Do You Remember The New Andy Griffith Show?

Here's the story of the New Andy Griffith Show which briefly aired on CBS during the Winter of 1971.
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[@daveinstlouis]

Andy did "Salvage 1" for a couple of seasons at the end of the decade then finally hit it big again with "Matlock".

[@thomaswolf723]

In case you forgot, Andy made a very successful comback with Matlock.

[@mikejones6486]

WOW!!! I didn't know this show existed. As usual Dave hits a home run with another interesting and informative episode.

[@jdsundstrom]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bigbubba29]

Dave is smart when it comes to underdog television shows.

[@chriscall2293]

Andy Griffith also had a show called the Yeagers, about a family owned logging company filmed here in North Idaho back in the late 70's or early 80's, my mom met him and got his autograph.

[@johnpierce2095]

couldnt find it anywhere,

[@midnightcaller200]

He also had a show called Salvage 1 I can't remember when it was on I think in the 1980s

[@kennethrisner8648]

the original show was Andy's, but Don was the heart and soul. if they coulda found a way to keep him, the show could gone on for another good 10 years

[@Muzikgirl67]

Amazing that 3 of the 10 episodes that aired of "The New Andy Griffith Show" (from 1971) are available to view here on KZbin! I sure wish I could get my hands on and be able to watch some of the episodes from "The Headmaster"...seems a bit similar to another TV Show from the same period "Room 222"...The year after The New Andy Griffith Show's cancellation, Lee Meriwether went on to star in one of the most popular TV Shows from the 1970's, "Barnaby Jones" which would run from 1972-1980! Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺 📼📀

[@jdsundstrom]

What? I knew that the first episode was available...and I think I watched another one with Glen Campbell. But, you're saying there is a third one out there? Time to do a bit of searching! Thanks for the tip...and for your support!

[@Muzikgirl67]

@@jdsundstrom Hi Dave and happy Saturday! Here on KZbin, I have found the following three episodes: "My friend, the Mayor", "The fountain", and "Get me Glen Campbell"...As of today, they are all still available to view .. Happy hunting my friend, and have a wonderful weekend! Let the good TV Shows play on, and take care! Ms. Elizabeth 📺📼📀📺📼📀

[@Oonagh72]

I deeply love Andy Griffith. However after seeing A Face in the Crowd, he has creeped me out ever since. That charisma was real. I wasn’t born yet when this show came out. Didn’t know it existed. The one issue I see with new Andy is the fact that he was too old to have kids that small. Opie would have been graduating high school. Had they aged the kids up it wouldn’t have felt like an alternate reality, but a continuation.

[@Donna_G]

Maybe, but your comment reminded me of an incident where I was going to pick up my sons at day care when an older gentleman was coming out of the center with a little boy. This many was older than me by at least 20 years. possibly more. I made a comment about how cute his grandson was and he corrected me right away by telling me that the child was not his grandson; but, his son. I apologized right away. Considering that some women wait until they are in their 40s to have children, it's an easy thing to do to mistake a child for somebody's grandchild.

[@leom9286]

I have not seen that film but I have heard it best resembles his real personality.

[@kevinbergin9971]

@@Donna_G Doubt he was all that upset?

[@kevinbergin9971]

I wonder, if he ever wondered, that film work might have been a better option for him. Yes, he was lights out in A Face In The Crowd.

[@Oonagh72]

@@Donna_G Everyone thought my father was my grandfather because of his grey hair. Same is happening with my husband and our kids. Everyone thinks he’s the granddad because of his age. My point is that there needs to be an explanation like a second marriage or he served 20 years in the military so he waited to settle down. More to the point i probably wouldn’t have noticed it if he was playing a character not called Andy, not in a small southern town, not working in local government, etc, etc. Like I said it feels alternate reality vs continuation.

[@kevinpyne5808]

Dave, I was in high school when these shows aired and I never heard about them either until recently! They were flashes in the pan. Guess people were more in love with Mayberry and Sherriff Taylor than Andy Griffith the actor.

[@jamesdye4603]

I never heard of either show, but I liked his series "Salvage 1" from 1979. It too was short lived.

[@jdsundstrom]

Salvage 1 was great! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpWtpmCadpqJkJY

[@warrior64]

Fun series ,now that privately own rockets are launch nowadays it's reality

[@terrykeever3280]

Yep. I really liked it too.

[@toddfowler4017]

You are absolutely right, Mr. Dave, it's just a little off-kilter! Seeing Jerry Van Dyke on Headmaster is like a preview of Coach!!📺🎬🚨🏈🇺🇸

[@robertlduncan12]

Wasn't born until 1979, but Andy is my favorite show. That said never heard of this incarnation until this video. I do vaguely remember hearing about Headmaster before, and kind of cool that Jerry Van Dyke is the football coach since he'd be on Coach later with Craig T Nelson.

[@Paul876]

Great video, Dave! Have to admit I've never seen one episode of "The New Andy Griffith Show". Don't think it would have been something I gravitated towards as a kid. That being said, I like the original series, at least until Don Knotts left.

[@rema_1729]

I didn't know Andy Griffith had those other two shows. I almost feel like a traitor! Thanks for sharing!

[@STho205]

Did you see his Headmaster series, his Salvage One series (I liked that one) and The Yeagers. He gave it the old college try in the 70s. He was still popular, just couldn't find a fit for that decade.

[@kevinwalter5083]

Lee Merriweather was one of my favorite actresses of the 60s and 70s. She definitely looked better in the catsuit than the lab coat from Time Tunnel. Speaking of which, have you done a video on either that show or its actors? It was one of my favorites in its all too brief airing.

[@jdsundstrom]

I haven't yet, Kevin. That said, I've got that show on my list of potential topics.

[@mikesilva3868]

@@jdsundstrom time tunnel great Irwin Allen show 😊

[@dlee645]

Yes! I loved The Time Tunnel! I have it on dvd.

[@patrickfennell6372]

She was the second best Catwoman, behind Julie Newmar of course. She was great in Barnaby Jones.

[@starey1]

@@mikesilva3868 yes it was!!!

[@ChadQuick270W]

There were a lot of “The New….” shows around this time and none of them fared very well: Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Perry Mason, and Danny Thomas (Make Room for Granddaddy). One show I did like was The Jimmy Stewart Show from 1971-72 on NBC. It was seriously dated though and likely would’ve lasted a few seasons had it been on a decade earlier. By this time shows like All In The Family, Sanford & Son, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show were appealing to the “younger urban” crowd.

[@STho205]

MTM Show worked so well because they just went in a totally different direction with Mary Richards than Laura Petrie. She even looked younger the first two years than she did in the DvDyke Show since 1970 30 something fashions were much more teen girlish than a respectable elegant wife in 1960 even though she was a decade younger. By year 3 she matured back up. The producers went out of their way to avoid similarly to her prior series. They even changed the original concept of a divorced woman starting on her own snd just changed it to a failed engagement. Smart move and no kid. Norman Lear would use that concept a few years later with Bonnie Franklin who had no series past.

[@gregwatson8219]

Poor Andy

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

I love that they had Jerry Van Dyke as a football coach. That prepared him for his more famous role in the 1990's.

[@princecatstarr102]

Never knew this show even existed. I was a real fan of Andy Griffith show....wow, that's one for the books.

[@docadams7099]

It's worth mentioning that this show fell victim to CBS' rural purge, along with Mayberry RFD, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and several other shows. Without that decision by CBS, there may have been more of this show with a real chance at making it better; for sure, we will never know.

[@STho205]

It never had a following after an episode or two. It would have never made it. It was neither fish or fowl.

[@STho205]

Mayberry RFD became very boring after half a season. Ken Berry didn't get to use any of his talents. The boy was ho hum. The townsfolk snd Aunt Bea were still doing the color years of The Andy Griffith Show which was OK. Not great anymore, but OK.

[@briguy4238]

I do remember the film "Angel In My Pocket" from 1969. Interestingly that cast also included Andy Griffith, Lee Meriwether, and Jerry Van Dyke, in addition to Edgar Buchanan ("Uncle Joe") and Gary Collins. But I have no memory of TNAGS at all.

[@pianotm]

I remember seeing a town meeting in church and thought this was kind of weird. When I saw The New Andy Griffith Show, I was expecting Sheriff Taylor and Barney Fife.

[@song4you80]

Andy and Lee and Jerry were in a movie together called Angel in my Pocket where he was a preist.

[@kennethwilkinson8244]

i am going to watch the new andy grifith show later tonight on you tube i never saw this, you peaked my interest. i remember salvage one. when andy built a space ship. flew it to the moon,and salvaged all the junk that was up there.

[@HalfassDIY]

I remember one thing he was in as a sheriff telling some lady she had to quit smoking pot around him, lol.

[@jaspr1999]

"... just a bit off." I agree completely. Although, I could never put my finger on what it was... Just something. Still, it was nice to see the very short-lived show. Honestly, though, I barely remember it, not like I do the predecessor. Dave, I hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday, and my wife & I wish y'all an awesome new year!

[@tammyevans7333]

Loved Lee Merriweather, great actress!

[@BELCAN57]

I recall seeing spots for both shows on TV, but don't think that my parents ever tuned it in.

[@richardjohnson9543]

I remember Ann Guilbert in her later years as Grandma Yetta on The Nanny

[@johnminehan1148]

Andy Griffin had good chemistry with Lee Mayweather, both here and in Angel In My Pocket, a feature where she also played his wife. It was a 1969 theatrical movie about a (Methodist or Low Church Episcopal) Pastor who is a Marine Veteran and former bricklayer, starting out in a troubled Parish in small town North Carolina. Jerry Van Dyke (also from Headmaster) played his brother-in-law who is a skilled handyman who has a problem with alcohol.

[@johnminehan1148]

It was fairly unsuccessful (it hit TV less than a year after its release). I suspect that helped to convince him that it was time to return to TV. It took him a couple of failed TV series to do that (Adams or Eagle Lake and Salvage 1) to return to form with Matlock.

[@crominion6045]

I was aware of The New AG Show, but I've never seen an episode. I did watch some footage from the show a few months back and it was somehow unsettling seeing Andy in a small southern town similar to Mayberry yet NOT Mayberry. It had an almost Twilight Zone effect on me. I think this was just too close in time to TAGS to have a chance at making it. Andy obviously went on to enormous success in Matlock, but that was nearly two decades after the end of TAGS. Btw, thanks for the gratuitous Catwoman pics. Meow! 😸😄

[@Bill23799]

Never saw it, but thanks. I liked Andy in his series " Salvage 1 ".

[@verisah.8525]

Who knew that show was hanging around? I noticed how you called Ron Howard "Opie Cunningham". I do too.

[@johnminehan1148]

Yes, I remember it; it was a great relief after Headmaster, which was a failed attempt at relevance.

[@taratupa73]

I never even knew this show existed, until I started watching intros of old shows from the 70s, on KZbin. I discovered the Headmaster, in the same way.

[@pinedelgado4743]

Happy New Year, Mr. Dave!!! Love your videos!!! ❤❤❤❤

[@jaya.0069]

Wow! This is a new one on me. Scary to think of what you might unearth next! Happy New Year...

[@emkkahn]

Nope. I don't remember this at all... But now that you've kinda displayed this show as the "Bizzaro World Version" of The Andy Taylor Show, I'm searching for it... Thanks as always, Dave!

[@beacee]

Andy and Barney were great together. Such great chemistry. It just wasn’t the same for me without Don Knotts even in the original series, after he left. I didn’t have much interest in even checking this series out. Not surprised it didn’t work.

[@jdsundstrom]

They were a legendary team for sure!

[@mistergrandpasbakery9941]

Yes, I was a fan! I had high hopes for this show!

[@royallison5307]

Does anyone remember a show that Andy Griffin was on called Salvage One on ABC in the late '70's???

[@kevinbergin9971]

As I viewed the first couple of minutes I recall seeming one episode. Basically, the kids are talking about using drugs, Headmaster Andy tells them it is dangerous; one of the students responds "How do you know? If you have never tried it." Andy says, "I don't have to get hit by a car to know it will hurt me." (Or words to that effect.) The show wasn't on long enough to engage me however.

[@keithehredt753]

THANKS ALOT DAVE. I NEVER KNEW.

[@jdsundstrom]

Anytime Keith!

[@mjg263]

Never even heard of this one! I remember Mayberry RFD and I thought it stunk, you just can’t recapture that magic or chemistry or whatever it is. Neat to hear about it though!

[@jasongoldtrap1114]

Great video. I liked Salvage One. RIP Betty White. Have a safe, happy and prosperous 2022.

[@jdsundstrom]

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[@prycerobertson4695]

I believe you did this video two years ago. Anyway, thanks for sharing it with us again! Happy New Year!

[@jdsundstrom]

Happy New Year Pryce! Yep, I did a shorter version of this video in the summer of 2018.

[@jonesy4588]

The Andy Griffith show died when Barney Fife left , why they dragged it out is a mystery to me

[@cbalducc]

TAGS was still delivering in the ratings, but yes, it wasn’t as good following Don Knotts’s exit. To be fair, the writers were running short on fresh ideas of what to do with his character.

[@majorneptunejr]

Strangely enough even though the Barney shows were the best, it was the later shows that had the highest ratings. It was the number 1 show when it left the air. There is only a couple of other shows that can say that .

[@nickperkins8477]

It’s pretty strange that these days, that series is not fairly widely available streaming. It’s the kind of curiosity that could become an odd pop culture goldmine in modern times.

[@non-wokemillennialakat85re72]

Still the Beaver the Leave it to Beaver spinoff from the 80s with a grown up Beaver Eddie and Wally I didn't know existed until a few years ago... definitely seems like I'm in a parallel universe I mean the new Andy Griffith show what...very strange...

[@kc0lif]

i remember that lady who played laura petries friend also was frans grandma on the nanny. i saw don knotts that new andy show. lee Meriwether also on barnaby jones.

[@debrahubbard763]

Don't remember The New Andy Griffith Show, do remember Headmaster. Also remember a movie of the week, where Andy Griffith surprisingly played a mean biker! He really didn't have another TV hit, until Matlock.

[@joebondo2422]

I was unaware of The new Andy Griffith show. The only series I can remember from the 70’s starring Andy Griffith was Salvage 1.

[@buddymills8112]

I watched a couple episodes of this a few years ago. It was kinda strange and different. Happy New Year my friend!! P.S. I just heard Betty White passed away this morning. 😢😢😢😢I really loved her.

[@Ancientreapers]

At least she got to celebrate her final Christmas.

[@marlenepearson9657]

I have the feeling I MAY have seen this. But it's not ringing my memory bell. Maybe I watched the first couple of episodes and was like, nope! 😆🤣😂😹

[@ilovegoodsax]

I turned 10 during the 1970/71 TV season and don't remember either The Headmaster or The New Andy Griffith Show.

[@KevinDavis338]

This is a good find. I don't recall seeing this show.

[@dannystaton5386]

Awesome 👌

[@scotttheil7824]

New Andy Griffith Show, saw the 1st episode on KZbin. Decent, C+ Ron Howard was probably busy at the time working on "The Smith Family" with Henry Fonda.

[@earlsmith7428]

Remember knowing of the show, but I do think it should be out on DVD. Lee Merriweather was on it.

[@Logan_Baron]

It's all odd to me. That both shows were called "The Andy Griffith Show" but that was not his name in either show, but the name of the star. Other than the first name being the same. I know they did that back then, like Bob Newhart and Dick Van Dyke, but it just seems odd now. Like if you called Cheers The Ted Danson Show. And having characters from the original show reprise their roles, so they are the same characters that knew Andy Taylor, Visiting Andy Sawyer, But he's someone else, even though he looks exactly the same.

[@supersithlord]

I did become aware of this in the past couple years. I wish it had succeeded for both the sakes of Andy as well as the fabulous Lee Meriwether.

[@jdsundstrom]

Me too. Love Lee Meriwether!

[@thrashpondopons8348]

Correct me if I'm wrong... but is that not TV Perennial Butch Patrick sitting with Andy at :34??? & I got to share this factoid of Ann Morgan Guilbert... in 63, she gave an amazing performance with Bob Newhart in a Hitchcock Episode, over 20 years later she appeared in one of the funniest Episodes of 'Newhart'! Happy New Year Dave!

[@johnwade6483]

I remember it, but I was just a kid at the time

[@robertcardon5402]

I think Andy left to do movies, when it didn't pan out, he came back to TV. In an interview he said he and Don Knots had lots of movie offers while doing the Andy Griffith show, can't blame him for trying.

[@avlisk]

Loved the "Opie Cunningham" reference. Made me laugh out loud. BTW, your mention of Jerry Van Dyke and Millie made me remember another show. Do you recall "The New Dick Van Dyke Show"?

[@jdsundstrom]

I sure do!

[@STho205]

That one simply embraced the old series with a new wife and office pals... Making him lower fame Alan Brady instead of the writer. It was nearly the same show with the same producer, but Hope Lange was more Mrs Hartley than Laura Petrie. The show even referenced the old show as if he used to live back east. Look for the episode where he was lost in the desert test riding a minibike. Best one. Best van Dyke.

[@jeffreyconner2937]

Mayberry RFD was still on the air at the time. Plus, the rural purge started about the same time. Factors in the show's unsuccessfulness.

[@darlinda9566]

Opie Cunnigham i had never heard of either of these shows.

[@SpikesTrailerPark]

I didn't know about this. And Happy New Year!

[@jdsundstrom]

Happy New Year Spike!

[@BillyAlabama]

I thought I knew everything about him. I was wrong!

[@calvinchan4682]

I was a goofy kid back in the 70's so it escaped my mind. Saw a few lost episodes on KZbin and it did peak my interest and it may have lasted if the network gave it time

[@jdsundstrom]

It's possible. I would have liked to have seen Andy and CBS stick with "Headmaster" for a bit longer than they did.

[@nickperkins8477]

I didn’t know. Of course, I knew about Mayberry RFD and Return To Mayberry. It’s wild that he co-starred with Lee Meriwether. Lee is my second favorite Catwoman.

[@jdsundstrom]

Andy had previously worked with Lee in the movie "Angel in my Pocket".

[@nickperkins8477]

@@jdsundstrom Julie Newmar is my third favorite Catwoman. But, this number three is exceptionally relative. Julie is amazing and timeless in the role.

[@TheShrededward]

The new one was called Mayberry RFD.

[@rino7789]

The magic had been lost by the time this show aired. Once something is over, it is over and cannot be recaptured. Just my take on things.

[@cbalducc]

That’s true for any series named “The New (insert actor’s name here) Show”.

[@kevingiven3463]

I didn't recognize Butch without the ears and fangs, kind of like when I first saw Leonard Nimoy without the ears and eyebrows. lol

[@jdsundstrom]

He is a little more difficult to recognize. Of course, I remember him (without ears and fangs) from Liddsville.

[@wallacelang1374]

I have seen "The New Andy Griffith Show" which I believe only ran about 5 or 6 episodes. It definitely was a little bit off, however I love Lee Meriwether who played Andy Griffith's TV wife on this series. Only the debut episode (or pilot episode) had guest appearances done by Don Knotts, George Lindsey & Paul Hartman. However their characters had different names than those on the original show.

[@bigbubba29]

The pilot episode of this series is the only time Barney interacted with Emmett.

[@willbygosh4887]

I think I did but it just lasted like a few weeks,he tried other TV series but it didn't pan out until Matlock in the 80s.

[@Ancientreapers]

RIP Betty White. She passed away just 2 weeks shy of her 100th birthday.

[@jdsundstrom]

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[@waynesigmon5628]

I remember her on the undefeated with John Wayne and Barnaby Jones

[@paulgeorge1238]

The strangest of them all, I have the 3 episodes on dvd from the collectors circuit. To have the same characters is beyond bizarre. I always point to this series as again the strangest ever done.

[@joefalcone6164]

Anyone remember, Salvage 1 , he wants to build his own spaceship to salvage all the space junk , I liked it but it didn’t last long

[@joefalcone6164]

Was li before or after Angel in my pocket movie, almost exact cast.

[@carmineredd1198]

there also was a show called Mayberry RFD 4

[@jdsundstrom]

I don't remember that one.

[@RedSiegfried]

So weird, I just watched this video for the first time and just night I was discussing with my wife how this new Andy Griffith Show was not the same show as Mayberry RFD - two different shows entirely. I guess no one reading these comments would find it odd that we frequently discuss old obscure TV shows!

[@jdsundstrom]

Thanks for sharing Red!

[@nickimontie]

I don't remember the Headmaster at all, but I do remember the New Andy Griffith Show.

[@patriceleeann6682]

Cool thank you 🥰❤

[@jdsundstrom]

You are so welcome

[@Donna_G]

I remember hearing about The New Andy Griffith show and maybe Headmaster. I don't remember watching either show, though. But, I do remember watching Jerry Van Dyke in Coach. He played Assistant Coach Luther Horatio Van Dam.

[@cbalducc]

Jerry Van Dyke was supposedly considered as a new character to replace Don Knotts on TAGS.

[@yooperlooper]

I never heard of that show !- and I loved the Andy Griffith show with Opie etc. But I've watched the reruns of that show, not the original series when it was on. They should run a few reruns of the NEW AG show now - maybe in a summer line up just to see how it would go over. I'll have to check it out on YT. Opie was cuteness personified, no other kid, except maybe Ralphie from A Christmas Story could compare to him and that's a stretch

[@tonyjulius6011]

You said Opie Cunningham, not to be confused with Richie Taylor. Good post.

[@jdsundstrom]

Ha! Richie Taylor! I love it!

[@tonyjulius6011]

@@jdsundstrom I had heard that the Andy Griffith show had numerous spinoffs, maybe even the most by any one series. I did not know of these though. The transition from the 60s to the 70s was tough. That may have been another reason for the shows not to have been successful.

[@johnharris3362]

I remember both shows and even as a child I thought Andy should've just stayed in Mayberry in the first place.

[@BlackOperations530]

I do remember the tv show Headmaster.

[@elizabethdixon1009]

Wow! Never knew. I heard of Mayberry.

[@mrjro68]

Never heard of the new Andy Griffith show

[@shanemcguire6428]

back then Andy was typecast as an actor it was hard to see andy outside of mayberry and not being sherrif

[@ellendingler5685]

Andy's sister-in-law looks like Don Knots in drag.

[@ref6122]

I also never knew this show existed until I stumbled upon it a few months ago.It was strange seeing the old Mayberry characters playing virtually the same people but with different names.Whatever this show needed to succeed it definitely didnt have.

[@jdsundstrom]

George and Paul played the SAME characters with the SAME names. That was the weirdest part for me.

[@ref6122]

The bizzaro world analogy was the same thing I thought of also.

[@timholt9948]

Never knew this happened

[@kennethwilkinson8244]

good day dave buddy. have a good new years eve. i have some sad news to report, i just learned betty white passed away.

[@jdsundstrom]

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[@cadeevans4623]

I remember the new Andy Griffith show with Andy Griffith himself and Lee meriweather I remember it it was never as good the original Andy Griffith show no comparison Dave Andy Griffith show original show was a lot better but the new Andy Griffith show was pretty good but not as great Dave thanks for sharing Dave I loved Lee meriweather though such a beautiful woman Dave great video 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@coachgarcia3130]

I don't remember Headmaster or the New Andy Griffith Show, but I vaguely remember Salvage 1 where (I think) Andy was a junk man trying to build a rocket.

[@DeanStrickson]

Poor Andy! At least he would find great success on TV years later playing a killer grandpa in the 1995 TV movie ‘Gramps’. That and a little show called ‘Matlock’.

[@jdsundstrom]

I really enjoyed "Salvage 1" as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jpWtpmCadpqJkJY

[@DeanStrickson]

@@jdsundstrom Decades before Space X! I've only found out about that show a couple of years ago on an old TV show openings compilation channel here on YT. I heard it's about guys going into space to salvage space vessels? That seems cost prohibitive!

[@STho205]

Yes I do. I was around 11. It was weird. It wasn't supposed to be Mayberry but it so obviously was. Goober and Emmit were there... What just visiting? He wasn't Andy Taylor but he so obviously was. AG regretted leaving the series after a couple years of mediocre B movies and returning to standup to make a living. He also did a failed series as a headmaster at a private school. With Meriwether, they could have just done the Preacher in the corrupt town from his movie with Jerry van Dyke. What audiences obviously wanted was Andy Taylor to come back to Mayberry with Helen and Opie to be mayor. The series danced around this and died quickly.

[@bobwallace9814]

Am I the only one that had no clue about this show or any others that Griffith did outside of Mayberry's Sheriff or Matlock?