Sag awards

Hi Friends I am not sure if anyone else caught it or not. Sunday night the Screen Actors guild awards were on. The part I need to mention is we had 3 Andy Griffth characters featured in the In Memoruim section... ALLAN MELVIN. DABBS GREER.

The greatest episode ever ... and Haunted Mayberry

TVLand, in its episode description, has taken to saying that "Three Wishes for Opie" is, in the opinion of many, the greatest episode ever. I completely agree. The eerie overtone — which in the end seems to point out that something supenatural is in fact occurring — adds a wonderful scare to the

Bible

I was just watching one where the Taylor's were sitting on the porch watching people go to church, and Opie started telling Johnny Paul about the sermon at the early service that they'd attended. Opie said it was a good one and started telling about Cain and Abel, but Andy stopped him. Opie s

A message from the Mayor concerning Mr. Knotts

Not sure if you FINE folks of Mayberry know it, but our beloved deputy Mr. Fife also has had a television career. I found this wonderful site and hope it's ok to give it to you . Included his is FIRST ever tv show appearance! http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2008/01/don-knotts-television-deb

Palmerton Cafe

I think last month I posted that I'd seen The Green Hornet roaring up Mayberry's Main Street and as he went past the Theater, I could see the next building was the Palmerton Café which I had seen in TAGS episodes, but this was the first time I knew where it actually was. After Jerry (Van Dyke) fai

Books

Thank you for the responses. I will definately look for the books. I am looking for anything that gives more history of the show and of the characters, pictures and trivia. I just like reading about it and wanted to learn more. I have the book Mr. Fann ( I think that is correct ) wrote about