Joshua Garmany YESSSSSS

Same

Spot-on assessment, Joshua - well done! 👍

Now your close to 17 years old. How does that feel?

Justin Andrews Hot dang, good memories. I’m 18.. got a kid on the way. Still love the show, sadly my dad passed away a little bit after this comment. Always watched it together.

Yes I agree with you😌👍

same here. It took me years and years to grow up and feel somewhat free.

Me too.

That's so true. Lewd, and rude does not equal funny.

junebugg777 absolutely!!!

i like color versions too!! seems like people want to dimiss them-not me!!

If Don hadn’t left after season 5, maybe I could watch the color episodes, he was the soul of the show. Seasons 1-5 are the only ones I can watch.

Season 6 the first colored one wasn't too bad but the last 2 were horrible I couldn't stand Howard Sprague.

@@tennisguyky Don was in 3 color episodes I believe.

You're blessed to hav met him. Very blessed indeed. 🤗😊

Alan Morris wow you met Andy Griffith was he a nice guy????…I hope you will reply to this

@@sherryhannah9262 I met Mr Griffith at "Snappy Lunch" in Mount Airy, NC. He used to go there all the time. Yes, he was a very nice guy and down to earth.

you are great Crystal .

@@user-du4dj4ml9z Credit All goes to God. And you sir, are Great also. ✨

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Yes, you are correct. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts are right up there with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance (or Gale Gordon), Jackie Gleason and Art Carney and Mike Nichols and Elaine May, each of these considered among the very best comedic duos of all-time, even if only two of these pairs (Burns & Allen and Nichols & May) officially performed stand-up comedy routines.

and cherry on top of it all is that they were real friends.

Don't never have anything in your mouth while watching the Andy Griffith show or the other shows I mentioned before

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This is from a special that Andy, Don and Jim Nabors did in 1966.

And mountain music, most of all

I was 14 when I got acquainted with the Andy Griffith Show. It was the passing of Hal Smith (Otis Campbell) that got me into to it. He played Whit on Adventures in Odyssey.

l agree. You can definitely tell the difference, especially when they're shot before a live audience and the actors constantly have to stop talking, right in the middle of delivering their lines, to wait for the live audience to stop laughing and applauding. Most times, it just ruins the whole flow of the joke and makes the line less funny.

"The Andy Griffith Show" certainly became less comedic after Don Knotts left the series as a regular cast member. From Season Six onward the series evolved into even more of a dramedy, although the series had always had some dramatic elements to it, some episodes (such as "Opie the Birdman") more than others. But, perhaps ironically, the series' final two seasons were when it was ranked highest by the A.C. Nielsen books, #3 in Season Seven (1966-67) and #1 in its final season, Season Eight (1967-68), even though Season Three saw the series with its actual largest number of viewers, an average of 29.7 million in 1962-63. Don Knotts made guest appearances in all three seasons after he departed the series, two episodes each in Seasons Six and Seven, a single episode ("Barney Hosts a Summit Meeting") in the final season (Eight), the latter which was also the highest-rated episode of the entire series. Don Knotts also won five Emmy Awards (for "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Comedy") for two of those three years he made guest appearances reprising his "Barney Fife" character in "The Andy Griffith Show," as well for "Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor in a Series" for the three seasons (One through Three) while he was a series regular in "The Andy Griffith Show." So, no, "The Andy Griffith Show" didn't actually "go south" after Don Knotts departure as a series regular. The series merely changed its direction a bit and relied upon other ensemble players, particularly George Lindsey's "Goober" Frances Bavier as "Aunt Bee" and Jack Dodson's town clerk "Howard Sprague" to fill the comedic void after Knotts left "Mayberry."

Andy Griffith & Don Knott's make a good team for their work. I like the part in the practical joke to where Andy says to barney, your not going to cry__ are you? Then barney go's over to the filing cabinet & says. No to Andy.

@@gymnastix Thomas Scoot was expressing an opinion just as you did.

@@gymnastix After season 5 the show went South.

Greg Hubbard i was born years after 1980 (2006 to be exact) and I loved this show.

@Greg Hubbard Well I was born well before the 1980s. I saw all the original airing of the show. We watched it weekly.

Don't forget, you actually see him in uniform in color briefly in the episode The Legend of Barney Fife from season 6. What I'm wondering is if this was done during his last season on the show as a regular or done during the filming of his first guest appearance on the show in 1966

Thanks for these! Any chance you can upload the full special?

Ange

Susan Huber did you like Matlock also?????…Don Knotts was on Matlock as Ben’s neighbor Les Calhoun…I hope you will reply to this

Actually their ‘65 variety special

They also used the judo part of this bit in an episode of Matlock :)

Ummmm they used it first,on the Andy Griffith show! lol

That movie was crazy !

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@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 Yes, but they misspelled his name in the Mayberry news paper, as usual lol...Fike. Watch the episode.

beatleman69 he left because Andy said he wasnt going to do anymore of the show, so don signed a contract for movies then Andy said he was going to do more. by that time it was to late. don said he wanted to go back but he was already under contract of the movies

Search- Savage do a search don knotts last interview before he passed. Technically, Griffith didn't want to gove Don any creative rights to the show. Also, Knotts had not signed the contract just yet when Griffith signed on at the last minute. But he figured he would not get opportunity like that again and I believe he was one of the more underpaid actors on the show which was ludicrous since he made the show.

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@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 lol...thank you..

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