By MICHAEL OVERALL Staff Writer on Jul 3, 2012, at 10:48 AM Updated on 7/03 at 10:48 AM
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Jim Nabors, left, Don Knotts, Andy Griffith and Ron Howard appear in "The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry," in this 2003 publicity photo. Griffith died Tuesday at his home on Roanoke island, N.C.RON TOM/CBS/AP Photo
The opening credits never changed, as far as I know -- Sheriff Taylor and his son walking side-by-side, fishing poles in hand, stopping to skip a rock on the pond.
It was the quintessential American ideal of fatherhood, a Norman Rockwell painting set in motion.
By some accounts, Griffith kept his character conspicuously single to let the show focus more on the father-son dynamic, a part of family life that he thought America was already starting to appreciate less.
He gave us a father figure who was firm yet merciful, tender but manly, not quite perfect but never bumbling. He was the kind of father every boy wanted and every man hoped to be.
Now CBS gives us Two and Half Men.
We lost Andy Griffith today. I'm afraid we lost Andy Taylor a long time ago.
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