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Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show
By de Visé, Daniel
- ISBN
- 9781476747736 9781476747750
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Reviewed on September 1, 2015 | Arts and Humanities
Andy Griffith (1926–2012) and Don Knotts (1924–2006) worked together in the 1950s Broadway hit No Time for Sergeants. When Knotts heard that Griffith planned to appear in a TV series playing a small-town Southern sheriff, he asked Griffith if he could use a deputy. Thus was born one of TVs most beloved and enduring comedy teams. This book by a Knotts in-law shows how the magic was created. Knotts played a nervous, excitable but good-hearted character, while Griffith, the "hardest working straight ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
