A wonderful day in Mt. Airy

Spent the day in Mt. Airy!!! It was on my bucket list...sharing photos and stories on Facebook tonight as I sit in our hotel in Charleston West Virginiathe salt and pepper suit really touched my heart... ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.co

Southern pronunciation

 I always wondered why Mr. Schwamp, who is one of my favorite "mute" characters on TAGS is pronounced SCHWUMP with a U??  Andrea  Who Used To Wear Big Rollers Like Mary Alice Carter, But Would NEVER Have Stood Opie Up. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB

Very impressed

Dixon Hayes, I have to commend you on your tribute to our favorite show..TAGSI enjoyed the photos that you chose, the quotes fit in perfectly and although I'm not you "mother figure", I always check for mistakes in  grammar, spelling and other errors, being the ex-librarian that I amI co

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 My trivia question may just be another one of those trivial trivialities but here goes. Were there ever any family photos or portraits on the walls of any of the homes or businesses in Mayberry?    Respectively submitted by  Andrea, Who Wore Big Rollers Like Mary Alice Carter, But Would Never H

TAGS Similarity

 While on the subject of similar plots and characters from The Great Gildersleeve, I found a similar plot to an episode of TAGS in the 1957 Episode titled "Shadow of a Man" from the The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp starring our cool and calm Hugh O'Brian.  In "Shadow of a Man", Earp leaves town

great coincidence

This won't happen very often.  Watched two old movies in a row and Will Wright (Ben Weaver) was in BOTH shows!  In one, he was a bad guy and in the other he was a banker.  Then saw Alan Hale Jr. as a small town sheriff and his deputy was another fellow from TAGS...Ross Elliott   who was in The T

life's lessons

 I just finished a memoir written by a female disc jockey from NYC.  When she has to move to North Carolina to care for her aging mother, she definitely goes through culture shock.  During the three years that she is there, she begins to watch TAGS with her mother.  Eventually, she takes her Mo

some things are better left unsaid

Two Mayberry sighting in one day.  Watched two movies in one day and saw something from TAGS in each one.   One was old and one was modern.  TAGS is eternally popular, ya know? The first was Dangerous Crossing (1953) starring the gorgeous Jeanne Crain.  Willis Bouchey (Charlie O'Malley) has a v

Mr. Schwump and his bank account

My son went to Hollywood and was an extra.  Worked about every day for 2 years.  He told us that when you speak even one word in a show, you make more money, so the Hollywood bigwigs aren't going to just let anybody have lines to speak.  I sure wish they'd let my son have some lines on the shows

gomer

Didn't Gomer attribute his singing voice to a high roof in his mouth? If so, I just watched John Barrymore in "Svengali".   He is a voice teacher and takes a pretty young gal who really can't sing and hynotizes her into singing good enough to tour Europe on stage.  He tells the other men that he

food for thought

 I tried not to double space last time and it helped some. I too, learned to double space after a sentence, but my boys, who went to high school in the 90's said that they changed it. It's a hard habit to break. Good question about the bathroom at the courthouse. Did anybody ever go to the bath

some people take Andy's lessons too seriously

I have to tell on my 35 year old son, who is a huge fan of TAGS. While discussing the episode where Opie has a crush on Thelma Lou and makes a pest of himself, according to Barney. My son took Andy's little speech about what grown women do on dates...shopping, visiting her mother, etc. and he to

Lincoln lived in Springfield

 I don't remember anybody being left-handed and I notice that, because both of my sons are left-handed and me and Hubby aren't. I thought that the trivia answer about Springfield was The Simpsons.    The Simpsons live in Springfield and have 2 girls and a boy, but I don't know what street they

What makes us laugh?

 I want to take a poll and see which episode of TAGS did you find the funniest?    My pick is "Goober and the Art of Love"  Barney teaching Goober about how to be a lady's man and Lydia's responses to whatever the other two couples talk about makes me roll with laughter time and time again. And

just the facts

 I recently read this online   The scripts used during Jack Burns' time on the show as Deputy Warren Ferguson were originally written for Don Knotts' Barney Fife.   Does anyone know if this is true?  I'm sure it's not true  for the episode where Barney comes back to Mayberry and Warren idol

famous roots

Does anybody remember who was Ramona's great grandfather and how was he famous?   Andrea My husband has been known to roll up his pantlegs like Opie. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/

who said it?

I 've never asked a trivia question before, so here's my little ditty...Who said, "Come next Christmas, don't expect me to buy my cotton balls from you!" Andrea My husband has been known to roll his pantlegs up like Opie. ___ WBMUTBB mailin

Danville

My husband and I live in Illinois, but we've eaten at the Mayberry Cafe many times.  I'd sure like to go and meet some more fellow Mayberryites sometime. Years ago, I sent in a review to Midwest Living magazine about that restaurant and they sent people there and put the restaurant in the magazin

collecting TAGS items

After reading about the coloring books, I got so excited that I decided to go to ebay and see if there is anything that I want to bid on concerning TAGS.   I have many of the TAGS books and several of the collector cards, you know, the ones that look like baseball cards, but that's about it.  As

Goldie Hawn

Found this on the internet.  Doesn't actually say that this was TAGS. I found a huge list of everything that she's ever done in TV and the movies and nothing was listed about her being on TAGS  Would like to know if anybody finds out anything different..  Quote from the National Press Club

wrestlers should know the facts

I just watched this WWE produced movie starring wrestler, John Cena...called 12 Rounds.  One line in the movie, either the cop or the FBI agent compares their unit to the "Mayberry Police Department".  He said it in a derogatory way... quote"We're NOT the Mayberry Police Department!!"   

They're even in the Twilight Zone

While watching an episode of the Twilight Zone to on SYFY channel, wouldn't you know it??  I spotted two TAGS alumni.  The episode was titled, "The Bewitchin' Pool".  Original airdate was June 19,1964.  Written by Earl Hamner Jr.  of the Walton fame.  The father in the program is played by Tod A

I loved catching this one

Now this is a really odd TAGS connection.I checked out a Civil War video from our library...It was produced by the Discovery Channel and was a documentary on the Battle of Antietam.  Through most of the video you can hear the song "Maryland, My Maryland".  The documentary explains that t

Dipsy Doodle

I'm feeling like Andy today..suspicious of record deals and fellows like Paul who may be trying to pull an April Fool's joke over on us today. ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/

it's in the genes

 To show that watching TAGS is generational, it's one of the few shows that my  80 year Mom will watch and although my 80 year old Dad won't watch TV at all anymore he still likes to talk about "Barney" (no, not the big purple guy)  and then I am a huge fan (of course, or I wouldn't be on here

cartoon vocies galore

 Wow Dixon, you really did your homework and I so appreciate your list.  If anyone gets Boomerang Network on their cable or dish, they can take full advantage of this wonderful list.  I think that the one credit that amazed me the most, was that of Goliath from Davey and Goliath fame.  I never

so many voices

I got up early this morning, and being a Saturday, I turned the TV on to catch a cartoon.  All of us remember watching Saturday morning cartoons, either when we kids or when our own children sat on the floor for hours every Saturday morning.  Now, I can't handle the new cartoons, but I do watch 

He's in no hurry in this one

Just finished watching "The Badlanders" an old western starring Alan Ladd and was sure happy to see  Robert Emhardt  aka  Willard Foster ( The Foster Lady: Season 6 Episode 27)   and from one of the greatest episodes ever,  Man In a Hurry; Malcolm Tucker.   I was hoping that he would be peeling

Full House

 In reply to Holland's question, I've always thought that Andy meant that he was making some headway with the young rebel (Bill Bixby) and that he felt like he had just lost him again.  Of course, we know by the end of the show, this young, spoiled rebel sees the light. I'm also doing some "cy

TVLAND

Replying to the post that TAGS was not longer on TVland.  For some reason TAGS isn't on again until 3/27.   I checked the schedule and TVland is not removing it from their schedule.  In fact, it will be on for 2 solid hours on the 27th and  4 solid hours on the 28th.  I was sweating there for a

Was it Barney??

 Besides Ernest T. Bass,who else is credited with saying "I wonder who that could be." In answer to this question, I can almost hear Barney saying itI hear it in my head, but I can't think of why or when he said itor would Barney say, "Andrea is some kind of NUT!" Andrea (my husband

Midwest convention

 GOLLY!  I didn't even know that they had a Midwest Convention and now when I get wind of it, it's cancelled.  I've never been privileged to go to any Mayberry conventionslike Aunt Bea, "I don't get out enough." ANDREA   My husband's been known to roll his pant legs up like Opie. __

Comedy of Terrors

I'm in the process of watching "A Comedy of Terrors" on the free website HULU.   It is a horror spoof starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Joe E. Brown and former "fun girl"  Joyce Jameson.  Joyce has the lead female part in this movie.  Go to www.hulu.com to enjo

Uncle George

 http://www.hulu.com/watch/113983/the-dick-van-dyke-show-uncle-george  Click this link to watch Denver Pyle on the Dick Van Dyke Show.  Hulu is free and I watch movies and TV shows on here all the time.   Denver plays Rob's Uncle George who is looking for a wife and wants Rob to help him.  I gu

TAGS stars appearing elsewhere this week

I feel like Cousin Virgil.I forgot to put the link for the site that I was talking about. www.locatetv.com I did some searching on there today and found the following... Andy Griffith.appearing in the movie Spy Hard on Sat. Feb. 27 on Showtime Extreme Don Knotts.appearing in the m

Help in finding TAGS celebrities

  Here are the new seasons of programs that begin this week on Dish Network.   If you don't have Dish, you can choose your own cable or satallite provider.  Click on each day of the week to see what seasons are beginning on that day.  There are 40 starting today (Sunday), including Season 2 of

For Mother or Mother figures

 No one has mentioned, my absolute favorite"I'm sorry I broke your heart, Mother", sung by Otis one time when he was gassed.  I sing that at least once a day...I'm totally serious, but I'm never gassed.. Otis also sang "Dipsy-doodle". That was the only word in his version of the song...

Barn the Bard

One of my favoritesBarney quoting Portia from The Merchant of Venice  Scene 1 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven"      Which contradicts what Barney says in another episode "If there's anything that upsets me, it's having people say I'm sensit

Had to catch this one real quick

The other day, I posted that I had seen Mayor Stoner as a commie agent in NYC   and  Mr. O'Malley as  the chief detective  in the movie  "Pickup on South Street" circa 1953.  Film noir at it's best.  Well, going back over the film again,  I got a quick glimpse of  Mrs. Otis Campbell (Dorothy Neu

Juanita and Sara

I've always pictured Juanita as having a little Spanish blood, as Juanita is Spanish for Jean.   I picture her as wearing red lipstick and being a little hot-blooded...what other kind of woman would listen to Barnie's singing and poetry?  She had more suitors than Barnie, as in one episode she w

Lum and Abner

Just watched a Lum and Abner movie and upon looking up Norris Goff, who played Abner Peacock, I see that Norris also played Mr. Doakes in the TAGS episode "Opie's Job".  Who was Mr. Doakes in this episode? Andrea Switzer Sometimes my husband rolls his pantlegs up like Opie.  That was the style w