The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series
that aired from 1960 to 1968. The series was an immediate
hit with its audience, and still enjoys success in syndication.
Its whistled theme song ("Down by the Fishing Hole,
" by Earle Hagen) is instantly recognizable. When
the show premiered in 1960, viewers immediately felt a
connection with widowed "Sheriff Andy Taylor"
(played by Griffith), his son "Opie" (Ron Howard),
his "Aunt Bee" (Frances Bavier), his cousin
and deputy, "Barney Fife" (Don Knotts), "Gomer
Pyle" (Jim Nabors, whose role was spun-off into the
series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.), auto mechanic "Goober
Pyle" (George Lindsey), Gomer's cousin and replacement
following the spinoff, town drunk "Otis Campbell"
(Hal Smith), "Ernest T. Bass" (Howard Morris),
"Floyd Lawson the barber" (Howard McNear, and
the rest of the townsfolk of fictional Mayberry, North
Carolina.
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