The new modern conspiracy
The new modern conspiracy
Color costs more to transmit.
Andy and Aunt Bee didn’t get along in real life.
I can attest that the show took a nosedive as soon as Don Knotts left the show. The guy they had replace him was a dork who couldn’t fill Barney’s shoes... Not even close. The show withered away, although it was now in color. Makes sense that they don’t run those re-runs as much as the earlier episodes with Barney.
Now if you really want to see a failure, take a look at Mayberry RFD.
No major criticism of the color version and the newer performers. I'm sure that it was a fine program. It didn't have the impact of the original cast.
As for re-runs, we have choices, I'm not interested in the later versions.
I love the black and white versions.
Did I mention I live in Mayberry?
Ok, Mayberry, Indiana. It’s pretty much like Mayberry here. I marvel that this town has remained so much in the past.
Want some visual proof? Watch “Mayberry Man”, which was largely filmed in my sweet little town (Danville) at the end of the lockdowns. You’ll see our courthouse, some of our shops, Mayberry Cafe (where the B/W reruns are on every screen), and even our 4-H Center, where I go to vote.
Mayberry, it’s not a place, it’s a state of mind.
Great show but The Dick Van Dyke Show was the best situation comedy ever. Carl Reiner was a genius when it came to marriage and comedy. That is what most of the episodes are about and they still resonate today. Watch season 2, episode 21 “My Husband Is a Check-Grabber” as the best example. MTM and DVD are so real. You will see yourself and your spouse while watching them and say, hey, that is just like us!
Some of us watch for Thelma Lou.
When Knotts left, there were no more wild Saturday nights playing checkers with Thelma Lou.
The colorized versions
of Gunsmoke seemed to
carry over seamlessly.
Probably due to cast
and characters being
carried over.
I remember when we got our first color TV. It was a big deal.
Andy Griffith show was way before my time, but I’ve seen the b&w years on dvd. Good stuff. I didn’t like Andy much. He was kinda mean to Opie when he didn’t believe the boy about that guy from the phone company. Best character (Barney being in a class by himself) was Ernest T. Bass. He was pure id.
Honorable mention: Mr. Darling. That one always makes me cry.
A tv series has a natural lifetime, I think. There are no term limits, so they keep chugging away when they ought to hang it up.
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.