Don Knotts and Andy Griffith worked well together for five seasons on The Andy Griffith Show before Knotts left to make movies. Yet there may have been more behind Knotts’ exit than first revealed.

Ron Howard was a young boy surrounded by adults on the set of The Andy Griffith Show. Led by Andy Griffith, who played ...

Andy Griffith and Don Knotts in a behind-the-scenes moment from ... WW: He was in a string of very successful movies and things then kind of slowed down for him, until he joined Three's Company ...