The Andy Griffith Show Alternate Closing Theme 1964

[indystang]

I remember the original openings and closing credits as well as all the Sponsor spots. I remember Opie dropping the fish and wiping it off. Still love this show

[Velocity9s]

I don't wanna go looking for that info...Laziness. Print it here, plz.

[Neville6000]

Where did you get this film from?

[SenorZorrozzz]

I remember this. Thans for posting this!

[BadSneakers]

My soon to be 6 year old son absolutely loves AG. At first he didn't because "it's in black and white" but as he kpet watching he fell on love with it and now re-acts scenes from the night before! Our last episode we watched had Earnest T Bass in it. The disruptive wedding show. Barney's line "He's a nut" I've now heard about 15 times. lol

[looneybun1]

THANKS for posting this, i always thought i could remember something where they were walking the other direction with Opie picking up the rock or whatever. Now i know why. lol. As for me, i loved it with more of the hillbilly thing going. or at least shortly thereafter. by even the end of the black and whit, andy sounded more northern and sophisticated. while that was still a good show, i thought that took away from its intention and charm!

[Teflon65]

I imagine that when this show went into reruns, they changed the closing credits, because the same companies were no longer sponsoring the reruns. I think that happened a lot, in one form or another, on TV shows that went into syndication.

[coketherealthing]

awsome! wise I could of been there at that time right now

[Velocity9s]

That was very informative. Its true how in the colour/sans-Barney seasons Andy seemed to act more like the streightman while the other characters played the(not-funny) weirdos. I have almost NEVER laughed at those. Same for colour-Gomer Pyle USMC. Andy was no fun, any more. And Howard Spreague MUST be destroyed! MillBeLater is RIGHT!

[Neville6000]

@Velocity9s: I'm sorry to say this, but Howard Sprauge should never have been acting in the first place, for obvious reasons that everybody should know about and that can be researched by looking up the info on Wikipedia and the IMDB.

[bbbkahinharmony]

Wow! Had forgotten all about this! I have not seen this since the late 1960s. Thanks for posting!

[gingercady007]

It has been so long since I have seen that closing until I had forgotten it. Thanks.

[MillBelater]

Aunt Bee in the plane flew over the shark.

[irish89055]

@MillBelater jumped the shark you mean..... cripsy critters cereal lol.. Ms Bavier so liked North Carolina she moved there to retire in the real Siler City, NC... Mr Griffiths home town of Mt. Airey, NC is much like Mayberry.. Believe it or not or do I have to send Sheldon Leonard over to slip his left for a convincer??

[Velocity9s]

@irish89055 I had a girlfriend(I was 24 & she was a 30yr-old looking 36 with looks like Sally Feild & Dolly Parton) who, as a child got to visit Bavier's N.C. home(Loved her small roll in The CLASSIC 'The Day the Earth Stood Still'!). She said the actress was very infirm and not fully cognisent(spelling?) of her surroundings...

[irish89055]

@Velocity9s that would be cognizant.... I heard she could be very tempermental too, this from a UNC nurse..and had a feud with Andy at one time. Seems my Sheldon Leonard remark went way over the heads of people..but then with 18,000 views that's almost like talking to a wall on this site..

[kev1865]

Along the lines of these early episodes....I caught a late-night re-run a while back of what had to be possibly a pilot.

The acting took a completely different approach. It was the same actors (Griffith, Knotts, etc)...but they were doing the "hey ya'll -- show 'nuff --- play the banjo and serve some biscuits " over-the-top hillbilly shtick.

I wondered if the directors were still tweaking the show's image.

The difference was so stark that it almost seemed to be a different show altogether.

[jed6271]

Yes, the first season shows (1960-61) had a stronger "hick" tone, especially in how Andy talked and acted. As the show progressed, that evolved to be a more serious and almost terse tone, so that by the final color season Andy seemed almost intolerant of a lot of things going on in Mayberry. Many viewers have noticed this change too, and it's one of the reasons that the B&W episodes (1960-65) are seen as more enjoyable (plus Barney was there)! Great comment - thanks.

[Beejjjjjj]

@kev1865 , Don Knotts wasn't in the pilot. The only actors from the series who were in the pilot were Andy Griffith, Frances Bavier and Ron Howard, though Frances Bavier played a character named Harriet, not Aunt Bea. The pilot was produced as an episode of "The Danny Thomas Show" and aired on February 15, 1960. The plot of that episode had Danny Williams traveling from New York to Florida and getting arrested and put in jail by Sheriff Andy Taylor for speeding (barely) through Mayberry.

[Velocity9s]

@Beejjjjjj Some more trivia concerning Barney: They called each other cousin in the first ep'.

[TomBarristerX]

The theme song stayed the same, but the instrumentation changed a few times over the run of the show.

For the network feed, the sponsor logo was superimposed over the actual video of the show. Naturally, these logos don't appear in the versions we see today.

[britfrenir]

What happened to the closing logo?

[fromthesidelines]

Again, General Foods' "Post" cereals sponsored this April 1964 episode, so we have the "montage of boxes" (ending with the "Post" logo) in the lower corner of the screen. A "sponsor's tag" follows, reminding viewers that GF's "JACK BENNY PROGRAM" (they alternately sponsored his series with State Farm Insurance between 1962 and '64) can be seen Tuesday night [9:30-10pm(et)] over the same network...:47-:51 was a "title buffer" before the "live" network I.D. {"This is the CBS Television Network"}.