02095cam a2200385 i 4500 246352788 TxAuBib 20151112120000.0 150223s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015005877 9781476747736 hardcover : alk. paper 1476747733 hardcover : alk. paper (OCoLC)904144159 TxAuBib rda De Visé, Daniel,. Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show / Daniel De Vis. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. xiii, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-289), selective filmography (page 275) and index. Prologue: the call -- Don's demons -- Laugh, lest you cry -- The bumpkins take Broadway -- Nervous men -- Andy takes a deputy -- A Hollywood friendship -- A slight thread of insanity -- Men in a hurry -- A date for Gomer -- Andy and Barney, phfftt -- The color years -- The death of Andy Taylor -- Second chances, second wives -- The gentleman lawyer -- Death in Mayberry. "When Andy Griffith went to Hollywood in 1960 to film a TV pilot about a small-town sheriff, his friend Don Knotts called to ask if his sheriff could use a deputy. Together, Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife elevated The Andy Griffith Show from a folksy sitcom into a timeless study of human friendship. The program was fiction, but the friendship was powerful and real."--Book jacket. 20151112. Griffith, Andy, 1926-2012. Knotts, Don, 1924-2006. Andy Griffith show (Television program.) United States. Biographies. Biography. Biographies. TXWIT