Editing The Andy Griffith Show (section)

==Home media==
In the late 1980s, Premier Promotions released various episodes on VHS. Most tapes had either two or four episodes. In the early to mid-1990s, [[United American Video]] (under license from the show's then-syndicator [[Viacom Enterprises]]) released VHS tapes of various episodes. They either had two or three episodes. These compilations were culled from episodes early in the show's run that had lapsed into the public domain; these episodes continue to be circulated on unofficial video releases.

Starting in 2004, [[Paramount Home Media Distribution|Paramount Home Entertainment]] (under the [[CBS Home Entertainment]] label starting in 2006) released all eight seasons as single-season packages on Region 1 DVD. ''The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series'' was first released as a 40-disc boxed set in 2007. In addition to all 249 episodes of the series, its bonus features included the episode "Danny Meets Andy Griffith" from ''[[The Danny Thomas Show]]'' which served as the pilot, the episode "Opie Joins the Marines" from ''[[Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.]]'' which featured Ron Howard and the 95-minute, [[Television film|made-for-television]] [[comedy film]] ''[[Return to Mayberry]]''. In 2016, ''The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Series'' was repackaged and released again as a 39-disc set that featured all 249 episodes of the series but did not include the bonus feature disc. The last 16 episodes of the third season, which lapsed into the [[public domain]] after CBS neglected to file copyright renewals on the episodes in 1989, are available on discount DVDs. The 2007 lawsuit ''CBS Operations Inc v. Reel Funds International Inc.'' ruled that the episodes in question were [[derivative work]]s based on the copyrighted episodes even though the episodes themselves were not under copyright and granted CBS indirect copyright over the public domain episodes; the ruling [[enjoin]]ed Reel Funds International, a public domain distributor, from selling DVDs with those episodes within the jurisdiction of the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.winston.com/index.cfm?contentid=34&itemid=2488 |title=Winston.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831181432/http://winston.com/index.cfm?contentid=34&itemid=2488 |archive-date=August 31, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-txnd-3_06-cv-00588|title=CBS Operations Inc v. Reel Funds International Inc|work=gpo.gov|access-date=September 23, 2013|archive-date=November 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116084702/https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCOURTS-txnd-3_06-cv-00588|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!DVD Name
!Ep#
!Release Date
|-
| ''The First Season''
| 32
| November 16, 2004
|-
| ''The Second Season''
| 31
| May 24, 2005
|-
| ''The Third Season''
| 32
| August 16, 2005
|-
| ''The Fourth Season''
| 32
| November 22, 2005
|-
| ''The Fifth Season''
| 32
| February 14, 2006
|-
| ''The Sixth Season''
| 30
| May 9, 2006
|-
| ''The Seventh Season''
| 30
| August 29, 2006
|-
| ''The Final Season''
| 30
| December 12, 2006
|-
| ''The Complete Series''
| 249
| May 29, 2007
|-
| ''The Complete Series''
| 249
| February 16, 2016
|}

Note: The Region 1 release of ''The Third Season'' contains two episodes edited for syndication: "The Darlings Are Coming"—which had several scenes cut—and "Barney Mends a Broken Heart", which had its [[epilogue]] cut.