Followers of The Andy Griffith Present are all conversant in Andy’s boy Opie; throughout that present’s eight-season run, we actually grew to like that little feller, and maybe greater than some other side of that traditional TV present, that father-son relationship was crucial to its success. However do you know that Opie had a half-brother? Andy Samuel Taylor Jr., who made his first look throughout a second season episode of Mayberry R.F.D. titled “Andy’s Child,” was Andy and Helen’s youngster — the couple returned to Mayberry for his christening. However when the Mayberry gang reunited a long time later, little Andy Jr. was nowhere to be discovered.
