There’s a reason people start whistling the theme to The Andy Griffith Show the second someone mentions Mayberry. The sound of that gentle melody, punctuated by Andy and Opie (Andy Griffith and Ron ...

One of the things that I absolutely adore about The Andy Griffith Show is the relationship between widower Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son, Opie. Over the course of the show’s eight seasons, we really ...

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 ...

An iconic television show synonymous with North Carolina’s cultural fabric continues to resonate with its citizens decades later. Now, a new layer of recognition for The Andy Griffith Show is on the ...