RIP Andy Griffith

[nightwind1]

RIP, Sheriff Andy.

Mayberry is more than just the setting for a TV show-- it's true American folklore.

Even Captain Kirk and Edith Keeler visited Mayberry:

 

[Mr. Adventure]

RIP, Sheriff Andy.

Mayberry is more than just the setting for a TV show-- it's true American folklore.

Even Captain Kirk and Edith Keeler visited Mayberry:

Ha, awesome.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Wow, I forgot about Salvage One. I remember feeling rather blase about it at the time, but I'd kind of like to see it again. All I remember is them visiting the Apollo 11 landing site in the pilot and then something about Big Foot in one of the subsequent episodes.

I haven't seen it since it first aired, ages ago. I remember thinking that it was a cute idea for a one-shot TV-movie (junkman builds homemade rocket to the moon), but there wasn't really enough there to sustain a series . . . ..

It must have been '78 or '79, since I was still in school. I doubt if it's been on since then. I wonder if the SpaceX guy is old enough to have seen it.

 

[Finn]

I'm not sure what the cut-off age is but I'm sure everyone of a certain age, probably mid-30's or so and up, knows The Andy Griffith Show (and probably 100% of those can still whistle the song).



Took me a sec to figure out why they were "convicts".

I'd put it at 20-25 years old. I often would come across The Andy Griffith Show reruns in the past 15 years while surfing the channels...

But did those kids watch it then? That's what I wasn't so sure about.

Well, one would need to be pushing 50 (or even older ) to remember it during its original run.

Sure

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Well, one would need to be pushing 50 (or even older ) to remember it during its original run.

Sure

Original run, yeah, but when I was a kid (41 now) The Andy Griffith Show was a staple of mid-day/afternoon programming. It wasn't just available on some station, it was played quite often on many stations and in the early days of TBS it seemed it was on all the time. Nowadays with DVD, Netflix, 100's of channels, internet and so on (hell, just the 25 years of TV shows created since) I don't think that kids today would watch The Andy Griffith Show if it was on.

 

[Nomad]

TCM will have a tribute to Andy Griffith on July 18. I don't know which movies they'll show, but it's a good bet that A Face in the Crowd will be one of them.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

No Time for Sergeants is another fun Andy movie.

 

[J.T.B.]

TCM will have a tribute to Andy Griffith on July 18. I don't know which movies they'll show, but it's a good bet that A Face in the Crowd will be one of them.

The schedule is A Face in the Crowd (which conicidentally they just showed yesterday), No Time for Sergeants, Hearts of the West, and Onionhead, which is a kind of strange, dark "dramedy" set in the Coast Guard.

Justin

 

[Peach Wookiee]

RIP Andy. I still watch sometimes. And I remember when TAGS aired on Nickelodeon!

 

[the G-man]

No Time for Sergeants is another fun Andy movie.

Yep. And you can see the influence on both the Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC in it.

 

[Random_Spock]

RIP Andy, loved watching you in reruns of the Andy Griffith show and on Matlock and you were one good actor. May you rest in peace.

 

[Finn]

Well, one would need to be pushing 50 (or even older ) to remember it during its original run.

Sure

Original run, yeah, but when I was a kid (41 now) The Andy Griffith Show was a staple of mid-day/afternoon programming. It wasn't just available on some station, it was played quite often on many stations and in the early days of TBS it seemed it was on all the time. Nowadays with DVD, Netflix, 100's of channels, internet and so on (hell, just the 25 years of TV shows created since) I don't think that kids today would watch The Andy Griffith Show if it was on.

Yeah. One of my students thought Friends was boring...