The Danny Thomas Show - Season 7, Episode 20 - Danny Meets Andy Griffith - Full Episode

I am 64 years old, do the math 😊 I remember watching the Danny Thomas show Andy Griffith show, when it was good old clean entertainment! And all those years I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the reruns 😊 I feel very bad for the younger that have this horrible garbage and what they call entertainment. 😔

Thank you Danny Thomas for St Jude's children's hospital. You literally saved millions of children worldwide with the childhood cancer technology developed at you centers.

Thanks for uploading this episode and seeing Sam Drucker as the original town drunk and Aunt Bee as Henrietta Perkins is a real treat.

I came back to visit my Mom who had been a piano teacher for years. She was binge watching Andy Griffith the whole time I was there. I said why are you watching this old stuff? She said because she didn't get a chance to while it was on. I heard her giggling and laughing that whole visit till late into the night. I didn't know she could laugh like that. It was precious. So is this. Thankyou.

This was the pilot episode for Andy Griffith. Spun off from Danny Thomas Show. Andy Griffith became a hit in 1958 for doing "No Time For Sargents". Don Knotts was not part of the original Mayberry cast. When Don saw this episode he called Andy and said, "I think you need a deputy sheriff." The rest is history.

They were so funny, pure clean funny 😂. Oh how I wish our young people could enjoy this humor.

I've always love the Andy Griffith show since I was a kid, I'm 73 now and still love it and watch the reruns every evening. I'm glad I came across this and watched it, never knew it even existed...! =)

Boy what i wouldnt give to go back in time. I was born in the wrong time. I have always loved the Andy Griffith shows. There will never be another show that was clean and pure, yet made you laugh like a child again. Loved it

Thank you Danny Thomas for St Jude's children's hospital saving lives still today 🧡🙏👍 WELL DONE SIR

Ronny Howard, what a talent!

Been watching The Andy Griffith Show for 50 years now. Never gets old with down home humor.

Andy Griffith- BEST tv show EVER

I'm 65 and never knew this was how they developed the Andy Griffith show. I recently learned that Andy was at a club in Florida and saw Jim Nabors perform. He was so impressed he had him come out to audition for the part of Gomer Pyle. Well , the rest as they say, is history

This episode served as a backdoor pilot for what would become The Andy Griffith Show.

I didn’t realize this was the start of the Andy Griffith’s show. Very interesting. Francis Bavier was playing a different character.

Even in this pilot, Opie was awesome about his pet turtle!

Boy did my dad ever love Danny Thomas. I bet he's so proud of his daughter and what she's done for St. Jude's!

We need tv shows like this especially today in a world gone mad

I love that they cast Frank Cady to play the town drunk which would eventually be recast as Otis Campbell in the actual series. Then, years later Otis would leave Mayberry and head off to see what life in the "big city" would be like only to end up in the drunk tank there and who does he meet? Frank Cady again playing another drunk. Cady is better known for playing Sam Drucker, the proprietor of the General Store in Hooterville (the main competition to the Andy Griffith franchise of rural comedies in the Sixties).

Sheriff Andy has a touch of King Solomon 🥰💕