Imagine you’re a 5-year-old actor, and you’ve appeared on some of the biggest TV shows of the day—but you haven’t been able to watch any of them because they come on too late. Such was the fate of a young Ron Howard.

Howard, 71, shared this detail while on People magazine’s Life In Pictures. When it came to a photo of himself alongside Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show, Ron confessed, “At the point that I did this show, I don’t think I’d ever seen myself on TV, because usually my bedtime was before the shows went on.