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To unsubscribe/change address, scroll to the bottom of this issue. wbmutbb-digest Tuesday, July 10 2001 Volume 03 : Number 193 Topics in this issue: no new sheriff? Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #191 Opie RFD: Andy in Charlotte RFD tags Andy's middle name & a citizen's arrest Paul Hartman Andy and Helen... something they put in the water? Green! Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #192 Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #192 Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #191 Andy Griffith Complete Videos ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:24:01 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: no new sheriff? In the last digest Paul wrote: >After Andy left Mayberry, they never had >another sheriff. Now correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it mentioned In "Return to Mayberry" that Barney was the acting sheriff since the death of Sheriff Patterson? Ya gotta figure that some body besides Goober had to be around to rattle the door knobs on Main St, check the summer cabins up around the lake, receive gold trucks, arresting clanking little old ladies, drive fun girls outta town, smash up stills, judge beauty contests, umpire ballgames, send medicine men a-packing, convince moonshiners to take their shots, tell bedtime stories to drunks and date all the pretty county nurses! A moving and shaking metropolis like Mayberry would be in dire straits without a high sheriff. Who would be around to keep the peace at that swinging singles apartment complex Howard moved into? :-) ~the groovy misspoovey, even groovier than Howard~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:23:02 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #191 As a teacher, I really think the episode about Goober teaching Drivers Ed is a real HOOT. Can you imagine a school district actually being able to hire someone without a high school diploma to be a teacher? Of course, the standards here in Wisconsin are very high. Actually, several years ago our local citizens elected one our "high school drop outs" to our school district school board. That sure was an experience - he only lasted about a year, and then resigned. He couldn't understand all the reading that was required. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 21:50:13 -0500 From: "Mary Huckaby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Opie My son is a trucker and usually takes some of my TAGS tapes to watch in his truck while in truck stop parking lots. He recently took his 7 year old daughter with him and she has also become a TAGS fan. She told me, "Nanny, I like that Opie. He's a good boy." What a great example Opie is for our younger generation. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:51:19 -0400 From: "Phil Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RFD: Andy in Charlotte I taped the first two hours of the RFD marathon Sat. morning so I could get Andy and Helen's wedding I also watched a few episodes spuratically Sat and Sun. and wish now I had taped the whole thing. I too didn't think I cared for the show, but after watching, did enjoy them a lot. I saw the episode "Andy's baby" and caught them saying Andy lived in Charlotte and worked for the SBI (State Bureau of Investigations). I guess sometime later he became a postal inspector. by the way I made the show in Pigeon Forge, they needed a squad car to park out front, so my 63 was on duty and had a ball, Don Knotts and Howard Morris were gracious enough to autograph the dash for me. The three stars Don, Howard and Betty Lynn, were so kind and gracious to the adoring fans Don had to leave right after the show (he had a book signing the next day) but Howard and Betty stayed on and signed autographs for nearly 3 hours non stop after the show. That folks, takes a lot out of you especially when you are mid 70's to early 80's as these are. It was indeed a thrill to meet Mr Knotts And Mr Howard and again see Ms Lynn. I only wish I could have made it to Nashville. But I have to save something for another time. Sorry for ramblin Phil "sick as a dog, but havin the time of my life" Fox ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 22:42:39 -0500 From: Paul Mulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RFD >>>Hi! I'm new to the list and was wondering if someone could fill me in on Mayberry R.F.D. I watched one show on TV Land this weekend and was completly lost. >>> After 8 seasons of The Andy Griffith Show, Andy Griffith figured he'd done about all he could do (don't worry, he didn't fall dead), but he did decide not to play the character of Andy Taylor anymore. However, The Show was number 1 in the ratings, and the producers were reluctant to just let it drop altogether. So, they re-worked the show a little bit and changed the name to Mayberry RFD (after all, they couldn't very well call it The Andy Griffith Show without Andy Griffith). Most of the major cast members continued their established roles on the new series: Aunt Bee, Goober, Howard, Emmett, Clara, Reverend Tucker, and a few others. Mayberry RFD lasted for three seasons, at which point some genius at CBS decided their network wasn't sophisticated enough. With one stroke, every show with a rural connection was abruptly cancelled (this was 1971). Mayberry RFD, Hee Haw, The Beverly Hillbilles, Green Acres -- all gone, just like that. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:06:03 -0500 From: "judie blandin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: tags Hi to all the tags fans. I'm new to all of this but I'm enjoying all the great e-mails that I have been reading. It's wonderful to see so many people enjoy the shows after all these years. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 23:32:36 -0500 From: "Michael L. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Andy's middle name & a citizen's arrest I thought Sheriff Taylor's name was Andrew Jackson Taylor, but on the RFD episode where Andy & Helen return for Andy Jr.'s christening, Andy Jr. is referred to as Andrew Samuel Taylor. Did I just imagine that Andy's middle name was Jackson? Also, I'd like to make a citizen's arrest of Steve Mitchell for violating Rule #2. Nothing is ever going to live up to Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, so it isn't fair to use them as the basis for comparison to anything else. However, I for one thoroughly enjoyed the weekend of the less-familiar Mayberry stories of RFD. mike jackson > Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 23:50:26 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R.F.D. > > Hello All, > > It has been a while since I last posted, so "hello!" >...[nasty rant against RFD deleted]... > Anyway, sorry for the rant. Take care. > > "HOLD IT! Helen is not a dame!" > > Steve Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:15:32 -0500 From: "Joseph Fly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Paul Hartman Does anyone know if Paul Hartman 'Emmett, the fix-it guy' (who usually fixes things with a hammer or a good swift kick!) is any relation at all to dearly-departed great actor, Phil Hartman? Just wondering. "Watch your foot, I'm about to rock forward!" Joe, from Lubbock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:58:54 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Andy and Helen... I was just wondering about something I heard on the RFD episodes....when Andy came back and made Sam and the gang godfathers....I didn't realize that Goober hooked Andy and Helen up...I thought they met because she was mad at Andy about the History class when she first came to town and why they made some of the TAGS episodes "colored" when they were black and white also.....off to work and thanks, Hollie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:24:06 -0500 From: "Turpin, Steven C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: something they put in the water? I too watched a fair chunk of the TVLand "Mayberry R.F.D." marathon, but was disturbed by the change that had come over several of the AGS characters. I noticed that Goober and Howard were rather mean-spirited sometimes, shouting at one another and telling each other to "shut up" (although I can recall Andy telling Gomer to "shut up" when he kept interrupting Barney's recitation of how things had gone at the Miracle Salve office; and of course "Oh shut up, Bernie!" when he was really fed up with the Fun Girls). Also, Clara Edwards seemed pretty nasty in the episode of RFD where Alice is wanting to fit in with the ladies of Mayberry. Had Otis spiked the town's water tower with something? Also, too many of the situations on RFD episodes seemed so improbable: Howard digging up a dinosaur underneath Goober's filling station -- things like that, which somehow seemed so less likely than a "loaded" goat on the loose ;-) ... I noticed that many scenes in RFD were composed in blue: did Sam own any other shirt than that bright blue one? Maybe this has been kicked around before, but why all the green in the color episodes of TAGS? Everything is green: the courthouse, Andy's house, most of the clothes. And a lot of greens that clash: bright green with avocado, for instance! There's a lot of green in RFD, too, but more blue, it seems. Does anybody know the reason for this? I'm guessing it was considered a pleasing, restful color -- or maybe they just got a great deal on green paint! Steven ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:14:50 -0700 (PDT) From: NOPE JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Green! Hey folks, I have to admit, my disliking for color episodes and Mayberry RFD is more than just the "lack of Barney". There just seems to be TOO much green in the episodes. Every wall and door seems to be green. Also, there's just something about Emmet's Fix-it shop I just don't like. - -Jr Nope "Vote for me......Vote for Ben Woods....." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:21:20 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #192 Susan, you mentioned the singles only apartment that Howard moved into. I was struck how far we have come, when Sam and Howard wanted to take a camping vacation, Millie didn't want to go. She suggested that Howard, Sam and Barbara go without her. Howard pipes up with how absolutely inappropriate that would be. Millie does go on the camping trip. Barbara and Millie share a tent while Howard and Sam share another, Barb ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:26:15 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #192 Hi Friends, I would like to share this story with my fellow TAGS fans. My 16 year old son considers himself to be "WAY COOL" he is 6'5 with blond hair and bright blue eyes, he is extremely athletic and very popular at school. The nice thing is that he's been a TAGS fan since he was just a little guy, being brought up by me he was very exposed to our beloved show. However, his Dad and sisters do not share our enthusiasm or as we say "they just don't get it." Anyway, today at football practice in 95* heat the kids were begging the coach to give them the day off. The coach joking around said "OK, if someone can answer a trivia question you can go home." The kids were yelling with excitement and then the coach said "What was the name of Barney's landlady on the Andy Griffith show?" Well, you can imagine what these kids had to say. My son said they were really ticked (not his exact word). Everyone was moaning and swearing when suddenly my son yelled out "Mrs. Mendlebright." He said the coach looked at him totally shocked and then burst into laughter. He couldn't believe this kid knew the answer. Well, needless to say my son is the hero of the day, and you know what. I'm pretty proud of that boy! Now let's all sing! A cap pel la, (snap snap), A cap pel la ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 16:56:18 -0400 From: Lisa Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #191 I enjoyed watching and taping most of the RFD-thon. We were without cable and/or power for several hours, so I missed from 6a.m. to 2:30p.m. on Sunday (episodes 44-58). Hoping to be able to add these if TVLand plays them again. Wish they'd put RFD on a regularly scheduled basis. Oh, well, many people in our area of south-central WV were hit hard by flooding and some lost everything they had, so I am counting my blessings that we just had power outages and a little water in the basement. (Like I know Mayberry folks would, people in our town and the surrounding towns are pulling together to feed people and to help out the ones who need clothes, food, furniture, housing, etc.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:32:47 -0700 From: Robin Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Andy Griffith Complete Videos Would anyone happen to know if it is possible to purchase a complete run of Andy Griffith shows on video or DVD? I have read the discussion regarding the recent DVD releases of the Andy Griffith show and they only contain a few episodes. Thank you for your help. Robin Baker Dundee, Oregon ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V3 #193 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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 goto: http://www.tagsrwc.com/wbmutbb/unsubscribe_digest.htm To change your email address, first unsubscribe using the command above and then re-subscribe by going to: http://www.tagsrwc.com/wbmutbb/joinwbmutbb.htm
