Andy Griffith and Frances Bavier Feuded for Years — Except for This One Surprising Moment

For over sixty years, The Andy Griffith Show has remained the gold standard of television. The show has endured thanks to the timeless tales told by Andy Griffith‘s Sheriff Andy Taylor as he keeps the peace in the town of Mayberry.

Griffith also apparently kept the peace on the show’s set, even standing up for Aunt Bee actress Frances Bavier, whom he famously did not see eye-to-eye with. Rance Howard, father of Ron “Opie” Howard, claimed that Griffith “seemed to bear some kind of resentment toward Frances;” a 2014 article in the Triad City Beat, a North Carolina publication serving the area where Baviar spent the final years of her life, reported that when Ron Howard and Griffith paid an unscheduled visit of Bavier’s house in the ’80s, she’d only speak to them through a closed front door.