Hallmark is issuing a battery-operated TAGS keepsake ornament fashioned as a
television set tuned to the opening credits. The ornament lights up and also
plays Earle Hagen's The Fishin' Hole TAGS them song.
Paul, I got one of those a few years ago and I love it
Debbie in SC
TAGS had exactly one sponsor during its entire eight years: General Foods
(makers of Post cereal, JELL-O, Sanka, etc.) At no time did any tobacco
company ever sponsor it.
Andy smoked both in real life and on The Show until around 1964, which is when
the surgeon general started issuing
While on a recent trip to Alaska, we visited a Sea museum. They have a
touch tank where you can handle the starfish, etc. One of the people there to
assist and answer questionswill, I did a double take. All he needed
was a 5 gallon can and start singing Old Aunt Mariah or heave a rock!
I don't recall any documentation that Chesterfield or any other cigarette
maker ever sponsored or co-sponsored The Andy Griffith Show. The main
sponsor was always General Foods, which advertised Post Cereals, Sanka, Jell-O
and Jell-O puddings, SOS pads (now owned by Clorox), Gaines Burgers
At the end of Return to Mayberry, I thought the flag scene was symbolic that
all things were as it should be. The flag where it belonged and Andy and
Barney taking care of Mayberry.
The original set was torn day at some point after Adam 12 went off the air or a
little before and the movie
We all know Mayberry to be a quaint,charming Southern town.We know the
residents have eaten chicken,apple pie
and other Southern fare.Has anyone ever seen the most Southern staple of
all,watermelon, being consumed?We know
they also churn ice cream.
I just finished eating watermelon and this
Since you mention it, I and some others from our Knoxville, Tennessee
Mayberry chapter just came back from a week in Los Angeles seeing all the
sites where our beloved Andy Griffith Show was filmed. In addition to Myers
Lake where we walked down the same trail Andy and Opie do in the opening of
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