Past, present, and even future considering, my favorite all-time TV program is The Andy Griffith Show.

I grew up watching it (primarily with my dad who had watched the original airings when he was growing up) and I give credit to the show for helping me to form an idea of working hard, and a concept of right and wrong.

Now when I was growing up, which wasn’t all that long ago, the notion of getting TV shows on a simple and convenient format like DVD was merely a twinkle in the eye of technology.

So, without WDBJ7 consistently showing re-runs each weekday at 5:30 I would not have been able to continually watch this wonderful show. (I don’t pay for expanded cable television service so other options such as the TV Land channel are not available.)

Nowadays, more often with the help of TiVo, I still continue to watch the shows on Channel 7.

And, hopefully for several years to come I’ll be able to watch the shows over and over again like I always have. I’ve bought a season or two on DVD thus far, but there’s just something neat about watching the show “live” like I originally did growing up.