She frequently contributes meals to community or church events and brings picnic baskets of food to Mayberry's tiny jail for its lawmen and inmates. In the first episode, she serves a platter of fried chicken with all the trimmings, and thereafter her character is associated with wholesome, home-cooked meals. It is never explained why her name "Beatrice" has the shortened spelling "B-e-e" as opposed to the more common "B-e-a."īee is well known in Mayberry for her cooking skills. In several episodes, Bee makes reference to "a brother," but it is never specified if the brother in question is Andy's father or another uncle. Therefore, although it is never elaborated upon, Bee must be the sister of Andy's never-discussed father. In the course of several of Bee's romantic episodes, it is mentioned she has never married, so she carries the Taylor name by birth, not marriage. Andy explains to Opie that he was raised by Aunt Bee, and Bee later mentions, without elaboration, having raised other Taylors.
In "The New Housekeeper", the show's first episode, Aunt Bee returns from Morgantown, West Virginia after Andy's housekeeper, Rose, marries and leaves. Though she was the aunt of Sheriff Andy Taylor, virtually every character in Mayberry, even those in her age bracket such as Floyd and Emmett, called her "Aunt Bee."īlack-and-white seasons (1960–1965)
Aunt Bee's first appearance, "The New Housekeeper" (1960).Īunt Bee is a fictional character from the 1960 American television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show played by Frances Bavier.
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