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To unsubscribe/change address, scroll to the bottom of this issue. wbmutbb-digest Wednesday, August 22 2001 Volume 03 : Number 248 Topics in this issue: Guilty Pleasure Re: fewest character episodes Re: fewest characters/episode Howard Morris "his folks" Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #247 Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #247 Subject: Re: Opie's Mom-?Picture? Folks questions teacher and reverend Blue Ridge Country Re: V3 #247, character actor Mayberry meetings ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:38:35 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Guilty Pleasure Okay, I'm going out on a limb here and admit a guilty pleasure. Or maybe it's a 'compelsion.' At the end of every TAGS episode, they show the numerical date of when it was made (or aired). Being born in 1960, I always ponder that date -- like say 1965 - and think to myself "I was only five years old when this show first aired." What was I doing then? It's a weird link to my childhood, and one people probably don't understand, but it connects me to the show in a unique way. All right, call the men in the white suits. It's therepetic. Greg in Simi Valley ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:23:00 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fewest character episodes This is half-answer to Joe's question about the episodes with the fewest characters. I know that one of them is the one where Otis buys a car - Andy Barney and Otis are the only visible characters. Goober Linda - Wish I could get my car out of the kitchen . ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:30:37 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fewest characters/episode >>There are two episodes with 2...and 1 with 1<< One with one?! Wow, guess I *haven't* seen every episode, or I don't remember one or two! Anyhow...the two with two were 1) "Gomer Pyle, USMC" (Andy and Gomer are the only two regulars) and 2) don't remember the episode title but it's the one where Andy and Barney are in a hotel in Raleigh and Barney's trying to catch a jewel thief (howlingly funny ending as the two get into the elevator)... BTW did anyone other than Andy and Barney appear in the first class reunion episode? Aunt Bee maybe but I can't remember anyone other than Ange and Barn. But that one with one...hmmmm, maybe if I put my bucket back on... Dixon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:52:12 -0400 From: "Lance Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Howard Morris While we are talking about Mayberry folk who have had dual or more rules, Howard Morris who played Ernest T. Bass did as well. In one episode, Andy and Helen were trying to get some alone time at the lake. For whatever reason, Barney winds up bringing a professor (Howard Morris) up to him. Also, Mr. Morris also spent time in the TAGS director chair, so (I guess we could count that as well if we wanted to. Brownie (In Virtual Reality Mayberry) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:55:33 -0500 From: "Margaret Bentle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: "his folks" For the Untrained Voice. You are correct on the "his folks" explanation. It also means anyone in the family. If the person asking the question knows anyone else in the family they ask "How are your folks?". Then you usually have to go thru the whole family to make sure you answer them correctly. This saying may just be a Southern thing. I'm a Tennessean by birth, that's Southern. When the Taylor's went to Hollywood didn't they pay for the rooms with the money Andy got for his life story, "Sheriff without a Gun"? I think that is the name of the movie they were making about Andy. The Darlings probably slept on the floor in the Mayberry Hotel. Did they ever stay long enough in the hotel to sleep? Hello to the new members. Margaret ______________________________________________________________________ The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this email for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:27:30 -0500 From: "Matt Coleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #247 Subject: Re: Mr. Meyers > > Frank Meyers was played by comedian Andy Clyde. Luke Jenson was played by > character actor Malcolm Atterbury. > I still say Malcolm Atterbury really resembles actor Charles Lane. Anybody agree? ps Allen- great job as always, and I love the shirts you are offering. Matt "Hiya Doll" Coleman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:34:56 -0400 From: "Anthony Sizemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #247 Andy Clyde: Andy Clyde also portrayed "California", the sidekick of none other than Hopalong Cassidy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:12:07 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Subject: Re: Opie's Mom-?Picture? I've noticed in several of the earlier episodes of TAGS, a picture of a blonde headed women on the wall to the right just before you enter the kitchen. Not the wall facing the dining room table but the wall that's close to the window. I've never seen the picture up close on any of the episodes, she stands out mainly because of the black background, as least the picture does to me. Any thoughts on this anyone??? ~Gail in Bama Starlings, at this time of year!!!...Oh.. your full of beans!!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:59:28 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Folks >I noticed recently that one of Opie's friends asked Opie a question and >referred to "his folks" (Andy and Aunt Bee). I assume "folks" just means >any family adults that one lives with? I always thought it just meant >parents. >The Untrained Voice My dad is from East Tennessee. When he uses the term "my folks" or "the folks" he can be referring to his entire family, OR his parents. He also uses it to refer to a group of people, as in "Those folks have a new car." Maybe this is a Southern or colloquial term? Here in California, the term "folks", while it is infrequently used, usually refers to your mother and father. Just an observation. Aunt Bee from Modesto, CA Jacquie Bauman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:16:48 -0500 From: "Margaret Bentle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: questions Why did Otis Campbell move his drinking to Mt. Pilot, year 1967? This is said in the episode about Opie writing about an unforgettable character. Did Otis ever come back to Mayberry to do his drinking? I thought Mayberry was a dry county. Then how in a B&W episode about the Jinx, Henry Bennett, Barney says he and Thelma Lou are going to have wine with dinner and then listen to Cole Porter. An in a color episode about the professor, Hubert St. John, he's they guy who says Aunt Bee reminds him of his late wife Ethel. Bee asks Hubert if he would like a glass of elderberry wine, she says it is Andy's own recipe. Also in the kitchen Aunt Bee tells Hubert that she moved in with Andy and Opie in 1959. Wouldn't Andy have to arrest himself for making the elderberry wine? BTW what is a Nestle Road Pie? If you have a recipe for this please send it to my e-mail address, so we won't clutter up the digest. Also so Allan won't have to tell us not to clutter up the digest. Are these just inconsistencies, because of different writers or what? Margaret Henry Bennett saying "I'm not a jinx!!!" to Barney. ______________________________________________________________________ The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this email for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:25:19 -0500 From: "Margaret Bentle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: teacher and reverend In the episode about the Morrison Sisters and the moonshine stills. Opie tells the sisters that Miss Johnson was his teacher. Someone asked if Helen Crump was always Opie's teacher, this means that she wasn't. Also in that show Andy says we need to get a few non-drinkers to help find the stills and he mentions Rev. Aiken. Was this show before Rev. Tucker or did they just get the names mixed up? Margaret ______________________________________________________________________ The information in this email and in any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy this message, delete any copies held on your systems and notify the sender immediately. You should not retain, copy or use this email for any purpose, nor disclose all or any part of its content to any other person. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 11:34:44 -0400 From: "Dan Goodwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Blue Ridge Country I've stumbled up on a good little magazine called Blue Ridge Country. Its obviously a regional publication for the Blue Ridge Mountain area. Anyway, it has a 7 page article in the October issue called: Looking for Andy, A Visit to Mt. Airy, NC. Lots of good stuff mentioned included the full agenda for Mayberry Days, 2001. I did get a chuckle out of a picture on p.35 where I saw David Browning's well known face staring back at me. The chuckle comes from the messed-up description under the photo: Mayberry Days Winners, 1994. The champ of the Opie look-alike contest for that year stands with Deputy Mayor David Browning and the winner of the Barney look-alike competition. Of course, David is Barney and who knows who the real Deputy Mayor is! So our beloved David is not only an MD (Mayberry Deputy) but he's also a DM (Deputy Mayor)! dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:28:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David and Angela Forbus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: V3 #247, character actor In regards to actors playing several roles, I was always curious about the gentleman that played on at least 2 episodes, and I believe 3, maybe more. He was Amzie Stricklands' husband (formerly Miss Rosemary) in the episode where Barney became a realtor. They were the couple who was interested in the Taylor's house. He was also a city councilman in Greendale, in the episode where Mayor Purdy wanted to recruit Barney as Sheriff of Greendale. I also think he was the salesman who sold Andy the mason jars for Aunt Bee's birthday. I've seen him in many 50's-60's era movies, as well, possibly some of Don Knotts' movies. Also, wasn't the lady who sold the bedjacket to Mayor Stoner the wife of Emmitt, the not so handy handyman, during the final colorized episodes? Curious, Curious..... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:02:37 +1000 From: "Paul Gilkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Mayberry meetings Dear Fellow WBMUTBB members: Just returned from California on a combination business and pleasure trip (not in that order). I got to meet for several hours with and have lunch with R.G. Armstrong (Old Man Flint) and his wife on Saturday, Aug. 18. He's an impressive man, tall and still lively at the young age of 84. He does suffer from the same macrodeegeneative disease of the eyes which plagues Don Knotts but he doens't let it bother him. I later went down the street from his home and knocked on the door of the home of Alice Ghostley, who replaced Frances Bavier on Mayberry R.F.D. in the third season. The man who answered the door said Alice didn't live there anymore, but the next-door neighbor said otherwise. Apparently her husband who answered the door wants to protect her privacy. I went later in the day to the Bookstar bookstore in Studio City to see Buddy Ebsen sign his new book, Kelly's Quest. He's still spry at 93 and recalls vividly not only his appearance as David Brown, Opie's Hobo Friend," but every other instance of his career dating to the early 1920s. One of the questions I asked him was posed in an earlier digest by Paul Mulik. Paul believed Buddy that Paul Henning, the creator and writer of Beverly Hillbillies, met Buddy on the set of Andy Griffith since Henning had just written the "Crime-Free Mayberry Episode." Buddy said he hadn't met Henning as a result of Andy Griffith's show. In casting for the role of Jed Clampett for Beverly Hillbillies, Buddy said Henning was looking for tall and short characters that could play off one another, and he was one of the tallest mentioned by casting folks. He went in, tested and got the part. In between signing books, Buddy answered questions about his roles for Disney, Davy Crockett, the Wizard of Oz, Barnaby Jones and some movies he appeared in. On Aug. 19 in Burbank, there was a Loving Lucy 2001 convention celebrating the 50th anniversary of "I Love Lucy." Got to meet with Janet Waldo who played "Amanda" in the "Wife for Andy" episode and Ruta Lee, Mayberry's Darlene Mason. Both are lovely ladies. I look forward to returning in October for the autograph show with Don Knotts, Betty Lynn, Howard Morris and Bernard Fox, and take in the sites where the show was filmed. Paul Gilkes WBMUTBB Sidney, OH ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V3 #248 ***************************** ************************************************** ~ 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
