Today only! Amazon is selling the DVD set, The Andy Griffith Show – The Complete Series, for $78. This is your chance to spend 6,395 minutes in Mayberry for under eighty dollars…or about what Otis Campbell spends on whiskey per week. That's a bargain even if you only watch the five seasons (of eight) which featured Don Knotts as a regular. The set also includes extras like the backdoor pilot episode of The Danny Thomas Show, the episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. featuring Opie (Ron Howard) and that Return to Mayberry TV-movie.
There's no one way to score this but you could certainly make a strong case that The Andy Griffith Show was the most popular TV series ever done. It's certainly had an afterlife like no other program in terms of reruns and its ongoing impact on the culture of many parts of America. The Danny Thomas Show was on for eleven years and more or less equalled The Andy Griffith Show in ratings success but no one reruns it today, no one quotes it, no one has built an entire city around it. It was just a hit TV show, whereas The Andy Griffith Show was so much more than that.
Here's the link to order your copy. And remember: This offer is only good for today. Hop to it.