From 1960 -1968 aired a 30 minute comedy, The Andy Griffin Show. Andy Griffin starred as the widowed Sherriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts played Andy's deputy Barney Fife, and Ron Howard as Opie, Sherriff Taylor's son. The show was based in a small simple mountain town, Mayberry, North Carolina, where Sherriff Taylor and his bumbling Deputy Fife kept the town in peace and harmony. Throughout each episode there were daily life lessons on how to treat others, how to raise a child as a widow with the help of Andy's Aunt Bea, dear friend Deputy Fife, along with the townspeople. It was a time of honor as well as integrity, aimed towards family members sitting in their homes together, enjoying the bumbling antics of deputy Fife and recollecting the
