen every episode probably hundreds of times.
Thanks for watching!
I have also. My favorite episode I believe was the salesman in a hurry.
Pyke smiled but Stoner was always serious as could be!
"Hollywood comes to Mayberry" was my favorite Pyke episode while "the loaded goat" was my favorite stoner episode.
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Pyke was a comical character. Stoner was an asshole
Remember stoner and that woman's stowe for Andy's fishing pole Andy really got over on mayor stoner on that deal
"We tried to tell em didn't we Andy" Classic line!!
Barney was always my favorite character and I couldn’t watch it after he left. All the characters were wonderful but Barney was needed for the comedic timing. He played so well against Otis, Floyd and the other characters that is was funny to see Andy have to referee the arguments or shutdown their crazy schemes and ideas.
Warren, the new deputy sucked
@@russgrunert4730 I couldn't stand Warren, Huh, Huh, Huh!!
@@russgrunert4730 when I'm watching reruns, I'll change the channel as soon as I see Warren walk through the door. The only exception is the episode where Barney comes back and meets Warren. But, even in that episode, Warren is a Friggin Idiot.
Barney was the heart and soul of the show. I couldn't watch it after he left.
@@cynthiaborden4209 me neither, I’m from West Virginia though so I was a little partial to Don Knotts.
So many great episodes, I have a ton of favorites, especially the one with the guy from out of town who needed his car fixed. And any of the episodes with Ken Lynch, who always played some kind of law enforcement heavy.
The episode "Mr McBeevee" always got to me! It was so endearing that a dad believed his son!
The end always cracked me up when Andy calmly said, "Mr. McBeevee," then he came down from the tree and shook his hand! I Loved Opie, he was so young and cute as a button!
Thanks for watching, CJ!
I'm actually watching it right now.
I agree that episode has always been my favorite
@@sassysavageshannon6205, those are the days when TV shows had a moral message for their viewers.
The times were innocent and sweet. I also loved watching: "Little House on the Prarie." Always a great message in each episode.
Sadly, in these times, the shows on TV have no meaning to them. All respect and morals have been thrown out the window!
Anything goes on TV, even the commercials have no boundaries, and some are embarrassing to watch!
TV has crossed the line when it comes to: "sex and violence!
Most talk shows subjects have no limits.
Then we wonder why a lot of kids today have no respect.
That episode makes me cry every time. Especially when Andy says "but, i believe in Opie".
it's a defining character moment for both Opie and Andy. We all know Opie is a good kid and Andy starts to fully realize just how good of a kid he is. He's still a kid and will make mistakes, but at his core, he's always going to do his best to do the right thing.
I loved the way that Andy Griffith was allowed to have church scenes where the actors and actresses were singing old fashioned Christian hymns to the old fashioned Christian music. He was also allowed to have an actor play an old fashioned preacher giving a good sermon. They even had a chorus in the church who sang old fashioned Christian hymns with old fashioned Christian music! Everyone dressed up for church too. I go to an Independent Baptist church and we sing old fashioned Christian hymns to old fashioned Christian music. We have a preacher who preaches old fashioned sermons. We members dress up for church too. Yes, all of the men wear suits with ties and all of the ladies, including me, wear dresses to church. 💒🙏🕊
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Totally agree and understand!
That’s beautiful! I see that happening around my neighborhood with some of the seniors and their children and grandchildren. It’s a beautiful site to see! 🥰
Expected general need to be reported all of them threat to American citizens like me and money laundry from Felicia Gonzalez this trueth
My social security benefits money on daily basis
Don and Andy remained very good friends from before the show. Andy visited Don on the day Don died. Andy and Don talked briefly. Andy sang at Dons bed side.
Don also became a semi-regular during some of the Matlock later seasons.
Andy was right. A city mayor can't just go around bossing a county sheriff.
Thanks for watching!
@@FactsVerse I was hoping it was that jerk mayor!
Love him or hate him, ole Ben the stingy store owner was pretty good in his roles; and I liked the old bank guard, too. Clean, good fun without all today’s put down , insulting jokes.
Asa
@@suzannetreloar6156 Hardware store is RIGHT down the street.
I still watch the Andy Griffith show on a pretty regular basis. They play several episodes daily on TVLand & MeTV... People had respect for each other back then, unlike most people today, unfortunately!... I wish I lived in those more innocent times! I always say that I was born too late!
TVLand chops a lot off the episodes, which originally ran 25 minutes. Now the episodes are only 20 min long.
Thank Paramount, everything they touch turns into shit, packed full of overamped tv commercials. Look what they did to CBS...
'Nuff said.
My favorite mayor on the show was mayor Pike. I loved his smile.
Andy was a great single father to Opie . His life lessons to Opie were stern and caring at the same time .When he has Opie listen to the baby birds crying for their mother I absolutely cry like a baby .
I have seen them all many times & never get sick of them. Jack Nicholson
had a small role in one episode, back before he became a big movie star.
Best sitcom ever.
Yes, Jack's wife in the episode you speak of left her baby at the front door of the sheriff's office. Andy gave them a good lecture when they came back to claim the baby.
I have the cd collection and watch it nightly. I never tire of it and fall asleep watching it. I wish they still had the set on the 40 acre lot. I definitely would of visited it when I could. R.I.P to the great characters of Mayberry.
I like them all but filling station robbery is a good one :)
I've gone to sleep to the first five seasons for 11 years now. It's the perfect noise cover for an early to bed guy...
No foul language.
No violent outbursts.
No explosions (save Barney shooting the floor).
And once I'm tired, I just roll over, and watch the show on the back of my eyelids - then I'm out.
And I liked their "little, fat mayor" the best. He was always very agreeable - in the end.
But Andy was right. The Sheriff is an elected official who runs his office as he sees fit...
... But Aaron did have a Midas touch.
Peace to all.
I do the same thing falling asleep to that and to Hogans heros lol just good old time tv you just can't beat those shows
So true! The perfect background bedtime show!!🥰😴
@@thetoysofchildhood it is I don't think I have made it threw a whole half hour show of either one of them lol
That's the thing, when you watch it takes you back to a peaceful time when right was right and wrong was wrong. Women were women and men were men. Now everything is completely insane. It's getting so you caint trust anyone.
I do exactly this with the show YOU BET YOUR LIFE. Fascinating to watch. So uplifting and calming. 🍄
My Grandma raised me. This was our jam. As well as random 1932 onwards things and stories. She passed in 2017 tho while I was out of the country. 🥰 missing my Grammy y'all. Even missing those boring pbs shows plus infomercials about the music mixes of the 60s 70s and 80s weekends and repeat vhs tapes😆👌thanks for the non drug induced flashback 🥰✌
I wouldn't care to bet I've seen every episode and the episodes in B&W atleast a 100 times. This show helps me unwind.
I liked both mayors. "Stoner, Roy Stoner." Funny line when Mayor Stoner is talking to the Governor on the phone.
He was good friends with Howard McNear. You see him in the clip with Robert Conrad when they were on the radio version of Gun Smoke. I have read that he gave the eulogy at McNear's funeral.
S-T-O-N-E-R....Stoner...
I didn't realize the actor playing Mayor Pike died while playing the role. He was funny. I thought Mayor Stoner did a great job as well.
Yeah, I loved that fat little mayor. Also, the original Ben Weaver and Emma Brand died during the show's run. And Floyd had a stroke during season 3.
2022 and still watch it every day it’s still far better then the 200 channels I pay dish company for 🤘
Love the "Barney Buys a Car" episode. All the regular cast members were there along with Gomer Pyle and Thelma Lou. Great character roles by Ellen Corby and Allan Melvin as well. Melvin seemed to show up again and again in this series, but my memory says he played a different character in each appearance.
That was a good episode, John!
Melvin was always the seedy big mouthed criminal or bully except the time when he was the seedy big mouthed hotel detective.😛
In one of the early episodes in season one Barney did own a car.
Allan Melvin was usually a bad guy.
The only good guy role Melvin had was recruiting seargant when Ernest T Bass wanted to join the army.
The Andy Griffith Show in the town of Mayberry is a place I want to live today. A friendly small town community where neighbors actually cared about human beings and no technology to screw with the minds of young people today. 2021 is a far cry to the simplicity of life in the 60s
Do remember it was fictional. While the values were there, they were not always practiced. Folks who grew up in a small town can verify that - as with all places, there was good and there was bad. The difference is in a small town everyone knows it so usually folks are careful because they know everyone will know.
@@GlennaVan Still small towns much better than living in big cities !
@@politicallyincorrect869 Maybe for you but not everybody feels that way or there would be less highly populated cities.
@@politicallyincorrect869 That totally depends on the small town. In theory they are; however, some are horrible unless you are in the group in control. It's why so many people leave small towns when they are grown.
@@normanacree1635 That's why it's my opinion or comment and not yours
I loved this show it reminded me of the small town where I grew up. My favorite character was Eernest T Bass he cracked me up. I miss those old shows.
"Aunt Bee" was burnt out from acting the same old character. She mentioned that. Andy Griffith said Frances Bavier was "too sensitive." That show is still great even on this day and forward!
yes Aunt Bea was burned out.
Maybe she was, but there is still only one Aunt Bee. The role was made for her. I think she did a good job. She was an excellent actress. Maybe she wanted them to widen her role or give her more opportunities in her role on the show, who knows?
Andy Grifith was and will always be my favorite. I continued to watch him when his show Matlock was aired. great actor.
Pike was a more likeable Mayor that Stoner. Pike seemed more laid back and was probably well liked by the town; whereas Stoner came across as a tinhorn politician who was more concerned with his image than the town and it's people. Rafe Hollister was a prime example. Even though he won for his beautiful singing voice, Stoner didn't like his looks; completely judging a book by its cover. He then became even more of a weasel by giving (making it sound more like an oder actually) Andy the job of telling Rafe he couldn't represent the town. It was a similar situation for Pike when Otis was to be awarded a plaque for the efforts of his ancestor Nathan Tibbs; While he was concerned about Otis being awarded a plaque, his concern was understandable since it was likely that Otis would show up drunk; which fortunately he didn't.
Pike was a more likeable guy for sure but I actually liked Mayor Stoner because of the episodes he was in. He was younger and could do some physical comedy like the time he got mauled by a bear in the bushes... Good stuff!
@@bowtieguy377 Mayberry Band and Loaded Goat are two of Stoner’s best
I like them both and they were special in their way,
BOTH !! AND DAT'S A NATURAL.FACT ! 😁
I've been watching it every work day during the pandemic while I work from home. I've probably seen all of the black and white episodes 20 times. They had a bunch of later famous guest stars like Barbara Eden, Jerry Van Dyke, Gavin McCloud, Don Rickles, Lee Van Cleef and Buddy Ebson. The most wholesome show ever.
I remember one with Jack Nicholson
@@rmadara I haven't seen that one. Probably one of the ones in color. I've only seen a few of those.
Recognized Lee Van Cleef the other day. Had to pause the credits to read his name. Also, Sam the Butcher from The Brady Bunch was on a lot.
@Jim Cryns Yes. he played all kinds of different characters.
Floyd the barber wasn’t the mayor but he was hilarious...
Which one?
@@MrPAULONEAL Floyd
Floyd Lawson was the barber. Floyd Pike was the mayor
Floyd wasn't that funny, Howard Sprague was the worst
@@grant1739 he was IMO...weirdly funny though. I believe nearly 100% would say that Barney was the funniest character on that show and likely any show at any time in tv history. I have to include Hank Kimball on Green Acres as funny as anyone ever as well.
Through a mutual friend, I had breakfast with Betty Lynn in Mt. Airy about two years ago and she was amazing. Very current on politics & current events...her memory from the show was if it was filmed five years ago. She said she still watches it when it's on TV and that the actors came to set with a very serious attitude because film was so expensive and that "breaking character" or laughing would cost money.
I liked Mayor Pike better for the most part. There was just one time that Stoner was really funny. That was when he got hammered on the spring water in Barney and the Governor.
10 years ago today on July 3rd 2012 millions of Americans mourned the death of Andy Griffith but his legacy as a beloved tv icon will never be forgotten the world misses him everyday and we will always love him
Andy was ok!!! But no big deal...
My favorite episode was when Opie accidentally killed a bird who had babies in a nest. I did the same thing as a kid but it was with a daisy b-b rifle. I felt so bad when I saw the bird fall to the ground and seen that it was dead. It made me cry. The next favorite episode was where Barney got the whole town to help find Helen and Andy who were thought to be in a cave that had a cave-in. Barney has been wrong so many times that Andy didn't want him to be wrong on this major one that involved so much work digging through racks and dirt. Andy and Helen had found a way out, and were in no danger. They heard about Barney setting up an attempt to save them on the radio so they went back into the cave where they could be rescued. After the rescue, Barney's girl said Barney is such a great guy and Andy's girl said so is Andy. Very touching. Excellent!!!
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I still watch these shows over and over like it's the first time!😃
Me too
One of my all-time favorites!!! Loved each and every character. I also loved the appearances of The Darling Family and Earnest T. Bass
Thanks for watching, Barbara!
Sadly, we just lost " *Maggie Peterson Mancuso* (January 10, 1941 - May 15, 2022) appeared in episodes of _The Andy Griffith Show_ (notably as Charlene Darling),
_Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C._ and _Mayberry R.F.D._ She has appeared in the films _Angel in My Pocket_ (with Andy Griffith), _The Love God Maggie Peterson Mancuso (January 10, 1941 - May 15, 2022) appeared in episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (notably as Charlene Darling), Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. and Mayberry R.F.D. She has appeared in the films Angel in My Pocket (with Andy Griffith), The Love God? (with Don Knotts) and the TV movie Return to Mayberry (as Charlene Darling).
T.V. movie _Return to Mayberry_ (as Charlene Darling). *She's now n Heaven with her family & friends, and friends from Mayberry!*
Ernest T was my absolute favorite. My father enjoys the Darlings. I think my favorite scene is when Ernest T steals the bride. "Oh Charlene. Say you'll be mine. You will be mine. Say you'll be my belovded." 😆 And Barney takes the veil off. "I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on Earth." Then he chases him back to Andy with a shotgun. 😆
Or they lock him up and he escapes. Also when he's on a rampage when he doesn't get his uniform. Barney keeps saying "He's a nut." 😆 Ernest T should have been on more. I can only remember 3-4 episodes with him.
Favorite Mayor was Pike. Having a Mayor "over" Andy was good for the show. It kept Andy in check to a point but challenged Andy to outsmart his superiors but not in a confrontational way.
I still watch this show every day. It's so entertaining. Barney was the star of the show for me. I also enjoyed Otis the town drunk. He was so funny.
A little of that nervous, hovering, anxious twerp went a lonnng way!
Andy was right for not wanting a Mayor since the Mayor worked for the city whereas the sharif's office was a COUNTY branch. I'm glad there were only a few episodes involving the STATE police.
When I met "Mayor Stoner" it was at a staged radio show where I was doing several characters and he was our guest. I couldn't help myself, and launched into "Barney Fife", which kind of freaked him OUT, to tell the truth! He said it was "too real", and asked that I not do it, again. LOL
It was a great show and I have nothing bad to say about it. It portrayed a sweet little town with family values and also had a very personal side to it.
You mean you did impressions of some of the characters on the show? Do you have a video of your impressions?
@@jamessilva7991 Well, yeah....Still do! But among some 721 voices I do. Barney, Andy, Gomer, Goober, Floyd, Aunt Bea, mostly. The funniest ones. ;) You can check out G2tube if you want more voices, but my Barney was used for a British cartoon called "Matisse", as the dog catcher. He can also briefly be heard on my voice demo on Facebook, if you like. G2voices is the page.
I grew up living really close to Andy, he was a cool dude, he collected old cars and would give us rides sometimes, he had one car that was so old it didn’t have a steering wheel, it had a tiller like a sailboat, push it forward for left, pull towards you right, he had a son named Sam who died of an OD at a young age, he was a nice man who was not pretentious as much of Hollywood was, also knew Ron and Clint Howard but not very well, Clint was a stoner and was chill, Ron I didn’t know very well but he seemed cool, Cheers🤙🏽🍀💚🏄🏻♂️🍻
My favorite part of ANY show was Andy and “Barney” singing. The two were best friends.
Yes they were but "Facts" Verse doesn't tell the truth.
Andy: But Barney can't sing.
Thelma Lou: Not a lick!
Lol for sure
@@stevennunamaker3355 He could though, because he and Andy harmonized beautifully while singing on the porch after dinner.
The show always made fun of Barney’s bad singing but in real life, Don Knotts was actually a very good singer.
Gets me away from the reality of this current crazy world.. Watch several hours everyday.
When you watch TV shows and movies, you are entering into a fantasy world. I am sure you thought to yourself many times, "Oh yeah, as if that would happen in real life."
Deputy Barney Fife made that show! He was hilarious!
Apple pie isn't Apple pie without crust.
And like a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich... It goes down better with milk.
Here's your nickel back.
I agree! The show went downhill after Don Knotts left.
@@lynettepalecek3141 I think it was also the writing. During the color years even the episodes where Barney made an appearance weren't as magical as the first 5 seasons.
Barney "made" the show, always a hilarious time.
@@thisisme3238 Barney was the highlight of the show, but it was also the supporting cast, writers, producers, etc that made it all possible. It was like a great rock and roll band that captured lightning in a bottle.
I still laugh out loud when I remember Barney doing the tango with the lady convict.
how about when Barney had Gobber watch Andy court from outside the window and Goober cheered andy on?
Al was a great dancer
@@robbyddurham1624 "floater"
Same lady played Mrs.polstice, barneys vocal teacher.
@@robbyddurham1624 yeah, Gobber was cool. Lol
Andy always makes me somber. I love the Andy Griffith Show. Barney was the bomb.
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The early years were the best when Andy was still somewhat country. In the late years he was more dignified and when Warren came on the show, that was the end of it. When the show changed to Mayberry RFD, that was like watching paint dry.
Agreed. Warren was awful (no offense to Jack Burns). The character was just tooo annoying.
@@PegasusBYU The original plan was to have Jerry Vandyke, The Banjo Playing Deputy, be Barney's replacement.
@@giraffesareselfish9563 I had read that somewhere. Jerry found his perfect role as Luther Van Dam on the show Coach. That was a great show, well written.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 I never really watched Coach but what I saw of it I enjoyed. The one episode he played on TAGS, I thought he did a pretty good job, but the fans would have rejected anyone replacing Barney at the point. I think the show should have done a better job of preparing the fans for Barney leaving the show. I feel like if the fans could have had a proper goodbye they may have accepted a replacement for Barney a little easier.
@@PegasusBYU It wasn't just Warren, almost all of the characters, even the ones we loved like Otis, Ernest T, and Goober, became silly and boring in the later years.
Tough call between mayors. Pike was hilarious in the "Hollywood Come to Mayberry" episode. Especially when they debate over whether they will make fun of the "fat little mayor". And Stoner was such a buffoon. I loved the episode where he denies (initially) the Mayberry Band to go to Raleigh. Then Andy brings in some ringers to convince Stoner otherwise. The episode ends with the band leaving town in a bus playing music in a God awful fashion as Stoner realizes he had been had. Great television!
Parley baer wasn't too bad he was good when he had to trade that woman's stowe for Andy's lucky fishing pole lol
I like the 1st one because he was a dingbat
Mayor stoner had to deal with that goat that supposebly ate dynomite lol
That was such a tiny bus! No way it would have held all the band members and their instruments.
@@norms3913 it was a bed jacket. Not sure what a stowe is??
The Andy Griffith show is the best!!!!!! It show's family value's, kindness, and loving family living!!!! I watch it everyday, and record it!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣...... 🥀🥀🥀🥀.... From the Motor City!!!!!....
Couldn't agree more! Thank you for sharing your views on this. Which episode is the most memorable for you?
Actually, I never liked Howard or Warren. The old black in white episodes were the best.
If only Andy woulda given Barney a piece of the action....
@@nealbarkett8512 He did. He was Barney's straight man.
Warren was annoying.
@@JillKirchner yes, but Don Knotts wanted some ownership in the show, that was one of the reasons he left the show. Andy Griffith said it was miscommunication.
@@nealbarkett8512 you are correct. We always hear Don left because he thought the show was ending after 5 seasons, that may have been part of it, but he also wanted part ownership in the show and Andy wouldn't give it up
I liked mayor Pike. Mayor Stoner was a jerk. However, one of my most favorite episodes was Barney and the Governor.Otis spiked the spring water. Mayor Stoner and Barney get smashed.
Don’t they ever clean this crock!?
They didn't get smashed, they got "GASSED"!
Tell him to put that in his smipe and poke it.
I also liked mayor pike better than I liked mayor stoner I enjoyed seeing him put down to size in the bear episode
@@maryhall6193 NIP IT!! NIP IT !!!!!
I think it played well that there was a boss over Andy but that Andy was smarter and ultimately, in selfless ways always came out on top. This created some fun plots and story lines.
HERE is The Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
I am sorry I must be honest. I loved very much watching the show. I was a country girl too. I remember the Mayors but Andy was my main focus. It never mattered about the Mayor being there or not. Andy and his son would be what my eyes wanted to see the most.
I loved the Andy Griffith show! It was my favorite show as a child. The character Andy Taylor was similar to my beloved maternal grandfather.
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i thought the most of them both, they each had a flare about them, that helped the show.
but i will say this, once Gomer and Barney left the show, it was never the same. thanks for these great video's.
That was when times were easier & TV programs were better.
My kids, who are 17 and 23 know this show 50 plus years after it was made. I don't think anyone will know, "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" 50 years from now.
For straight wealthy white men! However, I do like this show. I just don’t live in the past, thankfully.
@@dianesingerman9650 There’s always ONE like you, isn’t there?
@@martyzielinski1442 I said I like the show, but Andy and Opie aka Ron themselves developed into modern thinkers who would likely agree with me. Times were better for select people only.
Andy always came out on top , l liked them both , l always noticed how a lot of the same actors appeared multiple times as different characters 😎👍
My favorite mayor of "The Andy Griffith Show" was mayor Pyke. He tried hard to lead the town of Mayberry and Andy always made it seem like it was the mayor who made the right decision regardless of the matter. "We tried to tell 'em, didn't we Andy?" Of course, mayor Stoner was good, too. Mayor Pyke wins my vote.
There were blacks living in Mayberry in those days, perhaps because the blacks came out exclusively after dark? I'm thinking that Mayberry may have been a SUNDOWN TOWN! Somebody please explain this...was it because North Carolina had a city ordinance providing integration?
I mean prohibiting mixture.
My parents had introduced me to the Andy Griffith Show WAYYYY back in the 1990’s (I was born in 1991) & I have ALWAYS ADORED the innocence & Purity of the Good People of Mayberry, North Carolina. I have ALWAYS wondered “Where is the town of Mayberry? Is it a real place or not?” It is SO GOOD to see that it was a fictional town based off of Andy Griffith’s actual Home Town...
Go to Mount Airy, N.C., home of Andy Griffith, very neat town with a lot to see and compare with Mayberry.
Used to live 8 miles south.
And ‘Thelma Lou’ still lives there and is treated like royalty.
andy griffith was a marvelous actor. ive seen him in serious movies also
Matlock.
It’s still to this day one of my favorites
I grew up with the town of Mayberry and thought Andy was a great father figure who always seemed to have the right words to say. I will still watch the ole show from time to time and still enjoy it.
Great show, great chareters,great naration by the host. Clear voice great dictation.
Pike, not only was he a great Mayor, he was also a great starship captain!
Got pretty disfigured along the way...but finally united with Vina... what a babe...
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He put some weight on when he became captain of the enterprise.
@@MikeM275 true! LOL!
I didnt like Mayor stoner.but I love the Andy Griffith show.
I still watch The Andy Griffith Show most every day during the week in mini-marathons on a several different networks. It’s a little harder to find the show on the weekends however. I remember when I was a kid and my daddy loved watching it. I didn’t care for it much back then though. Since I am older now than my parents were back then, I really see why he liked the show so much. In fact, I was born toward the last years of the Andy Griffith Show series in December of 1966. Especially being from and living in Kentucky, the land of the Bluegrass so to speak, I absolutely love the Bluegrass style music that Andy and The Darlings play. I have listened to it my whole life. I think Barney has to be my favorite character other than Andy. But we can’t forget Otis, Ernest T. and Gomer either! I don’t believe I will ever get burned out on this show.
I like how you are using original content, rather than unrelated pics. So many stories I see on FV & other short story channels include pics & video clips with actors that are unrelated to the topic & main content.
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I used to hike in Franklin Canyon where they filmed the opening scene & My grandparents lived around the corner from Desilu Gower Studios where they filmed many of the interiors, 'that Desilu Gower Studio used to be RKO Pictures on Melrose & Gower- next to Paramount Pictures, I Loved that old Hollywood neighborhood... 'They had So much happening all the time on that section of Melrose Ave between Plymouth & N Bronson Ave, Movies, Television, etc... Incl. Nickodell Melrose Restaurant, Tasty cuisine & So much Hollywood history inside those walls
I Would like to find a book "How to be more like Andy Taylor", had such high self-esteem he let Barney have some of his, encouraging Barney, make Barney appear to be the hero etc. Andy Taylor knew who he was and was Ok with who he was.
Thanks for watching, SC!
In Mayberry, there are three main forms of communication: telephone, telegraph, and tell Floyd.
I'm a big big Seinfeld fan but over the years it is The Andy Griffith Show that has endured and will continue.
In this crazy country where anymore up is down and down is sideways I watch and plant myself in Mayberry.......Video Valium! Lol
I liked Pykes voice. Parley had a good voice too. Andy always knew how to put Mayor Stoner "in HIS place" Many examples (Mayor up a tree) When he got a "snoot full" when Gov. car got tagged (and Gov. didn't even know know Stoner was?!!! LOL!) The Loaded Goat (when he denies the real reason why the underpass is coming to Mayberry) He was a "stuffed shirt" that needed to have the air let out every now and then.
Even as a little kid, I understood the concept that a COUNTY sheriff would not be under the direct authority of a small town mayor. Notice how the name of the county that Andy would Sheriff of is never mentioned in the show?
"As a deputy of the county of Mayberry, I swear to uphold the laws and regulations therein, set to by statute 426C, county rules and regulations, put there by this date, city of Mayberry, county of Mayberry, thereon." -- ep. 80, "High Noon in Mayberry"
@@ElasticGiraffe You deserve a 3x5 Klondike Bar for that one ....
Well done indeed !! 😉👍
@@ElasticGiraffe Cool. Do you know the Emancipation Proclamation? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Mark of a great character actor that you always recognize them, smile when you see them, and cannot for the life of you remember their name and little of what they have done.
I moved from a big city to a small town in Texas in 89 they didnt even have MTV yet. This was on though The Andy Griffith Show lol. I loved it ever since when I get in a low mood I put on Andy.I left that small towm and moved back East What a mistake. 60 now and a small town like that would be right up my alley. SEE YA ALL REAL SOON HEAR ?