(November 5, 1905 – November 21, 1991)
“Writer of eight episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (86 and 87 [season three] and 100, 102, 103, 108, 111, and 120 [season four]),” Joss Whedon’s grandfather, “John. . . has also written for such programs as The Alcoa Hour, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Donna Reed Show, Kraft Television Theater, Leave It to Beaver, Room 222, and Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (Kilroy, a four-part special).
“Along with co-author George Roy Hill, Whedon was nominated for an Emmy in 1956 for best teleplay writing (one hour or more) for A Night to Remember, which aired on Kraft Television Theater. (It lost to Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, which aired on Playhouse 90.) His writing has earned such awards as the Christopher, the Sylvania, and a Writers Guild of America award.
“Whedon has written for other media. His films include two 1974 movies: The Bear and I and The Island at the Top of the World. He has written such plays as Life’s Too Short, Li’l Darlin’, and Texas. He has also been published in magazines such as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s, and The New Yorker. In fact, he was once on the editorial staff of The New Yorker.”
--Dale Robinson and David Fernandes, The Definitive Andy Griffith Show Reference: Episode-by-Episode, with Cast and Production Biographies and a Guide to Collectibles (McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, NC, and London, 1996).
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Notes: Andy Griffith Show episode titles: 86 = “Andy Discovers America”; 87 = “Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man”; 100 = “The Sermon For Today”; 102 = “A Black Day For Mayberry”; 103 = “Opie’s Ill-Gotten gain”; 108 = “Opie and His Merry men”; 111 = “Aunt Bee and the Crusader”; 120 = “Bargain Day”
Magacine: episode dated 14 October 2005 (appeared posthumously as himself)
Room 222, “Fathers and Sons” episode
That Girl, “Many Happy Returns” episode
The Dick Van Dyke Show episodes: “The Bottom of Mel Colley’s Heart,” “Viva Petrie,” “Scratch My Car and Die,” “The Third One From the Left,” “Turtles, Ties, and Toreadors,” “Where You Been, Fassbinder?,” and “The Night the Roof Feel In”
Sunday Showcase movie: Our American Heritage: Shadow of a Soldier and Our American Heritage: Gentleman’s Decision
The Donna Reed Show episodes: “The Foundling,” “Guest in the House,” “Nothing But the Truth,” “Have Fun,” “Boys Will Be Boys,” “The Parting of the Ways,” “The Hero,” “Advice to Young Lovers,” “The Neighborly Gesture,” “Nothing Like a Good Book,” “The Homecoming Dance,” “The New Mother,” “A Place to Go,” “A Night to Howl,” “The Gentle Dew,” “The Fatal Leap,” “Mary’s Growing Pain,” “How the Other Side Lives,” “Never Marry a Doctor,” “Donna Goes to a Reunion,” “Someone Is Watching,” “Variations on a Theme,” “Trip to Nowhere,” “The Poodle Parlor,” “Mary’s Heart Throb,” “Donna’s Helping Hand,” “The Merry Month of April,” “Music Hath Charms,” “The Good Guys and the Bad Guys,” “Mouse at Play,” “The Monster,” “One of Those Days,” “All Is Forgiven,” “Hilldale 500,” “Winner Takes All”
Leave It to Beaver episodes: “Beaver’s Bad Day” and “The Grass Is Always Greener”
The Alcoa Hour episode: “The Trouble with Women”
Kraft Television Theater episode: A Night to Remember
Lux Video Theater episodes: “Sweet Sorrow,” “Forever Walking Free,” “Dames Are Poison,” “Life, Liberty, and Orrin Dudley,” “Something to Celebrate,” “Song For a Banjo,” “It Grows on Trees,” “The Inside Story”
Tonight on Broadway episode: Texas, Li’l Darlin’
-- “John Whedon: filmography by TV series,” The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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The Christopher Award = “(established 1949)” is “presented to the producers, directors, and writers of books, motion pictures and television specials which affirm the highest values of the human spirit. Publishers, TV networks, and film directors are asked to submit titles and work that they believe to be award-worthy. Industry professionals and Christopher staff members make the final selections based on:
- Artistic and technical proficiency
- Significant degree of public acceptance
- Affirmation of the highest values of the human spirit
An example of a Christopher Award is She Said Yes by Misty Bernall.
-- Wikipedia
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The Sylvania Award
“The Sylvania Award was issued from about 1952 through 1958 in a number of categories for outstanding work in television broadcasting or production. . . . Other Sylvania Award recipients [also] included such luminaries as Rod Sterling, Steve Allen, and Fred Rogers.”
Sylvania Award - 1952
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The Writers Guild of America Award = “The Writers Guild of America Award for outstanding achievements in film, television, and radio has been presented annually by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America, West since 1949. In 2004, the show was broadcast on television for the first time.
The screen awards are for films that were exhibited theatrically in the Los Angeles area during the preceding calendar year. The television awards are for series that were produced and aired between December 1 and November 30, regardless of how many episodes aired during this time period.
-- Wikipedia
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“George Roy Hill (December 20, 1921 – December 27, 2002) was an American film director. He is most noted for directing such films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting, which both starred the acting duo Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Other notable films are Slaughterhouse-Five, The World According to Garp, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, A Little Romance with Laurence Olivier, and The Little Drummer Girl. . . .
. . . He won an Emmy for writing and directing a TV version of A Night to Remember, the story of the sinking of the Titanic.”
-- Wikipedia
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