Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story is simple, but devastating in its quiet way: Young Opie, playing with his slingshot, accidentally kills a mother bird.

The Andy Griffith Show wouldn’t be what it was without Ron Howard’s dad. Ron, who played Opie as a child star on the beloved series, opened up about his time on the show in an Aug. 13 interview with ...

The beloved series may not have come together the way it did if it weren't for a note from Howard's father to the show's star Andy Griffith.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But The Andy Griffith Show wasn’t interested in any of that. Its opening didn’t even feature lyrics on the broadcast version—just ...

Is there a series in TV history that evokes more wholesome memories of years gone by than The Andy Griffith Show? The show starred Andy Griffith (naturally) as Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of the ...

For those of us of a certain age, there are so many great memories in “The Andy Griffith Show”: The calm sheriff. His skittish deputy. His young son. The goofy filling station attendant and his ...

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 ...