Actor Andy Griffith dies in North Carolina, TV station says

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Originally Posted by vintagetoppsguy

Andy Griffith and the Andy Griffith Show represented everything that was good about small town America. He was a role model our kids could look up to. They don't make them like that anymore.

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If you liked the Andy Griffith Show, here are three things you might find interesting:

1) Although Griffith had lifelong friendships with both Don Knotts and Ron Howard, he and Frances Bavier detested each other. Other than doing their scenes together, they never spoke. In fact, Bavier really never spoke to anyone on the show. Apparently she hated the role of Aunt Bee.

2) Howard McNear (Floyd the barber) had a massive stroke in 1962 and left the show. When he returned a year and a half later, he played all his scenes sitting down or leaning against a specially made stand. He suffered from slurred speech and partial paralysis, but it was the show that kept him alive.

3) The episode "Opie the Birdman", is not only considered the best show of the eight year run (it was Ron Howard's favorite), but TV historians consider it one of the great episodes in the history of television.