It's pretty tough to think of Andy Griffith without images of Mayberry and The Andy Griffith Show coming to mind, which is not really surprising given the impact that his portrayal of Sheriff Andy ...

On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...

Griffith's career spanned more than a half-century on stage, film and television, but he would always be best known as Sheriff Andy Taylor in the television show set in a North Carolina town not too ...

In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it includes an ...

"The Andy Griffith Show," the classic sitcom about the adventures of a small-town sheriff and his family and friends in the fictional Mayberry, North Carolina, remains a beloved show by many nearly 60 ...

Is there a series in TV history that evokes more wholesome memories of years gone by than The Andy Griffith Show? The show starred Andy Griffith (naturally) as Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of the ...

Ron starred on the series as Opie, the son of Griffith's Andy Taylor Ron Howard reflected on his time on The Andy Griffith Show in a new interview Ron shared that he only learned as an adult that his ...

Ron Howard is reflecting on 65 years in Mayberry! Speaking with PEOPLE at the YES Scholars 25th Anniversary Gala in Los Angeles, the 71-year-old Happy Days alum reflected on the upcoming The Andy ...

Before The Andy Griffith Show became one of the most beloved series in television history, it actually started off as a backdoor pilot on another classic sitcom, The Danny Thomas Show — and the story ...

The Andy Griffith Show started its legendary reign 65 years ago. The sitcom, which premiered on Oct. 3, 1960, starred Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor, the sheriff in the small fictional town of Mayberry, ...

Somehow, the death of iconic actor Andy Griffith – who had plenty of fans across the Mountain Empire as well as the rest of the nation -- seems akin to losing that easy-going friend everyone trusts ...