Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show (36 page)

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“I have Will Stockdale”:
Hedda Hopper, “Cotton-Pickin' Talk Dandy for Andy,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 13, 1961.

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“as nervous as a cat”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“this thin little man”:
Griffith, remarks at the Don Knotts memorial.

4. Nervous Men

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“Sheee-it, yes”:
Knotts, undated handwritten notes.

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“Mr
. DaCosta?”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“It's there or it's not”:
Griffith, interview by King.

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You can't win”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“He played Stockdale”:
Collins,
Andy Griffith Story
, 45.

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“Everyone was there”:
Dick Linke, interview by author, November 17, 2014.

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“We had similar backgrounds”:
Bill King, “25 Years Later, Mayberry's Never Looked So Good,”
The Atlanta Constitution
, October 3, 1985.

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“They talked about everybody”:
Kay Knotts, interview by author.

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“One thing we've talked”:
“TV-Radio,”
Newsweek
, October 23, 1961.

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“she was the big girl”:
Kay Knotts, interview by author.

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“from prominent families”:
Powell, “Andy Griffith Left Imprint.”

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“I had finally gotten”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“I didn't feel he”:
Earle Hyman, interview by author, January 25, 2013.

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“Griffith could give us”:
Collins,
Andy Griffith Story
, 47.

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“I knew I had to do”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

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“Remember all those people
”:
Gilbert Millstein, “Strange Chronicle of Andy Griffith,”
The New York Times
, June 2, 1957.

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“He became the part”:
“Andy Griffith Biography,”
http://www.biography.com/people/andy-griffith-9542091.

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“I did a lot of things”:
Millstein, “Strange Chronicle of Andy Griffith.”

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“This was more like it”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“Is it funny?”:
Griffith, remarks at the Don Knotts memorial.

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“they brought out two stools”:
Lee Pfeiffer,
The Official Andy Griffith Show Scrapbook
(New York: Citadel, 1994), 18.

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“monologues of [Don's] own”:
Steve Allen,
Hi-Ho Steverino!: My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of TV
(Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade, 1992), 150.

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“His habit would be”:
Kay Knotts, interview by author.

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“Not Don”:
Richard Gehman, “A Mouse of a Different Color,”
TV Guide
, May 12, 1962.

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“My mind went”:
Knotts with Metz,
Barney Fife
, 99.

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“Where are you going”:
Tom Poston, remarks at Don Knotts memorial service, May 4, 2006.

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“Most of the people”:
Sherwin Bash, interview by author, October 19, 2012.

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“I remember him telling”:
Kay Knotts, interview by author.

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“I would see Kay”:
Bash, interview by author, October 19, 2012.

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“When I questioned”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“There were a few people”:
Merritt, interview by author, April 19, 2013.

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“He was just taking”:
Mike King, interview by author, November 5, 2014.

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Andy would not again appear:
Not, at least, as a guest of the city. Andy did return to town more than once to speak at graduations and other semipublic events.

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“Dick, you have a”:
Linke, interview by author, November 17, 2014.

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“Now, no matter what happens”:
Collins,
Andy Griffith Story
, 52.

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“She'd just stand there
”:
Martha Sherrill, “Mayberry for a Day,”
The Washington Post
, October 1, 1990.

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“Well, we was sittin'”:
Unknown author, “Doin' What Comes Natural,”
TV Guide
, October 1, 1960.

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“that's fine”:
Hal Humphrey, “Andy Griffith's Shadow Speaks,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 4, 1966.

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“half a hit”:
Sheldon Leonard,
And the Show Goes On
(New York: Limelight, 1995), vii.

5. Andy Takes a Deputy

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“I'd always been afraid”:
Richard Kelly,
The Andy Griffith Show
(Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1981)
,
15.

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“Mr. Lastfogel”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

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“Yeah, he did a record”:
Sheldon Leonard, interview by Sam Denoff for the Archive of American Television, July 11, 1996.

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“I was told”:
Leonard,
And the Show Goes On
, vii.

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“We went to his”:
Leonard, interview by Denoff.

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“Why all this advance”:
Lee Edson, “Cornball with the Steel-Trap Mind,”
TV Guide
, February 3, 1961.

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“I didn't realize it”:
Leonard, interview by Denoff.

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“What is this magic”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
, 16.

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“The first day”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

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“That's a hell of”:
Griffith, interview by King, June 1, 1996.

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“prodded me with questions”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“Backstage, Jean would have”:
Rance Howard, interview by author, October 25, 2012.

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“I'm a graduate”:
Uncredited, “Frances Bavier at Home,”
TV Guide
, January 11, 1964.

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“I worked out”:
Bash, interview by author, October 19, 2012.

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“Television isn't a director's”:
Aaron Ruben, interview by Morrie Gelman for the Archive of American Television, February 25, 1999.

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“I hate those three-camera”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

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“Don and I used to do”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
,
27.

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“beating our brains out”:
Earle Hagen, interview by Jon Burlingame, November 17, 1997.

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“one of the most”:
Knotts,
Barney Fife
audio.

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“They came walking”:
Bruce Bilson, remarks at Mayberry Days festival, Mount Airy, NC, September 24, 2011.

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“Andy and this man”:
Ron Howard, remarks at the Don Knotts memorial service, May 4, 2006.

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“There was such an electricity”:
Thirty Years of Andy: A Mayberry Reunion
, aired October 3, 1990, on TBS.

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“We liked it”:
Bruce Bilson, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

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“You'll be in the
top ten”:
Griffith, interview by King, June 1, 1996.

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“By that episode”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

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“To be a straight man”:
Bill King, “Memories of Mayberry,”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, January 24, 1982.

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“Our timing was alike”:
Knotts, interview by Rutkowski.

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“Hey, Andy”:
Bruce Bilson, interview by author, October 31, 2012.

6. A Hollywood Friendship

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“Ah want you”:
Bash, interview by author, October 19, 2012.

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“I said, ‘Boy”:
Bilson, interview by author, October 31, 2012.

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“He had never directed”:
Bridget Sweeney, interview by author, December 16, 2013.

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“were feeling around”:
Bilson, remarks at Mayberry Days.

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“Hal, this might”:
Uncredited, “Mayberry's Bon Vivant,”
TV Guide
, December 29, 1962.

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“It was sort of
”:
Elinor Donahue, interview by Jennifer Howard, April 6, 2006.

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“There's things ah can”:
Charles Denton, “Andy Griffith Knows His Limitations!,”
Hartford Courant
, August 14, 1960.

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“Andy would say”:
Elinor Donahue, interview by Jennifer Howard, April 25, 2006.

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“We spent every day”:
Griffith, remarks at the Don Knotts memorial.

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“You know, you're the”:
Dan Harrison and Bill Habeeb,
Inside Mayberry
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1994), 7.

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“You never knew”:
Knotts with Metz,
Barney Fife
, 125.

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“We never ate”:
Bilson, remarks at the Mayberry Days.

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“kind of like Ed”:
Ron Howard, interview by author, March 15, 2014.

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“Barney ran around”:
The Andy Griffith Show Reunion
, aired February 10, 1993, on CBS.

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I remember my dad”:
Dixie Nann Griffith, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

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“All these characters”:
White, “Behind the Badge.”

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“Barbara's life changed”:
Edwards King, interview by author.

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“He worked very long”:
Karen Knotts, interview by author, October 17, 2012.

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“I'm convinced my dad”:
Tom Knotts, interview by author, November 10, 2014.

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“We had a very”:
Kay Knotts, interview by author.

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“It was sort of”:
Sherwin Bash, interview by author, October 9, 2013.

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“Ooh, you're so cute”:
Karen Knotts,
Tied Up in Knotts
, performed September 28, 2012, in Mount Airy, NC.

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“Listen to me”:
Betty Lynn, interview by author, October 26, 2012.

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“Barney was such a”:
Betty Lynn, interview by Neal Brower, September 29, 2012.

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“After Elinor left”:
Lynn, interview by author.

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“I got tears”:
Elinor Donahue, interview by author, November 1, 2012.

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“a script came in”:
Rance Howard, interview by author, October 25, 2012.

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“Anywhere you are”:
Ken Beck and Jim Clark,
Mayberry Memories
(Nashville: Rutledge Hill, 2000), 60.

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“I was visiting”:
Karen Knotts, interview by author.

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“The never-ending maw”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
, 109.

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“We'd sit around”:
Ruben, interview by Gelman.

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“from the imaginations”:
Pfeiffer,
Official Andy Griffith Show Scrapbook
, 22.

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“Andy took him
”:
Sweeney, interview by author.

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“When do I get”:
Lynn, interview by author.

7. A Slight Thread of Insanity

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“Somewhere in the genes”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
, 108.

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“What is it?”:
Ron Howard, interview by author.

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“It was pretty funny”:
Stephen J. Spignesi,
Mayberry: My Hometown:
The Ultimate Guidebook to America's Favorite TV Small Town
(Ann Arbor, MI: Popular Culture Ink, 1991), 227.

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“You wouldn't know”:
Howard, remarks at the Don Knotts memorial.

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“a community can be”:
Ron Howard, interview by Gary Rutkowski, October 18, 2006.

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“His and Barbara's”:
Sweeney, interview by author.

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“Hey, Reggie”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
, 37.

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“I frankly prefer movies”:
Don Quigg, “Knotts Sold on California,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 13, 1962.

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“They did a routine”:
Stephen Cox and Kevin Marhanka,
The Incredible Mr. Don Knotts
(Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 2008), 51.

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“You've got a funny”:
Knotts with Metz,
Barney Fife
, 137.

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“I never worked with”:
Bilson, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

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“It was way off”:
Mike King, interview by author, April 25, 2013.

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“For writers to listen”:
Kelly,
Andy Griffith Show
, 110.

8. Men in a Hurry

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“order a cup of coffee”:
Griffith, interview by King, June 1, 1996.

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“Waal, you see”:
Unknown author, “The Sylacauga Flash,”
TV Guide
, March 21, 1964.