I heard about a survey that stated that only 14% of adults surveyed by pollsters feel that their children will have more than they have. They had hope for the future, and that hope made their present worth living and gave it purpose.īut that is not so today. Their present may have been hard, but they knew the future for their kids would be better. Back in the sixties, when I was growing up, my parents knew that my sister and I would have a better life than they did. It also helped that the show had excellent writers, directors and actors.īut I think there’s another reason many of us look back to yesterday days in Mayberry. Some were nuts, as Barney would say, (and he would know) but they were good people and they treated each other with love and respect. Show writer, Bill Idelson said, “You know what the secret of the show is? You know why everybody loves it? It’s about man’s humanity to man rather than man’s inhumanity to man.” The people of Mayberry were good people. So why do so many of us watch “The Andy Griffith Show” and wish we could be back in Mayberry? It’s those same moral lessons and good hearted people that make it so easy to teach, or facilitate, the class on Wednesday night. Trying to sleep at the foot of the bed, hoping to catch a faint breeze coming through the window on a sultry summer night is not something I long for its return. And think about summers without air conditioning. If you are an African-American, you sure don’t want to go back to those days. Then there was the Vietnam War and all the civil unrest of the 1960’s. When Andy and Barney talked about “goin’ up to Raleigh,” we knew what they were talking about.īut do we really want to go back to those days? Remember the Cold War? I do remember being told how to crawl under our desks in case those evil Russians launched a nuclear bomb. As a matter of fact, Opie and I were the same age. The show has remained popular, even after the last episode was filmed. But Andy was the driving force behind the show and its success. Ironically, Andy Griffith never won an Emmy. Don Knotts, as Barney, and Frances Bavier, as Aunt Bea, won several Emmy Awards for their acting in the series. The show ran for eight years, and was never out of the top ten in television viewers for the entire time the show was on the air. “The Andy Griffith Show” premiered in the fall of 1960. We just did “The Pickle Story” with Aunt Bea’s “kerosene cucumbers last week! But they are also entertaining and I get to choose the programs that I want to use. (The correct church term now is not teaching, but “facilitating.”) There are some very good moral lessons in those episodes. This has been done by our church before and by other churches in this area. Our church is having a class this summer on Wednesday nights on the show and its moral values. “I sure wish we could go back to those days.” That’s a sentiment I get sometimes when I watch reruns of the TV classic, “The Andy Griffith Show”.
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