AM SHOW HR 1 - Drownings & Polls
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time. |
| 0:07.0 | Lock and load. |
| 0:10.0 | The Michael Berry Show is on the air. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's Michael Berry Show is sponsored by Floyd Lawson. |
| 0:21.0 | Whose Floyd Lawson you ask? |
| 0:23.0 | Well, you may know him as Floyd the Barber from the Andy Griffiths show. |
| 0:27.0 | Floyd the Barber, as you know, was the slow-paced, somewhat absent-minded barber in the town of Mayberry. |
| 0:34.0 | But I bet you didn't know that Floyd was played by three actors. |
| 0:37.0 | Yes, sir, the character was introduced in Season 1 and was first played by Walter Baldwin. |
| 0:43.0 | Baldwin was Floyd the Barber for all of one episode. |
| 0:47.0 | Norman McNair is the actor most associated with the character. |
| 0:50.0 | He took over the role and would have played the character of Floyd into the final episode of Season 7. |
| 0:55.0 | Floyd the Barber retired when McNair left the show and the barber shop was closed for good. |
| 1:00.0 | Emmett Clark moved his fixed shop from his home into the old barber shop right next to the courthouse. |
| 1:05.0 | So where does the third actor to play the character of Floyd come in? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, midway through Season 3, Norman McNair suffered a serious stroke, |
| 1:13.0 | and he did not return into the end of Season 4. |
| 1:16.0 | While he was gone, there was a quick scene of Andy and Opie walking out of the barber shop. |
| 1:21.0 | If you look in the window, you see Floyd cutting hair. |
| 1:24.0 | But if you look really close like, it wasn't Norman McNair playing Floyd. |
| 1:28.0 | There was an uncredited actor standing in as a body double. |
| 1:32.0 | After his stroke, Norman was paralyzed on the left side of his body, |
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