You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
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Outside of his loving family, I'm sure that Andy Griffith was Don Knotts' greatest fan.
Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.
I developed a theory that, in many ways, the early 'Andy Griffith' episodes especially were an awful lot like a Capra movie. They were a lot like 'Mr. Deeds' or a lot like 'It's a Wonderful Life' in tone and presentation.
It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.
When I was 10 or 11, I was on this TV series called 'Dead Man's Gun' and Henry Winkler was a guest star. He hung out with me and my brother the whole time. We had no idea who he was. Our parents were star struck.
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' - the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.