re: Mayberry event at Ridgecrest Baptist Retreat

2011-04-22 Thread John Foster
My wife tells me about many happy memories of times at the Ridgecrest Baptist Retreat when she was young'n. Great to see Mayberry there!! John -- Subject: Mayberry event at Ridgecrest Baptist Retreat A great prelude to Mayberry Days in September is Life's Lessons

re: Physical Disabilities

2011-02-09 Thread John Foster
One character I remember is the man who owned the big house they tried to use for the summit conference when Barney worked in Raleigh. Can't remember the character's name but Barney use to play games in his front yard and he thought he'd remember him as the 'scamp'. Anyway, that man was

Jean Carson on Wagon Train

2011-01-20 Thread John Foster
The other night I was watching Wagon Train (yeah, Wagon Train!) on the Encore Westerns channel and who should be on there, but our Daphne, Jean Carson! Uncle Ollie was on the same episode, as a 'bad guy'. You just never know where the TAGS alums are going to show up next. John F

mp3 version of TAGS

2010-12-21 Thread John Foster
Greeting fellows TAGS people! I have a question - does anyone know of a source of audio versions of episodes of TAGS? I know a lot of us have seen the shows so many times that we don't need to see the video portion to get a lot out of the shows. I have a couple cassette versions of the

re: Tagging the governor's car

2010-12-01 Thread John Foster
I'm glad I'm not the only one to use the line, Sure, Mike Sure. That is my standard line when someone tries to convince me of something! 99 times out of a 100, they have no clue what I am talking about. I'm glad you folks do!! And on your questions, it would have been good to make the

Re: TAGS spinoffs and a Hooterville crossover

2010-12-01 Thread John Foster
The only thing about the Mayberry/Hooterville crossover is, those 2 shows took totally different approaches. Green Acres was kind of the anti-Andy Griffith Show. Andy and other cast members always make the point that TAGS wasn't about jokes, it was about developing characters and the love

Andy and Don on Today Show

2010-04-20 Thread John Foster
I came across this video and thought our group would enjoy it. Matt Lauer did an interview with Andy and Don back in 1996, on the Today Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahbyf9cbEU John F ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com

re: Stoner

2010-04-20 Thread John Foster
... either that or the pitcher wasn't using the right fishing pole! John Foster Message: 2 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:18:45 -0500 From: Ronnie Morrison ronpat2...@msn.com To: AndyGriffith Show wbmutbb@wbmutbb.com Subject: Stoner Last night I had a TAGs moment while watching the N.Y. Mets-St

Musicians on Mayberry on Record

2010-02-18 Thread John Foster
...) and they looked like a bluegrass band of the time. Anyone know who they were? This was before the Darlings came along - probably the first bluegrass on the Andy Griffith Show. Thanks! John Foster ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http

re: Severe Weather in Mayberry

2010-02-09 Thread John Foster
I have a couple more weather related episodes. 1. When Barney was suspicious of the guy hurrying in and out of town (thought he was hiding someone with a bullet in him) and it turned out his wife was having a baby and he had to work the fields at night because of all the rain. 2. When the

RE: Vices

2008-12-18 Thread John Foster
Andy ordered a beer when he went out to dinner with Peggy at the fancy restaurant. Subject: RE: Vices To: wbmutbb@wbmutbb.com Message-ID: 1a8de62439f31348a968cbb3984623c9084a8...@price.mc.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ...Does anyone else remember another time that Andy

re: Mr. Scwhamp wearing a hat -- revealed!

2008-08-12 Thread John Foster
There is another episode where Mr. Scwhamp is wearing a hat. In the episode where they put up a statue in honor of Andy and Aunt Bee's relative (The Statue - 1967), when they are addressing the big crowd, Mr. Scwhamp is BOTH in the crowd and up near the stage in the same scene!! So its a

re: Emmett Replacing Floyd

2008-06-27 Thread John Foster
The only thing I would disagree on, would be they did have more than one gas station attendant - Gomer and Goober. The same thing could have happened to Goober that happened to Warren, but I guess Goober was a strong enough character that he made the cut. Although I've got to say, Goober was

Mayberry on Record

2008-04-02 Thread John Foster
I was watching the episode, Mayberry on Record last night and at the end of the show, the record promoter brings in the album they have made called Music From Mayberry. Does anyone know if that that record album cover was kept and if it exists in someone's Mayberry collection? Just curious.

chain-link fence at Goobers Garage

2008-03-07 Thread John Foster
I was watching the episode, Helen's Past the other night, and I noticed that when the head of the school board comes out to Goober's garage, there is a chain link fence, with an open gate in the background behind the garage. Any idea what that was back there? John

Emmet Clark's first episode

2008-03-04 Thread John Foster
I was watching Howard, the Bowler the other night and wondered if that was the episode we were introduced to Emmett Clark. Was that his first episode? Also, was the fix-it shop in the same location as Floyd's Barbershop? Were Floyd and Emmett ever in the same episode, or did Emmet, in

Funny Floyd

2007-12-12 Thread John Foster
I've been watching the color episodes on TVLand the last couple weeks and you always observe something new when you are watching the show for the 10,000th time! Anyway, it struck me how for a relatively short period of time, Floyd fills the spot of Barney as the one person that can make Andy

Giants training camp

2007-07-09 Thread John Foster
Dave, For the first time, I live close enough (live in Lebanon, NH now) to actually be able to attend Giants training camp in Albany! Do you have any suggestions for good times to go, recommendations from attending camp for so many years? Any thoughts you can send along would be greatly

Andy in Mayberry RFD

2006-12-20 Thread John Foster
I have been getting into watching the Mayberry RFD episodes lately. I know they are not the same quality and don't have the same chemistry as the bw TAGS, but it is the closest thing I can do to getting a fresh look at Mayberry! It is so nice to watch an episode that I don't know for sure how

Goodbye Barn

2006-02-26 Thread John Foster
Of all the episode lines, this is what I thought of when I heard of Don Knotts Passing Andy: hmmm...Kinda gets to you a little bit don't it? Barney: Well yeah...Ya know, seeing all those people you knew as kids and growin older.Kinda makes you sad. Andy: Yeah, I know. Do the tears on your