Also, in the sixth season episode, " Aunt Bee takes a Job" with second deputy Warren Ferguson, (portrayed by Jack Burns) Andy fires a gun (which he borrows from Warren) to disable a car in order to capture some criminals.Īndy is an active and well-known member of the community. In three first season episodes, " The Manhunt," " A Feud is a Feud," and " Barney Gets His Man," and in one second season episode, " Aunt Bee the Warden," Andy wears a regular gunbelt.
#Andy of mayberry movie#
The premise of the movie is that Andy Taylor was "The Sheriff Without a Gun," however a 1963 episode "High Noon in Mayberry" mentions that Andy has been a sheriff at least since 1952-an occasion when he had to use a gun to wound a robber. In a 1965 four-part color saga starting with "Off to Hollywood", film producers plan a fictionalized feature film around Andy's sheriffing life and the Taylors travel to Hollywood to witness the proceedings.
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When they arrive, it is full daylight, so it could be inferred that Mayberry County is larger than originally thought and with mountainous areas, but sparsely populated.
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These working conditions, plus his reliance on a single deputy (and no clerk or jailer) indicate that the county is very small in both size and population however, in the episode Mountain Wedding, Andy and Barney get up at four o'clock in the morning to get an "early start" on their trip to the Darling's cabin, which is described as being "up in the mountains". Both the town and the county are named Mayberry, so Andy is the chief law enforcement officer for both. Pilot or Raleigh.Īs sheriff, Andy is the chief law enforcement officer in the county, yet most of his activity is in and around the town of Mayberry, and there is no evidence of a separate city police force. He occasionally leaves Mayberry to attend work-related conferences or functions in Mt. When business is slow at the courthouse, Andy can be found playing checkers with Barney, sitting in front of the barbershop chewing the fat with idlers, playing pranks, or conducting personal errands. Andy has a bumbling deputy named Barney Fife and, in the color seasons, another bumbling deputy named Warren Ferguson-who is even worse than Fife. Now Andy is Mayberry's Sheriff and Justice of the Peace. In the working world, Andy was in the United States Army serving overseas in France obtaining the rank of Sergeant during World War II. Andy goes to the movies occasionally, to dinner at Morelli's with friends, and enjoys picnicking at Myers Lake.
He sometimes entertains (with reluctance) overnight guests like his Aunt Nora and Uncle Ollie and often have friends in for Aunt Bee's fried chicken dinners. Andy goes fishing with his son and often spends evenings on the front porch strumming his guitar. In the backdoor pilot episode from The Danny Thomas Show, viewers learn Andy lost Opie's mother when the boy was "the least little speck of a baby." Andy's Aunt Bee acts as his live-in housekeeper and as a surrogate mother/grandmother to Opie.
Andy is a widower and father to one young son, Opie. He was born in Mayberry on June 20, 1920.Īndy Taylor lives in the fictional, sleepy community of Mayberry, North Carolina. Andy said that she would squeeze him until he turned all colors.
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