Did you know that not all that long after The Andy Griffith Show ended, Andy Griffith did his very best to recreate his earlier success with a new, but eerily similar series? If you didn’t, don’t feel bad. Even some of the original show’s most die-hard fans don’t know about this one.
As June 1, 2026, marks what would have been Andy Griffith’s 100th birthday (he shares the same 100th birthday as Marilyn Monroe), we look back on what happened to Andy shortly after the end of his original hit series. Griffith died in 2012 at age 86.