Posted on 05/06/2012 10:05:14 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.
I believe you are correct. (but your memory could still be fading)...how about this... I’m fairly sure it was Larry Hovis’ car that Goober was trying to fix. (Carter from ‘Hogan’s Heroes’)
...way too much time on my hands.
The genius of that show was that Andy was truly the only adult in town. And he never made a mistake, never did one wrong thing. He was strong, wise and kind.
There was a time when virtue was recognized as good and not despised and ridiculed.
btw, my favorite Goober episode was when he grew a beard and Floyd made him into a great thinker. Drove everyone in town crazy with spouting psuedo-intellectual blather, until Andy got him back down to earth.
departure for the WHAT????
BTW, I had no idea that Andy and Barney were cousins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxLxTZHKM8
Andy Griffith - “What is was, was Football” Story from 1953
Agreed. That why I bought the 5 seasons of DVDs of Gomer Pyle from Amazon. My young kids LOVE that show. They love it when Carter screams at Pyle (- maybe reminds them of their old man?) Too bad there is nothing like it on TV nowadays.
Best episode of Gomer Pyle: When Sgt. Hacker bets Carter that he can’t go 24 hours without yelling at Pyle. Carter finally drives way off into the desert and screams his head off. I nearly pee myself every time I see it.
Frank Sutton= genius.
They have quite a few self-promoting commercials using the same “cut and paste” from many other shows too. Good stuff ...
I watched maybe a quarter of the pilot of the reworked one and didn’t care for it.
Until Me-TV came around and me home on some weekdays to my rotating job schedule every few weeks, I started watching McGarrett & co. I finally appreciate it, esp. the writing.
Somewhere around here I have the old soundtrack I pulled off of a usergroup many years ago.
If I am home on a weekday, 10-12 is booked for Perry Mason, Cannon, and 5-0.
Me-TV has gotten me to appreciate the Big Valley and gotten me requainted with Kojak.
http://metvnetwork.com/videos.php?videoID=122
Thanks. I have a dial-up connection and it took me nearly half an hour to download only a small portion of it but that is definitely the same thing I heard on the radio nearly 60 years ago.
Interesting! I just watched that episode today with my kids! Looked like Carter was gonna rupture an aneurysm trying to keep it all in. My kids love how Gomer is so transparent and without guile. Truly a fantastic show! I think my favorite show about Pyle is actually the Mayberry lead-in to that show (the show is not yet Gomer Pyle USMC), a black and white production, where Andy drops off Gomer at boot camp - where Gomer meets Carter for the first time - its an absolute (and literal) scream!
” He was an actor in an era network TV was fit for family viewing. “
I was there..
” btw, my favorite Goober episode was when he grew a beard and Floyd made him into a great thinker. Drove everyone in town crazy with spouting psuedo-intellectual blather, until Andy got him back down to earth.”
Good one.
My fave was Barney & the HOT mike : )
Andy: “whisper, Barn.....the microphone will do the rest.”
My favorite ones were the few which had Earnest T. Bass in them.
I knew him...he was a neighbor in Marina Del Rey, CA 26 years ago
Nice guy....very. He gained fame as a regualar on “Your Show of Shows” in the late 50’s. Howard Morris.
I remember him (Morris) on an episode of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”.
I think he played an artist, but still a weird character.
He played an art appraiser.....uh heh...uhheh....hhehehehehe
Funny as hell.
Howard Morris: “ This is a GOOD painting.....I mean, the artist’s name was Good.....Grant Good....but his paintings were..............no good”
LOL!!
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