Maybe the best of all time. Andy Griffith (Andy Taylor) as the omniscient father/sheriff/good ol' guy. Don Knotts was brilliant as Barney Fife, the deputy. A cast of characters that came and went but always with a simple, quiet message. When Andy Griffith left he show, I remember Ken Berry taking over and it evolved into Mayberry RFD. The show plots were very similar but Berry didn't have the likeability that ol' Andy had. The very first spin-off was "Gomer Pyle USMC" starring Jim Nabors.

The show could never be produced today so given to societal stereotypes was it: no black people, the hillbillies and their jug-band music and every now and then an episode graced (and made very funny) by Otis Campbell, the town drunk who would let himself into the jail cell to "sleep one off. " Howard Sprague (what was he, the pharmacist?), Aint (Aunt) Bee, Floyd the barber, Goober. Great characters. Still worth a watch.