Return to Mayberry was a television movie made in 1986 on NBC, even though the original series aired on CBS. The show was a reunion movie for the 1960s American television sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and, to an extent, Mayberry R.F.D. as well. The movie premiered on April 13, 1986, and was the highest-rated telemovie of 1986. Sixteen of the original cast members reunited for the movie. It might have to led to a further series, but Griffith ins...
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Return to Mayberry was a television movie made in 1986 on NBC, even though the original series aired on CBS. The show was a reunion movie for the 1960s American television sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and, to an extent, Mayberry R.F.D. as well. The movie premiered on April 13, 1986, and was the highest-rated telemovie of 1986. Sixteen of the original cast members reunited for the movie. It might have to led to a further series, but Griffith instead committed to Matlock for the 1986-87 season.
Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) returns to his hometown of Mayberry with wife Helen (Aneta Corsaut) (whom he had married in 1968, on the spin-off series Mayberry R.F.D.) but without his second-born son Andy, Jr. (christened on R.F.D.). Andy's main purpose for returning is to see son Opie (Ron Howard) into fatherhood, as his wife is nearly nine months pregnant.
Andy finds that his old deputy and cousin, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), has returned from Raleigh (where he had moved when Knotts left the...
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