
> ARE YOU READY TO GO? > READY OR NOT? CITIZENS, WATCH OUT. WENT TO A RING MOUNT AIRY IT'S EASY TO FIND SIMILARITIES. CELEBRATING MOUNT AIRY AND ITS CONNECTION TO THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. > WELCOME BACK TO THE SPECIAL MAYBERRY EDITION OF THE TAR HEEL TRAVELER. > IT'S ALWAYS MAYBERRY DAY RIGHT HERE IN MOUNT AIRY. WHEN I SAY SMALL, IT'S SO SMALL THEY HAD TO WIDEN MAY STREET TO PUT A WHITE LINE DOWN THE MIDDLE. > I COME FROM A SMALL TOWN NAMED IN MAYBERRY. > ORDER TAR HEEL TRAVELER BOOKS AT THE TAR HEEL TRAVELER WEBSITE. > WHETHER YOU SWEETTALK ME OR NOT, BARNEY. > I'M JUST ABOUT THE LUCKIEST PERSON I KNOW. > AND THEN ANDY GRIFFITH AND DON KNOTTS AND JIM NEIGHBORS. > BETTY DAVIS, ROBERT MONTGOMERY, MAUREEN O'HARA. > EVEN BEFORE SHE WAS A VELMA LOU, BETTY LYNN WORKED WITH PROMINENT ACTORS. > MOUNT AIRY IS LIKE MAYBERRY IN A LOT OF WAYS. > EVEN TODAY, PEOPLE ARE STILL LINING UP TO SEE BETTY LYNN TO REMEMBER VELMA LOU. > I LOVED BEING ON THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. DO YOU THINK YOU'D BE PROUD OF YOU? > I KNOW HE WOULD.

HONORING BOTH THE PARENT HE WAS AND THE CHARACTER HE PLAYED. LIKE HER DAD, KAREN HAS GONE INTO SHOW BUSINESS. > DON KNOTTS LATER HAD HIS OWN VARIETY SHOW. THAT'S WHY THE CHARACTERS ARE SO BELIEVABLE AND HONEST. IF SOMETHING SOUNDS LIKE A JOKE, THROW IT OUT. > SOMEWHERE AROUND MAYBERRY IS A LOADED GOAT. EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS RIGHT WHERE YOU LIVE. > WHAT WERE YOUR DAD'S FAVORITE EPISODES? > THE PICKLE STORY. > WHAT DO YOU WANT? > WAS YOUR DAD MUCH DIFFERENT IN PERSON THAN HE WAS ON TV? > VERY DIFFERENT. > SHE STILL LIVES IN CALIFORNIA BUT UNOFFICIALLY VISITS MOUNT AIRY. > IT'S MY STORY OF GROWING UP WITH MY DAD AND HIS CAREER. A ONE-WOMAN COMEDY SHOW, TIED UP IN KNOTS. WE WERE TOTALLY INTO THE CHARACTER THAT HE WAS PLAYING. > THIS IS REAL PEOPLE HONORING WHAT WAS A GREAT SHOW IN THE 60s. > AND SO THIS TRIP, WHICH TODAY STILL HONORS MAYBERRY. > I LIKE SHOWING MY APPRECIATION FOR THE FANS THAT SHOW APPRECIATION FOR THE SHOW. > AND HE HAS HAD PLENTY OF PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES. I HAVE HAD A BLESSED LIFE AND A BLESSED CAREER.
#Mayberry andy griffith series
I WAS IN A TELEVISION SERIES WHEN I WAS LITTLE.

> HIS DAD WAS WELL KNOWN ACTOR, RANCE HOWARD. I'M GETTING BROKEN UP BECAUSE THEY ARE GONE. I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT OUR FAMILY, MY BROTHER, MY MOM, MY DAD. > HE WAS FUNNY, EVEN BEING CARRIED OFF THE SHOW. > I WAS IN THE SHOW, I THINK, FIVE EPISODES. > CLINT HOWARD HAS COME TO ANDY GRIFFITH'S HOMETOWN. SO I WAS NEVER INTIMIDATED BY THE BUSINESS BECAUSE I SAW MY BIG BROTHER DO IT. > RON WAS FIVE YEARS OLDER THAN ME AND I WOULD LOOK AT WHAT HE WAS DOING AND SAY, I CAN DO THAT. > I WOULD OFFER IT TO, USUALLY, BARNEY AT A VERY INOPPORTUNE TIME. THE BOY WITH THE PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICH. > HE IS A FAR CRY FROM WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. IT WAS FUNNY AND SWEET AND TOUCHING AND LOVING. > THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW DEBUTED ON OCTOBER 3rd, 1960. > YOU GO OUT AND YOU MAKE HER WHAT YOU WOULD DO. SHE APPEARED IN TWO EPISODES AND WAS ALSO THE MODEL FOR WALT DISNEY'S TINKERBELL. > YOU WALK ON THE SOUNDSTAGE WITH THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW AND YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY FIND FAMILY. HE CAPTURED THE ESSENCE OF THE SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN AND MADE IT REMARKABLE. > THE PRODUCER, AARON RUBIN, WAS A GENIUS. > WHAT PART DID YOU PLAY? > A FOR SALESMAN. > AND WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED WATCHING THE EPISODE YOU FEEL GOOD. IN THE PAST, ACTORS FROM THE SHOW HAVE REUNITED.

I'M SCOTT MASON IN MOUNT AIRY WHICH IS CLOSELY LINKED TO MAYBERRY. > WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL MAYBERRY ADDITION OF THE TAR HEEL TRAVELER.
