Generations of TV fans know them as Andy Taylor, sheriff of Mayberry, N.C., and Quinton McHale, commander of PT 73. Andy Griffith, who died July 3 at 86 at his home in Roanoke, N.C., and Ernest Borgnine, who died July 8 at 95 in Los Angeles, created TV personas that will rerun forever in a million fans' memories. On The Andy Griffith Show, which ran from i960 to '68, the star provided a rural sedative for the urban chaos of 20th century America's most tumultuous decade. McHale's Navy (1962 to '66), turned Borgnine, an Oscar-winning dramatic actor, into a TV star on a military sitcom set in the Pacific theater of World War Ⅱ-which seemed a cooler spot than the big muddy of Vietnam that the U.S. was wading into.
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