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Mayberry 101 : behind the scenes of a TV classic by Neal Brower is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mayberry 101 : behind the scenes of a TV classic about?
On October 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show began its eight-year reign as one of the top-ten television shows in the country. Now, almost 50 years later, the original 249 episodes still remain among the most frequently watched syndicated shows on television. In 1991, Neal Brower began to write a regular column called "Professor Brower's Class" in The Bullet , the newsletter for the show's fan club, The Andy Griffith ShowRerun Watchers Club . The Bullet , which was published three times a year, was distributed to approximately 15,000 members of the 1,000 worldwide chapters. In his column, Brower focused on one of the show's episodes. Through interviews with writers, directors, producers, actors, and other people associated with the show, Brower offered insights into the scriptwriting, production, photography, casting, and musical scoring. Although Brower's first few columns consisted primarily of his personal observations and comments about the episode, later columns concentrated on letting the participants tell the Mayberry story. Brower realized that the pace of writing only three episodes a year was too slow a process. The stories that he discovered needed to be told before the me
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- Author
- Neal Brower
- Publisher
- John F. Blair Publisher
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780895872180
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Reference
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (26 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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