Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be Aunt Bee—the kind-hearted, apron-wearing matriarch from The Andy ...

In the late 1950s TV was relatively new in our rural community. Those in my age group felt very fortunate to have that “snowy” picture light up a screen when we turned the set on and allowed it to ...

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 ...

For most of his career, Andy Griffith leaned into wholesome roles, whether he was keeping the streets of Mayberry safe on The Andy Griffith Show or making sure the wrong person didn’t end up behind ...

While the heart of The Andy Griffith Show (which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1968) was the relationship between Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith) and Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife (Don Knotts), almost as ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . Discovered by a do-gooder reporter while sleeping off in a bender in a drunk tank, Rhodes turns his charming "every man" spiel into a career that ...

The Andy Griffith Show was one of the most beloved sitcoms of all time and was populated with countless incredible characters. While the show revolved around Andy Griffith as the Mayberry Sheriff Andy ...

Remember that iconic opening to The Andy Griffith Show — just a boy and his pa heading down to the fishin’ hole? Even though we’re a long way from Mayberry, we’ll be whistling that tune at the Spring ...