"God Bless my Pa, my bird Dickey and my dog Gulliver and my lizard, also wherever it is he ran away to, and Barney Fife and my white mouse and Jerry, Tommy and Billy and my snake. Amen. I forgot somebody very important. God Bless Rose, even though she ran off and got married."
October 3rd, 1960 was the date; it was the very first episode of "The Andy Griffith Show", titled "The New Housekeeper". From there, the rest, they say, is history.
