Ron Howard as Opie Taylor and Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor in a scene from the 1986 TV movie ‘Return to Mayberry’ | Gary Null/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images ‘The Andy Griffith ...

Look Homeward, Andy, the NBC movie officially known as Return to Mayberry, is a sad case in point. The Andy Griffith Show is perhaps the gentlest, warmest comedy ever to become a smash hit on ...

In a 2016 interview, Rance opened up about Return to Mayberry, the 1986 TV movie that reunited most of the Griffith Show cast. He revealed that the project allowed many in the cast to see a side ...

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.

The series originally aired in 1968 as a continuation of The Andy Griffith Show … do you remember what happened on the show?

WMA also packaged "Return to Mayberry," and I invested seven years attempting to sell this reunion movie with all necessary elements attached. I finally succeeded in 1986 while learning what the ...

Howard began directing short films soon after the end of “The Andy Griffith Show” in 1968 and had already achieved box-office success by the time “Return to Mayberry” was filmed in 1986.

Most of the original cast (minus Bavier, who was ill) reunited for the 1986 TV movie “Return to Mayberry,” which was the highest-rated TV movie of the year. Even Howard, who was by then a ...

After two decades of on-again, off-again romance, they finally married in the reunion TV movie “Return to Mayberry” in 1986, the characters’ final appearance together on screen.

NBC IS considering producing a sequel to last month’s highly rated movie Return to Mayberry. According to a network spokesman, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts and the rest of the Mayberry gang ...