Andy Griffith, left, as Sheriff Andy Taylor and Don Knotts, right, as Barney Fife in a scene from the classic “Loaded Goat” episode of The Andy Griffith Show.

In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it ...

RALEIGH In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it ...