The color episodes pretty much sucked, No Don Knotts.
“The color episodes pretty much sucked, No Don Knotts.”
This!
> 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.