Why The New Andy Griffith Show Bombed
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2021
- Did you know there was The New Andy Griffith Show in 1971? The first episode had Barney, Goober and even Emmett. You can watch clips from that show here and also discover why it only lasted 4 months!
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The original andy griffith show was always better than any colorized version or the new andy Griffith show, it just wasn’t the same….
Actually the original Andy Griffith show saw it biggest success ratings wise #1 in its last season in color in 1968
@@michaelnelson1128that is true. However in syndication...seen as a whole package the color seasons after the 2nd contract are not enjoyed as much.
When a show is on, you have a desire to see the new episodes...and you choose it over other new episodes of other shows at the time.
When a series is finished the whole thing can be seen and compared.
Daniel Boone kept getting more and more silly, when it started as a more serious historical fiction with some lighthearted moments and some tragedy. Eventually it was just an afternoon kids show. It looked better in color, but it wasn't better.
Similar for comedies like Petticoat Junction or Green Acres.
@@michaelnelson1128 So what. It became too much of an idiot sitcom and everyone getting away with insulting Andy's intelligence! And I will never understand why he took the blame for Goober instead of telling Helen he did not get the message!
Color Andy was missing Barney. Need I say more?
B&W Andy Griffith is best Andy Griffith. Best episodes of the entire series, bar none.
Had they just brought Andy Taylor back to Mayberry as the new mayor it might’ve worked.
Wow! I never knew this show even existed. As a kid I watched the Andy Griffith show and ending up seeing a few episodes of Mayberry RFD but that was it. This show was never even known to me till now.
Yeah I didn't either watched the Andy Griffith show all my life never heard of the new Andy Griffith show maybe it's a Mandela effect is only thing I can think of.
Yeah never heard of it
Me three
Me four. Huge fan of the original, but feel like I’m in the twilight zone’s parallel dimension on this show. Definitely never heard of Headmaster either.
I too,..been watching it all my life & never recall seeing this ..or barely even RFD either. Until right now.
He should've just stayed in Mayberry to begin with.
What about all the innocent people Ben Matlock kept out of prison? 😊
Yes
No it was time to put the series to bed
@@josephprolizo701 people wasn't ready to see Andy in the role of Headmaster so it failed very quickly then CBS desperately came up with the new Andy Griffith show, using the same writers and character actors and similar plot's as TAGS and of course it didn't work. Meanwhile RFD was still on the air. That's why I said he should have stayed in Mayberry, the grass wasn't nowhere as green on the other side of the fence as it was in Mayberry. Oh well he was able to find success later in life with Matlock, and I'm sure he never missed a meal between times.
keep in mind that reruns of the Andy Griffith Show had not begun, it hadn't reached the iconic status that it has with many now from years of them seeing these reruns (locally and on cable). TV audiences had not type casted in their minds yet him and the other characters as they are seen now by many viewers.
For me, any show had to be Andy, Barney, and Mayberry. I didn't know there was a new AGS.
The New Andy Griffith Show was confusing, it was like halfway connected to the old show and halfway not
Exactly! It left people with, "What did I just watch?"
Just found the new Andy Griffith show after watching the original Andy Griffith every day of my life for 42 years. Was nice to watch season new even though it wasn't really good. And it definitely was the town concept that Sold original Andy show. They should have kept him as the old sheriff he going into the show. I truly believe it would have helped. People wanted Andy Griffith again with the Mayberry.
You cant compare his classic w updated stories w a old Andy!!
I am definitely a Mayberry groupie! I loved Andy and all of the residents..it was Def a simpler time!!!❤ thanks for keeping it alive!!
Thanks!
It wasn’t a simpler time. It was a fictional town that was crafted to play on your emotions.
As a kid I remember this. I don’t think I realised he wasn’t Andy Taylor.
It’s very simple. The Original Andy Griffith show was developed and produced by a group that included Danny Thomas, Sheldon Leonard, snd others. The didn’t have the rights to those characters for the new series, so they got as close as they could without being sued.
Interesting thought. So these other characters might also not be who we think they are. Maybe they are Emmitt Jones, Barney Smith (who just happens to live in Raleigh) and Goober Johnson. You may be on to something!
@@TonyBoyOhBoy hold on...lemme snort more angel dust & mull it over
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I just discovered this show and thought it was strange, too. However...this is tv, not real life. A lot of times characters change. For an example, the Doris Day show changed from her being widowed with two boys to her being single with none. You just have to enjoy each episode and not expect it to be autobiographical. I have watched 2 episodes and have enjoyed them and hope there are a few more.
Very good point about Doris Day. I can barely remember watching the show, but I do remember being irked by all the re-workings.
I loved it all. All of the charactrs made this show great. All of them!!!
Calling a show new to begin with is asking for trouble. Dick Van Dyke's program lasted longer. But his earlier show still held strong memories. He told of a woman hitting him with an umbrella for leaving "that sweet Laura." Ironically, CBS nixed plans to make Mary Richards a divorcee'. They were concerned viewers would think she divorced Dick Van Dyke.
One biography of Andy Griffith said that Universal wanted to team him up with Don Knotts in a movie. This was after Angel in My Pocket didn't do so well. The book also said that this episode didn't call Knotts' character Barney. But he wore the same suit, along with acting like Barney. My personal theory was witness protection. Yet if so, Andy would have been sent to another state, with a different job. Oh yeah, Helen and Opie would have gone with him.
You're right about jealous Helen. Many fans don't care for the character. I never saw the great chemistry. Now we know there was something going on off camera. Ellie was good, but seemed too young. Like some other fans, I preferred Peggy, played by Joanna Moore. CBS replaced The New Andy Griffith Show with reruns of Headmaster. Maybe that show deserved more time. It might have even survived the rural purge. Andy Griffith wouldn't have another hit series until Salvage 1. Then came Matlock.
What great comments, thanks for sharing that insightful info. I have the same feelings about pretty much everything you stated. And Peggy was my favorite too.
I heard that after Salvage 1 (or Matlock), George Lindsay congratulated Andy for,"Finally burying Andy Taylor."(Ironically it didn't seem that George Lindsay even tried to kill Goober. After Mayberry RFD he was in Hee-Haw for years.)
Was the Lady who walloped Dick Van Dyke with an umbrella possibly a big fan of Pro Wrestling at The Olympic in Los Angeles? Sounds like something that "Hatpin Mary" and the crew was very capable of. Renowned Pro Wrestling villain "Classy" Freddie Blassie made an appearance on the original "DVDS" to introduce a clever fictional "Airplane Spin" based variation of "The Twist" called "The Twizzle!"😂😉🎤🕺🤼♂️☂️📺 B.W.
“Salvage 1” was no hit.
I don't remember that show because it was playing while I was overseas in Okinawa in the Army. I don't think I missed anything myself.
I was in high school at that time, but I don't recall ever having heard of the "Headmaster."
I think "The New Andy Griffith Show" failed for a few reasons: 1. Audiences didn't like the "New" shows very much back then, with the exception of "The New Price Is Right", preferring the original instead; 2. "The New Andy Griffith Show" was hastily put together after Griffith ended "The Headmaster", so it just wasn't very good; and 3. CBS decided to ax all rural shows in 1971.
I love the way you speak, And I totally agree 👍🏾👍🏾
It failed because it was garbage.
It really sucks that CBS decided to kill all the rural shows. Such an insult. 😡😡
@@jimmy.r.minnelli everyone grinning at each other and desperately hamming it up 🤮
@@mt_gox It's interesting (and a little pathetic) to look over how often revered stars of successful shows failed miserably at comeback attempts in poorly done shows. For example, Sylvan's Paradise with Jim Nabors, The Good Guys with Bob Denver, etc.
What is really bizarre is the fact that these characters went to Andy and Helens wedding just a couple of years earlier. Did Andy take his new wifes name? Im guessing that these are her kids. You would think that Goober, Emmit and Barney would have noticed Andy with two ready made kids, and where is Opie? Better yet, what happened to Helen? I was about ten years old when this show came out and have no recollection of it, and I was an avid tv watcher. Kind of like the Mike TV in my family.
Yeah, the whole thing was a huge mistake.
Not to mention Andy and Helen's son Andy Jr.!
"Matlock" was Andy Taylor with a new name.
That's what my mom legitimately thought back when she saw "Matlock" for the first time; that it was a continuation of The Andy Griffith Show with a more serious tone.
I love Andy Taylor but Matlock didn't hit the same
Anytime Don Knotts guest starred on Matlock, Andy quickly became Andy Taylor again.
Matlock plagiarized Perry Mason.
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Some things I never knew before, very interesting. Thanks.
I so agree with you about Helen Crump. Or is it Helen Grump? I always liked Ellie so much more. I would loved to have seen your Helen meets Andy's wife scenario.
Yes! It seemed like she was always ticked off at Andy for something and her anger seemed way out of proportion to the event.
Cat fight.
Just came upon your channel. I must say I did like some RFD episodes. But nothing replaces TAGS!
If they would have done a petticoat junction/ Andy Griffin show mashup it would have worked
I agree!
I believe "Petticoat Junction" was already heading towards cancellation by CBS prior to the "Rural Purge." It was brought back for the 1969-1970 season for syndication purposes of having more episodes in color. Then it was dropped in 1970 (with "Mary Tyler Moore" taking its spot).
We will pretend the New Andy Griffith show was just a dream.
I agree!
I tried to watch the pilot episode recently. I made it about ten min before I had to turn it off. It was painful. 🤦♀️
Frank Bond wrote there is no place like home.
They even had Milly Halper, Laura Petrie´s next-door neighbor from from The Dick VanDyke show.
Headmaster as far as I know never made it to Australia. The New Andy Griffith also never shown in Australia.
This is insane.
You want to know what really happened. We were lied to about Mayberry RFD. Andy left and everyone was angry. To see him come back in a unrelated show made everyone even madder no one wanted to see him n that show we wanted him on Mayberry so no one watched it. It just never made sense to anyone why they took him off the show..
The nail in the coffin was Mayberry RFD.
Sister Nora has a point. Jumping out unexpectedly like that can be dangerous. What if Nora was packing heat? Might not end well for Emmet and Goober
The early to mid-sixties had some of the best t.v. shows ever made, in my opinion. The Andy Griffith show, The Munster's, Beverly hillbillies, Bewitched, I dream of genie, Adams family and so on were all great shows, creative, well-made, first filmed in b&w, transitioning over to color. The mid sixties to early seventies produced Adam 12, Gilligan's Island, green acres and the like, also great kid safe t.v. I think 1960 marked the beginning of this wonderful era with The Original Andy Griffith show starting it off right. This era was, in my opinion, the best television ever made.
I can't believe I forgot the Dick Van Dyke show!
I think if they had waited long enough for the 90s to hit right as first-run syndication took off, Nick-at-Nite essentially making classic TV popular again, and the kids who had grown up watching the show to have children of their own, they could've actually gone somewhere.
I'm picturing a Northern Exposure type thing where Opie, now a widowed father, laid off from whatever job he'd have, has to move back to Mayberry, living under the same roof as his father.
You could have storylines where Andy embraces the joys of fatherhood again with his nephews and niece, but has to comes to terms with them growing up, Opie struggling to fit in again with the citizens of Mayberry after being out of town for so long, Barney trying to come to terms with his added responsibilities of being the mayor, Gomer becoming a war veteran, and all of these plotlines that could've worked so well
It’s like Andy was witness relocation and they gave him kids and a wife.
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Worked for "Pam Ewing" and "Dr. Bob Hartley!"😂😏😴🎤👨🎓👨⚕️💃B.W.
🤣 And for Bob Newhart!
Thanks for this video! I stumbled across the new Andy Griffith Show the other day and I turned it off after about half of it. I just could not fathom goober and Emmett Etc appearing when Andy's name is Sawyer and not taylor. It was a real head scratcher. Or, as you say, and alternate universe. It made absolutely no sense. And I would have to agree with you about Mayberry being one of the Prime reasons for watching. In fact, when I want to watch an episode of The Andy Griffith show, I don't think of it as Andy Griffith Show but rather as, "I want to go to Mayberry."
Great comments. Yeah, that show was real head scratcher, wasn't it? You can't imagine that just 10 year earlier, they created one of the best programs in history. And Sheldon Leonard returned as executive producers and Andy Griffith was the executive in charge of production. Puzzling.
Also, why would Emmett and Goober show up, and Barney too, when Opie wasn't there, Helen wasn't either, and instead there were unknown kids and two other "strange" faces? It didn't make a lick of sense. One wonders where the logic went, and why none was used. Since this 'Andy' character was a different fellow, how would Goober, Barney and Emmett know this Andy? It made it impossible to relate to, considering that it used some of the Mayberry characters, but not even Andy Taylor. Why wouldn't they have seen these problems coming? That alone is a head-scratcher!
Some old newspapers listed the andy show in their tv guild as simply Mayberry.
The strangest attempt at creating a show I've ever seen.Don didn't even have a name in the first episode.
It's funny that almost all of the shows cast off in the "rural purge" survived as reruns gor a long time after. My opinion is it was a big mistake.
I totally agree.
George Lindsay for one was in BOTH "AGS" and "Hee Haw" as a Recurring Cast Member. As is the example of his "Hee Haw" Castmates Miss Gunilla Hutton who also had a gig on "Petticoat Junction" and Miss Misty Rowe who appeared frequently in early Episodes of "Happy Days."🤔🎤💃📺B.W.
He should have just brought in some of the same writers from the original show and brought back the character of Andy Taylor as the new Mayor of Mayberry, with Barney now the Sherriff. As Mayor he would once again have the duty of cleaning up whatever mess Barney was in the middle of. They could have also brought in Gomer, out of the Marines and married to Luann. But, would that have fixed everything? Who knows. Andy's heart was not into doing the Andy Grifftth show anymore and that is why he ended it, but he later said that ending the show was a big mistake. And, he was right about Mayberry. the town was as much the star of the show as Andy, Don, or Ron. the name Mayberry has even become a synonym for an idealized place to live. When I was a little kid I wanted to grow up and live in Mayberry.
Great comments and ideas. I think your suggestions would have had a much better chance at succeeding than what they did!
Alternate universe? Basically.
Ang is a combo of Andy's birth name:
AN...Griffith.
Ang...
Good-and funny-analysis. 😄 I ran across some of these shows last year, and yes, I also was confused. Aside from the Mayberry-not Mayberry character weirdness, though, I thought the show really wasn't that bad. But of course, how do you follow the Andy Griffith Show? That was the main problem.
I agree. I think it could have worked. I consider TAGS maybe the best TV comedy in history, so that's a tough act to follow.
I remember growing up in a place like Mayberry. While I imagine I could be prejudice but my life was very much the same.
Man, that’s bizarre.
I watched this show. I even tried watching headmaster too. They tried to get the ratings going on the “new” show by bringing on the old characters. Before that show began they had heavy publicity!
Andy did a great ABC TV Movie can't remember the title it was an update of The Most Dangerous Game he was a hunter who hunted his guide through the desert in Arizona the guide was played by Sam Bottoms I think it was really good very suspenseful.
"Pray for The Wildcats." With Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Sam Bottoms, Miss Angie Dickinson, and the former Teen Evangelist turned Actor Marjoe Gortner. Shown on ABC roundabout 1974.🤔🎤🏍📺B.W.
@@madbrowniac7871 I found it was titled "Savages" read the synopsis it was a great TV movie - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savages_(1974_film)
“Savages” was the TV movie with Sam Bottoms.
@@cbalducc And it was remade a few years ago with Michael Douglas it was very good a lot better than the old TV movie with Andy and Sam you can find the Douglas remake if you search for it I watched it for free.
@@madbrowniac7871 Robert Reed, not Sam Bottoms, had a role in “Pray for the Wildcats”.
It wasnt just the town of Mayberry but the characters in the town of Mayberry we love, also TAG was a 60's show not a 70's show.
Yeah I could see Helen going through a fit of rage by seeing Andy with Lee. I mean it may not hit boiling bunny on the stove level, but I would give anything to see Helen say “I won’t be ignored Andy”
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It's funny, the SECOND I saw the Title "The NEW Andy Griffith Show" I knew this was going to be the case. And I can see that even Mayberry RFD didn't quite cut it either. It seems that RARELY do Spin-Offs and NEW versions of tv shows "make it" successfully. It's just hard to re-capture the feel of MAGIC. Like a relationship - you can't re-capture a moment in time. It's just not really do-able. I know that SOME "New" versions of shows were great, but it's rare. One example (which is a little different than these examples) were the Twilight Zones! EVERY SINGLE version (apart from the newest Jordan Peele version - which is AWFUL!) were AMAZING! Same with The Outer Limits!
Yes, I agree. Especially with a show like The Andy Griffith Show, it was so far above most other shows, there's a certain expectation for the program. After Barney left, while it was still very good, it could never regain what they had in the first 5 seasons.
@@TonyBoyOhBoy I absolutely agree. I didn't even watch The Andy Griffith Show until about 6-7 years ago and I fell in love with it! It was so beautiful. (I'm 39, so I wasn't around when it first aired!) Being able to watch these old shows is one of the GOOD things about the internet/technology. MOST other things - not so much... ;)
Youre welcome.💯💪
Never heard of it.
The best thing was casting Lee Meriwether as Andy's wife...their chemistry together in the film ANGEL IN MY POCKET was raved over by what Robert Duvall calls "the holy goddam NEW YORK TIMES"
She is now 88 and appears to be holding up well.
It would have better if it had been an episode of "The Twilight Zone" or "Rod Serling's Night Gallery," which had just begun running when "The New Andy Griffith Show" was on the air.
I think the country was changing with shows like All in The Family emerging, the audience saw Andy Taylor/Sawyer as part of that 60's rural era.
Even the kid we see in that clip looks like Buddy Foster, who played Sam Jones' son on RFD
Andy Griffith thought that he was the star, the draw. Whereas, it was the town and all those characters, especially Don Knotts to made the show a classic. Interestingly, in looking back at late 50's and early 60's show several actors said how much they loved the Andy Griffith show and all wished that they lived in a town like Mayberry.
Wrong, Andy from day one wanted to name the show Mayberry because all of the talent around him.
My husband and I always watch Andy Griffith show. I do recall the rfd spinoff show. Last week I discovered this show. Yeah, it was ummm different and couldn't get into it.
Lucille Ball is the only person I know of who starred in her own successful sitcom more than once , three to be exact ,I love Lucy,The Lucy Show and heres Lucy
I would be curious to learn more about Headmaster, but I understand that per Griffith’s wishes all episodes are carefully hidden away.
Andy tried a new show late 70's early 80's. Called salvage 360 or something like that
I remember the show but never watched it. I think he'd go to the moon and salvage ships, but I could be mistaken
They appeared to boost the ratings for his new show.
He was in the witness protection program and yes if Helen Crump would have shown up that would have been the best and you're absolutely right she seemed to be grumpy with Andy more often than not. Remember the first time he met her?? Wow , she went off on him. 😮😮😮 great videos 📹 👌
Yes, I just watched that last week and she went ballistic on Andy! I've wondered if she was written this way or if this was Aneta Corsaut's interpretation of her character. She seemed to get ticked off so easily.
Maybe the feds were protecting Andy FROM Helen Crump...
Like he said. ... Mayberry itself was loved.
Waiting until OP decides to look back at Andy Griffith in the series "Salvage 1".
I forgot about that show!
Andy was 46 when he did this show. He lookef so old but like a true sitcom trope he snagged a much younger wife. 😂😂
It was just a mid season replacement. It would be interesting to see what show it replaced. Shows like All In The Family killed the remaining ones "with a tree".
Should've just continued the Mayberry storyline years later...keep the connection between those same characters the audience felt like they knew personally and cared about and the town of Mayberry.
Maybe if they made everything a hallucination that Otis had when they got him into the Raleigh Rehabilitation Center.
FUNNY! 🤣
It was also set in North Carolina as was the original, Lee Meriwether used her first name as well....they should have made a clean break and it may have worked then.
I wonder if the great writers of the original show, were part of the trainwreck.
Very bizarre,like a weird dream Andy Taylor may have had.
It's probably true. Lot of water had passed Under the bridge the town of Mayberry was the main reason of the success of the first Andy Griffith show sheriff Taylor was the glue that held it all together!; Then we have a new Andy as mayor or whatever lost its charm! Don knots wasn't the same Barney Fife kept it together now in civis. Coat and tie and a hat wasn't fun new wife and a person I guess was to be a replacement for Aunt Bea. No home spun feeling no Opie doesn't work either! However about Head master that was a fairly good show should have given it more of a chance of course Matlock once again captured Andy Griffith true sprit and dob knots as Les Calhoun' added flavor as well as cliff and billy and Michelle and LeAnn all played off each other quite EASY. Conrad as a private investigator gave a feeling of warmth !
if I could find a little town like Mayberry where shops are within walking distance protected by a common sense sheriff from drifters crooks & cons with good internet access I'd be moving tomorrow.
I never knew about this with his last name as Sawyer. no wonder it failed. we didn't know him as anyone other than Sheriff Taylor.
It was the truth about Mayberry, but the second thing was Don Knotts. I never cared much for the show after he left. Andy Griffith was a good actor, he fit the sheriff perfect, but had Don Knotts been on the show, I don't think it would have gone as long....
That's a right spiffy sky old Barn is sporting
"The perpetually angry Helen Crump." 😄
Yes, you got that right. She was a great actress. I just hope she wasn't angry like that in real life! Peggy was much more likeable.
I agree!
My wife said the same thing.
That's bizzare
That is low-key THE SCARIEST I’ve ever seen Lee Meriwether’s Catwoman (granted, out of the catsuit, and as Miss Kitka, but still…
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Whoa, the far reach of that Mandela Effect! This didn’t exist in my universe back then.
Thanks for this article! I watched a episode of the new andy griffin show and must say it wasn’t bad but it definitely lacked the humour of his previous show. Lee Merriweather was a well traveled actress but I don’t think she was really a comedy type although I know she tried.
I agree. It just didn't have the feel of the old show.
Andy Taylor had married Helen Crump and had another son, Andrew Jr. If they had wanted to reintroduce the Mayberry characters that is the format they should've used. It never made sense to me the direction they took instead.
It failed partly because it was marketed AGAINST the nostalgia most audiences want for that world. It is against itself. The NEW Andy Griffith Show title is just strange to a lot of people. I’m just glad Andy got back on his feet on television in the 80’s with Matlock.
The witness protection program didn't do a very good job relocating Andy Taylor... or even renaming him! Maybe Mayberry Multiverse?
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It looks like network execs saw the original pilot, didn't like it, and in desperation shot extra scenes that shoehorned in the Mayberry characters.
CBS had its head up its corporate butt when it did the rural purge to make room for trash like “All In the Family.” To this day, I cannot stomach that show. Thank God for MeTV.
I never heard of this show. I watched Mayberry RFD with Ken Barry when new, which was a dull show. The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock are the only shows I knew of of Andy's. Any show Andy would be on and go back to Mayberry shouldve had Helen as his wife, they married in a reunion movie.
Strange thing, very strange, about Andy Griffith. Although he was the star of the show (by the way, to me the last three years of the Andy Griffith show do not exist. So when I say "the show", I'm talking about the first five years), even though he was the star of the show, and that wonderful first five years would not have worked without him, especially as he portrayed the Taylor character in its first 3 to 4 years, it seems that Andy Griffith simply did not "get it". He was clueless when it comes to what made the show wonderful and why it's fans loved and still love it so much even to this day. Other actors on the show, such as Betty Lynn for example, most definitely did "get it". But Andy Griffith was clueless on the matter. Strange.
The old saying says, "You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy". That did not seem to be the case with Andy Griffith. I think he let Hollywood take the "country" out of him. Pity.
They should’ve just started up the old show again with Don Knotts and the rest of the cast and let it play out another 5 years. Most of the cast were still around and could’ve came back as well., they could’ve cast actors from Hee Haw that would’ve been great.
I agree. Mayberry RFD ended that year so it would have been easy to do. But I think most likely the bigger problem was CBS was in the middle of The Great Rural Purge and was killing all those great programs and going with the "modern" shows.
I doubt Don Knotts would have come back, as he was doing a lot of movies for the next decade. He didn't really appear on TV again as a regular until Three's Company.
@@tomloft2000 He did attempt a variety show in 1970-71 - but it didn't last long.
Yes, I'm surprised they got away with all that, having the same friends names, Barney, Goober and Emmet but I'm glad.
Yes, it made it very confusing.
Might have been better to just call him Andy and left it at that. Like they don't know the last name by association. By simple inference.
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They really didn’t think this show out at all. Made no sense.
Headmaster was a total crap sandwich.
It was off putting to watch the first episode. It was watching an alternate universe version of characters we all loved. It made me start question if andy griffith was just a one trick poney. If they just brought Andy back to Mayberry with Helen, and Andy Jr, and had him as the Mayor of Mayberry, I think people would have been more receptive. Dealing with new challenges with a family and the administrative challenges of running a small town.
It is typecasting of a sort...look what happened to MTM; started a new show not long after her big one ended, which allowed her to do the things she loved to do like dancing...and it failed miserably. People now saw her as either Rob's wife or as 'Mary' making it after all.
Same reason the new Dick Van dyke show bombed,fans were used to the way the original shows were and the new ones just didn't work.
I've never understood Goober's hat. What in the world is that thing and why in the world was he wearing it? It looks like a children's headdress.
@lawrencedaniels9231 And?
@lawrencedaniels9231 Not really, you didn't. Saying that Goober's hat was similar to Jughead's doesn't tell me the type of hat it is. It also doesn't tell me why he's wearing it, nor did I ask if Goober and Gomer were related.
@lawrencedaniels9231 What do you mean, now? Have you not read the OP? Given that you've yet to answer a single question to any degree of satisfaction, I, of course, already know the answer. I also don't care what you think I'd like to know, especially since you are apparently incapable of telling me what I want to know.
You're a waste of time. Moving on!
The main reason that show bombed was because Andy Griffith played 'Andy Sawyer', married, with two children, living in 'Greenwood, N.C.'..HOWEVER,
......still engaged with the same characters from the fictional town of Mayberry from Griffith's old show.
Not the best combination and that's why it didn't work. Viewers were left more confused than anything else. Basically, this show was an
alternate universe of what 'The Andy Griffith Show' was. And Griffith's portrayal of 'Andy Sawyer' was exactly how he portrayed 'Andy Taylor'.
Exactly.
How would you rank Andy's love interests from the original show?
I'd probably go:
Peggy McMillan
Mary Simpson
Ellie Walker,
Sharon DeSpain
Helen Crump
How about you?
@@TonyBoyOhBoy Which ones were Mary and Sharon?
An argument can be made that Ms. Crump should have the top spot. :)
What is weird is that Andy gets married in the first episode of Mayberry RFD then there is the new AGS. Helen is nowhere to be seen. Rural comedy was good until it was declared unhip. Y’all come back now, you hear. Hee Haw was syndicated.