In Season Three, Episode 6, Barney Mends a Broken Heart, Barney tries to fix up Andy with Lydia Crosswaithe (Josie Lloyd), Thelma Lou’s friend, after Andy was “stood up” by Peggy. Unfortunately, Lydia doesn’t like to “chit-chat,” hates the guitar and the outdoors, and gets car sickness; she also gets herpes from being out in the sun. Then, the Fun Girls debuted, and Daphne warms up to Andy; however, her old boyfriend, Al, gave Andy a “shiner.”
Peg left the show after Season Three, Episode 10 in Andy’s Rival when Opie was jealous of Peg for his father’s attention, but then accepts her. No reason was given for her departure. In real life, Joanna Moore married Ryan O’Neal, and one of their children, Tatum O’Neal later became the youngest person to win an Oscar at the age of 10 in Paper Moon. Unfortunately, Joanna Moore had drug and alcohol issues that led to 5 DUIs in the 1980s, and she died of lung cancer in 1997.
In Episode 19 of Season Three, Sharon DeSpain, showed up at the Class Reunion; they had a class of values that resurfaced at the reunion of Mayberry Union High School (the Orange and Blue) Class of 1945.
Helen Crump (played by Aneta Courset was in 66 episodes) made her debut appearance in Episode 23, Andy Discovers America; she was not too pleased with Andy’s influence on Opie and other boys, but he got her pupils interested in history immediately
Barney tried desperately to find A Wife for Andy in Episode 29; Lavinia Brennan stood out as a leading candidate, and she was Andy and Barney’s classmate from the Class of 1945 who helped organize the recent reunion. Thelma Lou and Barney invite Helen and Andy over for dinner, and cook a leg of lamb; Barney wants Andy to reject Helen as a prospective future wife because she refuses to learn to cook a leg of lamb, and won’t give up her career as a teacher when she gets married.
In Season Four, Andy and Barney met Tyla Lee (Susan Oliver) in Prisoner of Love in Episode 18
In Season Four, Episode 25, Divorce Mountain Style,
The Fun Girls returned in Episode 27; Daphne (Jean Carson) and Skippy (Joyce Jameson)
In Episode 28 of Season Four, Divorce, Mountain Style, Charlene Darling (Maggie Peterson) and Andy almost were married; Barney Fife saved Andy when
In Episode 29, Barney started a rumor that Helen and Andy became engaged in The Rumor
In Season Five, Episode 20, Andy shows off his love-making skills in Goober and the Art of Love
In Season Five, Episode 23, TV or Not TV, Andy is distracted by Pat Blake who interviews him as her two partners implement their plan to rob the Mayberry Security Bank
In Season Five, Episode 24, A Guest in the House, Andy’s “cousin,” Gloria comes to visit after a broken engagement. Andy and Helen take her to to movies with Goober, and Helen is jealous
The Arrest of the Fun Girls in Season Five, Episode 28; this was their last appearance as they weren’t popular enough to have their own show like Gomer
In Season Six, Episode 2, Andy’s Rival, Frank Smith, uncorked jealously in Andy
In Season Six, Episode 9, Darlene Mason reappeared in The Hollywood Party; Ruta Lee played the reporter in Andy on Trail as Jean Boswell in Season Two
In Season Six, Episode 23, The Gypsies, Andy meets Sabella, and tries to life a curse for 7 years with no rain for being “run off” and not being allowed to sell their goods
Andy’s Old Girlfriend in Season Seven, Episode 20 highlighted Ellen Harper returning; Helen was quite jealous especially when Alice and Andy returned from a mid-night walk in the woods
In Season Seven, Episode 24, Helen, the Authoress, Andy took Mavis Neff, a waitress at the drug store, to the Duck Pond in an effort to make Helen jealous; root beer floats made Mavis “bubbly wubbly” all over. This was the first episode that Helen was referred to as Andy’s fiance.
In Season Eight, Episode 4, Andy’s Trip to Raleigh, he meets attorney Lee Drake (Whitney Blake) after his car is in an accident with a bulldozer; she and Andy worked together at her pool. Later, she comes to Mayberry to finish the case, and meets a jealous Helen after Andy described the attorney he met in Raleigh as “40-ish, heavy-set and grim.”
In real life, Andy Griffith was an only child, and married Barbara Bray Edwards, 1949-1972; she died in 1980 at the age of 52, and they adopted two children together. She married Michael St. Clair in 1975. Griffith was having an affair with Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump) during the show. Griffith married Actress Solica Cassuto in 1975; they divorced in 1981. Griffith appeared in 181 episodes of Matlock, 1986-1995, and was in Return to Mayberry in 2003. He won an Emmy for his performance as Ash Robinson in Murder in Texas in 1981; ironically, he never won an Emmy for his performances in The Andy Griffith Show or Matlock although both shows were amongst the most popular in America because of his friendly personality. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. Griffith married Actress Cindi Knight in 1983; they were together when he passed away in 2012. Griffith was diagnosed with Guillen-Barre Syndrome just two months after their wedding in 1983.