In Return to Mayberry when Barney was posting the warning sign for the monster in Meyers Lake, he said it was posted by Richard Kelly. Was that in reference to Richard Kelly the author?
This Answer provided by Harvey Bullock: David Millard asked a question and quoted a line by Barney Fife in RETURN TO MAYBERRY wherein Barney gave thanks to a certain “Richard Kelly” for painting the warning sign about a monster in the lake…despite ” painful arthitis in his knuckles.” David wondered if it was only a coincidence that “Richard Kelly” is also the name of the author of THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (1981) the first book published about TAGS, and still very definitive.’ David, it was no coincidence. When the beloved Everett Greenbaum and I were writing “Return”, Richard Kelly’s name just happened to flash in my mind. I had met him and his charming wife Barbara when they came to Hollywood and visited me and my erstwhile partner Ray Allen at Twentieth Fox Studios where we were producer/writers on the LOVE BOAT series. Mr, Kelly (Acually DOCTOR Kelly he was a professor of English at the University of Tennessee)had become an enormous fan of TAGS when he was an undergraduate at Duke U
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