One of the best shows ever on tv!!! Why can't they make 'em like this anymore?! So sick off all of the cruddy stuff they now air. What would we do without reality tv, since that's all there is.... reality and sleeze! Ughh!
The early days of the Andy Griffith Show was great the B & W days. I didn't care to much when it went to color other then if Barney came back from time to time. To me Andy was at his best when on the Danny Thomas Episode and the first couple seasons..I mean how he acted and talked was different then later episodes.
@Astraldragon1 Midway thru the 2nd season, Griffith and Sheldon Leonard found that the interplay between the other characters worked more than the Andy Taylor cornpone and probably was the reason for the shows longivity....It was easier to write for the show this way, and Griffith didn't have to carry the whole load every episode....When a character didn't work out (Ellie, Peggy, Warren the new deputy) they just disappeared....Andy becoming the straight man is what helped the show last so long.
Great to see! The uploader clearly says that the show is missing from the dvds of Make Room and Andy....which is TRUE, they were left off both of those releases. I don't see that the uploader of the clip ever intended to say the clip was never seen or "missing" in that regard.
Sheriff Andy Taylor is a real good con-artist, don't get me wrong, he uses his power for good. Andy Taylor is like superman, using his powers to help those in trouble.
I love these shows. I have the complete set of Andy Griffith Show, Gilligans Island, The jeffersons, ( except from seven thru ten season ) Good times, and Whats happening. Next i will purchase, Get smart.
I just watched the movie "A Face In The Crowd" the other night, which was supposed to be Andy's first film. If anyone hasn't seen it, they should. He was really good. A surprising change from his Mayberry persona. An excellent film.
@daven58100 Turner Classic Movies did a really nice mini-doc about that film and Andy Griffith. Warner Brothers were set to promote Andy as the next Brando with full studio backing, they were floored by his ability and ready to put their money where their mouth was.
All those plans were crushed when Griffith took the role of Andy Taylor. He passed on the big budget movies, Hollywood & fame because as he stated "his heart was truly in The Andy Griffith Show" to him it was family. Very cool
Thanks for this, I saw the episode one time on TV Land and I got the DVD of Danny Thomas and as others say It is missing, Ben WEaver was mean here but not as mean as in the Christmas Episode
@mrgrober Soooo sorry, but learn to SPELL and, pardon, to freaking TYPE! When and IF you ever do so, perhaps SOMEONE will CARE what you actually have to say! Until then, pardon moi, but SHUSH!
@nutballgazette the only other Ben i remember was the one when Barney dressed as a mannequin in his store to catch a shoplifter--and he was younger and heavier---but this was the same guy that played Ben most of the time.
@cyclops65 That is right, This one was in the 1st season, The other one I think was in the 2nd or 3rd season, That episode you mentioned was a classic,
I remember when cable tv came out, my father said it was worth the $13 a month not to have to watch commercials. Now we have 200 channels on digital cable for $100+ a month and more commercials then ever. Watching 3 channels in b/w with no remote for free was just fine, as I recall.
What hurts the shows of today is the live audience. Look at the early "Happy days" to the later ones where the live audience was added. The early ones were more natural compared to the later Happy Days episodes.This show they talked to each other. Now, they talk as if they know the audience is listening.
It's funny how Barney and Andy were cousins in the original skits on Danny Thomas' show and the first pilot. But they changed to friends quickly. They also became less 'hickish' along the way. Love that show!
@dannydupey Actually, they always have been cousins. Its just never been metioned again, until a few years ago, when a music group made a parady song about the show and cousin was mentioned in the lyrics. It got people wondering about that. So, the show's producer's stated that Barney was in fact Taylor's cousin in the show.
@mandrake2273 Based on comments and conversation between Andy and Barney in later seasons, they were not cousins. The writers got a sloppy with the continuity which happens a lot in Hollywood.
The Andy Griffith Show is one of the best shows ever. It has a great morality and thought provoking skits as well as insane extremely funny episodes. I do like the black and white episodes with Barney the best. Too many shows are great. I own the entire 8 seasons on DVD. A great investment in total entertainment.
Absolutely right! I once read that Griffith insisted that each show have a moral to it. He also showed that adults and parents aren't always right. Sometimes a child is right, and the parent is wrong.
One of my favorites is the show where Opie only gives 3 cents to the Underprivledged Children's Fund. Andy assumes that Opie is stingy. At the end we find that Opie was saving money to buy a classmate a coat, because her parents couldn't afford to buy one.
I don't think this scene is from the Andy Griffith pilot. It was from the Danny Thomas show. They wanted to test the audience reaction to the upcoming show and so they did a small test scene on The Danny Thomas show.....that's him in the jail.
@kirkba That is not really correct, though the episode did introduce Andy's character, it was NEVER part of "The Andy Griffith Show" package...it has only aired as part of "Make Room For Daddy".
Similarly, when Gomer Pyle was spun off of Andy Griffith, the episode introducing Gomer to the marines (and Sgt. Carter) was an "Andy Griffith Show" episode, and never part of the "Gomer Pyle" series...
The actor is indeed Wil Wright, one of those actors who specialized in curmudgeonly old men and cheapskates. He played Mayberry merchant Ben Weaver in a few episodes. He came to acting relatively late in life (his early 50s) and had considerable success in TV. He died in 1962 so he couldn't have appeared in Sanford and Son a decade later.
Ironic that almost no one even vaguely remembers 'Make Room for Daddy' (which was good show, BTW, not an excellent show, but good enough) while its spin-off (Andy Griffith Show) is still in re runs almost 50 years later.
@rustydog1236 - Must politely disagree about MRFD. It was an EXCELLENT, very funny show that had a very long run (11 years) on TV. I agree about the irony that not many people remember it, and that is a total shame. Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke (Thomas produced both shows) deserve their immortality, but Make Room for Daddy should have some of that, too.
Who the heck is that guy?? From the best I can tell its Will Wright who died in 1962, but I could have swore I've seen him on a couple episodes of Sanford and Son which didn't air until 1972.
Either "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Seinfeld" is the best American sit-com ever. I'm not sure which. It's hard to compare the two because they're so different. Like comparing apples and oranges.
What a bad scene to delete from the DVD release - the DVD releases should not have the "edited" versions of the shows used for more commercials...if they can't be complete on the DVD releases where else could they be?
They don't make tv shows as good as they use to. I've heard that the sets are so expensive theses days. That, they can't have as many as when this show was made. Look at the shows of today, where most of the show is filmed in the living room and kitchen!
One of my all time favorite sitcoms. Nostalgic, I wanted to live in Mayberry when I was a child and have Andy for a Dad. I think it was on air before I was born in Aug 61, but I grew up loving it.
kind of off topic, but I lived in an apartment while at West Virginia University where Don Knotts went to elementry school. I still live in the town of Morgantown, where he grew up, and has a street named after him.
lol dont know many 12 year olds like me who still watch this show =] but i absalutly love this show! =] im watching a diffrent episode on tvLand right now =] i love i love lucy too and leave it to beaver and most of the other shows =] classics are the best!
I agree, the black and white one's are the best. I did just by the entire boxset all 8 seasons, and there are some color ones that are good, but not like the first five years.
i think in the first couple of episodes andy acted a little like a ham. it's a little overdone. the rest of the country might not know the difference but southerners don't act like a slowed down version of foghorn leghorn.
Actually, I have read that Andy deliberately toned down his "Southern rascal" persona after the first season, once he realized Don Knotts was to be the comic focal point to which he would play, more or less, the straight man.
But also, there were plenty of other "crazies" in "Mayberry," from "Ernest T." to "Otis" and "Gomer" & "Goober," and even "Floyd." Andy realized, as sheriff of the town and "pa" to "Opie," he needed to be a dignified, sensible character off of which the others could play.
there are still some eccentric people in the south. gomer and goober did a really good job. barney was somewhat believable. there are even some nutcases like earnest t. yep, some flakes like floyd too. i'm glad andy toned it down. he was so much more believeable in the later episodes. by that i don't mean color episodes. i haven't seen them all, i just mean after first season.
come to think of it, that crusty old fart in this episode, with the cigar, isn't southern at all. that ought to be good enough for a couple of thumbs down. why can't hollywood teach yankees how to act southern for heaven's sake?!
Actually, I don't think it's Hollywood where one learns how to act, but the good drama schools, such as the Actor's Studio in New York & Royal Academy In London.
But I'll give you two examples of actors who, I think, do project believable Southern characters--Carroll O'Connor as the sheriff in "In The Heat Of The Night" & Rue McLanahan on "The Golden Girls"; the first a more realistic Southerner, the second played for broader laughs. But I've met real Southern belles who act like "Blanche."
I think "old fart" is a bit of an insult, "crusty, old coot" might be more a term used to describe the type of characters this actor played in his day.
By the way, this actor (Will Wright, from San Francisco originally) was only 71 when he died, although he always seemed to be playing characters much older than that.
But another thing to consider is maybe not everyone in "Mayberry" was a native "Mayberrian." "Aunt Bea," for instance, doesn't sound Southern, nor particularly "Barney Pfife." I think "Aunt Bea" was supposed to have been from Pennsylvania, moved to "Mayberry" to take care of "Andy" & "Opie" after "Mrs. Taylor" died. But the show itself contradicts that in later episodes, when "Andy" refers to how "Aunt Bea" raised him.
And Don Knotts was actually from West Virginia, so not "Deep South." Just as in real life, persons migrate, then start families.
Don't forget, the first, large European settlements in America were Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts, communities spreading out from those, so some Southerners, going way back, were actually transplanted Yankees!
as for many southerners being transplanted yankees, i agree.
one of my great, great (however many) grandparents was a union soldier. he hated the war, didn't want to be conscripted anyway. when he got shot and loaded on a wagon to chattanooga he just decided to stay there, i.e. checked out.
aunt bea could actually pass as southern, even without a thicker dialect. flakey, a little insulated, not in a bad way. it's the same scenario with floyd.
boss hogg on dukes of hazzard wasn't southern either. but he did an excellent job. the show wouldn't have been the same without boss and roscoe.
(i was running out of room). on the other hand, and this is where people are going to disagree, i might have chosen a different uncle jesse. definately not southern. i guess daisy did alright. you know, even the dark haired cousin did okay.
i won't call people old farts then. southerners typically don't make good actors anyway. dolly is about as southern as a person i know of. she wasn't the best actor. she was always a lot better at being dolly.
Old post, but Aunt Bea raised Andy - never says where she grew up, but she came to raise Opie after Rose, who raised Opie after his mom died, got married, so origins not known. Barney came in first episode to help cousin Andy as his new deputy. Penn. sticks in mind, but not positive, but he's not from Mayberry. BTW, Don Knott's first name is Jesse. Was on Search for Tomorrow in the '50s, and supposedly a real ladies' man, more elegant than his characters.
Who was Penn? The old guy was Ben and he ran the local department store. From time to time he would complain to Andy or be a "scrooge" at Christmas only to soften up. Barney was from Mayberry. He even went to Mayberry Union High School. Attended class reunions. There was also an episode after he moved to Raleigh where a movie starlett who was from Mayberry returns to visit and Barney had dated her back in high school. By the time it came on as it's own show he was already Cousin Andy's deputy.
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U missed the part where Barney married Ernest T! He lived near the Darlin's whom played music whos daughter wanted Andy to slip her the big one! But he couldnt cause he was slippin it to Mr Crump and Ellie walker Only they didnt know cause it was different times lol Sing with me Everybody Oh Dooley was a good ole boy he lived up on the hill Dooley had two daughter and a 40 still One gal watched the kettle and the other watched the spout momma cork them bottle when ole dooley brought them out
You mean Miss Crump not Mr. Also let's not forget that although Barney was all set to marry Ernest T. He was slipping it to Both Thelma Lou and that Juanita gal at the diner. Pa Darlin and the boys always had to be careful what they played because it might make the girl cry. Her intended, Dudley, even bought her a "Tiger eye" ring in Spokane, WA. I live near there.
There once was a man named Fife Who carried a gun and a knife. His gun was all rusted His knife was all busted cause he never caught a crook in his life!
@bigkellyr Yeah and Barney shouldn't be manhandling Asa, the old bank guard. And in this scene, that nasty old Ben Weaver from Weaver's Store is such a hard ass. I glad Barney isn't in this scene. Probablly takin' voice lessons with Elenora Poltiss or at Wally's Station sluggin' back a bottle of pop.
No, you're right--I agree with you. Andy toning it down made the show better. And he did it, really, "within" the first season, gradually.
It was also Griffith who insisted the show not be shot in front of a studio audience (like other Desilu shows), so "Mayberry" would look more like a real town, with more location shooting & motion picture-like production. Another good move on Andy's part. That guy was smart, knew almost from the "git-go" what was right & would work.
Andy didn't seem to have a sense of humor on the colored ones, he was in a bad mood most of the time, and that Howard Spraig wasn't funny at all, he was sad
You got that right! Mayberry lost its 'color' when the show switched from black and white to color. And something great and good was lost in the process.
That's interesting, for that's exactly how I'd of described Helen . . bossy, arrogant, proud, stubborn! I didn't see Ellie like that at all. Oh well. I never heard Andy Griffith's remarks. Did he think Helen was the right choice for him?
I remember seeing the pilot on "Make Room For Daddy" the first time around. This clip reminds me that this very early show featured Andy as the funny guy. He didn't have Don Knotts yet to play off of and be the straight man. Even that didn't gel immediately. it took time to develop. Andy was also using the deep Southern accent he had used in his solo comedy act for years. He lost most of the grinning "hayseed" persona as the show matured.
Blame the show's writers with making the character that way. The writers had really lost their creative juices in the later years, which was why the color went out of the show in the transistion from B&W to color. They couldn't write an episode involving Helen without making it so bland as to be unwatchable.
I disagree. The show was a broader comedy its first five seasons. But after the departure of Don Knotts (his choice) for a film career (relatively successful) and a series of his own, "The Don Knotts Show" (bomb), Griffith and the show's writers decided, wisely, to make a stylistic change, especially after the failure of "Warren Ferguson" (Jack Burns) as the deputy.
First, the "second banana" was cut up into several pieces of "banana," if you will, more comic bits given to characters such as "Otis," "Floyd," "Goober," then "Howard Sprague" and "Emmett" brought in as townsfolk.
Secondly, the show sifted, subtly over the years, to more of a dramedy, exploring more realistic human situations, though at its heart the show always had a moral and serious underpinning even in its so-called "glory days" with Knotts.
A good comedy, any sitcom really, can't stagnate with one character doing rubber-faced takes & pratfalls forever. Eventually, even had Knotts remained, the shtick would have worn thin.
A TV series has to change, explore new dimensions in theme & within its characters if it is to grow, evolve really. I think it is to the credit of Griffith and the show's writers they sensibly saw this. Otherwise, the series might have ended a season or two earlier than it had.
Actually, the show had some of its best years, ratings-wise, after the departure of Don Knotts. Even without Griffith, "Mayberry RFD" was still a successful series, did not warrant cancellation by virtue of its ratings. But that in itself shows the genius of the Griffith-Sheldon Leonard team, that they created a series so good it would survive several more seasons even without its original lead characters.
It was due to an executive decision of CBS brass, to eradicate all series' with rural settings & homespun values in favor of more urban and so-called "sophisticated" comedy, that "Mayberry" disappeared, along with the Paul Henning shows ("Beverly Hillbillies, "Green Acres," etc.) and "Hee Haw."
That's why there was such an influx in the early 1970's of Norman Lear & MTM shows, as if all America could relate to New York City. When "The Waltons" was a success a few years later, that showed there was still a strong affinity for heartland values, that not everybody related to Norman Lear-like cynicism.
Millions of Americans live in non-urban areas and millions live in urban areas. Thank God for Norman Lear, Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker, Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz; their productions were brilliant and in their unique way showed us important segments of Americana.
But TV didn't only lose its Southern and rural shows with that CBS brass purge, it also lost the Midwestern, suburban family shows such as "Dennis The Menace," "The Donna Reed Show," "Father Knows Best," "Hazel" and "Leave It To Beaver" even before the rural/Southern purge.
CBS purged "The Donna Reed Show" and "Father Knows Best?' Both shows that aired on ABC. Likewise, "Hazel" aired on NBC and "Leave It To Beaver" was aired outside of the three major networks, I believe. The only CBS show was "Dennis the Menace" but even that show was axed long before the infamous CBS purge of '71.
In my family's case, we continued to watch the show (part of keeping the ratings high) because it had been so very good, how could they let us down? We just had to have faith. We really liked Ken Berry, but the writing just wasn't the fun with drama mix with the innocent, cute kid and odd characters anymore. Indeed, they did let us down. Did the ratings remain high because others continued to have faith; holding on until it got better, which it didn't? I remember being bored at that point.
I believe Andy touched on the show's later episodes as not being very good and the feeling he and the writers had done all they could with Andy Taylor and it was time for the sheriff without a gun to ride off into the sunset. But, having Ken Berry take over as the mayor wasn't a smart move. There again, it wasn't the actor but not playing to his comedic talents. Drama wasn't his forte.
I never much liked the Emmett character although here it was nothing to do with the actor-writer who played him. Howard McNear's Floyd role was more like an occasional guest shot as he never fully recovered from his stroke or heart attck. They should've built up the Otis character, made him out to be a stronger character who occasionally lapsed into his problem with alcohol. Maybe someday there will be a movie on the AGS and they can do all the characters true justice.
For me, the comedy wasn't there and the drama was frequently flat and the warmth the show had in its B&W episodes was completely gone, whether it was comedy or drama. The show's production values also looked cheaper in color than in B&W. Switching to color, they should've opted for more realistic looking sets. I don't know why Jack Burns never fitted in with Mayberry other than his character being poorly written.
Andy and Helen got married on the 1st episode of Mayberry RFD. Barney was "Best Man" Later on in the series, Andy and Helen bring their newborn baby to Mayberry to have it christened by Rev. Tucker.
You're quite welcome, Katharine! I'm a HUGE Andy Griffith Show fan. I wish that Warner Bros. would release Mayberry RFD on DVD like Paramount released TAGS. Warner Bros. is having some "internal" problems now, so it may be a while before it comes out. I bought the entire series off of Ebay from someone who taped them off of TV LAND about 6 years ago. They are on VHS tapes, but the quality is pretty good. Back then, TV LAND ran the entire series (78 episodes) one weekend.
He did get married, though it was never shown in an episode. In the 1986 reunion, Andy was married to Helen and Barney got married to Thelma Lou. Opie was also married.
opie's son was born in the movie & he excepted a job in ny. at a newspaper,thelma lou,now lives in mt.airy,n.c.(andy's & donna fargo"s hometown)donna was yvonne vaughn...take care...
I'm sorry ... but I always wanted Andy to get married to Ellie. To me, she just seemed to be SO much sweeter than Helen. Maybe I'm just reflecting upon my own crush on Elinor Donahue :-)
did you ever see "coach" Elinor played luther's girlfriend,..i met her at mayberry days in mt.airy,n.c.(andy &donna fargo's hometown)im bout 10mil. north in cana,va.....i liked that woman that was the county nurse too...take care...
If you want to see the episode where Andy and Helen get married, you'll have to watch Mayberry RFD because they got married on the show. They also did a Mayberry RFD show where Andy and Helen had returned to have their baby cristened at the church in mayberry. They named it Andy Taylor Jr. But when they did the movie return to mayberry in 1986 they never mentioned Andy Jr in it. just like Charlene Darlin's baby from the original show Her baby was Andelina she was gone in the 1986 movie also.
The famous episode that spun the classic "Andy Griffith Show". By the way,Make Room For Daddy was on prime-time for 12 astounding years(1953-1965)and it was Sheldon Leonard's most successful situation comedy series.
That scene isn't missing in the episode I have. It's there and has always been there. By the way, this episode is in the 5th Season of "Make Room for Daddy" which is out on DVD.
The only complete release that I know of was a Nu Venture 10 tape MRFD set made in the 90's which has been out of print for a while now and hard to find.
The sixth season though is being released uncut in January and if that sells well we should get season 7 sometime next year hope
One of the best shows ever on tv!!! Why can't they make 'em like this anymore?! So sick off all of the cruddy stuff they now air. What would we do without reality tv, since that's all there is.... reality and sleeze! Ughh!
womanwonder10 4 months ago
this don't even show,danny getting arrested.
rcayers3yahoo 4 months ago
That's the same actor that portrayed Ben Weaver in some of the episodes of TAGS
benschlechter 6 months ago
I'm going to Mayberry in a while... Maybe even mt. Pilot
Huntingtheworld123 6 months ago
where can I see the full episode?
buzzcen 6 months ago
The early days of the Andy Griffith Show was great the B & W days. I didn't care to much when it went to color other then if Barney came back from time to time. To me Andy was at his best when on the Danny Thomas Episode and the first couple seasons..I mean how he acted and talked was different then later episodes.
Astraldragon1 8 months ago
@Astraldragon1 Midway thru the 2nd season, Griffith and Sheldon Leonard found that the interplay between the other characters worked more than the Andy Taylor cornpone and probably was the reason for the shows longivity....It was easier to write for the show this way, and Griffith didn't have to carry the whole load every episode....When a character didn't work out (Ellie, Peggy, Warren the new deputy) they just disappeared....Andy becoming the straight man is what helped the show last so long.
CrashTestChris 6 months ago
Great to see! The uploader clearly says that the show is missing from the dvds of Make Room and Andy....which is TRUE, they were left off both of those releases. I don't see that the uploader of the clip ever intended to say the clip was never seen or "missing" in that regard.
txquis 9 months ago
Sheriff Andy Taylor is a real good con-artist, don't get me wrong, he uses his power for good. Andy Taylor is like superman, using his powers to help those in trouble.
Sheriff Andy Taylor = Superman
TheDeanmartinfan1 10 months ago
48 Stars on the flag
JEMCO2008 10 months ago
This show was the first successful example of a spin-off. Darned good one, too.
a07002 11 months ago
this is the first ben weaver he is in the christmas show also.his name is will wright he died a few years after this was made.
SIGNALSTAT 1 year ago
They likely cut it cause the guy is smoking a cigar and these days that's a felony apparently.
FlamingoKicker 1 year ago
justice of the peace is what the sign says
Lutzfer 1 year ago
I love these shows. I have the complete set of Andy Griffith Show, Gilligans Island, The jeffersons, ( except from seven thru ten season ) Good times, and Whats happening. Next i will purchase, Get smart.
regulaterrr 1 year ago
I just watched the movie "A Face In The Crowd" the other night, which was supposed to be Andy's first film. If anyone hasn't seen it, they should. He was really good. A surprising change from his Mayberry persona. An excellent film.
daven58100 1 year ago
@daven58100 Turner Classic Movies did a really nice mini-doc about that film and Andy Griffith. Warner Brothers were set to promote Andy as the next Brando with full studio backing, they were floored by his ability and ready to put their money where their mouth was.
All those plans were crushed when Griffith took the role of Andy Taylor. He passed on the big budget movies, Hollywood & fame because as he stated "his heart was truly in The Andy Griffith Show" to him it was family. Very cool
SpaceAceTX 1 year ago 5
Andy's anti-semitism got him the ratings but not the influence.
raydog699 1 year ago
@raydog699 .... Andy's "anti-semitism?" His crew was FULL of Jews! Just look at the closing credits of ANY episode!
Tre404 11 months ago
@Tre404 Think he must be confusing Andy with that Australian fella. Folks'll do that from time to time.
DrCruel 11 months ago
@Tre404 Sheldon Leonard directed the show
jamo387 4 months ago
the whole set was backwards here---lol
cyclops65 1 year ago
Thanks for this, I saw the episode one time on TV Land and I got the DVD of Danny Thomas and as others say It is missing, Ben WEaver was mean here but not as mean as in the Christmas Episode
nutballgazette 1 year ago
I just bought Season five of the Dannay Thomas show on DVD. which has the Andy Griffith Pilot. This Scene is Missing.
watson40741 1 year ago
Awesome show.
DrPoon 1 year ago
is this episode online anywhere? I really want to see the full episode.
emmysue20 1 year ago
This is Mr.Will Wright with Andy,he had THEE Best Icecream Shop EVER
dukeuke1 1 year ago
This Is Not A Missing Scene...When I Saw The Pilot,This Scene Was In The Show...
The Only Way This Scene Is Missing is Because You Took It..
And Yes It Is "Make Room For Daddy". If You A Real Fan..Or At Least Read The Credits,You'll See That The Show Is A Danny Thomas Production...
This Isn't As Mysterious Of A Clip As One Might Be Lead To Beleive....
mrgrober 1 year ago
@mrgrober It's missing from the dvd's as I wrote in the description.
kirkba 1 year ago 4
@mrgrober The whole Andy Griffith series was a Danny Thomas Production
DavesNotHere56 1 year ago
@mrgrober Soooo sorry, but learn to SPELL and, pardon, to freaking TYPE! When and IF you ever do so, perhaps SOMEONE will CARE what you actually have to say! Until then, pardon moi, but SHUSH!
LonzaLJohnsonFarkas 9 months ago
@mrgrober In other words, I despise mouthy morons. ... God bless!
LonzaLJohnsonFarkas 9 months ago
Masterful! Really a work of art.
splambert 1 year ago
Is there anywhere online that you can watch this entire episode?
spocko87 1 year ago
that other guy played the second Ben Weaver on The Andy Griffith Show
cyclops65 1 year ago
@cyclops65 I think this was the 1st Ben, The 2nd one was Younger and heavier
nutballgazette 1 year ago
@nutballgazette the only other Ben i remember was the one when Barney dressed as a mannequin in his store to catch a shoplifter--and he was younger and heavier---but this was the same guy that played Ben most of the time.
cyclops65 1 year ago
@cyclops65 That is right, This one was in the 1st season, The other one I think was in the 2nd or 3rd season, That episode you mentioned was a classic,
nutballgazette 1 year ago
@nutballgazette As Andy said, "Little old ladies ought never to clink"----LOLOL
cyclops65 1 year ago
I remember when cable tv came out, my father said it was worth the $13 a month not to have to watch commercials. Now we have 200 channels on digital cable for $100+ a month and more commercials then ever. Watching 3 channels in b/w with no remote for free was just fine, as I recall.
tomf429 1 year ago 2
@tomf429 Many more channels but less shows to watch and Prices are 10 times higher
nutballgazette 1 year ago
The first spinoff.
tryithere 1 year ago
What hurts the shows of today is the live audience. Look at the early "Happy days" to the later ones where the live audience was added. The early ones were more natural compared to the later Happy Days episodes.This show they talked to each other. Now, they talk as if they know the audience is listening.
jrwel14 1 year ago
best show ever!!!
supermanco 1 year ago
hmbin so einsam heute wäre echt klasse falls sich jemand finden würde der mit mir schreiben will
ckenzieMitchell 1 year ago
It's funny how Barney and Andy were cousins in the original skits on Danny Thomas' show and the first pilot. But they changed to friends quickly. They also became less 'hickish' along the way. Love that show!
dannydupey 2 years ago
@dannydupey Actually, they always have been cousins. Its just never been metioned again, until a few years ago, when a music group made a parady song about the show and cousin was mentioned in the lyrics. It got people wondering about that. So, the show's producer's stated that Barney was in fact Taylor's cousin in the show.
mandrake2273 1 year ago
@mandrake2273 Based on comments and conversation between Andy and Barney in later seasons, they were not cousins. The writers got a sloppy with the continuity which happens a lot in Hollywood.
Kram6298 1 year ago
Whoa! Danny Thomas behind bars. If I were Andy I'd of beat him with a srick just to hear him yell. I never liked Danny Thomas
OldMrMemories 2 years ago
@OldMrMemories I would have rather seen Danny's son-in-law, Phil Donahue be the one on the receiving end of what you propose! Perhaps even Marlo?
jaycee628 1 year ago
Thelma Lou loves Barney "Parney" Poo
unclebobunclebob 2 years ago 2
"Fact is, he wasn't in his mind at all."
RoyFive 2 years ago 2
omg this one has never been on tv lan WTH!
BKkillaz 2 years ago
my kids joke about me, because i always watched andy&barney. they knew i knew every show an the words. luv the darlings music, no those words too!
lizajeanme 2 years ago 2
The Andy Griffith Show is one of the best shows ever. It has a great morality and thought provoking skits as well as insane extremely funny episodes. I do like the black and white episodes with Barney the best. Too many shows are great. I own the entire 8 seasons on DVD. A great investment in total entertainment.
joebcfp61 2 years ago 17
Absolutely right! I once read that Griffith insisted that each show have a moral to it. He also showed that adults and parents aren't always right. Sometimes a child is right, and the parent is wrong.
One of my favorites is the show where Opie only gives 3 cents to the Underprivledged Children's Fund. Andy assumes that Opie is stingy. At the end we find that Opie was saving money to buy a classmate a coat, because her parents couldn't afford to buy one.
We can learn a good lesson from that.
Greg9942 2 years ago 4
@joebcfp61
No doubt about it. The best of the best. A modern comedy duo in the mold of Laurel and Hardy, minus the slapstick. May Don rest in peace.
theRightizright 1 year ago
Andy Griffith Show in great new bio (All About Jeffrey Hunter) at amazon!
Bestmanme08 2 years ago
Great scene! :-)
abigailm32 2 years ago
Best tv show EVER!
Have the dvd box sets Season 1-5, have watched them so many times I know 80% of the lines. Cheers from Texas!
SpaceAceTX 2 years ago 2
i think the old man was in the wild one with marlon brando as one of the townies.
iloveclassics50 2 years ago
He talked more "country" in this pilot episode
mapboy78 2 years ago
I don't think this scene is from the Andy Griffith pilot. It was from the Danny Thomas show. They wanted to test the audience reaction to the upcoming show and so they did a small test scene on The Danny Thomas show.....that's him in the jail.
seamic 2 years ago
Yes it is from the Danny Thomas Show but the episode was also used as the pilot for the Andy Griffith Show.
kirkba 2 years ago 4
@kirkba This scene was never written into the show script. So it's not really a deleted scene.
Kreaden 1 year ago
@kirkba That is not really correct, though the episode did introduce Andy's character, it was NEVER part of "The Andy Griffith Show" package...it has only aired as part of "Make Room For Daddy".
Similarly, when Gomer Pyle was spun off of Andy Griffith, the episode introducing Gomer to the marines (and Sgt. Carter) was an "Andy Griffith Show" episode, and never part of the "Gomer Pyle" series...
dirwuf 1 year ago
@kirkba Right- sometimes known as a "backdoor pilot".
And if it had been made a few miles up the road it would have been a Mt. Pilot pilot. Great stuff, thanks for posting this!
SurferJoe1 6 months ago
That's what a pilot episode is.
ReuWil 2 years ago
So, in this case, they never shot a true independent pilot for the show. More accurately it would be a spinoff.
seamic 2 years ago
ANDY GRIFFIN SHOW OR SHOW GRIFFIN ANDY
SAMMYMAN7777777 2 years ago
Griffith**
dmbfan07cb 2 years ago
Wil Wright one of the best actors ever.
yourimageunreels 2 years ago
didnt Andy at one time was the spokesman for the wildlife federation around the early 60s? And did he do a comercial as his Andy Taylor charachter?
finteshes 2 years ago
The actor is indeed Wil Wright, one of those actors who specialized in curmudgeonly old men and cheapskates. He played Mayberry merchant Ben Weaver in a few episodes. He came to acting relatively late in life (his early 50s) and had considerable success in TV. He died in 1962 so he couldn't have appeared in Sanford and Son a decade later.
lbkeller41293 2 years ago
Ironic that almost no one even vaguely remembers 'Make Room for Daddy' (which was good show, BTW, not an excellent show, but good enough) while its spin-off (Andy Griffith Show) is still in re runs almost 50 years later.
rustydog1236 2 years ago 4
@rustydog1236 - Must politely disagree about MRFD. It was an EXCELLENT, very funny show that had a very long run (11 years) on TV. I agree about the irony that not many people remember it, and that is a total shame. Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke (Thomas produced both shows) deserve their immortality, but Make Room for Daddy should have some of that, too.
WSenator1 6 months ago
Who the heck is that guy?? From the best I can tell its Will Wright who died in 1962, but I could have swore I've seen him on a couple episodes of Sanford and Son which didn't air until 1972.
mestit3 2 years ago
Either "The Andy Griffith Show" or "Seinfeld" is the best American sit-com ever. I'm not sure which. It's hard to compare the two because they're so different. Like comparing apples and oranges.
yowzephyr 2 years ago
What a bad scene to delete from the DVD release - the DVD releases should not have the "edited" versions of the shows used for more commercials...if they can't be complete on the DVD releases where else could they be?
ReuWil 2 years ago
Great.
July4Firecracker 2 years ago
They don't make tv shows as good as they use to. I've heard that the sets are so expensive theses days. That, they can't have as many as when this show was made. Look at the shows of today, where most of the show is filmed in the living room and kitchen!
jrwel14 3 years ago 20
I agree with you there. The shows in TV are not what they used to be!!
~Derek
boogertoots 3 years ago 7
Food for thought. Look at Bonnaza or Gunsmoke and the sets they used. Now remember they both made almost 30, 1 hour shows a year.
DramaTubeFag 3 years ago 2
@jrwel14 yes and with paid cable and so many more channels the audience reached is divided up so that reduces ad revenue too.
MrSpringtime22 1 year ago
Excellent post. Timeless show.
mindfodder 3 years ago 3
That's some classic TV right there.
-jcr
NSResponder 3 years ago 6
damn straight, nothing can touch it. thats funny i don't care who u are lol!
lizajeanme 2 years ago 5
One of my all time favorite sitcoms. Nostalgic, I wanted to live in Mayberry when I was a child and have Andy for a Dad. I think it was on air before I was born in Aug 61, but I grew up loving it.
kw47wa 3 years ago 6
What episode is this from?
TheGoofyKidBand 3 years ago
Season 7 of the Danny Thomas Show
"Danny Meets Andy Griffith"
kirkba 3 years ago
cool, the first CSI TV show (CSI Meyberry)
alexthe22 3 years ago
lol, good observation, alexthe22!
WDQNRadio 2 years ago
Was this segment trimmed for time,or was the bit considered to be too "morbid" for prime-time tv?
vonsmitty1313 3 years ago
It was trimmed for time.
kirkba 3 years ago
@kirkba EXACTLY!!! To "make room for",--- one more commercial, NOT Daddy OR Andy! lol
jaycee628 1 year ago
kind of off topic, but I lived in an apartment while at West Virginia University where Don Knotts went to elementry school. I still live in the town of Morgantown, where he grew up, and has a street named after him.
michaeledwinloper 3 years ago 2
like you,kinda off the topic,i live bout 10miles from"mayberry" mt.airy n.carolina,on va.n.c. line..howdy God bless u & urs,tell'em gomer says,hey.
toonful 3 years ago 2
HEY RIGHT BACK ATCHA!---
365degrees 2 years ago
Andy addresses some of these issues in his interview for the Archive of American Television.
Dreamline45056 3 years ago
lol dont know many 12 year olds like me who still watch this show =] but i absalutly love this show! =] im watching a diffrent episode on tvLand right now =] i love i love lucy too and leave it to beaver and most of the other shows =] classics are the best!
sarahwoollen 3 years ago
lol this is great
bogadea 3 years ago
wow this is infront of a live audience, and the show was filmed and a laugh track was put in.
UFOSPACE1999 3 years ago
Where did you find this? I've been looking for the uncut pilot!
cgrsmknwmn 3 years ago
I will always love this show. Real entertainment and often morals. Wish the shows today had that combination.
jenbanter 3 years ago 2
I agree, the black and white one's are the best. I did just by the entire boxset all 8 seasons, and there are some color ones that are good, but not like the first five years.
stringbenderb5 3 years ago 3
I always liked the early years of the Andy Griffith Show. Would be nice to see the bloopers from all the series episodes.
ImYourBigDaddy 3 years ago 3
This was a great show wish we had shows like it today.Now why not bring something back like this.
kenbob136 3 years ago 4
i think in the first couple of episodes andy acted a little like a ham. it's a little overdone. the rest of the country might not know the difference but southerners don't act like a slowed down version of foghorn leghorn.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
sfpoe, well said. Slowed down version of Foghorn Leghorn. He does sound like that doesn't he? LOL
jenbanter 3 years ago
i'll be...
i actuall got a few thumbs down for that comment.
i didn't mean to sacreledge ol' andy, i just thought he carried himself like real southern people carried themselves, in the later episodes.
now, if i were trying to entertain, and be a ham, then by all means andy on those earlier episodes is anybody's man.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
Actually, I have read that Andy deliberately toned down his "Southern rascal" persona after the first season, once he realized Don Knotts was to be the comic focal point to which he would play, more or less, the straight man.
But also, there were plenty of other "crazies" in "Mayberry," from "Ernest T." to "Otis" and "Gomer" & "Goober," and even "Floyd." Andy realized, as sheriff of the town and "pa" to "Opie," he needed to be a dignified, sensible character off of which the others could play.
gymnastix 3 years ago 2
there are still some eccentric people in the south. gomer and goober did a really good job. barney was somewhat believable. there are even some nutcases like earnest t. yep, some flakes like floyd too. i'm glad andy toned it down. he was so much more believeable in the later episodes. by that i don't mean color episodes. i haven't seen them all, i just mean after first season.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
come to think of it, that crusty old fart in this episode, with the cigar, isn't southern at all. that ought to be good enough for a couple of thumbs down. why can't hollywood teach yankees how to act southern for heaven's sake?!
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
Actually, I don't think it's Hollywood where one learns how to act, but the good drama schools, such as the Actor's Studio in New York & Royal Academy In London.
But I'll give you two examples of actors who, I think, do project believable Southern characters--Carroll O'Connor as the sheriff in "In The Heat Of The Night" & Rue McLanahan on "The Golden Girls"; the first a more realistic Southerner, the second played for broader laughs. But I've met real Southern belles who act like "Blanche."
gymnastix 3 years ago
I think "old fart" is a bit of an insult, "crusty, old coot" might be more a term used to describe the type of characters this actor played in his day.
By the way, this actor (Will Wright, from San Francisco originally) was only 71 when he died, although he always seemed to be playing characters much older than that.
gymnastix 3 years ago
But another thing to consider is maybe not everyone in "Mayberry" was a native "Mayberrian." "Aunt Bea," for instance, doesn't sound Southern, nor particularly "Barney Pfife." I think "Aunt Bea" was supposed to have been from Pennsylvania, moved to "Mayberry" to take care of "Andy" & "Opie" after "Mrs. Taylor" died. But the show itself contradicts that in later episodes, when "Andy" refers to how "Aunt Bea" raised him.
gymnastix 3 years ago
And Don Knotts was actually from West Virginia, so not "Deep South." Just as in real life, persons migrate, then start families.
Don't forget, the first, large European settlements in America were Jamestown, Virginia and Plymouth, Massachusetts, communities spreading out from those, so some Southerners, going way back, were actually transplanted Yankees!
gymnastix 3 years ago
barney could pass as southern.
as for many southerners being transplanted yankees, i agree.
one of my great, great (however many) grandparents was a union soldier. he hated the war, didn't want to be conscripted anyway. when he got shot and loaded on a wagon to chattanooga he just decided to stay there, i.e. checked out.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
aunt bea could actually pass as southern, even without a thicker dialect. flakey, a little insulated, not in a bad way. it's the same scenario with floyd.
boss hogg on dukes of hazzard wasn't southern either. but he did an excellent job. the show wouldn't have been the same without boss and roscoe.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
(i was running out of room). on the other hand, and this is where people are going to disagree, i might have chosen a different uncle jesse. definately not southern. i guess daisy did alright. you know, even the dark haired cousin did okay.
i won't call people old farts then. southerners typically don't make good actors anyway. dolly is about as southern as a person i know of. she wasn't the best actor. she was always a lot better at being dolly.
sfpoe2007 3 years ago
EXCELLENT OBSERVASION.
365degrees 2 years ago
**CORRECTION** OBSERVATION
365degrees 2 years ago
Old post, but Aunt Bea raised Andy - never says where she grew up, but she came to raise Opie after Rose, who raised Opie after his mom died, got married, so origins not known. Barney came in first episode to help cousin Andy as his new deputy. Penn. sticks in mind, but not positive, but he's not from Mayberry. BTW, Don Knott's first name is Jesse. Was on Search for Tomorrow in the '50s, and supposedly a real ladies' man, more elegant than his characters.
rancar29 2 years ago
It was spelled Aunt "Bee."
Dreamline45056 2 years ago
Who was Penn? The old guy was Ben and he ran the local department store. From time to time he would complain to Andy or be a "scrooge" at Christmas only to soften up. Barney was from Mayberry. He even went to Mayberry Union High School. Attended class reunions. There was also an episode after he moved to Raleigh where a movie starlett who was from Mayberry returns to visit and Barney had dated her back in high school. By the time it came on as it's own show he was already Cousin Andy's deputy.
bigkellyr 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
U missed the part where Barney married Ernest T! He lived near the Darlin's whom played music whos daughter wanted Andy to slip her the big one! But he couldnt cause he was slippin it to Mr Crump and Ellie walker Only they didnt know cause it was different times lol Sing with me Everybody Oh Dooley was a good ole boy he lived up on the hill Dooley had two daughter and a 40 still One gal watched the kettle and the other watched the spout momma cork them bottle when ole dooley brought them out
Bobby61557 2 years ago
You mean Miss Crump not Mr. Also let's not forget that although Barney was all set to marry Ernest T. He was slipping it to Both Thelma Lou and that Juanita gal at the diner. Pa Darlin and the boys always had to be careful what they played because it might make the girl cry. Her intended, Dudley, even bought her a "Tiger eye" ring in Spokane, WA. I live near there.
bigkellyr 2 years ago
There once was a man named Fife Who carried a gun and a knife. His gun was all rusted His knife was all busted cause he never caught a crook in his life!
Bobby61557 2 years ago 3
@bigkellyr Yeah and Barney shouldn't be manhandling Asa, the old bank guard. And in this scene, that nasty old Ben Weaver from Weaver's Store is such a hard ass. I glad Barney isn't in this scene. Probablly takin' voice lessons with Elenora Poltiss or at Wally's Station sluggin' back a bottle of pop.
stoicjello 2 years ago
No, you're right--I agree with you. Andy toning it down made the show better. And he did it, really, "within" the first season, gradually.
It was also Griffith who insisted the show not be shot in front of a studio audience (like other Desilu shows), so "Mayberry" would look more like a real town, with more location shooting & motion picture-like production. Another good move on Andy's part. That guy was smart, knew almost from the "git-go" what was right & would work.
gymnastix 3 years ago
when the color went in the character went out.
25531 3 years ago 5
agreed 100%
aftrthejake 3 years ago
Andy didn't seem to have a sense of humor on the colored ones, he was in a bad mood most of the time, and that Howard Spraig wasn't funny at all, he was sad
TMoorej 3 years ago
You got that right! Mayberry lost its 'color' when the show switched from black and white to color. And something great and good was lost in the process.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago 3
That's interesting, for that's exactly how I'd of described Helen . . bossy, arrogant, proud, stubborn! I didn't see Ellie like that at all. Oh well. I never heard Andy Griffith's remarks. Did he think Helen was the right choice for him?
eelainea65 3 years ago
I remember seeing the pilot on "Make Room For Daddy" the first time around. This clip reminds me that this very early show featured Andy as the funny guy. He didn't have Don Knotts yet to play off of and be the straight man. Even that didn't gel immediately. it took time to develop. Andy was also using the deep Southern accent he had used in his solo comedy act for years. He lost most of the grinning "hayseed" persona as the show matured.
Loved it then, love it now.
534steeplechase 3 years ago
same observations... good call...
bigred997 3 years ago
Helen seemed like a witch at times...she was always jumping to conclusions about andy cheating on her.
skid987 3 years ago 2
Helen was the queen with a capitol Q to jealousy as mrs's kravitz the king of noseyness on Bewitched.
25531 3 years ago
Blame the show's writers with making the character that way. The writers had really lost their creative juices in the later years, which was why the color went out of the show in the transistion from B&W to color. They couldn't write an episode involving Helen without making it so bland as to be unwatchable.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago
I disagree. The show was a broader comedy its first five seasons. But after the departure of Don Knotts (his choice) for a film career (relatively successful) and a series of his own, "The Don Knotts Show" (bomb), Griffith and the show's writers decided, wisely, to make a stylistic change, especially after the failure of "Warren Ferguson" (Jack Burns) as the deputy.
gymnastix 3 years ago
First, the "second banana" was cut up into several pieces of "banana," if you will, more comic bits given to characters such as "Otis," "Floyd," "Goober," then "Howard Sprague" and "Emmett" brought in as townsfolk.
Secondly, the show sifted, subtly over the years, to more of a dramedy, exploring more realistic human situations, though at its heart the show always had a moral and serious underpinning even in its so-called "glory days" with Knotts.
gymnastix 3 years ago
A good comedy, any sitcom really, can't stagnate with one character doing rubber-faced takes & pratfalls forever. Eventually, even had Knotts remained, the shtick would have worn thin.
A TV series has to change, explore new dimensions in theme & within its characters if it is to grow, evolve really. I think it is to the credit of Griffith and the show's writers they sensibly saw this. Otherwise, the series might have ended a season or two earlier than it had.
gymnastix 3 years ago
Actually, the show had some of its best years, ratings-wise, after the departure of Don Knotts. Even without Griffith, "Mayberry RFD" was still a successful series, did not warrant cancellation by virtue of its ratings. But that in itself shows the genius of the Griffith-Sheldon Leonard team, that they created a series so good it would survive several more seasons even without its original lead characters.
gymnastix 3 years ago
It was due to an executive decision of CBS brass, to eradicate all series' with rural settings & homespun values in favor of more urban and so-called "sophisticated" comedy, that "Mayberry" disappeared, along with the Paul Henning shows ("Beverly Hillbillies, "Green Acres," etc.) and "Hee Haw."
gymnastix 3 years ago
That's why there was such an influx in the early 1970's of Norman Lear & MTM shows, as if all America could relate to New York City. When "The Waltons" was a success a few years later, that showed there was still a strong affinity for heartland values, that not everybody related to Norman Lear-like cynicism.
gymnastix 3 years ago
Millions of Americans live in non-urban areas and millions live in urban areas. Thank God for Norman Lear, Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker, Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas, Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz; their productions were brilliant and in their unique way showed us important segments of Americana.
walwaad 3 years ago 3
But TV didn't only lose its Southern and rural shows with that CBS brass purge, it also lost the Midwestern, suburban family shows such as "Dennis The Menace," "The Donna Reed Show," "Father Knows Best," "Hazel" and "Leave It To Beaver" even before the rural/Southern purge.
gymnastix 3 years ago
CBS purged "The Donna Reed Show" and "Father Knows Best?' Both shows that aired on ABC. Likewise, "Hazel" aired on NBC and "Leave It To Beaver" was aired outside of the three major networks, I believe. The only CBS show was "Dennis the Menace" but even that show was axed long before the infamous CBS purge of '71.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago
In my family's case, we continued to watch the show (part of keeping the ratings high) because it had been so very good, how could they let us down? We just had to have faith. We really liked Ken Berry, but the writing just wasn't the fun with drama mix with the innocent, cute kid and odd characters anymore. Indeed, they did let us down. Did the ratings remain high because others continued to have faith; holding on until it got better, which it didn't? I remember being bored at that point.
rancar29 2 years ago
I believe Andy touched on the show's later episodes as not being very good and the feeling he and the writers had done all they could with Andy Taylor and it was time for the sheriff without a gun to ride off into the sunset. But, having Ken Berry take over as the mayor wasn't a smart move. There again, it wasn't the actor but not playing to his comedic talents. Drama wasn't his forte.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago
I never much liked the Emmett character although here it was nothing to do with the actor-writer who played him. Howard McNear's Floyd role was more like an occasional guest shot as he never fully recovered from his stroke or heart attck. They should've built up the Otis character, made him out to be a stronger character who occasionally lapsed into his problem with alcohol. Maybe someday there will be a movie on the AGS and they can do all the characters true justice.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago
Howard McNear had a stroke in the third season. His last episode before the stroke was Convicts At Large, which is one of the classics.
Dreamline45056 3 years ago
For me, the comedy wasn't there and the drama was frequently flat and the warmth the show had in its B&W episodes was completely gone, whether it was comedy or drama. The show's production values also looked cheaper in color than in B&W. Switching to color, they should've opted for more realistic looking sets. I don't know why Jack Burns never fitted in with Mayberry other than his character being poorly written.
Madrocker1954 3 years ago 2
Like to see more of these.
RattlerMan33 3 years ago
to bad couldnt bring all back young and do one more scene
tomanyasses 4 years ago
I noticed that when you ever see barney out on a date..he was all over thelma lou...barn was a horn dog!!
tscat68 4 years ago
I would like to see the episode where Andy and Helen get married.
bluedaisydog 4 years ago
Is there such an episode? I was always under the impression that that they never DID get married.
Something that displeases me.
For Andy seemed such a player for a while.
(Though I'd love to have seen him get married. As well as Barney. Sigh).
alwayskatharine 4 years ago
Andy and Helen got married on the 1st episode of Mayberry RFD. Barney was "Best Man" Later on in the series, Andy and Helen bring their newborn baby to Mayberry to have it christened by Rev. Tucker.
sproutgerkin 4 years ago
Really? Well, that's interesting. I wasn't aware of that!
Thanks for letting me know. :)
alwayskatharine 4 years ago
You're quite welcome, Katharine! I'm a HUGE Andy Griffith Show fan. I wish that Warner Bros. would release Mayberry RFD on DVD like Paramount released TAGS. Warner Bros. is having some "internal" problems now, so it may be a while before it comes out. I bought the entire series off of Ebay from someone who taped them off of TV LAND about 6 years ago. They are on VHS tapes, but the quality is pretty good. Back then, TV LAND ran the entire series (78 episodes) one weekend.
sproutgerkin 4 years ago
He did get married, though it was never shown in an episode. In the 1986 reunion, Andy was married to Helen and Barney got married to Thelma Lou. Opie was also married.
lpjammin 4 years ago
opie's son was born in the movie & he excepted a job in ny. at a newspaper,thelma lou,now lives in mt.airy,n.c.(andy's & donna fargo"s hometown)donna was yvonne vaughn...take care...
toonful 2 years ago
I'm sorry ... but I always wanted Andy to get married to Ellie. To me, she just seemed to be SO much sweeter than Helen. Maybe I'm just reflecting upon my own crush on Elinor Donahue :-)
RetrophileNostalgia 4 years ago
I wanted them to marry, as well. I was rather sad when she left.
alwayskatharine 4 years ago
I agree, Ellie was a Southern Belle. They fit better than Andy and Helen.
stovall1 4 years ago
Me too . . Andy should've married Ellie. She was pretty and sweet. They made a nice couple!
eelainea65 3 years ago
I also agree.. Ellie suited Andy better i think
Steve42908 3 years ago
did you ever see "coach" Elinor played luther's girlfriend,..i met her at mayberry days in mt.airy,n.c.(andy &donna fargo's hometown)im bout 10mil. north in cana,va.....i liked that woman that was the county nurse too...take care...
toonful 2 years ago
If you want to see the episode where Andy and Helen get married, you'll have to watch Mayberry RFD because they got married on the show. They also did a Mayberry RFD show where Andy and Helen had returned to have their baby cristened at the church in mayberry. They named it Andy Taylor Jr. But when they did the movie return to mayberry in 1986 they never mentioned Andy Jr in it. just like Charlene Darlin's baby from the original show Her baby was Andelina she was gone in the 1986 movie also.
ZuDogMedia 3 years ago
The famous episode that spun the classic "Andy Griffith Show". By the way,Make Room For Daddy was on prime-time for 12 astounding years(1953-1965)and it was Sheldon Leonard's most successful situation comedy series.
rayssonation 4 years ago
Never noticed Judge Joe Brown (on NBC) sounds like early Andy Taylor, doesn't he?
musicom67 4 years ago
That scene isn't missing in the episode I have. It's there and has always been there. By the way, this episode is in the 5th Season of "Make Room for Daddy" which is out on DVD.
rachcc4 4 years ago
Which episode of 'Make Room for Daddy' was this from?
I'd really like to get a copy of the entire episode.
WendingWanderer 4 years ago
"Danny Meets Andy Griffith" from season 7.
The only complete release that I know of was a Nu Venture 10 tape MRFD set made in the 90's which has been out of print for a while now and hard to find.
The sixth season though is being released uncut in January and if that sells well we should get season 7 sometime next year hope