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Subject: Oct 3rd Sheriff And Day
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:25:09 EDT

Monday, October 3, 2005
SHERIFF ANDY DAY

(http://www.timvp.com/andy.html) Imagine a TV sitcom centering around a
sheriff, with plots that contained no crime! No crime, you say? How can that
work? Well, CBS-TV figured it out on this night in 1960 when The Andy Griffith
Show premiered.
Maybe you remember the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina with its
sheriff, Andy Taylor, played gently and philosophically by Andy Griffith. Andy was
a widower with a young son, Opie, played by the now, award-winning, movie
director Ron Howard. Other members of the cast of The Andy Griffith Show went
on to become celebrated show biz stars, too: Don Knotts who played Andy’s
deputy, Barney Fife and Jim Nabors, the lovable, extremely naive gas station
attendant, Gomer Pyle, come to mind.
Since there was very little crime in Mayberry, the stories centered around
the personal lives of the citizens, mainly that of Sheriff Andy Taylor. The
sheriff was so beloved that, although the last show aired in September of 1968,
millions of viewers continue to see The Andy Griffith Show in reruns. There’
s even a worldwide organization, The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club
(TAGSRWC), 12,000 members strong.
It seems that Sheriff Andy may live forever.

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