Two Chairs No Waiting

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Our last episode was the question and so it’s fitting that this would be our answer.  A lot of folk either called or wrote in with their opinion about who’s bank book Andy Taylor was looking at in the episode “Opie’s Fortune.”

The question, if you didn’t hear #74 was: Who’s bank book was Andy looking at, his own or Parnell Rigsby’s, when he said, “Ain’t that the saddest bank book you ever saw?” Go back and listen if you missed Two Chairs No Waiting #74…we’ll wait on you.

Let’s see what fellow fans had to say.

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Related Links:

• Opie’s Fortune – Mayberry.info page with information about this episode. Mayberry.info has all kinds of Mayberry information and you can update and add to that knowledge yourself.
• Rate Two Chairs on iTunes – If you use iTunes, please visit the Two Chairs No Waiting page of the iTunes store and leave a review and rating.
• Who’s Been Messin’ Up the Bulletin Board? (WBMTUBB) Chapter – Join the online chapter of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watchers Club and get a daily dose of Mayberry in your e-mail inbox.

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Executive Producers of Two Chairs No Waiting Episode #75: Joey Bunch

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Host: Allan Newsome
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Two Chairs No Waiting

This episode we’ll be talking about the episode called Opie’s Fortune (#136 season 5) of The Andy Griffith Show which was first aired on November 11, 1964.  In the episode, Opie finds a man’s purse containing $50 cash. When he tells his pa, Andy tells Opie that if no one claims it within a week the money would be his.

Opie ends up getting the money but the owner turns up and that puts Andy in a spot of having to either take back the money from Opie or to pay back the man himself.

A question came up this past week. During the episode Andy take a bank book out of his desk drawer at the courthouse.  Who’s bank book was it?  Andy’s or Parnell Rigsby’s? “Ain’t that the saddest bank book you ever saw?”

If you use iTunes, please visit the Two Chairs No Waiting page of the iTunes store and leave a review and rating.

Don’t forget to leave comments or ask questions on the Mayberry.com/podcasts/ website or using the contact information given in the podcast. We’d love to have you be a part of our next feedback episode. Call the Two Chairs No Waiting Hot-line at (888) 684-8415 and leave a voice mail to be part of the show.

Related Links:

• Opie’s Fortune – Mayberry.info page with information about this episode.  Mayberry.info has all kinds of Mayberry information and you can update and add to that knowledge yourself.
• Rate Two Chairs on iTunes – If you use iTunes, please visit the Two Chairs No Waiting page of the iTunes store and leave a review and rating.

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Executive Producers of Two Chairs No Waiting Episode #74: Joey Fann

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This episode we have some news reports about The Andy Griffith Show from back in the early and mid-1960’s. One from TV Guide and another from the New York Times.

Floyd the barber visits with us and we have a little feedback from you, the listeners.

Don’t forget to leave comments or ask questions on the Mayberry.com/podcasts website or using the contact information given in the podcast. We’d love to have you be a part of our next feedback episode.

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• Follow Allan on Twitter – If you have Twitter, follow along with me so we can get to know one another a little better.
• Visit our new Chat Room - Located on the front page of the podcast web site. Just scroll down a little and you’ll see it there on the right. Another way for the Mayberry community to visit and get to know each other.

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The time between Christmas and New Year is normally a very slow time for podcast listeners so I thought I’d focus on something that you might enjoy but that isn’t part of Mayberry.

The NEW Andy Griffith Show debuted January 8, 1971 and was Andy Sawyer rather than our beloved Andy Taylor.  This was Andy’s second try at returning to television after leaving The Andy Griffith Show/Mayberry R.F.D.

The first being “The Headmaster,” a half-hour drama from the fall of 1970 where Andy played the character Andy Thompson and was headmaster of a prestigious private school located in California. Headmaster ran until January 1, 1971 and was cancelled.

One week later, Andy Sawyer appeared as the focus of The NEW Andy Griffith Show. Sawyer was a man returning home to Greenwood following time spent in state government.  The mayor of Greenwood was retiring and the town wanted Sawyer to return to be the mayor. Andy Sawyer has 2 children and a wife named Lee played by Lee Meriwether.

The pilot episode was written, produced and created by Aaron Ruben how had lead the creation of the first five years of The Andy Griffith Show.  Andy Griffith also brought in Lee Phillips, who had been the director for most of the last two seasons of The Andy Griffith Show, to direct the pilot and Earl Hagen to create the theme song and music for the NEW show.

To kick off the first eisode, they also brought in George Lindsey as Goober Pyle and Paul Hartman as Emmett Clark both of whom were currently a part of Mayberry, R.F.D.  This was confusing because it was Andy “Sawyer” and not Andy “Taylor” yet the two of them knew Sawyer like they were old friends.

Emmett and Goober has traveled to Greenwood to ask Sawyer to try to have the city rezone some land they wanted to use to start a business.

Don Knotts showed up as “an old friend” on that pilot episode as well. It was a nice scene between Griffith and Knotts but one could only wish it was Fife and Taylor rather than Sawyer and “old friend.”

The show was cancelled on May 21, 1971. This was the same year that Mayberry, R.F.D. went off the air and was the first time in eleven years that some form of Mayberry was not on CBS on Monday nights.

Don’t forget to leave comments or ask questions on the Mayberry.com/podcasts website or using the contact information given in the podcast. We’d love to have you be a part of our next feedback episode.

Related Links:

• Mayberry R.I.P. – TVParty.com has a wonderful history of The Andy Griffith Show and all that followed.  Drop by for a look at the several pages of information and a nice history lesson.
• The New Andy Griffith Show – Wikipedia’s entry on The New Andy Griffith Show is a situation comedy broadcast in the United States by the CBS television network in 1971.

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