What do Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, The Odd Couple and the original Star Trek have in common? It’s not as odd ...

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 ...

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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.

Declaring "The Andy Griffith Show" the official television show of the state seems light-hearted. But there's more to it. Messaging matters.