Posted on 12/30/2014 7:21:40 PM PST by WilliamIII
Here in Blend Television we’re celebrating by counting down our some of our all time favorite holiday episodes, in an effort to boost your Christmas spirit. These aren’t the 12 best out there by any means, just twelve of our favorites. ... On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…
Andy Griffith singing Away in a Manger.
I saw this episode for the first time a few years ago – on Christmas Eve during an Andy Griffith Show marathon. There’s nothing like a little “Ange” to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. This episode – entitled “Christmas Story” and the one and only Christmas episode from the series – aired on Dec. 19, 1960. It tells the story of Ben Weaver, an old codger who finds himself alone on Christmas. So he keeps getting himself thrown in the slammer so he’ll at least be around the Taylor family and soak up some of their Christmas karma.
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He was a good cracker.
Excellent post.
Full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dDp_dP3N3k
I love the Christmas card from the Hubacher brothers in state prison
They showed that episode just a few days ago. It was one of the better ones tho not one of the best.
They show two episodes a day on the local, over the air, channel. I generally watch them but I guess like most programs there were good and not so good episodes.
Barney was really an extraordinary actor in that show. some of the best were the ones with Earnest T. Bass.
Around 15 years ago, I bought Andy’s personal binoculars off ebay. They were compact, and of just medium quality. They do have a sticker on the case which is so old that it is coming off. Andy apparently marked all his personal property.
I got it from a pawn shop in Las Vegas. I guess I need to get it out and see if it is the one on TV. It also has a certificate of authenticity which said it came from a roll top desk from when Andy and his wife were moving from Hollywood back to North Carolina.
I do wonder what they are worth.
Thank you! I love the really old shows (I was born in 1960!) because they seem more like live theater.
You cannot beat that team, that’s for sure!
If you ever get the chance to watch “A Face In The Crowd”, do so.
Andy was capable of extremely high quality acting and could portray a bad guy very, very, well.
The mayor tries to make a deal with Frank, and says they're old friends. Frank says, 'I'll never forget you Mayor. You're the old friend who threw me out of my house.' lol!
Spoiler => At the end, the town banker remembers that the bond was issued in 1861 in Mayberry NC. Meaning that it was issued in Confederate money and the town was off the hook.
I have read that he was a skinflint and that may be why he sold so much of his personal belongings rather than move them when he went back to North Carolina.
He was also your typical Hollywood liberal.
When I was around 6 and we lived in Panama City, he performed at the Dixie Sherman Hotel. This was around 1953. Of course I did not get to go but the radio station played a lot of his acts while he was there.
He really could spin a good yarn. One of them was “Romeo and Juliet, another was “What it Was, Was Football”. I can’t recall the others off hand.
Andy Griffith is a bone hard committed leftist..
a gob of spit... not worthy of a mild word..
We used to watch the Danny Thomas show back then, and they had an episode where Danny gets stopped in a small town by Sheriff Andy.
I am not sure if it was intended to introduce the Andy Griffith show or that they just liked the idea of that episode and decided to make a new show.
I do know the first two or three episodes they had Andy as the comedian then very wisely changed him to the straight man with the other characters playing off him.
I always enjoyed that show when I was a younger kid back during the 80s. It sort of had my interest because at the time, I lived VERY close to the real town that “Mayberry” was based on.
lol I remember during one of the episodes, they even mentioned the area where I lived at the time, Fancy Gap, VA - Which is about 15 or so miles away, up on the mountain from “Mayberry”(Mount Airy, NC in the real world). Beautiful country there with amazing views, and the Blue Ridge Parkway goes right through it all! I’d recommend it to anyone who may be looking to take an awesome road trip! I still live near that area, and it’s a wonderful place. (just have to drive a hell of a long way for any good jobs or stuff to do on weekends....)
Mt. Airy/Pilot Mountain is too far away from Rocky Mount - in terms of the show - Mayberry must be in Central NC.
The fictional town of “Mayberry” was based on Mount Airy, NC. That’s where Andy Griffin is from. His ‘legacy’ is a big tourist attraction there, but I don’t think he has much to do with the place after he left it decades ago. That might have changed. I don’t really care about it, or follow it. Was just posting what I DO know.
I realize that but if you watch the show, it’s only a few hours’ drive from Mayberry to Rocky Mount - which is too far from Mount Airy/Pilot Mountain.
I don’t recall the episodes though....I don’t really want to argue about it either.
I’ve heard some people argue where Hooterville is....it can’t be anywhere. Chicago is the hub airport, but it’s in the Old Confederacy, off the Wabash Cannonball line...in the Kangaroo State with a former actor as governor, etc.
My dad would be so jealous. He really believes that when he dies, God will send him to Mayberry! That’s how much he loves that show.
An obama voter he is idiot
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