How many times was Andy Taylor seen smoking on TAGS?
Well, off the top of my head, I can think of a few episodes in which Andy is seen smoking a cigarette: Quiet Sam Jailbreak Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee Three’s a Crowd The Bookie Barber Mr. McBeevee Opie’s Rival High Noon in Mayberry The Great Filling Station Robbery Prisoner of Love Cousin Virgil – (backroom of the jail smoking, patiently waiting for Virgil to get Otis out of the cell!)added by Jason Brown The Clubmen – (At the very beginning, Andy is seen with a cigarette as he and Roger Courtney pull up to the courthouse after fishing.)added by Jason Brown Gomer the House Guest – (in this one he smokes IN BED — shocking!) That makes 13, unless we’ve missed one. BTW, I think it’s worth mentioning that this was before the dangers of cigarette smoking were widely known. In those days Andy Griffith smoked in real life, but when the surgeon general came out with the cancer warnings in the mid 1960s, he quit smoking (good for him!
