Set in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, it stars Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, whose life is humorously complicated by his deputy Barney Fife, Aunt Bee, and his young son ...

Beyond Griffith and Knotts, The Andy Griffith Show boasted a rich ensemble of characters that brought Mayberry to life. Ron ...

Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor on 'The Andy Griffith Show' in 1960 (left); Andy Griffith in 2004 (right). CBS via Getty; SGranitz/WireImage.

While the heart of The Andy Griffith Show (which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1968) was the relationship between Sheriff Andy Taylor (Griffith) and Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife (Don Knotts), almost as ...

The cast of The Andy Griffith Show (from left) Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife, Ron Howard as Opie Taylor and Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Griffith died Tuesday at age 86. Viacom file ...

The Andy Griffith Show put Andy Taylor’s romances on the back burner and focused almost entirely on his interactions with the residents of the town of Mayberry. Still, the writers left a little ...

30 ‘Andy Griffith Show’ Quotes: Wisdom from Sheriff Andy Taylor That Still Inspires Today When AI Mixes ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and ‘Star Trek,’ You Get the Hilarious ‘Andy Kirk Show’ ...

Andy Taylor eventually did get hitched. After five seasons of courtship, Helen Crump and Andy Taylor did finally get married, except the nuptials didn’t occur on The Andy Griffith Show.They took ...

Naturally, Andy Griffith's straight-man take on Andy Taylor is the glue which holds the rest of the performances together and grounds them in reality. As I said, it's a great ensemble show.

Andy Griffith is best known as the slow-talking, easygoing Sheriff Andy Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" and the curmudgeonly attorney Ben Matlock on "Matlock." But in a career that spanned over ...