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On the other hand
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 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 7:25 am Post subject: Andy Griffith is dead |
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(Reuters) - Actor Andy Griffith, whose portrayal of a small-town sheriff made "The Andy Griffith Show" one of American television's most enduring shows, has died at his North Carolina home, television station WITN reported on Tuesday.
The television station quoted a longtime friend as saying that the 86-year-old actor died at his home on Roanoke Island. The Dare County Sheriff's dispatcher would say only that an ambulance was called to Griffith's residence but would not comment further.
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I don't think I ever watched an episode of either Mayberry RFD or Matlock. I know Don Knotts and Ron Howard were associated with the earlier show, and I'm way more familiar with them.
But I'm sure he had a few fans on Dave's, so here you are.
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Blockhead confidence
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| On the other hand, angel of death. Your posts draw ever closer to the time the person passed away and one day will occur before it has happened |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:35 am Post subject: Re: Andy Griffith is dead |
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| On the other hand wrote: |
I don't think I ever watched an episode of either Mayberry RFD or Matlock. I know Don Knotts and Ron Howard were associated with the earlier show, and I'm way more familiar with them.
But I'm sure he had a few fans on Dave's, so here you are.
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Well, Mayberry RFD was just a pretty lame spinoff - Griffith was basically walking through his role collecting a paycheck. "The Andy Griffith Show", on the other hand, was a damn good show, the kind you would talk about the next day with your friends, same as Seinfeld years later.
This from Wikepedia:
"The series was a major hit, never placing lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ending its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in television history."
Speaking of Ron Howard, he has said that that is when he started being interested in working from the other side of the camera! |
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ontheway
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:14 am Post subject: |
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The Andy Griffith show should be required viewing for all law enforcement and would-be law enforcement officers.
Sheriff Taylor operates that way a real police officer should:
* be genuinely available, open and friendly with the public,
* live and associate with the people you are sworn to serve and protect,
* serve the public first,
* be understanding of the foibles of human beings,
* avoid making criminals out of the innocent,
* try not to make arrests that serve no purpose,
* work to prevent crime rather than waiting for it,
* avoid confrontation, resolve problems and reduce tensions, whenever and wherever possible
* don't carry a weapon of any kind except when deliberately going out to confront a known, armed criminal who can be expected to actually use a weapon |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:26 am Post subject: |
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| ^^ Man, that is good. Did you come up with that? Doesn't matter, I am going to copy it. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Well, Mayberry RFD was just a pretty lame spinoff - Griffith was basically walking through his role collecting a paycheck. |
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I had the idea that MRFD was just the AGS syndicated under a different name or something.
IMDB lists Griffith as having been on only five episodes of Mayberry. But they sometimes get their facts wrong, especially when it comes to number of episodes. |
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Sector7G
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:35 am Post subject: |
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IMDB lists Griffith as having been on only five episodes of Mayberry. But they sometimes get their facts wrong, especially when it comes to number of episodes. |
No, I think that is accurate. He was just there at the beginning to help launch it |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. The cancellation of Mayberry is considered to be part of the Rural Purge at CBS, which ushered in that network's reign as the network for hip urban sophisticates, with shows like MASH, Mary Tyler Moore, and the Norman Lear sitcoms. I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, but I still remember CBS having that reputation. Dukes Of Hazzard notwithstanding. |
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Sector7G
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Wow, I was unfamiliar with that term, even though I lived through it, and grew up watching those shows. I had forgotten about The Real McCoys.
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Sector7G wrote: |
Wow, I was unfamiliar with that term, even though I lived through it, and grew up watching those shows. I had forgotten about The Real McCoys.
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You're welcome!
Actually, I rarely watched any of those pre-Purge shows, even when they were in syndication. But the late 70s/early 80s was the first and last time that I was aware of the Big 3 American networks having a known "brand image". It basically went CBS = intellectual sophistication(MASH, Norman Lear etc), ABC = T and A(Charlie's Angels, anything by Aaron Spelling), and NBC = desperately trying to do something or other, and failing miserably.
To bring it all full circle, the man held responsible for all three of those outcomes, Fred Silverman, later ran the company that produced Matlock. |
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bucheon bum
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| NBC = desperately trying to do something or other, and failing miserably. |
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I think that description has fit NBC for the past decade or so. |
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