Classic Movie Poster of the Week

Angel in My Pocket 

1969

Magazine Cover of the Week

TV GUIDE

Andy Griffith 

April 24th 1965

Magazine Cover of the Week

TV Guide

Andy Griffith 

1965

What's My Line? - Andy Griffith (May 3, 1959)

What's My Line?

May 3rd 1959

Mystery Guest : Andy Griffith

Magazine Cover of the Week

The Andy Griffith Show

TV Guide

March 21st 1964

Magazine Cover of the Week

January 28th 1961

Andy Griffith and Ronnie Howard from CBS' 

"The Andy Griffith Show" on the cover of TV Guide.

The Andy Griffith Show (1962-63 Season Finale)

The last episode from the 1962-63 season of The Andy Griffith Show, which that was the 3rd season.

It aired on CBS on Monday nights at 930pm and finished as the #6 show in prime time for the season.

The Big House

originally aired May 6th 1963

CBS

Andy Griffith 1926-2012

Today July 3rd we saw the passing of another television and american icon,

 Andy Griffith. 

                                                           (NY Times Story here)

Its been a rough year as we also lost James Arness, Marshall Matt Dillon and with Mr. Griffith were the backbone of CBS television in the 1960s.

Andy Griffith taught a lot boys about life and how to be a good dad without being mean.  There are life lessons in every episode of the Andy Griffith Show.  He showed how to be a good friend and treat everyone with respect and dignity in everything we do.   He will be missed but thankfully we have decades of his tremendous work to show coming generations.

Of course I LOVE the Andy Griffith Show but I can remember my dad playing the "What it Was, Was Football" for me and that had me hooked on Andy and that led me to watching his show every chance I got.


Then in the mid 80s with cable coming into our home I discovered, thanks to WTBS, the movie "No Time for Sergeants" and I laughed like a nut the whole movie.




All in all Andy Griffith has been a big influence in my life and I knew I could always put in a tape and later DVD of any black and white episode with my friends and we could all enjoy the fun.
I have had the pleasure of introducing my girls to his show and they can almost recite it just as much as I can and that makes me proud as a peacock!

George "Goober" Lindsey 1929-2012

In tribute to the late George "Goober" Lindsey who passed early Sunday May 6th 2012

From Season 5  episode 17 "Goober Takes a Car Apart"
Originally aired January 11 1965

The Andy Griffith Show

From Season 2 episode 20 "Barney and the Choir"

just remember you will be singing "Juanita" in your head for the next 12 hours  hahahahaha

Classic Television - The Andy Griffith Show

One of my very favorite tv shows of all time is The Andy Griffith Show (B&W).  I could watch this show everyday and never get old.

Here is a great episode from Season 5.  Episode 7 "Man in the Middle".  Originally aired on CBS TV November 2nd 1964

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The Andy Griffith Show

Season 3 (1963)

episode 24 

 "Aunt Bee and the Medicine Man"

this is  a classic episode of TAGS with a Gunsmoke connection, the "medicine man" in this episode is played by radio legend and Gunsmoke regular John Dehner.

Dehner's credits include Paladin in the radio version of  "Have Gun Will Travel" and several small roles in the tv version of Gunsmoke.

Biography : Andy Griffith

Last time I had the legendary comedian/TV star Dick Van Dyke, today its his contemporary and also a legend in comedy and television, Andy Griffith.
Andy is one of my all time favorites and The Andy Griffith Show is preferred viewing at my house (well except the color episodes, just B&W for this family).

Enjoy

CBS Season Preview for 1961

I stumbled on these over the weekend. Its the preview of the 1961 television season for CBS, with host Andy Griffith, Garry Moore, Sebastian Cabot, Bob Cummings,Rod Serling,Raymond Burr and Ed Sullivan.
One of the highlights for me was the preview of a new comedy on CBS, "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
Amazing how far television has come that none of the networks program anything remotely new for Saturday nights now.