Thanks for your dedication to this project, it sort of Keeps Mayberry Alive. Opie had a best friend named Johnny Paul who was played by Keith Thibodeaux, also known as Keith Richards but Thibodeaux is his real name. He also played "Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy. Years later he married a ballerina named Kathy Denton and lives in Madison, Mississippi. He and his wife set up a ballet company where my daughter learned ballet from the age of 3 until she was 14. I was a ballet dad and spent as much time as I could at the studio, and became friends with Keith, an extremely nice man and just a regular Joe who is kind of artsy which is also interesting. One day we played with my yoyo and I keep that as my connection to those days, and I tell people that I once yo-yoed with Opies' best Friend Johnny Paul.
Does anyone else remember that Mayberry was an off-world location for a Star Trek episode scene? At the time I saw the episode I did not notice. Someone did finally realize it some time later. I visited the studio's back lot on a saturday once in the 70s. I remember seeing Lucille Ball's dressing room!
The Star Trek episode, “Miri”, shows the entire downtown square area. Of course it’s in ruins for that episode, but you can see all of the buildings, especially the sherifs office with those pronounced columns out front. Also used in another Star Trek episode called, “A Piece of the Action”.
My favorite TAGS trivia is Barney's cousin Virgil, played by Michael Pollard, penned the title, and was the influence/inspiration for the song _The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys_ by the band Traffic.
@@carlsaganlives4036 HaHa. 2 different universes, huh? I was looking up Winwoods musical history/influences and stumbled across that nugget. Didn't Steve have a brother? Muff Fife?
I have always been puzzled by the number of inconsistancies in the scripts. Especially characters whose names would change, Even Barney had two different middle names. I guess the creaters never dreamed the show would become so popular for so many years so that so many of us would even take notice of the errors or care one way or the other.
there was an episode where Andy showed Barney the receipt of the pistol that Andy issued Barney which was back in 1953. later you have the episode where they give Barney a watch for 5 years service
@@williampetersen9915 walked back and looked at some stuff. The untouchables was filming on that same lot just before and during TAGS season 1 and I think 2. They often used a lot of ethnic names (mostly Italian) in their show and while my cursory scan through some episodes on youtube didn't scare anything up, I think that is my personal candidate.
I was just thinking it could be a twilight zone backdrop. Sounds alien. Heck maybe was seen a few time in Star Trek like the time Kirk and Edith Keller walked past Floyd’s barber shop.
I just recently started watching TAGS again from the beginning on Prime and I've noticed that sign in the background. I never really gave it much thought but it would be interesting to know the origins of it.
the answer is not to be found on the exterior 'back lot' . Interior scenes were filmed on the sound stage. Anything seen looking out through an "exterior " door or window is a backdrop inside the sound stage.
Have you covered when the Star Trek crew 'landed' in Mayberry? I think there were four times when they used the 40 Acres back lot. Two of the episodes were Miri and The City on the Edge of Forever. Also, did the door that would have gone into the Fix It Shop from the jail house ever get used? Thanks for posting these.
I noticed something else about the show. In some episodes there's 2 windows on the left and the right of the door. In some episodes there is only one window beside the door.
You remember correctly, I was scanning the comments looking to see if anyone else remembered that one! I think that was the the most strange of all stores!
Not related to post, I’m watching three’s Company forgot Don knots played Mr. Firley. I believe as good as he was on Three’s Company he was better on TAGS.
Been watching Anje and Co. for 50 years. I've seen it and paid no attention. It always seemed to be a statement that Mayberry was home to all. This was an immigrant's business. Why Belgium or Bavaria? Belgium is represented by 3 languages officially. Flemish, in the north, is VERY closely related to Dutch, which are Germanic based. French, in the South. And a very wee small section German, after boundaries were redrawn for war reparations. Words and names with multiple consonants like that are to be found in languages in Eastern Europe.
Wasn't the background a painted picture that you saw when they would open the door going from inside to outside? Therefore the outdoor painted scene could have been just a canvas they found somewhere. I found it interesting when they would film going from outside to inside they kept the order of entry the same, without forgetting who entered first, after they made the trip to the Soundstage.
There are many strange backdrops throughout the run of the series. For example in the episode where Wally's gas station is being robbed at night the scene where Barney is standing in the front doorway showing Gomer his security camera set up there is a backdrop of homes that doesn't match the exterior of where the gas station is situated. Just one example of many.
The Post Office might be another candidate. Barney gets in the squad car, turns on the siren, and does a u-turn to the other side of the street in order to show a pretty woman where the post office is at. Of course, Thelma Lou see all this. Just saw that episode a couple of days ago.
The sign could be from a film set in Poland or another Eastern European country. There are likely other Eastern Europeans in North Carolina. I mean Coach "K" can't be the only one to set up households in NC!
That name across the street...reminds me of that Barney Miller episode where Wojo is telling someone his name is Wojciehowicz spelled like it sounds...no it isnt i tried spelling it and other than WOJ i totally messed up after it
Always wished we saw more of the diner, maybe the trains. Recall Barney finds that suitcase of money on the tracks, goes under cover. I think we hear a reference to the train tracks in another episode, but wouldn't a station have added to the town? Another place old Barney could solve a mystery crime.
The episode with the hobo, we hear the train in the background. Also the episode where Barney catches the crook from Chattanooga, Barney mentions he caught him messing around at the rail yard.
Ok. So, what we have is a name: Peter Hajwzk. I will guess that the last name is Slavic and possibly pronounced HAW 'CHICK. What about the B after the name? B as in Boarding house or some other business like Building supply?
As mentioned, the "B" is part of "Building". As in, "The Peter Hajwzk Building". So the real question devolves further - Who is "Peter Hawjzk", and why did he have a building in Mayberry named after him? Is Polish considered a Slavik language? 'Cause that's DEFINITELY a spelling that wouldn't be even a little bit unexpected in a polish surname - Look at "Czernki", pronounced by the bearer as "CHAR-ness-key", or Przbtlti, pronounced by its owner as "shuh-BILL-ski", and similar "Haven't you people invented vowels yet?!?!?!" jawbreaker spellings.
Okay what episode it where you see Barney standing on the sidewalk looking at the little boy on the bike at the beginning of this video?. I knew the second I saw it. I have watched each show hundreds of times during my life and I can tell you what the episode is about in the first five seconds or less usually opening scene. The above mentioned episode is where the boy just got a new bike Barney confiscates the bike after the boy was warned to stay of the sidewalks boys father comes to courthouse boy throws fit says “go ahead and arrest my father he dosent care he will show you” Boys dad says no need to keep bicycle sheriff I’m going to sell it. Andy offers the “old fashioned” woodshed behind the courthouse to the boys father. I will bet there are thousands of folks just like me that can do the exact same thing.
"Why don’t you just take the rest of the day off? Go on over to the drug store and have a nice lunch. The businessman’s special is hollowed out tomato stuffed with avocado and raisins." Raisins, er, raise your hand if you recall going into a drug store, counter lunch. Where I grew up still had one in NC, circa 1973, population 1,200 of locals.
Most Polish immigrants to the United States settled in the Midwest, but maybe one made it to North Carolina. “The Little Shop Around the Corner” was set in Budapest (Hungary) and may have been filmed on that lot. Hungary borders Poland.
🙂 I just thought, it was, an emigrant name. I don't know about your neck of the woods... but in many places, from the early part of the 20th century, people, came to the U.S.
Wow. I have seen every B&W episode of TAGS at least 20 or 30 times and never noticed that!
Same here! Never noticed that.
Fascinating. New stuff about TAGS. Excellent episode, Bob.
Thanks Kev
Thanks for your dedication to this project, it sort of Keeps Mayberry Alive. Opie had a best friend named Johnny Paul who was played by Keith Thibodeaux, also known as Keith Richards but Thibodeaux is his real name. He also played "Little Ricky" on I Love Lucy. Years later he married a ballerina named Kathy Denton and lives in Madison, Mississippi. He and his wife set up a ballet company where my daughter learned ballet from the age of 3 until she was 14. I was a ballet dad and spent as much time as I could at the studio, and became friends with Keith, an extremely nice man and just a regular Joe who is kind of artsy which is also interesting. One day we played with my yoyo and I keep that as my connection to those days, and I tell people that I once yo-yoed with Opies' best Friend Johnny Paul.
Does anyone else remember that Mayberry was an off-world location for a Star Trek episode scene? At the time I saw the episode I did not notice. Someone did finally realize it some time later. I visited the studio's back lot on a saturday once in the 70s. I remember seeing Lucille Ball's dressing room!
Kirk and Edith Keeler walking pas Floyd's Barber Shop: th-cam.com/video/_OlYeufpLcI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=anV2QfaINxbbHwGl&t=36
The Star Trek episode, “Miri”, shows the entire downtown square area. Of course it’s in ruins for that episode, but you can see all of the buildings, especially the sherifs office with those pronounced columns out front. Also used in another Star Trek episode called, “A Piece of the Action”.
@@davidzweiban7957 So, replies have Mayberry appearing in three episodes of Star Trek?! :)>
@@lewis7315 "City on the Edge of Forever", "Miri" and, "A Piece of the Action". Those are the 3 that I know of.
I think it was also in a Twilight Zone episode.
Great observation. All the times I watched that episode, I never, ever noticed it. Thanks for the vid, Friend.
Yes, I always wondered about that store front. I just assumed it was part of a different set.
That 2nd picture is Ben Weaver leaving the sheriffs office
Wow that's interesting I never noticed that building before nice video Bob
I still find out new things about this show from time to time. Good find and great question.
My favorite TAGS trivia is Barney's cousin Virgil, played by Michael Pollard, penned the title, and was the influence/inspiration for the song _The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys_ by the band Traffic.
Wow. Never thought I'd see a tie-in between Barney and Steve Winwood...
@@carlsaganlives4036 HaHa. 2 different universes, huh?
I was looking up Winwoods musical history/influences and stumbled across that nugget.
Didn't Steve have a brother? Muff Fife?
@@Frankie5Angels150 Yep. Sure can.
Thanks Bob for this AGS F & T Segment. This was another interesting piece of trivia that all of us, your AGS F & T followers, truly appreciate.
God bless
A mystery for sure! Thx Bob for getting me something to ponder! 😋💓
That's interesting that shop in the andy griffith show I saw that sign in the episode the inspector good video bob vickie napa california
Remember, Emmit’s Fixit shop, was formally Floyd’s Barbershop!
Uh....you know....that uh.....well.....nevermind.
I’ve seen that episode countless times and I’ve NEVER noticed the sign either…amazing, and I’m clueless 😂
Hi Bob and Everyone Thank you for the video. Very interesting this is very strange. I've never seen that before. God Bless Much Love Everyone Jean
I have always been puzzled by the number of inconsistancies in the scripts. Especially characters whose names would change, Even Barney had two different middle names. I guess the creaters never dreamed the show would become so popular for so many years so that so many of us would even take notice of the errors or care one way or the other.
Barney had three different middle names . Andy once said to Barney “ I thought your middle name was Oliver ?
there was an episode where Andy showed Barney the receipt of the pistol that Andy issued Barney which was back in 1953. later you have the episode where they give Barney a watch for 5 years service
Yep
@@RocketKirchnerOliver and P., what was the 3rd one?
Wasn't "Danger" his middle name?
Started watching Andy Griffith from the beginning. Saw that sign many times
Always wondered what lt meant. Thanks Bob
Morgantown Bob.
It's been a while since I've seen it, but it may be from the Twilight Zone episode "Two."
Wild
Yup I was thinking the same thing.
I would say that is a no - as it wasn't filmed on Desilu and the twilight zone channel says that set was torn down after filming Two
@@dayofdevotion Cool news. Thank you for the FYI.
@@williampetersen9915 walked back and looked at some stuff. The untouchables was filming on that same lot just before and during TAGS season 1 and I think 2. They often used a lot of ethnic names (mostly Italian) in their show and while my cursory scan through some episodes on youtube didn't scare anything up, I think that is my personal candidate.
Morning All ! I couldn’t wait to watch this episode Bob , After last nights teaser . Thanks brother for all your time & effort, GOD BLESS
So happy that you enjoy it
Goodness Bob, that’s a new one I’ve never noticed. I do find interesting to look up different “ back lots” for filming.
Thanks for a good video. 🙋♂️🙏
Great video Bob. Interesting to say the least. I thoroughly enjoy watching the show. God Bless you 🙏 Melanie
Great video! Thanks
But how about Dave's? Its a restaurant but not "the diner?". Where is the Diner and explain Dave's if you would please Thank you
*By any chance, did you ever mention that Mayberry's "Floyd's Barber Shop" appeared in an episode of original Star Trek?*
Love it Bob.....get the interiors using backdrops....be cool to look at back 40 door to door who or what was where....keep it up!!!!!!
I cannot solve your mystery, Bob. And I never noticed it.
Maybe... it was all in the Twilight Zone 😮 😮 😮 😂
I was just thinking it could be a twilight zone backdrop. Sounds alien. Heck maybe was seen a few time in Star Trek like the time Kirk and Edith Keller walked past Floyd’s barber shop.
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😆 Maybe. 👍
I just recently started watching TAGS again from the beginning on Prime and I've noticed that sign in the background. I never really gave it much thought but it would be interesting to know the origins of it.
I believe that I've seen this before but really didn't pay any attention on what it said. Great video Bob!
the answer is not to be found on the exterior 'back lot' . Interior scenes were filmed on the sound stage. Anything seen looking out through an "exterior " door or window is a backdrop inside the sound stage.
Very interesting never noticed that
Thanks for the video Bob, love your sense of humor! God Bless.
Thanks Denise
Have you covered when the Star Trek crew 'landed' in Mayberry? I think there were four times when they used the 40 Acres back lot. Two of the episodes were Miri and The City on the Edge of Forever. Also, did the door that would have gone into the Fix It Shop from the jail house ever get used? Thanks for posting these.
Its been awhile but yes i have
And the Indian planet was the old fishing ol - lake.
The future-Mayberry set was also used in the 1959 film 'Verboten!' which starred James Best (later Jim Lindsey on TAGS)
wonderful video Bob!
It sort of looks like a Polish name, or another some other eastern European country. The possible WW2 movie connection makes sense.
Thought the same thing. Sounds Polish👍
The sign seems to remind me of the series "Dangerous Assignment," but I don't know where that was filmed. It seems consistent with their signage.
Awesome!
FUN FACT: The future-Mayberry set was also used in the 1959 film 'Verboten!' which starred James Best (later Jim Lindsey on TAGS)
Interesting stuff Bob Prayers are going 🙏 up for Everyone Jesus answers the knock on the door 🚪 ❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊 2:28
I noticed something else about the show.
In some episodes there's 2 windows on the left and the right of the door.
In some episodes there is only one window beside the door.
The gentleman crook episode has some interesting things. Barneys badge appears and disappears about 5 different times.
Good video! I terrible at trivia. I watch for Don Knotts facial expressions.
Never noticed this.
Where did the men get their hair cut after Floyd left the town? And didn't Howard own the shop?
He bought it later in the show, almost at the time when howard mcnear had to quit. So i guess emmett paid rent to howard..never thought of that!
That’s when all the hippies started growing long hair.
They got their hair cut up at the state capital, they have a 5 chair barbershop
I sort of remember there being a combination TV repair shop/ funeral parlor.
You remember correctly, I was scanning the comments looking to see if anyone else remembered that one! I think that was the the most strange of all stores!
Great Triva!
Thank you Thomas
TAGS is on twice a day here and I’m amazed at how often the view from the courthouse changes, whether it be the door or the windows.
I always wondered what make was the heater with the round grill in the jailhouse.
It changed to a radiator when Andy saved Gomer's life
@@giraffesareselfish9563 And in the very early episodes there was a closet door where the heater appeared later, with no door behind it.
Not related to post, I’m watching three’s Company forgot Don knots played Mr. Firley. I believe as good as he was on Three’s Company he was better on TAGS.
I agree
100% better on TAGS
Been watching Anje and Co. for 50 years. I've seen it and paid no attention. It always seemed to be a statement that Mayberry was home to all. This was an immigrant's business.
Why Belgium or Bavaria? Belgium is represented by 3 languages officially. Flemish, in the north, is VERY closely related to Dutch, which are Germanic based. French, in the South. And a very wee small section German, after boundaries were redrawn for war reparations.
Words and names with multiple consonants like that are to be found in languages in Eastern Europe.
Wasn't the background a painted picture that you saw when they would open the door going from inside to outside? Therefore the outdoor painted scene could have been just a canvas they found somewhere.
I found it interesting when they would film going from outside to inside they kept the order of entry the same, without forgetting who entered first, after they made the trip to the Soundstage.
You're exactly right. The answer is not to be found on the back lot. But, on backdrops inside the sound stage.
Another intriguing video! Maybe it was Mr Schwamp’s business. If so, guess we’ll never know what it was. Thanks Bob!
Maybe the building is from the movie "To Be Or Not To Be" ? I seem to remember parts of it were supposed to be in Poland...
The Fix It shop had formerly been Floyd’s Barber Shop.
There are many strange backdrops throughout the run of the series. For example in the episode where Wally's gas station is being robbed at night the scene where Barney is standing in the front doorway showing Gomer his security camera set up there is a backdrop of homes that doesn't match the exterior of where the gas station is situated. Just one example of many.
My guess is a leftover from 1940's film, The Little Shop Around the Corner ....
can you go to the exact location of the courthouse on back 40 lot?
Was it Ben Weavers store?
the most mysterious building was the diner. it was never shown along with the most mysterious character, Wyonita
The Post Office might be another candidate. Barney gets in the squad car, turns on the siren, and does a u-turn to the other side of the street in order to show a pretty woman where the post office is at. Of course, Thelma Lou see all this. Just saw that episode a couple of days ago.
One day old question for me too, now.
The sign could be from a film set in Poland or another Eastern European country. There are likely other Eastern Europeans in North Carolina. I mean Coach "K" can't be the only one to set up households in NC!
Floyd will always be Doc Adams 👨⚕️
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Didn't Juanita work at the Bluebird Cafe?
I think if was the Bluebird Diner and The Junction Cafe, she worked at both.
Thanks!@@giraffesareselfish9563
That name across the street...reminds me of that Barney Miller episode where Wojo is telling someone his name is Wojciehowicz spelled like it sounds...no it isnt i tried spelling it and other than WOJ i totally messed up after it
Never seen this. I have been watching since I was in a hichair.
Always wished we saw more of the diner, maybe the trains.
Recall Barney finds that suitcase of money on the tracks, goes under cover.
I think we hear a reference to the train tracks in another episode, but wouldn't a station have added to the town?
Another place old Barney could solve a mystery crime.
The episode with the hobo, we hear the train in the background. Also the episode where Barney catches the crook from Chattanooga, Barney mentions he caught him messing around at the rail yard.
Also, I don't watch the color episodes but I think in the final episode Sam picks up his visitors from Italy at the train station
Well, that's good!! I wonder if someone Has the answer.
It looks like a Polish or Hungarian name
Well that name stuck me as looking like a Polish name so if it was originally used on a set depicting WW2 Poland then that makes sense.
Ok. So, what we have is a name: Peter Hajwzk. I will guess that the last name is Slavic and possibly pronounced HAW 'CHICK.
What about the B after the name? B as in Boarding house or some other business like Building supply?
As mentioned, the "B" is part of "Building". As in, "The Peter Hajwzk Building". So the real question devolves further - Who is "Peter Hawjzk", and why did he have a building in Mayberry named after him? Is Polish considered a Slavik language? 'Cause that's DEFINITELY a spelling that wouldn't be even a little bit unexpected in a polish surname - Look at "Czernki", pronounced by the bearer as "CHAR-ness-key", or Przbtlti, pronounced by its owner as "shuh-BILL-ski", and similar "Haven't you people invented vowels yet?!?!?!" jawbreaker spellings.
Moonshine dealer
Remember the TV shop funeral home?
Orville Monroe's
Well the first part sure looks like Peter. I’m hoping the B is the start of Books.
Sign looks like Polish or Prussian.
Okay what episode it where you see Barney standing on the sidewalk looking at the little boy on the bike at the beginning of this video?. I knew the second I saw it. I have watched each show hundreds of times during my life and I can tell you what the episode is about in the first five seconds or less usually opening scene. The above mentioned episode is where the boy just got a new bike Barney confiscates the bike after the boy was warned to stay of the sidewalks boys father comes to courthouse boy throws fit says “go ahead and arrest my father he dosent care he will show you” Boys dad says no need to keep bicycle sheriff I’m going to sell it. Andy offers the “old fashioned” woodshed behind the courthouse to the boys father. I will bet there are thousands of folks just like me that can do the exact same thing.
Maybe it’s a Mandela effect. LOL
It looks like it might be Czech, but I have no idea how to pronounce it.
It's almost lunchtime, let's go to Frank's and get a hot dog.
"Why don’t you just take the rest of the day off? Go on over to the drug store and have a nice lunch. The businessman’s special is hollowed out tomato stuffed with avocado and raisins."
Raisins, er, raise your hand if you recall going into a drug store, counter lunch.
Where I grew up still had one in NC, circa 1973, population 1,200 of locals.
@markraciborski4289 yes, best cheeseburgers ever.
Most Polish immigrants to the United States settled in the Midwest, but maybe one made it to North Carolina.
“The Little Shop Around the Corner” was set in Budapest (Hungary) and may have been filmed on that lot. Hungary borders Poland.
🙂 I just thought, it was, an emigrant name. I don't know about your neck of the woods... but in many places, from the early part of the 20th century, people, came to the U.S.
Never did see Sarah the phone operator.
Or Juanita
Created by AI? 😆
Albanian grocery!
The name looks Polish.
Hey Bob Snatch eat another dozen donuts and get a haircut!