Nazzis Invade Mayberry

These are a few scenes from the 1959 film Verboten! filmed on the backlot 40 Acres where The Andy Griffith Show exteriors were filmed. The movie stars James Best.

[@MrJackThomasJr]

Say it isn't so. They got the bank, Floyd's Barber Shop, the drug store and the court house.

[@protochris]

Don't worry Barney will take care of them!

[@erielac]

I believe the guy on the jeep was James Best. He was in a few episodes of TAGS. He was a musican and played the guitar.

[@johnswackyworld]

mayberry caught in an alternative universe! no barney ! just james best

[@trueknowledgeispower]

Wasn't that James Best 'Jim Lindsey' at the 0:09 mark? Nevermind,.....I saw his name in your notes.

[@birdebyrd]

Roscoe P Coltrane fights Nazis in Mayberry? Now I've seen it all!

[@christopherdiedrich40]

birdebyrd noyce!

[@JimiBLong]

And the *YOUTOOB ACADEMY AWARD IN THE ENTIRE THREAD* goes to birdebyrd !!!🤣 Well done !! 👍

[@BRIBOT7]

Technically this town isn't Mayberry yet. Andy Griffith show didn't happen until 1960, one year later.

[@micpar2]

SHAZAM!! The guitar man of Mayberry!! This must be the Twilight Zone episode of Mayberry!!

[@josephhenry661]

Twilight Zone Meets Andy Griffith Show "Mayberry Episode"

[@jokeyandpismo]

When I was a kid living in L.A. I would sneak over the fence and play in these back lots after school. One time a security guard saw me inside the studio lot and I ran and hid in one of the buildings. Sure wish they still had this place today. They should have made this place a historical site and not torn it down But big money always wins over saving historical buildings and old movie lots like these- cry.

[@staubach1979rt]

This is in Culver City.

[@orange70383]

It's the guitar player, he went out on his own cause he was the big draw of freddy fleet's band with the beat.

[@jeffgreen7499]

Sgt. James Best fighting Nazis. He runs to and stands in front of a courthouse in Germany circa 1945. The next year, (1960 already?!) he becomes Jim Lindsey, the guitar player in 2 episodes of the Andy Griffith Show,and will spend some time in the Mayberry, North Carolina jail, which is in that very same courthouse!A mixed up parallel dimension!

[@jubalcalif9100]

The Desilu back lot. It used to be the RKO lot before Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz bought it in the late 50s. In 1967, Lucille (who had bought out Desi after their divorce) sold the lot to Paramount, which was right next door. All Paramount had to do was tear down a wall to join the two lots.

[@uvaldesch.shootingwasanact2002]

The entire 40-Acres Back lot was demolished for a parking lot.

[@alumitech007]

the guy who was on the jeep is from the dukes of hazzard lol

[@maggiesmith856]

There is only one Z in Nazi.

[@christopherdiedrich40]

It's spelled that way so that the YT not-zzz's don't take the video down