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978-0-89587-043-8
0-89587-043-6
$9.95 paperback
5 1/2" x 8"
286 pages black-and-white photographs, index
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"The Andy Griffith
Show" was one of the most successful series in television history.
It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight
prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over thirty years later, the 249
episodes still remain some of the most frequently watched syndicated
shows on television. In this book, Richard Kelly makes clear to
everyone, from the occasional fan to the serious student of television,
why "The Andy Griffith Show" is still so beloved.
In Part One, Kelly quotes
from in-depth interviews with most of the principals and traces the
development of the show from conception to conclusion.
In Part Two, he discusses
both the contributions made to the series by some of its best writers
and the show's innovations in television comedy.
Part Three updates the
careers of various cast members. It also discusses the phenomenal growth
of interest in the show and gives information about organizations that
have been formed to celebrate the series.
The final sections include a
sample script called "The Sermon for Today" and an unfilmed
script called "The Wandering Minstrel." The book ends with
capsule summaries of all the episodes in the order in which they
originally appeared.
about the author
Richard Kelly, a native New Yorker, was a graduate student at Duke
University in Durham, North Carolina, when he became a devoted fan of
"The Andy Griffith Show." Since then, Dr. Kelly has gone on to
become an English professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
His specialty is in nineteenth-century English literature and he has
written biographies of Douglas Jerrold, Lewis Carroll, George Du Maurier,
and Graham Greene. In 1975, Dr. Kelly decided to depart from his
Victorian humor to write a critical study of his favorite television
show. In 1981, The Andy Griffith Show was first published. Since
then, it has been reprinted nearly a dozen times and sold over forty
thousand copies.
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