Posted on 11/14/2004 2:21:13 PM PST by silent_jonny
November 12, 2004 - You can't grow up in North Carolina without being subjected to endless reruns of The Andy Griffith Show. Though the show was a bit harder to find once I moved to San Francisco, I still made a point of seeking out the reruns wherever I could find them. The nostalgic show, produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas, looks back to an idealized time and place that never really existed. The popularity of the show lasted a full eight seasons and it was, along with I Love Lucy and Seinfeld, one of the few shows to ever end its run while still at the top of the Nielsen ratings. Though the show has thrived in syndication ever since it went off the air (or morphed into the decidedly unfunny Mayberry R.F.D.), fans have long been waiting for a comprehensive DVD version of the show. Thankfully, Paramount has finally consented to release the entire first season in a remastered DVD format, available November 16.
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To each his own, I guess. :)
Andy also had a chance with three or four girls other girls--all named Mary. Pick any Mary at random and it would've been a better choice than Helen Crump!
Not Mary Grace (aka Ralph from "Green Acres") ;)
LOL! Forgot about her!
Yeah, her! "She's nice. Real nice!"
I've often thought that at the end of that episode, when Andy, Barney, Helen and Thelma Lou return home, if would be funny if they opened the door and saw Gomer and Mary Grace dancing naked. ROTFLMAO!!!
Boy, another opportunity for a Carter-lovin', outspoken, has-been liberal Democrat to cash in....just what we've been waiting for!
Oh hoooray.
Now they just need to get off their butts and release Night Court and Newhart on DVD and I will be set once I get my Seinfeld, ALF, and Boy Meets World discs this X-mas I hope.
Oh you anti-John Ritter heathen. :)
Seriously.....RIP John. See you on the other side.
ALF? That could fit on one disc :)
I used to be able to do that, but over many years of little TV watching, I lost that.
Great to see the release on DVD. I'm sure all that ingraind memory will surface.
*vomit* ;)
That and the bedjacket ep were the best non-funny ones.
Augh ... there's a color ep on now ...
I have all of the episodes released so far. There aren't that many out and they have to use a different theme song for some reason , which is annoying.
Rest assured the theme song, along with every scene, is in tact in this new DVD release :)
Which one is it?
After the boxed set of "Dark Shadows"?
Even that eerie theme music-as the camera panned across the rapidly decaying trees-was awesome.
I have to go back on that "Jumped The Shark" website and see how many years it actually ran for. I think it was probably one of those shows like "The Odd Couple" or "The Honeymooners", which only ran for a few years before going into syndication and ultimately, being canceled by the network.
Wow. The Hellcats of Mayberry... That could be amusing!
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