Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show

Synopsis

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. 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. Daniel De Visé. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 277-289), Selective Filmography (page 275) And Index.