Ron Howard, who played Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show" as a child, said he recently found out that he and former co-star Don Knotts are distant cousins.

The Andy Griffith Show brought a sense of laughter and community into our homes-and Mayberry's quirky crew of characters ...

Turns out Mayberry was smaller than we knew. Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith Show,” recently shared a photo on social media that showed him with ...

The sitcom, which ran for eight seasons, followed the sheriff of Mayberry, Andy Taylor (Griffith). At five years old, Howard ...

Howard played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 to 1968. He was just 5 years old when he was cast as the son of ...

When he was growing up with his family in a small rural Ohio town, Ric Sheffield, an author and college professor, said he ...

Vince Gilligan, the creator of "Breaking Bad," has expressed concern about writers making villains "aspirational" in an age ...