"The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968) - Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, and Don Knotts in the Fictional Town of Mayberry, NC

[DonRocks]

I've had this weird "thing" lately where I've been watching SE1 EP1 of classic American television shows -  I guess I was so ignorant, for so long, that this is sort-of like taking a post-WWII pop culture course. 

*Everyone* but me at Clemson used to gather round the TV and watch "The Andy Griffith Show"; before last week, I had never before seen a single episode (my friends also called me a "Yankee").

The one thing that stood out to me in "The New Housekeeper" is six-year-old Ron Howard. I almost always find whiny children on TV to be incorrigible brats, but Howard - who was certainly whiny in this episode - somehow managed to be cute. I'm still not sure what it was about him that made me not detest him, but he was a real talent, even at age six.