[UA] Mayberry (was Lone Jack)

[Chad Underkoffler]

> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:06:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Royal Minister of Stuff <yokeltania at yahoo.com>
>
> Ahem.  
>
> For those on the list who aren't Matlock fans, here's
> a breif (and probably slightly inaccurate, well, maybe
> wholly inaccurate) history of Mayberry.

I'll pitch in.

> Way, way back when (in the 60s), a young actor named
> Andy Griffith starred in a very funny movie/play
> called "No Time for Seargants" in which a very dumb,
> very strong backwoods hick with a high alcohol joined
> the airforce and turned things on their ear. (Sound
> like another American sitcom?  Well, that's another
> story.)

Yes, indeedy, Gomer Pyle is from Mayberry. He's cousins with
Goober (played by George Lindsay).

> Andy Griffith got a lot of attention for this show, as
> well as some of his other comedy work, 

And singing, I believe.

> and he landed a television show.  The Andy Griffith Show was
> about a small town southern Sherrif (played by and named after
> Andy -eponymous, eponymous, eponymous- ) who solved problems 
> with home-spun wisdom and clever tricks rather than, as many 
> other Sherrifs did on TV before and since, with a gun.  

Right.

> The show featured Don Knotts as Andy's very nervous, gung-ho 
> deputy (who, as I recall, was not allowed any bullets for his 
> own gun - out of fear for public safety.)  

Barney Fife was allowed one bullet for his guin, which was kept
in his shirt pocket.

> The show also featured a young Ron Howard (who starred as the
> dangerously psychic child in the Twilight Zone episode
> based off Jerome Bixby's "It's a Good Life.")

Incorrect; you're thinking of Bill Mumy, who went on to LOST IN
SPACE and BABYLON 5, et al. He's also half of Barnes & Barnes,
whose immortal "Fishheads" torments us all deliciously.

Ron Howard was in THE MUSIC MAN pre-Andy Griffith, as well as
AMERICAN GRAFFITTI and HAPPY DAYS.

There's a cast of wildly whacky, but homespun characters: Aunt
Bee, Floyd the Barber, Goober, etc.

http://www.zille.com/griffith/faq.asp

Mayberry is in a shared universe composing (at least) THE ANDY
GRIFFITH SHOW, MAYBERRY RFD, and GOMER PYLE, USMC.

Speaking of, I think the Shared Universe of BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
is more cohesive -- I think there are connections between BH,
GREEN ACRES, and PETTICOAT JUNCTION.

http://members.truepath.com/bobbyjoeb/



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"Now that is the kind of puddin' that only two-hundred forty dollars can buy."
  -- Barry, $240 Worth of Pudding, THE STATE

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