![]() Perhaps it’s really not so strange at all. War protests raged.Īnd folksy Andy Griffith drew viewers in staggering numbers. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. Hasn’t the Vietnam era-1968 gone down in history as the year synonymous with social upheaval? Presidential candidate Robert F. He mostly dispensed folksy wisdom to his motherless son, Opie, rode herd on his jittery sheriff, Barney Fife, and helped his Mayberry townsfolk keep on the straight and narrow and neighborly. Mayberry was a town so comfortable and calm that Griffith’s down-home Sheriff Andy Taylor hardly ever got to do any sheriff-ing. 1 series, after spending all eight of its network seasons in Nielsen’s Top 10. When the show ceased production, it ranked as prime-time’s No. ET/PT.)Īndy Griffith created a mighty special place in his small-town TV comedy, which seems to have aired continually every day someplace since it left the CBS network in 1968. ET/PT and a weekend tribute to its recently deceased star July 7-8, Saturday-Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m. ![]() (TV Land also has a July 4 marathon, Wednesday 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Looks like we’d all like to live in Mayberry.įifty years later, we’re still watching “The Andy Griffith Show.” The ’60s hit continues to air twice a day in TV Land’s weekday schedule, at noon and 12:30 p.m.
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