and Gomer Pyle, played by Jim Nabors. Barney Fife, the bumbling deputy, fancied himself to be a ladies’ man, and for many years, conducted a romance with the sweet Thelma Lou. The character of ...

calling out to “Thelma Lou.” “They’d hug me and kiss me,” says the actress, who played Deputy Barney Fife’s girlfriend on the hit television show. “Some of them cry.” Eight years ...