Character bio: Andy Taylor is the affable and level-headed sheriff of Mayberry, North Carolina. A widower, he raises his young son, Opie, with the help of his Aunt Bee. Andy is known for his ...

There’s a reason people start whistling the theme to The Andy Griffith Show the second someone mentions Mayberry. The sound of that gentle melody, punctuated by Andy and Opie (Andy Griffith and Ron ...

If beloved deputy Barney Fife and precocious grade-schooler Opie Taylor seemed like family on "The Andy Griffith Show," it may be because the actors actually were. Ron Howard, who started his career ...

Someone once told me, “If you want to be a good parent, watch every episode of The Andy Griffith Show.” And honestly, they might be onto something! The show wasn’t just entertaining — it was packed ...

Howard also reflected on the show’s legacy in a September interview with PEOPLE In 1986, the surviving cast from the show reunited for a TV film, Return to Mayberry. In it, Andy — who married Aneta ...

In its TV-land immortality, “The Andy Griffith Show” has already inspired a pair of statues, a museum, an annual festival, a rerun-watchers club and a souvenir collection so it vast it includes an ...