Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show /

When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a television pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Visé, Daniel (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]
Edition:	First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Andy Griffith show (Television program) Griffith, Andy, > 1926-2012. Knotts, Don, > 1924-2006. Actors > United States > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: the call
Don's demons
Laugh, lest ye cry
The bumpkins take Broadway
Nervous men
Andy takes a deputy
A Hollywood friendship
A slight thread of insanity
Men in a hurry
A date for Gomer
Andy and Barney, phfftt
The color years
The death of Andy Taylor
Second chances, second wives
The gentleman lawyer
Death in Mayberry.