Howard Morris may forever be remembered by generations of television fans as Ernest T. Bass, the wild-eyed rock-throwing menace of The Andy Griffith Show (who joined such luminaries as Floyd the ...

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. — The event started in 2007 and was called The Downtown Rocks And Run. They ran a perimeter of a 5k and 10k of downtown Mount Airy and there used to be a rock concert at the end. But ...

Do you know what happened on television 46 years ago this week? It was a memorable moment in the history of The Andy Griffith Show on CBS. A rascal in the truest sense rocked America’s funny bone. You ...

This isn’t about the late Shakespearean-trained actor, Howard Morris, famed portrayer of “Mayberry’s” Ernest T Bass. It’s about another talented “Ernest T” portrayer, the late Wesley L. “Wes” Carter ...

In this 262nd episode of “Elton Jim” Turano’s “CAPTAIN POD-TASTIC,” Jim Turano recalls the funny and uncomfortable phone call he had more than 30 years ago with “Ernest T. Bass” (Howard Morris) from ...

Ernest T. Bass asked an insightful question as he vented his frustration over having to study arithmetic: “Nines, nines — what's so important about nines?” The “rock-throwing nut” from The Andy ...

The U.S. Postal Service and Fremont Post Office welcome Barney Fife and Ernest T. Bass, characters from the Andy Griffith Show, in a special ceremony celebrating the issuance of the Early TV Memories ...

LOS ANGELES - Howard Morris, the wry-faced comic who co-starred with Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner on the TV classic Your Show of Shows before going on to success as a film director and to fame as poetry ...