The Andy Griffith Show

2020-10-23 Thread Victor Friskey
Happy belated 60th anniversary THE STREETS OF MAYBERRY if I could have one wish granted just to meI'd like just one more time to live the days of MayberryI can't express the joy I would possess each minute of the dayIf somehow I'd awake in that quaint town that seems so far away I'd like to

Mayberrian sighting...

2019-11-16 Thread Victor Friskey
I saw Ross Elliot on an episode of " Jeff's Collie" last night. "Jeff's Collie" was a syndicated version of the original "Lassie" series with George Cleveland, as Gramps, Jan Clayton as Jeff's mom and Tommy Rettig as Jeff Miller owner of Lassie.Ross Elliott played the part of a crop dusting

birthdays

2015-09-07 Thread Victor Friskey
so the old Mayberry Guru is 69 years oldwhat's it like being that age...I can't remember back that far...when you get to be my age you find it takes two hours to undress and three hours to remember why, I'm at that age where my kids and my clothes are the same age, when you reach my level

Bible names in Mayberry

2014-11-23 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't know if anyone came up with all the names...I know a couple were mentioned here's what I have...John, Andrew, Gomer, Ben, Sharon, Cyrus, Sarah, Jesse, Myra, Dan, Samuel(Sam), Mary, Hannah, Martha, Phebe(Phoebe) Jubal, Luke, Paul, Nod, and Lydia... feel free to correct any of

Barney' Chants

2014-11-21 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't get on here very often and I don't claim to be a top notch Trained Noticer.But what I discovered yesterday may be the mother lode of Notices.I was watching my DVD episode of The Jinx...where Barney claims Henry Bennettwill ruin the fishing contest if he goes with Andy and Barney. In

smoking and guns

2014-10-20 Thread Victor Friskey
On the subject of Andy smoking I never could figure why he carried cigarettes loosein his shirt pocket and not in a pack...He never took more than two or three puffs off one and was careless with his smoking. Once he smoked in bed...and another time  he crushed a cigarette out on his

misuse of guns

2014-07-07 Thread Victor Friskey
Since no one was interested in my trivia question on the misuse of guns in Mayberry accept for Paul Mulik  who offered four suggestions I'll go ahead an mention what I have. 1. barney misfiring his pistol at least 8 times 2. Andy throwing the shotgun onto the sofa he received from the convict 3.

Guns in mayberry

2014-07-04 Thread Victor Friskey
With all the talk about gun control I got to thinking about the guns in Mayberry. But  what got my attention was how guns were mishandled by so many.. I can think of maybe six times a gun was abused or misused, not counting the 8 times barney misfired his gun... Once into a tire on the squad car

Mayberry sightings

2014-06-07 Thread Victor Friskey
It's amazing how many Mayberry citizens we can see away from our little town in a 24 hour period.. I saw Sam Muggins(Sam Edwards) and Mary Grace (Canfield) in an Adam-12 episode together. Roy Roberts(newspaper Publisher) and Robt. Emhardt(Mr. Tucker) were in an Elvis movie, Kid Galahad  along

Matlock

2014-06-04 Thread Victor Friskey
Ten things I've learned from watching Matlock every day. 1. An investigator can get hired on any job regardless of experience 2. You can break into any house or building with a credit card 3. When two people get into an argument one of them will die 4. It takes several attempts to start a car,

Mayberry trivia

2014-05-19 Thread Victor Friskey
I enjoy the trivia questions on the digest whether I can answer them or not. I'd like to suggest another approach that might not tax everyone's brain so much since a few people might not have a bucket to think under...Rather than a multi- answer trivia question per se...why not try this...You

TV Theme songs

2014-05-09 Thread Victor Friskey
When you talk to me about tv theme songs you are preaching to the choir...I wrote the book The Good Time Rock and Roll Trivia book  in 2009...It might still be available on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. In it I list two page of TV Theme songs.. The first tv theme songs to reach #1 on

reading and writing

2014-05-05 Thread Victor Friskey
How can someone write but not read ? Gloria Bruce That is an interesting question. But what surprised me most was the words he wrote for someone who can't read. That said, I once worked with a guy who had to write down certain things that he did on the job, but he could not read a newspaper or

Mayberry facts and sightings

2014-03-21 Thread Victor Friskey
I've been a member of this group for about 10 years and I don't know if these facts were ever mentioned. I do't think they are in any tags books either.. Remember when Barney tried to get Andy lined up with Lydia Crosswaithe and she said she hated the guitar.  In real life she was an

Ron Howard

2014-03-11 Thread Victor Friskey
In response to P.D. King's post about Ron Howard. I would agree he was a fine child actor. I think you mentioned something about Shirley Temple. ..The two of them  can't be fairly compared. Shirley was a big screen movie star, Ron was a small screen star. Shirley was popular in a time when the

Dennis Weaver

2014-02-27 Thread Victor Friskey
According to Prime Time Network TV Series Book published in 1990Dennis Weaver played the part of Deputy Chester Goode on Gunsmoke...here's a quote from the book Matt Dillon's loyal, well-meaning deputy was Chester Goode, who walked with a limp, talked with a twang, and brewed a mean pot of

actors and actresses who used real name

2014-02-22 Thread Victor Friskey
Well shut my mouth and call me ugly!! I posted that it was Tom Ewell who played the part of Tom Silby.. But it was Stu Irwin who played the part. Vic friskey ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/

actors/actresses who used their own name

2014-02-22 Thread Victor Friskey
Mary (Mary Grace Canfield), Ellie(Elinor Donohue), and Jerry (Jerry Van Dyke) have all been mentioned as usung their real first name on TAGS...but did anyone mention Tom Silby (Tom Ewell)...the guy who's wife gave him a funeral after he ran away from her. Vic Friskey

greatest promotion

2014-01-12 Thread Victor Friskey
I think the greatest promotion might have been either Goober going from a grease monkey to owning Wally's gas station or possibly Sam being a farmer to being elected to the city council. Of course I'm always leary of these types of questions being a sort of trickery... vic friskey

Mayberry Triple Treat...

2014-01-07 Thread Victor Friskey
I got a triple treat of mayberrians outside of mayberry today...this morning (Monday) I watched  a very young and gorgeous Anita Corsaut Helen Crump) in The Blob which was Steve McQueen's first starring role. Then Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou) showed up on Matlock and finally Susan Oliver(Prisoner of

seven things you don't know about me

2013-11-19 Thread Victor Friskey
When I was a baby my mother would put me down for a nap and cover my face with a pillow. she said I'd sleep better in the dark. My father always liked the kid next door more than me. So one year i bought him a T-shirt for Father's day that read, #1 Dad...at the bottom in small print it read, In

different script gags

2013-11-12 Thread Victor Friskey
I love that direct tv commercial with the runaway sidecarKen Anderson Ken i think your on to something hereHow could some other scenes be changed to be hilarious... that would have been a riot if that sidecar had come lose going down the hill at check point chickie.. .maybe run off the

Matlock vs. TAGS

2013-11-03 Thread Victor Friskey
I guess I've seen every Matlock episode more than once. some three or four times. But it's obvious the writers for that show couldn't hold a candle to the TAGS writers. Almost every  has the same plot...Two people get into an argument, one of tem is found dead, the other is found with the

Barney's sidecar

2013-09-17 Thread Victor Friskey
Here's a bit of trivia and history too for those not subscribed to the eBullet... Barney's motorcycle is featured in this issue... I learned that it could not have been in WW1 with Al, Burt Stevens and the Milo boys because it is a mint green 1927 JD Harley Davidson motorcycle. The Motorcycle

TAGS, Bible references

2013-09-10 Thread Victor Friskey
If one was to dig deep enough I bet there are Biblical foundations for most of them.Patty Haley Yes, Patty you are right. I am a retired Pastor turned Stand up comedian..Several times I applied mayberry people or happenings to my messages from the Pulpit...The one I Preached the most  Our

The TAGS writers

2013-08-31 Thread Victor Friskey
Eric this issue has been discussed at length at various times on the Digest and it is an interesting thing to ponder...Janet Anderson We all agree i think that things did change from the BW episodes to the color and we all have our thoughts as to why. I agree with janet in that most of the BW

old folks home

2013-08-13 Thread Victor Friskey
With all the comedians here I bet there are a lot of waxy steps at the local old folks home...David Oberly Funny you should make that comment David...I'm a stand-up comic myself and I'll be doing a show at a local retirement Housing project this coming Friday and Saturday...The good news is the

gas, guys and gossip

2013-08-08 Thread Victor Friskey
..There is one lowly gas station to serve all the residentsKen Anderson Ken, Didn't Joe Larson have a gas station that Ed Sawyer wanted to buy...and wasn't there talk about a gas station being built somewhere else in town, (not sure about that one)...but like you Ken,  the closest town

Skeet shooting

2013-08-04 Thread Victor Friskey
I watched the episode where Thelma Lou's cousin gets involved in a skeet shooting contest...actually, I watched it yesterday and  again today..But anyway, when she an Andy are out at Finnegan's Flats and he begins to shoot crows..He asks Karen if she likes  shooting and she says she does.Then he

Mayberrians in today's world

2013-07-19 Thread Victor Friskey
there's a lot going on in our old world today compared to the more gentler times of TAGS..what with all the political  fighting, uprisings, and so on I'm wondering how some of our Mayberry residents would handle some of these controversial  situations today.For EX: Howard Sprague had a hobby

Rusty Stevens

2013-07-03 Thread Victor Friskey
I took a quick look at the video for One Punch Opie ..Keith Miles Keith, sorry either you are mistaken or the list in Rusty Stevens filmography is wrong b/c it is listed there that he was in the episode of One Punch Opie... I don't know anything about the sizes of these boys or ages or

Rusty Stevens

2013-07-01 Thread Victor Friskey
While reading the post concerning Madge BlakeDan Quinn Yes Dan that is Rusty Stevens (Larry Mondello, Leave it To beaver) in One Punch Opie'. According to two sources...he left acting when his father took a job in Philadelphia and he moved from California...in another report, this by

oscars

2013-06-19 Thread Victor Friskey
Dan Goodwin. I can only think of three Oscar winnersJack Nicolson won for Best Actor and Supporting actor, Jack Albertson won for best supporting actor and George Kennedy won for best supporting actorof course there were several in Best Picture award movies...and Ron Howard won

Thin no more and repaint

2013-04-29 Thread Victor Friskey
As a stand up comic who gets paid good money to entertain by telling jokes, and a member of the Christian Comedy Association, as with most comics it pains me when someone tells a jjoke that is not one they conceived, and fails to give credit as to who they may have heard it from, or where they

most dispicable character

2013-04-22 Thread Victor Friskey
Has anyone mentioned Mr. Fields...Ms. Mendelbright short lived beau...Here is a stranger who wonders into town bent on taking advantage of an elderly woman...So much so that he cons her into kicking Barney out of his room and convincing her he will marry her if she will go half on

Peggy and Andy

2013-02-25 Thread Victor Friskey
I'm not sure Peggy and Andy would have made a good match..Ken Anderson I guess we can agree to disagreeI don't agree with the can't make a Hanky out of a sow's nose or Milk and vinegar don't mix examplesMy oldest sister who came from a farm where although we were not poor we didn't

mixing oil and grease

2013-02-25 Thread Victor Friskey
oh by the wayI married a burger flipper who worked at McDonalds..We got married when I was working for a earth moving  equipment manufacturer.. we were married 34 years before she passed awayI guess engine oil and burger grease mixes pretty well too. vic friskey

Valentines day couples

2013-02-22 Thread Victor Friskey
I must confess I did not vote for any of the couples listed in Ken's ballot list...and was surprised that Andy and Peggy weren't listed...I think when all is considered Peggy would have been as good or better match for Andy than Helen...Let's take a look at that thing... 1. Both Andy and Helen

green acres and Reality shows

2013-02-05 Thread Victor Friskey
I saw Otis on Green Acres last week as a farmer wanting to sell his farm. This week he had a cow that was getting into Oliver Wendell Douglas' corn field. His cow resembled the Douglas cow, Elenor. I wonder if she  a double role for an extra bale of hay.  Alvey Moore(Hank Kimble, County Agent)

TAGS music and Reality shows

2013-02-01 Thread Victor Friskey
I realize there were numerous songs recorded...Dewey lamb There could be several reasons for the lack of words...first whatever Opie and his band played weren't even identifiable so the music  was probably written by Earle hagen. Secondly, there were severe copyright laws back in the 60's

Five mayberry sightings

2013-01-18 Thread Victor Friskey
Love those old shows on MEtv and ANTENNAtvMayberrians are all over the place. I saw Sue Ane Langdon (county Nurse, Mary ) as a date for Wally Cleaver, On Leave It To Beaver, I had to really study her because she  was so young but that little turned up nose gave her away. Also saw Edgar

Christmas episodes...

2013-01-05 Thread Victor Friskey
I am not able to get on here too often so knowing the conversation concerning the Christmas episodes  looks to be over I'd like to add some thoughts. It appears most agree that the producers or whoever didn't do Christmas episodes b/c they didn't want them re-run in the summer...So let's take a

christmas episodes

2012-12-31 Thread Victor Friskey
I like to add my thoughts to the discussion of why there weren't more Christmas themed episode  in programming, I don't know what my opinion will be worth. Probably no more than two-cents. But here goes.first I think the budgets dictated what could and couldn't be done. In most of the 

Gals in Mayberry

2012-12-21 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't know if this subject has ever been discussed ...but have you ever wondered what some of these unseen gals of Mayberry might have looked likeSarah, Phoebe Gilbert, Juanita at the diner, and who was that gal Doug Wash was accused of flirting with, then there was The Beast of the 4th

Phonetic Alphabet

2012-12-17 Thread Victor Friskey
Suggestions for the missing letters in the alphabet I- Irene...she couldn't go on a date with Goober b/c she was having her appendix removed. K--Keevy, as in Hazleton U--Upchurch..Publisher and reporter of Mayberry Gazette V--Von Roeder..The beast of the fourth floor Vic Friskey

Phonetic Alphebet

2012-12-10 Thread Victor Friskey
I was in the military from 1962-1965...stationed for two years at 7th army headquarters communications center...our phonetic alphabet was : Alpha...Bravo...Charlie...Delta...Echo...Foxtrot...Golf...Hotel...India...Juliet...Kilo...Lima...mike...November...Oscar...Papa...Quebec...Romeo...

Barney's singing

2012-11-23 Thread Victor Friskey
Something has been praying on my mindIn the many episodes where Barney and Andy are singing together Andy never once complains about Barney's voice. In the episode where Thelma Lou made her debut she says I just love to sing with Barney. But when Barney wants to join the choir all of a

Mayberry Hotel

2012-10-27 Thread Victor Friskey
I just finished watching the episode where the darlings first come to town.Larry   I put a bucket on my head and got to thinkin' about that thing...It appears to me if I recollect that back in the 60's hotels were renting single and double rooms...you got a single room with a single bed and

Mrs. Grayson

2012-10-19 Thread Victor Friskey
How did Mrs. Grayson know what house to go too ?   courthouse, Sarah, anyone on the street, the Count, the Post Office, ??? Of course not . Any one could figure this out. The only way she could have known is that she didn't have any problems reading the scriptNow how hard was that to figure

Smells of Mayberry

2012-10-15 Thread Victor Friskey
We often discuss our favorite episodes..Ken Anderson   Some of the odors, and smells I would attribute to Mayberry are   The smell of hay in the barn where Barney captured the escaped convict The fresh fruit aroma in Doakes grocery store The various oders of the flowers in the Morrison sisters

Mayberry 2012

2012-10-10 Thread Victor Friskey
Martha and I live in the town where I grew up starting in 1950.David Quinn   I think we need to consider a few things if we are to mix fact with fiction... 1. The location of Maybverry would have to be taken in consideration...it's proximity to large cities. I think Andy or someone once said

Senior Play

2012-10-03 Thread Victor Friskey
I was watching an episode of The Danny Thomas Show this morning . In it Danny's teenage daughter was in a skit that was going to be presented to the PTA...It involved a lot of Rock and Roll music.  As I watched I realized how it was so close to The Senior Play episode on TAGS...The Principal

family fights

2012-09-16 Thread Victor Friskey
Does anyone remember any bigger fight they had (Andy and Aunt Bee)...David Quinn   What about the freezer fightall through the episode it was Andy saying Call the Man...and Aunt suggesting that Mr. Foley might store the meat she bought at Diamond Jim's..   vic friskey

politics

2012-09-10 Thread Victor Friskey
This is the season of politics and today I got to thinking.David Quinn   I don't think Andy would have had a problem voting for Howard as opposed to Aunt Bee..I believe the difference in the votes would have assured Howard the win. So Aunt Bee would have accepted the fact that not even a

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

2012-07-22 Thread Victor Friskey
I watched The Ghost and Mr. Chicken on Svengoolie Saturday. I won't go into how many Mayberrians were in the movie or all Mayberry references...since these have been discussed on here before. But during the commercial breaks Svengoolie was making a lot of Mayberry comments. Such as Floyd being

dennis the menace

2012-07-20 Thread Victor Friskey
CORRECTION :  Yes your right Mike...It wasn't Arnold who threw the football it was Opie and the kid's name was Billy.  So forgive me for not having the bucket on my head..but it's been a 100 degrees here for the last two days  so I fill  the bucket with water to SOAK  my HEAD. vic friskey 

Opie Taylor and Dennis Mitchell

2012-07-17 Thread Victor Friskey
I love watching Dennis the Menace..that kid can get into more mischief and get Mr. Wilson into more predictments...Yesterday he was not allowed in Mr. Wilson's yard but accidently shot an arrow and broke one of Mr. Wilson's windows...Of course all of this reminded me of Opie and  his slingshot

Allen, Andy and Elvis

2012-07-06 Thread Victor Friskey
Thank you Allen for the multiple postings allowing everyone to express their timely condolences and  sense of loss concerning one of the finest men and great entertainers of our lifetime. On another note I wasn't aware that Andy once toured with Elvis Presley. Apparently in 1955 he joined  

Andy Griffith Tribute

2012-07-04 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't know what I can say that hasn't already been said...I called him the last of the great TV actors  on one site and really got beaten down. I guess not everyone feels the way I do or my friends here on WBMUTBB. That being said I would like to dedicate this offering to The last of the great

cell windows in courthouse

2012-06-28 Thread Victor Friskey
I agree with you David. It seems the windows were open all the time year round. I can think of three  occasions. 1. I believe Barney hung on the bars to tell Otis he would get him out of the cell when Barney's nephew messed     up the keys 2. Opie and Arnold taped the bank robber's conversation

I'm no Howard Sprague

2012-06-15 Thread Victor Friskey
I did a comedy presentation at a local church Wednesday. Had a great turn out. Although I live in a small  town about the size of Mayberry I didn't opt to use any of Howard Sprague's ideas. A person could get sued today telling jokes about their neighbors. So I have a fictitious farm community

two of the best clubs

2012-06-01 Thread Victor Friskey
I got a surprising thrill yesterday when I was asked to join the Christian Comedy Association Club.  Its an exclusive club created and served by stand up comics who only do clean material in their shows. Now I am a member of two of the greatest clubs in the country. WBMUTBB and CCA.  We watch

party lines

2012-05-21 Thread Victor Friskey
I remember when I was a kid we had a wall phone and our number was 2646. In the smaller towns they  had a letter or word preceding the number such as my aunt had. It was Cutright 392..all the phones in town  had a street name preceding the number  and she lived on Cutright street. We could make

girls and their appearance

2012-05-13 Thread Victor Friskey
Aunt Bee, I agree that the recent demeaning references to a person's appearance are not keeping with the  higher standards of the WBMUTBB web site.Eric Swolgaard Since I feel this message was meant for me I should at least get a rebuttal. First of all I am and always have  a strong

Farewell my friend

2012-05-06 Thread Victor Friskey
So sad to find out that Goober Pyle our very own George Lindsay passed away this morning(Sunday). Of course we all knew he had been in failing health but no matter how prepared a person tries to be such a loss is tragic. He was such an amazing actor and a key to the success of TAGS and Mayberry

Aunt Bee's pocketbook

2012-05-05 Thread Victor Friskey
I just watched 'Opie's Hobo Friend and most of it was believable up to the point where Mr. Browne  (Buddy Ebsen) gets arrested by Barney for stealing Aunt Bee's purse. 1. Andy said Aunt Bee threw the purse into the trash. 2. If she threw it away wouldn't she have removed all the contents 3.

response to Colonel Tim Show

2012-05-03 Thread Victor Friskey
I decided to audition for the Colonel Tim ShowKen Anderson I got to admit Ken You are definitely a Colonel Tim Show product. But don't quit your day job. I'm not sure you're any competition to Howard Sprague...Maybe the two of you could team up as Frick Frack and go on TV..lol Vic

Mayberry bus schedules

2012-04-30 Thread Victor Friskey
Something I've wondered about for a long time is the frequency of bus arrivals and departures in Mayberry: Ken Anderson I remember back in the 60's when I lived in a small town of less then 3,000 population I worked in Peoria Illinois  25 miles south from where I lived. The Peoria Lines Bus

Mayberry song trivia

2012-04-26 Thread Victor Friskey
Last week and again this week I posted the trivia question : In what episode would we hear the first few notes of a British Patriotic song ? ANSWER :  It was in The Beauty Contest episode. As Floyd and the other Pilgrims out on stage rehearsing the landing in America, Miss Irma Bishop begins to

Mayberry Music Triivia

2012-04-23 Thread Victor Friskey
Last week I posted a trivia question concerning music in Mayberry and so far no one has made an attempt  answer it. I assume because no one knows the answer. I never thought I would ever stump the WBMUTBB members so let me help you out a little bit.  the question : In what episode do we hear the

Dramatic Don Knotts

2012-04-18 Thread Victor Friskey
Thanks to everyone who enlightened me on Don Knotts dramatic contributions. I looked on IMBD earlier  and didn't see anything concerning Search for Tomorrow. Possibly missed it or it was listed another way. I saw something strange today in the episode Mayberry Goes Hollywood..Remember when

Don Knotts

2012-04-14 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't think Don Knotts had a lot of dramatic acting roles although he did appear occasionally on various  TV series. If a person possessed the talent for comedy like our lovable Barney Fife I suppose there would  be no need to expand to other areas of acting. But it's been praying on my mind

Western sidekicks to TAGS

2012-04-11 Thread Victor Friskey
Can anyone guess who appeared on TAGS after being a western sidekick...David Quinn David you come close to preaching to the choir. I don't claim to be an authority on such things but I'm nearly 68 years old and do stand up comedy. Most of my act centers around a make-believe  family that I

Glenn Ford in G-Man movie

2012-03-31 Thread Victor Friskey
I was having a Mayberry memory while drifting off to sleep..Aunt Bee of Orlando There was no such movie starring Glen Ford..It was just a thought inspired by the writers vic friskey ___ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com

Pennies on the railroad track

2012-03-31 Thread Victor Friskey
I believe it was Johnny Paul Jason who told Opie that a penny run over by a train was good luck..Wanting to see if the kid knew what he was talking about and a train track only about 100 feet from my house I put three pennies on the track and waited for the train to pass..Afterwards I went to

Andy's house and other things

2012-03-29 Thread Victor Friskey
Whats the big debate on Andy's house...wasn't in Barney the Realtor where Andy said he bought the house from Old Man Parmaley?? Now other things : I seem to see a lot of forgiving from one person to another. How many times can you remember someone forgiving someone else in Mayberry. With

TAGS to Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

2012-03-27 Thread Victor Friskey
Recently purchased the first season of Gomer Pyle, USMC..as the plot thickens I expect more characters  will be making the cross country trek..Linda Just from memory here is some of the Mayberrians who visted Gomer Pyle...I know of several others but I  remember their exact roles on Gomer

Ten pictures

2012-03-05 Thread Victor Friskey
I agree that it has been very quiet on the DigestKen Anderson If the Count would transplant me into Mayberry and I could take ten pictures I chose ten places we heard about but never saw. 1. Pickle factory 2. Inside the traveling museum 3. Mr. Frisby's cellar 4. Kelsey's crick 5. E.T. Bass's

Ten Pictures corrected

2012-03-05 Thread Victor Friskey
Immediately after sending my last post of the ten pictures I would take I realized we have seen the inside of the Mayor's office at least twice. Once for the Centennial planning meeting and again when Otis recieved the  Nathan Tibbs Plaque. So let me correct my list by removing the Mayor's office

Nationalities in Mayberry

2012-02-28 Thread Victor Friskey
I think someone wondered sometime ago what some of the nationalities of some of the Mayberrians might be...I keep all the posts but I couldn't  find the one in question so I'm guessing they were asking about the Mayberry names and not the actors/actresses birth names..I did a little checking and

Mayberry sightings

2012-02-16 Thread Victor Friskey
I didn't miss-title my last post I just got hung up on my date with Peggy. But then who wouldn't.. anyway since the cable company added these new channels Mayberrians have been popping up all over the tv.. Dabs Greer(can't remember his TAGS name but he was interested in buying Andy's house),

Mayberry sightings

2012-02-15 Thread Victor Friskey
I'm happier than a hot hog in a cool mud hole. The cable company here just added two new networks to our cable..MEtv and Antennatvnow I get TAGS on THIStv every morning followed by Matlock and TAGs on TVland plus two more hours of Matlock on WGN-A..and an hour of Gomer Pyle on MEtv...It

No Opie, There is No 'Real' Santa Claus

2011-12-22 Thread Victor Friskey
Just finished watching the Christmas episode of TAGS..For the longest time I had the impression that Aunt Bee didn't get a gift from Ben Weaver. However watching this time I was reasurred she did. Then I realized that Barney wasn't fooling anyone in his Santa costume and probably had no

Andy and Barney as kids

2011-12-16 Thread Victor Friskey
While watching an episode of 'Leave It To Beaver' this morningKen Anderson Ken did you have your bucket on your head while watching Beaver..What a great idea Andy and barney as kidsThat would be terrific if they could find the right ones to portray Andy and Barney...any ideas on that...

Trained Noticer in training

2011-12-02 Thread Victor Friskey
I've been watching TAGS in the mornings on TV Land and I noticed some things I don't think have been mentioned before...First in the episode The Darlings Are Coming when Andy and John Masters goes to room 27 where the Darlings are staying..we know the boys and Charlene climbed out the

Darling Family

2011-11-24 Thread Victor Friskey
I was watching the episode where the Darlings appear for the first time...the horse trough episode..I know we have some great Noticers on here but I have never read anything about the following. When they are in the hotel playing their instruments Andy goes up to knock on the door..The boys and

keepsakes

2011-11-24 Thread Victor Friskey
Have you ever been to utopia. believe me it's a wonderful place..I go there every morning. At 7:00 I watch TAGS..from 8 to 10 I watch Matlock and from 10 to 11 I watch Tags again..It don't get any better than that. As far as keepsakes I think I would like to have any object that was seen on the

Answers to First words

2011-08-27 Thread Victor Friskey
I never thought in a million years I would stump the ones I did..but here are the answers to the first words trivia 1. Oh Andy..Aunt Bee..I believe she said this getting out of the truck in the first episode 2. Deputy barney Fife reporting with an important message. This was the 2nd episode in

FAMOUS FIRST WORDS

2011-08-25 Thread Victor Friskey
I don't get to read the digest every day lately I've been working to save my grass and plants. So I missed out on the Pranks.Since all of them were guessed I got another trivia list..We've all heard of Famous last Words but how many famous first words can you match with the Mayberry clan 1.  

Mayberry vacations

2011-07-24 Thread Victor Friskey
My son, daughter-in-law and grandkids are on vacation and stopped in for a couple of days..We all enjoyed seeing each other again and had a lot of fun sharing our time together.. This got me to thinking, and with this being the time of year a lot of folks take vacations I thought about all the

Classic TV

2011-07-19 Thread Victor Friskey
I'm surely just ventingor preaching to the choirBev Daly   As already mentioned.. MeTV..shows a lot of classics including Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., 5:30 AM CDT...the Beverly Hillbillies...Streets of San Francisco... Also RTV... handles mostly all the shows from late 60's through the

who's watching Leon

2011-07-16 Thread Victor Friskey
I was just wondering the other day when a saw a little boy in Wal-mart who had drifted away from his mother..Of course she was very close by but he was nearly at the other end of the aisle.. that got me thinking about little Leon, the peanut butter and jelly eating boy on TAGS Where was his

speaking without speaking

2011-07-10 Thread Victor Friskey
a person can say a lot without ever saying a word...Dewey lamb   Dewey I think you picked the classic silent speaker of Mayberry..his non speaking antics are sometimes hilarious..He was a true comedian.. I think Sharon Spain said a lot with her eyes at the class reunion..almost like Andy, I

Mayberrians in Oscar movies

2011-07-07 Thread Victor Friskey
Maybe I didn't make it very clear...I thought I did when I posted my correction..The questions were Three Mayberrians appeared in a movie in which Estelle Parsons won a supporting actress oscar. That had to be a dead give away b/c that's the only one I think she ever won... the movie ..Was

MY BIO

2011-07-07 Thread Victor Friskey
NAME Victor Lee Friskey...a play on the word Victory..from the nurses in the hospital who were praying for victory in WWII   JOB : retired over-the-road truck driver and Pastor   Physical Disc...5'10200lbs...short gray hair..blue eyes(only one of 12 siblings who is left handed and blue

correction to revious post

2011-07-04 Thread Victor Friskey
OH MY..!!!  My bucket had a hole in it and some of the thought waves escaped..I have to correct myself concerning the four Mayberrians who appeared in award winning movies...   Three Mayberrians appeared together in a movie in which Estelle Parsons won Best Supporting Actress...The movie itself

Mayberrian sighting

2011-07-04 Thread Victor Friskey
I watched Titanic , the 1997 version with Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslow Sunday night. Because I was an OTR trucker for 20 years including the time this movie came out and subsequently made it to TV..I was never able to see it before now..Lo and Behold..in the scene where Jack is rescuing

How to tell if you have a TAGS compelsion

2011-07-01 Thread Victor Friskey
Well it's good to be Back again on the digest...Some of you know I had a stroke in March..well I had another one in May..It was 'Big, really Big...but I've recovered from that and have just gone through two month of digest posts...Thanks Allen for your work..reading all of this has  really

Fife Vs Furley

2011-05-03 Thread Victor Friskey
First I want to thank all those of WBMUTBB club who sent me get well wishes and their concerns..I was surprised and appreciative that there were so many e-mails...Knowing your following of TAGS I probably shouldn't have been surprised..Thanks again..Because of my illness I missed out on the

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2011-04-29 Thread Victor Friskey
well it's good to be back and read all the things I've missed. I remember the last time I read a WBMUTBB post was on March 10. I remember because that afternoon I had a severe stroke and ended up in the hospital. I'm better now although I have some paralysis in my left hand and not able to hold

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