Title:
Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
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Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Physical Description:
xiii, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781476747736
Abstract:
"When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV 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 of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket.
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.
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Language:
English
