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RIP Matlock Star Andy Griffith 86

Was it WRAL-TV (CBS) channel 5 of Raleigh that still ran his show in the afternoon, near the time of their newscasts? I know he was from that state.
 
The Andy Griffith Show was a classic! It was a feel good show, unlike the shows of today. As more of the great actors and actresses who were popular in the 50's, 60's and 70's shows age and sadly pass on, a great generation of TV will be lost forever. :-[
 
WFMY runs Andy Griffith at 5:30pm every weekday between their 5pm and 6pm newscasts and shows it also 10am and 10:30am. WDBJ also shows Andy at 5:30pm and WRAL also showed Andy at 5:30pm but airs news at that time today.
 
When I was in Eden, NC, for a friend's wedding back in 2007, I turned on the TV in my hotel room late that Friday afternoon to see what the local [mostly Greensboro] news was like -- and discovered that both WFMY and WDBJ were airing episodes of The Andy Griffith Show at 5:30pm on a weekday. Being from the Boston DMA, this was understandably a bit shocking to me. :)
 
recto101 said:
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Best actor from the 1960's to 1990's. He had two great TV shows the Andy Griffith show and Matlock. He is best known for giving Director Ron Howard for his first stint in acting.
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Not criticizing Andy in any way (a great talent), but it would be more accurate to say he was the star of Ron Howard's first regular series. But Ron had quite a few acting credits as a small child years before The Andy Griffith Show.
 
WRAL does run Andy Saturdays at 5:30 AM and 7:30 PM, and
any other spare timeslot on Saturday and Sunday afternoon when
CBS isn't programming. But WFMY and WDBJ run him between
their 5 and 6 PM newscasts and beat the competition (WFMY also
runs him at 10 and 10:30 AM).

WFMY is already in the middle of an Andy marathon as I'm writing
this, pre-empting Ellen.
 
recto101 said:
Best actor from the 1960's to 1990's. He had two great TV shows the Andy Griffith show and Matlock.
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Best actor? Not even close. He had a wide range as an actor but his TV credits were pretty narrow and some would say boring as hell. To this day I cannot stand to watch The AG Show as it moves like a snail and the topics are typically very rural, small-townish. Matlock was better but still formulaic and Perry Mason-ish.

His comedy was great though. I thoroughly enjoyed No Time for Sergeants and What It Was, Football? And he had a great off-camera personality. Very likeable guy although behind the scenes he was reportedly very different.
 
I don't recall the "New Andy Griffith Show," or "The Headmaster," two shows he did after leaving his show. Anyone else?
 
As I mentioned in another thread, WCTV in Tallahassee has aired "The Andy Griffith Show" weekdays at 9 am for several years, and usually wins that timeslot. A few weekend airings are included. The station manager who instituted this (acquiring the show on a cash basis, so they sell all the available time) hailed from North Carolina, by the way.
 
TVLAND is showing an Andy Griffith marathon today 8AM-1PM along with 11AM-7PM Saturday and Sunday.

ME-TV is showing episodes of shows on their line-up that featured Andy as a guest star 12PM-3PM today.

WGN-America is showing a Matlock marathon today 9AM-5PM.

Hallmark Movie Channel is showing a Matlock marathon today.

ME-Too (ME-TV's Chicago-only sister network) is running an Andy Griffith marathon.

Turner Classic Movies will be airing a few movies featuring Andy in a couple weeks. July 18th?
 
There were only about six episodes each of "Headmaster" and the "New Andy Griffith Show".

Headmaster showed some real promise. It showed a serious side of Griffith's acting abilities, especially his interaction with teenagers...something we saw very little of in TAGS. My opinion is that CBS was looking to score a quick win with a new Andy Griffith vehicle, and Headmaster would have taken too long to develop the necessary characters, only to have them "age out" of the show after only 2 or 3 years.

New Andy Griffith Show was a bad experience from the start. CBS promoted "...the return of Don Knotts..." on this show, when Knotts only made a cameo appearance in the opening episode and never was seen again. Biggest problem in this show was that Andy was the only character...no one else was allowed to develop and therefore none of the ensemble acting that made TAGS successful.

Andy should have stayed in Mayberry. If he had done so, that show likely would have survived CBS's "Rural Purge" that was the death knell to TAGS successor "Mayberry RFD."

Later . . . .
 
RIP Any Griffith, A very fine and wonderful straight man to all the cast over the years. You were a great actor, spiritural inspiration, teacher, long distance friend, to many generations of youthful and older fans Andy. I will remember you always as a very funny and loveable human being that brought great immeasurable laughter then and now to millions of television viewers! Thank You Mr. Griffith! Say Hey to Danny Thomas, you know why Andy, Barney, Floyd, Aunt Bea, Clara, Goober, Helen, and all the rest, for all of us still here.

We love you Andy Griffith! Rest well our friend! A sad week here, a joyful summer day with the man above! Smiles and smiles to you, and to your family and friends!

Everyday we wake and enjoy the sunshine of life with family and friends is a gift from above, use yours well, and most importantly wisely!
 
landtuna said:
recto101 said:
Best actor from the 1960's to 1990's. He had two great TV shows the Andy Griffith show and Matlock.
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Best actor? Not even close. He had a wide range as an actor but his TV credits were pretty narrow and some would say boring as hell. To this day I cannot stand to watch The AG Show as it moves like a snail and the topics are typically very rural, small-townish. Matlock was better but still formulaic and Perry Mason-ish.

His comedy was great though. I thoroughly enjoyed No Time for Sergeants and What It Was, Football? And he had a great off-camera personality. Very likeable guy although behind the scenes he was reportedly very different.
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Well At least Andy Griffith was better to watch on Classic TV channels rather than the reality stars we see today on TV today.
 
Matt Smith said:
Andy should have stayed in Mayberry. If he had done so, that show likely would have survived CBS's "Rural Purge" that was the death knell to TAGS successor "Mayberry RFD."
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Griffith wanted to move on to other projects which is the reason he decided to call it quits. Besides eight years is a long time for a series any ways. Also consider that without Don Knotts, the Andy Griffith Show was never the same. Jack Burns, Jack Dodson and a host of other replacements were never as good as the original cast

As for staying on and surviving the CBS purge of rural shows, perhaps his show might have survived. However there were other high-rated shows that were expunged during the "Rural Purge" and it is very likely that Griffith's show might have been one of them. IMHO "The Andy Griffith Show" despite its popularity in today's reruns, wasn't the same show in 1968 as it was in 1960-61.
 
The Voice of Reason said:
Matt Smith said:
Andy should have stayed in Mayberry. If he had done so, that show likely would have survived CBS's "Rural Purge" that was the death knell to TAGS successor "Mayberry RFD."
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Griffith wanted to move on to other projects which is the reason he decided to call it quits. Besides eight years is a long time for a series any ways. Also consider that without Don Knotts, the Andy Griffith Show was never the same. Jack Burns, Jack Dodson and a host of other replacements were never as good as the original cast

As for staying on and surviving the CBS purge of rural shows, perhaps his show might have survived. However there were other high-rated shows that were expunged during the "Rural Purge" and it is very likely that Griffith's show might have been one of them. IMHO "The Andy Griffith Show" despite its popularity in today's reruns, wasn't the same show in 1968 as it was in 1960-61.
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a lot of those "rural" shows cancelled in the early 70s had fallen in the ratings or were aging (or both)
 
Not all the shows canceled in CBS's "rural purge" could be classified
as "rural" in appeal, but rather to audiences over 50; cases in point,
Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan, both popular in larger urban markets
but with the "wrong" demographics. I've read that Ted Mack asked
CBS to take "Amateur Hour" off; he obviously saw the writing on the
wall, given that his show appealed to the same audience as Gleason
and Sullivan (after all, Geritol was his sponsor).

Back to Andy, and on a different note: the coroner's report was finally
released yesterday; it seems that Andy suffered a massive heart attack
about 24 hours before he was pronounced dead at 7 AM Tuesday. The
cause of the heart attack was related at least partially to high cholesterol.
Andy was buried five hours after his death, which makes me think that
either he or his family did not want a funeral. Can you imagine how packed
a church would be for a public funeral?
 
The Voice of Reason said:
Matt Smith said:
Andy should have stayed in Mayberry. If he had done so, that show likely would have survived CBS's "Rural Purge" that was the death knell to TAGS successor "Mayberry RFD."
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Griffith wanted to move on to other projects which is the reason he decided to call it quits. Besides eight years is a long time for a series any ways. Also consider that without Don Knotts, the Andy Griffith Show was never the same. Jack Burns, Jack Dodson and a host of other replacements were never as good as the original cast

As for staying on and surviving the CBS purge of rural shows, perhaps his show might have survived. However there were other high-rated shows that were expunged during the "Rural Purge" and it is very likely that Griffith's show might have been one of them. IMHO "The Andy Griffith Show" despite its popularity in today's reruns, wasn't the same show in 1968 as it was in 1960-61.
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'Mayberry RFD' was declining, but still hanging on in the top 20, when CBS cancelled it. They might have been able to squeeze at least a couple more seasons out of it, especially if they'd left it on Mondays with 'Gunsmoke' as its lead-in.
Perhaps the loss of a half-hour of prime-time due to the access rule in 1971 had more to do with 'RFD's cancellation than the 'rural purge' did?The curious thing about CBS dropping all those 'hicks and older folks' shows in '70 and '71, was that they didn't kill 'My Three Sons' at that point.
Instead, 'Mayberry RFD' got the axe, and CBS made an unusual move of scheduling two sitcoms back-to-back at 10 ET..'My Three Sons' and 'Arnie'...apparently just so they could finally kill the Douglas family for good. But why go to the trouble of picking it up at all? If 'Mayberry' could die maybe a year too soon, why not 'Sons'?
'My Three Sons' preceded the first season of 'Mary Tyler Moore' on Saturdays at 9 ET in '70-71, and actually outrated MTM that year.
For 1971, CBS plugged 'The New Dick Van Dyke Show' into that slot. thinking his lead-in would help Mary. Instead, Mary had much better ratings in year two, ranking ahead of DVD, and CBS eventually moved and revamped his show, which only lasted 3 years.
Presumably 'My Three Sons' might have at least held on in top 30 if it had stayed on Saturdays for season 12. Otherwise, keeping it on just to move it to a 'death timeslot' didn't make much sense.
 
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