Griffith as Andy Taylor and Howard as Opie

Knotts as Barney Fife and Griffith as Andy Taylor

The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. The series was an immediate hit with its audience, and still enjoys success in syndication. Its whistled theme song (by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer) is instantly recognizable to fans of the show. fair use screenshot This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... fair use screenshot This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show Andrew Samuel Andy Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Don Knotts as Barnie Fife and Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. ... Don Knotts as Barnie Fife and Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. ... Knotts as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show Jesse Donald Don Knotts (born July 21, 1924) is an American actor. ... Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show Andrew Samuel Andy Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... See also: 1959 in television, other events of 1960, 1961 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1960-61 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1967 in television, other events of 1968, 1969 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1968-69 American network television schedule. ... In the television industry (as in radio), syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast programs to multiple stations, without going through a broadcast network. ... Earle Hagen (born July 9, 1919) is a 20th century American composer. ...

When the show premiered in 1960, viewers immediately felt a connection with widowed "Sheriff Andy Taylor" (played by Griffith), his son "Opie" (Ronny Howard), his "Aunt Bee" (Frances Bavier), his cousin and deputy sheriff, "Barney Fife" (Don Knotts), auto mechanic "Gomer Pyle" (Jim Nabors, whose role was spun-off into the series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and his cousin "Goober Pyle" aka "Goober Beasley" in early scripts (George Lindsey), town drunk "Otis Campbell" (Hal Smith), hell-raising mountain man "Ernest T. Bass" (Howard Morris), absentminded barber "Floyd Lawson" (Howard McNear), and the rest of the townsfolk of fictional Mayberry, North Carolina. The show centered on rural Sheriff Andy Taylor who rarely carried a gun, and was also the Justice of the Peace dispensing summary judgments. In addition to the town of Mayberry, he apparently had jurisdiction in the surrounding county as well. See also: 1959 in television, other events of 1960, 1961 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1960-61 American network television schedule. ... Sheriff is both a political and a legal office held under English common law, Scots law or U.S. common law, or the person who holds such office. ... Griffith as Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show Andrew Samuel Andy Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, writer and producer from Mount Airy, North Carolina. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Aunt Bee was a character on the long-running 1960s American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and its successor program, Mayberry R.F.D.. Aunt Bee was the aunt of Sheriff Andy Taylor in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina. ... Jump to: navigation, search Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s; the role was truncated given her early departure from the show, due to her not getting along with... Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show Barney Fife was the fictional deputy sheriff in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ... Knotts as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show Jesse Donald Don Knotts (born July 21, 1924) is an American actor. ... Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a television series that ran on CBS from 1964 to 1969, with episodes rerun in mid-1970. ... Jim Nabors on the Muppet Show Season 1, episode 5 Jim Nabors (born June 12, 1930) is an American actor, singer, and comedian. ... Jump to: navigation, search A spin-off in television is a new series which contains either characters or theme elements from an old series. ... Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. was a television series that ran on CBS from 1964 to 1969, with episodes rerun in mid-1970. ... George Lindsey (born December 17, 1935) is an American character actor, born in Jasper, Alabama. ... Jump to: navigation, search Harold John Hal Smith (August 24, 1916 - January 28, 1994), American character actor and voice-over artist. ... Howard Morris (September 4, 1919 – May 21, 2005) was an American comic actor and director. ... Floyd Lawson is the barber in The Andy Griffith Show, played by Howard McNear. ... Howard McNear (January 27, 1905 – January 3, 1969) was an American film, television and radio character actor. ... Mayberry is the name of a fictional town in North Carolina which was the setting for the American television show The Andy Griffith Show. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley (D) Senators Elizabeth Dole (R) Richard Burr (R) Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th)  - Land 126,256 km²  - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... A Justice of the Peace (JP) is a magistrate appointed by a commission to keep the peace, dispense summary justice and deal with local administrative applications in common law jurisdictions. ... Informally Summary Justice refers to the punishment of suspected offenders without recourse to the legal system (see [Lynch mob]). Summary Justice also refers to the system for trying and punishing offenders in a court of Summary (or limited) Jurisdiction. ...

Griffith left the show in 1968. Ken Berry joined the cast that year, and the show was retitled Mayberry R.F.D. and continued until 1971. In the first episode of that series Andy married his longtime girlfriend, Helen Crump and they moved away from Mayberry. Kenneth Roland Berry (born November 3, 1933 in Moline, Illinois) is an American actor, comedian, and dancer best know for protraying the televison characters of: Wilton Parmenter on F Troop, Sam Jones on Mayberry R.F.D., and Vinton Harper on Mamas Family. ... Mayberry R.F.D. was a spinoff from The Andy Griffith Show. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

The original pilot of The Andy Griffith Show was actually an episode of The Danny Thomas Show in February, 1960. In that show, the character Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) is arrested by the Sheriff for running a stop sign (at a spot where no crossroad has been built yet) while driving through Mayberry. Andy Griffith was already a well-known actor, and received a large hand from the studio audience upon entering the scene ("The name ain't 'Clem', it's 'Andy', Sheriff Andy Taylor!") While Danny is waiting for a resolution to the problem, various denizens of Mayberry wander through the courthouse, notably Frances Bavier, who is playing a different character from her eventual Aunt Bee: a widow victimized by a formal wear shop owner, who is making her pay eternal rent for the tuxedo her husband was buried in. The Andy Griffith Show, its format and cast somewhat retooled from the premise of this pilot, made its actual debut that fall. The Danny Thomas Show (also known as Make Room for Daddy for the first three seasons) was a comedy television series starring Danny Thomas, Jean Hagen, Rusty Hamer, Sherry Jackson and Louise Beavers. ... February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image:Dannythomas. ...

The show operated on at least two levels. There were the corny, nitwit antics of the supporting players, who provided most of the humor. There was also the straightforward presentation of the occasional story involving a criminal to be caught or a love interest to be established, and there was often a storyline of a serious nature concerning Andy's being a single parent to Opie.

Years after the series ended, tourists driving through rural North Carolina still asked for directions to Mayberry, not realizing that the town depicted in the series is a composite of Surry County and the town of Mount Airy. The adjacent town to fictional Mayberry is named Mt. Pilot, and is an obvious reference to nearby Pilot Mountain, which is better known as a mountain rather than a town. The TV show itself was filmed entirely in Hollywood, on the RKO Pictures backlot called "Forty Acres", which is recognizable to fans of the 1950s program The Adventures of Superman and was used in many other TV shows and movies. Even the apparently rural fishing hole that led off each episode was actually in the Los Angeles area: Franklin Canyon Lake, just north of Beverly Hills. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Surry County is a county located in the state of North Carolina. ... Mount Airy is a city located in Surry County, North Carolina. ... Mt. ... Pilot Mountain is a town located in Surry County, North Carolina. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search The classic logo of RKO Radio Pictures. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends and events and trends and events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom... Jump to: navigation, search Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in June of 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular and well-known comic book icons of all time. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... For other uses, see: Beverly Hills (disambiguation). ...

The old-fashioned nature and homespun humor of TAGS continues to appeal to many people. Many of the shows contained a moral lesson of some kind (sometimes learned by Andy from Opie) and the show's content appeals to many who find modern television shows inappropriate for family viewing. The family atmosphere on the set reflected that of the show itself. Ron Howard often credits the atmosphere of the show for much of his success as a child actor, and for helping him to maintain perspective as he moved into adulthood, in contrast to so many other child actors who have famously come to ruin.

List of all Andy Griffith Show Cast Sheriff Andy Taylor - Andy Griffith Barney Fife - Don Knotts Opie Taylor - Ron Howard Aunt Bee - Frances Bavier Goober Pyle (aka Goober Beasley in early scripts) - George Lindsey Floyd Lawson - Howard McNear Helen Crump - Aneta Corsaut Howard Sprague - Jack Dodson Otis Campbell - Hal Smith Clara Edwards - Hope Summers Gomer Pyle - Jim...

List of Andy Griffith Show episodes First Season 1960-1961 1 - The New Housekeeper 2 - The Manhunt 3 - Guitar Player 4 - Runaway Kid 5 - Opies Charity 6 - Ellie Comes to Town 7 - Irresistible Andy 8 - A Feud Is a Feud 9 - Andy the Matchmaker 10 - Stranger in Town 11 - Christmas Story 12 - Ellie for Council...

Copyright Status

The Mayberry FAQ says that the copyright on some episodes is expired. It also says that composers don't receive royalties but they do get performance money. The difference is that royalties are determined by a guild negotiating re-use payments with the producers. These payments diminish over time by the number of repeat plays of the program. Performance money is paid by the broadcasters who have to secure licenses to perform the music under the copyright laws of the world.

External links

• The Andy Griffith Show at the Internet Movie Database
• Mayberry.com home of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club w/ Interviews, Episode Guides, newsletters, and forums.
• Behind The Scenes of The Andy Griffith Show A behind the scenes look at The Andy Griffith Show and the real Mayberry, includes filming locations, the stars made on the show, and Mayberry trivia.