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In Headmaster (1970), he played the head of a private school in California. It's easy to forget that Andy's post-Mayberry career included two other short-lived TV series. If the character's name sounds familiar, that's because James Garner played Abel Marsh in the 1972 theatrical film They Only Kill Their Masters.Ħ. In 1977, he played Abel Marsh, the police chief of another small town, in two telefilms: The Girl in the Empty Grave and Deadly Game.

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Although it didn't result in a regular show, Andy did play a different sheriff of a small resort town in the 1975 TV series Adams of Eagle Lake. The plot concerned a sniper killing the residents of a small resort town.

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His first attempt was Winter Kill, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week which cast Andy as Sheriff Sam McNeill. After leaving Mayberry behind, Andy Griffith tried several times to launch a new TV series as a serious small town sheriff. That changed in the second season when he became the straight man and other Mayberry characters, such as Don Knott's Barney's Fife, provided the comedy.ĥ. During its first season, Andy portrayed a variation of his country bumpkin from No Time for Sergeants. It was titled 'Danny Meets Andy Griffith' and served as a 'backdoor pilot' for The Andy Griffith Show. Andy Griffith first appeared as Andy Taylor, sheriff of Mayberry, in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show that aired in the show's seventh season in 1960. To convince Elia Kazan that he was the right actor to play Lonesome Rhodes in A Face in the Crowd (1957), Griffith did an impersonation of Oral Roberts conducting a healing. decided to turn No Time for Sergeants into a film, Griffith and Knotts retained their roles.ģ.

The Broadway cast also included Don Knotts! When Warner Bros. Levin expanded his teleplay into a stage success that also starred Griffith, who received a Tony nomination. Steel Hour adapted by Ira Levin ( Rosemary's Baby) from Mac Hyman's novel. In 1955, he appeared in 'No Time for Sergeants,' a one-hour episode of The U.S. Andy is credited as Deacon Andy Griffith on the single's label the 'B' side is his countrified version of Romeo and Juliet.Ģ. It became a regional hit and was picked up for national distribution by Capitol Records. Andy Griffith's first major success was a comic monologue called 'What It Was, Was Football,' in which a country preacher accidentally attends an American football game-having never seen one-and tries to describe it.