The replacement of the cute, young, fresh-faced, female character Ellie Walker (who looked all of 18 years old compared to Andy Griffith who was pushing 40) probably had something to do with the show's Jewish producers wanting a stronger, more dominant, feminist character in the form of the authortarian Helen Crump, as the show was originally aired during the 1960's when submissive females were out, and bitchy, demanding females were in, or at least were being pushed on the goyim by the tribe.
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