MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (WGHP) — For generations of television viewers, Andy Griffith was Sheriff Andy Taylor, who was the wise and ...

Griffith, who would have turned 100 on June 1, eventually found success again with ‘Matlock’ ...

After a few years away from primetime, he realized that leaving his show might have been a mistake.

While fans of Andy Griffith know he was a man of many talents — singer, actor, musician, writer and director — few knew he ...

Rush, who played a friend of Ron Howard's Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show," died at 74 after a leukemia diagnosis ...

Like many performers, music was a common thread in Griffith’s life. He was part of the brass band at church, where minister Ed Mickey taught him to play the trombone and sing. Upon his 1944 graduation ...

Why Andy Griffith ‘Didn’t Like the Idea’ for ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ originally appeared on Parade. As unlikely as it seems, Andy Griffith almost didn’t star on The Andy Griffith Show. In a ...

More than five decades after The Andy Griffith Show ended, the cast still has fond memories of behind-the-scenes moments from the set. “He walked over,” she said of Griffith, “tugs up the waist of his ...

The Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy is one of many stops pilgrims make in the actor’s childhood hometown. It’s filled with memorabilia gathered by his longtime friend Emmett Forrest. CBS Photo ...

What do entertainers as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Rod Serling have in common? Each one adored The Andy Griffith Show. Serling, the brain behind The Twilight Zone, another enduring ...

The state House voted Wednesday to add an official state TV show to North Carolina's long list of state symbols. Lawmakers chose "The Andy Griffith Show" for the honor. The 1960s show is set in the ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. (Amazing America TV) — The town from The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry, is real, and you can go there! Well in a way. Tucked in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Mount Airy, ...