Nip it in the bud. In the entire history of television, one comedic character stands head and shoulders above the rest. His name, Barney Fife, ace deputy under Sheriff Andy Taylor on the Andy Griffith Show. If you doubt this, try picturing the show without him. What you’d have left is a bunch of fair to middling characters with not a magnetic personality among them. Goober, Gomer, Opie, Aunt Bea, Andy, Thelma Lou and Helen Crump do not make for compelling television. Who could sing a capella better than Barney crooning “A capella, A capella, A capella.” Simply awesome. We offer 193 8 X 10” b + w photos of Barney, his head cocked menacingly to the side, that steely stare throwing a shiver into all who fell under his gaze, while he loads his oh so lethal pistol. Knotts signed all of these as both Don Knotts and Barney Fife, in blue marker. Barney had a special way with words; Inkem binkem notamus rex, protect us all from the man with the hex. How can you argue with that?