The Danny Thomas Show - Season 7, Episode 20 - Danny Meets Andy Griffith - Full Episode

Danny is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through a stop sign in the town of Mayberry. This episode was the pilot for "The Andy Griffith Show."

Originally titled "Make Room for Daddy," this classic sitcom follows a NYC nightclub entertainer as he hilariously juggles his career and family life.

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[sandyschipper]

I came back to visit my Mom who had been a piano teacher for years. She was binge watching Andy Griffith the whole time I was there. I said why are you watching this old stuff? She said because she didn't get a chance to while it was on. I heard her giggling and laughing that whole visit till late into the night. I didn't know she could laugh like that. It was precious. So is this. Thankyou.

[jackdavis]

Thanks for uploading this episode and seeing Sam Drucker as the original town drunk and Aunt Bee as Henrietta Perkins is a real treat.

[evienelson]

They were so funny, pure clean funny 😂. Oh how I wish our young people could enjoy this humor.

[PatrickFDolan]

Thank you Danny Thomas for St Jude's children's hospital. You literally saved millions of children worldwide with the childhood cancer technology developed at you centers.

[troydaigle]

Boy what i wouldnt give to go back in time. I was born in the wrong time. I have always loved the Andy Griffith shows. There will never be another show that was clean and pure, yet made you laugh like a child again. Loved it

[thewheelchairprepper]

Thank you Danny Thomas for St Jude's children's hospital saving lives still today 🧡🙏👍 WELL DONE SIR

[jalpa]

I've always love the Andy Griffith show since I was a kid, I'm 73 now and still love it and watch the reruns every evening. I'm glad I came across this and watched it, never knew it even existed...! =)

[bornagain]

I am 64 years old, do the math 😊 I remember watching the Danny Thomas show Andy Griffith show, when it was good old clean entertainment! And all those years I cannot tell you how many times I have seen the reruns 😊 I feel very bad for the younger that have this horrible garbage and what they call entertainment. 😔

[dfirth]

This was the pilot episode for Andy Griffith. Spun off from Danny Thomas Show. Andy Griffith became a hit in 1958 for doing "No Time For Sargents". Don Knotts was not part of the original Mayberry cast. When Don saw this episode he called Andy and said, "I think you need a deputy sheriff." The rest is history.

[jamiepreston]

Been watching The Andy Griffith Show for 50 years now. Never gets old with down home humor.

[carolbenson]

Boy did my dad ever love Danny Thomas. I bet he's so proud of his daughter and what she's done for St. Jude's!

[kennethlongsr]

I'm 65 and never knew this was how they developed the Andy Griffith show. I recently learned that Andy was at a club in Florida and saw Jim Nabors perform. He was so impressed he had him come out to audition for the part of Gomer Pyle. Well, the rest as they say, is history

[jenihansen]

I truly love the Andy Griffith show. One of the greatest sitcoms on television.

[JD-dils]

We need tv shows like this especially today in a world gone mad

[ds]

I didn’t realize this was the start of the Andy Griffith’s show. Very interesting. Francis Bavier was playing a different character.

[edithpiwowarski]

This is one for the books, , I’ve never seen much of the Danny Thomas show, but I had no idea that he went through Mayberry and got caught up with sheriff Taylor, , this was a very good episode….😀

[williampetersen]

This episode served as a backdoor pilot for what would become The Andy Griffith Show.

[FlamingoKicker]

I love that they cast Frank Cady to play the town drunk which would eventually be recast as Otis Campbell in the actual series. Then, years later Otis would leave Mayberry and head off to see what life in the "big city" would be like only to end up in the drunk tank there and who does he meet? Frank Cady again playing another drunk. Cady is better known for playing Sam Drucker, the proprietor of the General Store in Hooterville (the main competition to the Andy Griffith franchise of rural comedies in the Sixties).

[robindickman]

I watched every Andy Griffith show I love it . I never saw this I'm laughing

[deborahjeanne]

I’m 75. I also grew up on these shows and watched all of them. I Love Lucy, Danny Thomas, Andy Griffith, Dick VanDyke, Jackie Gleason, Burns and Allen, Leave It To Beaver - and all I can say is thank God for ME-TV, FE-TV, and YouTube! I have no interest in any of the comedies from the 70s on with the exception of Happy Days. These shows STILL make me laugh and I never tire of watching the reruns. The older I get, the more I long for the 50s again. It really was different back then..😢