Who was the new Sheriff?
If Andy married and moved away, and Barney wasnt in the show, who was the new Sheriff of Mayberry?
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A local network shows reruns of this show around dinnertime in Memphis. Although he wasn't shown past the first several episodes, the assumption is Andy Taylor remained sheriff. Andy Griffith did have cameos as Sheriff Taylor in a number of episodes.
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Wrong, big garr. It was Suzanne Somers. She's the sheriff.
shareGoober would occasionally sub as deputy sheriff if there were any crimes commited.
share There are two or three episodes, in the fall of 1968, that feature Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Presumably, his character moved away sometime after that.
When Griffith appeared on the season premiere in the fall of 1969, he was supposedly visiting Mayberry from somewhere else.
It's true that Goober served as an occasional deputy. I really haven't seen this show in a while, so I'm not sure if there was ever a permanent sheriff shown on the show after Andy left.
I recently watched an episode that was basically a retread of the "Cave-In" episode where Andy & Helen are trapped after a cave-in. This time, Sam, Goober, & Howard take the local kids to explore a nearby cave & camp out. Goober gets lost in the cave, finds his way out the other end & comes up on an old man's house. He sees television coverage of the attempts to find him, feels guilty about all the work the town is going to, & goes back in the cave to wait to be rescued.
In this episode, an older man interviewed in one of the news reports is referred to as a police chief, and was the only sign of law enforcement in or around Mayberry. Andy had apparently left town by this point.
Goober is the acting part time Deputy Sheriff when the need calls for it.
shareI recently saw the reunion movie from the 80's, Andy comes back, and Barney was acting Sheriff, and running for the position of Sheriff. So, Andy must have moved on from being Sheriff for a long time, while Barney became the Sheriff.
shareIn return to Mayberry they mention a Sheriff Patterson that recently died, and that's why Barney was acting sheriff. Since Return to Mayberry takes place 15 years or so after we last saw Andy as sheriff in Season 1 of RFD, we could assume Patterson filled that gap.
shareIt was not Sheriff Patterson, it was Sheriff Ferguson. Remember Warren Ferguson, the Deputy that replaced Barney after Barney left to become a detective? He was elected Sheriff after Andy left and remained so until his untimely death.
shareYou are correct, just saw Mayberry RFD on metv. They mentioned they didn't need a sheriff, and that Goober would fill as needed. Then Howard robs the bank to prove they needed a sheriff. Goober arrest Howard...
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I recently saw the first episode of season 2, when Helen and Andy return with their new baby. Sam asks Andy about liking his new job with The State Inspectors Division or something to that effect.
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Thankfully Mayberry didn't really need much of a Sheriff to begin with so pretty much anybody could have filled the spot. Barney wasn't living in Mayberry after 1965 so they just opened the job up for anybody to run for it.
maybe the black guy you see standing in the back of crowd scenes got tired of never getting any lines and ran for sheriff?
maybe the black guy you see standing in the back of crowd scenes got tired of never getting any lines and ran for sheriff?
That black guy was Bob Marley. He shot the sheriff (but he did not shoot the deputy).
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According to Wikipedia Deputy Warren Ferguson was the Sheriff. He was played by Jack Burns, the actor who replaced Barney Fife as Deputy when Barney left to work as a detective. So when Andy left the job Warren became the Sheriff and remained so until his death. That was why the job was open when Andy came back to town.
shareWarren was only on a few episodes. He wasn't on the final years, so unless he came back to town after Andy left, it wouldn't have been him.
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They tried to hire Matt Dillon, but couldn't find him as he'd gotten out of Dodge, too.....
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