It’s about time for Mayberry fans, at long last, to stand up and defend a fallen soldier, a man who was cast in a role that no one could have found success in. I’m talking about the nephew of Floyd the Barber himself: poor Deputy Warren, played by Jack Burns. Burns was brought on to replace Don Knotts after he left The Andy Griffith Show in its fifth season; the show’s first reaction was to rewrite existing, yet-to-be-filmed scripts for the new actor. Burns was a talented and funny man, but there was no way things were going to turn out his way when fans of the show started debating which actor was a funnier deputy.
