- ANDY GRIFFITH THE FISHIN HOLE MOVIE
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It came along at a time in which one could argue that the country was going through it's biggest upheaval since the Civil War.
ANDY GRIFFITH THE FISHIN HOLE TV
The Andy Griffith show and it's characters are by far the most celebrated and beloved in TV history. To return to the question at the beginning of this blog. He started recording albums of religious music in 1995 and had a great deal of success in that arena as well. From his first dramatic role in the 1957 movie, "A Face in the Crowd" through the Andy Griffith Show, he would find a time and a place to sing. Although he continued to work on TV and film up to 2009, the last 15 years or so he returned to his love of music. Griffith did well post-Mayberry, starting his own production company, doing guest spots, and working on several made for TV movies, although he was never able to find success on a weekly show again until Matlock which ran from 1986-1995 on NBC and ABC. For as well as Griffith, Knotts, Howard, and Nabors did after the show ended, over 50 years later we still seem them in citizens of Mayberry. Don Knotts, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, and all of the others became so set in their performances, that none of them, were able to break out of the characters they developed in future years. Looking back at it now, it was (as many of television's best shows are) a cast of people who are perfectly suited for that role. On Feb 15, 1960, we see Andy Taylor (and Opie) on The Danny Thomas Show, where Andy plays the justice of the peace on an episode where Thomas gets arrested for running a stop sign This lead up to the debut of the Andy Griffith show in October of that year.įor the next eight years, The Andy Griffith show was to be one of the top programs on CBS. Producer Sheldon Leonard and actor Danny Thomas wanted to get Griffith on TV and began to develop a show for him. Those who are old enough to remember won't be surprised to know that the television show Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C was pretty much a modern copy of this movie.
ANDY GRIFFITH THE FISHIN HOLE PROFESSIONAL
This would be the beginning of a long professional and personal relationship between the two.
ANDY GRIFFITH THE FISHIN HOLE MOVIE
It was also made into a movie in 1958 with another young actor Don Knotts.
ANDY GRIFFITH THE FISHIN HOLE FULL
He broadened out the play to a full length Broadway production in late 1955 which became quite successful. This led him to the opportunity to play his first major role in the teleplay, "No Time For Sergeants" on the United States Steel Hour. This was where he first made a name for himself with, "What It Was, Was Football", which 60 years later, his country/rural character still makes me laugh. He was a monologist, one who would tell long stories. He started his career as a stand up comedian, but not like we think of one today. His first job out of school was teaching music and drama at a high school in Goldsboro. After pondering becoming a minister, he switched his major to music and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1949. He learned to play the trombone, and also acted some in high school. Well, there are those who will take a deeper look into the sociological aspects to the show, and this isn't the venue for that kind of analysis.so let's take a look at the man.Īndy Griffith was born North Carolina and from his earliest years was immersed in music. Played in the fictitious Mayberry, North Carolina, it was as close to utopia as television would ever get. The famous theme song entitled "The Fishin' Hole" was written in 15 minutes by Earle Hagen, who also provided the now iconic whistling to the track.For several generations the character of Andy Taylor and the actor who played him (for many of us one in the same) presented a vision for many of what life could be. It is one of only three shows to have its final season be the number one ranked show on television, the other two being I Love Lucy and Seinfeld. Throughout its 249- episode run it never went lower than the #7 spot in the Nielsen ratings and ended at the number one spot. The other major characters include the inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts) Andy's spinster aunt and housekeeper, Bee Taylor (Frances Bavier), and Andy's precocious young son, Opie played by Ron Howard, who would go on to later star in the successful series, Happy Days. The Andy Griffith Show is one of the most popular shows of the 1960s that continues to air on TV decades later after an eight-season run.Ī spinoff of long-running "The Danny Thomas Show," it aired on CBS from Octothrough Apand starred Andy Taylor as the titular character, a widowed sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina, a fictional community of about 2,000 people.
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