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Return to Mayberry is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Bob Sweeney released in USA on 13 april 1986 with Ron Howard
Return to Mayberry (1986)
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Add to a movie listReturn to Mayberry is an American television reunion movie for the 1960s American sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and, to an extent, Mayberry R.F.D. as well. The movie premiered on April 13, 1986, on NBC, and was the highest-rated telemovie of 1986. Sixteen of the original cast members reunited for the movie and its success could have led to additional Mayberry programs, but Griffith was committed to Matlock for the 1986-87 season.
^ Erickson, Hal. "Return to Mayberry". allmovie.com. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
Synopsis
Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), now a US Postal Inspector, returns to his hometown of Mayberry, North Carolina with wife Helen (Aneta Corsaut)—whom he had married in 1968, on the sequel series Mayberry R.F.D.—but without his second-born son Andy, Jr. (christened on R.F.D.). Andy returns to Mayberry to see son Opie (Ron Howard) into fatherhood. Also, Andy plans to run in the soon-to-be held sheriff's election, as he has already asked county clerk Howard Sprague to prepare the paperwork. Andy puts aside any thoughts of running when he learns that his old deputy and cousin, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), left Raleigh, and was appointed acting sheriff. Barney intends to win the elected position outright. However, the citizens question the easily riled Barney's sanity when he falls for a commercial ploy touting a Myer's Lake monster. Meanwhile, Opie ponders moving his family out of Mayberry to expand his journalism career.Actors
Ron Howard
(Opie Taylor)
Andy Griffith
(Andy Taylor)
Don Knotts
(Barney Fife)
Howard Morris
(Ernest T. Bass)
Jim Nabors
(Gomer Pyle)
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