The Andy Griffith Show: Season 6
The Andy Griffith Show premiered in 1960 and, featuring one of the most beloved television fathers of all time, quickly charmed its way into the hearts of audiences. Set in the fictitious environs of Mayberry, North Carolina, the series chronicles daily life in that peaceful Southern hamlet through the gently humorous eyes of town sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith). A widower raising his young son, Opie (Ron Howard), with the help of his live-in spinster aunt, Bee (Frances Bavier), Andy capably navigates single parenthood with the same goodhearted wisdom that he brought to his law enforcement duties. This collection presents all 30 episodes of the series' sixth season, the first without the fidgety, bug-eyed antics of bungling deputy sheriff Barney Fife (Don Knotts), who left at the end of the previous season and was briefly replaced by Jack Burns as Deputy Warren Ferguson.
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When the show lost it's magic - Gaucho
Ironic that when this show went to color, everything went down hill. As a kid, whenever I'd see the credits in black & white, as a Saturday afternoon rerun, I'd stick around; color would send me channel surfing.
Why is that? Is black and white better?
Hardly. Rather, the show made an abrupt change with the switch-over. Don Knotts, the foil to Andy Griffith, left the show for a movie career. His presence was missed and, as a result, Andy Griffith just seemed grumpy, angry, and full of conflict. Once he was kind of the easy going buffer in the show, but became a strange mix of hotheaded stress. It wasn't comedy anymore, but just watching dysfunctional people fight.
Skip this season.
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When the show lost it's magic - Gaucho
Ironic that when this show went to color, everything went down hill. As a kid, whenever I'd see the credits in black & white, as a Saturday afternoon rerun, I'd stick around; color would send me channel surfing.
Why is that? Is black and white better?
Hardly. ...