Though the show had respectable ratings ( it sat at # 16 for the 1970-71 season ), it was dropped in July 1971 by CBS as part of the so-called " Rural Purge " ( along with fellow country-themed shows The Beverly Hillbillies, Mayberry R. F. D.

Howard's last significant on-screen role was a reprisal of his famous role as Opie Taylor in the 1986 TV movie Return to Mayberry, an Andy Griffith Show reunion reuniting him with Griffith, Don Knotts, and most of the cast.

On September 9, 1913, the first San Marino school was opened at the corner of Monterey Road, ( then called Calle de Lopez ) and Oak Knoll, in what was known as the Old Mayberry Home.

The town was the retirement home and burial location of Frances Bavier ( 1902 – 1989 ) an American actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show, a television sitcom in the 1960s set in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina.

On the TV program, The Andy Griffith Show, it is said in the episode The Battle of Mayberry, that the town of Mayberry was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the area.

Actor Andy Griffith was born in Mount Airy, and the town is believed to have been the basis for Mayberry, the setting of the TV showsThe Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD.

The band's fourth album, Major Lodge Victory, was originally recorded at Robin Wilson's Mayberry Studios in Tempe.

Mayberry is a fictional community that was the setting for two popular American television sitcoms, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R. F. D.

Mayberry was also the setting for a 1986 reunion television movie titled Return to Mayberry.

According to show episodes, the community of Mayberry was named for fictional founder Lord Mayberry.

According to the episode " The Battle of Mayberry ," the town was almost named Taylortown in honor of Colonel Carleton Taylor, who was one of the first settlers in the town.

Many towns in North Carolina have been proposed as " the original Mayberry ," but many assume Mayberry was loosely based on Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.

However, it is more likely that Pilot Mountain was the inspiration for the fictional town of " Mount Pilot ", a nearby larger town in relation to Mayberry, often referred to and occasionally visited by the characters in The Andy Griffith Show.

Mayberry originated in an episode of The Danny Thomas Show and was the setting for The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry RFD and the 1986 reunion movie Return to Mayberry.

Filmed and set in California ( originally set in North Carolina ), it stars Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, a naive but good-natured gas-station attendant from the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina, who enlists in the United States Marine Corps.

After only two years of study at Princeton, Gillies completed his PhD before Mayberry, at age 25, in 1953, which was published in " Contributions to the theory of games " — in which he characterized the core which is the set of stable solutions in a non-zero sum game.

In spite of finishing in 15th place for the year, Mayberry RFD was canceled in 1971 in what was called " the rural purge ", where shows set in a bucolic locale ( The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction ) were replaced with the more hip fare of Norman Lear ( All In The Family ) and other modern shows like the The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

There actually is a Taylortown in North Carolina, but it has nothing to do with the fictional town of Mayberry or the show.

Mayberry is the name of a real community in Patrick County, Virginia ; located 22 miles northeast of Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.

Chicago and North Western Railway | CNW towerman R. W. Mayberry operates the retarders at Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois, May 1943.

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.

Many exteriors in the first season were shot at RKO Pictures backlot called " Forty Acres ", a site that later became famous as the fictional, idealized small town of Mayberry, North Carolina on The Andy Griffith Show.

Gomer Pyle ( played by Jim Nabors ), from Mayberry, North Carolina, is a good-natured and innocent private whose naivety constantly annoys his drill instructor, Sergeant Carter.

Pyle is a good-natured, naïve single man from Mayberry, North Carolina.

Over the years development sprawled out into adjacent areas, and today Alberton is made up of 18 suburbs: Alberante, Albermarle, Albertsdal, Alberton North, Alrode, Brackendowns, Brackenhurst, Eden Park, Florentia, Mayberry Park, Meyersdal, New Redruth, Palm Ridge, Randhart, Raceview, South Crest, Thokoza, and Verwoerdpark.

In the Putnam exam competition of 1950, Gillies placed in the top 10 in North America, following his University of Toronto classmates John P. Mayberry and Richard J. Semple who were top 5 Putnam Fellows.

Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow paced, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina.

Andy Taylor lives in the fictional, sleepy community of Mayberry, North Carolina.

The addition of this statue was controversial, as citizens of Mount Airy, North Carolina, which the fictional town of Mayberry was ostensibly based on, believed that the statue should be in their town as opposed to Raleigh.

Today, many people remark that Oakley is the very last " Mayberry " left in America, and frequently visited for its Victorian homes.

The tagline for the Linton Music Festival is " Mayberry meets Woodstock.

It is believed to be the inspiration for the fictional town of Mount Pilot on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry RFD.

Mayberry Township is a township in Montour County, Pennsylvania, United States.

The term " TV movie " is also frequently used as vehicles for " reunions " of long-departed series, as in Return to Mayberry and A Very Brady Christmas.

Born in Broomall, Pennsylvania, Bonaduce is the son of veteran TV writer / producer Joseph Bonaduce ( The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mayberry RFD, One Day At A Time, Good Times, The Waltons ).

Wilson ventured into producing as well, at his Mayberry Studios in Tempe, Arizona ( the studio is now called Uranus Studios ).

Historically, the word Mayberry is of ancient Anglo-Saxon origin and is a locational name, a dialectical variant of the placename Maesbury in Shropshire.

The term " Mayberry " is mentioned many times in television shows such as Cheers, House, M. D., Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, and Scrubs.

* Mayberry Savings Bank — the town's only bank, which is often subject to robberies.

The contrast between the old and modern conception of number is discussed in detail in Mayberry ( 2000 ).

Return 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.

No explanation is given as to the end of Gomer's career in the U. S. Marine Corps, other than his civilian presence in Mayberry.