Community Corner
Poll: Was TV Better in the Heyday of Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine?
Golden Era sitcoms are recalled with the deaths of two leading TV actors of the 1960s.
The recent deaths of Andy Griffith and Ernest Borgnine stirred memories of their 1960s TV shows—The Andy Griffith Show and McHale’s Navy. Although both displayed prodigious talents on the big screen and elsewhere, most people identify them with their Golden Era programs. Ermes Efron Borgnino died at 95, and Griffith at 86. Did these icons of network TV represent the best generation of shows?
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