The Untold Truth Of The Andy Griffith Show

[@alanwebster2479]

Don't care how many times I have seen an episode,I can still sit through it again,and actually laugh again...even knowing what is going to happen..love it!

[@Peabody388]

Mimi pia Alan, mimi pia rafiki.

[@gamma1695]

Isn't that a beautiful thing? I'm feel the same way

[@malkavian2482]

My daddy loved this show. I used to watch it with him. He died in 2016 from cancer. Rip daddy. I love and miss u.

[@kmsleyang1980]

My daddy died in 2016 and this show reminds me of growing up with his side of the family. We even live in a small town in NC just like the show.

[@matthewcox34]

Watch it with my dad, I’m 12. Thanks for reminding me to never take it for granted👍

[@billedwards6985]

I'm so sorry my brother

[@valeriegriner5644]

The first 5 seasons in B/W are, by FAR, the best episodes. After Barney left, it just wasn't the same.

[@GoDawgs18]

Ya as a huge fan of the show nobody watches seasons 6-8

[@carlcounts1]

agreed

[@RandolphBlake]

💯…When I turn it on ..if it’s color I turn channel

[@suzanneberger8202]

Why did Don Knotts leave the show as he was so good and equally funny?

[@jeffreyconner2937]

@@suzanneberger8202 He signed a movie contract that he couldn't get out of.

[@marianlincoln9008]

Growing up I thought Mayberry was just like the town's around where my Grandparents lived in Southern Missouri. The people all knew each other and their families, helped each other and cared. Not like today where folks don't want to get " Involved" ..... I miss those days .

[@millerscorner2]

I miss those days as well. I remember when we could leave the keys in our cars and our homes unlocked; never worrying about thieves or evil doers. Those days are long gone.

[@NBZW]

How right you are. I grew up in a small town of 1900 people in the 40-50s today it’s 150.000 plus, taint the same.

[@millerscorner2]

@Geek Vape You are some of the lucky few. It is good to know that such places exist today in this fallen world. Thank you for that heart warming information; it is greatly appreciated. God Bless you.

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@millerscorner2 I wonder why? What has changed about society since those days?

[@TroyGlaus-yv2yb]

I also grew up in rural southeast Missouri. I knew all of my neighbors and in fact I loved my neighbor like a third grandfather. He was a single old gentleman who had a heart of Gold. Growing up I had from my parents small farm to the Mississippi River as my playground. I roamed the woods and fields of my area with my group of friends. I learned to appreciate the people and their kindness that they had shown me. Everyone looked out for everyone. My friends parents were allowed to discipline me and my parents disciplined my friends. In fact when one of my friends parents caught me smoking not only did my buddies dad whoop my butt he called my parents and my dad whopped my butt. It didn’t work. I’m still smoking 43 years later. Small town life, in my opinion, is the best life a person can live. In fact my hometown is still basically the same as when I grew up there. There is only a little better than 3,200 people. Everyone, for the most part, still looks out for each other. Kids still play in the same woods that I did way back when. We still have neighborhood block parties and Friday night football still is the best night of the week. I truly miss being young and wild and free, roaming those hills. I still dove and deer hunt in those woods.

[@sburris65]

Growing up in a small NC town..this show will always be a favorite.

[@millerscorner2]

Mine too. :0)

[@dwade6322]

My family grew up in West Jefferson and Lansing N.C...i miss the trips there to the mountains an seeing all the beauty.

[@motorcitymanman7711]

@@dwade6322 Where do u live? I moved to Gaffney SC last year after spending 33 years in So Cal. SC and NC r both very beautiful states.

[@hondadude12]

I watch Andy Griffith on TV Land from 1 to 5 every day. It's a great show to watch instead of the other junk that's on TV.

[@amanda39997]

Me too hunny! The show ,for me, personally is like a huge comfort blanket. The show just makes you feel better. I wish I great up back then

[@abryant8287]

I've been doing the same. It puts me in a calming mood.

[@kdogg6781]

yep!!... my all-time fav.. my dad (71) and i (41) quiz each other all the time... it's gotten to where the questions are getting ridiculous.. haha..

[@getdownorlaydown3696]

My grandma watches it every morning shes 85 she loves it.

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@kdogg6781 where was Otis' first arrested for public intoxication? No Googling! Lol

[@wvhillbille9458]

I miss shows you could watch with your family

[@tobiojo6469]

I always watch the reruns of the Andy Griffith show with my family.

[@dannyowens8149]

I still watch reruns everyday

[@nightrider5109]

Me too ! I record them from TVLAND I watch them after watching CNN cuz CNN is so depressing lol

[@dannyowens8149]

@@nightrider5109 Heck yeah.. It also comes on a channel called Sundance to I record them on both TVland too lol ... Those same 2 guys that always pick on Barney 😂

[@dannyowens8149]

@Timothy Orten hell yeah. I just purchased it too

[@thabighurt6002]

Danny....me too. 😁😁

[@dannyowens8149]

@@thabighurt6002 Awesome!!

[@garyk8558]

I love this show still watch it every day good family values

[@dreasmom2789]

Barney getting Andy to ride in the motorcycle side car. I can't even think of about that episode without literally chuckling out loud

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

Let 'er rip!

[@adamgropper2072]

I used to watch that show a lot several years ago. Andy Griffith passed away several years ago with an awesome career he had as an actor.

[@amymckinney1397]

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[@amymckinney1397]

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[@tarideyoe4239]

@@amymckinney1397 pick

[@lindasmith6623]

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[@soundwave6218]

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[@justhereforkicks8208]

My dad was a cop so naturally we watched Andy Griffinth. It was a long time family joke that we called my dad Barney. I can remember on Friday nights when I was about 8 or 9, my dad would come home with pizza and these giant cokes and we’d sit and watch the show. Good times

[@Hellyeah88833]

i love this mental vision..

[@stargirlzx]

Those are great memories

[@tonyhelton2788]

I think Otis the town drunk should get a lot more credit. There was nothing funnier than when Otis had run ins with Barney. Otis played the most believable drunk that ever was on TV.....his character was perfect and hilarious.

[@P.G.1966]

Alcoholism ran in my family. Nothing really funny or amusing about that. Foster Brooks was another one I really didn't care for.

[@georgehabib1266]

I'm not sure what episode it was but Andy asks Otis are you drunk? Otis says no! I'm stone sober but I spe'c I'll get over it. Or something like that. I use that line any chance I get.

[@belindareeves1769]

I Still watch this show in reruns. Love it 🥰

[@philipdonald7092]

Hello beautiful how are you

[@ginaloverofangels]

Thank you for so much of this information. I didn't know a lot of it. I've always loved this show/and still watch it daily.

[@rickyhenry4958]

Favorite show of all time!

[@P.G.1966]

Without question..THE ABSOLUTE BEST SHOW OF ALL TIME.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Brandezi84]

Great example of classic TV. Simple innocent times. Used to love watching the reruns with my Dad. Great vid! 😁

[@Hellyeah88833]

goober was gomers cousin and gas station co worker..i love this show esp. the first 5 seasons . it seemed so different when it went to color they spoke more formally , didnt sound right but still a great show. Matlock was great too.

[@sisu413]

I came to the comments to see if anyone mentioned Matlock. When I was growing up we'd watch Matlock and Murder She Wrote every night when it was on. Andy Griffith show had been on for years already but I'd watch it on Nick At Night along with The Patty Duke Show 🙂 They don't make shows like they use to.

[@charlesfoutch1132]

i saw goober at babptist hospital gym lifting weights.

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

Goober and Gomer weren't co-workers at the gas station, Goober took over after Gomer joined the Marines.

[@Hellyeah88833]

@@giraffesareselfish9563 i agree you are right i did not go into time line but given the first comment i was on point and to you hillbilly way to be on top of shit

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@Hellyeah88833 lol, I know way too much about this show.

[@job38four10]

My all time favorite episode was Citizen's Arrest, I also liked it when the Darling was on singing some of them ole folk songs..........

[@jackkircher1755]

There were a few episodes when Barney was napping and Andy played a trick on him. Once he took his shoes and hid them in the desk drawer. Another was when he exchanged hats with him A third was his best. As Barney slept, Andy covered him up with a blanket and tucked the ends under the legs of the cot. When he woke Barney up he couldn't move but finally managed to get out!

[@dannyowens8149]

Haha. I remember this clearly

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

Also when Andy tried everything to wake Barney up and he finally just snapped his fingers

[@MartinGarcia-km4qs]

My favorite was when Barney bought that motorcycle. When they jokingly removed his side car, that was so funny!

[@Blalack77]

I was born in 1986 but I grew up watching Andy Griffith, The Waltons, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone, The Three Stooges and Alfred Hitchcock.. My dad grew up watching them with his dad in the 60's and 70's and then my little brother and I grew up watching them with him. I guess I'll keep it going if my wife ever spits out any youngens lol... And wow... I just looked it up and did the math - Andy Griffith was the same age I am now when the Andy Griffith show first aired (34).... I find that strange for some reason.

[@michaelward944]

[@MattWillis]

Same here. I was born 1985

[@hyacinthbucket3803]

This is a nice video, made me all warm on the inside.

[@melonyandew994]

I love any Griffen show I still watch it and Matt lock show they both are good shows love them and thanks

[@jackkircher1755]

Howard McNear had the stroke NOT "in /he middle of the shows run," as presented here, but in the middle ofvthe FIRST SEASON. He was loved and respected by so many he stayed on for much of the series until he just couldn't do it anymore. RIP, friend!

[@cyndik9921]

It blew me away when on (I think episode 163) a California licence plate was shown on a car Goober was working on. The talking dog episode. It struck me funny.. a blooper ☺

[@TroyGlaus-yv2yb]

I watch this show daily. I always find something new every time I watch them.

[@jackkircher1755]

The greatest Mayberry mystery was Mr Schump. Only the producers knew who this man was. He appeared in several episodes and was very much loved by the Mayberry towns people but NEVER said a word but ALWAYS smiled!

[@P.G.1966]

A MayBerry Mystery....

[@cindystarling7401]

Still love this show and I'm 40

[@jackkircher1755]

Andy actually had five love interests on the show: Elly Walker, TWO county nurses both names Mary (A blond and a brunette), Then there was Peggy MacMillan, a nurse at a hospital outside the city limits. Everyone was pulling for the two of them but it was a love that was not to be lasting only five episodes, so he ended up with Helen Crump who many fans did not like. The way Barney got to marry Thelma Lou was that she left town right after Barney did and returned with her husband. In the reunion move, she returns widowed or divorced and meets Andy at the cemetery and he takes her to see Barney and they fall in love all over again getting married in a barn where the Darlin family enter the barn playing.

[@cindystarling7401]

Definitely awesome love this

[@ArtistBrianSheffield]

Funny how none of the characters were married in the show. They were all happy as a clam.

[@johnswackyworld]

NOOO!! otis campbell the drunk was married!!!

[@ep_aesthetics5917]

Rayve Hollister. He didn’t appear often though

[@clydekimsey7503]

Emmitt was married

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@ep_aesthetics5917 yep, his wife was Martha

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

The main reason the main characters (except Otis) weren't married is because the writers said it was too difficult to write for married couples.

[@1952creswell]

Regarding Floyd the barber I actually think that Floyd's best and funniest episodes came after his stroke. He was definitely the second funniest guy on the series. My other favorites were Mayor Pike and little Leon, the PB&J eating little cowboy.

[@LindaLedford-nu7qe]

Love The Andy Griffith Show. I'm watching it now on Sundance.

[@dwade6322]

I was born a few years after the show ended. Its still my Fav along w/M*A*S*H...Those shows from the 70's had a perfect blend of old and new.

[@candacetalley9261]

Andy Griffin was funny and I always watch Matlock and Andy Griffith and God bless Andy

[@aileenrivera8992]

Great information thanks for sharing.

[@windriverhills2303]

Still watch this!

[@leemoore9933]

There isnt any glass in those cars in the opening, strange.

[@jackkircher1755]

That's because the lights would reflect off the glass and the film would be full of bright light blots.

[@leemoore9933]

@@jackkircher1755 So it was filmed on a sound stage and not outside, gotcha!

[@MelindaGreen-z4v]

Best Show, Loved all of them

[@BeautifulDisasters91]

I'm taking my mom to Mount Airy NC for her birthday in February I can't wait. She will love it. Its where the show is based out of. ANDY GRIFTH HOMETOWN. They have the jail and the squad car that takes you around and Andy's home that is now a B.N.B.

[@millerscorner2]

We look forward to seeing you there! :0)

[@jasonwhite1743]

Been there a few times. I live down south from there. Really nice place to visit. Check out all of Main Street. Walk through the shops. Also the museum’s. It can be a lot of walking for older people. My mother in law was wore out. I hope y’all enjoy.

[@williamcoleman8955]

I watch the Andy Griffith show because of MeTV weekly and on Sunday Mornings.

[@TWayneD1020]

Great !!

[@SuburbanDon]

Helen Crump should have been named Helen Buzzkill. She killed any notion of them having fun.

[@tobiojo6469]

Awesome video

[@thecentralscrutinizerr]

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts had previously worked together on "No Time for Sergeants" before The Andy Griffith Show.

[@Iconhulk]

Wasn't a contract issue... Andy really thought 5 would be the last season. Don knew of this. But Don had already signed a contract out in Hollywood before he knew The Show would return for a 6th Season.. Knotts wasn't in the last 2 episodes of Season 5. Episode 31 and 32.

[@MrGlenn7710]

That was very interesting 🌝

[@joeymorvant161]

Floyd was very memorable. "Yeeeeeess! Oh, yeess!"

[@kdogg6781]

"AAHHHHH.. there he (barney) goes off the deep end, just like you said" "FLOYD!!!" "my lips are sealed".

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@kdogg6781 Did Calvin Coolidge say that?

[@kdogg6781]

@@giraffesareselfish9563 no, hillbilly cat, Calvin Coolidge didn’t say everything.

[@goldiemckernan1189]

An American classic.

[@LobsterRoc]

I can't whistle

[@Jason-qc4ty]

"You know how to whistle, don't you? You just put your lips together and blow." Lauren Bacall

[@zacdraws2437]

Same

[@jackkircher1755]

Jim Neighbors struck up a great life-long friendship with his on-screen Sargent, Frank Sutton. When the network wanted to get rid of sergeant Carter, Jim stood up for him and that's what ended the shoe but not the relationship

[@hifijohn]

well thats shoe business.

[@oldenweery7510]

Did they explain where Aunt Bea was from that she didn't have a southern drawl? I always wondered. I liked the show, although I always thought Barney was a little Over the Top. Nice rural values, sort of like the little village where I grew up, _somewhat_ north of Mayberry---in Wisconsin. Happy New Year, everybody! Stay safe.

[@docbrown6610]

Aunt Bea was from Virginia

[@oldenweery7510]

@@docbrown6610 Thanks, that explains it. I worked with a guy from Virginia and though he definitely had an accent, it was close to us Yankees' way of talkin'. Stay safe.

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@docbrown6610 I think it was West Virginia. In The Banjo Playing Deputy she mentioned she was from the same town as Jerry in West Virginia.

[@P.G.1966]

Aunt Bea had a wonderful opportunity to reach out to the Universe...and she didn't. So very sad.

[@stevenmccart2894]

I'm wondering if the windowless cars had something to do with not figuring out how to deal with reflection from lights.

[@susanfit47]

I watch every episode of The Andy Griffith Show in reruns.

[@wallacelang1374]

I have liked watching "The Andy Griffith Show" and the made for TV reunion movie "Return To Mayberry" for they were all enjoyable. What I believe is that the reunion movie had to be made for those who are lifelong fans to have a satisfying conclusion to their favorite TV series.

[@JSowder21]

I can't wait until the new season gets released!!!

[@litaheffley6990]

Ahh love it cool 😎

[@kaz.1661]

I still watch this show

[@daviddemastus6488]

It still is the greatest of all time.

[@tobiojo6469]

Bel Air Maryland is a lot like Mayberry in many ways; it’s a small town, people know each other and it’s a great place to live.

[@beebop9808]

I remember for a long time people asking me if I lived near Mayberry when they heard I was from NC. Some of them thought I was born there. Don't know where they got that idea? lol

[@gilt2349]

Andy was my mom's school teacher for a short time in goldsboro nc. She had 9 brothers and sisters who all swore by it. Family story or was it true IDK

[@lawrencebraun7616]

I would call the town or school and see if it true.

[@Kaktus965]

He did teach music there!

[@johnny-becker]

McNear was not the origional Floyd. In the first season, it was played by a much older gentleman named Walter Baldwin (no known relation to Alec Baldwin) but was deemed too old. McNear often joked that he played Floyd Lawson Jr.

[@jackkircher1755]

Floyd had a stroke in the middle of the first season not in the show's RUN! You are right about Don being on for five years. This was ONLY because of what Andy said. It was obvious that Andy did NOT support the idea of the show because he said he would only commit to five years. Had he not said that, Don would not have left the show! No, once Don left, the show sadly lacked the pazaz it had with Don. I am very surprised it lasted two seasons without him. Not even when he guess stared those three times, it just wasn't the same! Don Knots WAS the show!

[@AlfredHawthornBennyHill]

Actually he had his stroke during the 3rd season. Convicts At Large was the last episode he did before the stroke in 1962, which is during the shows run and he was gone for 2 years, returning in 1964 in the episode Andy Saves Gomer. Even during the 1st season, it is considered the shows run. Just saying.

[@bozzie7718]

So true. The show without knotts wasn’t that great.

[@jackkircher1755]

Colorizing the show served only to ruin the effect of nastalgia the show has. There are very few of them I liked. I have taken several trivia quizzes in the show and rarely got a question wrong.

[@nateyumad]

You should do stand by me

[@jackkircher1755]

Everyone was hoping Andy would marry "Miss Peggy" who happened to be the mother of Tatum O'Neal.

[@clydekimsey7503]

Peggy the nurse?

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

@@clydekimsey7503 No, Peggy the barber....🤣🤣

[@jackkircher1755]

"Emmit" (the fix-it shop owner), was named for Andy's childhood friend her grew up with.

[@westtexasdave2140]

I call it more introduced on the Danny Thomas Show more than a spin off.

[@ITzTix1994]

Do a video about Del Shannon

[@caspaabriel4794]

Growing up in NZ this was compulsive viewing, Loved everything about The Andy Griffith Show. . . Oh for those days! Kind Regards

[@jackkircher1755]

Francis In TRUTH was a "Karen" of the day. She liked no one but DETESTED Andy. She played her part as a loving aunt very well and fooled EVERYONE. It waa in the late 80's that I found out the TRUTH. I ever respected her after that. She called Any JUST BEFORE her death to patch things us between them. She died leaving 13 cats plus her entire estate to Siler City, NC where she lived outvher final years. She had no family.

[@kingforaday8725]

As the show wore on Sheriff Andy Taylor became more of a grouch! The first couple years when Barney would do something stupid Andy would just laugh it off and move on. In later episodes he would give Barney the "you flipping idiot" scowl and attitude. Same in dealing with Opie!

[@dianejohnson5216]

I never thought the teacher was right for Andy

[@QBAN2010]

I agree, I thought Thelma Lou would have been better for Andy than Helen! Thelma Lou was way too good for Barney!!!!

[@thisbushnell2012]

The Danny Thomas version was much more accurate a portrayal of small southern town politics in the 50's.

[@jamesmarconi7502]

Barney and notice was the best comic or duel may get the argument it's funny as hell

[@gmoney9961]

Easily the best show in television history.

[@bigbubba29]

I already knew all this stuff, lol.

[@floridaboy.californiaman.649]

I've seen the show and it's funny ! .

[@SCfanIam100]

When I found out how opposite Andy and Ron Howard were\are in real life to their Mayberry characters I didn't care much for the show anymore.

[@charlesfoutch1132]

just because they are liberals doesn't make them bad people.

[@philipnewton3266]

What the hell are you talking about?

[@charlesfoutch1132]

all the main characters are liberal and very good people working for the poor.

[@gfisher495]

Andy Griffith! Don Knotts! Goober and Gomer! Mayberry! Glenn

[@Losermachine35]

The cars without windows is strange

[@lawrencebraun7616]

The windows would reflect light like a mirror and shown the tv camera and crew.

[@Iconhulk]

Pyle as a Marine.. smh Unrealistic

[@shonamagouyrk9575]

When floyd, barney and gomer left, that's where andy Griffith show should have stopped

[@philipdonald7092]

Hello

[@alfonsobarbonso]

floyd never left really

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

The show got bad before Floyd died, even his character was kind of bad during the color episodes

[@freddiemontanez8461]

Why it wasn't a lot mentioned about Opie, Ron Howard. He was good .

[@Rudipolt]

Aloha

[@jackkircher1755]

This was the FIRST time I have heard the TRUTH actually MENTIONED as to why Don Knotts left after 5 years. Other versions indicate that he left after 5 years but FAIL to mention why! I am one of thousands of fans who KNOW that once Don was gone, sonar the LUSTER of show. The replacement deputy sort of ruined the show so he lasted only a few episodes. ALL TAGS fans are shocked that the show ceased to EXIST when Don left.

[@kenbritton8227]

I always liked Andys deadpan date Lydia Crosswaithe. She was only in 3 episodes .

[@63shakeandbake]

It's "BOO-vi-A" not "BAU-vi-A" like Jackie Kennedy's maiden name.

[@jordanusenicnik8393]

Watching the last 3 season in color is so weird

[@Olkv3D]

Ellie Walker: Mayberry Ranger

[@candacetalley9261]

😭😭😭🙏🙏

[@charlesfoutch1132]

Good beans

[@robertross804]

Andy had a guest's spot on bob hope show andy kiss Barbara Eden and his badge spun

[@joeanderson9852]

👍❤

[@jamesziegler2763]

interesting

[@mr.goodman3991]

What’s the Andy Griffith show?

[@floweriare]

😁a wholesome sweet show white people use to enjoy. Had kids hooked. Enjoy

[@BingoBungaBango]

YEAH you can watch it on Metv

[@CBass-mn5dy]

Awesome show.... i was born after it got cancelled but I'm sure I've watched all of the episodes a dozen times....

[@joeymorvant161]

Mr. Goodman Oh, come on!

[@lsufan4138]

@@floweriare People still enjoy it.

[@gfisher495]

Danny Thomas! Glenn