(Thanks, Mac!)įinally, here are a few memories worth watching, particularly if you only know Griffith from The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock:Īndy Griffith's 1953 comedy routine, "What it Was, Was Football" A Face in the Crowd is also scheduled to run on TCM Thursday, July 5 (or, if you prefer, the early hours of Friday, July 6) at 1:45 a.m. ET with Onionhead, co-starring Walter Matthau and Joey Bishop. ET, TCM presents 1975's Hearts of the West with Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin and Blythe Danner. The two men - and most of the other Broadway actors - reprised their roles in the 1958 Warner Bros. It was during the stage adaptation that Griffith met his long-time friend and Andy Griffith Show co-star Don Knotts. (A side note: Andy Griffith first starred in the one-hour, 1955 United States Steel Hour teleplay adaptation of Mac Hyman novel, A Face in the Crowd, and was also cast in the expanded version of the play which debuted on Broadway later that year. ET with the aforementioned A Face in the Crowd. Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a four-film memorial tribute on July 18, starting at 8 p.m. ET, for Biography Remembers: Don Knotts.) ET, the Bio Channel presents the one-hour Biography Remembers: Andy Griffith. The episode - which also featured Ron Howard and Frances Bavier (but not as Aunt Bee) - served as the backdoor pilot for The Andy Griffith Show. ET showing of a 1966 episode of Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. - a spin-off of The Andy Griffith Show - in which Opie runs away from Mayberry to join the Marines ("Opie joins the Marines," Season 2, Episode 26) and finally, an episode of Make Room for Daddy ("Danny Meets Andy Griffith," Season 7, Episode 20), in which star Danny Thomas gets pulled over for driving through a stop sign by the affable sheriff of a little town called Mayberry, at 2:30 p.m. ET by the Mod Squad episode "Big George" (Season 4, Episode 24) a 2 p.m. First up is a Hawaii Five-O episode ("I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot!" Season 5, Episode 13) guest-starring Griffith and Joyce Van Patten as grifters who inadvertently get mixed up with the mob. ET on Hallmark Movie Channel.īeginning at noon ET on Wednesday, July 4, MeTV presents a great mix of shows guest starring Andy Griffith. The Hallmark Movie Channel is serving up a Matlock marathon on Wednesday, July 4 from 6 a.m. ET, and Saturday and Sunday, July 7 and 8, from 11 a.m. TV Land is presenting some of The Andy Griffith Show's most memorable episodes in back-to-back blocks Wednesday, July 4 from 8 a.m. Among the planned (and completely coincidental) programming highlights: Various TV outlets are remembering Andy Griffith in the coming days. In 1996 he released his most successful recording, I Love to Tell the Story: 25 Timeless Hymns, for which he won a Grammy. He taught high school music for several years, and was an accomplished singer. Griffith graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in music in 1949. Griffith made his film debut in the 1957 Elia Kazan film, A Face in the Crowd, opposite Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Tony Franciosa and Lee Remick. After The Andy Griffith Show, Griffith starred in a string of forgettable series until finding success with Matlock, in which he portrayed a small-town Southern lawyer.
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