“Well, I guess to sum it up you could say there's three reasons why there's so little crime in Mayberry. There's Andy. And there's me.
And (pats holstered Colt .38) baby makes three.” -- Mayberry deputy sheriff Bernard Fife
is the best sitcom of the 1960s. It’s true Don Knotts left the franchise after season five – but he still won Emmys for guest appearances in the series’ final three seasons.
There were also shotgun-toting hillbilly Briscoe Darling, rock-lobbing mountain man Ernest T. bass, the blonde Fun Girls (Skippy and Daphne) from neighboring Mt. Pilot and the self-incarcerating drunk Otis Campbell.