Ron Howard learned the brutal limits of TV make-believe when he was handed an ice cream cone on the set of The Andy Griffith Show. “The hot lights melted any frozen dessert in a matter of seconds, so ...

What do entertainers as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Rod Serling have in common? Each one adored The Andy Griffith Show. Serling, the brain behind The Twilight Zone, another enduring ...

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 ...

Howard also reflected on the show’s legacy in a September interview with PEOPLE In 1986, the surviving cast from the show reunited for a TV film, Return to Mayberry. In it, Andy — who married Aneta ...

When you hear “crime drama,” you probably aren’t thinking of the Andy Griffith Show. Yet, this 1960s TV classic is so much more than a mindless flick made simply to pacify an American people unsettled ...

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 dad, Rance Howard, gave a note to Griffith that changed the show’s ...

Everybody knows that familiar whistling tune that opened up each episode of The Andy Griffith Show, which has far outlived the series itself. From 1960 until 1968, the Andy Griffith-led sitcom aired ...

Ron Howard is taking a trip down memory lane. On Feb. 15, the 70-year-old posted a picture to Instagram of his “The Andy Griffith Show” co-stars Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, visiting him on set in ...

Miss Peggy McMillan, as portrayed by actress Joanna Moore, took a liking to Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) during the first half of Season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show. If you ask me, Andy treated ...

The Andy Griffith Show had to make due without one of their most popular actors in the late Don Knotts. They’d end up trying to replace the Barney Fife role with another actor. One of the they briefly ...