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The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by."The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.

One of TV's most durable and wholesome sitcoms is about widower Steve Douglas and his boys, who shared a house with their maternal grandfather, and later, their crotchety uncle. The series was originally scheduled to be a vehicle for the Lennon Sisters of 'Lawrence Welk Show' fame. Characters came and went, but this was an endearing, highly rated series throughout its 1960-72 run; when it moved from ABC to CBS in 1965, Mike, the eldest, was written out, and replaced by adopted son Ernie.

A strong, but at times tempestuous interracial friendship between two Southern boys during the '30s is chronicled in this drama.

Humor from ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his sidekick Jerry Mahoney was followed by Joseph Dunninger's mind-reading act.

Modeled after the 1954 MGM musical, but set in contemporary times, a spirited café waitress learns---after the fact---that she married into a parentless but self-sufficient brood of rowdy brothers (ranging in age from 12 to 27) who regularly break into song-and-dance routines (the original music was by Jimmy Webb).

A resilient attorney in L.A. starts to rebuild her life and career after her husband leaves for greener pastures, taking the firm -- and most of their clients -- with him. Blessed with one loyal associate, she assembles a crew of seasoned, if not altogether aboveboard, counselors who share her zeal for justice in the area of family law.