Beatrice "Aunt Bee" Taylor was a character on the long-running 1960s American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show and its successor program Mayberry R.F.D. played by Frances Bavier. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. ... The Andy Griffith Show is an American television series that aired from 1960 to 1968. ... Mayberry R.F.D. (R.F.D. is a postal abbreviation for Rural Free Delivery) was a spin-off, or perhaps, more accurately, a direct continuation of The Andy Griffith Show under a new title. ... Frances Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American character actress, best remembered for her role as Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s. ...

Beatrice (called "Aunt Bee" or "Bee" by everyone) was the aunt of Sheriff Andy Taylor in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina. She was originally from Morgantown, West Virginia ^[1]. Aunt Bee appeared in the first episode of The Andy Griffith Show, when she moved in with Andy after his housekeeper Rose left to get married. Sheriff Taylor was a character on The Andy Griffith Show, a sitcom of the 1960s. ... Mayberry is the name of a fictional town in North Carolina which was the setting for the American television sitcoms The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D.. Mayberry, population 1,800, was a small rural town which is remembered as much for its slow-paced life as it... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ... Morgantown is a city in Monongalia County,GR6 West Virginia, on the banks of the Monongahela River. ...

Aunt Bee, Andy, Opie, and Andy's cousin and deputy sheriff Barney Fife made up the core cast of the show. Despite never marrying and having no children of her own, Bee was a natural maternal figure. In the inaugural episode, Andy explains to Opie that he was raised by Aunt Bee himself. Bee speaks of raising other Taylors, but her role of matriarch is left in the dark (much like the death of Andy's wife, and where in the family tree cousin Barney fits- paternal or maternal side, or even Andy's cousin-in-law). She helped as cook/ housekeeper for the widowed Taylor and his young son, Opie, and served as a surrogate mother/grandmother figure to Opie as well. Deputy may mean: A member of a Chamber of Deputies, National Assembly, etc. ... Look up Sheriff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show Bernard Barney Fife[1] was the fictional deputy sheriff in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ... Mother with her child (Sculpture) A mother is typically the biological or social female parent of a child or offspring while the male parent is the father. ... Opie Taylor was the name of the character played by Ronny Howard on The Andy Griffith Show, an American sitcom of the 1960s on the CBS television network. ...

Bee was well known for her cooking abilities, and was often seen bringing picnic baskets of food for Andy and the inmates in Mayberry's tiny jail. While she was an excellent cook, she was oblivious to the fact that she made incredibly bad tasting pickles; Andy and Barney referred to them as her "Kerosene Cucumbers." She was probably best known for her apple pie. Apple pie In cooking, an apple pie is a fruit pie (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples(Cooking Apples). ...

Aunt Bee stayed to see Opie grow from age six to fourteen, when Andy finally married his longtime girlfriend, Helen Crump on the first episode of Mayberry R.F.D.. Choosing to give the newlywed Taylors their own space, Bee continued to fill largely the same role for the new central character, Sam Jones (also a widowed father), and his son Mike. Now residing at the Jones farm, Aunt Bee had to adjust to different chores, such as feeding livestock, and harvesting eggs. Andy and Helen were sporadically featured on the spinoff (five episodes for Andy; two for Helen), until leaving themselves during the second season. Helen Crump was a fictional character on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ...

Actress Frances Bavier had a love-hate relationship with her character Bee. Since Bavier retired in 1974 (after doing a Benji movie), she was one of a few surviving cast members not to be involved in the 1986 NBC television movie Return to Mayberry. Aunt Bee apparently died sometime between Bavier's 1970 departure from Mayberry R.F.D. and the events of Return to Mayberry. During the reunion special, Andy tells Barney he is going to see Aunt Bee, and in the next scene he is standing at her gravesite, fondly recalling her. (Bavier's health kept her from taking part in the special.) A love-hate relationship is a personal relationship between humans or organizations, or figuratively between a human and an inanimate object, like a computer, a field of study, a body of ideas, or a profession, involving simultaneous or alternating emotions of love and enmity. ... Benji is the name of a fictitious dog who was the focus of several movies in the 1970s and 1980s and is also the title of the first film in the series. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... “Telefilm” redirects here. ... Return to Mayberry was a television movie made in 1986 on NBC. The show was a reunion movie for the 1960s American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. ...

Trivia

• While Aunt Bee spent more seasons in Mayberry (1960-70) than any other character, the oft mentioned but never seen phone operator Sarah comes in second. Andy is third. Griffith, however, did more episodes than anyone, with ten more than Bavier.

• "Bee" is in fact the correct spelling. Although her name is Beatrice, many times throughout The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off Mayberry RFD, the name is clearly spelled out "Bee", as in "Welcome Home Aunt Bee."

References

1. ^ http://www.sitcomsonline.com/theandygriffithshow.html Sitcoms Online