When Ellie Walker actor Elinor Donahue left The Andy Griffith Show after just a dozen episodes, questions lingered regarding her sudden departure. Karen Knotts’ recent memoir Tied Up in Knotts ...

Elinor joined the show as Ellie Walker, a charming druggist and Andy Taylor’s love interest. After the end of her previous series, Father Knows Best, she landed the role of Elli ...

If you’re an avid fan of The Andy Griffith Show, actor Elinor Donahue is a familiar face from the series’ first season. She played “lady druggist” Ellie Walker on the CBS comedy for about ...

The first episode of The Andy Griffith Show aired on CBS in October 1960, just a few months after the Father Knows Best finale. Elinor was a mainstay during the first season of the Emmy-winning ...

The commonality is actually actress Elinor Donahue, who became a part of classic TV history on Father Knows Best and, ever so briefly, The Andy Griffith Show, the latter for about a dozen episodes.

Elinor Donahue believed her days as a child star ... She quickly joined the cast of “The Andy Griffith Show.” She played pharmacist Ellie Walker from 1960 until 1961. It proved to be a difficu ...

Widely known for her role as Robert Young’s eldest TV daughter, Betty, on the series “Father Knows Best,” Elinor Donahue was a regular on other series such as “The Andy Griffith Show ...

The show has a touch of “A Christmas Carol ... A highlight of “Christmas Story” was a duet sung by Andy Griffith and Elinor Donahue, who played the pharmacist Ellie Walker – they ...

Now it’s the turn for the Griffith show, which ran from 1960 to 1968 ... Ronnie Howard as Opie Taylor and Frances Bavier as Aunt Bea. Elinor Donahue plays Andy’s girlfriend, Ellie Walker ...

Widely known for her role as Robert Young’s eldest TV daughter on the series “Father Knows Best,” Elinor Donahue was a regular on other series such as “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The ...