Return to Mayberry (1986) on Netflix
Andy Taylor returns to Mayberry, North Carolina, to see his son Opie become a father. His old deputy, Barney Fife, now acting sheriff, has announced he is running for sheriff.
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Plot summary
Andy Taylor has left Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked as a postal inspector, and come back to his hometown of Mayberry, North Carolina, to see his son Opie become a father for the first time. Andy had thought of running for sheriff, but his old deputy, Barney Fife, is acting sheriff and has announced his own candidacy, telling Andy that nobody else would run. Andy decides not to stand against him. Thelma Lou, Barney's former girlfriend, is back in town, and the two get reacquainted. Gomer Pyle runs a service station with his cousin Goober, and Otis Campbell, once the town drunk, is now sober and drives an ice cream truck. Out fishing at Myers Lake, Gomer sees something raise its head from the water.
Cast
- Maggie Mancusoas Charlene Darling
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Return to Mayberry (1986)
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- On Veterans Day 2004, some ABC affiliates replaced the network's rebroadcast of Saving Private Ryan with Return to Mayberry after the FCC had ruled Ryan's language indecent and profane, even though Ryan had already aired on ABC in 2001 and 2002.
SPOILER
Frances Bavier, who played Aunt Bee for all eight seasons of The Andy Griffith Show and two of Mayberry R.F.D., had retired after leaving that show in 1970, so Return to Mayberry explained her absence by showing Aunt Bee's grave, with Janet Waldo voicing the character.- The Forty Acres backlot in Culver City, California, where most of the original series' Mayberry exteriors were filmed, had been razed in 1976, so for Return to Mayberry the town of Los Olivos, California doubled for Mayberry, using a stretch of Grand Avenue for the town square.
- Ron Howard, playing an adult Opie, had already directed the hits Night Shift, Splash and Cocoon, and had quit acting to focus on directing; Return to Mayberry turned out to be his last significant acting role.
- Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle and George Lindsey as his cousin Goober Pyle appear together in Return to Mayberry for only the third time in the history of the Mayberry franchise.
