Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story is simple, but devastating in its quiet way: Young Opie, playing with his slingshot, accidentally kills a mother bird.

Before his career as an Oscar-winning director, Ron Howard made a name for himself as a child actor. One of his first roles was Sheriff Andy Taylor's (Andy Griffith) son, Opie, on The Andy Griffith ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But The Andy Griffith Show wasn’t interested in any of that. Its opening didn’t even feature lyrics on the broadcast version—just ...

For those of us of a certain age, there are so many great memories in “The Andy Griffith Show”: The calm sheriff. His skittish deputy. His young son. The goofy filling station attendant and his ...