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.
(Excerpt) Read more at decoy.tvpassport.com ...
“You can’t say the word ‘colored” anymore...”
Episodes of Color, EOC ?
I had a late-60’s set of World Book encyclopedias and agree. They were perfect for young students and the overlays you describe were awesome.
Ao I’m 62 years old and this is the 1st I’d even heard of the ‘lost episodes’ - the last 3 years in color w/o Don Knotts.
No more of Barney putting on the old salt & pepper jacket, then going to the fillin station to get a bottle of pop…..go home, take a nap……and go over to Thelma Lou’s to watch a little TV.
No it doesn’t.
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Then why is most of the newspaper in black and white.
And even on FR, most is black on white.
It is to save money!
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