SnoReptilePlenty
Memorable, crazy movie
Stevecorp
Don't listen to the negative reviews
WillSushyMedia
This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
bkoganbing
Andy Griffith made an end to his TV show but the citizens of Mayberry still had a couple of years of life left in them with Mayberry, RFD.Sheriff Andy Taylor and school teacher Helen Crump married and moved away from Mayberry. To give the new show a central character Ken Berry fresh from F Troop plays Sam Jones, a farmer just elected to the Mayberry town council is brought in. He's a widower like Andy Taylor was and raising a small son Buddy Foster. He even hires Aunt Bea to be his housekeeper now that Frances Bavier no longer had to keep house for Andy and Opie.All the other Mayberry regulars and semi-regulars were retained and the show did well for two seasons. But at that point CBS pulled all its rural based shows to get a different market. And at that point those Mayberry characters like Paul Hartman, George Lindsey, Jack Dodson etc. all went to television Valhalla.Sad the show ran into CBS's determination to get younger viewers. It's the seniors who watched this and other rural type shows and the seniors least likely to respond to advertising pitches.Other than reunion movies this ended our look into Mayberry, North Carolina.
fargofan999
Without a doubt a waste of a half an hour, Mayberry R.F.D is the absolute worst type of sellout. Oddly, Mayberry R.F.D makes the baffling desicion to bring back none of the character that made its predecessor funny. Instead vying to bring back such cardboard cutouts as goober, aunt bee, emmet, and others. They have also injected a new character (if he could be called a character), sam, who can I have given the friendly nickname of "oatmeal". Sam is played by Ken berry, who already has proved his incompetence as an actor in the television abomination known as "f-troop". Without question mayberry R.F.D can only be considered a profound waste of time. Ultimately, Mayberry RFD is to the Andy griffith show as afterMASH is to MASH: a bad show trying to Ride on the coat tails of its predecessor. All in all, I'd say that Mayberry RFD doesn't deserve the time of day. 2.5 out of 10 stars.
MartinHafer
I am about to say something that no-doubt will annoy many. While "The Andy Griffith Show" was one of the best shows in television history, after a while it really outlived its usefulness. Without Barney as a series regular, the show tried a variety of either annoying replacements (Warren!!!) or insipid ones (Howard and Emmett)--none of which gave the show the wonderful comedic balance it once had. To make matters worse, after the show limped through three mediocre such seasons, the powers that be at CBS decided to continue the show even when Andy left!!! The 'clever' plan was to introduce a widower, Sam (Ken Berry), who would move to town with his son AND apparently buy Aunt Bee! Talk about a contrived premise--and a poor copy of the original. So now without either leading man, the show was nothing but insipid characters...period. That, in a nutshell, is "Mayberry R.F.D."--like the original show but with none of the humor or interesting characters. Now this isn't to say that the show was bad--it just was bland and inoffensive and that still made it better than some shows. But who wants to live on a steady diet of bland toast--which is, metaphorically speaking, "Mayberry R.F.D.".
evolbaby
I grew up on the Mayberry shows. They're along the best shows ever created for television and everything since has been pale in comparison to warmth, charm, and responsibility.The Andy Griffith Show was a hard act to follow but Ken Berry and company followed through just fine.It's the cast and the stories that taught morals and responsibility like it's predecessor that makes this show remarkable. CBS should run it again just to set our moral compass right.Buddy Foster did a great job. Same with everyone on the cast who are now legendary and beloved. The scripts, the directing and storytelling just what the doctor ordered.When the rural shows were pulled off television our country took a moral nosedive.We need more shows like this.
