Beyond just Andy Taylor and Barney Fife, the community of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show was populated by countless ...

but recognizable enough to be worth including in a TV show. Some of these characters are given only the briefest time to shine before being killed off, written out, or simply ignored in perpetuity ...

Even when a show begins life being popular, that doesn’t mean it stays stagnant. Casts can change. Sometimes characters leave, but other times characters show up and are added into the mix.