The years 1960 to 1964 marked the height of Andy Griffith’s rise as a television sensation. The Andy Griffith Show premiered in October 1960, spun off from a backdoor pilot episode on The Danny ...

In The Andy Griffith Show Book, author Richard Kelly quoted him as saying, “We never knew how to write for women, and because of my peculiar nature and my personal relationship with women, it ...

One of the film’s posters announced, “That wonderful No Time for Sergeants meathead ANDY GRIFFITH is back as Onionhead!” He’s “goofin’-up the Coast Guard now!” trumpeted another.

In 1960, Griffith landed "The Andy Griffith Show" on CBS. He played Sheriff Andy Taylor, a widower and a wise man who kept the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, in check.

If you showed a time traveler (or, let’s be honest, anyone who is 22 in 2025) the opening sequence of The Andy Griffith Show with the sound off, they’d be like, “Why are you showing me this?