The new modern conspiracy
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
OUR END IS NIGH!
As a side note. I’m from NC. Met Andy a couple of times. He is an A 1 asshole. Also he smoked like a train drank like a fish. Total dick. But he was a raging liberal. He did go to UNC Chapel Hill. Explains a lot.
I see it on TVLand.
Color episodes playing right now.
It is an issue of cost. A&G probably doesnt run on enough channels to make it worthwhile.
AI may change thar, since it would be able to do it on the fly.
Aren’t the color seasons sometimes shown in syndication as “Mayberry RFD?”
On old color TV sets, you could sometimes carefully tweak the channel knob and shows would switch from color to grayscale (black/white).
Finally, was it the loss of Knotts that took the needed spark out of the show? Did other actors/actresses leave the show, too?
Notice how Andy's country accent went away as the show progressed. By the color episodes it was gone.
Channels usually buy up a few seasons of a series. I remember Wagon Train had one season in color, but it was 90 minutes long. That was the second to last season. The last season they went back to black and white and 60 minutes long.
..”how do you know he doesn’t start howling at the moon when the sun goes down?...those are your true schizophreniacs!!....”
—Barney
..”maybe we can go down to the duck pond...”
-—Rivals
...”don’t worry Aunt Bee, you leave it to Big Barn”
“Atten hut! “
“Citizens arrest. citizens arrest”.
“they fly onto your head and lay their eggs and you go crazy” “What are you worried about, you have a hat on ..”.they lay their eggs on that too and you go crazy”
...”and they are different, ...exactlioso...”
....”their doin it!, their doin it!, “ “pipe down this isn’t a ball park,” “way to go Andy, and you too Helen!...”
...”and deputy Barney Fite”
“... let’s hit it..”
“Your the only girl I love”
...”I can’t hear you”
“Your the only girl I love”
...”I can’t hear you”
“I said, your the only girl I love!”
