‘Andy Griffith Show’ guest stars: 10 You may have missed

Generations of fans have continued to stand up The Andy Griffith Show In the 65 years since the beginning, attracted by his combination of regular characters such as Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), Barney Fife (Don Knotts), Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) and Little Opie (Ron Howard, who later played in the leading role Happy days); His perfect recording of small town life and the brilliant but reserved gentle humor of his scripts. In addition, another part of his charm comes from unexpected faces who came to visit and have left its mark on Mayberry.

Over the years, the series welcomed an impressive selection of known names from 1960 to 1968, many of which have either already been founded or at the level of greater fame. Some were perfectly occupied and interfered directly into the loose world of Mayberry, while others brought a little delightful contrast. She are in focus here, when we look at 10 of the most memorable guest stars of the show, by Buddy Ebsen (richThe Beverly Hillbillies) to Alan Hale, Jr. (Gilligans Island), Ellen Corby (The Waltons), Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeannie) And, maybe the most surprising of everyone, the future Oscar winner Jack Nicholson.

So, as Sheriff Andy Taylor could say himself, they set a spell and we will take a walk into the past together. Remember that even the guests were like a family in Mayberry.

1. Buddy Ebsen

Consequence: “Opies hobo friend” (season 2, episode 6)
Airdate: November 13, 1961
role: Buddy Ebsen portrays Dave Browne, a quietly spoken drifter who quickly enchants the young Opie with his relaxed attitude to life. Dave’s carefree philosophy – complete with stories about the country’s travel without responsibility – takes into account the boy and leads him to question the more structured instructions he receives from Andy. What follows is a calm but sensible conflict, since Andy tenderly tries to reconcile the dignity of Dave about responsibility and consequences.
Funny fact: Ebsen would only be a television legend a year later The Beverly Hillbillies Debücht jed clampett with him.

2. Alan Hale Jr.

Consequence: “The farmer takes a woman” (season 2, episode 13)
Airdate: January 1, 1962
role: Alan Hale Jr. Guest star as Jeff Pruitt, a well -intentioned but excessive eager farmer who comes to Mayberry to find a woman. With Barney as an overzealous wing man, Jeff’s old -fashioned advertising material and a lack of subtlety cause a mild chaos when almost every legitimate woman in the city clumsy. Hale plays the role with a wide, ingenious charm that indicates the comedic instincts that he would accept as a skipper Gilligans Island.
Funny fact: This episode was only broadcast three years earlier Gilligans island, That would lead your neck career in a completely different direction.

3. Sterling Holloway

Consequence: “The Merchant of Mayberry” (season 2, episode 22)
Airdate: March 5, 1962
role: Sterling Holloway plays Bert Miller, A tired traveler seller who arrives in Mayberry with a suitcase full of different goods. Bert’s gentle behavior and relapse, his goods to market him aggressively. Your support, partly to help Bert and partly to challenge the local department store owner Ben Weaver.
Funny fact: In addition to his TV The jungle book and the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland.

4. Barbara Eden

Consequence: “The Manicurist” (season 2, episode 16)
Airdate: January 22, 1962
role: Barbara Eden appears as Ellen Brown, an attractive and independent manica who causes a stir when she opens a shop in Floyd’s hairdressing salon. While the city’s men flock to it, their women become suspicious, which leads to excitement and gossip, threatening Ellen’s ability to make a living. Andy appears and helps the city to see Ellen as a professional woman who tries to move in a new place.
Funny fact: EDENS’s appearance calculates ahead I dream of Jeannie By three years.

5. Denver Pyle

Episodes: “Briscoe declared for Aunt Bee” (season 4, episode 9), “The Darling are coming” (season 3, episode 25), “Mountain Wedding” (season 3, episode 31), “Divorce, Mountain Style” (season 4, episode 14), “The Darling Return” (season 5, episode 2), The Darling Fortune (Season 5, Episode 24) (Season 5, Episode 24), Episode 24), Episode 24), Episode 24, Episode 24), Episode 24), Episode 24), Episode 24), Episode 24, Episode 24, Episode 24), Episode 24)
Airdates: November 18, 1963; March 18, 1963; May 6, 1963; December 30, 1963, September 28, 1964, March 1, 1965.
role: Denver Pyle came into being the role of Briscoe Darling, the rugged but lovable patriarch of the musically gifted darling family. Briscoe, a Mountain man with a rigid sense of honor and a thick Appalache accent, brings chaos and bluegrass every time he rolls in Mayberry with his brood.
Funny fact: Denver Pyle later found a larger TV -Ruhm as uncle Jesse The dukes of Hazzard.

6. Ellen Corby

Consequence: “Barney’s first car” (season 3, episode 27)
Airdate: April 1, 1963
role: Barney Fife buys his first car from a sweet little old lady played by Ellen Corby-, which turns out to be part of a fraud of car theft. As myrt Lesh (nickname “Hubcaps”), Corby brilliant plays against the guy and delivers a charming deceptive performance that shocked Barney (and the audience).
Funny fact: Corby would later become permanently famous as Grandma Walton The WaltonsA role that brought in her three Emmy Awards.

7. Don Rickles

Consequence: “The happiness of Newton Monroe” (season 5, episode 29)
Airdate: April 12, 1965
role: Don Rickles guest stars as Newton Monroe, a rapidly speaking, traveling seller who comes to Mayberry, sell the all -purpose elixir. When Andy takes up his smooth but shady sales talk, he gives Newton the opportunity to go directly by assigning honest work to him. There is a physical comedy in which Rickles fumbles through strange jobs under Andy’s watchful eye.
Funny fact: Although Rickles was better known for his insult comedy, it was striving to stretch his acting skills, and this was one of his few roles as a well -intentioned screw connection.

8. Ruta Lee

Episodes: “Andy on Trial” (season 2, episode 29), “The Hollywood Party” (season 5, episode 19)
Airdates: April 23, 1962; January 25, 1965
Roll: In the first episode, Ruta Lee Jean Boswell, a reporter who works with a newspaper publisher to challenge Andy’s position as a sheriff. And in the second she is Darlene Mason, an actress who takes part in a Hollywood party, to whom Andy and Barney are invited.
Funny fact: In the 1950s Ruta Lee was published in over 100 television programs. She was a lifelong friend of Debbie Reynolds and served as the co-chair of the Thalians, a non-profit organization in Hollywood who devoted itself to mental health.

9. Jerry van Dyke

Consequence: “Banjo-Playing Deputy” (season 5, episode 32)
Airdate: May 3, 1965
Role: Jerry Van Dyke portrays Jerry Miller, a central carnival musician who is left behind when the Carnival Mayberry tears off. Andy Taylor, who feels sympathetic, invites Jerry to stay in his house and offers him temporary work in the courthouse.
Funny fact: This episode is remarkable that they are the last in black and white before the series passes to color endings.

10. Jack Nicholson

Episodes: “Opie finds a baby” (season 7, episode 10), “Aunt Bee, The Juror” (season 8, episode 7)
Airdates: November 21, 1966; October 23, 1967
Roll: In the first episode, Opie and his friend Arnold discover an abandoned baby in the steps of the court building. They try to find a home for the child because they fear that it will be sent to an orphanage. Jack Nicholson plays Mr. Garland, the baby’s father. In the second, Aunt Bee is called for the jury obligation and is in contradiction to colleagues when she believes that the accused Marvin Jenkins (played by Nicholson) is innocent for accusations of theft.
Funny fact: This was one of Nicholson’s first screen appearances, which he made at the age of 29.

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