Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story is simple, but devastating in its quiet way: Young Opie, playing with his slingshot, accidentally kills a mother bird.

The Andy Griffith Show wouldn’t be what it was without Ron Howard’s dad. Ron, who played Opie as a child star on the beloved series, opened up about his time on the show in an Aug. 13 interview with ...

If you’ve ever watched the “Andy Griffith Show,” you can probably recall the opening scene depicting Andy and Opie strolling down ...

On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...

Opie tells Andy about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, who Andy believes to be a figment of Opie's imagination. But when Andy begins to suspect Opie is using his new-found friend as an excuse to lie, he ...

Andy Griffith, the actor who played a genial Southern sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, waved from the back of a sheriff's car Tuesday to hundreds of fans on hand to watch the unveiling of a ...

For those of us of a certain age, there are so many great memories in “The Andy Griffith Show”: The calm sheriff. His skittish deputy. His young son. The goofy filling station attendant and his ...

Opie develops a crush on his teacher, Ms. Crump, and Andy sees that the only way to get Opie to forget about it is to admit to him that he and Helen are an "item." New height and weight requirements ...