Network: CBS
Episodes: 249 (half-hour)
Seasons: Eight
TV show dates: October 3, 1960 – April 1, 1968
Series status: Cancelled/ended
Performers include: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Frances Bavier, Don Knotts, George Lindsey, Howard McNear, Aneta Coursaut, Colin Male, Jack Dodson, Hal Smith, Hope Summers, Betty Lynn, Jim Nabors, Paul Hartman, Mary Lansing, Burt Mustin, Robert McQuain, Elinor Donahue, Richard Keith, Jack Burns, Dick Elliott, Joseph Hamilton, Sheldon Collins, Dennis Rush, Roy Engel, Allan Melvin, and Howard Morris.
TV show description:
In the small North Carolina town of Mayberry, widower Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) divides his time between his duties as sheriff and raising his young son, Opie (Ron Howard).
Andy’s Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) lives with the Taylors to help raise Opie and his incompetent cousin, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), is the deputy sheriff.
Colorful town residents include mechanic Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), filling station attendant Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), barber Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), school teacher Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut), County Clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), and town drunk Otis Campbell (Hal Smith).
When Griffith left the series in 1968, many of the characters continued on in a new show, Mayberry R.F.D.
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The Andy Griffith Show
