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8 episodes of the TV show originally aired in 1963.

DVD features include: interactive menus; scene index.

Directors, Bob Sweeney, Charles Irving ; executive producer, Sheldon Leonard ; producer, Aaron Ruben ; writers, Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum, Harvey Bullock, Aaron Ruben, John Whedon ; director of photography, Sid Hickox ; music, Earle Hagen.

Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Jim Nabors, Hal Smith, Howard McNear.

The first, and probably the best, of the rural-oriented comedies brought to TV, it starred Andy Griffith. Griffith played widower Andy Taylor, sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina. Regulars included Don Knotts and his cousin Barney Fife, the zealous but inept deputy sheriff, six-year-old Ronny Howard as Opie, Andy's son Frances Bavier as Andy's aunt, Bee Taylor, who lived in and helped care for Opie. The townspeople included Jim Nabors as Gomer Pile, Gas pump jockey, Howard McNear as Floyd Lawson, the barber, Paul Hartman as Emmet Clark, a handyman, Jack Dodson as Howard Sprague, the town clerk, Elinor Donahue as Elly Walker, drugstore salesclerk, Betty Lynn as Thelma Lou, Barney's girlfriend, Aneta Corsaut as schoolteacher Helen Crump, Andy's girlfriend, and Hal Smith as Otis Campbell the town drunk.

DVD ; digitally mastered.