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The Andy Griffith Show was an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. The show centered around Andy Taylor, (played by Andy Griffith), a rural sheriff who rarely carried a gun. The series was an immediate hit with its audience, and still enjoys success in syndication. Its whistled theme song ("The Fishin' Hole", by Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, with unsung lyrics by Everett Sloane) is quickly identified by a significant portion of the public.
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The Andy Griffith Show was a socially conscious television series that satirically focused on the issues that faced America during the 1960s. The show centered around Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith), a rural sheriff who rarely carried a gun[1]. The series was an immediate hit with its audience, and it still enjoys success in syndication because, even with five hundred channels, there's nothing else on.
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Last year, Griffith was voted by TV Land cable network as the No. 1 television father of all time. The network airs The Andy Griffith Show at least twice a day, and it remains one of the network’s most popular programs. "Andy is certainly as popular as any single star," says Tom Hill, TV Land’s creative director. "He’s probably right there with Lucille Ball. He is just timeless.
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