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wbmutbb-digest Thursday, April 13 2000 Volume 02 : Number 114 Topics in this issue: Jerry Van Dyke Guideposts Issue Featuring Andy T in Ernest T Bass Good ole 14a Fantasy Date episodes in color # of Episodes " Andy's Rival " TV show in TLC Andy Griffith show on TLC update color episodes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:26:39 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Jerry Van Dyke In a message dated 4/13/00 4:11:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 1 - Last night TV Land showed the episode that came right after Don Knotts' last regular show - had Jerry Van Dyke. I was wondering if this was sort of a tryout to see if Jerry would take the place of our beloved Deputy Fife? He didn't really add much to the show. Could this show have been a failed experiment? >> Two years ago I actually talked with Jerry Van Dyke about this very subject. After filming this episode he was offered the job of "The Mayberry Deputy" but turned it down because he was offered his own series, "My Mother, The Car" (he claims it was his biggest mistake ever). Other roles that he said he turned down was the part of "Gilligan" and a part on "MASH." Maybe we should keep an eye on what he turns down, they turn out to be pretty good shows. Mike Creech ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:28:22 CDT From: "Kathy Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Guideposts Issue Featuring Andy ALLEN----MAKE SURE I'M NOT BREAKING ANY RULES (ANYBODY'S RULES) BEFORE YOU POST THIS. I have the issue of Guideposts magazine at home. I don't know what kind of "ethics" are involved regarding copying it or "quoting" it, but a synopsis of the article is that Andy started showing symptoms of the disease shortly after his marriage to Cindy. (She was sick at the time, too.) He wound up out of work and downhearted. He and Cindy started hanging around the studio and before too long he was offered the character of Matlock. He suffered a tremendous amount of pain, and still has trouble at times. But the disease is "in remission" and he has been able to get on with his life, albeit somewhat limited. A lot of the article was Andy's constant praise of his wife for her support, and, thanking the good Lord that he was able to somewhat recover. You know, after hearing Andy talk during the TV Land special, I could almost hear him saying the words in that article as I reread it. It was sweet, and just made me appreciate him more. Everybody have a Mayberry kind of day! Kathy ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:48:46 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: T in Ernest T Bass TAGS fans, I figure it stood for Tiberius and Ernest T's who James T. Kirk was really named after. Sam "I just thought you meant dyin'" White ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:06:48 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Good ole 14a What is the name of good ole 14a ? Can anyone send me the words to that song. Would come in handy at work on the construction sites and such.......LOL! Also would like to have the words to that jumprope song that Barney did. I know some of the words and thanks to Emmitt I have a wav of it but I couldnt make out all of the words. Maybe someone can finish it for me, " My Mother your mother lives across the way, every night they have a fight and this is what they say,"....................... the rest I cant quite make out what he is saying but at the end a bystander pokes fun at him and says" Hey Barney! You want to come over and play jacks with me later?" If someone can fill in the rest of this jumprope saying it would be greatly appreciated. My girls are aged 3 and 5 and they already know the one ," Call for the doctor call for the nurse, call for the lady with the alligator purse!" They love it but need the other one also. Thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:21:25 -0400 From: John Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Fantasy Date April 13, 2000 To All TAGS Fans; Didn't someone pose the question, "who would be your fantasy date from the Andy Griffith Show?" Well I'd like to submit my choice. It would be Jim Lindsey, Guitar Player Extraordinaire. Tall, dark, handsome and appealing !! Not to mention, he's a good guitar player. In fact the episodes with him in it are among my favorites !! I don't know his name in real life, or if he ever appeared in anything else ~~ but he sure had good looks. Now this is coming from a female. IF I were a guy, I'd have my favorite too. It would be Barbara Eden when she appeared as the "manicurist on a bus from out of town." My goodness ~~ what a doll! And what a gorgeous, stunning, trim figure. What I'd give to have a shape like that. Thru the years and even to this day, I think she looks great for her age. (Whatever that is? ) She certainly has kept it "all together." When you think of the women on the show, they had a lot of "good lookers" when it came to women. All the women Andy dated were very attractive. (Thelma Lou too) And when Barney had all those females over Thelma Lou's house to try and get Andy "fixed-up," I thought they were all very attractive. In fact I often wondered, "where did a country- bumpkin town like Mayberry get such an assortment of really pretty women?" Marian in New Jersey "Go on, get back to whatever you were doing. What were you doing?" (My favorite line from the "private picnic") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:45:29 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: episodes in color Just a few notes about the color episodes... Andy does seem maybe a little less friendly and a little more ill-tempered in these episodes, and not just toward poor Opie. That might partly be because Barney was gone, and partly because Opie was reaching an age in which it was a little more awkward for his "Pa" to be as funny and borderline condescending (remember the "Mayberry Minutemen?"). Two, I noticed everyone's performances (except Aunt Bea in the one about the furniture polish commercial) was lower key in the color episodes; maybe they thought they had to overact a bit in the black and white years (which would explain why those are funnier). But yes, despite the fewer laughs and absence of Barney on a regular basis, there were a few classics sprinkled in..."Dinner at Eight" (in which Andy has to eat three spaghetti dinners in one night to keep from hurting anyone's feelings), "The Battle of Mayberry" (Opie writes a paper about the battle that everyone thinks his or her ancestor won single-handedly; turns out the white settlers and Indians all got drunk and passed out--this is probably my favorite color episode), the heartbreaking "Return of Barney Fife" (thought the ending was too tidy though), the one in which Howard Sprague chucks his job and runs away to a tropical island (hilarious fantasy sequence), and the one in which Aunt Bea does the furniture polish commercial and turns into a ham. Oh yes...that one about her taking piloting lessons was pretty cool too, in the context in which it was presented. She thought life had passed her by without some type of special memory she could share with people. For the record...Andy and Helen got married in the premiere episode of "Mayberry RFD" which is syndicated separately; Andy, Helen and their baby appear in the second season premiere (1969-70) of "Mayberry RFD". Dixon Hayes ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:29:33 -0500 From: "Joe Fly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: # of Episodes My wife just asked me a question about how many episodes TAGS filmed each year as compared to the number of episodes a popular modern series, life "Friends" films. I told her I didn't know, but I would ask those who would know. Any ideas? Thanks! Joe Fly Lubbock, TX ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:42:50 -0500 From: David Millard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: " Andy's Rival " TV Land has begun showing the color episodes of TAGS. Tonight's episode was " Andy's Rival " where Andy became jealous of visiting teacher, Frank Smith played by Charles Aidman. After the episode ended I looked him up in The Complete Directory of Prime Time TV Stars and found that he has had quite a career as an actor, director & composer, in addtion he was also the narrator of CBS' revival of Twilight Zone in 1985. He also appeared in an early Twilight Zone episode as an astronaut. Frank Smith was quite versatile.........and so was Charles Aidman. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:32:54 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TV show in TLC Hello fellow Mayberrians... I need some help. I was flipping through the channels on TV Tuesday night after watching the 6:00 episode of TAGS and stumbled across a show on TLC (The Learning Channel) titled The Andy Griffith Show Reunion. It was hosted by Andy himself and what I caught of it, which was the last 20-25 minutes, had Jim Nabors, George Lindsey, Ron Howard, and Don Knotts as guests and they talked about TAGS only. They also showed many, many clips from the show in regards to what they were talking about at that time. I think it was a 1 hour show and that brings me to my problem...I didn't know it was coming on so, of course, my VCR wasn't ready. Could somebody out there tell me when it might be on again so I can see all of it and tape it also. It looked to me like it was probably made around the same time the Matlock series was out judging by looking at Andy. Any help on this would be much appreciated. Jacob in Jackson, TN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:58:44 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Andy Griffith show on TLC update Hello again... I decided to check TLC's web site for some help and all I found out was the name of the show: "Andy Griffith Retrospective Special". If anyone can help with this I'd appreciate it muches! Jacob in Jackson, TN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:22:48 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: color episodes I watched the first two color episodes late last night and tonight. I must admit, Andy did seem a little out of character. He don't seem like the happy go lucky guy we all know and love. But, Mayberry is Mayberry so maybe we can learn something from the shows even though maybe some of it is not as funny. I thought he was going to take Opie to the woodshed in the first 10 minutes of "Opie gets a job" and poor old Ope didn't do anything that bad. Thanks for a good job Allan. Hasty (Malcolm) Burford ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V2 #114 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ Visit our sponsor ~ Weaver's Department Store ~ http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/ ************************************************** You must send your comments to the Digest from the address you used to join WBMUTBB or your message will not be posted. Only members may post to this mailing list. To remove yourself from the WBMUTBB Digest mailing list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe wbmutbb-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your email address, first unsubscribe using the command above and then re-subscribe using the following command in the body of your email message: subscribe wbmutbb-digest
