in 1964 (iowa city) could walk down to Mac's (no dorm meal on sunday nights)
and get 2 cheeseburgers (30 cents), fries (15 cents) and a coke (maybe 15 cents
?) for less than a buck.
even back home in small town - just like mayberry - we could get basically the
same for less than a buck.and it
also a doc, stretching Barney.hotel clerk when the gold came to town.and a
security guard in weaver's. tom
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last night's episode didn't even have a brace across it!!! tom
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In most episodes, if the don't make sense issues were not there, there
wouldn't be a story!.And therefore we wouldn't have nearly as many episodes as
we do :-) tom
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need to find a good home for these so
first one to send me an address gets them...
The Bullet
Vol 7 Issues 2 3
Vol 8 Issues 1, 2, 3
Vol 9 Issues 1, 2, 3
Vol 10 Issues 1, 2, 3
Vol 11 Issues 1 2
Vol 12 Issues 1, 2, 3
Vol 13 Issues 1 2, 3
Vol 14 Issues 1, 2, 3
Vol 15 Issues 1,
Diced Cream was a convenience food, what we call single-serve packages
of ice cream. It was manufactured by Diced Cream of America Company and
in 1955 the company was dragged into the 9th Circuit Court to face
charges of price fixing. That's right, I said ice cream price fixing.
tom
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Ever notice when Opie is doing Rock-Scissors-Paper with Johnny-Paul to get dibs
on the customer, he gets paper and the other kid gets scissors.
Opie then says I win! That's not the way i played it :-)
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Water and air were free at Wally's, Gomer said. I'll have to think
about the other one. By chance was it Opie talking about a free ice
cream from Miss Ellie? I'm not sure he said free. He said it was
give to me I believe.
Opie (to Ellie)
Free? Honest?...Gee I haven't ever had a free
ken...don't you ever watch TV? :-) :-)
he was on darn near every show in the 60's - Perry Mason, Bonanza, Petticoat
Junction, Dragnet and many many others.
You gotta stay in more !
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Now this is kinda spooky.
just watching Rifleman on METV and guess who is the barkeep???
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my brother-in-law asked me this and i have no idea (never touch the things).
Barney's pistol...Season 1, Episode 2what was it? Did he have the
same pistol until the last episode?
i reckon someone here knows.
thanks...
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Art and Sam (#1 and #2) in the Guest of Honor episode.
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Do you know what type (design, model, brand, etc.) of boot Andy Griffith
wears in The Andy Griffith Show? Any information is appreciated.
I have always assumed they were engineer boots. At least that's what they
were called back in the day. My mom wouldn't let me have any because they were
there seem to be a number of mistakes in that episode. there are a few
calendars hanging and they are not all the same.
that turkey must be full of air, the way Andy is easily carrying it.
and the one i could never figure out - Ben's trip to the back and his
position/window just don't add up to
re: Ellie Comes To Town. noticed that Andy counts up the bill to $3.23, but
cash register only shows $.23. then the next time you see it, it has $1.23
showing. Curious. also wondering why Emma would bake pies every day? and of
course, the fact they she apparently moved into town between
Those directions sound like complete nonsense to me. The courthouse/barber
shop/grocery store area must be the center of town, right? Andy's house is
roughly a block away from the courthouse, yet his directions would have Malcolm
travel several blocks, making two or three turns along the
Benn watching the 50th Anniversary set recently and noticed a couple of new
things:
the Mr. McBeevee episode - they show the back yard and the screen door - has a
thread spool as a door knob. my dad always put those on our screen doors!
the Pickle episode - Barney is handing a jar of pickles
(if i am reading it right)...a full page national ad, BW, during the week
is just shy of $120,000 :-) however if you spend $8,000,000 or more (yes
that's
8 MILLION) you can get a 26% discount! now if you would want a separate
section (insert), 2 pages is only $40,000 + about a $100 for
yes, was a bit common back in those days. whenever you would need to push or
be
pushed, you would want to make sure the bumpers matched up evenly. if they
didn't, there was a good chance one would slip up or down and hence lock up! i
remember though, that it seemd to work quite well, if one
right off the top of my head, i can tink of two instances where it apparently
wasn't dry:
the christmas episode and when otis was the decendant extraordinare, they all
had a nip in the mayor's office
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All this may be online as well, but i find the Inside Mayberry, written by
Dan
Harrison and Bill Habeeb is a wonderful source reference for the show. It has
a
number of databases, including the (13) main charcters appearances in each
season, also lists each seasons writers and directors, a
one thing that has always amazed me about TAGS is the little details they put
in
that nake it all seem so real. a couple of quick examples: whenecver andy
reaches in his pocket to get opie some change, he pulls out some, and picks out
whatever he is giving him, as opposed to just reaching in
Others mentioned or seen...
Boysinger's Bakery
Bigg's New Used Furniture
Franklyn's Pharmacy
Grand Theater
Mayberry Motel
Orville Monroe's TV Repair / Funeral Parlor
Oscar Skinner's Feed Grain
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Dewey wrote
Weaver's Deptartment Store
Wally's Garage
The Bluebird Diner
Johanna wrote I was watching the episode The Shoplifters and noticed Ben
Weaver seemed to be wearing Gomers yellow tie with the purple acorns on it.
wow, do you have that episode in color?!??!?! that's gotta be a rare one :-)
:-)
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ya know, i think Andy Clyde aka Frank Meyers, should have been at the least
nominated for an emmy for his performance in the bankrupt episode! he is very
believable as a poor soul who needs assistance...
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i pondered that but just figured since they all came off tv that the music was
up for grabs, so to speak. i could understand (maybe) how taking them from the
dvds could be problematic. however i managed to get all the episodes onto
video from the tv airings over the years - even had to write
a few years ago i went through my video tapes and transferred the misic i could
find onto cds and called it a little mayberry livin' - the music of
mayberrry i know i missed some and have been going to go back and redo them
all from the dvds, but haven't found the time yet. i would gladly
i always assumed this came from the episode where andy left town and barney
arrested the entire population! after he's returned and the folks are parading
into his office, he says hi nellie. nice dress. or something to that
effect...
tom
Otis, Thelma Lou Helen - The Arrest of the Fun girls.
Other trivial trivialities:
Only Andy Barney - County Nurse and Class Reunion and A Visit to Barney Fife
Only Andy and Gomer - Gomer Pyle USMC
Only Andy and Aunt Bee - Aunt Bee Takes A Job
Only Andy - The Darlings Are Coming
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was it ever decided if that was indeed a drug store in the mexico episode?
the drug store in my small town in the 50's, did do film but it sure didn't
have a wall full of guns and stuffed fish!!
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$75 shipping!?!?!?! that's actually quite obscene. i'm sure barney would not
approve
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There couldn't have been a bar sign in Mayberry since everyone knows it's a
dry
county!
except in the christmas episode - ben sells spirits in his store.
which brings me to another point. in that episode, ben walks around to the
right of the jail, apparently goes to the back and looks in
as most everyone else, i have been dismayed by TVLand's slowly weaning away
from TAGS. but to give them a bit of credit, the episodes that they are
showing on the weekends seem to be the cream of the crop, so to speak...
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Here's one for all you Mayberry trivia fans. We know a lot of the songs on
TAGS
was written by Earle Hagen especially for the show but, Andy sang a song in one
episode the same year that song was on Billboard's top 40 rock and roll chart.
can you name the song and the singer who recorded it
say it again?!
call the man!
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I've often wondered how Mr. O'Malley - or Chuck to the rest of us - had
planned on getting home when he returned from DEtroit. I'm pretty sure
Mayberry didn't have a cab(s)...
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...and was wondering if anyone else has. Watching Merchant Of Mayberry last
evening and saw in the background when Andy was talking to Bert, what appeared
to be bars on the jail window. Didn't realize the empty lot was right next to
the jailhouse! Especially after Ben Andy walked out of the
It was written..
I was watching the episode where the new doctor in town removes Opie's
tonsils...
I grew up in a small town in Iowa and our doc had his office in his house.
Not sure how much actual surgery was done - never had any. My brother-in-
law's mom tells the story of when she
Anybody out there from Iowa City, Iowa?
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For those still wondering, here it is again...
in the episode The Darlings Are Coming (Season Three), they have
been put up in a jail cell and, of course, fed by Aunt Bee. As she is
collecting the dirty dishes she askes of one of the boys:
Are you sure you had enough?
He responds with:
I remember this being mentioned a while back but can't recall if it was ever
discussed - in the episode The Darlings Are Coming (Season Three), they have
been put up in a jail cell and, of course, fed by Aunt Bee. As she is
collecting the dirty dishes she asked of one of the boys:
Are you
I don't recall ever reading this in any of the many books, but one of her bios
says she was discovered as a dancer on The Andy Griffith Show - the TV series
he did in the late 1960s with Goldie Hawn - but I think this was a special of
some sort special - couldn't really track down any specifics
Just popped up on Yahoo page...
By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. - At age 81, Andy Griffith has been discovered.
Sure, he'll always be known as Sheriff Andy Taylor, the gentle father to son
Opie and gunless lawman in Mayberry who dispensed a homegrown wisdom on
the
Following the link to these, I was at first was quite excited about it, what
with TAGS/Mayberry/Christmas being a perfect combination - and almost
impulsively signed up immediately. As I kept reading and looking it over, it
then dawned on me that maybe this wasn't what I wanted after all.
It
Jimmy asks Who is David Mendlebright?
This entry from Mayberry, My Hometown (by Stephen J. Spignesi)...
Probably the dead husband of Barney's landlady, Maude Mendlebright. The
Memorial Horse Trough in the center of town was in David's memory.
(This is a fantastic book that has just about any
Say it again!
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Don't know if this has been mentioned before but our Mayor Pike is the
preacher forever trying to marry Elizabeth Lane and Jefferson Jones. I also
agree that the gentleman sitting on the sidelines at the dance is Mr.
Schwamp. Nobody has hair like that!
tom
This may be a silly question but...while watching the Danny Thomas episode
where Andy is introduced, I noticed when the two cars cars pulled up, there
was no front or back windows. I have also noticed this on an episode of I
Love Lucy. Why would they take new autos and remove the glass?
Just noticed while watching The Barbershop Quartet, that Andy calls him Burt
throughout the entire episode, but the credits say Burt Mustin.jud
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OK, here's the definitive on this. They were both in: Andy Saves Barney's
Morale, Alcohol and Old Lace, Quiet Sam, Crime-Free Mayberry, Goodbye Sheriff
Taylor, Otis Sues The County, The Rehab of Otis. Now let me temper this with -
I sorted cheated! Got the info from Inside Mayberry by Dan
Watched The Day The Earth Stood Still Last Night - saw Aunt Bee, John Majors
and Otis' wife (did she have a name?) On another note - there are no shows
today to match up with TAGS. That's why it is so special...
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With all these recent postings about favorite songs from the show, I thought
maybe it would be a good time to offer my CDs of the music again. I went
through all the shows I had on tape and compiled the music onto 2 CDs, took
some time but a labor of love for sure! It's not complete because
Has anyone ever read anywhere about his guitar playing? I have always assumed
it was not him playing in the two episodes he was in. I've searched around
and cannot find mention of it anywhere...
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I noticed that the plate number for the squad car was JL-327. Unfortuantely I
haven't saved all my other digests so don't know if this number has been
bandied about or not. Also, from that episode, Helen is referred to as
(S)Andy's fiance - did I miss the episode where he formally
They were in the mail today. Sent for them no longer than a week ago at the
most. Laugh, laugh...
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Each time I watch an episode I notice some litle thing that makes it all seem
so real. E.g. - notice how whenever Andy reaches in his pocket to give Opie
some change, he looks through it and moves it around and then picks out a coin?
How about when he sits down and is offered a drink (in A Feud
Don't know if there are any Neil Young fans on this list, but thought I'd pass
on that at a concert in Moline, he made a reference to our own Barney! He was
explaining a song, about the devil and a jail, titled Devil's Sidewalk, that
he was about to perform. A fan kept yelling Barney Fife, to
I've never had much of a problem with the episode where he returns to find
Thelma Lou married. Figured his reaction was so typically Barney that it just
seemed natural that his head would be turned with any attention given to
him. Then I remembered that Thelma Lou was gone when the color
Have been watching the 5th season (Otis Sues The County) and last night this
particular exchange jumped right out, considering the recent discussion.
(While sitting and going through the occupant mail)
Barney: What'd you do last night?
Andy: Had a date.
Barney: With Helen?
Andy: No, Juanita.
Just joined this list a couple of weeks ago and actually my first real post
(besides the music I offered up) and wondered whether Iowa is far enuf north.
I figure our household can cover for the entire state! I don't think there's
been a day go by that my wife and I haven't watched a least
I just joined this list a few days ago, before the Don left us, so let me know
if I am out of order here. I spent many years getting all the episodes on
tape (but extremely happy to be now getting trhe DVD's)! A year or so ago I
went thru my tapes of the shows and thanks to my brother-in-laws
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