All three characters were "old friends" of the character Andy Sawyer they dropped by his new house, ostensibly to welcome him to town, but actually to seek political favors.
Knotts, meanwhile, played an unnamed character who was identical in mannerisms to Barney Fife of The Andy Griffith Show. (still on the air at the time) this is confirmed in both dialogue and in the closing credits. Lindsey and Hartman explicitly played " Goober" and "Emmett", their characters on both The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. The premiere episode was a major success for CBS, buoyed by guest appearances by The Andy Griffith Show regulars Don Knotts, George Lindsey and Paul Hartman. Rotund country comic Glen Ash was cast as town councilman Buff McKnight. and Lori, respectively, while Ann Morgan Guilbert portrayed Lee's sister Nora, a live-in relative who was constantly complaining, neurotic, meddling and superstitious. Marty McCall and Lori Rutherford were seen as Griffith's children, T.J. Lee Meriwether was cast as Andy's wife, reprising a pairing of the two from the 1969 film Angel in My Pocket. His character bore more of the folksy attitude Griffith had previously portrayed in early episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and the 1958 teleplay and film No Time for Sergeants.
Īndy Sawyer was the model family man, always agreeable and understanding, spending much quality time with his children.
OPIE ANDY GRIFFITH SERIES
The series is set in the fictional small city of Greenwood, North Carolina, with a population slightly under 13,000 residents and thus noticeably larger than Mayberry.
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Griffith portrays Andy Sawyer, who upon returning to his hometown is immediately installed as the new Mayor pro tem. The New Andy Griffith Show fulfilled the ten remaining episodes of Headmaster's series commitment and was not renewed beyond that season, with the last new episode airing March 12. When that program very quickly sank in the ratings, Griffith replaced it immediately with this one, which was much closer in tone and content to his earlier, more successful role (also sharing some writers and music director Earle Hagen), and this program replaced Headmaster on the CBS Friday night schedule effective January 8, 1971. When he decided to return to network television two years later, in the fall of 1970, it was in Headmaster, a drama, in which he played the headmaster of an exclusive California private school. Actor Andy Griffith had left his first sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show, voluntarily after the 1967-68 season while it was still number one in the Nielsen ratings and despite a high-dollar offer from CBS to continue it, in order to pursue his other interests, singing and motion picture acting, and to prevent his being typecast solely as a rural Southern sheriff.
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