Let grab down our fishin’ poles and head down to the fishin’ hole

October 3, 1960 –

The Andy Griffith Show premiered on this date.

They never mention what happened to Opie’s mother. Opie was said to be just “a speck of a boy” when she died. Her first name is never given, her picture is never shown in Andy’s house, nor anywhere else, and her grave is never shown.