The loss of a parent or the task of raising a child alone has long been fodder for Hollywood scriptwriters. The formula must work. Think of all the Disney movies that you ve watched where the main character either loses a parent during the course of the action or the parental figure is not there at all.
One of the most successful single parent shows in the history of television has got to be the Andy Griffth Show. In that show, single parent Sheriff Andy Taylor attempts to raise his son Opie with the help of his Aunt Bee.
While the show is filled with great lessons about family, life, and love the issue of Opie s missing Mom, also Andy s wife, is seldom addressed. Many of us who are fans of the show have often wondered what happened to her?
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Major TV Debuts From the Year You Were Born
By Abby Monteil, Stacker News
On 1/2/21 at 12:00 PM EST
As the landscape of TV continues to shift, it s always a good time to pause and look at the medium s history. Although the latest buzzy Netflix show dominating everyday conversations is normal, television is one of the youngest art forms around. The first American TV station began broadcasting in 1928, but television didn t really start growing into the influential, widespread phenomenon that it is now until the 1950s.
Since there were initially only three major TV networks ABC, CBS, and NBC popular television was limited to a strict number of channels and studios for decades. The advent of cable television and streaming services has allowed more and more diverse forms of TV storytelling to be made. The most popular show that aired in 2012 when an 8-year-old was born looks vastly different than the most popular show that aired in 1965 when a 55-year-old was born.
the danny thomas show as a mayor of a small southern town, a road that led here. the andy griffith show ran for eight years, and has rerun ever since. andy tried to duplicate the show s success in two other home-spun comedies, both fizzled. griffith then spent several years pushing crackers. good cracker. in 1986 andy came back to prime-time television with a bang in the series matlock, which ran for eight series. aren t you ben matlock the name us lawyer? sheriff taylor and the gang did reunite a couple of times, both special were hugely successful. apparently mayberry is where we liked andy best. in los angeles, trace gallagher, fox news. jon: andy griffith died at home this morning, he was 86 years