After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for sheriff.
Acting
Griffith and Knotts slip back into iconic chemistry like no time passed.
Production
Painstaking recreation of the original sets with loving detail.
Director
Bob Sweeney
Andy Griffith
Andy Taylor
Ron Howard
Opie Taylor
Don Knotts
Barney Fife
Jim Nabors
Gomer Pyle
Hal Smith
Otis Campbell
Janet Waldo
Amanda / Aunt Bee (voice) (uncredited)
Aneta Corsaut
Helen Crump Taylor
Jack Dodson
Howard Sprague
George Lindsey
Goober Pyle
Betty Lynn
Thelma Lou
Howard Morris
Ernest T. Bass
Denver Pyle
Briscoe Darling
Rodney Dillard
Rodney Darling
Doug Dillard
Doug Darling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frances Bavier was too ill to appear on camera, so Aunt Bee is only heard over the phone—her final performance before her death in 1989.
This reunion movie aired during a wave of 1960s nostalgia in the mid-1980s, when shows like The Brady Bunch and Leave It to Beaver were also being revived.
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