Sheriff Taylor's son was like a neighbor to all of us. But, when you think about it, Opie Taylor is probably the only "Opie" you've ever known. So how did the iconic sitcom character get such a name? After all, he is the "Answer Man. In So there is a direct connection between the s radio show and the s sitcom. That being said, other theories exist about the genesis of "Opie. Of course, it could be a bit of both.
Schleuter plugged "Opie" into the Internet Surname Database and learned the etymology of the name. Believe it or not, it traces back to the old Viking name "Asbjorn" "God bear," essentially.
Speaking of Barney, only 0. According to BabyCenter. Welcome to MeTV! Unfortunately, the show was just that — a fictional show.
Nevertheless, the town and some of its characters may have been based on real-life places and people, including Opie.
It is supposed to be his name and not a nickname. He was a well known band leader in the 's and 40's. Andy Griffith and Sheldon Leonard both liked him. It does have a southern, down home ring to it. But when I was a kid, I thought it was the silliest name i ever heard! Wanted to avoid nicknames Always felt Opie could have been named Andrew Jr. Was it Andrew ir just Andy? This is believed to be the town where Don Knotts was born and raised.
Knotts even graduated from Morgantown's West Virginia University. Tributes to Knotts include a statue and a street named in his honor. Throughout the series, there was a character named "Mister Schwamp" who would occasionally appear in episodes. He was a middle-aged man with a slumped demeanor and dark hair which looked like a comb over, or a toupee. He could usually be found sitting on a park bench or in crowd scenes. He never had any lines.
One of the characters usually Andy or Barney would acknowledge him with "Hello, Mister Schwamp", and he would smile and nod, and that's all he would do. The entire series was shot on-location, not on a sound stage like most comedies. All laughing you hear are laugh tracks added in post-production. Andy Griffith stated he wanted it done this way to keep the actors focused on acting, and not to be distracted, as well as to give "Mayberry" a real authentic feeling.
When the series began, Andy and Barney were cousins in the first few episodes. This was a joke based on the stereotype that the only reason people in small towns get jobs in the local government is because they are related to someone, and not based on the merits of their abilities.
However, after a few well placed references of Andy and Barney's relation usually to cap off a joke in the first season, this idea was dropped, and the backstory of their relationship became simply that they were friends since childhood.
Howard McNear Floyd the Barber suffered a severe stroke and had trouble standing up as well as slowing his speech. A special stool was created to make it appear that Floyd was standing, even though he was actually leaning or half sitting.
In other episodes, he was shown either sitting in the barber's chair inside his shop, or on the bench outside on the sidewalk. Warren was referred to on occasion as Floyd the barber's nephew. Replacing the classic character of Barney Fife proved to be an impossible task, however. There was no explanation in any episode storyline for Warren's departure. He simply stopped appearing.
Opie Taylor was named for Opie Cates, a prominent band leader of the s and s who Andy Griffith and Sheldon Leonard , the show's producer, both admired. The last 16 episodes of Season 3 have fallen into public domain, due to a clerical error back in the s, and are thus widely available in different formats and different conditions.
The theme song, however, is still copyrighted material, and can only be used with permission. Therefore, most public domain copies have different music during the opening and closing credits. Coincidentally, this is a pivotal batch of episodes in the show's history.
Bass, plus one family, the Darlings, as well as Crump's second appearance, the first in which she and Andy are set up as a couple. The chart over the bookcase in the Sheriff's office depicts the Presidents of the United States, and information about them, and was also a popular chart displayed in elementary school classrooms in the early s.
Andy Griffith had been a successful stand-up comedian as well as an actor before beginning the show, and he had fully expected to be the main funny character on it, and in the first few episodes even performed some of his stand-up routines, like his countrified versions of classic fairy tales.
However, when Don Knotts became such a popular favorite as Deputy Barney Fife, Griffith decided for the good of the show to let Knotts be the main comic figure, and let Sheriff Taylor react to him as his "straight man". During most of the first season, there is a beauty shop next door to Floyd's Barber Shop, with a door located in the common wall between them. The door is just to the left of the waiting chairs in the barber shop, and had the words Beauty Shop printed on the glass.
By the end of season one, there are no longer any words on the door. No one ever used this door or ever commented on it in any episodes. The premise was that Mayberry was so small that Andy Taylor was not only the Sheriff, but the Justice of the Peace, the editor of the local newspaper, and the Mayor. However, when it came time to write the series, Andy decided that was too ridiculous, so he asked that Andy Taylor's duties be confined to being the Sheriff and the Justice of the Peace.
However, the "Justice of the Peace" task was used sparingly, and usually only with out-of-town troublemakers. According to Ron Howard , Andy and Opie's relationship as father and son was influenced by Howard's relationship with his own father Rance Howard. Frances Bavier did not like the coarse language used off-camera by the co-stars, and once hit George Lindsey Goober with an umbrella over it.
The theme song for the series was titled "The Fishin' Hole". Lyrics for the song were written by Everett Sloane , but the producers decided that whistling the tune set the tone for the show, so the words were dropped. The whistling was done by Earle Hagen , who also wrote the music. The show was shot on the same set as Atlanta from Gone with the Wind , if you were to walk out of the courthouse and look to the right at the end of the street, you can see the old Atlanta train station in many episodes.
Nurse Peggy was played by Joanna Moore. In the classic episode, in which businessman Malcolm Tucker breaks down on the Sabbath in Mayberry, Opie is chastized by Andy for pulling horse hairs from the lapel of his suit and trading them with Johnny Paul Jason for a penny run over by a train. Pulling the horse hairs out damages the suit.
According to Andy it makes the suit become "soft". Men's traditionally tailored suits have a stiff lining inside the lapels and chest which helps the front and lapels retain their shape, and also gives a smooth look over the pectoral muscles.
This lining fabric usually contains horse hair to make it stiff, yet flexible and able to be steamed into shape. Andy Griffith , in interviews, often referred to him as "Jesse". Andy Griffith said years later that he actually performed with them on the show. When Don Knotts left the show, Jerry Van Dyke was considered for the part of a deputy, who would have replaced Barney Fife, and even appears in a deputy's uniform in a fifth-season episode.
However, Van Dyke chose instead to star in My Mother the Car , and later said if he had to do it over again, he would have taken the deputy part instead. When Howard McNear left the show after years of declining health, his departure was explained by having Floyd sell the barber shop and move away to be with his daughter.
Milton, Oliver, and the middle initial "P" were all given as Barney Fife's middle name at one time or another during the series. African-Americans appear throughout the series, but mostly as extras. Before Aunt Bee moved in with Andy, he had a housekeeper named Rose. One of the maps used for a while behind Andy's desk was simply a state map of Idaho turned upside down The map behind Andy's desk is actually a map of Cincinnati, OH. While most residential scenes were filmed out at the eastern end of the forty acres lot in Culver City, CA, where Andy's house sat next to the "Aunt Pittypat House" from Gone with the Wind fame, there was a mystery location that no one in the show's fan base could identify.
Used extensively for Thelma Lou's residence, as well as various other incidental homes for minor characters, it was in fact a group of three small bungalows across Lillian Way from Desilu Studios in Hollywood. Barney Fife becomes intoxicated in six episodes. He eats the Morrison sisters' alcoholic preserves. He drinks from the spiked water crock when the Governor comes to shake his hand. He drinks mulberry squeezings when the Darlings wanted to sign a betrothal agreement between Opie and Andelina.
He drinks hard cider waiting for a phone call about Mrs. Mendelbright's suitor. He drinks Jubal Foster's moonshine by mistake, as Andy tries to pay for Jubal's burned barn. He drinks with Otis when trying to record why Otis fell in the jail, prompting a lawsuit.
The character played by Hope Summers was originally named "Bertha Edwards" in the first season. In the second season, the character came to be known as "Clara" and she referred to her late husband as "Mr. Later, she came to be known as "Clara Edwards".
In early episodes, to the right of the cells above the glass-covered shelves is a small picture of President Woodrow Wilson and the Presidents before him.
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