Unraveling A Comedy Legend: Facts About Don Knotts That Will Shock You

The Reluctant Astronaut

In 1967’s The Reluctant Astronaut, Don Knotts stars as Roy Fleming, who’s father Arbuckle, played by Arthur O’Connell, wants better things for him and sends an application to NASA. Roy later learns from his mother, played by Jeanette Nolan, that NASA has accepted him as a “WB-1074.” Paul Hartman, who plays Arbuckle’s friend “Rush,” would later star in “The Andy Griffith Show.”