In the following exclusive interview, we look at the decades-spanning friendship between Andy Griffith and Don Knotts through the reflections of the author himself. WOMAN'S WORLD (WW): It's ...

Don Knotts and Andy Griffith worked well together for five seasons on The Andy Griffith Show before Knotts left to make movies. Yet there may have been more behind Knotts’ exit than first revealed.

In the end, he even conquered that, too. circa 1965: L-R: Actors Don Knotts (playing Barney Fife,) Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) and Andy Griffith (Andy Taylor) in a moment from The Andy Griffith Show.