![]() That sounded good to Don Knotts, who, as the fifth year was coming around, had gotten an offer for a film deal from Universal. When the show started, Andy Griffith was adamant that it would run for five years and that would be it he would be moving on. Running for eight years from 1960-68 (and then pretty much continuing for another three with a different lead character in the spin-off Mayberry, RFD), the show introduced us to the world of Sheriff, and widower, Andy Taylor ( Andy Griffith) his son Opie ( Ron Howard), their caretaker Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife ( Don Knotts), and a wide variety of townspeople who became fully formed characters of their own, including Jim Nabors’ Gomer Pyle (eventually spun off into his own successful series).ĭon Knotts left Mayberry five years in for a reason. And that came in the form of The Andy Griffith Show. Yet standing out above them all - and decidedly low concept - was an homage to the good old days, and the innocence of small-town life. ![]() During this time, there was the wacky adventures of seven stranded castaways ( Gilligan’s Island), an alien among us ( My Favorite Martian), monsters living down the block ( The Munsters, The Addams Family), witches in suburbia ( Bewitched) and magical genies in Florida ( I Dream of Jeannie). Television in the 1960s was filled with a lot of high concepts, but nothing was quite like The Andy Griffith Show.
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