Andy had several girlfriends in the series starting with Ellie Walker, then Mary Simpson, Mary the county nurse(no last name), Peggy Mc Millan, and Helen Crump. His only past girlfriend we saw was a...
"The Andy Griffith Show" is a spinoff of "The Danny Thomas Show". Danny Thomas appeared in the first episode. Frances Bavier is in the episode but not as Aunt Bee.
After The Andy Griffith Show had run it's course Griffith changed gears. He played attorney Ben Matlock, kind of a bumbler with a bad suit. But of course he always solved the murder and his clients...
There was one with a speaking part he played a football player that coached opie team he was also a pianist when opie was deciding to either play the piano or football