The Andy Griffith Show Home Page

These pages are dedicated to my all-time favorite TV show. The Andy Griffith Show debuted at 9:30 on the evening of Monday, October 3, 1960, and ran for 249 episodes, 90 of which were color. Its spin-off episode was on The Danny Thomas Show where Danny was arrested by a sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. The Andy Griffith Show has not been off the air since it went into syndication a quarter of a century ago.

I have nearly all the episodes on tape. I need about 10 of the color episodes to complete my collection. If you know where I can get these, lemme know. Also, if you know where I can get a complete collection of the full episodes (the old 25-minute length instead of the new 22-minute length (gol-dang advertising)) including the tags, lemme know. I know United American Video has released a few full episodes, but I need them all! :)

Menu of other pages

Books about The Andy Griffith Show and such.

MissPoovey's fun TAGS stuff This is a fun little collection of stuff. It's like a stroll down Main St. in Mayberry on a Summer Saturday night.

The Barney Fife Boogie A tune about Barn, written and recorded by George Dare and Sharry Han.

TAGS refrigerator magnets! They also have many other categories of magnets.

The Andy Griffith Show Trivia Game board game.

Mayberry, My Home town (Somebody eltses web site)

Home page of the Who's Been Messin' Up The Bulletin Board? chapter of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watcher Club

Episode Guide - Under construction! I don't have a lot of time to work on this, so it'll be slow getting finished. You'll see a few "bug pointers" to myself. I wasn't going to release this guide until it was all finished, but I thought people might like to at least see what I'm creating.

Mayberry Trivia

Movie Madness Merchandise

Has autographed pictures of some TAGS cast members. Warning: These pages use a ton of images. Unless you have a fast connection, do yourself a favor and turn off the loading of images. Also, the page containing the list of autographed photos is huge. Netscape with 3M ran out of memory loading the page.

TV Theme Songs - has 2 versions of TAGS theme.

LMC SatCom, Inc., uplinker of TBS.

Martiny Interprises - a very Mayberry company

Buy TAGS posters. 

Menu of stuff on this page

Some Mayberry stats

Odd facts known by few

Contradictions

Things Barney says wrong

Poem written on the side of the bank

Song written about Barney

Song written for the Mayberry Beauty Pageant by Floyd

The Andy Griffith Show theme song

The map

Some of my favorite quotes

About this site

Gratuitous links

• Number of times Barney wore a dress: 3.
• Number of times Barney accidentally fired his pistol: 8. 3 into courthouse floor, 1 into courthouse ceiling, 2 into the air, 1 into Andy's front porch, and 1 into a tire on a squad car.
• Number of panes of glass and/or windows broken by someone: 23.
• Percentage of that glass broken by Ernest T. Bass: 78%.
• Things wrong with the car Barney bought from "Hubcaps" Lesh for $297.50: plugs, points, bearings, valves, rings, fuel pump, starter switch, ignition wires, water pump, oil pump, clutch, clutch bearings, clutchplate, brake lining, brake shoes, radiator hose cover, sawdust in the transmission. And it could stand a good wash.
• Number of stoplights in Mayberry: 1.
• Number of miles on Aunt Bee's car: 145,000.
• Number of steps up to the Taylors' front porch: 2.
• Number of steps up to the church (which isn't air-conditioned): 6.
• Number of jars of Miracle Salve delivered to Andy's house: 946.

• The squad car is a Ford Galaxie.
• Visiting hours at the jail are from 2:00PM to 4:00PM.
• Written on the inside of Barney's 8th grade history book:
Bernard P. Fife.
This book belongs to Bernard P. Fife.
If lost or stolen, please return to
Bernard P. Fife, signed Bernard P. Fife.
• Andy doesn't own a lawn mower - he borrows one from his neighbors, the Wilsons.
• The stop sign on Spring Street falls down a lot.
• Barney once frisked his mother at a roadblock. This is the only time she appeared on the show. She had one line: "But Barney, I'm your mother!"
• Andy's desk in the courthouse faces east.
• Barney bought his parents a concrete, steel-reinforced septic tank for their anniversary one year.
• Andy and Barney are cousins (sometimes anyway).
• The first words spoken on The Andy Griffith Show were: "Anybody know why these two people should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace."
• Barney's landlady is Mrs. Mendelbright (pronounced "Mrs. BrendelMright"by Barney once when he was gassed).
• Barney the realtor thinks he can sell the Taylors' house for $24,000.
• The bank vault has a back door (the real door hadn't been opened in 15 years because they lost the combination and the company that made it went out of business, although a crook once opened the door).
• Floyd finally got Andy's sideburns even.
• Barney was the town band's standby cymbalist (they had no regular cymbalist).
• Aunt Bee wears glasses when she does sewing and stuff.

• Barney has 3 middle names: P., Milton, and Oliver.
• Miss Clara Edwards is also called Mrs. Clara Johnson and Bertha.
• Goober Pyle's last name was Beasley once (as were a bunch of other people).
• Floyd Lawson's last name was Colby once.
• The Taylor house has 3 different addresses: 14 Maple, 24 Elm, and 332 Maple.
• Sometimes Floyd has a wife and son. Sometimes he is a widower with no children.
• Distances to Mt. Pilot: 12 miles, an hour's drive, a 30-minute drive.
• Distances to Raleigh: 50 or 60 miles. But it once took Emmett 5 hours to drive home from Raleigh.
• Goober locks up the station at 6:00PM, but the sign says it opens at 7:00AM and closes at 7:00PM.
• The squad car's license plate is DC-269 in one episode instead of JL-327.
• Anj and Barn graduated from Mayberry Union High in both '45 and '48.
• It's also called Mayberry Central High.
• Oh, and as Randy Everette points out, if they graduated in either of those years, then how did they manage to see active European duty in WW II (Barn killed Germans and Anj learned French when he was over there during the war)?
• Sometimes Aunt Bee cooks her rib roast at 300 degrees and sometimes at 350.
• The easternmost north window in the courthouse seemed to have moved a few feet to the east at some point.
• Jeffery Swain points out that in episode 212, "Barney Comes to Mayberry", Barney arrives on a Union Pacific Railroad train. This railroad only ran west of Chicago to California.

• compelsions == compulsions
• inovert == introvert
• Smith Brothers Institution == The Smithsonian
• heeliocopter == helicopter
• kleptomenerac == kleptomaniac
• Einsteen == Einstein
• inarculated == innoculated (he really meant incarcerated)
• extra-sensitive perception == ESP
• schizofreeniac == schizophrenic
• nave == naive
• fire by constriction == fire by combustion
• viz-a-viz == vis-à-vis ("you know - hand-to-hand")
• boodoor == boudoir
• Sigmund Frude == Sigmund Freud
• demore == demure
• noblesse oblage == noblesse oblige
• therapetic == therapeutic

Thanks to Steven R. Rice for these additions:
• electronal == electronic
• reveng == revenge (he misspelled it)
• safairy == safari
• A Capella (title of song) == a capella (without instruments)
• larnyx == larynx
• refinishing school == finishing school
• apathy == apathy
• silver spoon in their hand == silver spoon in their mouth
• mozz-uh-rella == mozzarella
• torn calcium == torn cartilage

Thanks to jm1064@cris.com for these:
• childish stories == children's stories
• patula abondabe == it's in the brain, not the leg

In a jailhouse, down in Dixie, fightin' crime and risking life,
Dwelled a sheriff and his buddy, pistol-packing Barney Fife.
Oh, my darin', oh, my darin', oh, my darin' Barney Fife.
He's a deadly crime-stopper, what a copper, Barney Fife.
One day there came a-ridin' two bad men to rob a bank.
But Fife was tricky, a dead-eye dickey. Now they're locked up in the tank.
(Andy added this part:)
Oh, my Barney, oh, my Barney, had a jail and couldn't lock it.
Had one bullet for his pistol, had to keep it in his pocket.

Hail to thee, Miss Mayberry,
All hail to thee, all hail,
Your loveliness, your majesty,
Brings joy to every male,
All hail, all hail, all hail, all hail,
All hail, all hail, all hail, all hail,
etc...

 Here is a conceived map of Mayberry County.

• "Maude! Al! If those hamburgers are ruined, I won't be responsible!" --Floyd (really needs the visual of Floyd hiking up his pants to be complete)
• "Boy, giraffes are selfish." --Barn
• "Pigs been in here too, Pa?" --Ope
• "She's an eight-cylinder... She'll take eight." --Gome
• "" --Mr. Schwump
• "Creechture?! Who you callin' a creechture?!" --Ernest T.
• "I cain't hep it, I cain't hep it." --Anj
• "I need to get out of the house more often." --Aunt Bee
• "Fly a quail through here and every one of 'em would point." --Barn, illustrating his point that all the women at Mrs. Wiley's party are dogs

Mayberry, as the TV audience knows it, is a two-dimensional, black & white world, whose only color comes from the people that live there. Well, unless you're one of the few people who instantly think "color episodes" when Mayberry is mentioned.

In light of this, I've removed the stupid graphics for the gratuitous links, some of which were huge. The most animated thing one should see in Mayberry is Barney or Floyd. So, no animated GIF's, no annoying and confusing frames, no ShockWave, no Java. This is Mayberry, folks, pure and simple.

Lots of luck to you and yers!