The Andy Griffith Show (tv program)

'The Sopranos' tops WGA's top 101 TV shows of all time

2013-06-03 05:00:00

They say that television is a writer's medium, so it makes sense that the Writers Guild of America would have its own list of the 101 greatest TV shows of all time. At the top of the list is "The Sopranos," HBO's multiple award-winning hit series that...

Rednecks translate to greenbacks on TV

2013-03-09 08:00:00

The singing vegetarian wanted nothing to do with the backwoods ducks. When Morrissey was scheduled to appear on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show last month along with the cast of A&E's "Duck Dynasty," the '80s cult rocker issued an ultimatum: Boot the...

Hot Property: Actress Debra Messing hoping for an off-Broadway hit

2013-02-09 05:55:00

Debra Messing, who stars on "Smash" as Broadway lyricist Julia Houston, has listed her showstopper in Bel-Air for $11.995 million. The traditional-style house, designed by architect Paul R. Williams and built in 1937, features bay windows, updated...

Jim Nabors of 'Gomer Pyle' fame marries male partner of 38 years

2013-01-30 10:21:00

Jim Nabors, beloved to audiences as TV's Gomer Pyle, has married Stan Cadwallader, his partner of 38 years. The wedding took place Jan. 15 in front of a judge at a Seattle hotel, said Hawaii News Now, which first reported the news Tuesday. Washington...

Ron Howard, Les Moonves among TV Hall of Fame inductees

2013-01-23 11:57:00

Director-producer (and "Happy Days" and "Andy Griffith Show" star) Ron Howard, sportscaster Al Michaels, CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves, CBS newsman Bob Schieffer and "Law & Order" mogul Dick Wolf will be inducted this year into the Academy of Television...

Andy Griffith, folksy TV sheriff and comedian, dies at 86

2012-07-04 00:00:00

Andy Griffith was starring on Broadway in the 1959 musical comedy "Destry Rides Again" when he told his agent that he was ready for a new challenge: He wanted his own television series. His chance came in 1960, when Sheldon Leonard, the producer of...

Ron Howard: What I learned from Andy Griffith

2012-07-03 17:21:00

Early in the second season of "The Andy Griffith Show," I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more "like the way a kid would say it." I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what...

George Lindsey dies at 83; 'The Andy Griffith Show's' Goober Pyle

2012-05-07 12:21:00

George Lindsey, the Southern-born character actor who played dim hayseed Goober Pyle, the genial gas station auto mechanic on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Mayberry R.F.D.," died early Sunday morning. He was 83. Lindsey, who later was a regular on the...

Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band

2012-05-18 00:00:00

Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument. "He was so...

Aaron Ruben dies at 95; 'Andy Griffith' producer was an advocate for needy children

2010-02-02 00:00:00

Aaron Ruben, a comedy writer, producer and director whose five-decade career included producing "The Andy Griffith Show" for the first five seasons and creating the spinoff series "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," has died. He was 95. Ruben, who devoted much of...

Don Knotts, star of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 81

2006-02-25 14:30:00

Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three'...

The adults rule in 'Kings of Summer'

2013-06-03 10:35:03

The school year hasn't gone well assignments missed, opportunities to ask out that "special girl" botched. And for Joe Toy (Nick Robinson), the summer ahead doesn't look much better. He shares a house with his had-enough-of-your-nonsense widowed dad...

70. 'The Andy Griffith Show'

2013-06-03 07:18:00

Well, gawwwly! "Gomer Pyle, USMC" and "The Andy Griffith Show" star Jim Nabors married his longtime partner, Stan Cadwallader, in Seattle in January. The relationship was never a secret, but the sitcom star had not come out publicly before.

2013-01-30 00:00:00

Andy Griffith Forever ingrained in America's collective TV memories as both folksy Sheriff Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" and as the analytical lawyer on "Matlock," Griffith was also a Grammy-winning singer and a damn fine dramatic actor (see the 1957 film "A Face in the Crowd").

2012-12-18 15:36:00