Actor bio: Betty Lynn began her career in Hollywood films before becoming beloved as Thelma Lou on The Andy Griffith Show.

A draft bill in the NC House calls the Mayberry TV classic a “must-see” for its positive character values and awareness of North Carolina.

Everybody knows that familiar whistling tune that opened up each episode of The Andy Griffith Show, which has far outlived the series itself. From 1960 until 1968, the Andy Griffith-led sitcom ...

Don Knotts as Barney and Betty Lynn as Thelma Lou on an early episode of “The Andy Griffith Show.” Still, the bill lays out the case for making Andy Griffith trivia into core Tar Heel knowledge.

In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it ...