Andy Griffith Show Questions

[Sampiro]

@C.Montgomery_Burns

Was Otis ever actually ever sentenced and compelled to be in jail every time he gets drunk, or is he just allowed to come and sleep it off at the jail out of convenience?

I don’t think they ever processed him, it was just a “sleep it off” matter. Perhaps the first “Don’t drive drunk” message in a show.

Relationships/relations we know about from various Andy Griffith Show episodes:
-Andy and Barney being cousins (referred to previously in the thread)

-Aunt Bea had one brother (Andy’s father) and one sister (who was married and had two little boys, all born fairly late in life- they’re Andy’s first cousins but Opie’s age)

-Barney’s parents are never seen but they’re still alive as of one episode (the one where he mentions giving them a septic tank for their anniversary the year before)

-First Floyd (Walter Baldwin mentioned above) mentioned a living wife. Real Floyd (Howard McNear) had a teenaged son in the first season- he took him to audition for the “talent scount” shoe salesman. In a later color episode it was revealed he was a widower (the one where a she-grifter who thinks he’s rich attempts to move in on him).

Andy’s wife apparently had no living relatives. Rumor is she was a sister of Carol Brady’s first husband and they were killed together, the last two members of an ancient tribe.

The first time we see the Darlings Charlene was getting married- they sped up the wedding because of Ernest T… Another time Bob “Gilligan” Denver played her fiancee (or was it her husband?) and another time I seem to remember her pining for a soldier boy. Were all three the same character (they were different actors) or did Charlene get married a lot?

We know that Briscoe married Charlene and the boys’ mother when she was 15 but he was her second husband. Her first had been trampled to death by hogs.

[randwill]

@Sampiro

-Barney’s parents are never seen but they’re still alive as of one episode (the one where he mentions giving them a septic tank for their anniversary the year before)

-First Floyd (Walter Baldwin mentioned above) mentioned a living wife. Real Floyd (Howard McNear) had a teenaged son in the first season- he took him to audition for the “talent scount” shoe salesman. In a later color episode it was revealed he was a widower (the one where a she-grifter who thinks he’s rich attempts to move in on him).

We see Barney’s mother very briefly in “The Manhunt”. He stops her at a checkpoint and makes her get out of her car to be searched. She was played by Lillian Culver, who lived to be 103 years old and was a distant cousin of Brad Pitt.

Floyd and the she-grifter was a black and white episode.

[randwill]

Sorry for double-post, missed edit window.

Charlene only married once, to Dud Wash, played twice by Hoke Howell and once by Bob Denver. It would be easy to think that it was two different characters, as Denver’s portrayal was very different than Hoke’s.

[C.Montgomery_Burns]

@randwill

Sorry for double-post, missed edit window.

Charlene only married once, to Dud Wash, played twice by Hoke Howell and once by Bob Denver. It would be easy to think that it was two different characters, as Denver’s portrayal was very different than Hoke’s.

Yeah, the first guy was a not-too-bright but nice and romantic country boy. Bob Denver played Dud as a wild hick, just one step down from Ernest T. Bass.