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Photo by Hobart Jones. Betty Lynn Thelma Lou. Did she ever find out about Juanita down at the diner? Jim Nabors Gomer Pyle. Elinor Donahue Ellie Walker. Jack Burns right played Deputy Warren Ferguson.

Everett Collection. Jack Burns Warren Ferguson. And even more short-lived. Other kids on the show. Many actors who played children are still around. The Darlings. Ken Berry had the lead role on Mayberry R. Ken Berry Sam Jones. More commonly associated with Mayberry R. Rance Howard various. Bernard Fox is, as Ernest T.

Bass might say, "an Englishter. Bernard Fox Malcolm Merriweather. Arlene Golonka later starred on Mayberry R. Millie almost married Howard Sprague.

Jack Nicholson. He was in only two episodes, and he played different characters. On one episode he played one-half of a young couple that had lost their baby, and on another he played an innocent man on trial for burglary.

Julie Adams Mary Simpson. Andy Griffith and Barbara Eden. Barbara Eden Ellen Brown. Before she was Jeannie, Barbara Eden spent one episode as Ellen Brown, who spoke fast and was a manicurist -- "I do nails" -- and had an ex-fiance named Pierre.

For example, in one episode, Opie forfeits a grocery store delivery job to allow a boy with an ill father to replace him. In another episode, Opie uses his savings to buy a friend a winter coat after Andy lambastes him for contributing only three cents to a charity. When not visiting his father at the courthouse , Opie sometimes gets into jams. 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 The Mayberry Sun.

Opie's best friend through the black-and-white run is Johnny Paul Jason ; in color episodes, it is Arnold Bailey , who is the doctor's son. He also has several other friends during his childhood including Howie Pruitt. In one episode, Opie's new friend Trey Bowden provokes Opie's jealousy when Andy takes a liking to Trey and invites him along on outings.

Other new friends sometimes prove unworthy. One friend, Arnold Winkler, for instance, encourages Opie to throw tantrums at home to get his way.

In another episode, Opie joins a secret club and is made keeper of the club's special candle. The club trespasses in a barn and, when the barn later burns to the ground, Opie is blamed. In the color episodes, Opie's best friend is Arnold Bailey, but in one color episode, Opie befriends a boy who plays a mean trick on Goober.

Both boys are taken to task by Andy for their mischief-making. Opie respects and is friendly to adults in Mayberry. He spends time at the filling station hanging out with Goober, and the two often share their comic books. Opie has several girlfriends including, in his boyhood, Karen Burgess and, in his teens, Mary Alice Carter. On the spin-off series Mayberry R. During his teens, Opie has a few jobs around Mayberry. He works in the drug store, and, in another episode, works as a delivery boy at the grocery store.

In a later color episode, Opie makes college plans with dentistry as his career choice. Opie's mother is mentioned only once in the series. Other than this one mention, Opie's mother is non-existent on the show.

There are no photographs of her in the house or other souvenirs, and no one mentions a grave. She apparently has no relatives in Mayberry such as parents or siblings as Opie never mentions grandparents or aunts and uncles except those on his paternal side.