[TalBlack]

The nostalgic show, produced by Sheldon Leonard and Danny Thomas, looks back to an idealized time and place that never really existed.


This is not true. The Andy Griffith Show was the world the way it looked to KIDS who grew up at that time. ADULTS were of course more sophisticated but that depiction of that NC town, to this very day puts me in mind of the old settled towns around my post war built town of Oakdale NY. Specifically: Bohemia Ny and Sayville NY.

The people talked like that. They dressed like that. The same amount of sexuality and or vulgarity heard on the show is what we all saw heard in or lives in around town and in school..

To this day when I am in the contemporaneous (1962)post office in Sayville I hear the whisteling of the show theme. The idea that the show magically fails to reflect the time in which it was made is a leftwing canard.

[don-o]

The genius of the show was that Andy was actually the only adult in Mayberry.

He was the Daddy who always made everyhing right, in the end, no matter what.

Remember when Barney, as acting sheriff, had jailed the whole town?