Tag: Andy Griffith
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Andy Griffith Worked Hard To Make Mayberry Feel Like A Real Southern Town
If you’re from the South, chances are that more often than not, the representations of it on screen feel less than accurate. When you’re actually from a place that is being depicted on screen, you have a respect and understanding for it that many television and film creators aren’t able to harness. Therefore, the places…
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The Power of Andy Griffith: George Lindsey’s Startling Confession about the Show’s Maestro
If you were Andy Griffith, would you rather be loved or respected? Because the man in charge was more concerned with the latter. There’s only one name in the title of The Andy Griffith Show, and ol’ Ange took his role seriously. His was the face that kept everyone employed, and he didn’t intend to…
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Andy Griffith’s Costly Christmas: Calculating the Price of Love in ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ Gifts
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is, at its heart, a song about someone showing their love through gifts. After all, what’s more romantic than… waterfowl? We’ll take the five golden rings happily, but the lords a-leaping… well, people have given worse gifts. In a 1969 Christmas episode of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, that was…
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Critical Acclaim or Backlash? Decoding Reviews for The Andy Griffith Show’s Inaugural Episode
Hindsight isn’t always 20/20, because nostalgia can cloud our memory. Sometimes our rose-tinted glasses trick us into thinking everyone shared the same experience. The way that pop culture history, in particular, is remembered doesn’t always reflect what happened. There are critical darlings that people assume were mega-hits when truthfully they were hardly watched. On the…
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What Andy Griffith Really Thinks About the Future of The Andy Griffith Show Sans Don Knotts
Saying goodbye to friends is always hard, but for two pals like Don Knotts and Andy Griffith, who spent five seasons together on The Andy Griffith Show before Knotts decided to call it quits, it must have been especially rough to say goodbye. While Barney Fife often made guest appearances after he stopped his run…
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Whimsical Tales: Andy Griffith’s Barbershop Adventures in the Real Mayberry
One of the reasons The Andy Griffith Show is so fondly remembered is its setting. The characters imbue Mayberry with a warmth and charm that feels incredibly realistic. Much of that believability comes from the fact that Mayberry is rooted in the real world. Griffith molded the fictional location after his real-life hometown of Mount…