Actor Jim Nabors, TV's Gomer Pyle, marries longtime male partner in Seattle

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82. May he have continued happiness. Great they could finally make it legal.

and I will never forget in the 60s, the first time I heard his singing voice.

Andy Griffith indeed was a major liberal, and the irony of his show was indeed how liberal it was.

The rightwing idolized that show.

We watched it up in NYC though there were others I myself enjoyed more at the time,
but the last couple of years been watching the reruns on tvland I think, and its good to see them again. I have grown to appreciate the show much more now, and see how great Andy & Ron & Don & Jim & Aunt Bee were.
Ron Howard is one of the most down to earth people, I always give kudos to his parents for his upbringing, he is one of the few child stars who never had a problem, and is one of the few who easily made the transistion from child to teen, to young adult to adult.(Wish he would act more,but his time is spent directing.)

And did Andy ever use a gun? Even once?

And of course Mayberry and Gomer and then later, in all those Burt Reynolds movies.

He basically retired around 1990 I think.So those younger people here probably never saw him in anything live time. But Andy,Gomer, Mayberry will always be around to be downloaded or watched.