OPIE ANDY GRIFFITH SERIES

After Opie tells the teacher what he perceived his dad to say, that history isn't important, the teacher pays a visit to the Sheriff to confront him over what happened in class. Opie goes to class the following day unprepared and is singled out by the teacher because of it. Andy tells Opie simply to try his best, that history is hard for everyone – Opie takes his dad’s words as an excuse not to do his homework.

Season 3 episode 23, Andy Discovers America, starts with Opie telling Andy his troubles with his history teacher, saying she gives too much homework. The show invokes a feeling of a nostalgia, focusing on the old South, the way of life and the morals that were represented during the time. Like most shows of the time, its purpose was to end with some type of lesson that not only the characters, but also the audience, could take away and implement into their own lives. Andy is well liked and respected within his community for his ability to settle community problems, and a menace to local criminals like moonshiners and outlaws that he must reprimand. The father and son live with Aunt Bee, another main character of the series. The show is a comedy based on the main character Andy, a widowed sheriff of a fictional town of Mayberry in North Carolina that doesn’t see much crime - most of the show is spent between Andy and Barney, his cousin and a deputy, and Andy and his son, Opie.

The show was corporately sponsored by General Foods, a former American manufacturer of grocery products that was bought out by another company in the 1980s (General Foods Corporation). The Andy Griffith Show first aired on CBS in 1960 and ran until 1968.

OPIE ANDY GRIFFITH SERIES

Their grandfather, Harold Rosson, was the five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer known for his work on The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Singin’ in the Rain (1952).The Andy Griffith Show originated as an episode of The Danny Thomas Show, Andy Taylor guest-starring on the show to arrest one of the characters – the spinoff became an entire series made up of 8 seasons and 249 episodes (IMDb). Their father, Edward Rosson, served as the cinematographer on White Lightning (1973) and Love at First Bite (1979), and their mother, Lili Rosson, was an actress who had small parts in North by Northwest, Some Came Running and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Rosson was born in Los Angeles on July 20, 1952. His late younger brother, Eddie Rosson ( It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, Camp Runamuck), also was a child actor.

On ABC’s The Young Marrieds from 1965-66, Rosson portrayed Jerry Karr, a youngster in the middle of a custody battle between his biological mother, Susan Garrett ( Peggy McCay), and his adoptive mother, actress Lena Gilroy (Norma Connolly). A month later, he appeared on CBS’ The Twilight Zone on the season two episode “The Night of the Meek,” which starred Art Carney as a down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus.

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