As unlikely as it seems, Andy Griffith almost didn’t star on The Andy Griffith Show. In a resurfaced interview with the TV Academy, the late actor recalled meeting with Abraham Lastfogel, the ...

Certain pairings on television shows are just magic—when the chemistry between a pair of performers surpass anything the writers could have imagined and bring a whole new element to a series. We've ...

Before his career as an Oscar-winning director, Ron Howard made a name for himself as a child actor. One of his first roles was Sheriff Andy Taylor's (Andy Griffith) son, Opie, on The Andy Griffith ...

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 ...

Julie Adams was the first actor to play Mary Simpson on "The Andy Griffith Show," close to eight years after she made her name in a classic monster movie.

Why Andy Griffith ‘Didn’t Like the Idea’ for ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ originally appeared on Parade. As unlikely as it seems, Andy Griffith almost didn’t star on The Andy Griffith Show. In a ...