ABC was so eager to have ‘Salvage 1’ go away that four episodes remained unaired for more than a decade.

Premiering in 1960 and running for eight seasons, the series introduced viewers to the quiet charm of Mayberry, a fictional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But Griffith was never content to live only in Mayberry’s shadow. In the years that followed, he searched for the right vehicle to ...

Why Andy Griffith ‘Didn’t Like the Idea’ for ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ originally appeared on Parade. As unlikely as it seems, Andy Griffith almost didn’t star on The Andy Griffith Show. In a ...

Griffith, who would have turned 100 on June 1, eventually found success again with ‘Matlock’ ...

The late television legend was born on June 1, 1926.

An iconic television show synonymous with North Carolina’s cultural fabric continues to resonate with its citizens decades later. Now, a new layer of recognition for The Andy Griffith Show is on the ...

Andy Griffith may have been best known for his role as the always affable lawman Sheriff Andy Taylor in the long-running series “The Andy Griffith Show,” but the late actor’s body of work stretched ...

Griffith’s career spanned more than a half-century on stage, film and television, but he would always be best known as Sheriff Andy Taylor in the television show set in a North Carolina town not too ...