December 4, 1967 * Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor * Ron Howard as Opie Taylor * Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee Taylor * George Lindsey as Goober Pyle * Aneta Corsaut as Helen Crump * Jack Dodson as Howard Sprague * Paul Hartman as Emmett Clark * Hope Summers as Clara Edwards * Jack Albertson as Bradford J. Taylor * Ann Morgan Guilbert as Ella