Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Bavier spent more than four decades working in stage, film and television, but for generations of fans she will always be ...

Former child actor Dennis Rush, best remembered by generations of viewers as Howie Pruitt on The Andy Griffith Show, died on ...

Former child star Keith Thibodeaux is mourning the loss of fellow actor Dennis Rush, his longtime friend and former co-star from The Andy Griffith Show. Thibodeaux, who famously played Little Ricky on ...

Most characters on The Andy Griffith Show were either wholesome to the core or comically wayward (think boozy Otis Campbell and mountain man Ernest T. Bass). However, in the sixth episode of the ...

On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...

In the late 1950s TV was relatively new in our rural community. Those in my age group felt very fortunate to have that “snowy” picture light up a screen when we turned the set on and allowed it to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before he was a revered director or even Richie Cunningham on Happy Days, Ron Howard was just a little redheaded boy named Opie ...

For most of his career, Andy Griffith leaned into wholesome roles, whether he was keeping the streets of Mayberry safe on The Andy Griffith Show or making sure the wrong person didn’t end up behind ...