According to "Big Chuck" Schodowski's autobiography,"Big Chuck" just out over the weekend. Andy was very good to work with in this skit..He (Andy) was actually headlining a CBS-TV special called "The Andy Griffith Uptown-Downtown Show" with Don Knotts and Tennessee Ernie Ford, scheduled to air Tuesday, February 21, 1967, which is why Andy threw out those names as "people he knew" The book will be available by nest week in local bookstores..A great read..lots of good stories
The slate right at the beginning said the show was done on February 17, 1967..I believe it was done live, just a couple months after Hoolihan and Big Chuck's Premiere show on 12-16-1966. Andy's Birthday was June 1..Hard to believe Andy will be 81 in a few weeks..
rose: Andy knew that..and so did the hosts..This was more of a plug for his CBS Special as a kind of "network-to- affiliate"thing..as WJW-8 was a major CBS affiliate at the time..
I wonder if that was Hoolihan and Big Chuck's most famous cameo appearance in a skit...of course Tim Conway I think he already left for Hollywood by this time
What is the context of this footage? Why were they doing it and what was it for? I feel like it's some kind of bit, but I don't really get the angle they're coming from.
He said he was 40, and he was born in 1926, so we can deduce that it was taped in 1966. Fun (and odd) to see Andy self-deprcating and slumming with these local yokuls at the height of his success
The clapboard said this was filmed Feb 17, 1967, Andy Griffith was born June 1, 1926, so he was 40 at the time of filming in 1967, not 1966, so Andy was correct and you were not
