Frances Bavier comes to see Andy, but she is not Aunt Bee she is the widow Henrietta Perkins. But the sot isn’t Otis, and Hal Smith isn’t playing him. The town drunk shambles into frame, announces, “I’m under arrest!” and locks himself in a cell. The episode, concocted by Danny Thomas producer Sheldon Leonard as a cheap way to float a pilot for a series he was pitching CBS, contained bits and pieces of what would become legend. “Name ain’t Clem,” Andy replied, with a wide smile. “You picked on the wrong guy this time, Clem,” Danny warned. Griffith’s character, a backwater lawman, had caught Danny Thomas running a red light. He was escorting the show’s star and family into a soundstage town called Mayberry. “Tonight’s special guest,” the announcer intoned, “…Andy Griffith.” The lens descended to a street, where the special guest, wearing a khaki sheriff’s uniform, sat in a Ford Galaxie 500 rigged as a squad car. The screen filled with a sketch of a man who looked like a sinister ventriloquist’s dummy. he halted Tuesday evening’s card game so he and his guests could watch that night’s episode. NBC was about to cancel Steve Allen, so Don and Pat were looking for work Pat was up for a guest role on The Danny Thomas Show. Don and Pat had become friends as members of the cast of The Steve Allen Show, where Don had attained semi-fame as the Nervous Man. The evening of February 15, 1960, actor Don Knotts and his wife, Kay, were at Pat Harrington’s house in Los Angeles, California, playing bridge. “After a thorough inventory of every weapon, the missing Beretta 9mm handgun was found.How the Andy Griffith Show Unleashed Primal Comedic Force on 1960s TV Close “After a previous audit failed to locate the weapon, current interim Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown ordered another inventory to be completed on the sheriff’s property room yesterday,” said a Dallas County sheriff’s department news release. The problem seemed to be downstream from her. Looks like Valdez, as she had claimed, had properly turned in the gun when she retired. 21: “Lupe Valdez’s missing gun found - in Dallas County Sheriff’s Department property room.” We got them under this Dallas Morning News headline on Aug. 15 as this story developed, the editorial deserved the headline now on an Abbott campaign billboard.Īnd then the earth continued to rotate around the sun and days came and went, and we got some answers to The Mystery of the Former Sheriff’s Missing Gun. So the story we have developing now around a candidate seeking to lead our second-largest state is either carelessness on her part for not returning the weapon upon retirement, or carelessness on the part of the department for not keeping track of a weapon that was properly returned.” … And we ask because it is a big deal when a police officer loses track of a weapon. “We ask because no one seems to know,” the Dallas paper said the editorial. 15 editorial in the wake of news about how the Dallas County sheriff’s department couldn’t find former Sheriff Valdez’s service pistol, a 9 mm Beretta. The billboard also tells us the question was posed in a Dallas Morning News editorial. The billboard message - and we’ll work toward why it’s a misleading message - is this: “If we can’t trust Lupe Valdez with a gun, can we trust her with the governorship?” He's running for re-election against Democrat Lupe Valdez, a former Dallas County sheriff. The billboard is labeled as a “Political ad paid for by Texans for Greg Abbott, PO Box 308, Austin, TX 78767.” Abbott's our current governor. On the I-35 billboard, Deputy Fife, with a bewildered and befuddled countenance, is shown fumbling with a pistol and a bullet. And Ron - then Ronnie - Howard was Taylor’s son, Opie. Quick refresher for those of you who have forgotten or never knew Fife: Portrayed by the late Don Knotts, perhaps America’s finest Shakespearean actor, Fife was the beloved bewildered and befuddled deputy on "The Andy Griffith Show." Griffith portrayed Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor and Knotts was his deputy.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |