OK. We’ve had spinoffs from Happy Days – but what about spinoffs from The Andy Griffith Show?
Bonus points – what is the Andy Griffith Show a spinoff from? (This used to be harder, but they’re recently run a few specials on this on the cable networks, damn them!)
spin offs: Mayberry RFD starring Ken Barry, and Gomer Pyle USMC. what was it a spin off from??? WAG: Petticoat Junction?
Gomer Pyle, USMC
Mayberry RFD
Wasn’t it a spinoff of one of the variety shows, a la Jack Benney??
Andy Griffith had no connection with the Pettocoat Junction shows (which included Green Acres), nor with Jack Benny. Looking at the show’s credits might help.
Wasn’t Andy Griffith a spinoff from a show with Daddy in the title? “Make room for Daddy” maybe?
Danny Thomas?
DarbyV gets the prize – It was “The Danny Thomas Show”/“Make Room for Daddy”. The family was supposedly vacationing Down South and got caught speeding by Sheriff Andy.
OK. So how about the spinofs from All in the Family?
The Jeffersons!!!
Archie Bunker’s Place?
and Maude
“Maude” also begat “Good Times,” which makes it an extended spin-off. There was also a brief run of “Gloria” right before Sally Struthers started eating starving children.
And, of course, “All in The Family” was simply a rip-off of a British show.
You people are fast. Yes, All in the Family was “inspired” by a British show, and most people tend to forget “Gloria”.
How about spinoffs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Rhoda, Phyliss and Lou grant that I can think of…
Rhoda and Phyllis
Oops, of course Lou Grant.
Thanks wring 
And the British show was:
“Till Death Do Us Part”
By one Johnny Speight
YAY ME!!! I go out to dinner and come home and find out I win a prize. So what is it?? A Blank check? A new washer and dryer? Bedroom furniture? Shameless flirting? I will wait here with baited breath. (What the hell does baited breath mean?)
It’s “bated breath”. It means you won’t breathe until whatever you’re waiting for happens. Baited breath is when a cat eats cheese and hangs out at a mousehole.
DarbyV wins DarbyV’s breath back, and our hearty congratulations.
OK, so it’s not much. But I can afford it, and it fits down the cable lines.
Sanford and Son was also a takeoff of a British show. “Steptoe and Son.”
“Lamont, you big dummy.”
“Grady, Grady, you still shady.”
“Ah, Lena Horne. Do what you want with the Lena, but don’t mess with the Horne.”
And what’s with Aunt Esther’s being an icon to the gay community?