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The Andy Griffith Show
''The Andy Griffith Show'' is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of ''The Danny Thomas Show'', stars Andy Griffith, who portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), and a precocious young son, Opie (Ron Howard). Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Regarding the time-period of the show, Griffith said in a ''Today Show'' interview: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the 1960s, it had a feeling of the 1930s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by."
The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by ''TV Guide'' as the 9th-best and 13th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The series spawned its own spin-off, ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.'' (1964), a sequel series, ''Mayberry R.F.D.'' (1968), and a reunion telemovie, ''Return to Mayberry'' (1986). Black and white reruns have aired on numerous networks and currently air on ''TV Land'' and ''Me-TV'', while the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix. An annual festival celebrating the show, Mayberry Days, is held each year in Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.〔http://www.surryarts.org/mayberrydays/index.html〕 The show's enduring popularity has also generated significant show-related merchandise.
==Origin==
Sheldon Leonard, producer of ''The Danny Thomas Show,'' and Danny Thomas, hired veteran comedy writer Arthur Stander (who had written many of the "Danny Thomas" episodes) to create a pilot show for Andy Griffith, featuring him as justice of the peace and newspaper editor in a small town.〔Kelly, Richard. ''The Andy Griffith Show''. Blair, 1981.〕 At the time, Broadway, film, and radio star Griffith was interested in attempting a television role, and the William Morris Agency told Leonard that Griffith's rural background and previous rustic characterizations were suited to the part.〔 After conferences between Leonard and Griffith in New York, Griffith flew to Los Angeles and filmed the episode.〔 On February 15, 1960, ''The Danny Thomas Show'' episode "Danny Meets Andy Griffith" aired.〔 In the episode, Griffith played fictional Sheriff Andy Taylor of Mayberry, North Carolina, who arrests Danny Williams (Thomas's character) for running a stop sign. Future players in ''The Andy Griffith Show'', Frances Bavier and Ron Howard, appeared in the episode as townspeople Henrietta Perkins and Opie Taylor (the sheriff's son).〔 General Foods, sponsor of ''The Danny Thomas Show'', had first access to the spinoff and committed to it immediately.〔 On October 3, 1960 at 9:30 pm, ''The Andy Griffith Show'' made its debut.〔Beck, Ken, and Jim Clark. ''The Andy Griffith Show Book''. St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.〕
Though the show was set in the 1960s, (Evidence for this is that at the start of the episode "Barney's First Car", aired in 1963, Barney wants to buy a 1954 Ford; later in the episode Andy says, "that car is nearly 10 years old.") Andy Griffith and others have said that the show often felt as though it was from earlier times, such as the 1930s. Griffith was referring to the "nostalgic feel" the show often portrayed to the viewer, not that it was intended to take place in a previous era. This is evident by the Ford squad car his character drove in the show which was usually that current year's (1960–68) model. In the fourth episode of the second season, a distinct reference was made to the current year being 1961. In the episode, a municipal bond issued in 1861 was discovered and was payable for exactly 100 years of interest.
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