The Andy Griffith Show: Andy Discovers America (1963)

★★★★ · Andy Discovers America · spurlock2355 · 2018-12-10

The Andy Griffith Show originated as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show,, Andy Taylor guest-starring on the show to arrest one of the characters – the spinoff became an entire series made up of 8 seasons and 249 episodes (IMDb). The Andy Griffith Show first aired on CBS in 1960 and ran until 1968. The show was corporately sponsored by General Foods, a former American manufacturer of grocery products that was bought out by another company in the 1980s (General Foods Corporation). The show is a comedy based on the main character Andy, a widowed sheriff of a fictional town of Mayberry in North…

★★★★ · Andy Makes a Mistake · Molly McGee · 2015-04-30

Andy does something dumb when he counsels Opie about his dry, boring history homework. He feels it's above his age level and tells Opie he felt the same when he was in school. Opie takes this the wrong way and tells the teacher he doesn't have to do history work because his dad said so. Since Andy's the sheriff, the kids take this as a get out of history free pass. The teacher, Miss Crump, catches up with Andy and reads him the riot act. To fix what he's done, Andy tells the boys stories about history that engage their attention, then lets them join his secret history "club" and act out the…