Even better at some moments in those last three years, so people kept watching it ... Don Knotts left the show after five ...

Don Knotts and Andy Griffith worked well together for five seasons on The Andy Griffith Show before Knotts left to make movies ... make the show better than the last episode.

The team behind the movie, which includes the children of "Andy Griffith" actors ... Not helping the situation is Stone's last-minute trip to star in "Checkered Flag," where Lucas Oil Raceway ...