Don Knotts and his family WW ... and then he also had problems with an older brother who tormented him, because they were alcoholics. When his father passed, he was 13 years old.

WW: Despite the fact that you're Don Knotts' brother-in-law, did you go into this book with one idea of who Andy and Don were and come out of it with another? DDV: Obviously I knew more than the ...

But to his daughter, Karen, Don Knotts is simply Dad ... the early challenges he faced growing up with an alcoholic father and brother, who were abusive as well; the way he turned his life ...

Certain pairings on television shows are just magic—when the chemistry between a pair of performers surpass anything the writers could have imagined and bring a whole new element to a series.