Denver wasn’t the only Gilligan’s Island star who appeared on The Andy Griffith Show — the Skipper, too! Hale played Jeff Pruitt, a farmer who sets his sights on Barney’s love interest Thelma Lou ( ...

From the jug-band stylings of the Grammy-nominated Dillards as the Darling family, to the melodious outbursts of town mechanic Gomer Pyle ( Jim Nabors ), here are some of The Andy Griffith Show ‘s ...

While The Andy Griffith Show has been off-air since 1968, the sitcom is now streaming for absolutely free, and it’s only on Pluto TV. The ’60s series, starring, of course, the late Andy Griffith, is ...

Griffith had his first career breakthrough several years prior, in 1953, when he recorded a comic monologue called “What It Was, Was Football,” where he played a wide-eyed country preacher ...

'Andy Kaufman Is Me,' which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival today, has heavyweight producers in David Letterman and Dwayne Johnson.

When The Andy Griffith Show premiered in 1960, no one could have predicted just how deeply it would embed itself in the American psyche—or how far its stars would travel beyond the sleepy little ...

Daily Dirt for Thursday, May 22, 2025 You’ll spot more than one or two stars of the future who had minor roles alongside Andy and Barney … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 1,291 of ...

By the time a show called The Andy Griffith Show came floating through the air waves in 1960, TV reception had improved and because of that show, TV became our favorite form of entertainment.