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Who was the new Sheriff?

posted 21 years ago by RegF798
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If Andy married and moved away, and Barney wasnt in the show, who was the new Sheriff of Mayberry?

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[–] nyclmsal 8 years ago

Andy taylor was the sheriff of Mayberry

[–] JosephQCat (706) 3 years ago

For the sake of the series I always figured that the job had been eliminated due to lack of need. TAGS was always somewhat vague as to what Mayberry was. Usually a town under 3,000 people but also was in the county of Mayberry on rare occasion. I always assumed Andy's responsibilities were limited to the Town of Mayberry and the title of sheriff was a holdover from an earlier era. Probably somebody else had the responsibility for the county and the county assumed responsibility for the patrol of Mayberry. When the reunion movie came out in 1986 they had to get Andy back into the position that viewers were used to so all the Mayberry RFD canon got tossed.