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   Andy Griffith

   It was reported in an interview with Entertainment Tonight that Griffith traveled from his Manteo, North Carolina, home to Los Angeles to visit a terminally ill Don Knotts in the hospital as Knotts succumbed to complications of lung cancer. ... In October 2008, Griffith appeared in a video on funnyordie.com with Ron Howard reprising their roles as Andy and Opie Taylor to encourage people to vote and endorsing Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
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   Mayberry

   Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), Sheriff and widowed father ... Griffith has also indicated that nearby Pilot Mountain, N.C., also in Surry County, North Carolina, inspired him in creating the town.
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   The Andy Griffith Show

   The Andy Griffith Show came about after Andy Griffith appeared on The Danny Thomas Show (aka Make Room for Daddy), in an episode titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", February 15, 1960, when Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) went on vacation on his show and was pulled over by rural Sheriff Andy Taylor.
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   Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

   See also: The Andy Griffith Show ... It said merely that the oldest, most basic, least sophisticated sort of sweetness could redeem even the toughest modern types".
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   Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show)

   The premiere episode of the Andy Griffith Show begins with Andy telling Opie he was raised by Aunt Bee, who is about to return to Mayberry after a five year sojourn in Morgantown, West Virginia (the real-life hometown of Don Knotts, the actor who portrayed Barney Fife). ... He would reproof transgressors by enabling them to draw their own moral conclusions.
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   Matlock (TV series)

   Andy Griffith's prior career as a comic often showed through in things that Matlock did or said. ... Unlike her boss's former co-worker, Conrad McMasters, both Matlock and Stone had at least something in common, from driving Ford automobiles to singing classic songs (it is also interesting that Huston is a very good singer herself), including lullabies.
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   Barney Fife

   Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show ... "That badge means something!
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   New York Yankees

   On July 1, 1990, pitcher Andy Hawkins became the first Yankee ever to lose despite throwing a no-hitter. ... Howard W. Rosenberg, a baseball historian and author of Cap Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something (Tile Books, 2003) has found that the official count of Yankee captains failed to include Hall of Famer Clark Griffith, the 1903-1905 captain, and Kid Elberfeld, the captain from 1906-1907, with 1913 Manager Frank Chance a strong circumstantial candidate to have been captain that year as well.
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   Mount Airy, North Carolina

   In the front yard stands a c.1865 hexagonal gazebo made of wood poles and intervening laurel root walls. ... Andy Griffith (1926-), American Actor
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    Dawson's Creek

    Syndicated columnist John Leo said the show should be called "When Parents Cringe," and went on to write "The first episode contains a good deal of chatter about breasts, genitalia, masturbation, and penis size. ... | Andy Griffith | Mr. Brooks' Friend |

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• Mayberry,
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• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,
• Andy Taylor (The Andy Griffith Show),
• Matlock (TV series),
• Barney Fife,
• New York Yankees,
• Mount Airy, North Carolina,
• Dawson's Creek