When you watch reruns of The Andy Griffith Show—most notably its first five seasons—you can't help but get taken in by the easy-going chemistry between Griffith's role as Mayberry's Sheriff Andy ...

In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it includes an ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. While Andy Griffith is best known as the charming sheriff ...

Why Andy Griffith ‘Didn’t Like the Idea’ for ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ originally appeared on Parade. As unlikely as it seems, Andy Griffith almost didn’t star on The Andy Griffith Show. In a ...

Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be Aunt Bee—the kind-hearted, apron-wearing matriarch from The Andy ...

Author and lecturer Randy Turner will share about some of the shows and characters that shaped early television at a talk next month in Hamilton. “Randy Turner is an expert on classic television.