Carolina Quotes
At first, producer Sheldon Leonard didn't want it to be in North Carolina. He just wanted it to be somewhere in the south. And I hate these made up names. So we did have Mt. Pilot which there is a place called Pilot Mountain up near Mt. Airy, but I gradually started slipping in real towns in North Carolina like Asheville and Raleigh and Silver City. And so it became during that first year, it became a town in North Carolina.
Andy Griffith Carolinian
Source
Interview with Michael Rosen, Archive of American Television (Television Academy Foundation), Manteo, North Carolina, May 5, 1998
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