The new modern conspiracy
Posted on 03/15/2024 5:30:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
can unpack this a little bit, but the basic reason why the color episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show" don't run as often is because people don't like them as much.
"Stations have historically recognized that the first five seasons ... are the most popular and considered, as a grouping, better than the final three seasons, which happen to be the color seasons," Jim Clark of the Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club (yep, that's a real thing) said in an interview with the Winston-Salem Journal.
Recognizing this, stations often choose not to air the latter three seasons, instead just starting over at the beginning after Season 5.
The answer to why they don't like them is complicated somewhat by the timing. CBS began shooting the show in color in Season 6, which also happened to be the first season without Don Knotts as the lovable loser-y Deputy Barney Fife, one of the all-time great sitcom sidekicks.
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The new modern conspiracy
The color episodes pretty much sucked, No Don Knotts.
Survivor has a white guy and a black guy who formed the andy Griffith alliance.
I noticed that the classic TV channel I get from my Samsung TV has the same black and white Beverly Hillbillies reruns on over and over.
I love The Andy Griffith Show. I’ve seen all B and W episodes a thousand times. The color episodes suck. No Don Knotts.
“The color episodes pretty much sucked, No Don Knotts.”
This!
I’ve never been a huge fan of the show.But since I (recently) discovered that married Andy was schtupping “Helen”...off camera...I’m now totally turned off by him.
The color episodes of The Saint and Danger Man aren’t as good as the black and white ones.
Yup...same here. On LG TVs it’s Channel 222.
Here is to your Cuba cake with chips. :-)
All this stuff is disappearing.
Once there is no physical media, censorship gets so very easy.
In 2012 Encyclopedia Britannica stopped their print edition
World book before that I think.
I have rarely seen them in thrift shops either.
There is a reason Amazon called their Ebook reader “kindle”
I realized this the first time one of my purchased books got messed with.
Haven’t seen an encyclopedia or vacuum salesman in a long time either.
I like the old black and white ones best, myself.
You can’t say the word ‘colored” anymore...
White and shadow is easier to work with, you can spend more time thinking about things like plot, camera angle and lighting.
Not sure any of that is important today since you need color for product placement.
Don Knotts made a few guest appearances in some of the color episodes.
It’s the writing and the cast that make the difference, not the film type. Some popular shows go on a little too long and run out of steam. I have heard people complain about the color episodes of ‘Gunsmoke” . Those are shown, and there are still some good episodes, but the first 10-13 years are generally considered superior. The stories are more compelling, the shows benefited from a stable of excellent character actors, and the focus was on the core cast. Those were often lacking in later episodes.
> The color episodes pretty much sucked, No Don Knotts. <
That’s the bottom line. Deputy Fife made that show. And to his great credit, Andy Griffith released that early on. Griffith was originally meant to be the funny one. But then he wisely stepped back, and became the straight man to Don Knotts.
After Knotts left, the show was pretty much just running on inertia. The show was still popular because people loved the characters. But it was no longer funny.
Part of the problem with the color episodes were the substandard scripts, the absence of Don Knotts, the addition of Warren, and most of all Andy’s changed demeanor. It seems that in the black and white episodes, the slight eccentricities of the Mayberry townspeople Andy rolled with and accepted. In the color episodes, it seems the townspeople were driving him up a wall and he was kind of getting angry over everything.
Though, while it’s true that the color episodes don’t hold a candle to the black and white episodes, the color episodes are still for the most part fine, pleasing entertainment. Certainly better than most of what they put out today.
Did they have any blacks on that show? If they did, then they could have said they had “colored” episodes.
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