Don Knotts and Andy Griffith worked well together for five seasons on The Andy Griffith Show before Knotts left to make movies ... producers that financially set Andy Griffith up for success ...

“Andy Griffith and Don Knotts also came, which moved me to no end,” Howard wrote. By the mid-1970s, Griffith was doing a television movie here ... in a recreated set of Mayberry’s sheriff ...