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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Sheldon Leonard

This series is a semi-spinoff of “The Danny Thomas Show,” as the character of Andy Taylor is introduced in episode #206, “Danny Meets Andy Griffith”

Theme Song: “The Fishin’ Hole” by Earle Hagen and Herbert W. Spencer. The announcer is Colin Male.

• 001. The New Housekeeper – 10/3/1960
  • Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) is a friendly widowed sheriff for the town of Mayberry, North Carolina, living with his young son Opie Taylor (Ron Howard). His cousin Barney Fife (Don Knotts) serves as his bumbling deputy. The Taylor’s housekeeper Rose (Mary Treen) is getting married and leaving them behind, and Opie couldn’t be more upset about it. He tries to interrupt the wedding proceedings, but Andy finishes the service and tells Opie that his Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), who raised him as a boy will soon be coming to take care of them. Opie has no confidence in Aunt Bea, especially when he figures out she can’t play baseball or fish. The final straw is when she leaves his birdcage door open and his bird Dickie escapes. Bee senses Opie’s disappointment in her and is ready to leave when Opie stops her, citing the fact that she needs him since she has no idea how to do anything for herself – ie. fishing and baseball. As Andy sings Crawdad Hole on the front porch, Opie announces that Dickie has returned. Meanwhile, Barney arrests the elderly Emma Brand (Cheerio Meredith) for jaywalking. Frank Ferguson is Wilbur Pine. 1/11/14
• 002. The Manhunt – 10/10/1960
  • Opie and Andy finish up their day of fishing when their boat springs a leak, and are met at the shore by Barney announcing that there is an escaped convict named Dirkson (Frank Gerstle) in the area. The State Police led by Captain Barker (Ken Lynch) arrive in town and take over the sheriff’s office and nudge Andy and Barney out of the manhunt operation. Andy decides that he and Barney will patrol the back roads. As usual Barney is over-zealous and frisks everyone who drives by – including his own mother (Lillian Culver). Dirkson shows up and over powers Barney and steal his gun. Andy deduces that  he will stop by Emma’s house, and knowing that he is inside warns Emma not to tell him about his boat in the lake which he could potentially use to escape. Dirkson takes the bait only, but has to row back into shore due the boat’s leak. The state police catch Dirkson and offer Andy a citation for his good work, but Andy says he’d prefer a new map with a magnet to stick on it. Hal Smith as Otis Campbell, Dick Elliot as Mayor Pike, and Burt Mustin as Jud Fletcher make their first appearances. 1/11/14
• 003. The Guitar Player – 10/17/1960
  • Andy is forced by mortician Orville Monroe (Jonathan Hole) to arrest a visiting guitar player named Jim Lindsey (James Best) for disturbing the peace by playing his guitar in the street. After the two perform a duo of New River Train, in which Barney joins them, Andy feeds him and starts to encourage him to travel to a bigger city to pursue his career. A slick and condescending music act called Bobby Fleet and His Band with the Beat (Fleet played by Henry Slate) comes through town and insults Andy and the city. Andy and Barney arrest the band for a parking charge which leads to insulting a judge (Andy) and bribery, forcing them to stay overnight in the jail. Andy arranges for Jim to play for them while they are locked up, but it requires him to arrest Jim as well.  Lured by Fleet’s insults, Jim finally breaks into a guitar jam and is joined by the other musicians., which leads to a job offer. Dub Taylor plays Talbot the postman. 1/12/14
• 004. Ellie Comes to Town – 10/24/1960
  • A new pharmacist named Ellie Walker (Elinor Donahue) comes to town to fill in for her ailing Uncle Fred and despite a spark, clashes with Andy almost immediately. Andy had entered the drugstore using the spare key, and Ellie mistakes him for a burglar  Ellie also refuses to give Emma her medication because she has no prescription. Andy and the others in the town start to chastise her when Emma becomes confined to her sick bed. Ellie finally gives in and brings her the medicine, which turns out to be nothing more than a placebo. Andy tells Ellie that sometimes she has to think about the people affected by ‘rules’ and make exceptions. She uses this notion against him to get out of a parking ticket. In his spare time, Barney tries to memorize the sheriff rulebook, with no success. Mary Treen returns as Clara Lindsey. 1/12/14
• 005. Irresistible Andy – 10/31/1960
  • At the urging of her Uncle Fred Walker (Harry Antrim), Andy gets the nerve to ask Ellie to the church picnic and dance, but later when discussing it with Aunt Bee, feels he was manipulated and that Ellie is setting him up for ‘matrimony.’ When Opie gets a free ice cream from her, he rants again and decides to put three other town bachelors – Pete Johnson (Robert Easton), Franklin Pomeroy (Bill Mullikin), and Charlie Beasley (Ray Lanier) – on her trail. Opie then repeats what he heard his father say, and enraged, Ellie cancels the date with Andy and makes one with the first person who walks into the drug store…Barney. Andy has second thoughts and manipulates Barney into wanting to work ‘pickpocket’ duty during the picnic and cancelling his date with Ellie. Andy comes to the rescue, and after she forces him to grovel a bit, she ends up going on a double date to the picnic with him and Opie. 2/2/14
• 006. Runaway Kid – 11/7/1960
  • Opie and his friends play a joke on Andy and move his car in front of a fireplug, prompting Barney to write Andy a ticket that he argues and get out of. Opie admits that he and his friends did it which pleases Andy, but he does caution Opie about breaking the promise to his friends to keep the secret, stressing the importance of loyalty. The conversation backfires when Opie brings home a friend from a nearby county named George ‘Tex’ Foley (Pat Rosson), thinking that his Pa wouldn’t betray their trust. Andy isn’t quite sure how to approach the situation in light of the searching being done by Barney and others, so he uses reverse psychology to get Tex to want to go back home. He also explains to Opie that there are times when it is okay to bend the rules when it serves the greater good. 2/2/14
• 007. Andy the Matchmaker – 11/14/1960
  • Barney is ready to resign his post as deputy when local kids write a limerick about him on the wall of the bank, but when Miss Rosemary (Amzie Strickland), on whom Barney clearly has a crush, visits the station, Barney hits the streets again. In order to give Barney some confidence back and the courage to ask out Miss Rosemary, Andy asks Ellie to report a fake robbery at Walker’s Drug Store. Andy assumes that Barney will be working on the case for a long time, but soon he hauls in a suspect from Chattanooga using the name Tracy Crawford (Jack Mann). Andy knows he didn’t rob the store since there wasn’t a real robbery, but goes to through the motions of calling the police station in Chattanooga and finds out that Crawford is wanted for other crimes. Barney gets his picture in the paper and then thinks he might be too big to ask out Rosemary…until Andy claims that he’ll ask her out if Barney won’t. 3/2/14
• 008. Opie’s Charity – 11/28/1960
  • Andy is upset when he finds out that Opie has only donated three cents at school to a charity for underprivileged children. He starts to give Opie the cold shoulder and constant lectures and the only excuse he can get out of Opie is that he is saving the money for his girlfriend Charlotte at school. Meanwhile, Tom Silby (Stuart Erwin), whom his wife Annabelle (Lurene Tuttle) has told everyone died when he was hit by a taxi, returns to town after two years hoping to reconcile. It turns out that Annabelle had kicked him out during a fight and was too embarrassed to tell anyone the truth. Aunt Bea compares Andy’s shame at Opie with that of Annabelle’s and Andy makes up with his son. He then finds out that Opie is actually saving to buy a coat for the little girl because her mother can’t afford one. 3/2/14
• 009. A Feud Is a Feud – 12/5/1960
  • Young couple Hannah Carter (Tammy Windsor) and Josh Wakefield (Claude Johnson) show up in the middle of the night to get married by Andy, but before he can perform the ceremony their fathers bust in and break up the marriage at gunpoint. Andy explains to Opie and Aunt Bee that the Wakefields and Carters have been feuding for 87 years and likens their story to Romeo and Juliet. Andy visits Jebediah Wakefield (Arthur Hunnicutt), and then Mr. Carter (Chubby Johnson), to find out the nature of the feud – which neither of them know. Andy tries to force the men to have a duel, but both act like chickens and flee. He then tells them that their children have a lot of courage to stand up to each others’ fathers, and that their grandson could be a man of bravery. The feuding fathers then insist that Andy perform the marriage ceremony for Hannah and Josh. 6/1/14
• 010. Ellie for Council – 12/5/1960
  • While on a picnic with Andy, Aunt Bee, Opie, Barney and Hilda Mae (Florence MacMichael), Ellie sees a newspaper article that indicates that only men are running for City Council. Even more irritated by the fact that Andy calls the prospect of a woman running for council silly, she decides to run herself. Andy gets the idea for the husbands to cut off their wives charge accounts as a warning not to vote for Ellie. The women in turn hold out on their cooking, sewing, and ironing for the men. Ellie decides to withdraw from the election in order to keep the peace, but when Andy hears Opie repeating the things he has said about women being second-rate, he end up publicly giving support to Ellie. Frank Ferguson plays Sam Lindsey. 6/1/14
• 011. Christmas Story – 12/19/1960
  • In order to enjoy their Christmas party with the family, Andy lets the prison inmates take a break and go home for Christmas – but then crotchety Ben Weaver (Will Wright) shows up with Sam Muggins (Sam Edwards), insisting that Andy hold him in jail for moonshining. Andy has no choice to comply when Ben threatens to report him to the state if he doesn’t. Andy brings the party to the courthouse, along with Sam’s wife Bess (Margaret Kerry) and his kids. Ben sees how much fun they’re having and tries to get arrested himself so that he can join the party. Ellie talks Andy out of arresting him, but once Andy realizes that he really wants to be included, he arrests him for throwing trash into the street. Ben brings along toys and gifts for everyone at the party. Ellie and Andy sing Away in a Manger. 8/16/14
• 012. Stranger in Town – 12/26/1960
  • A stranger named Ed Sawyer (William Lanteau) shows up in town ready to purchase George Sapperly’s (Bill Erwin) service station, but when he seems to know everything about everyone in Mayberry, suspicions begin to rise about whether he is a spy…or even an alien. When he begins to call on Lucy Matthews (Marlene Willis) claiming to be in love with her, she too becomes spooked and reports him to Andy. Eventually Andy finds out from Ed that the reason he knows so much is that  he was in the army with former Mayberry resident Joe Larson, and came to love the town so much that he subscribed to the paper from out of town. Andy welcomes him by offering to get the paper to write an article about him, but soon the whole town led by Lucy’s brother (Pat Colby) has cornered Ed and is ready to fight. Andy berates them for their treatment of Ed, and soon everyone softens on him and welcomes him. Andy takes Ed to Floyd the Barber (Walter Baldwin) to get a traditional Mayberry haircut…with crooked sideburns. George Dunn is Pete, Phil Chambers is Jason the hotel clerk. Sara Seeger is Mrs. Buntley. 8/17/14
• 013. Mayberry Goes Hollywood – 1/2/1961
  • Hollywood producer Mr. Harmon (Dan Frazer) comes to Mayberry with the intention of making a motion picture in town. The town council is undecided, so Andy takes Harmon around town to ensure that he won’t be making fun of Mayberry in his film. Once he is satisfied, he gives the go-ahead. The town then begins transforming itself, changing their storefronts to a Hollywood theme, acting and dressing differently. Andy is disgusted and warns them to be themselves, but even Aunt Bee and Opie dress in ridiculous garb. When Harmon returns with his crew, he is greeted with a marching band, a song from the Mayor’s daughter Juanita (Josie Lloyd) and a presentation of cutting down the old oak tree. He chastises them for changing themselves and tells them he will only film in Mayberry if they change the town and themselves back to the way they were. Howard McNear takes over the role of Floyd the Barber. 9/16/14
• 014. The Horse Trader – 1/9/1961
  • Andy lectures Opie about the Golden Rule when Opie tries to pass off some ‘licorice seeds’ to a friend in trade for some roller skates. Later Andy and Barney attend a town council meeting where the agree to get rid of a cannon that has been on display in town in favor of putting a plaque there. The Mayor puts Andy and Barney in charge of selling the cannon, and although they scour the town, they can’t find a buyer. When an antiques dealer named Ralph Mason (Max Showalter aka Casey Adams) comes to town, Andy sells him the cannon for $175, claiming that it was dragged up San Jaun Hill by Teddy Roosevelt. Opie later gets his skates by telling his friend that button was once worn by George Washington. Andy lectures him about this, but then realizes that they both broke the Golden Rule. Mr. Mason still wants to buy the cannon, but Andy will only take $20 for it. Later the town receives another cannon from San Juan Hill instead of the plaque originally offered by a donor. Spec O’Donnell is one of the men in town to whom they try to sell the cannon. Joseph Crehan is a town councilman. 9/16/14
• 015. Those Gossipin’ Men – 1/16/1961
  • Andy and Barney make fun of Aunt Bee, Clara, and Emma when their gossip somehow twists the true story of Barney cutting his finger while cleaning his gun into Barney shooting himself in the chest and dying. When a quiet shoe salesman named Wilbur Finch (Jack Finch) comes into town from New York City, Aunt Bee plants it in Andy’s head that he might not be a real salesman after all. Once Andy and Barney begin investigating and telling others about their theories, the word spreads, and soon enough, people think he is a talent scout and producer for the TV show Manhattan Showtime. Finch is ready to leave town, disappointed that he hasn’t sold any shoes, when everyone in town lines up to buy shoes – as well as audition for him. As he leaves town feeling like the best salesman in the world, Andy and the town stand on the street dumbfounded wondering what just happened…but Aunt Bee knows. 10/19/2014
• 016. The Beauty Contest – 1/23/1961
  • Floyd has the idea to have a beauty pageant at the Founder’s Day event and the town council approves it and appoints Andy as judge. He assumes that Ellie has nominated him so that he will pick her, but this infuriates her and she refuses to enter. Right away he is bombarded with people vying for their loves ones to wind the contest: the Mayor puts forth his three daughters, Henrietta Swanson (Elvia Allman) shows off her daughter Darlene (Yvonne Adrian), Barbara Sue (Gail Lucas) delivers the peat moss with a parasol in hand, and even Opie wants his classmate Mary Wiggins (Joy Ellison) to win. Aunt Bee is pulling for Ellie. Floyd the barber and Erma Bishop (Lillian Bronson) seem to be the only two that are just helping out of generosity, but soon even Floyd pitches for his niece. On the day of the event, Andy makes his decision and gives the crown to Erma, which is not a popular decision to anyone except for Ellie who wholeheartedly agrees. Josie Lloyd, who previously played Juanita Pike, plays Josephine Pike. 10/19/14
• 017. Alcohol and Old Lace – 1/30/1961
  • Barney thinks he has a lead on a still in town where Otis is getting his alcohol, but the elderly Morrison sisters, Clarabelle (Gladys Hurlbut) and Jennifer (Charity Grace), send Andy and Barney in a different direction. They visit both Ben Sewell (Jack Prince) and Rube Sloane (Thom Carney) and find stills, arresting both and destroying their stills. It turns out that the sisters have been making their own moonshine and selling it for ‘celebratory’ occasions. Andy and Barney are befuddled when Otis shows up drunk again, while Opie visits the sisters to pick some of their flowers. He identifies the still as a ‘flower-making machine’ but Andy and Barney figure out what is going on, and head to their house where Barney smashes the still. The sisters go into the preserves business…which gets Barney drunk when he eats them. Andy sings Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad. 11/18/14
• 018. Andy, the Marriage Counselor – 2/6/1961
  • While Andy is helping Barney practice his Judo, Andy gets a call to assist with a domestic dispute between Fred and Jennie Boone (Jesse White, Claudia Bryar). He calms them down for the night but they are back at it the next morning. Andy sentences them to coming visit him every morning and acting polite to one another. At home Andy solves a fight between Opie and his friend Billy (Tim Stevenson) by offering them a nickel each time they go without fighting. Andy believes that in all cases, the parties will form the habit of being nice to each other. However this causes Fred to be mean to his poker friends Cliff (Forrest Lewis) and Gil (Norman Leavett), and Jennie to be rude to Aunt Bee. Andy calls off his deal with Opie, and intentionally gets the Boones to fight with each other again. Back at the station, Barney continues practicing his Judo on Andy…with terrible results. 11/18/14
• 019. Mayberry on Record – 2/13/1961
  • Barney is tired of being over-taxed and is looking to invest his money in some stocks. Andy tells him to watch out for swindlers and proceeds to sell him a buffalo nickel for $75. A stranger named Mr. Maxwell (Hugh Marlowe) comes into town claiming to be a record producer looking to find some genuine folk performers for a record he is assembling. Andy assembles The Country Boys (Billy Ray Latham, Leroy Mack, Clarence White, Eric White, Roland White) and they perform Flop-Eared Mule for the recording. Barney, Floyd, Pete, and George persuade Mr. Maxwell to sell them stock in the record so that they can all share in the profits. When Andy hears that they’ve given their money to him, he assumes it is a swindle, although Ellie maintains that they are jumping to conclusions. When Maxwell leaves town, they are ready to put out an APB on him, but when he returns and shows Ellie the advance check for $5000 and a contract with National Records, she takes pleasure in watching him eat crow. While Barney works on ‘diversifying’, Andy admires the new record Music from Mayberry. 12/30/14
• 020. Andy Saves Barney’s Morale – 2/20/1961
  • Andy heads to Centerville for eight hours and leaves Barney as acting Sheriff. When he returns he finds most of the town – including Jud, Otis, the Mayor, and Aunt Bee – in jail. Andy dismisses the frivolous cases, and the townspeople mercilessly make fun of Barney, causing Barney’s morale to visibly suffer. When even Hilda Mae can’t cheer up Barney, Andy hatches a plan and tells many of the townfolk that he is going to have to fire Barney since no one respects him any longer. This causes most of them to return to the jail to turn themselves in, stating that they admire Barney’s conviction of the law. This restores Barney’s confidence, and even Andy locks himself up when Barney notes that he is out of regulation uniform. Joseph Hamilton appears as Chester Jones. 12/31/14
• 021. Andy and the Gentleman Crook – 2/27/1961
  • After Barney nearly shoots himself with his one bullet, Andy gives him one more with the stipulation that he not load it in his gun. Later the state police notify Andy that they are bringing notorious criminal “Gentleman Dan” Caldwell (Dan Tobin) to Mayberry while he awaits extradition to Atlanta. Barney is so excited that he cleans and decorates the cell for him and when he gets there asks for an autograph. Dan wins over Opie and Aunt Bee as well. While Barney is playing cards with Dan in his cell, Dan manages to secure Barney’s gun and tells Aunt Bee and Opie to get into the cell. Andy walks in and sees Dan with Barney’s gun, but recalls that Barney was told not to load his gun. Dan realizes the gun has no bullets when Andy coaxes him to fire a round, and he gives himself up. Andy then fires a similar shot and a bullet hits the ceiling… since Barney had loaded the gun against Andy’s wishes. 2/16/15
• 022. Cyrano Andy – 3/6/1961
  • As much as he likes her, Barney can’t seem to work up the courage to get a kiss from his girl Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn). Andy goes to see Thelma Lou to tell her how Barney really feels about her, and she then uses this to make Barney jealous by telling him that Andy came ‘calling’ on her. Barney vows revenge and dresses himself up and tries to seduce Ellie, who rebukes his advances. Andy and Ellie then team, and while Andy woos Thelma Lou for real, Ellie throws herself at Barney. Barney and Thelma Lou each get extremely uncomfortable and end up running to each other and confessing their feelings. 2/16/15
• 023. Andy and Opie, Housekeepers – 3/13/1961
  • After both Opie and Andy are scolded for letting the house get messy, Aunt Bee is called away to tend to her cousin Edgar’s wife Maude while she is ill. Although Andy makes a conscious effort to keep the house clean in her absence, his first attempt to do the dishes ends when he is called to work, and Opie and his friend Jimmy (Rory Stevens) digress from making the bed to jumping on the bed. After a couple of days the house is worse than ever, so they put forth the effort to get it spic and span. Andy then realizes that Bee might feel like she is not needed if the house is so clean, so they mess it up again on purpose. When Bee’s friend Bertha Edwards (Hope Summers) stops by to visit and sees the house, she decides to clean it while Andy and Opie go to pick up Aunt Bee. When Bee walks in and sees the parlor as neat as can be, her face drops as she does in fact feel unneeded. Opie quickly runs upstairs to mess up his room and Andy wrecks the kitchen, giving Bee purpose to her life again. 3/28/15
• 024. The New Doctor – 3/27/1961
  • Just after Aunt Bee warns Andy that he better secure his date with Ellie for the social, Andy meets the new young attractive Dr. Robert Benson (George Nader) who has just moved into to town. Ellie is very friendly toward him and this gets Barney, Aunt Bee, and eventually Andy quite worried. Andy goes over to her place to set their date for the social, only to find that Bob has been visiting her. Then when Andy spots him going into her drugstore, he sends Barney to scope out the situation. Barney overhears them talking about getting married and reports it to Andy… not realizing they were talking about Bob’s marriage to his fiancee who is getting ready to join him in Mayberry. Andy storms over and nearly proposes before he realizes that Bob has a fiancé. Ellie lets him off the hook and they agree to take their relationship slowly. Later Andy and Barney overhearing talking sweet to someone in the backroom and they get riled up again… but it turns out to be Opie. 3/29/15
• 025. A Plaque for Mayberry – 4/3/1961
  • Otis is in the tank again and Barney insists on giving him a sobriety test before he leaves. Later Andy and Barney summoned to the Mayor’s office to meet with Mrs. Bixby (Isabel Randolph) and Mrs. Wickes (Carol Veazie) from the Women’s Historical Society who think that Revolutionary War hero Nathan Tibbs has a descendant in Mayberry and borrow some of the town’s historical records. Although Barney has high hopes that it is him, it turns out to be Otis. The Mayor is leery about letting Otis accept the honorary plaque for the town, afraid that he might show up drunk, and asks Andy to find someone else to accept it. Andy thinks it is wrong, so he asks Otis to accept it anyway. Otis staggers in late for the ceremony with his wife Rita (Dorothy Neumann), but it turns out that he is actually breaking in a new pair of shoes. He gives a heartfelt speech that he doesn’t deserve the plaque and asks the Mayor to accept it. 6/24/15
• 026. The Inspector – 4/10/1961
  • Andy has a lackadaisical attitude about the state inspector coming to check out their operation, mostly because it is his old friend Sam Allen. Barney is nervous about the inspection, and as it turns out, it is not Sam who comes but the stern Ralph Case (Tod Andrews). Case takes issue with the loose way the station is run, particularly with Otis roaming around free in the prison where they are planning to celebrate his birthday. Case threatens to fire Andy and his force, and matters are made worse when Sam (Ray Lanier) reports that Luke Rainer (Jack Prince) has barricaded himself in his house and is shooting at people. Case thinks Andy is mis-managing the incident and calls his boss Mr. Brady (Willis Bouchey), who arrives in time to see Andy diffuse the situation and arrest Luke. Case can not seem to put into words all that he thinks is wrong with the Mayberry police. 6/24/15
• 027. Ellie Saves a Female – 4/17/1961
  • While shopping the drugstore, Ellie notices the dowdy young Frankie Flint (Edris March), the daughter of a stern farmer (R.G. Armstrong) admiring the cosmetics but not buying any because her paw won’t let her. Ellie decides to bring some of them to her as a gift, but Andy advises against meddling in her affairs. She talks him into driving her to their farm, where he promptly declines the offer and tells Frankie to get back to work. Ellie becomes more resolute and convinces Barney to go retrieve her from the farm. Scared of Flint, he ends up sneaking her into town, where Ellie gives her a complete makeover. When Flint sees his daughter, he admits that she is pretty, but laments that she has no time for that since he has no sons to help with his farm. Andy shows him how the farmhands all are attracted to Frankie, and convinces him that if she gets married, he will have a new son-in-law to help with the farm… which finally changes his mind. Robert McQuain makes his first appearance on the show as one of Flint’s farmhands.  8/23/15
• 028. Andy Forecloses – 4/24/1961
  • Ben Weaver shows up at the Sheriff’s office demanding that Andy serve foreclosure papers to Lester (Sam Edwards) and Helen Scobey (Margaret Kerry) and their daughter Mary (Joy Ellison) because they are late with their $52.50 house payment. Andy and Barney raise the money for them, but Ben declines it and states that according to the terms of the mortgage, one defaulted payment means that they have to pay the balance of $780. Andy and the townspeople organize a fundraiser, but Ben, who wants the land to build a warehouse on, stymies their efforts and insists that Andy evict him. Andy and Ben go to the Scobeys, and Andy treats them especially inhumane… which makes Ben feel sorry for them and drop the foreclosure, even giving Lester a job in his factory. Meanwhile Andy teases Barney about his flirtation with Juanita, a girl who works at the truck stop. NOTE: The three actors portraying the Scobeys had previously been part of the Muggins family in the episode Christmas Story. NOTE: Bertha Edwards character name is now Clara Edwards. 8/23/15
• 029. Quiet Sam – 5/1/1961
  • Barney is highly suspicious of farmer Sam Becker (William Schallert), who comes into town and buys suspicious things like antiseptic and cotton without saying a word to anyone. Barney suspects that his is hiding someone who has been shot, and then after witnessing him planting at night, that he is planting marijuana. Andy gets Barney to back off, then later gets a call for an emergency at Sam’s farm. It turns out that Sam’s wife is pregnant and ready to deliver the baby. When Andy’s phone call to Barney gets interrupted, Barney assumes that Sam is holding Andy hostage and arranges to have a posse led by Floyd go to Sam’s. Barney arrives first and breaks in, only to find out the truth. Andy has to deliver the baby for the first time, but it pales in comparison to getting Sam to calm down… which he does by having him and Barney exchange Army stories. The town serenades the Becker family with She’ll Be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain. 11/21/15
• 030. Barney Gets His Man – 5/8/1961
  • When escaped convict Eddie Brooke (Barney Phillips) makes his way to Mayberry, and unknowing Barney confronts him for littering and as State Troopers Sgt. Johnson (Robert McQuain) and Sgt. Miller (Mike Steen) approach, he and Barney get tangled up on the ground, causing him to get caught and arrested. He promises vengeance against Barney, while the whole town sings his praises which Barney eats up. Unfortunately the troopers return to announce that Brooke has escaped again, sending Barney into a panic. Both Thelma Lou and Andy suggest that Barney leave town, but he refuses to flee in fear. Andy and Barney join the state troopers on a manhunt after Brooke’s stolen car is found on the outskirts of town. Andy spots Brooke inside an old barn, but pretends that he and the troopers are searching elsewhere and leaving Barney behind in the barn. Andy startles Barney into firing his weapon, causing Brooke to surrender… and Barney again getting credit for the arrest. 11/21/15
• 031. The Guitar Player Returns – 5/15/1961
  • Hometown guitar player Jim Lindsey returns to Mayberry, having made it big playing with Bobby Fleet and His Band with the Beat. The town, Barney especially, plans a hero’s return for him, but Bobby sneaks into town quietly for some rest and relaxation. While visiting with Andy, who joins him in playing Midnight Special and adding lyrics relevant to Mayberry, Jim is visited by a man (Thomas Browne Henry) who repossesses Jim’s car. Ellie starts to get suspicious when she notices that Jim has bought all of his groceries on credit, and Andy then finds out that Jim hasn’t paid for anything since he’s been in town. Andy calls up Bobby Fleet (now played by Herbert Ellis) and finds out that Jim’s head got too big and he wanted an equal partnership with him, but that he’d welcome Jim back to his band. Andy ends up arresting Jim to keep him from leaving town, and when Fleet pays his bills, Jim has no choice but to re-join the band… and Fleet gives him a raise to boot. 1/20/16
• 032. Bringing Up Opie – 5/22/1961
  • When Opie’s principal calls Aunt Bee to tell her that Opie has handcuffed Ralph Baker to the flagpole using cuffs that Barney gave him, Aunt Bee suggest that Opie be forbidden from hanging around the police station. It becomes clear that Andy and Barney both miss having Opie around, and Barney resorts to teaching Otis how to draw a gun. Opie is so bored that he agrees to plant spinach for Aunt Bee. Eventually he roams off, plays near an abandoned mine which collapses, fills up on apples that he trades for a can with a boy (Mike Brent), and falls asleep in a delivery truck which drives into Elm City. When Aunt Bee hears about all of the mischief Opie’s been in, she suggests that he spend more time with his father… by visiting him after school at the police station. 1/20/16

SEASON 2

• 033. Opie and the Bully – 10/2/1961
  • Andy is puzzled when he finds out that Opie has asked for a nickel for school milk from both him and Aunt Bee, and even more so when he finds out he has asked Barney for a nickel as well. When he questions Opie, he pretends to fall asleep before he can answer. Barney trails Opie to see if he can unlock the mystery and witnesses a bully named Sheldon (Terry Dickinson) threaten to punch Opie if he doesn’t give him money to ‘cross his street.’ Barney wants to solve the problem himself, but Andy wants to make sure that Opie is equipped to handle the issue himself. While fishing, Andy tells the story about a childhood bully named Hodie Snitch who tried to take away Andy’s secret fishing spot. Andy tells him that one day he had had enough and chose to just take Hodie’s punch – which didn’t hurt at all – and then laugh it off. The next day, Opie does just that, fights Sheldon, gets his money back, and comes home proud of his shiner. 4/2/16
• 034. Barney’s Replacement – 10/9/1961
  • The State Attorney’s office sends down a young hotshot lawyer named Bob Rogers (Mark Miller) to get some law enforcement experience and act as the sheriff’s deputy. With Andy recently criticizing Barney’s laziness in maintaining the bulletin board, Barney feels threatened by this and tries to avoid giving Bob any training. Bob however doesn’t seem to need any and proves to be an excellent deputy regardless, even creating a crime chart to predict the crimes in Mayberry. Barney’s paranoia of being replaced drives him to preemptively quit and take a job as a door-to-door Miracle Sweep vacuum cleaner salesman, where he has no luck whatsoever. Andy tries to convince him to come back but Barney’s pride won’t allow it. When Rogers points out that Barney never got a license to sell his vacuum cleaners, Andy gives him the go-ahead to arrest Barney, who gets so infuriated that Barney decides to come back and fight for his job. Andy tells Rogers that Barney is right about there being more to sheriffing than charts and graphs. As Rogers gets ready to leave Mayberry, Barney writes him a parking ticket… but then takes it back, teaching him a lesson about not being too technical. NOTE: Hope Summers’ character becomes Clara Johnson. 4/2/16
• 035. Andy and the Woman Speeder – 10/16/1961
  • After a fishing trip with Barney, Floyd, and Opie, Andy catches a female speeder from Washington D.C. named Elizabeth Crowley (Jean Hagen). She demands to see the Justice of the Peace, and when she finds out that it is also Andy, she starts to protest being swindled in a Mayberry speed trap. She beings racking up additional fines for contempt of court, but Andy settles on $25 total. She still refuses to pay it and demands that her case be heard in Mayor’s Court. She is held in the jail until she can go to trial, and is cared for by Aunt Bee. Elizabeth begins to butter up Floyd, Barney, and Opie to the point that they hedge on testifying against her in court. The Mayor dismisses the case, and a disappointed Andy sarcastically congratulates her on turning his friend, deputy, and son against him with her manipulation. Elizabeth feels bad and purposely speeds out of town. When Andy pulls her over again, she offers to pay the entire amount, finally showing him the respect he deserves. 7/3/16
• 036. Mayberry Goes Bankrupt – 10/23/1961
  • The Mayor and City Council vote to throw old Frank Myers (Andy Clyde) out of town for not paying his back taxes, but mostly because his run-down house has become an eyesore. Andy has the unpleasant task of serving the eviction notice, but after some persuasion from Opie, allows Frank to come stay with them. In going through his belongings to see what they might be able to sell, they find that Frank has a $100 bond issued by the city in 1861, which has now matured to $349,119.27. According to the town treasurer Harlan Fergus (Warren Parker), the town can’t come close to paying it. In lieu of payment, they decide to forgive the taxes, and end up personally working toward cleaning up Frank’s house. When they are done, they realize that the bond was issued when the city was under the Confederate States and was no longer valid. The Mayor is ready to evict Frank again, until Andy steps in and convinces them that neighborliness should rule out his debt, and that now that the house looks nice, the bank should be willing to make a loan to Frank. Jason Johnson is a town councilman. 7/3/16
• 037. Barney on the Rebound – 10/30/1961
  • Thelma Lou becomes irritated when Barney starts to show special attention to a newcomer in town, the attractive Melissa Stevens (Beverly Tyler), who has recently moved to Mayberry with her father George (Jackie Coogan). Thelma Lou says that if Barney is going to behave this way, then she will start seeing other men, driving him further into the arms of Melissa who is frequently inviting Barney to dinner. Melissa then interprets one of Barney’s comments as a marriage proposal, for which he has no interest. Andy helps Barney win back Thelma Lou, and Barney calls things off with Melissa, but soon George is threatening to sue Barney for breach of promise. When George pushes for a settlement, Andy begins to administer the wedding vows, but when Melissa expresses she doesn’t want to marry a ‘squirt’, it becomes clear that the whole thing was a ruse and Melissa is actually named Gladys and is married to George. Andy throws the Stevenses out of town. 9/23/16
• 038. Opie’s Hobo Friend – 11/13/1961
  • While fishing, Andy and Opie meet up with a drifter named David Browne (Buddy Ebsen), who Barney later arrests. Andy has sympathy for Browne and hires him to trim his bushes at home. Opie and Browne become friendly, but Browne’s advice to Opie about procrastination and skipping school to go fishing end up getting Opie into trouble. Barney is skeptical of Browne from the start, and after Opie’s behavior, Andy too is convinced and asks Browne to leave Mayberry. Browne agrees but visibly feels guilty when Andy how he has taught Opie a lot of bad habits, which all have to be undone. Barney later arrests Browne for stealing Aunt Bee’s purse, and when Opie finds out, he gives Browne back his special fish hook that he had given Opie, signaling that Opie is now rejecting him. Andy lets Browne out of jail, appreciative that Browne put on the act for Opie, which he knew since the purse he stole was one that Aunt Bee had recently thrown away. 9/23/16
• 039. Crime-Free Mayberry – 11/20/1961
  • Just as Barney is complaining about how behind-the-times they are, the Mayor arrives with Fred Jenkins (Edmon Ryan) from the FBI who proclaims that Mayberry is the most crime-free city in the United States. Although Andy is reluctant to take the credit, Barney eats up the attention, and the Mayor brings in reporter Margaret Williamson (Elisabeth Talbot-Martin) who mistakes Andy’s tale of catching a pike with him abusing a criminal. A photographer named Joe Layton (George Petrie) arrives in town and it is revealed that he and Jenkins are actually in cahoots to rob the town while Andy and Barney and everyone in town are going to attend an awards presentation where the officers will be presented a medal by Jenkins. Floyd hosts tours through the courthouse to see ‘world famous’ sheriff. Everyone in town gets carried away with Aunt Bee writing a book about the heroes, and another townsman writing a folk song about the officer. As Jenkins makes his speech to the city, Layton works on successfully breaking into the Mayberry Bank vault…only to find Andy inside to arrest him. Andy had figured it out when Layton took a picture of Jenkins shaking hands with Andy, remembering that FBI agents don’t allow their pictures to be taken. Stanley Farrar is Ray Watson. 12/20/16
• 040. The Perfect Female – 11/27/1961
  • Thelma Lou and Barney are determined to fix up Andy with Thelma Lou’s cousin Karen Moore (Gail Davis) from Arkansas, and to Barney’s surprise, Andy goes along willingly to the coffee shop to meet her. The two hit it off right away and go on a date, leading to a date of crow-shooting. Although Barney and Thelma Lou thinks that is strange, Karen is perfectly fine with it as she is a champion skeet shooter. During the date, she decides not to reveal her shooting ability and is content with Andy treating her like a woman. Another date at Andy’s house where Karen meets Aunt Bee and Opie and sings Sourwood Mountain with Andy goes well again.  However when Barney insinuates that Andy had been ‘auditioning’ her to be his mate, she gets irritated, and later soundly defeats him at the local skeet shooting contest. Andy is taken aback by her victory and is humbled when she yells at him about her ‘audition.’ Andy completely agrees and apologizes to Karen for his attitude. The two reconcile and go on a double date pistol shooting with Barney and Thelma Lou, where Barney makes a fool of himself with his mishandling of a gun. Al Hopson is the referee. 12/21/16 
• 041. Aunt Bee’s Brief Encounter – 12/4/1961
  • A handyman named Henry Wheeler (Edgar Buchanan) comes to town and is hired by Aunt Bee to tend to their rosebushes. Andy is skeptical, but finds Henry’s prices to be very fair so he allows him to stay for dinner and do some additional work around the house… and then stay with them for a while. Soon it becomes apparent that Henry has multiple excuses for getting out of the work he was hired to do, but he takes Aunt Bee out for a show and a soda. When the postman George Bricker (Doodles Weaver) notices how soft Henry’s hands are, Andy makes a call to Mt. Pilot Sheriff Mitchell (George Cisar), who knows him from posing as a handyman in his town, while simply taking advantage of the women and not doing any work. Andy solves the problem by insinuating that Aunt Bee expects to be married to him, prompting Henry to flee town quickly. When another handyman named Mr. Murray (Sherwood Keith) comes to town, one glance from Andy causes Aunt Bee to re-think hiring him as well. 4/2/17
• 042. The Clubmen – 12/11/1961
  • Andy’s friend Roger Courtney (George N. Neise) from Raleigh comes down to go fishing with Andy, and invites him to come to the capital and check out membership in the prestigious Esquire Club. Andy agrees but stipulates that he’s going to bring Barney along. Barney couldn’t be more excited at the prospect of joining the club, brags about it to everyone in town, and goes way overboard at attempting to impress the members of the club during their visit talking about finances and investments. While Barney is anxiously awaiting news about whether they were accepted, Roger and fellow member Tom Wilson (Ross Elliot) visit Andy and tell him that he’s been accepted, but that Barney wouldn’t fit in. Andy declines the offer, and then breaks the news to Barney, who assumes that it was Andy who wasn’t accepted. Andy doesn’t correct him, and Barney is enraged and pens a letter of protest. They settle on joining the the Tomahawks, run by president Opie. Brad Olson is John Danby. Robert McQuain is Jim Baker. 4/2/17
• 043. The Pickle Story – 12/18/1961
  • Clara is entering her pickles into the county fair contest after eleven years of victories, and convinces Aunt Bee that she too should enter… then realizes that Bee’s pickles are terrible. Andy, Opie, and Barney all share the same opinion that they taste like kerosene, and when Aunt Bee makes eight courts of them, they sneakily swap her pickles with store-bought pickles so they can bear to eat them. They end up going too far to compliment the pickles, to the point that Aunt Bee decides to not only continue to make more pickles, but to enter the pickles into the contest. At first Andy is willing to just let Bee win with the store pickles, but then realizes how much the contest means to Clara. In order to get Aunt Bee to actually enter her own pickles in the contest, Andy decides they need to eat all of the existing pickles so she will make more. Aunt Bee makes a new batch to enter into the contest, and Clara wins hands down. Bee isn’t discouraged though, knowing how much the boys love her pickles and promises to make a double batch for them. She later makes marmalade, and that tastes like kerosene too. Lee Krieger is the motorist from Oregon. Stanley Farrar and Warren Parker are fair judges. 10/26/17
• 044. Sheriff Barney – 12/25/1961
  • Having seen a write-up in the paper about how Andy Taylor is the best sheriff in the state and how he shares credit with his deputy Barney Fife, and in need of an interim sheriff in their town, Mayor Purdy (Ralph Dumke) of Greendale and his Councilman Dobbs (Dabbs Greer) visit Andy to offer Barney the job. Andy knows that Barney isn’t ready for that, but Barney jumps at the opportunity and accepts the offer. Opie gives Andy an idea about trading off jobs with Barney, prompting Andy to allow Barney to be the Sheriff of Mayberry for a day. Barney decides to crack the case of the Hollister still by questioning Otis while he is sleeping, but Otis just mocks him and gives him Barney’s address. Then Barney is forced to settle a dispute between feuding neighbors Osgood (Paul Bryar) and Welch (Orville Sherman) and ends up throwing them both in jail. When Andy returns he offers a practical solution to their problem. Barney feels bad and slinks out of the office. Meanwhile Rafe Hollister (Jack Prince) decides to turn himself in, and Andy suggest that he’ll give him better treatment if he surrenders to Barney to restore his confidence. Barney does in fact feel more confident, but decides not to accept the job. When Andy locks himself in the jail, Barney decides to have fun with him and make him wait to let him out… but ends up getting locked in the other cell himself. Jack Teagarden is a Greendale councilman. Joseph Hamilton is the checker player. Frank Warren is Art Crowley the grocer. 10/27/17
• 045. The Farmer Takes a Wife – 1/1/1962
  • Farmer Jeff Pruitt (Alan Hale Jr.) blow into town looking to find a wife, and begins by scoping out the ladies in town by lifting them up to check their weight. Andy puts a stop to that, and Barney arranges to bring him over to Thelma Lou’s house for her ‘hen party’ in hopes he can meet someone there. After looking over all of the women, he decides on Thelma Lou, much to Barney’s surprise and irritation. When Jeff begins courting her, Barney if fighting man, but Andy orders him not to pick a fight. Instead Andy hatches a plan with Thelma Lou, whereby she gives Jeff a shot, but insists that he behave like a gentleman by wearing a suit and eating dainty finger sandwiches for dinner. When Andy drops by and tells him that he has scoped out a house in town and domestic job for him, it proves to be more than he can stand, and he gets ready to abandon the notion. Barney shows up ready to fight, but Jeff simply storms out, which gives Barney another round of confidence… which he attempts to demonstrate on townsman Joe Waters (Robert McQuain) when he parks in front of the county courthouse. Andy smooths over the situation before Barney gets pummeled. Adoree Evans aka Rachael Romen is Mary. 6/1/18
• 046. The Keeper of the Flame – 1/8/1962
  • Opie joins the Wildcats club with his friends (Flip Mark, Mark Rodney, Terry Dickinson) and they make him the ‘keeper of the flame’, the sacred candle used at the meeting, and also make him swear to keep the club secret under threat of the ‘curse of the claw.’ The location of the meetings is in the barn of Jubal Foster (Everett Sloane), and he complains to Andy about the boys trespassing, identifying Opie as one of the boys. It becomes clear the next time he finds the boys in his barn that the reason he wants them out is because he has a still in his barn, which he accidentally sets on fire while tending the still. Jubal blames the boys for the fire, but Andy refuses to believe that Opie is involved…until he finds the candle and matches in his room. When Opie finally admits that he was at the barn, Andy resigns himself to the act that he’ll have to pay for the damage. As Andy is negotiating with Jubal for the cost of the barn, Barney drinks some of the bootleg alcohol and gets drunk. It becomes clear what actually happened and Jubal is arrested. Andy makes an apology to Opie, but makes it clear that Opie isn’t to play with matches and needs to modernize his position to the ‘keeper of the flashlight.’ Grace Lenard and Mark Rodney are the radio voices on Aunt Bee’s soap. 6/1/18
• 047. Bailey’s Bad Boy – 1/15/1962
  • Andy and Barney pull over a 19-year old Ronald Bailey (Bill Bixby), an entitled son of an influential rich man named J.J. Bailey, when he runs Fletch Dilbeck’s (Jon Lormer) produce truck off the road. When Bailey threatens the officers, they arrest him for leaving the scene of a crime. Bailey is repeatedly incredulous when Andy takes him fishing with Opie, when he witnesses Otis ‘checking into’ the jail, Barney singing Otis to sleep, and then closing the jail and taking Ronald to Sunday dinner with Aunt Bee. After dinner Opie admits that he broke a neighbor’s window, and Andy tells him he won’t get allowance until the window is paid for. Ronald thinks that the sheriff was too rough on him, but Andy explains that he is teaching Opie accountability. Bailey’s lawyer Arthur Harrington (John Graham) arrives and tries to get him released, but Andy says it will be two days before the judge can sentence him. The lawyer then brings Fletch Dilbeck in and he admits that the accident was all Fletch’s fault. Although Andy knowns that Dilbeck has been paid off, he has no choice but to release him. Ronald however is inspired by Andy’s advice about Opie and decides to accept the responsibility for his driving infraction. 1/5/19 
• 048. The Manicurist – 1/22/1962
  • As Andy, Barney, Floyd, the Mayor, Art, and Sam (Sherwood Keith) are sitting around Floyd’s shop discussing the merits of the simple life, they note a beautiful woman named Ellen Brown (Barbara Eden) getting off the bus and heading their way. They all talk big, but then flee in fear when she comes into the shop. She tells Andy and Floyd that she came to town because she was working as a manicurist and was tired of her boyfriend Pierre trying to force her to marry him, and was looking for a job in a small, friendly town like Mayberry. Floyd doesn’t think she’ll get any business, but agrees to let her work on commission. The men are attracted to the barbershop and enjoy looking at her, but everyone is too shy to get a manicure. When she overhears Andy poking fun of the fact that she hadn’t had any customers, she decides to leave and search for a more ‘friendly’ town. Andy feels bad and hires her to give him a manicure. Andy forces Barney to get one also, and soon all of the men are following suit. However once the wives take notice, they begin forcing their husbands to cancel their appointments. Andy tries to talk to her and tell her that by being a single attractive woman, she is threatening to the other women. She somehow mistakes this for a marriage proposal… but says she can neither marry him nor stay in town because she has decided to accept Pierre’s proposal. After she leaves town, Emma sets up in Floyd’s shop as the new manicurist. NOTE: Cheerio Meredith makes her last appearance, this time appearing as Emma Watson as opposed to Emma Brand. 1/5/19
• 049. The Jinx – 1/29/1962
  • Barney loses miserably while playing checkers at Floyd’s and blames it on the fact that Henry Bennett (John Qualen) was standing behind him, also pointing out other times that Henry’s presence seemed to cause bad luck, and thus rendering him a jinx. Henry feels insulted, so Andy vows to prove that Henry is not in fact a jinx and invites him to join Barney and him in their boat for the fishing contest on opening day. Barney is aghast and beings to look for counter-measures to warding of a jinx, including a rabbit’s foot and rubbing Opie’s hair. Although after a slow start, Andy starts to reel in a large fish, but to no avail… as the boat sink. Barney, Floyd, Sam, and Art start laying on the jinx business even thicker, to the point that Henry decides to leave town. At htis point everyone feels bad, so Andy concocts an idea for Henry to win the television raffle prize at the church social, but having everyone draw the same number, calling that number, but arranging for no one to claim the prize except for Henry, who has no confidence that he will win. When the number 44 is drawn, no one responds, and when asked what number Henry has, he in fact doesn’t have number 44 as he has drawn the hat size tag. Andy comes clean about the ruse, but he and Aunt Bee assure him that he is the luckiest man in the world to have friends that would willingly throw the contest on his behalf. Barney still has reservations about driving him home though. Later Andy has fun with Barney by accusing him of being a jinx when Andy is slaughtered in checkers by Opie while Barney was standing behind him. Sherman Sanders is Sandy, the square dance caller. Clint Howard appears unbilled at the dance. 1/5/20
• 050. Jailbreak – 2/5/1962
  • Detective Horton (Ken Lynch) from the State Bureau of Investigation shows up in Mayberry to speak to Andy about a high-profile payroll robber named Clarence “Doc” Molloy (Allan Melvin) on the run who they believe will be rendezvousing with his accomplice in Mayberry. Barney is insulted when Horton won’t share the information with anyone but Andy, and then further annoyed when he asks that the Sheriff’s department not interfere with the case in any way. Andy, although insulted when Horton refers to them as doing little more than catching chicken thieves, agrees to comply. When Molloy tries to make a run for it, Horton cages him the department’s cell, even though it means clearing out Floyd’s dog Sam (Red) that Barney had brought in for barking. Barney gets the idea that Molloy might confess to the whereabouts of the money and his partner if he poses as another criminal. While Molloy is sleeping, Barney sneaks into the cell and tries to get information out of him, while offering to help him escape. Molloy sees Barney’s picture in a newspaper clipping on the wall and gets wise to the scheme, ends up escaping and locking Barney up. Barney is inconsolable and refuses to be involved any more, heading to the dry cleaner H. Fred Goss (Fred Sherman) to get Sam’s hair cleaned out of his suit. While there, he and Andy learn from Goss that a woman had brought a suit in with the same dog hair to be cleaned. Deducing that this must’ve been Molloy’s suit and his girlfriend (Rita Kenaston), and identifying the woman’s car with a trailer hitch outside the shop, they track Molloy to the trailer park. They also discover that Molloy had taken Horton as prisoner. While Andy goes to get help, Barney drives off with Molloy’s car and trailer on a wild ride back to the Sheriff’s department, and are able to arrest the pair and vindicate themselves by rescuing Horton. All is well, except for a pair of newlyweds (Robert McQuain, Sally Mills) who complain about Barney peeping on them at the trailer park. 1/5/20
• 051. A Medal for Opie – 2/12/1962
  • Andy and Barney discuss the letter that Barney submitted asking for a raise as well as the upcoming Sheriff’s Boys Day, which they will be running. Opie signs up to enter the 50-yard dash, and Barney relates to him how proud is was of the medal he won in that event. Barney agrees to help Opie train, and Opie pours his heart into it, greatly desiring to win a medal of his own. On the day of the race, Opie comes in last place, and slinks off the field sulking. Andy tries to have a talk with him about being a good loser, but Opie stubbornly says he only wants to win, and refuses to congratulate his friends… which leads to Andy telling him that he is disappointed in him. Barney comes up with the idea to show what a sight a sore loser can be, and vows to pretend his raise is declined and then act like one in front of Opie. Before he can do this, Opie decides to listen to his Pa’s advice and not be a sore loser and to try again to win the following year, which makes Andy proud again. Barney then comes into the office and pretends to throw a tantrum about his raise. Opie leaves declaring that Barney is a ‘sight’, and a proud Barney thinks he did a great acting job. Andy then tells him that his raise was actually denied, causing Barney to throw a real fit. Later Barney tries to get his date Juanita to have a cheaper date by eating her TV dinners instead of going out for Chinese. She won’t have any of it, so Barney attempts to borrow some money from Opie, but his intentions gets mistaken and before he knows it, his words have been twisted to force him to buy dinner for Opie, Andy, Aunt Bee, and her friends. Pat Coghlan is Fred Stevenson. 4/19/20
• 052. Barney and the Choir – 2/19/1962
  • Just minutes after Andy complains to Aunt Bee about Barney’s off-key singing of the song Juanita as he does his chores at the station, the town’s choir director John Masters (Olan Soule) visits the station in a panic because Ralph Pritchard is dropping out of the choir. When Barney talks about the voice lessons he used to take, Masters invites Barney to take the position of the First Tenor. At the first practice, it becomes apparent that someone is hitting an off-key note, and although Barney offers to try and track down the source, it quickly becomes obvious to everyone except Barney that it is him. The choir tries to find time to practice their song Welcome Sweet Springtime without Barney around, but he keeps finding them. Thelma Lou joins Andy and Aunt Bee’s efforts to keep Barney from participating in the recital, first by telling him that he is sick and that his throat is red and swelled. However Barney visits a doctor and learns that he is perfectly healthy. Then everyone tries to get Barney to perform a speaking recitation during the song, but Barney can’t keep from singing. Finally they convince Barney that the microphone will blare his voice during his solo, so they get him to simply mouth the words and then have Glenn Cripe (Delos Jewkes) standing behind the curtain doing the actual singing in his baritone voice. Barney falls for it so hard that he is ready to keep singing in the choir, but Barney tells him that the Outstanding Performer award he received now makes him a professional singer, and thus no longer eligible to sing with the amateur. 4/21/20 
• 053. Guest of Honor – 2/26/1962
  • With Founder’s Day coming up, Andy presents an idea to promote it by choosing a random outsider who crosses into the city limits that day to honor as the town’s special guest, showering him with gifts and services from the merchants. Andy and Barney deputize Floyd, Art, and Sam for the festivities. Meanwhile thief and pickpocket Sheldon David (Jay Novello) is escorted out of Pierce County and heads toward Mayberry. He turns out the be the one stopped and presented with the key to the city, presenting himself as Thomas A. Moody so they don’t recognize him by name. During the opening ceremony, Andy becomes suspicious when everyone’s watch comes up missing. He calls around and finds out who ‘Moody’ really is. Andy and Barney keep an eye on his hotel room to make sure he doesn’t steal anymore. When Andy has to leave to do some work with the Reception Committee, he leaves Barney in charge. Barney decides to see if he can help rehabilitate David and goes into his room to talk to him, pontificating about the nature of trust and how the town trusts him to carry the keys of every business in town. He tempts David to steal his watch by putting it on the table, and when Barney turns around, he is gone. Barney thinks he has cured him of his kleptomania and that he has left town, but Andy points out that Barney’s keys are missing. Barney and Andy find him inside Barclay’s Jewelry Store loading up. They make the arrest and bring him back to the courthouse, and retrieve all of his stolen property… except for Barney’s badge which he swiped when he was put into the cell. Bill Hickman is the Pierce motorcycle cop. 8/1/20
• 054. The Merchant of Mayberry – 3/5/1962
  • Andy and Barney run into the amiable door-to-door merchandise salesman Bert Miller (Sterling Holloway), who is more concerned about appearing too pushy than he is selling goods. The crotchety Ben Weaver berates Andy for allowing him to sell goods on the street, which he claims interferes with his business. Andy decides to have some fun with Ben, so he sets Bert up with selling in a vacant lot so that he’s no longer ‘on the street’. Ben then complains that a business has to have a roof overhead, so Andy sets Bert up with an umbrella. Ben then states that he has to have a proper structure, so Andy gets some lumber from Raleigh and orders some merchandise on consignment from Steven’s Department Store in Mt. Pilot. Ben gets even more furious so to retaliate, he begins giving away free promotional items and slashing his prices, causing Bert to lose all of his business. Andy apologizes to Bert and tells him that the joke went too far, then helps him disassemble the stand and send the merchandise back to Steven’s. When Ben sees the Steve’s truck, he assumes that Bert has arranged a deal with Steven’s to sell in Mayberry. To avoid his competition moving in, he offers Bert a job at his store, and Andy brokers a deal for Ben to buy out Bert’s stand. When Barney tells Ben that he’s getting the best salesman in town, he maintains that it is Andy in fact who is the best salesman. Andy has one last joke on Ben when he tells him that there is another merchant now selling in the vacant lot. Ben is furious until he realizes that it is actually Opie selling lemonade. Sara Seeger is Katherine Palmer. Mary Lansing is Mrs. Mason. 8/1/20
• 055. Aunt Bee the Warden – 3/12/1962
  • Andy arrests the entire Gordon brothers gang, Junior (Paul Bakanas), Ike (Robert McQuain), Billy (Orville Sherman), and Sherman, who had been running a still at Franklin Hallow. Barney puts two of them in each of the cells, but when Otis stumbles into the police station expecting his own cell, the Gordon boys all want a piece of him thinking that he ratted them out because they raised their prices. Andy has no choice but to bring Otis back to his house and incarcerate him in the guest room. Aunt Bee is miffed that Andy is using the house like a prison, especially since she has Clara and Mary (Mary Lansing) over baking pies. Otis irritates her even further the next morning when he doesn’t want to wake up when she brings him breakfast. Aunt Bee starts putting him to work mowing the lawn, washing the windows, cutting wood, and doing the dishes. His hangover makes the work unbearable, but he also cannot return to the jail. Otis tries to escape a few times, but he is always thwarted by Aunt Bee. When it is time to release him, Aunt Bee has him dressed in a suit and makes him promise to quit drinking. Barney meanwhile has been trying to rehabilitate the Gordon brothers by giving them craft sets to work with. They use the metal set to make a master key and manage to escape. Andy and Barney catch them again but this time bring them to the now-notorious ‘rock’ at Andy’s house for rehabilitation. 11/15/20
• 056. The County Nurse – 3/19/1962
  • As Barney is showing Andy the finer points of karate, the local county nurse Mary Simpson (Julie Adams) stops by the station to tell them that she is going to try and get farmer Rafe Hollister to get his tetanus shot, thinking that if he takes it, the other resistant farmers will follow suit. Andy has an obvious crush on Mary, so the offers to take her up there and help convince him. However Rafe will have none of it, and demands that Andy take Mary off his property. Barney thinks he might do better by being forceful and treating Rafe like a child, but this prompts Rafe to fire his rifle at Barney. Andy then returns and arrests Rafe for using his gun, but Rafe is still resistant to Mary and the shot, even while in jail. Finally, Andy uses some reverse psychology to tell Rafe that he admires him for being a hero, whose death from infection will convince lots of other people to get a shot. Andy even sings him a funeral dirge, and says he will pay this tribute to him when they dedicate a statue of a dying Rafe Hollister in town. Rafe finally agrees to the shot so that he won’t die prematurely. As Barney laughs at Rafe for being so childish, Mary realizes that Barney hasn’t got his shot either, so Andy has to force him to roll up his sleeve and try and take it like a man as well. 11/16/20
• 057. Andy and Barney in the Big City – 3/26/1962
  • Andy and Barney head out to Raleigh for a couple of days to meet with Commissioner Hedges (Robert Carson) to request money for new equipment. Hedges doesn’t think that the board will approve it, since there have been very few high-profile arrests in Mayberry. Barney has noticed a woman (Ottola Nesmith) at the hotel who has some valuable jewelry, and he fingers a man (Allan Melvin) who seems to be following her. He thinks if he can make a bust, it will help secure the equipment request. The man, however, is actually house Detective Bardoli and is looking to keep her jewelry safe. There is however another thief in the hotel named C.J. Hasler (Les Tremayne) who Bardoli is watching out for. While Andy goes and checks out the lab equipment at the police station, Barney strikes up a conversation with Hasler and tells him his suspicions about Bardoli, which Hasler finds amusing. Hasler offers to help Barney, so the two of them break into the woman’s room to make sure nothing has been stolen, and while in there, Hasler does in fact steal the jewelry. Hasler claims he is with the newspaper and that he is leaving to get his photographer to put Barney’s picture in the paper, but before he can leave, Andy returns and recognizes him. He catches him red-handed with the jewelry, but gives the credit to Barney. Only Andy knows the truth about Barney’s erroneous suspicions, and that he has pushed Bardoli into a closet and locked him in. This news story seems to pave the way for men to get their new equipment. Arte Johnson is the hotel desk clerk. Peter Leeds is Sgt. Nelson. Thomas Myers is Officer Dean Friendly. Roger Til is the French waiter. 3/6/21
• 058. Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee – 4/2/1962
  • Aunt Bee and Clara pick up Andy’s clothes from the dry cleaner H. Fred Goss, and while there Fred flirts with Aunt Bee and drops hints about taking her to the dance. Andy has been using Opie as his ‘deputy’ since Barney is out of town, and decides to stay home with him and not go to the dance. After Clara makes remarks to Bee how it is difficult for Andy to find a wife while Bee is still living with them, Bee thinks it might be best if she does in fact get married, so she begins dating Fred. Although Andy thinks Fred is an unlikely match for Aunt Bee, he goes along with it and talks Fred up in order to not dissuade Aunt Bee if she is truly in love. Fred can seemingly talk of nothing but dry cleaning, difficult types of clothes to clean, and gossip about thinks he finds in and on the clothes that townsfolk bring in. Opie is curious about marriage and love, and Andy explains that people who marry have a ‘deep-down’ love for each other. That night after a date with Bee, Opie asks about that love, and Bee’s eyes well with tears as she struggles to say she is in love. Andy suddenly realizes that Aunt Bee is not in love after all, and is planning to marry for Andy’s sake. He tells her that she can’t get married unless she is truly in love. He helps her with breaking it off with Fred by telling Fred that Aunt Bee is buying some very hard-to-clean dresses. Clara is in the shop at the time, and agrees to go to the dance with Fred in lieu of Aunt Bee. 3/6/21
• 059. Three’s a Crowd – 4/9/1962
  • County nurse Mary Sampson (now played by Sue Ane Langdon) stops by the station, where Andy attempts to ask her out. Barney overhears and invites himself and Thelma Lou to come along to Mary’s house for an evening of music, featuring Barney on the bongos as they all sing Seeing Nellie Home. Thelma Lou finally picks up on the fact that Andy would like to be alone with Mary, so she insists Barney take her home. It’s only a short solution, however, because he returns after he drops her off. When Andy asks to visit with Mary again, Barney tries to arrange another foursome, but Andy reminds him that he was going to stay late and file the paperwork. Andy and Mary enjoy a nice night… until Barney starts phoning while searching for a letter, and then shows up at the house to show Andy that he’s finally found it. Andy then has a talk with Barney and tells him that he wants some alone time. Initially, Barney thinks that Andy wants time alone with him, but then finally gets the gist that Andy wants to be alone. He’s not upset, because he believes that Andy is going to propose to Mary. He starts spreading the word around town, and then arranges for half of the town to barge in on them after the ‘proposal’ for a celebratory party. As Andy and Mary are enjoying their evening and singing Red Rosy Bush, the townsfolk are heading to the house. They wind up missing Andy and Mary because they’ve gone for a moonlight drive. Barney and the gang end up tracking them down just as Andy is about to kiss Mary. They all throw a party around the car, so Andy just decides to court and kiss Mary publicly, while Barney is busy trying to pass out the potato salad. 7/3/21
• 060. The Bookie Barber – 4/16/1962
  • Aunt Bee brings Opie into the station so that Andy can accompany Opie to Floyd’s Barber Shop, since Opie is putting up a fight about getting a haircut. When they arrive, they find that Floyd is overwhelmed with customers, and flustered with how busy he has been. Floyd later gets a visit from a new guy in town named Bill Medwin (Herb Vigran), who says he’s semi-retired and wants to share a barbershop with Floyd, offering to forego a salary and just work on commission from the customers he brings in. Andy becomes suspicious when he spots the same three customers (Taggert Casey, Harry Swoger, Tom Monroe) visiting day after day. Then when he hears from Aunt Bee that Clara the operator has been listening to the phone calls that Bill gets about exotic sounding women who ‘show’ up at different ‘places’, Andy realizes that they are talking about placing and showing in horse races, realizing that Medwin must be a bookie. In fact, Andy is correct and Medwin has moved to Mayberry to escape the heat of the city police who was on his trail. Andy and Barney discuss how they are going to handle, and although Andy agrees that they need to send someone in to sting him, who he would never expect. Andy refuses to use one of their citizens, and doesn’t think they would be fooled by Barney. Later Barney takes it on himself to dress up like a woman and enter the barber shop and place a bet. Barney spies Medwin’s bag that likely contain the money and betting slips, but when he attempts to swipe it, the men catch him and won’t let him go. Opie and his friend Joey (Joe Stannard) have spotted Andy in the woman’s clothes and told Andy how funny he looks. Andy realizes what he is doing, and rushes over to the barber shop to rescue him. When he sees the money and slips on the floor, he has enough evidence to send him back to the police in the city. Floyd never gets wind of what Medwin has been doing, and merely suspects that he was making dates with multiple women. 7/3/
• 061. Andy on Trial – 4/23/1962
  • Andy goes into town to arrest a publisher named J. Howard Jackson (Roy Roberts) who recently got a speeding ticket in Mayberry and then didn’t show up for trial. Andy will not let him pay his fine without coming back to Mayberry for his day in court. Jackson angrily has his lawyer (Richard Vath) meet him there, and then becomes angrier when he finds out his ticket is only $15. Accusing Andy of being on a power trip, he threatens to get revenge, and then goes to work to assign ace female reporter Jean Boswell (Ruta Lee) to try and dig up dirt on Andy. She goes to Mayberry posing as a college student doing a thesis on the Sheriff’s department. Andy lets Barney show her around, and being smitten with her, he starts bragging and telling her how he runs a tight ship, whereas Andy is much more lax, and has used the squad car to deliver groceries. After the article gets published in one of Jackson’s newspapers, city attorney Roger Milton (Robert Brubaker) charges Andy with malfeasance and puts Barney in charge until a trial can be held with the Commissioner (Byron Morrow). Barney gets the surprise of his life when he is called to the stand, and realizes that it was his comments that started the trouble. After Milton backs Barney into a corner and admit the charges, Barney insists on his own speech, whereby he defends Andy by running the office with his heart, and explaining how he is a friend to everyone in town, thus precluding any major crimes in the city. The Commissioner quickly throws out the case. Later, Barney makes Andy promise to shut him up if he ever runs his mouth again, and it doesn’t take long when he starts to tell Thelma Lou how he got Andy out of the jam by making short order of the prosecutor. Sally Mansfield is Jackson’s secretary Miss Fenwick. 12/6/21
• 062. Cousin Virgil – 4/30/1962
  • Barney’s awkward and clumsy cousin Virgil (Michael J. Pollard) is coming form New Jersey for a visit, and Barney hopes that Andy will give him some odd jobs to do around the station. He assures Andy that Virgil’s clumsy days are over. However, the first sign of trouble comes quickly when the bus arrives without him. The bus driver (Rance Howard) says he was on the bus… but has disappeared. Andy and Barney set out in the squad car to look for him, and find him hiking his way to Mayberry, having missed the bus when he went to mail Barney a postcard – which he would have beaten to town – when the bus made a rest stop. Andy has Barney and Virgil over for dinner, and Virgil causes Andy to spill the roast in his lap, spills the water, and then drives the car through Andy’s garage. Andy doesn’t want Virgil anywhere near the station, but Barney convinces Andy to give him a chance. It is isn’t long before he has broken the glass in a bookcase. Barney gives Virgil a job he can’t fail at: polishing the cell keys. Otis has made Barney promise to let him out so he can go to a job interview, but it seems that Virgil has polished the grooves out of the keys, rendering them useless. Otis panics that he can’t get out of the cell for his interview. While Andy is looking for a solution, Opie shows up with a wood-carved dog and a cowboy and tells Andy that Virgil carved them. Andy is shocked and asked Virgil how he could make something so nice, since he is so clumsy. Virgil admits he has always had trouble performing any task when anyone is watching him. Andy has Otis turn his face to the wall, and Andy leaves the room, and tells Virgil to use the tools to free Otis. Sure enough, Virgil is able to remove the door from its hinges. Barney first sees this after he attached the outside window to his car, and tears out half of the wall. Later, Virgil head back by bus to New Jersey. Barney pontificates how someone so clumsy and unaware could be related to him since he always knows what is going on… just as he steps into the street and is nearly run over by a car. 12/6/21
• 063. Deputy Otis – 5/7/1962
  • One morning upon arrival to work, both Andy and Barney realize they’ve both forgotten their keys to the courthouse, but Otis, who checked himself in overnight, is able to let them in. Otis also gets a litter from his sister-in-law Verlaine (Amzie Strickland) letting him know that she and Otis’s brother Ralph (Stanley Adams) are coming for a visit on their way to Memphis. When Verlaine mentions in her letter that Otis has the ability to ‘fix’ any traffic tickets they might get, Andy and Barney want to know what that means. Otis admits that he has sent them letters while in jail using the police station stationary and told them that he was working for Andy. Although Barney is deadset against it, when Otis tells them how his brother has always outshined him, Andy agrees to deputize Otis while they are in town. When Andy is insistent, Barney makes Otis vow to not take a drink while he is in uniform, so Otis promises. Even Otis’s wife Rita (Dorothy Neumann) is incredulous, and she tells Otis that if he is a deputy, it is his duty to seize any contraband, including his own, so he is forced to pour his own liquor down the drain. Ralph and Verlaine arrive, but Ralph is skeptical. After dinner one night, Ralph disappears, and Otis fears that he is going around town and talking to Otis’s friends to find out the truth about him. However, he is actually getting drunk himself, and he wanders into the station and locks himself in the cell, just like Otis did. Otis tells him Ralph that he has embarrassed him by behaving that way in front of his friends, so Ralph vows that if Otis can sober up, then he can as well. Days after Ralph and Verlaine leave town, Otis is still wearing the uniform. He shows up at the courthouse looking drunk once again, but when Andy and Barney berate him, Otis says he didn’t drink anything; he merely attempted to walk from home to the courthouse with his stomach sucked in. 5/9/22 

SEASON 3

• 064. Mr. McBeevee – 10/1/1962
  • One morning Opie is playing cowboys in the backyard by himself and his imaginary horse Blackie. Andy plays along, and they tie up the ‘horse’ to the hitching post before breakfast. When Barney stops by on the way to work, Opie tells him about the horse, and he is excited to meet Blackie, then gets angry when it turns out that the horse is imaginary. Later that day, Opie tells Andy and Barney about his new friend from the woods, who wears a silver hat and walks along the tops of the trees. They both assume he is once again making up a friend, but Andy starts to get concerned when Opie brings home a hatchet, and then a quarter, that he says McBeevee game to him. Barney thinks that McBeevee might be real, as Opie has named many details of the man, but when Opie’s description keeps getting stranger – especially when he says that Mr. McBeevee can blow smoke out of his ears, Andy starts to try to get Opie to admit that he made McBeevee up. Opie tries to take him to meet Mr. McBeevee, but when they get there, he is gone. Andy takes Opie home and threatens him with a whipping if he doesn’t start telling the truth and admit that he has made up the man, and is using him as an excuse to get out of work, and to explain things he’s bringing home seemingly out of thin air. Opie will not admit that he has made him up, and refuses to say it. When Andy look him in the eye, he is unable to punish him and instead tells him that he believes him. When Barney criticizes him for letting Opie live in a dream world, Andy says he may not believe in Mr. McBeevee, but he believes in Opie. Andy wanders out to the site where Opie said McBeevee can be found, and sure enough he finally finds him. McBeevee (Karl Svenson) works in the trees for the phone company, wears a shiny hard hat, and showed Opie a magic trick that made it appear that cigarette smoke was coming out of his ears. When Andy rushes back to tell Barney that Mr. McBeevve indeed is real, Barney thinks Andy is working too hard and calls the doctor. He tries to humor Andy… all the way up until Mr. McBeevee calls and speaks to Barney to confirm his dinner plans with the Taylors for that night. NOTE: Thurston Holmes is credited with being in this episode, but does not appear. 5/10/22
• 065. Andy’s Rich Girlfriend – 10/8/1962
  • Andy goes out on a double date with a new girl named Peggy McMillan (Joanna Moore) and Barney and Thelma Lou. They have dinner together and then go on a drive to the duck pond as the sun goes down. Andy walks Peggy home and they make a date for two nights later. The next morning Andy stops by her place before she goes to work at the hospital to drop off a compact that she left in the squad car. He notices that Peggy has a brand new car, which she tells him that her father bought for her. He is the owner of the R&M Grain Elevator in Raleigh and is obviously quite wealthy. When Andy tells Barney about this, Barney warns him that their relationship won’t work since a rich girl has exhausted much of her excitement and thrills in her younger days, and now wants an average Joe to pal around with. Andy doesn’t heed the warning, and takes her on a date to an expensive restaurant in Raleigh. Andy is like a fish out of water when she orders a fancy Sazerac drink and escargot, and he also shies away from dancing the tango. Having had a miserable time on the date, he begins avoiding Peggy and her phone calls to the house. Finally she runs into him at the station, and he tells her that he’s just been busy and had things on his mind. She agrees to let it go, but when she asks him if they are on for a date that night, he puts her off again. She realizes he is definitely avoiding her and storms off. That night Andy goes back to the lake by himself, where he finds her there throwing rocks into the water. She tells him that she figured out that he is intimidated by her background, but he is being a snob by blowing her off just because he thinks she can’t enjoy a quiet life in Mayberry. She tells him that the night she spend double dating with him was one of the nicest nights she’s had in recent memory. Andy skips some rocks for her and they spend the rest of the evening together walking with their arms around each other. The next day he tells Barney how nice the night was, and although Barney is glad it worked out, he reminds Andy he should play the field. To prove the point, Barney calls up Juanita to ask her out on a date, but when Andy tells Barney that Thelma Lou is coming into the station, Barney panics and hangs up the phone… only to realize that it is only Aunt Bee. Donald Lawton is the waiter who takes the order. NOTE: Warner Jones is credit in this episode but does not appear. 9/4/22
• 066. Andy and the New Mayor – 10/15/1962
  • Barney calls Juanita at the diner to try and make a date to park at the duck pond, and then puts on some after shave cologne that everything think smells like paint. Andy shows up late after he and Opie had been fishing. The new Mayor Roy Stoner (Parley Baer) calls Andy to yell about him being late for a meeting at his office, and then demands that he come and see him right away. While he is out, Barney agrees to watch the baby boy Jeremy for Mrs. Ambrose (Janet Stewart). Juanita then calls back, and Barney gives Opie money so that he can scat and go buy a licorice whip, and has Opie leave his fish in Barney’s desk drawer. Meanwhile the Mayor has a lot of changes he wants Andy to make, starting with having him carry his gun. Then he goes to the station to check out Barney’s paperwork. He encounters Barney’s cologne, Jeremy the baby, and the fish in his desk drawer, and then is even more aghast when Andy allows Mrs. Morgan (Helen Kleeb) to come pick up her husband Jess (Roy Engel) so he can go home and harvest his crops, then come back in three days to finish his sentence. The Mayor demands that Jess finish his sentence immediately, and although Andy agrees, he lets Jess go anyway. Barney is a nervous wreck that the Mayor will stop by and see that Jess is gone, so when the Mayor does in fact stop by two days later, Barney locks himself in the cell and throws himself under the covers so that it will appear that Jess is there. The Mayor goes to see Andy at home on his lunch hour to tell him that no one is at the jail – meaning Barney, but Andy thinks he means Jess and confesses that he let Jess go home like he originally said. The Mayor then goes and screams at Barney to come out of the cell, and yells at Andy, threatening to give him a bad write-up in his report to the Governor. Andy tells the Mayor that he trusts that Jess will return at 5pm that afternoon, so the Mayor waits to see if he does. When Jess is nearly a half-hour late, they all go out to see what is keeping Jess at his home. It turns out that he is up a tree, and when the Mayor tries to go up after him, it becomes apparent why: there is a bear at the base of the tree. The Mayor climbs the tree, and Andy and Barney jump on top of the squad car, which the bear then enters. Andy blames the whole thing on the Mayor not trusting him. Later, Barney is finally ready to go on his date to the duck pond with Juanita, but Andy tells Barney that the Mayor has another job for him: to put up NO PARKING signs at the duck pond to eliminate all of the parking going on. 9/5/22
• 067. Andy and Opie – Bachelors – 10/22/1962
  • Aunt Bee is leaving on a bus to go visit her Aunt Louise for a few days, and as she tries to give Andy and Opie instructions as she boards the bus, she also asks bystander Peggy McMillan to help take care of them while she is gone. Floyd overhears this and tries to convince Andy to be careful because someone like Peggy could easily be trying to move in and become Andy’s wife. Andy just laughs him off, but when she shows up and cooks a lovely candlelight dinner for the boys, then sticks around while they sing Down in the Valley on the front porch, and then takes Opie to bed and tucks him in, Andy starts to remember what Floyd had said. With Barney also on vacation in Raleigh, Floyd comes and hangs around with Andy at the station and continues to put ideas in Andy’s head, especially when Peggy comes and brings Andy lunch at the station. Andy tells her that she has gone way above and beyond the call of duty to help them, and then asks her to put on the brakes so they’re not taking advantage. As Floyd leaves the office, he hums The Wedding Song. When Opie says it’s almost like Andy and Peggy are married, Andy double downs on his effort to keep Peggy away. He calls Peggy and asks her to stay away so that Andy and Opie can have a night alone, eating burnt hot dogs and beans. Andy and Opie have a hard time coming up with conversation among themselves, but then Peggy shows up to check on them and sees the pathetic meal they had. Peggy offers to cook some more food, and Andy finally asks why she is doing this for them. She tells Andy that she feels sorry for a couple of bachelors, especially since Andy can’t cook, and that she enjoys doing it. Andy realizes now that he and Opie and Andy enjoy talking and singing when there’s a woman in the house. He says he’s done listening to Floyd, and they’re going to enjoy themselves… and that’s all there is to it. Floyd finally realizes that there won’t be any wedding bells, but when Peggy drops by to tell Anyy that she’s brought him lunch again, Floyd is ready to start the rumor mill all over again. Ray Lanier is the bus driver. 12/23/22
• 068. The Cow Thief – 10/29/1962
  • Andy and Barney are called to the scene of a stolen cow on the farm of the crotchety Tate Fletcher (Jon Lormer). Mayor Stoner also shows up on the scene, telling Andy that something needs to be done about this and a cow that was previously stolen from another farmer. He says he plans to call the state capitol and bring in a real crime solver named William Upchurch (Ralph Bell), much to the irritation of Andy and the outrage of Barney. Meanwhile, Andy notices that a vagrant named Luke Jensen (Malcolm Atterbury) and his dog Mack have shown up back in town and gives him a warning about taking anything from a product display outside a store. He tells Andy that he has no money to buy anything, but then later flashes a wad of cash to Mack. Upchurch from the state’s Special Investigations unit and examines the crime scene. Despite his earlier opinions, Barney takes a liking to Upchurch when he compliments Barney. Upchurch takes a look at the six footprints that had been left behind and comes to the conclusion that it was the work of a gang of three men. Later, Luke steals another cow named Lady, on which he has put human shoes on the cow to leave its own footprints. Upchurch makes plaster castings of the shoe that would have been used during the robbery, coming to the conclusion that two of them were the larger men. Andy is skeptical of the findings and has some ideas of his own. He gets with Tate Fletcher and has him park his truck with his new cow in town, and then they discuss the case in front of Jensen when he passes by, indicating that Fletch has a new prize cow, that they suspect a gang of six men, and that Andy will be working late in the office that night. He then stakes out Luke’s farm, calling in Upchurch, the Mayor, and Barney. The mayor scoffs at Andy’s ideas, even after questioning where the cow’s footprints are along with those left by the six shoes. The mayor still thinks it is a waste of time and leaves with the other men. Barney then returns and says he’s staying out of his respect for Andy. Sure enough, Luke is caught onsite trying to take the new cow… but accidentally getting tangled up with Fletch’s bull. 12/23/22
• 069. Barney Mends a Broken Heart – 11/5/1962
  • When Andy goes to meet his date Peggy at her house, she finds her entertaining an old male school friend named Don (Fred Beir) who dropped in unexpectedly. When Peg refuses to leave with Andy, he storms off. Andy returns to the station, where Barney presses him to tell him why he’s not on his date with Peg. Andy doesn’t want to talk about it, but he can see there’s a problem between them. Andy heads home, and Barney immediately goes to work on trying to set him up with another woman. He calls Thelma Lou and arranges for a woman named Lydia Crosswaithe (Josie Lloyd) from Greensboro to join him and Thelma Lou in blindly stopping over at Andy’s house to play cards. Lydia is a wallflower who hates the outdoors, guitars, and chit chat. She has no idea how to play Bridge. Andy pushes them out the door as quickly as he can, but Barney vows that even though this wasn’t the one, he’d continue his search. Later he calls up a girl named Skippy (Joyce Jameson) from Mount Pilot that he met a few weeks earlier at the Tip Top Cafe. He offers to meet her and asks her to bring along her friend Daphne (Jean Carson). Barney then tells Andy that he has heard that the Tip Top Cafe was selling liquor to customers and that they should investigate. Once they get there and observe for a while, Andy is ready to leave, but then Skippy and Daphne show up. Andy realizes what is going on, but he is unable to gracefully get out of it. Daphne is particularly abrasive, as well as annoyed that Andy doesn’t want to go out and do anything fun. Then Al (Michael Ross), one of Daphne’s boyfriends, shows up and starts yelling at her. When he starts getting rough with Barney, Andy steps in and winds up getting a black eye. Barney apologizes to Andy, and Andy warns him to not try and help Andy solve his problems because he always messes things up. Peg stops in at the station to drop of some school vaccination reports. When Peg sees Andy’s eye, she feels terrible and tries to nurse it. They both apologize to each other for the way they behaved the night before and give each other a reconciliation hug. 6/14/23
• 070. Lawman Barney – 11/12/1962
  • Barney catches two guys named Neal (Allan Melvin) and Matt (Orville Sherman) selling fruits and vegetables illegally on the side of the road. When Barney tells them to move along, he haughtily tells them to move along. They don’t care for Barney’s attitude so they stand-up to him, tease him, and run him off. Barney goes back to the station in a depressed state of mind but won’t tell Andy what’s wrong. Later, Andy happens upon the same guys and humbly tells them to move along as well. The guys try to give him the same lip service as they did Barney, but he sternly stands by his words. The guys realize Andy means business, so they start backing up, and mention that ‘this one’ isn’t joking. When Andy asks what they mean by that, the guys tell him about the skinny clown that was waving his arms around like a braggart. Andy tells the guys that Barney only acts scared, but then sets them up for the kill. Andy goes back to the office and sends Barney to tells the vendors to move out. Barney reluctantly goes, and this time they sing a different tune and rush off. However, when the guys stop by Wally’s (Norman Leavitt) Service Station, they overhear the guys the guys there making fun of Barney. When they hear this, they tell them to relay a message to Barney that they are back in business and want him for a customer. Barney overhears Floyd, but Andy tells him that he’ll handle it. He has no intention of bringing a gun and tells Barney that he lets the badge do the talking. Barney then asks him if he can go along, but as they approach the vendors, Barney asks Andy to get out of the car so that he can handle the guys themselves. They try their same intimidation tactics , but this time Barney won’t back down, telling them that he is the Deputy Sheriff and intends to uphold the law, and that that the badge represents a lot of people who are bigger than them. Eventually the back down and pack up, leaving Barney to breathe a huge sigh of relief and making Andy proud. Barney shows how he would have used his gun if they hadn’t complied, and as he’s showing off, he shoots a hole in the tire of the squad car. 6/14/23
• 071. The Mayberry Band – 11/19/1962
  • A group of guys from the Mayberry Band get haircuts as they prepare to head out for their annual trip to Raleigh for the Band Festival. Floyd doesn’t even have time to work in Jubal (Burt Mustin) for a cut, even though is hair is getting tight. Barney comes in and asks Andy to stop by the office before he goes to the City Council meeting, so that he can surprise him by showing him that he has bought his own set of cymbals and wants to come along to the festival as well. On the way, they recognize Freddy Fleet (Joseph Sirola) and his new horn player Phil Sunkel (William Eben Stephens), who are part of a jazz band, and are passing through Mayberry on their way to a gig that night in Raleigh. Once Andy hears Barney crash the cymbals, he offers him the spot as a ‘stand-by cymbalist’ so he doesn’t have to hear him crash the cymbals anymore. When Andy gets to the Town Council meeting, he finds out that Mayor Stoner has decided not to fund the band’s trip to Raleigh because he thinks they are terrible and an embarrassment to Mayberry. Andy promises to work with the band and pleads with the Mayor to stop by and have a listen at their new work. When he stops by, the band plays their horrible rendition of The Stars and Stripes Forever. The Mayor stands by his original decision not to fund the band. Andy then gets another idea and tells the Mayor that he wansts him to hear the band while they are actually marching. Andy the forces Freddy Fleet’s band to remain in town until they get their bags inspected for bugs, which is clearly a way to get them to stay in town despite their objection that they have to be on their way to Raleigh. Freddy and the boys can see that they’ve been beaten, so they agree to work with the town band. Andy has some of them dress up like the band members, and they march around town, pretending to be members of the Mayberry Band and play a terrific, rousing rendition of The Stars and Stripes Forever. As the band rounds the corner, they change into their old clothes and return the band uniforms to their rightful owners. By the time they circle the building, the Mayor can’t believe how much they’ve improved. Although he questions soo new faces, as well as facial hair he hadn’t seen before, the agrees that they will pay for them to go to Raleigh. After Freddy Fleet and his men ride out of town, and the Mayberry band boards the bus, the sheriff hears them all playing on the bus in their own terrible fashion. When they all return, Andy admits that they were clearly the worst band once again. Barney says he will practice his cymbals with all of his heart, but Andy begs him not to bang them again, saying he can’t bear to listen to another instrument for a while. Unfortunately, Opie delivers the news that he just won a bugle at the movie house. Thom Carney is band member Burly Peters. Sherwood Keith is Merle, town councilman. Norman Leavitt is Ralph, town councilman. Frank Levya is Carl. 10/9/23
• 072. Floyd, the Gay Deceiver – 11/26/1962
  • When Andy stops at Floyd’s shop for a haircut, he notices that Floyd has received a piece of mail addressed to Floyd Lawson Enterprises. Andy asks him about it, but Floyd plays coy and doesn’t offer any information. However, once he reads the letter, he nearly darts out of the place and says he’s going to leave for Nashville. Andy finally get it out of him that he has found a wealthy widow pen pal named Madelyn Grayson (Doris Dowling) in the Lonely Hearts Correspondence Club and has fibbed to her that he is millionaire businessman. Now she is coming for a visit, and he is panicking and angry with himself for the lies. He asks Andy if he will help him to pretend to be just what he says he is. Andy doesn’t think that is ethical and refuses. However, when Floyd tells Andy that he is going to go to Nashville, and might never come back, Andy reluctantly agrees to help him. Andy surmises that Madelyn might be lying about being rich as well. Andy agrees to let Floyd use the Devereaux house that he’s watching while they’re out of town in order to make him look rich. Andy get Aunt Bee to act as if she is Floyd’s housekeeper. Andy seems to be proven wrong when Madelyn shows up and looks just like she did in the picture and brings her fancy car along. When Madelyn questions who Andy is, Andy tells her that he is Floyd’s son. When Opie shows up calling Andy ‘Pa’, Andy tells her that Opie is his little brother, and that he was calling him by his middle name: Andy Paul Lawson. Their plans seem to be going well, until Madelyn tells Floyd she’d like to stay for a week with him and his ‘boys’. Floyd again panics and says he’s going to Nashville again. Andy realizes it is time to tells her the truth. She tells Madelyn that he’s not Floyd’s son, but rather the local sheriff. Madelyn thinks that Andy is on to her, and she admits that she is phony herself, and often tries to win the affections of rich men and get money out of them. Madelyn thinks Andy is going to arrest her, but he says he has nothing on her, and tells her that she should just get in her car and drive away, warning her that the next guy she tries to con might have a sheriff for a son. When Andy tries to tell Floyd the truth about Madelyn, Floyd tells Andy that he couldn’t stand if he had hurt her, so Andy decides to keep the truth to himself. Later, back at the barber shop, Andy sees that Floyd receives another letter, this time addressed to Floyd Lawson, care of Lawson Pictures Incorporated. Floyd swears it was from a long time ago… before he learned his lesson. 10/9/23
• 073. Opie’s Rival – 12/3/1962
  • Andy and Opie have a great time fishing and camping out, so much so that Opie asks his father to be his ‘blood brother’. They seal the deal by using some of the campfire ash. After they return to town, Andy and Opie run into Andy’s new love interest Peggy, and Opie brags about the huge fish that he caught. When Peggy mentions that she likes fishing, Andy invites her to come along on their next fishing trip, as Opie silently stews about having an outsider interrupting their time together. Opie is annoyed by Andy’s flirtation with her when they go on the trip, and the fact that even though Opie catches an even bigger fish than the one he did before, Andy makes a big over Peggy’s much smaller fish. Opie silently throws his big catch back into the water. Back home, the next time Andy plans to head out on a date with Peggy, Opie pretends that he has terrible stomach pains, causing Andy to call Peggy and cancel the date. When Opie is later hanging out at the courthouse and Peggy stops by, Opie tells her that he was never sick at all. She leaves a message with Opie to tell Andy to pick her up for their date that night at the drugstore rather than at her house. Opie makes sure that the note is ‘accidentally’ deposited in the wastebasket. While Andy is outside her house waiting for her, Peggy phones Andy’s house and talks to Aunt Bee, who tells her that she’ll give him the message if she hears from him. Aunt Bee then runs over to her friend Katherine Palmer’s house and asks Opie to give his father the message if he calls. When Andy calls, Opie conveniently forgets to a pass along the information. The next time Andy sees Peggy, she reads him the riot act about lying to her about Opie’s illness and then not picking her up at the drugstore. She tells him she never wants to see him again, which sends Andy into a depression. When Opie sees how sad he is, he confesses that he orchestrated the entire thing because he was afraid that if he started to like her more than him, he would lose his father. Andy assures him that he loves Opie more than anyone in the world since he is a part of him and that no one will ever take him away from him. He also tells Opie that he needs female companionship, and that Barney doesn’t cut it as a romantic date. Opie understands, and then asks his father to take him fishing again. On the morning of the next trip, Andy is surprised when Opie disappears and then returns after inviting Peggy to go along. He has covered her arm in ash and made her one of the ‘blood brothers’. As they enjoy the afternoon while singing the folk song Cindy, Opie asks Peggy if she loves his father, and then explains that his father needs female companionship, and may one day get re-married. She may be the one, or she might not be. Andy tries to shush him as best as he can. 2/9/24
• 074. Convicts-at-Large – 12/10/1962
  • Three female convicts named Big Maude Tyler (Reta Shaw), Naomi Connors (Jean Carson), and Sally (Jane Dulo) escape from prison, and Andy listens to an APB on the ladies. Meanwhile, Barney and Floyd are out on an excursion when their car runs out of gas. They hike over to the old cabin of Charlie O’Malley (Willis Bouchey) where the convicts are hiding out. Maude takes charge of the situation and invites the guys in when they ask to borrow some of O’Malley’s gas. Barney recognizes them as convicts, but Floyd gives away the fact that Barney’s gun isn’t loaded, and he is only allowed to carry one bullet. After Maude takes away his bullet, he forces Barney to call into the station and tells the Sherff that he’s going to stay the night with O’Malley. Barney reminds the girls of a character named Al, who once squealed on them, so they begin calling him by that name. Andy says he thought O’Malley was in Detroit, but Barney assures him that he’s home now. The girls force the guys to dance with them, and then decide they need to go pick up groceries. Floyd accompanies Sally into town under threat that they’ll shoot “Al” if he tries anything funny. Andy spots Floyd in town and comments on how they are staying with O’Malley. Floyd tries to signal him that he’s with one of the convicts in the car, but Andy doesn’t get the message. However, when Andy sees O’Malley returning from Detroit on the bus, he suddenly realizes something fishy is going on. He drives O’Malley back to his cabin and the two scope out what is going on. When Naomi comes outside to get water from the pump, Andy throws handcuffs on her while O’Malley gags her. Then when Maude sends Sally to check on Naomi, they arrest her too. Andy makes his presence known to Barney and asks him to get Maude outside. Barney feigns romantic interest in her and asks her to dance, then dances her right out the front door, where she is arrested. Once the ordeal is over, Barney laughs about how the general public – namely Floyd – is clueless on what to do in an emergency scenario. Naturally, Barney brags that he was on top of things all along. Barney then gets the newspaper and sees the headline about the local barber who captured the escaped convicts. 2/9/24

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