Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you watch reruns of The Andy Griffith Show—most notably its first five seasons—you can't help but get taken in by the ...

Griffith, who would have turned 100 on June 1, eventually found success again with ‘Matlock’ ...

After a few years away from primetime, he realized that leaving his show might have been a mistake.

On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...