She considered recording a brief audio segment but decided against it. Frances Bavier, who originally played Aunt Bee in the series, was ailing and homebound when this movie was made.The next season Andy Griffith would make his debut as Matlock on NBC and many think this movie helped revive his acting career. Although the series and both of its spin-off's aired on CBS, Return to Mayberry aired on NBC and had huge ratings putting in solidly in the top ten for TV movies of all time.Gomer: (Gomer taking a picture of Goober and his fish while the water creature rises) "I just took a picture of the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen!" Gomer: (On Barney running for sheriff) "We think Barney’s going to win, he hasn’t done anything stupid in ohh, about a month." Barney refers to " Barney and the Choir".References to The Andy Griffith Show episodes Peter Costa as Savage Taylor (uncredited).Janet Waldo as Aunt Bee Taylor (voice only).Karlene Crockett as Eunice Taylor (Opie's wife).Andy agrees to serve, and the last shot seen is of the "new" sheriff and deputy lowering and folding up an American flag on Mayberry's Main Street. After the endorsing Thelma Lou and Barney exchange their feelings toward each other and finally get married. Barney then makes an emotional withdrawal speech and endorses Andy. At a "Fife victory rally", Barney learns that Andy canceled his bid out of friendship. Andy makes it look like Barney is the one who really figured out the scheme. A dragon artifact was confiscated from a defunct restaurant and planted in the lake to boost business. Bass and Barney to propagate a lake monster panic. In the end, Andy learns that hotel owner Wally Butler was using Ernest T. Thelma Lou ( Betty Lynn) also returns originally to visit her sister and later ignites the old flame with Barney. Otis Campbell ( Hal Smith), the former town drunk, has become sober and now drives an ice cream truck. Bass and Briscoe Darling, respectively, along with Maggie Peterson as Charlene Darling and The Dillards as the rest of the Darling clan. Howard Morris and Denver Pyle reprise the hillbilly roles of Ernest T. Gomer Pyle ( Jim Nabors), having returned to civilian life following his stint in the Marines depicted in Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., shares filling-station duties with his cousin Goober Pyle ( George Lindsey) and the pair are seen together for only the second time in Mayberry history. The milquetoast Howard Sprague ( Jack Dodson), in an attempt to look younger, is seen in various hues of hair color. Most of the characters from the old series are revisited. Meanwhile, Opie ponders moving his family out of Mayberry to expand his journalism career. Barney intends to win the elected position outright however, the citizens question the easily riled Barney's sanity, when he falls for a commercial ploy touting a Myer's Lake monster. Andy puts aside any thoughts of running when he learns that his old deputy, Barney Fife ( Don Knotts), left Raleigh, and was appointed acting sheriff. Andy returns to Mayberry to see son, Opie Taylor ( Ron Howard), into fatherhood, and learns the office of sheriff is open. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for sheriff without revealing to Barney his own aspirations to become sheriff again.Īndy Taylor ( Andy Griffith), now a US Postal Inspector in Cleveland, Ohio, returns to his hometown of Mayberry, North Carolina with wife, Helen Crump ( Aneta Corsaut), whom he had married in 1968, on the The Andy Griffith Show's spin-off series, Mayberry R.F.D.
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