Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show (38 page)

000
“Every day there would”:
Kim Weiskopf, interview included on DVD
Three's Company: Season 5
(Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2005).

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“He was a legend”:
Joyce DeWitt, interview by author, April 15, 2014.

000
“I was totally aware”:
Richard Kline, interview by author, January 29, 2014.

000
“Everybody was good”:
Don Knotts, interview included on DVD
Three's Company: Season 4
(Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2005).

000
“what seemed to be”:
Chris Mann,
Come and Knock on Our Door: A Hers and Hers and His Guide to
Three's Company (St. Martin's Griffin, 1998), 119.

000
“I was doing falls”:
Ibid
.
, 122.

000
“And God forbid”:
DeWitt, interview by author.

000
“They started writing”:
Mann,
Come and Knock
, 163.

000
“I've got a pad”:
Tom Knotts, interview by author, February 20, 2014.

000
“a much smaller life”:
Loralee Knotts, interview by author.

000
“He never said a kind”:
Bell, interview by author.

000
“Then, I started”:
Roy Lakeman, “Andy's Long Road to Success,”
Sunday Mail
(Queensland, Australia), October 11, 1987.

000
“rough death”:
Edwards King, interview by author.

000
“She had some problems”:
Frank Lovece, “Good Ol' Boy, ‘Matlock's' Andy Griffith Has Aged Well,”
Indiana (PA)
Gazette
, December 18, 1991.

000
“terrible, searing pain”:
Andy Griffith, “What Faith, Family Meant to Andy Griffith,”
Guideposts
, November 1996.

14. The Gentleman Lawyer

000
“Maybe it's a good”:
Griffith, “What Faith, Family Meant to Andy Griffith.”

000
“Andy was a remarkable”:
Dean Hargrove, interview by author, February 25, 2014.

000
“they both agreed”:
Loralee Knotts, interview by author.

000
“I will not say
underwear
”:
Harrison and Habeeb,
Inside Mayberry
, 49.

000
“weren't all that unhappy”:
Dean Hargrove, e-mail interview by author, March 10, 2014.

000
“When I got to”:
Lindsey,
Goober in a Nutshell
, 105.

000
“how personal the show”:
Ron Howard, interview by author.

000
Mayberry fans flocked:
Collins,
Andy Griffith Story
, 122.

000
“
Return to Mayberry
was the nicest”:
Beck and Clark,
Mayberry Memories
, 213.

000
“The whole set was”:
Nancy Stafford, interview by author, March 6, 2014.

000
“There are those people”:
Joel Steiger, interview by author, February 26, 2014.

000
“He was enormously”:
Hargrove, interview by author.

000
“They squeaked, and”:
Jerry Buck, untitled article, Associated Press, April 12, 1987.

000
“He was always”:
Stafford, interview by author.

000
“When I was doing”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

000
“His ideas of comedy”:
Hargrove, interview by author.

000
“He loved to invent”:
Stafford, interview by author.

000
“Andy was very fond
”:
Hargrove, interview by author.

000
“I'd like to put”:
Steiger, interview by author.

000
“We had an instant”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, March 6, 2014.

000
“And I realized”:
Jerry Buck, untitled article, The Associated Press, January 31, 1989.

000
“He wanted to put Don”:
Steiger, interview by author.

000
“We always gave Andy”:
Edward Greene, interview by author, February 22, 2014.

000
“I'm sorry we didn't get”:
Longino, “Griffith: Mayberry Set Was No Bed of Roses.”

000
“I said that we absolutely”:
Tanya Jones, interview by author, March 10, 2014.

000
Cindi clipped the article:
Jefferson Graham, “Court Resumes for Griffith's ‘Matlock,' ”
USA Today
, October 17, 1991.

000
“She was his greatest”:
Stafford, interview by author.

000
“Don's eyesight”:
Hargrove, interview by author.

000
“crackle of excitement”:
Stafford, interview by author.

000
“It didn't work”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

000
“I told him that
”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, March 19, 2014.

000
“It was the same guy”:
Stella Berrier, interview by author, March 6, 2014.

000
“I don't think Warren”:
Mark Mayfield, “Griffith's Winning Case,”
USA Today
, January 13, 1993.

000
“Andy, let me tell you”:
Linke, interview by author, November 17, 2014.

000
“That's why he drank”:
King, interview by author, November 5, 2014.

000
“falling out”:
Hargrove, interview by author.

000
“I saw Andy walk
”:
Fincannon, interview by author.

000 “
He came into my”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

000
“He sang and sang”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, March 19, 2014.

000
“They would line up”:
Dodie Brown, interview by author, February 28, 2014.

000
“I like New York”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, March 13, 2013.

000
“I had a little”:
Don Knotts, interview by Bill Dana and Jenni Matz, March 9, 2005.

000
“The five years we”:
Mark Dawidziak, “ ‘Andy Griffith Show' Actors Still Have That Chemistry,” Newhouse News Service, January 25, 2000.

15. Death in Mayberry

000
“I have a feeling”:
Ferrara, interview by author, October 24, 2012.

000
“he was really miserable”:
Ron Howard, interview by author.

000
“a really brilliant”:
Ron Howard, interview by Larry King, March 1, 2006.

000
“Oh, I love Don”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, November 21, 2012.

000
“When we left”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, October 11, 2012.

000
“He's seen the doctor”:
Ibid.

000
“It was a beautiful”:
Dixie Nann Griffith, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

000
“Don wanted us to”:
Griffith, remarks at Don Knotts memorial.

000
“I'm not going to”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, October 11, 2012.

000
“Jess, breathe”:
Andy Griffith, interview by Larry King, March 1, 2006.

000
“I think it was really”:
Dixie Nann Griffith, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

000
“Well, you know”:
Arvid Straube, interview by author, March 3, 2014.

000
“And I remember it”:
Staley, interview by author.

000
“Mayberry without Barney”:
Uncredited, “Fans Commission Don Knotts Statue,” The Associated Press via Fox News, May 17, 2006.

000
“this statue thing”:
Unsigned editorial, “ ‘Mayberry' Blues,”
Winston-Salem Journal
, July 27, 2006.

000 “
Now they think that”:
Griffith, interview by Rosen.

000
“Be firm”:
Martha Waggoner, “Sheriff Andy Steals Show in ‘Waitress,' ” The Associated Press, June 2007.

000
“At age 81”
: Ibid.

000
“So I would see Cindi”:
Bell, interview by author..

000
“like he felt he”:
Francey Yarborough Knotts, interview by author, December 3, 2012.

000
“was about making sure”:
Dixie
Nann Griffith, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

000
“Goll dang”:
Nabors, interview by author, December 27, 2012.

000
“Apparently that was his”:
Dixie Nann Griffith, interview by author, November 29, 2012.

Index

About the Author

Daniel de Visé
is an author and journalist. His first book,
I Forgot To Remember
(with Su Meck), began as a front-page article de Visé wrote for
The
Washington Post
, part of a twenty-three-year career spent at the
Post, The
Miami Herald
and three other newspapers. De Visé has won more than two dozen national, regional and local journalism awards, including a shared 2001 Pulitzer Prize for deadline reporting. His investigative reporting twice led to the release of wrongly convicted men from life terms in Florida prisons. De Visé's second book,
Andy & Don,
began as a journalistic exploration into the storied career of his late brother-in-law, Don Knotts. De Visé lives with his wife and children in Garrett Park, Maryland, where he can sometimes be found managing his son's youth baseball team or playing with the Stepping Stones, a Monkees cover band.