Poll: Was TV Better in the Heyday of Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine?
Golden Era sitcoms are recalled with the deaths of two leading TV actors of the 1960s.
The recent deaths of Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine stirred memories of their 1960s TV shows—The Andy Griffith Show and McHale’s Navy. Although both displayed prodigious talents on the big screen and elsewhere, most people identify them with their Golden Era programs. Borgnine died at 95, and Griffith at 86.
Did these icons of network TV represent the best generation of shows? Vote in the poll below, and tell us your thoughts in the comments!
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Ryan Smith
11:48 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012
This is a tough one. Although I always liked Borgnine's big-screen work better than "McHale's Navy", "The Andy Griffith Show" was a classic -- one of many comedy clasics of the era; Rowlf the Dog's early appearances on "The Jimmy Dean Show" were some of the funniest things on television in that or any era.. On the dramatic front, the 1960s also gave us "The Twilight Zone", "Star Trek" and "Mission: Impossible". But let's not forget -- the 1960s spawned "My Mother the Car", and recent and current shows like "Boston Legal", "Mad Men" and the BBC's "Sherlock" are things of wonder.
What do you think?