The Andy Griffith Show
It's from 1960, before you were born.
- Network
- CBS
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Star
- Andy Griffith
- Premiered
- 1960
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About
As of 2026, it's 66 years old.
The Andy Griffith Show is comfort television distilled: a wise small-town sheriff, his bumbling deputy, a whistled theme song, and a fictional North Carolina town so cozy it's basically a weighted blanket with a jail. Crime in Mayberry rarely escalated beyond a stolen pie.
It made gentle, character-driven warmth into a ratings juggernaut and turned Don Knotts's nervous Deputy Barney Fife into one of TV's all-time great comic creations.
Wholesome, slow, and utterly soothing, The Andy Griffith Show is the rare classic whose entire appeal is that nothing too bad ever happens.
The Andy Griffith Show season by season
The Andy Griffith Show ran for 8 seasons (1960–1967) across 249 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
