who was opie on the andy griffith show
Opie Taylor Opie is a 6-year-old when the series opens, who lives in the fictional and idealized small, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North Carolina with his widowed father, Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), the sheriff of Mayberry County, and his father's spinster aunt, Beatrice "Aunt Bee" Taylor (Frances Bavier). Opie appears once in The Andy Griffith Show spinoff Mayberry R.F.D., twice in the spinoff Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. and also in the 1986 reunion telemovie Return to Mayberry.