That unmistakable whistled melody from The Andy Griffith Show remains ingrained in the memories of television viewers decades after the program’s original run. The cheerful tune evokes images of small ...

Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will ...

Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, Ron Howard as Opie Taylor and Don Knotts as Deputy Barney Fife in 'The Andy Griffith Show', circa 1963.

3. There are lyrics to the theme song Although the show is known for its wordless whistling, The Andy Griffith Show theme actually has lyrics-and Andy Griffith himself recorded a vocal version.

Even Ron Howard, then just five years old, understood that the show’s focus had shifted away from him, but in “Opie the Birdman,” the spotlight returned, fully and poignantly, to the bond ...