Some of his juvenile misdeeds include: trespassing in a neighbor's barn, selling Miracle Salve to the citizens of Mayberry accidentally destroying Aunt Bee's prize rose concealing an abandoned baby in his clubhouse tricking Goober Pyle into thinking a shaggy dog can speak, and starting his own tell-all community newspaper. When not visiting his father at the courthouse, Opie would sometimes get into jams. Opie tells his father that he decided to give back the $50, since he realizes that he couldn't be happy with the money because it wasn't truly 'his' to spend. Andy naturally assumes that Opie spent all the money anyway and confronts his son. The man later tells Andy (who was reimbursing the $50 after he found an ad describing the wallet in the paper) that he met Opie at the courthouse and told him about the wallet. A day later, Opie meets the man who lost it. In another case, Opie finds a wallet containing $50 and gets to keep it when nobody claims it. Naming the birds " Wynken, Blynken, and Nod", Opie nurtures them until they are ready to be released into the wild.
Andy, underscoring the loss, opens Opie's bedroom window so he will hear the chicks calling after the mother who will never come home. In one episode ("Opie the Birdman", September 30, 1963), Andy teaches Opie the value of responsibility and parenthood after Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his slingshot and leaves her three nestlings orphaned. Opie's relationship with his "Pa", Andy, provided plot material for many episodes. However, in a surge of empathy, Opie begs his father to let her stay, as he fears for her well-being as she doesn't know how to do anything on her own.Ī publicity photo from The Andy Griffith Show showing Griffith and Howard in character as Andy and Opie Taylor (1961) A disheartened Aunt Bee chooses to leave. The final straw comes when she accidentally lets his pet bird escape, though it reappears at the end of the episode (the bird is never again mentioned). After discovering that she can neither play baseball nor fish, Opie declares that he will never love her. Opie, 6, takes an instant dislike to Aunt Bee based upon his grief at losing his beloved Rose, although he does secretly enjoy her cooking. In the first episode of The Andy Griffith Show (October 1960), Andy's Aunt Bee returns to Mayberry via Morgantown, West Virginia, at her nephew's invitation in order to manage the Taylor household after Andy's housekeeper Rose marries and departs.
Opie first appears in the February 1960 backdoor pilot of The Danny Thomas Show. One is that Opie was named after bandleader and radio actor Opie Cates the other is that he was named for Opie Shelton (1915–1999), a childhood friend of Griffith, who went on to become president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce. There are two explanations of the origin of the character's name. Opie Taylor appeared in 209 of the 249 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and appeared in 2 spin-off shows and a TV Movie. Opie Taylor is a fictional character played by Ron Howard in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, which was televised on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968. "Danny Meets Andy Griffith" (1960), backdoor pilot Opie's first series appearance, "The New Housekeeper" (1960).
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