Don Knotts Didn’t Get a Big Salary From ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ Well, with Andy Griffith ... but they were better than his TV salary. From the mid-1960s into the 1970s, Knotts was a regular ...

Years later, when Knotts happened to learn about a TV project starring Griffith as a small town sheriff, he called up his old ...

Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic TV Show. No doubt serving as an entry point to that book for de Vise is the fact that he was the late Knotts' brother-in-law and got to know ...