Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through an unnoticed stop sign in the town of Mayberry.Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through an unnoticed stop sign in the town of Mayberry.Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through an unnoticed stop sign in the town of Mayberry.
Ron Howard
- Opie Taylor
- (as Ronny Howard)
George Fenneman
- Face to Face interviewer
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAndy talks about losing his first wife in his conversation with Opie-something he would never do during the entire run of The Andy Griffith Show (1960). There is a single episode of the series in which mention is made of Andy's first wife, Opie's Mother. Andy and Opie speak of her in season Two's "Wedding Bells For Aunt Bee".
- GoofsWhen arriving in Mayberry, the children, Rusty and Linda are with. At 01:54, they are seen entering the Jail/Courthouse. When the action moves inside the building, the children are not present and are never seen again in the episode.
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"The Danny Thomas Show" ep "Danny Meets Andy Griffith" was a fine pilot for "The Andy Griffith Show"
In his book "The Boys", Ron Howard wrote of an anecdote about his 5-year-old self being told by the director (in this case, Sheldon Leonard) to cup his hands around a toy turtle he was carrying as he ran to his sheriff father's office so the camera wouldn't pick up on how fake it looked. Yes, this was a backdoor pilot of "The Andy Griffith Show" in which Griffith played Andy Taylor and Ronny, as he was known at the time, was his son Opie. Frances Bavier was also in this one though not as Aunt Bee but as a woman named Henrietta Perkins who complains to Andy about having to continually pay a fine for a suit someone she loved was buried in! Oh, the actual plot of this ep is Danny Williams is arrested for passing a stop sign and so he agrees to pay the fine after some haggling with the sheriff but then Andy keeps upping the price! There's also the town drunk, played here by Frank Cady who'd later become Sam Drucker in "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres", and another character involved in Bavier's storyline. I'll just say this was a funny pilot for that most classic of sitcoms "The Andy Griffith Show". Oh, and Ron's father Rance also appears near the end saying a couple of lines.
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- Runtime30 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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