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The Andy Griffith Show - Christmas Episode, 1960 - Andy Griffith, Elinor Donahue, Ron Howard, Don Knotts and Frances Bavier

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Premiered: 1960, on CBS

Rating: TV-G

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Premise: Gentle humor and genuinely likable characters made Mayberry a beloved fixture on the TV landscape. A Top 10 hit throughout its eight-year run (it went out at No. 1), this low-key, down-home sitcom harkened back to a simpler time and place. Mayberry may be a state of mind, but the sunny optimism and simple virtues it represents have actually been set in stone--in a Raleigh, N.C., statue depicting Sheriff Andy Taylor and his son, Opie. `[The show's] central theme was love,' Griffith said.

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