Due to the almost simple-minded nature of the humor in The Andy Griffith Show, I found this early-1960s Sit-Com only marginally entertaining and, often enough, I actually thought that it pushed the cuteness of down-home, country-fied wholesomeness to the point of being quite irritating.
I know that a helluva lot of people really dig this show, but, I basically found it to be just "ok" and only once in a while did it ever rise above being more than just a run-of-the-mill comedy show.
Set in North Carolina in the quaint, little town of Mayberry (where crime appears to be almost non-existent), the wide-grinning, bumpkin-of-a-sheriff, Andy Taylor, and his bungling, over-reactive deputy, Barney Fife, take care of the business of law-enforcement where there really is no business of this sort to speak of.
This show's episodes are really quite unrealistic. They nostalgically hanker, with a great longing, for a time-gone-by where people implicitly trusted one another and no one thought anything of leaving their doors unlocked even when they weren't at home.
Please, don't get me wrong here - I don't completely condemn this show. But, from my perspective (being so jaded by the police shows of today) this program's episodes certainly did leave a whole lot to be desired when it came to taking an occasional reality check.
Filmed in b&w, The Andy Griffith Show first aired on television in 1960 and, until its appeal finally petered out, it continued to run quite successfully for 8 solid seasons.
I know that a helluva lot of people really dig this show, but, I basically found it to be just "ok" and only once in a while did it ever rise above being more than just a run-of-the-mill comedy show.
Set in North Carolina in the quaint, little town of Mayberry (where crime appears to be almost non-existent), the wide-grinning, bumpkin-of-a-sheriff, Andy Taylor, and his bungling, over-reactive deputy, Barney Fife, take care of the business of law-enforcement where there really is no business of this sort to speak of.
This show's episodes are really quite unrealistic. They nostalgically hanker, with a great longing, for a time-gone-by where people implicitly trusted one another and no one thought anything of leaving their doors unlocked even when they weren't at home.
Please, don't get me wrong here - I don't completely condemn this show. But, from my perspective (being so jaded by the police shows of today) this program's episodes certainly did leave a whole lot to be desired when it came to taking an occasional reality check.
Filmed in b&w, The Andy Griffith Show first aired on television in 1960 and, until its appeal finally petered out, it continued to run quite successfully for 8 solid seasons.