Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few people have examined that moment in television history more closely than Sara K. Eskridge, author of Rube Tube: Rural Comedy ...

For those of us of a certain age, there are so many great memories in “The Andy Griffith Show”: The calm sheriff. His skittish deputy. His young son. The goofy filling station attendant and his ...

The show was first introduced through a 1960 episode of The Danny Thomas Show, where Danny Thomas is pulled over for speeding in Mayberry and gets a taste of the town’s unique charm. The success of ...