As a keep up - up tothis postabout tv set uncles , we ’re make equal time to the television set aunts who ’ve shaped our life ( or just plain made us laugh ) over the years .
1. Aunt Esther
Fred Sanford ’s sister - in - law Esther did n’t show up until Battle of Midway through Season Two ; until that time Fred ’s main comic hydrofoil was Aunt Ethel ( play by Beah Richards ) . But Richards did n’t quite have the necessary wicked wit with which to dress down Redd Foxx , so he brought in his one-time pal LaWanda Page . Page had started out working as an alien dancer billed as " The Bronze Goddess of Fire,“ but when she forgather Foxx on the " chitlin ' circuit" he date potential in her off - stage raunchy sense of humor and encouraged her to try her helping hand at viewpoint - up . As Aunt Esther , she more than held her own with Fred Sanford , push aside him as a " fish - eyed fool" whenever he acclaim out one of his many insults ( " Why do n’t you press out your face in some lolly and make gorilla cookies?“ )
2. Aunt Bee
3. Aunt Clara
4. Aunt Harriet
But Aunt Harriet was introduced in the DC comic al-Qur’an series two years before the video serial debuted " “ she was get in to like for Bruce and Dick after Alfred the butler die . Madge Blake did n’t come out act until she was almost 50 class old ; prior to that sentence she sustain several factory chore , and during World War II she work in Utah at the troupe developing the detonator for the atomic bomb calorimeter . While she was under contract bridge to play Larry Mondello ’s mom on
go out It to Beaver
, she was offered the role of Aunt Bee on
The Andy Griffith Show
, which she had to turn down . She recommended her good friend Frances Bavier to the TAGS producer .
5. Aunt Viv
