Opie Taylor is a fictional character played by Ron Howard in the American television program The Andy Griffith Show, which was televised on CBS from October 3,1960, to April 1,1968.
11 Facts About Opie Taylor
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Opie Taylor appeared in 209 of the 249 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, and appeared in 2 spin-off shows and a TV Movie.
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One is that Opie was named after bandleader and radio actor Opie Cates; the other is that he was named for Opie Shelton, a childhood friend of Griffith, who went on to become president of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.
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Opie Taylor first appears in the February 1960 backdoor pilot of The Danny Thomas Show.
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However, in a surge of empathy, Opie Taylor begs his father to let her stay; he fears for her well-being as she does not know how to do anything on her own.
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Andy, underscoring the consequences of Opie Taylor's carelessness, opens the boy's bedroom window so he will hear the chicks calling after the mother who will never come home.
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Andy naturally assumes that Opie Taylor spent all the money and confronts his son.
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Opie Taylor tells his father that he decided to give back the $50, since he realizes that he could not be happy keeping the money because it was not truly 'his' to spend.
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In one episode, Opie Taylor describes a utility worker he calls Mr McBeevee he met in the woods.
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When Opie Taylor is "almost 12" he runs away from Mayberry and flies to California to see Gomer Pyle and join the Marines in a 1966 episode of Gomer Pyle, USM.
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The plot was driven by his father's return to see Opie Taylor's wife give birth to their first child.