Andy Griffith
  • Jim Nabors to miss 2012 Indianapolis 500

    First Goober Pyle passes away, now Gomer Pyle is missing the Indy 500! Say it ain't so, Andy Griffith....

  • George 'Goober' Lindsey dies at 83

    George "Goober" Lindsey, best known for playing Goober Pyle on "The Andy Griffith Show," died Sunday (May 6) in Nashville at the age of 83 after a long hospitalization....

  • Christmas Day offers another chance to see holiday favorites

    ...Bewitched," "The Jeffersons," "Good Times," "Three's Company" and more. Bring tissues for the "Andy Griffith Show" episode where Andy and Barney ( Don Knotts ) throw a Christmas party at the jail for a prisoner's......

  • Dick Van Dyke helps PBS recall television's view of American life

    ...among the subjects, and an installment subtitled "Man of the House" recalls family figures from sheriffs ( "The Andy Griffith Show" ) to mobsters ( "The Sopranos" ). Also featured prominently in that roundup is Rob Petrie, the......

  • 'Matlock: The Fifth Season'

    Several two-part stories helped make up this year of Andy Griffith 's long-running drama about an attorney who was to the law what "Columbo" was to police work. Ben Matlock uses his......

  • 'The Golden Age of Television'

    ...compiled in this Criterion Collection set. Rod Steiger stars as a butcher looking for love in "Marty"; Andy Griffith plays a boisterous military recruit in "No Time for Sergeants"; Jack Palance portrays a boxer bracing for......

  • 'New in Town'

    ...It's a formula as old as the hills, older than "Doc Hollywood," "The Coca-Cola Kid" or even "The Andy Griffith Show." Send a cynical Miami city slicker ( Renee Zellweger ) to take over a diary products plant in New......

  • 'Rosemary's Baby' Author Ira Levin Dies

    ...the Max Hyman book "No Time for Sergeants," which ran for more than 700 performances on Broadway and launched Andy Griffith 's career. It would later be turned into a film, also starring Griffith, and a short-lived television series......

  • 'Waitress'

    ...tiresome as his name is condescending. Shelly's other exemplars of Southern manhood include Old Joe (a spot-on Andy Griffith ), the diner's persnickety-but-lovable owner, and Cal (Lew Temple), his bossy-but-bearable chef......

  • 'Gunsmoke,' 'McCloud' Star Dennis Weaver Dies

    ...He was 81. Weaver's death came around the same time as two similarly prolific contemporaries, former " Andy Griffith " star Don Knotts and "Night Stalker" Darren McGavin. Weaver and McGavin appeared together onscreen once......