(WASHINGTON TIMES) -- “Americans loved, and still love, the notion of the small town as a manageable, non-threatening, friendly, finite community. … The black-and-white world that Andy Griffith shaped so masterfully is there for our perusal from a distance, but it is not coming back - either on television or anywhere else.” - Ted Anthony, Associated Press
In an elegant obituary for Andy Griffith, who died on July 3 at age 86, Ted Anthony might be right about the survival of small communities, but perhaps not about what made “The Andy Griffith Show” so successful.
