Andy had such a hard time keeping a straight face during the shoot that the director captured much of his reaction in separate takes. Andy feeds the words to Barney, and Barney barks them back, one by one, creating the illusion that he has remembered them, twisting his face and mussing his hair in mnemonic agony. Then he begins… and he cannot remember a single syllable.
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It found its way into the season-one episode “Ellie Comes to Town.” Barney challenges Andy to test his remarkable powers of recall, proposing to recite the lawman’s code from memory. This was the first skit performed by Andy and Don on the Griffith Show, scribbled by Don on a scrap of paper at a script session. Here, in homage to the historic partnership, are five classic Andy-Barney skits from The Andy Griffith Show:ġ.
When Andy and Don reported to work on the Griffith Show, the two actors set about writing their own skits, little two- and three-minute scenes that producers would insert into the weekly teleplay to pad it out. In the forthcoming book Andy and Don, I make a case for Andy Griffith and Don Knotts as a comedy pairing for the ages, a duo whose work deserves consideration among the greats: Laurel and Hardy, Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello. Comparatively little, I think, has been said of the artistic partnership at the center of the show. In the half-century since, much has been written about the undying legacy of the Griffith Show and the enduring appeal of Mayberry. The program debuted 55 years ago this October. “And it was there with us.”Ī few years later, Andy and Don reunited on The Andy Griffith Show, Andy as the sheriff of the fictional Mayberry, Don as his deputy. “It’s there or it’s not there,” Andy would say decades later. Andy’s Stockdale upends the test and sends Don’s corporal into paroxysms of outrage.
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The skit pits him against Don, cast as an “officious little Corporal” who attempts to test the conscript’s manual dexterity. Andy plays a guileless, irrepressible private named Will Stockdale. But the new friends shared a fateful scene.
***** Five Timeless Andy-Barney Skits from The Andy Griffith ShowĪndy Griffith met Don Knotts in 1955 on the set of No Time for Sergeants, the hit Broadway play. So, without any further adieu - here’s author Daniel de Vise and his Exclusive Guest Post for CMH… In celebration of this wonderful Classic TV Anniversary, CMH is happy to welcome a very special Guest Blogger today - Daniel de Visé - Don Knott’s brother-in-law and author of the new book, Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show, which will be in stores on November 3rd. CMH is also very happy to say that, courtesy of Simon and Schuster, we will be giving away 6 COPIES of Andy and Don next month - so please stay tuned for more details! 55 years ago today, on October 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show
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