Complete series cast summary: | |||
Ken Berry | ... | Sam Jones 78 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
George Lindsey | ... | Goober Pyle 78 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
Jack Dodson | ... | Howard Sprague 66 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
Paul Hartman | ... | Emmett Clark / ... 62 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
Arlene Golonka | ... | Millie Swanson / ... 49 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
Buddy Foster | ... | Mike Jones / ... 41 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
Frances Bavier | ... | Aunt Bee Taylor / ... 36 episodes, 1968-1971 | |
In this continuation to the "Andy Griffifth Show", Sam Jones, a local farmer, is elected to the Mayberry town council. Like Andy Taylor, Sam is a widower raising a young son named Mike. Sam also hires Aunt Bee as his housekeeper after Andy marries his sweetheart Helen Crump and moves away. The show chronicles Sam's dealings with the citizens of Mayberry as well as his home life. Written by Brian Washington <Sargebri@att.net>
As many people know this show is essentially a sequel to the Andy Griffith Show. The producers decided that instead of canceling the show all together, they would continue it with essentially the same cast except for the leads. Ken Berry and Arlene Golonka were okay replacements for Andy Griffith and Aneta Corsaut, but Sam and Millie were no Andy and Helen. Also, even though this show was still popular at the time of the rural purge of 1971, I don't think that its cancellation hit people as hard as the cancellations of The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.