"The Andy Griffith Show"

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This paper describes the "The Andy Griffith Show" in which Griffith playing Andy Taylor, a young sheriff of a small town in the American south. The show's visual and audio styles, theme song, tone, family values and characters, including barefoot Opie and Gomer Pyle are all described. The paper also discusses the work of Sheldon Leonard, the driving force behind many 60s Top Ten Nielsen television hits including not only this show but also "The Danny Thomas Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show".

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"Andy Griffith had two spin-offs that made it on their own. Jim Nabors took the character of the dim-witted hick, Gomer Pyle and ran with it in a sitcom featuring Gomer in the marines. Mayberry, R.F.D. was just "The Andy Griffith Show" retooled due to the departure of Andy in 1968. There was no rocket science involved. Leonard and Thomas took a successful idea and cloned it as long as the traffic would bear.
"The show had as its theme simple homespun stories of family values and simple people."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Maltin, L. The Great American Broadcast New York: New American Library 2000
• Wikipedia.org Andy Griffith retrieved 11-27-06 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andy_Griffith_Show#Going_out_on_top
• Wikipedia.org Sheldon Leonard retrieved 11-27-06 from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Leonard

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