This Christmas, thank Santa Claus for believing in Don Knotts
The Jolly Old Elf encouraged Knotts to pursue his showbiz career. Knotts: Don t tell me there s no Santa Claus! December 10, 2020, 9:33AM By MeTV Staff Share
Before Don Knotts became Barney Fife on
The Andy Griffith Show, he spent some time at college in West Virginia before enlisting in the military.
At 19, he was nervous about becoming a soldier, but he ended up getting assigned to a special unit for a funny reason: He d written ventriloquist as a skill on his enlistment form. Together with entertainers identified in other units, Knotts became a showman for soldiers at the frontlines, putting on sketches and singing songs.
LIFE Magazine released hundreds of photos behind the scenes of The Flintstones in 1960
See the artists, cast and crew of the classic cartoon hard at work! December 10, 2020, 9:07AM By MeTV Staff Everett Collection
When
The Flintstones premiered in 1960, it was just a cartoon about two caveman couples who are next-door neighbors. It would prove in its first few episodes to have so much impact that it wasn t
TV Guide that put the cartoon family on its cover first, but the epitome of photojournalism,
You could say then that this wasn t just TV history, but a shift in culture, where adults looked forward to cartoon time just as much as kids. And everyone seemed to sense it and want in on it. For the November 1960 issue,