When Andy Griffith decided to step back from playing Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, that wasn’t the end of the American viewing public’s romance with the folks in Mayberry. Rather, in the final season of Andy Griffith, attention was shifted away from Andy and Opie to a new father-son combo, widower Sam Jones (played by Ken Berry), and his young son, Mike (Buddy Foster). That pair would go on to anchor the new spin-off series, Mayberry R.F.D., which ran from 1968 to 1971, following many of the same beloved Mayberry residents viewers had come to love — including some season one appearances by the newly-married Andy and his new bride, Helen Crump.