Over the past 60+ years, The Andy Griffith Show has enthralled audiences with its depiction of a simpler time that has turned the concept of small-town life, even after all of these years ...

Knotts was 81 when he passed away in 2006. Griffith died in 2012 at 86 years old. Yet their on-screen chemistry on The Andy Griffith Show comes through loud and clear all these years later.

Ron Howard also invited a couple of old friends, including Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, who came to support the former child star. He wrote about it in the memoir penned alongside his brother ...