![]() ![]() A mysterious stranger seems to know everything and everybody in Mayberry even though he has never been there before.Īired April 13, 1964. Nobody else can see him, so neither his father nor anybody else will believe him.Īired December 26, 1960. Opie meets a working man in the forest who walks in the trees. Andy is on the case, but Barney decides to go undercover as a mannequin.Īired October 1, 1962. Merchandise has been disappearing from Weaver’s department store. He grows very attached to them, but then has to set them free.Īired March 2, 1964. His father is upset and has him raise the baby birds himself. Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new slingshot. Barney is invited to join the choir before everybody realizes how bad is singing is.Īired September 30, 1963. Barney decides to buy his first car but gets taken in by an elderly widow and her con artist gang.Īired February 19, 1962. Barney is forced to line up a date for her and settles on Gomer.Īired April 1, 1963. Thelma Lou’s homely cousin Mary Grace is visiting. The Darlings descend from the mountains for one of their rare visits to the big city of Mayberry.Īired December 9, 1963. Opie is magically charmed when Barney buys a fortune-telling game for him.Īired March 18, 1963. It’s more than Barney can handle, with things made even worse by specially-assigned deputy Gomer.Īired December 21, 1964. Two captured criminals are jailed In Mayberry by the state police. Barney becomes a menace in Mayberry when he buys a surplus army motorcycle and sidecar to use on patrol.Īired May 6, 1963. They ultimately need their help more than originally thought.Īired January 27, 1964. The state police do not want Andy and Barney’s assistance while after some thieves in Mayberry. He has to meet new guidelines for sheriff’s deputies or lose his job.Īired February 5, 1962. ![]() Barney needs to gain weight and inexplicably grow taller in one week. Who would suspect that the elderly Morrison sisters are the mysterious moonshiners supplying Otis and others with illegal liquor?Īired September 28, 1964. ![]() They find their own way out and then realize Barney will be embarrassed because he has mobilized the town for the emergency.Īired January 30, 1961. It collapses and Barney must try to rescue them. Andy and Helen are on a picnic when they go exploring in a cave. And if you have any connection with a Hall of Fame voter, it’s high time for Knotts to be inducted for playing one of the most iconic characters in television lore.Īired January 6, 1964. While not a big Emmys favorite overall, the Television Academy has inducted several people involved into their TV Hall of Fame: Griffith, Howard (for acting and producing other projects), producer Sheldon Leonard, producer Danny Thomas, associate producer Jay Sandrich and composer Earle Hagen. Other cast members and guest stars featured in our ranked photo gallery of the 25 best episodes include Jim Nabors, George Lindsey, Aneta Corsaut, Betty Lynn, Howard McNear, Howard Morris, Denver Pyle and Hal Smith. The other Emmy winner for her performance as Aunt Bee was Frances Bavier. Only three other people have prevailed five times for the same role: Julia Louis-Dreyfus (with the record of six for “Veep”), Edward Asner (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Lou Grant”) and Candice Bergen (“Murphy Brown”). ![]() In fact, he is the only performer to ever win five Emmys without any losses. While Griffith never received an Emmy nomination for his work on the program, Knotts won five times as Best Comedy Supporting Actor. Audiences got to know the young Ron Howard as Andy’s son Opie, long before his successful time on “Happy Days” and decades before his Oscar-winning career as a film director and producer. One of the keys to the popularity was casting Don Knotts as bumbling but well-meaning deputy Barney Fife. Starting with the 1960 debut as a spinoff from “The Danny Thomas Show,” the series starred comedian Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, sheriff of small-town Mayberry in North Carolina. The CBS program was never outside of the top seven in TV ratings throughout its eight-year run and continues a strong six-decade domination in syndication. Celebrating its 60th anniversary on October 3, “The Andy Griffith Show” is one of the most charming comedies in the history of American television. ![]()
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