8 Seasons of The Andy Griffith Show on Netflix

[kennethsime]

Opened up Netflix after I got bored watching the news this morning and found a pleasant surprise: The Andy Griffith Show is on Netflix!

Now I'm not old enough to have seen it air originally, but I grew up watching the reruns and man it still makes my heart warm.

It's great to see some good old-fashioned comedy from a simpler time.

[Surfingringo]

Yes! I have all the episodes on another service and my girlfriend and I have been watching it daily! Such a classic!

[bearrowland]

I love it!! I could live in Mayberry and wake up happy every day

[sok]

Nip it in the bud.
https://youtu.be/de_P2aUZJyA

[Naperville]

There is an actual town that the show is based on. The actress that played Aunt Bee moved close to the town and lived there for some time.

https://www.metv.com/stories/frances-ba ... ffith-show

....but, she turned in to a recluse in later life.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

[Doc Dan]

This may be the best all around TV show ever made. I still love it.

[kennethsime]

There is an actual town that the show is based on. The actress that played Aunt Bee moved close to the town and lived there for some time.

https://www.metv.com/stories/frances-ba ... ffith-show

....but, she turned in to a recluse in later life.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

I've read that Mt. Airy, Andy Griffith's birthplace, served as the inspiration for Mayberry, but I'm sure a lot of small towns in the Appalachians could fill the role.

[kennethsime]

This may be the best all around TV show ever made. I still love it.

I won't argue with that Doc.

[Naperville]

I've read that Mt. Airy, Andy Griffith's birthplace, served as the inspiration for Mayberry, but I'm sure a lot of small towns in the Appalachians could fill the role.

I grew up in Illinois, attended college in Ames, IA, then worked in Silicon Valley, CA. I love the show and have watched it on and off since the 60's. Nothing about the show makes me feel like I could not fit in.

It's 2020. I often wonder what life would be like in the plains(S.Dakota) or North Carolina near where Andy grew up. I wonder if I would miss anything from where I am having spent 40 years of my life here. Probably Chicago style pizza, hahahaha!

[JD Spydo]

I truly grew up on the Andy Griffith Show. With Ronny Howard being the same age as myself I can really indentify with him in many ways. When I see how truly funny and humorous that show was and how relatively clean and wholesome as it was in that time period compared to the raw sewage that is on TV now a days it makes me long for the 60s and 70s.

You can't think of the 1960s without thinking of the Andy Griffith Show and the Beverly HIllbillies. What little TV I watch anymore I usually watch one of the re-run channels. Things have changed so much in my life time I often wonder what planet I'm really on sometimes :rolleyes:

[James Y]

I remember watching The Andy Griffith Show, as well as the spinoff, Gomer Pyle. This was when the shows were actually still in their original runs. I should watch them again; I was too young at the time to really “get” any of the humor, as was also true of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, and etc. The biggest impressions I still have are the opening and closing credits for the shows.

Jim

[Evil D]

Great show. It's a bit before my time too but I'm pretty sure I've seen them all at one time or another, I watched it quite a lot when I was a kid.

[MacLaren]

There is an actual town that the show is based on. The actress that played Aunt Bee moved close to the town and lived there for some time.

https://www.metv.com/stories/frances-ba ... ffith-show

....but, she turned in to a recluse in later life.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm ... story.html

I've read that Mt. Airy, Andy Griffith's birthplace, served as the inspiration for Mayberry, but I'm sure a lot of small towns in the Appalachians could fill the role.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner :D
Mt.Airy is in Surry County. 2 hours from my house.