In 2005, I was surfing around on eBay when I came across a writer who was selling his personal copy of a TV script he wrote for the Andy Griffith show called “A GIRL FOR GOOBER” it was the last episode of the Andy Griffith show before it changed to Mayberry RFD. The writer selling the script was Bruce Howard – turns out Bruce wrote for many TV shows and also wrote King Kong versus Godzilla http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=192816
When I told him I was purchasing the script because I had recently purchased two Andy Griffith Martin D18 guitars and thought it would be a nice B-day present for myself, he was kind enough to have his wife Gaye take a picture of him holding the script for me (to verify it was genuine) and he even took the time to autograph it wishing me a happy birthday.
I talked to him for the next several months after the exhange over email and we talked about all sorts of things and I really enjoyed his perspective on life and Hollywood and I helped him with his computer issues. I was sad to hear he passed.
Bruce Howard (III) (1925–2012)
Writer | Miscellaneous Crew | Actor Trivia:Narrator of The Great Movie Ride at Disney-MGM Studios in
Florida.Born:June 6, 1925 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died:January 30, 2012 (age 86) in Studio City, California, USA
Bruce Howard wrote one episode of The Andy Griffith Show. He also wrote episodes of the TV series “The Red Skelton Hour” (for which he received an Emmy Award nomination), “My Favorite Martian”, “McHale’s Navy”, “Gilligan’s Island”, “The Beatles”, “The Flying Nun”, “The Mothers-in-Law”, “I Dream of Jeannie”, “The Doris Day Show”, “That Girl”, “Love American Style”, “The Brady Bunch”, “The Jeffersons”, “One Day at a Time”, “What’s Happening!”, “The Love Boat”, “Alice”, “Good Times”, “Too Close for Comfort”, “The Dukes of Hazzard”, “Trapper John M.D.”, “The Jetsons” and “Punky Brewster”.