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Cast
Andy Griffith (Andy Taylor)Ron Howard (Opie Taylor)Don Knotts (Barney Fife)Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee Taylor)Colin Male (Announcer)George Lindsey (Goober Pyle)Howard McNear (Floyd Lawson)Tom Jacobs (Townsman)Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump)Jack Dodson (Howard Sprague)Hal Smith (Otis Campbell)Hope Summers (Clara Edwards)Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou)Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)Paul Hartman (Emmett Clark)Mary Lansing (Martha Clark)Burt Mustin (Jud Fletcher)Robert McQuain (Joe Waters)
Creators
James L. Brooks, R.S. Allen, Ronald Axe, Art Baer, Earl Barret, Dick Bensfield, Barry E. Blitzer, Sam Bobrick, Joseph Bonaduce, Ray Brenner, Harvey Bullock, Lawrence J. Cohen, Paul David, Robert C. Dennis, Stan Dreben, Irving Elinson, Jack Elinson, Fred S. Fox, Benedict Freedman, Bill Freedman, Fred Freeman, Ron Friedman, James Fritzell, Ben Gershman, Perry Grant, Everett Greenbaum, John L. Greene, Budd Grossman, Paul Henning, Bruce Howard, Rance Howard, Bill Idelson, Seaman Jacobs, Ben Joelson, Sheldon Leonard, Arnold Margolin, Laurence Marks, Pat McCormick, Howard Merrill, Richard Morgan, Michael Morris, Sidney Morse, John Fenton Murray, Jim Parker, Richard Powell, Les Roberts, Bob Ross, Aaron Ruben, Henry Sharp, Phil Shuken, Leo Solomon, Ben Starr, Charles Stewart, Frank Tarloff, Danny Thomas, Leo Townsend, Pauline Townsend, Paul Wayne, John Whedon, Doug Tibbles, Roland MacLane, Jack Raymond, Sidney A. Mandel, David Evans, Arthur Stander, Kent Wilson, Gus Adrian
Synopsis
Widower Sheriff Andy Taylor, and his son Opie, live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, North Carolina. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney Fife.
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