Quote Originally Posted by kokopup View Post
The Andy Griffin show is my standard, "put me to sleep", watching every night.
The scenes of Mayberry North Carolina are reasonable but when they go out of Mayberry to county roads or lakes it becomes very obvious that they are shooting in California. Most rural roads are filmed in orange groves with no signs of an Oak tree anywhere. it is true that North Carolina had some dirt road back in the 50's and 60's but I have yet to see a rural paved road in a single episode.

Yeah, California stands in for just about every place on the planet, I guess.

An oldie "North to Alaska" staring John Wayne -- 1960 I think, has a bunch of prospectors going to Nome to strike it rich. They mill around boulders and huge pine trees. Uhh, like there aren't any trees anywhere near Nome.

In one scene they take a midnight stroll to see the stars. Quite problematic since Alaska is called The Land of the Midnight Sun for good reason. We don't see stars all summer long because the sun doesn't really set.