The Andy Griffith Show put Andy Taylor’s romances on the back burner and focused almost entirely on his interactions with the residents of the town of Mayberry. Still, the writers left a little room ...

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 ...

Elinor Donahue is 88 years old, but she’s still talking about one of her first TV boyfriends — Andy Taylor, the aw-shucks local sheriff on The Andy Griffith Show. Ellie Walker, Mayberry’s first lady ...

Is there a series in TV history that evokes more wholesome memories of years gone by than The Andy Griffith Show? The show starred Andy Griffith (naturally) as Andy Taylor, the widowed sheriff of the ...

For many fans growing up with The Andy Griffith Show, Andy Griffith was the quintessential “TV Dad.” But when the filming was done, Andy was a father not to the millions of kids watching at home, but ...

On Oct. 3, 1960, The Andy Griffith Show aired its very first episode. The series followed Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, Don Knotts as his sleepy deputy Barney Fife and Ron Howard as Andy’s son ...