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Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: David “The Mayberry Deputy” Browning
Running time: 0:09:04

Two Chairs No Waiting

Two Chairs No Waiting

Welcome to part 2 of our interview with David Browing. In this episode David tells us about going full time as “The Mayberry Deputy” and reveals his favorite character on The Andy Griffith Show.

Thank you for listening and please feel free to leave comments  on the web site here at iMayberry.com/podcasts or by using the contact information that’s heard in the podcast.

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Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: David “The Mayberry Deputy” Browning
Running time: 0:10:40

Two Chairs No Waiting

Two Chairs No Waiting

This is the first of a three part interview with David “The Mayberry Deputy” Browning.  David is the Barney Fife tribute artist who appears at Mayberry Days each year and at other Mayberry events throughout the country.  David was THE Barney who Don Knotts would request to open his “An Evening with Don Knotts” shows as “Barney.”  That alone says a lot about the David and his portrayal of the Mayberry deputy character.

In this segment of the interview with David he speaks about how he started as The Mayberry Deputy and about working with Mr. Knotts.

We’d love to hear from you and if you listen to the podcast you’ll get all our contact information or you can leave a comment on our web site here at iMayberry.com/podcasts.

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Two Chairs No Waiting 19: Bernard Fox

Host: Allan Newsome
Running time: 0:9:16

Two Chairs No Waiting

Two Chairs No Waiting

In this episode, we’re going to be hearing from Bernard Fox. You know him best as     Malcolm Merriweather but to non-Mayberry fans (and perhaps even to Mayberry fans) his best-known role was as the warlock physician  Dr. Bombay on Bewitched.

Mr. Fox is  a “fifth generation performer” and was born with the name Bernard Lawson in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales. Maybe he’s distant kin to our own Floyd Lawson.  Bernard has been married to his wife Jacqueline since 1961.

This interview was recorded on 26 June 1998 in Kingsport, TN.  If you listened near the beginning of the interview we are interrupted by Howard “Ernest T.” Morris.  The folks talking in the background are Maggie “Charlene Darling” Peterson, The Dillards (a.k.a. The Darling boy), Howard Morris, Elinor “Miss Ellie” Donahue, and Jean “the Fun Girl” Carson.

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Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: Jamie Sullivan
Running time: 0:14:05

Two Chairs No Waiting

Two Chairs No Waiting

Jamie “Opie” Sullivan joins us as the last tribute artist interview recorded during the Cruise to Mayberry 3.  Enjoy getting to know Jamie and how being “Opie” has allowed him to do things in his life that most could only dream of.

“Floyd” joins us for some words of wisdom provided by Ken Anderson.  Thanks to Ken for the story told by Floyd in this weeks show.

We’d love to hear from you and if you listen to the podcast you’ll get all our contact information or you can leave a comment on our web site here at iMayberry.com/podcasts.

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Two Chairs No Waiting 14: Jeff Branch

Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: Jeff Branch
Running time: 0:14:13

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Two Chairs No Waiting

Visit with Jeff “Howard Sprague” Branch during the Cruise to Mayberry 3. Jeff puts on a black hat, wears a tie and dark suit and becomes Howard Sprauge. As he says, “I even come with his dry sense of humor.” Jeff real jobs is as a DARE program instructor for the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department in Troy, North Carolina. He also produces bluegrass shows and puts on a Mayberry show in Troy. See the links below for more information.

We also talk about the Mayberry Chapter in Knoxville, TN and their great web site and newsletter. Drop by and visit with them if you have a chance.

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Two Chairs No Waiting 11: Elinor Donahue

Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: Elinor Donahue
Running time: 0:15:13

Away in a Manger

Andy & Ellie Singing

(NOTE: If you originally got episode 10 in your feed…sorry about that error. Here’s the corrected feed.)

Merry Christmas from Two Chairs No Waiting. This episode features an interview with Elinor Donahue recorded during rehearsal for the Mayberry in Meadowview event held in Kingsport, TN on June 27, 1998. It is a fun interview and “Miss Ellie” is a wonderful person. I can’t thank her enough for sitting down and talking with me.  We end the episode in a special way as well so be sure to listen.

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Two Chairs No Waiting 10: Kenneth Junkin Part 2

Host: Allan Newsome
Special Guest: Kenneth Junkin
Running time: 0:13:21

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Two Chairs No Waiting

We finish up our interview with Kenneth “Otis” Junkin.  This interview also has Tim “Goober” Pettigrew joining us toward the end of Ken’s interview.

Thank you for all the kind e-mails I’ve received about the podcast.  I hope some of you will take time to call our toll-free number and be a part of future episodes.

A quick correction if you listened to episode 9, the toll-free number I gave out on that episode was WRONG.  I wrote the number down wrong so I said the wrong number in episode 9. In this episode I give you the correct number.  Sorry about that.

I’m not telling you the number. You’ll have to listen to episode to find out but we hope to hear from you with your questions or comments about past episodes or TAGS.

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