I was NEVER going to buy the color seasons. Then at EB Games they had a used "mint" Season 6 for $9.99. I couldn't resist a whole season of practically anything for $9.99 esp. TAGS, so I went ahead. "Warren" doesn't bother me as much as I thought he would and thankfully he really isn't even in that many. I never cared for the "Howard" character either, but I'm on the 3rd disc and have yet to see him anyway. The "Hollywood" episodes are PRICELESS, but so far my fave has been ''Andy's Rival'' in which Andy tries to keep up with what he thinks is Helens new interest! I must say I would have been proud to pay FULL price for this had I knew the quality was still this high. Aunt Bea, Floyd, Opie, and Goober all step it up and make this a very memorable and worthwhile purchase and season.

Buy IT!

...doesn't really turn up until about the middle of the seventh season, 'Buddy'. You still have a little ways to go. Besides, the sixth season, as you've mentioned, dealt with Andy's trip to Hollywood and watching his "life" unfold on a soundstage; how could you ever miss THOSE episodes??
As for Jack Burns, we all know his brief turn as "Warren Ferguson" wasn't going to last...Andy wasn't "Avery Schreiber", as THAT'S who Jack worked with best!

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I always marveled at Seinfeld's show within a show when he and George were writing "Jerry"... now I see it is a total rip off of TAGS!! Was TAGS the first to explore this concept?

....what happened to "Andy Taylor" and "Jerry Seinfeld" were two DIFFERENT
events: Andy sells the movie rights to "his story", and goes to Hollywood to see how he'll "look" on the big screen- the filming of which is a great episode, as it reminds us that Hollywood can be full of baloney, but some people also have that baloney within themselves, too {i.e. Aunt Bee's reaction at the "glamorous actress" portraying HER in the "The Andy Taylor Story" is priceless!}.

Jerry, on the other hand, is trying to sell NBC a "TV series" based on "his life", with the insinuation he'll be a BIG part of it. That fits more into the format of, say, "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM", which was supposed to be a comedy/variety series, but more often than not (especially on film), it also presented Jack's "fictional" life, both on AND off camera, and the weird things that always seem to happen to him, his cast and "guest stars". And Jerry is known to be a great admirer of Benny's talent and timing.


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They may be different to you; but I'm reffering to the germ of the idea of a ficticious character coming to life in another ficticious format, to me they are very similar, maybe not in exacting details but close enough for me.

Then again, there are terrible episodes, I just watched "Girl Shy". God, what a TERRIBLE script!! HA! Warren or not, this was the silliest most improbable plot I have seen in ages, it's like something from the Flinstones; sleepwalking and hitting on women? Gawwd.

Then again, there are terrible episodes, I just watched "Girl Shy". God, what a TERRIBLE script!! HA! Warren or not, this was the silliest most improbable plot I have seen in ages, it's like something from the Flinstones; sleepwalking and hitting on women? Gawwd.


I'll have to say that I thought that was a silly episode too. TAGS had many great episodes and they never relied on slapstick for comedy, but when they did have a bad episode, boy it stank.

I was NEVER going to buy the color seasons. Then at EB Games they had a used "mint" Season 6 for $9.99. I couldn't resist a whole season of practically anything for $9.99 esp. TAGS, so I went ahead. "Warren" doesn't bother me as much as I thought he would and thankfully he really isn't even in that many. I never cared for the "Howard" character either, but I'm on the 3rd disc and have yet to see him anyway. The "Hollywood" episodes are PRICELESS, but so far my fave has been ''Andy's Rival'' in which Andy tries to keep up with what he thinks is Helens new interest! I must say I would have been proud to pay FULL price for this had I knew the quality was still this high. Aunt Bea, Floyd, Opie, and Goober all step it up and make this a very memorable and worthwhile purchase and season.

Buy IT!

Well, now that you mention it, those /are/ some pretty good episodes.

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...doesn't really turn up until about the middle of the seventh season, 'Buddy'. You still have a little ways to go. Besides, the sixth season, as you've mentioned, dealt with Andy's trip to Hollywood and watching his "life" unfold on a soundstage; how could you ever miss THOSE episodes??
As for Jack Burns, we all know his brief turn as "Warren Ferguson" wasn't going to last...Andy wasn't "Avery Schreiber", as THAT'S who Jack worked with best!

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Jack Burns was no Don Knotts, either, but that should have been understood and he should or could have been given some time to settle into the role.
Jerry Van Dyke might have been the better choice, as I have read he was considered for the Deputy position.

Mayberry with Andy working alone just doesn't seem right, though... a Deputy was needed, whoever got the job.

Jack Burns was no Don Knotts, either, but that should have been understood and he should or could have been given some time to settle into the role.
Jerry Van Dyke might have been the better choice, as I have read he was considered for the Deputy position.

Mayberry with Andy working alone just doesn't seem right, though... a Deputy was needed, whoever got the job.

I've always said that they should have made local Hotel Clerk/Choir/Play Director John Masters the Deputy after Barney left, given how similar both characters were (And John even proved a perfect fill-in for Barney in the episode The Darlings are a-coming). I could see John Masters pulling off some of the Barney Material better than Jack Burns did and the fact they didn't go with him after The Darlings are coming is shocking.,

I've always said that they should have made local Hotel Clerk/Choir/Play Director John Masters the Deputy after Barney left, given how similar both characters were (And John even proved a perfect fill-in for Barney in the episode The Darlings are a-coming). I could see John Masters pulling off some of the Barney Material better than Jack Burns did and the fact they didn't go with him after The Darlings are coming is shocking.,

Wow, what a choice John Masters would have been, it would have been a pretty much brilliant casting move.

Ah, all the "could have beens" of television history.

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I'll have to say that I thought that was a silly episode too. TAGS had many great episodes and they never relied on slapstick for comedy, but when they did have a bad episode, boy it stank.

Yes, it made Warren look not only even less appropriate for the show, but way too "creepy crazy" for Mayberry, he really looked like a weirdo pretending he was sleepwalking... which he was, acted badly.

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