...— eight years later, Berry replaced Griffith as the main character in what would become Mayberry R.F.D.

https://www.metv.com/stories/ken-berry-said-that-his-show-was-canceled-in-1960-by-the-andy-griffith-show-eight-years-later-berry-replaced-griffith-as-the-main-character-in-what-would-become-mayberry-rfd

It was one of the more ironic moments in Ken Berry (https://comforttv.blogspot.com/2018/04/top-tv-moments-ken-berry.html)'s career.

...— eight years later, Berry replaced Griffith as the main character in what would become Mayberry R.F.D.

https://www.metv.com/stories/ken-berry-said-that-his-show-was-canceled-in-1960-by-the-andy-griffith-show-eight-years-later-berry-replaced-griffith-as-the-main-character-in-what-would-become-mayberry-rfd

It was one of the more ironic moments in Ken Berry (https://comforttv.blogspot.com/2018/04/top-tv-moments-ken-berry.html)'s career.

Oh, those METV articles! The information in this article is very misleading and deliberately so. The Ann Sothern Show was on CBS same as TAGS, they never were up against each other. For the first two seasons the show occupied the 9:30 Monday behind the very successful Danny Thomas Show. The show was not performing well enough to remain in that slot, the Thomas Show was number 5 in the ratings the first season of the Sothern show, and number 4 the second season of the Sothern show; Sothern's show was number 22 and number 24 respectively. Now of course Danny had a piece of TAGS so I'm sure he negotiated the arrangement, but even if that was not the case the Sothern show was losing too much of the lead-in audience. It moved to Thursday night for season three occupying two different time slots and didn't perform well in either of them.

With respect to Berry's participation in the series, he appeared in three episodes at the end of season two, and eight episodes in season 3 for a total of 11 appearances during the 96 episode run.

Originally Posted by Duster76

Oh, those METV articles! The information in this article is very misleading and deliberately so.

The board has been flooded by these low views mostly no replies threads.

Oh, those METV articles! The information in this article is very misleading and deliberately so. The Ann Sothern Show was on CBS same as TAGS, they never were up against each other. For the first two seasons the show occupied the 9:30 Monday behind the very successful Danny Thomas Show. The show was not performing well enough to remain in that slot, the Thomas Show was number 5 in the ratings the first season of the Sothern show, and number 4 the second season of the Sothern show; Sothern's show was number 22 and number 24 respectively. Now of course Danny had a piece of TAGS so I'm sure he negotiated the arrangement, but even if that was not the case the Sothern show was losing too much of the lead-in audience. It moved to Thursday night for season three occupying two different time slots and didn't perform well in either of them.

With respect to Berry's participation in the series, he appeared in three episodes at the end of season two, and eight episodes in season 3 for a total of 11 appearances during the 96 episode run.

The original article was probably posted by some MeTV writer who really didn't know Ken Berry wasn't known for this series and had minimal appearances. So they found a years-old Ken Berry quote which wasn't accurate and made an article out of it.

About Thomas' possible involvement: anything's possible. But moving the AS show to another night doesn't equate with cancellation, whether Thomas had a hand in it or not.

I'd think most networks would be happy with a top 30 show, particularly if it was winning its slot (that'd be interesting to know.) Maybe the slight slippage in the second season, coupled with Danny's equal improvement, did it.

Ken Berry was essentially at least on the right track. I suppose you could say that The Ann Sothern Show was at least indirectly canceled due to the Andy Griffith Show coming on board. Perhaps General Foods thought that they could achieve higher ratings with Griffith's show. The reason for the cancellation lies with GF who decided to move Ann's show to Thursday nights. The ratings then became low enough to lead to its cancelation by the end of the 3rd season when GF decided to call it quits by dropping sponsorship. Sponsors had much more control of shows and scheduling during those years.

https://archive.org/details/variety221-1961-02/page/n211/mode/2up