Why Did Miss Peggy Disappear from ‘The Andy Griffith Show’?

Miss Peggy McMillan, as portrayed by actress Joanna Moore, took a liking to Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) during the first half of Season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show. If you ask me, Andy treated her quite badly during the four episodes she appeared in: he didn’t like that she was rich, he got annoyed when she tried to do nice things for him, and despite all of that, he still got incredibly jealous when an old school friend came into town unannounced to visit.

Andy’s sometimes-frosty treatment of Peggy couldn’t have been because he found the lady lacking — one could argue that she had everything. She was beautiful. She was a nurse. She was rich. Did I mention that she was a nurse? And boy oh boy, was she ever patient with Andy! During those four episodes, Joanna made her mark as a strong female character that could stand her ground — but when the time was right, understood what it meant to give and take in a relationship.