"I see so many TV shows about the South where the creative powers behind it have no life experience in the South," Fincannon said. That was all a credit to Griffith, said Craig Fincannon, who met Griffith in 1974. Villains came through town and moved on, usually changed by their stay in Mayberry. "The Andy Griffith Show" was a loving portrait of the town where few grew up but many wished they did - a place where all foibles are forgiven and friendships are forever.
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A reunion movie, "Return to Mayberry," was the top-rated TV movie of the 1985-86 season. In a 2007 interview with The Associated Press, Griffith said "The Andy Griffith Show," which initially aired from 1960 to 1968, was seen somewhere in the world every day.
The character - law-abiding, fatherly and lovable - was much like Sheriff Andy Taylor with silver hair and a shingle. In his rumpled seersucker suit in a steamy courtroom (air conditioning would have spoiled the mood), Matlock could toy with a witness and tease out a confession like a folksy Perry Mason. On "Matlock," which aired from 1986 through 1995, Griffith played a cagey Harvard-educated defense attorney who was Southern-bred and -mannered with a practice in Atlanta. Knotts was the goofy Deputy Barney Fife, while Jim Nabors joined the show as Gomer Pyle, the unworldly, lovable gas pumper. He was a widowed father who offered gentle guidance to son Opie, played by Ron Howard, who grew up to become the Oscar-winning director of "A Beautiful Mind." Griffith set the show in the fictional town of Mayberry, N.C., where Sheriff Taylor was the dutiful nephew who ate pickles that tasted like kerosene because they were made by his loving Aunt Bee, played by the late Frances Bavier. 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 different from Griffith's own hometown of Mount Airy, N.C. He had suffered a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2000. The family will release further information, Doughtie said. at his coastal home in Manteo, Dare County Sheriff Doug Doughtie said in a statement. Andy Griffith, who made homespun Southern wisdom his trademark as the wise sheriff in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the rumpled defense lawyer in "Matlock," died Tuesday.
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