“Simmer down,” Sheriff Andy Taylor would say when someone got overly excited on “The Andy Griffith Show.” But judging from a recent lawsuit filed over the show’s iconic whistled theme song, simmer is definitely up.
The heirs of Earle Hagen and Herbert Spencer, the composers of “Theme for ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’” are suing CBS Television Distribution, claiming the media group is using the theme without a license on DVDs of the TV show. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the suit argues CBS is relying on a 1978 agreement that doesn’t include rights to the series on home video or other modern media.
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