Why We Say Someone in the Wrong Should Eat Crow
When someone finds the position they pridefully took on an issue is seriously wrong, we say it's time for them to 'eat crow.' Where did that come from?
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CBS Sued Over ‘Andy Griffith Show’ Theme
'The Andy Griffith Show' theme, 'The Fishing Hole,' is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the composers' families against CBS.
10 Classic TV Shows That Shouldn’t Be Remade
There are some classic TV shows that are were so well done the first time around and so memorable that they just shouldn't be messed with at all.
My 10 Favorite Episodes of ‘The Andy Griffith Show’
Here are my ten favorite visits to the mythical town of Mayberry, North Carolina, the setting for 'The Andy Griffith Show.' If producers hadn't decided a whistled version of the theme of The Andy Griffith Show was the right choice, you would have heard lyrics that began, “Well now take...
Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special to Air in Color
CBS is planning a Christmas special for The Andy Griffith Show with a pair of colorized episodes. First, it was I Love Lucy. Now, it'll be The Andy Griffith Show. CBS is planning a Christmas special that will include two classic episodes of The Andy Griffith Show colorized from their...
Remembering Andy Griffith
The image of a father and son walking towards their favorite fishing hole is one of the classic images of television. Andy Griffith, the actor who portrayed that father to Ronny Howard’s Opie, died Tuesday at 86 at his home in North Carolina.
Do My Eyes Deceive Me?
It’s Saturday morning and TV Land is showing something other than Bonanza and Gunsmoke? n fact, it appears that they’re running The Andy Griffith Show through 8:00pm tonight. Oddly enough, unless the listings are just wrong, every episode being shown today seems to have been produced in 1961. It’s entirely...
Reboot
“Canon is only important to certain people because they have to cling to their knowledge of the minutiae.” —Leonard Nimoy I have not seen the new Star Trek movie, yet, but you don’t have to have watched it to have heard about the big controversy it’s apparently causing among diehard...
Who Was That Guy?
So you’re watching a television show or a movie and you see an actor whose name escapes you. In the old days, you could always catch the name in the credits. These days, you’ll need eagle-eye vision and a magnifying glass. Probably a DVR, too. And a little luck. That’s...
Gil’s Gone, I’m Done
Last Thursday, in a heavily-promoted episode of CSI:, William Petersen’s character of Gil Grissom left the Las Vegas crime lab, presumably for the last time, but in TV, you never know. It was a nice episode, maybe a little sappy at times, but when the main star of a show...
It’s His Dad, Not An Animal’s Hand!
Every now and then, I’ll switch on closed captioning, just to see what displays. I just watched an episode of The Andy Griffith Show, the one called “Citizen’s Arrest,” in which Gomer arrests Barney for making an illegal U-turn. In one scene, Opie tells Gomer that Barney got angry and...
Don Knotts: 1924-2006
More sad news: Hollywood has lost one of classic television's most beloved stars. Don Knotts, whose bumbling Deputy Barney Fife has entertained generations, died Friday night. He was 81. Knotts' entertainment career began shortly after graduating high school. Despite some early failures, he made it to the stage in "No...