Sixties kids loved bumbling Deputy Barney but off-screen Don Knotts was a bonafide star, popular ladies man and father-of-two ...

It was an absolutely beautiful Saturday morning as I did my normal weekend five-mile run. The sunrise over Lake Ray Hubbard here in Garland and Rowlett, Texas, was serene. As I ran along, it suddenly ...

The Andy Griffith Show ran for 249 episodes before it ended in April 1968. It also sparked two spinoffs: Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

If the most dedicated Andy Griffith Show fan blinked, they would have missed it: The wedding of Barney Fife portrayed by Don Knotts and his longtime girlfriend Thelma Lou played by Betty Lynn. Most of ...

Don Knotts played a variation on the same character for more than 50 years -- on radio, in movies and TV shows. He was the "nervous man" on the old "Steve Allen Show," the sublime Barney Fife on "The ...

Before he became Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, actor Don Knotts performed whenever he could and however he could. That included a tour of duty in the 1940s performing for the ...

American Joe Miedusiewski brought Barney Fife out of mothballs strictly by accident. Barney never had a bullet to call his own, and neither, it turns out, did Parris Glendening. But everybody who ...