List of The Andy Griffith Show episodes

This is a list of episodes from the CBS television comedy The Andy Griffith Show. The first episode aired on October 3, 1960 and the final episode aired on April 1, 1968. There were 249 episodes in all, 159 in black and white (seasons 1-5) and 90 in color (seasons 6-8).

Episode order

Episodes below are listed in their production order, not their original broadcast order. Production order is the order most commonly used for The Andy Griffith Show because it is the order used by the show's syndicator, Paramount Pictures.

Season 1 (1960–1961)

32 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
001	001	October 3, 1960	The New Housekeeper
Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) and his young son Opie (Ron Howard) are in need of a new housekeeper. Andy's Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) looks like the perfect candidate and moves in, but her presence causes friction with Opie. The first line of The Andy Griffith Show: "Anybody here know why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace." This is the only episode in which Andy is shown owning a pickup truck. Opie has a pet bird (Dickey); a pet dog (Gulliver); and a pet lizard (Oscar). Since Frances Bavier's early years were spent on the Broadway stage, it is difficult to find images of the young Aunt Bee. A framed publicity photo of the ingenue Bavier can be seen hanging in the Taylor living room.
002	002	October 10, 1960	The Manhunt
Andy and his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), offer to help track down an escaped convict, but the Captain of the State Police scoffs at the small-town sheriff's help. Andy wears a gun in this episode. Otis Campbell (Hal Smith) makes his first appearance in this episode. Andy and Barney's squad car is a Ford Galaxie. Dirksen's mug shot number is 74582. His prison uniform number is 26043. This is the only episode in which Barney's mother is shown. Her only line is "But Barney, I'm your mother!" Emma Brand suffers from sciatica. The afflication causes pain in the back and hips. Barney accidentally shoots off his gun in his holster for the first time in this episode. The music that would soon become known as Barney's theme, "The Manhunt", is played as the state police arrive in Mayberry.
003	003	October 17, 1960	The Guitar Player
A gifted guitar player who has self-doubts about his musical talent gets a chance at stardom - with a little push from Andy. The guitar player is played by James Best, who later played Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard. Jim Lindsey buys his guitar picks in Winston-Salem. It is interesting to note that Jim Lindsey gets electric guitar sounds out of an acoustic guitar with no amplifier. Andy makes a reference to Elvis Presley in this episode. It is implied that Jim Lindsey is illiterate (when Jim and Andy are talking in the jail cell, Andy states that it would nice to have the "folding" kind of money, and having folks asking for autographs. It would be worth learning how to write just for that.) A one-man band from Altoona, Pennsylvania is said to have passed through Mayberry. Barney gets down to the sounds of Jim Lindsey and Bobby Fleet & His Band With A Beat.
004	006	November 7, 1960	Runaway Kid
Andy teaches Opie about how important it is to keep a promise, only to have that lesson conflict with his need to help Opie's friend who ran away from home. This is the last episode where any references are made about Andy and Barney being cousins. Barney is said to own an automobile in this episode. This bit of information causes a discrepancy with the premise of the storyline in episode 90, "Barney's First Car". The Mayberry Hotel was built in 1878. George "Tex" Foley from nearby Eastmont is passing through Mayberry on his way to Texas, where he plans to become a cowboy. Tex also considered running away to Wyoming. Opie has a pet frog. George Foley was born in August.
006	004	October 24, 1960	Ellie Comes to Town
When Mayberry's local pharmacist falls ill, his niece Ellie Walker steps in as a temporary replacement - and creates turmoil with the town's resident hypochondriac. This is the first appearance of Ellie Walker, played by Elinor Donahue who was fresh from her popular role as Betty on Father Knows Best. Andy states that he was in France during World War II. (He mentions this fact again in episode 8 - A Feud Is A Feud). Ellie's degree in pharmacy is known as a Ph. G. Andy asks her if the initials stand for "Pharmacy Gal." Ellie's diploma bears the (fictitious) name "Bernard University". Fred Walker keeps the key to the drugstore above the front door. Fred Walker has been giving Emma Brand sugar pills for 10¢. Walker's Drugstore is located across the street from the courthouse. Ellie and Opie make faces at each other in the drugstore window.
007	005	October 31, 1960	Irresistible Andy
It's the annual church picnic, and when Andy invites Ellie to the event, he begins to suspect that she has marriage on her mind - so he hastily arranges for three of Mayberry's most eligible bachelors to lavish attention on her. Andy tells Barney that his "salt and pepper" suit makes him look like the Adolphe Menjou of Mayberry. He hasn't worn it since Clarey Dorsett's funeral. He wears it for the first time in this episode. The three eligible bachelors in Mayberry are Pete Johnson, Franklin Pomeroy and Charlie Beasley. The last reported pickpocket case in Mayberry was Old Man Burnett against Old Lady Burnett.
005	008	November 28, 1960	Opie's Charity
Andy is dismayed when Opie refuses to contribute money to the school charity drive - but there is a secret reason behind Opie's apparent "selfishness". Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. In this episode, the town of Mayberry is said to be located in Mayberry County. It is stated that there are 400 underprivileged children in the county, or 1.5 children per square mile. This would put the size of Mayberry County at 267 square miles (smaller than average in the United States). Opie donates a measly 3¢ to the Underprivileged Children's Charity Drive. His classmate, Roy Pruitt, donated the second lowest amount of 5¢, but he can be forgiven because he is one of the underprivileged children. The mayor of Mayberry was a man named Jenkins when Tom Silby "passed away" in Charlottesville. Sam Peabody is a Mayberry alderman. The inscription on Tom Silby's grave reads: RIP/THOMAS SILBY/A FINE MAN AND A DEAR HUSBAND/1908-1958.
008	009	December 5, 1960	A Feud Is a Feud
Andy hopes to finally bring peace to two of the county's longtime feuding families, the Carters and the Wakefields - by arranging a duel between the two patriarchs of the quarreling clans! This plot is derived from the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Andy wears a gun in this episode. The Carters and the Wakefields have feuded for more than 87 years. On September 14, 1908, Jedediah Wakefield had be taken to the hospital after he was injured by his mule, Emmie. This is the second wedding ceremony that Andy performs as justice of the peace in the series. This episode included Andy's Romeo and Juliet monologue made famous during his career as a stand-up comedian.
009	007	November 14, 1960	Andy the Matchmaker
When Barney's bumbling law enforcement techniques are questioned, Andy and Elie decide to stage a fake robbery - a scheme which turns Barney into a real hero! Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy states that the Snappy Lunch is one of his favorite eating spots. There is a real Snappy Lunch in Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Tracy Crawford is said to be from Chattanooga. Barney can always get a job as a brine tester at the Pickle Factory. The poem written on the wall of the bank: There was once a deputy called Fife Who carried a gun and a knife The gun was all dusted The knife was all rusty Cause he never caught a crook in his life Barney resigns for the first time, turning in: 1 badge 1 notebook 1 pencil 1 gun belt 1 holster 1 revolver 1 bullet 1 whistle 1 tie clip 1 tie 1 cap 1 flashlight (and 1 pair of handcuffs, which he forgot to mention)
010	012	December 26, 1960	Stranger in Town
Ed Sawyer, a mysterious stranger, arrives in Mayberry and disrupts the lives of the townspeople because he appears to know everyone's name, intimate details about their lives, and other startling facts about them. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Though it was not originally played by Howard McNear, this episode introduced the character of Floyd, the barber. The original Floyd was played by Walter Baldwin. Ed Sawyer stays in Room #216 at the Mayberry Hotel. He declined Room #209 because Wilbur Hennessey got drunk and fell out of the window. Three Mayberry secrets are (1) how to make possum pie, (2) how to make turnip jam, and (3) how to make fried chicken and Jonnycake. Floyd's Barber Shop is open on Saturday evenings. There is also a door in Floyd's leading to the Beauty Shop. Sarah, the telephone operator, enjoys taking a pinch of snuff now and then. Ed Sawyer was an Army buddy of Joe Larson. Barney compares Ed Sawyer to Tokyo Rose.
011	011	December 19, 1960	The Christmas Story
Mayberry's local "Scrooge," storeowner Ben Weaver, manages to have harmless bootlegger Sam Muggins thrown into jail on Christmas - but the Mayberry folks manage to celebrate Christmas with Sam in a most unusual way. This was the one and only holiday story in the history of the Andy Griffith Show. Ben Weaver is said to be the richest man in Mayberry. A calendar hanging in the cell has Christmas falling on a Wednesday. Christmas 1960 fell on a Sunday. Prior to 1960, Christmas fell on a Wednesday in 1957. Andy and Barney receive a letter from the Hubacher brothers, whom Andy and Barney sent to state prison. Under their picture is the message, "Greetings from State Prison." In a blooper, Andy mistakenly reads the message as "Merry Christmas from State Prison". Ben Weaver gives the following gifts: to Opie, a pair of roller skates; to Billy, a baseball mit; to Effie, a doll; to Ellie, a bottle of perfume; and to Aunt Bee, a sewing basket. Andy, Barney, Sam, and Bess all receive wrapped gifts. Viewers never see the contents. A small problem in this episode was with the mention that Ben Weaver's store sold "spirits." Mayberry was in a dry county. Barney makes a very thin Santa Claus. This episode was stated by Elinor Donahue to be her favorite.
012	010	December 12, 1960	Ellie for Council
It's a battle of the sexes when Ellie Walker decides to become the very first woman to run for a seat on the Mayberry city council - and the town's horrified menfolk decide to sabotage her newfound political career. This episode was filmed 50 years ago (as of 2010), yet it remains an example of the fight for equality. This was rare on a television show in 1960. Otis Campbell's wife, Rita, appears for the first time in this episode. Barney's first steady girlfriend, Hilda Mae, appears for the first time in this episode. Sam confronts Barney over signing Ellie's petition. At Ellie's rally, the women of Mayberry hold the following signs: "Ellie, Ellie, Ellie," "Ellie Means Equal Representation," "We Wives Want Ellie," "A Fair Deal For The Fair Sex," "Ellie For Council," and "Mayberry Women Want Ellie."
013	013	January 2, 1961	Mayberry Goes Hollywood
Lights! Camera! Chaos! A Hollywood producer chooses idyllic Mayberry as the backdrop for his next movie, and the entire town goes into a frenzy as they gear up for the anticipated glamor, fame and fortune. This episode marked the first appearance of Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear) as Floyd the barber. However, his last name is Colby, not Lawson. In the mayor's office there is a portrait on the wall of opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. As a youngster, Floyd practiced barbering on alley cats. Mr. Harmon claims to be a good friend of one of Barney's favorite actors, Gabby Hayes. While Andy and Barney are fixing up cell #1, there is a calendar on the wall with a picture of Ron Howard's younger brother, Clint. He is standing with a dog. The price per copy of the Mayberry Gazette is 7¢. Besides local citizens to be in a Hollywood movie, other new items include: New library dedicated Warned Of Force 110,000 Chinese living in trees as result of flood Thousands See Industry Fair Engineer is killed as Limited crashes Political placards' removal is asked by zoning director Grand jury probe of county flood control dams due U.S. delegates attend meet Board head to speak
014	014	January 9, 1961	The Horse Trader
Andy performs some slick dealings with an antiques dealer to get rid of the town's old, worthless cannon. But when young Opie later mimics his father's shady deal to obtain a pair of roller skates, Andy has second thoughts about his own wheeling and dealing. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. At Walker's Drugstore, a copy of TV Guide magazine, featuring Lucille Ball on the cover, can be seen in the magazine rack. Why did Opie want Jerry Parker's roller skates so badly? Three shows earlier, in episode 11, "Christmas Story," Ben Weaver gave him a pair of roller skates as a Christmas present. He must have worn them out in a hurry. In this episode Barney is said to live in a house. Charlie Ross, Mayberry's junkman, agrees to take the cannon off Andy and Barney's hands, if they pay him $15.00. The first "You beat everything, you know that" is heard. Barney says it to Andy when Andy asks him if he wants to buy the town's old cannon.
015	015	January 16, 1961	Those Gossipin' Men
Aunt Bee, accused by Andy as being a hopeless gossip, sets out to prove that the men of Mayberry are even bigger rumormongers than the women. On the wall behind Andy's desk are upside down maps of Idaho and Nevada. According to Barney, New York City is 900 miles (1,400 km) from Mayberry. Mr. Finch stays in Room #23 at the Mayberry Hotel. Floyd the barber's son, Randall (or Wendell), auditions on the saxophone. He plays a selection from Saxomania. The boy is mentioned again (in "The Jinx", where it would appear Norman is a bad baseball player), but later in the series run, Floyd is said to have no children. The Baxters of Mayberry have their "No Trespassing" sign stolen by trespassers. Mr. Finch reports to his boss, Mr. Simmons in New York City, that he sold 67 pairs of shoes during his one-day stay in Mayberry (a company record).
016	020	February 20, 1961	Andy Saves Barney's Morale
When Andy has to leave Mayberry for the day to testify in a court case held in Centerville, Deputy Barney Fife is left in charge of the sheriff's department - and he proceeds to arrest everyone in Mayberry! This episode marked the first use of a flashback when Barney's girlfriend, Hilda Mae, recounted her date with Barney the night before. On a variety of charges, Barney arrested some of the following folks: Harry, Miss Mary, Jud Fletcher, Mayor Pike, Tom, Miss Johnson, Franklin, Charlie, Nellie, Aunt Bee, Chester, and Otis Campbell. The Mayberry Hotel serves breakfast from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM; lunch from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM; and dinner is at 7:00 PM only. In a continuity blooper, Chester Jones appears in two places at the same time. This occurs when Andy drops in on Jud and Chester, who are in the middle of a game of checkers. Andy announces that he is going to replace Barney. Next, Andy goes immediately to Floyd's Barbershop with the same announcement. There at Floyd's, acting as if he has not heard the message previously, is Chester Jones.
017	017	January 30, 1961	Alcohol and Old Lace
Opie comes to the courthouse talking about a "flower-making machine" owned by sisters Clarabelle and Jennifer Morrison, the spinsters who run the local flower shop. Andy and Barney do a little investigating and discover the contraption is actually a still and the kindly sisters are in the moonshining business! Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy suggests deputizing non-drinkers Orville Monroe and Reverend Aiken to assist in wiping out the moonshiners. This is the only episode in which Otis pays a $2 fine and serves jail time. Andy sings the Woody Guthrie song "Goin Down That Road Feeling Bad." Andy and Barney believe that a still may be located at Fancy Gap. Fancy Gap is a real town in Virginia located not far from Mount Airy, NC. Barney relishes taking a big ax and going POW! POW! POW! on confiscated stills.
018	018	February 6, 1961	Andy, the Marriage Counselor
Mayberry newcomers Fred and Jenny Boone are constantly causing domestic disturbances with their fighting, so Andy decides to play marriage counselor to the bickering couple - with disastrous results! Barney is reading the book The Art Of Judo by Professor Matzamota. He also practices judo, unsuccessfully of course, on Andy. Andy gives Fred and Jenny some sweet cider for successfully graduating from his counseling sessions.
019	019	February 13, 1961	Mayberry on Record
A record promoter arrives in Mayberry, intent on making a recording of the region's local folk music, but Andy becomes wary of the stranger and suspects he might be a con artist seeking some fast cash. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy demonstrates to Barney how easy it is to be taken in by a con man when he agrees to sell him a buffalo nickel with the buffalo facing the wrong way for $75.00. Andy orders a sundae at Walker's Drugstore but lets Opie eat it. Appearing in this episode was The Country Boys who were Roland White, Eric White, Clarence White, Billy Ray Latham, and LeRoy Mack. They soon evolved into the famous bluegrass group the Kentucky Colonels. The finished album is called Music From Mayberry. This episode is a rare example of Andy showing poor judgement in the character of another person. Barney smokes a cigar while reading the Wall Street Journal.
020	016	January 23, 1961	The Beauty Contest
The Mayberry town council wants to end the annual Founder's Day celebration with a beauty contest, with Andy chosen to pick the winner. The result is pandemonium as candidates of all shapes and sizes descend on the hapless "judge". Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Floyd runs an ad in the Founder's Day program that reads, "Compliments Of Floyd's Tonsorial Parlor, Best Clip Joint In Town." At the beauty contest, Barbara Sue Lindsey is contestant #5, Josephine Pike is #6, and Ellie is #7. Erma Bishop made all of the costumes for the Founder's Day play. Floyd's song "Hail To Thee Miss Mayberry" is sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum. Opie's girlfriend, Mary Wiggins, is the first female to be seen in Floyd's Barbershop.
021	021	February 27, 1961	Andy and the Gentleman Crook
A notorious, nationally known con man dubbed "Gentleman Dan" becomes a hero of epic proportions to Aunt Bee, Opie and Barney when he is held for two days in the Mayberry jail. "Gentleman Dan" smokes cigars that are custom-made by a man in Tampa. Dan Caldwell's patented line is "On my word as a gentleman." Dan Caldwell tells exciting stories about the Kansas City Million Dollar Heist and the Toledo Payroll Caper. Dan Caldwell committed crimes in Bowling Green, Kentucky and Jacksonville, Florida. Andy tells Opie and Barney his homespun version of "Jack And The Beanstalk". This fairy tale can be heard, complete with a 100-piece orchestra conducted by Earle Hagen, on the 1961 Capitol Records album, "Songs, Themes and Laughs from the Andy Griffith Show".
022	022	March 6, 1961	Cyrano Andy
Andy makes an earnest attempt at matchmaking to help Barney win the heart of his girlfriend Thelma Lou. Things go fine at first... until Barney misinterprets Andy's efforts and thinks he's trying to steal her away! This is the first appearance of Barney's steady girlfriend, Thelma Lou. (Her last name is never mentioned during the entire series). Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney learned how to be romantic by watching Rock Hudson movies. Barney's telephone number is given as 431.
023	023	March 13, 1961	Andy and Opie, Housekeepers
Aunt Bee must leave Mayberry to care for a sick cousin, but not before scolding Andy and Opie for their messy housekeeping habits. The two are determined to clean house before she returns - a project that suddenly accelerates when she phones to say she'll be coming home earlier then expected! Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Opie has a bad habit of sticking half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and apples under his pillow. Mayberry's sister city, Mount Pilot, is first mentioned in this episode. Hope Summers makes her first appearance in the series as Bertha Edwards. In future episodes, she will be referred to as Bertha Johnson and ultimately as Clara Edwards.
024	024	March 27, 1961	The New Doctor
Andy must make a hasty, ill-advised marriage proposal to Ellie Walker after he comes convinced that the new, handsome young doctor in town is trying to steal his girl. George Nader appears as Dr. Robert Benson. Three of Mayberry's previous doctors were Old Doc Carruthers, Old Doc Green and Old Doc Mackenzie. Dr. Benson says that Mayberrian Harvey Willick is a hypochondriac. Dr. Benson and Ellie patch up Opie after he falls and skins his elbow.
025	025	April 3, 1961	A Plaque for Mayberry
The Women's Historical Society is all set to throw a celebration in honor of the last living descendant of a Revolutionary War hero named Nathan Tibbs, who has been traced to Mayberry. But their excitement turns to horror when they discover that the intended honoree is the town drunk, Otis Campbell. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. This episode includes "The Barney Fife Peter Piper Nose Pinching Test For Drunks." In a rare scene, Andy wears a tie with his sheriff's uniform to the award ceremony. What did Nathan Tibbs do to make him a Revolutionary War hero? It was said that he ran eight miles (13 km) through the snow to set the Mayberry bridge on fire. This act turned back the enemy and allowed George Washington and his troops to capture an entire regiment.
026	026	April 10, 1961	The Inspector
When a state inspector arrives in Mayberry to check the jail and courthouse, Andy and Barney are shocked to discover he's a by-the-book stickler for rules and regulations. Things look shaky until Andy is able to demonstrate the "Mayberry way" of fighting crime. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Otis Campbell celebrates his birthday (with 9 candles on the cake) in this episode. Barney plays checkers against himself in this episode. He also enjoys playing parchessi and casino by himself. Andy would love to see Barney play a game of ping-pong by himself. Inspector Ralph Case, who replaced Sam Allen, compares Andy and Barney to the Katzenjammer Kids. Andy and Barney receive a package from the Hubacher brothers. Andy receives a wallet and Barney gets a leather bookmark. The letter says that Elmer Hubacher had been out on parole but ended up back in prison.
027	027	April 17, 1961	Ellie Saves a Female
Ellie Walker takes pity on a shy tomboy named Frankie Flint and is determined to give a "Cinderella" makeover to the young girl - much to her gruff father's displeasure. This episode probably marked the beginning of the television make-over, when women received a beauty treatment and the audience saw the "before and after." The farmer is played by R.G. Armstrong, one of Andy Griffith's real-life mentors and best friend. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. When Ellie sprays "Midnight Madness" perfume on Andy, Opie says he smells like a gardenia blossom. In a rare turn-of-the-tables scene, Barney unmercifully teases Andy about the "lovely fragrance" he's sporting.
028	028	April 24, 1961	Andy Forecloses
Andy, faced with the unpleasant task of serving an eviction notice on a family who has fallen on hard times, tries desperately to come up with a way for the tenants to keep their home. In this episode, Sam Edwards portrays Lester Scobey, Margaret Kerry is Helen, and Joy Ellison appears as Mary. In episode 11, "Christmas Story", these actors portrayed the Muggins family. Barney's never-seen girl on the side, Juanita Beasley, is introduced in this episode. She works as a waitress at the Junction Cafe. Her telephone number is given as 142R. The stall tactics used by Andy to hold off the foreclosure are (1) neglecting to tell Ben about the $2.00 registration fee for a foreclosure notice, and (2) stealing Lester's glasses so he cannot read or understand the terms of the foreclosure notice. Despite their differences, Andy and Ben Weaver enjoy going fishing together.
029	029	May 1, 1961	Quiet Sam
Barney is convinced that the new, mysterious farmer (William Schallert) in town warrants further investigation. Andy finally agrees to pay a visit to the man's farm - and finds himself drawn into a predicament he never imagined he'd find himself in. Mayberry's doctor, Doc Winters, is out of town. Sam and Lily Becker's house is known as the old Birch farm. Lily Becker is never seen in this episode. Floyd Lawson mentions that his wife's name is Melba. During World War II Barney served in the army. He was second in command to a corporal in charge of over 3,000 books at the PX library on Staten Island. Sam Becker is a veteran of the Korean War. Barney believes that Sam Becker is growing marijuana on his farm. The careful attention given to detail is evident in the brief telephone-conversation scene between Floyd and Barney. Pouring rain can be seen through the window behind Floyd. Such detail enabled Mayberry to come alive as a real and believable place.
030	030	May 8, 1961	Barney Gets His Man
Barney's reputation as a deputy soars when he inadvertently helps capture Eddie Brooke, an escaped convict. But Brooke vows to escape again and head straight back to Mayberry to exact his revenge. Andy wears a gun in this episode. Barney claims to have 20/20 vision. A rare camera angle, from the ground up, is used to make Barney appear much taller after he captures Eddie Brooke for the first time. Eddie Brooke is serving a twenty-year prison sentence in Atlanta. While in the process of capturing Eddie Brooke for the second time while in a barn, Barney fires his pistol through a kerosene lantern (directly in the line of fire of Andy) and swallows three sticks of gum.
031	031	May 15, 1961	The Guitar Player Returns
Mayberry's famed hometown musician - Jim Lindsey - returns for a visit in his flashy convertible and fancy clothes. But despite all the trappings and signs of showbiz success, Andy senses that all is not well in the life of the popular performer. This is a followup to episode #3 Jim Lindsey has a hit record with "Rock 'n' Roll Rosie From Raleigh." This is the final appearance of James Best as Jim Lindsey. Jim stays in Room #22 at the Mayberry Hotel. Jim's Mercedes is financed by the Mid-Mountain Finance Company. Two men named Charlie and Ralph are members of the Mayberry Drum and Bugle Corps. A man named Kester quit the corps because the other band members refused to practice at his house. This episode is the final appearance of Elinor Donahue as Ellie Walker. No further mention was ever made of the character, nor was any on screen reason ever given for her departure. Producers felt there was no exceptional chemistry between Donahue and Griffith so she was not rehired for the next season.
032	032	May 22, 1961	Bringing Up Opie
After being scolded by Aunt Bee, Opie decides to run away from home... a plan that quickly turns into a series of eye-opening - and sometimes dangerous - adventures for Opie and a scare for both Aunt Bee and Andy. It is not mentioned in the episode, but the man named Fred who notified Andy of Opie's whereabouts must have been another sheriff or the driver of the Elm City Delivery Service truck in which Opie fell asleep. Two warning signs outside the entrance to the Johnson mine proclaim: "Dangerous Condemned Mine" and "Trespassing Forbidden." Barney disputes Andy's version of "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table."

Season 2 (1961–1962)

31 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
033	034	October 9, 1961	Barney's Replacement
When an attorney (Mark Miller) is sent to Mayberry for law enforcement training, Barney mistakenly believes the man is his replacement and quits the police force to become a vacuum-cleaner salesman. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. It is not stated whether Andy's state's attorney friend, Ralph Baker, is related to the little boy that Opie handcuffed to the flag pole in episode 32, "Bringing Up Opie." That youngster's name was also Ralph Baker. According to Bob Rogers, the Green River Ordinance was inspired by a case that occurred in 1924 in a town called Green River, (Wyoming), or as Roger says "Green Wiver." This mispronuciation went unnoticed.
034	033	October 2, 1961	Opie and the Bully
Sheriff Andy Taylor must decide whether to intervene or let the problem work itself out when a bully demands Opie's lunch money at school. Terry Dickinson appears as Sheldon. Could this name have been inspired by executive producer Sheldon Leonard? Mr. Leonard appeared in countless television and movie roles as a tough guy. Hodie Snitch was a bully in Mayberry when Andy was a child. While spying on Opie Barney tore a hole in a newspaper. The newspaper was the Press Herald.
035	035	October 16, 1961	Andy and the Woman Speeder
Andy gives an attractive young woman from Washington D.C. a speeding ticket. She proceeds to manipulate the townsfolk with her charm and wit in order to undermine Andy's case against her. Jean Hagen is the guest star. Floyd Lawson caught three trout and two perch while fishing. Barney caught a frog. Barney imitates Frank Sinatra by singing the first lines of One For My Baby. This episode has a storyline similar to the pilot episode of The Andy Griffith Show. Jean Hagen had played wife Margaret Williams for 3 seasons in Make Room for Daddy; an episode of its successor series, The Danny Thomas Show, starring Danny Thomas as Danny Williams provided the pilot for The Andy Griffith Show. Two of Mayberry's attorneys are Rafe Peterson and Clarence Polk. This is the only episode in which Mayor Pike served as a judge or held a mayor's court. The bribe Opie received was a baseball autographed by the entire New York Yankees team. Though the year of the team was not mentioned, the show was filmed in October 1961. Assuming the ball was from the same season, some of the signatures on the ball would have been: Tony Kubek, Clete Boyer, Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Bobby Richardson, Moose Skowron, Whitey Ford, Ralph Terry, Roger Maris, and Mickey Mantle. Maris hit his world record sixty-one home runs in 1961, and the Yankees won the World Series (on October 9, exactly one week prior to this show's broadcast) beating the Cincinnati Reds in five games.
036	037	October 30, 1961	Barney on the Rebound
After a tiff with his girlfriend Thelma Lou, Barney goes on a date with a new girl and is tricked into a marriage proposal. Noted actor Jackie Coogan appears as George Stevens. Coogan is well known for his television role of Uncle Fester on The Addams Family from 1964 - 1966. Melissa claims to have attended junior college in Savannah for two years. Barney tells George and Melissa that he would like to be a private detective, or work for J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. Melissa's real name is Gladys.
037	040	November 27, 1961	The Perfect Female
Andy is too obvious in his efforts to find out if a young lady meets his expectations. Karen Moore is the female skeet shooting champion of Arkansas. Barney had once set up Andy on a blind date with a girl named Melinda Keefer from Detroit. Andy said Melinda had fat knees and talked too much. One other time, Barney introduced Andy to a girl who Andy said looked like Benjamin Franklin. Both Andy and Karen enjoy reading mystery stories. In the skeet shooting competition, Karen proceeds to hit all 25 targets (and wins first prize), while Andy nets only 23.
038	041	December 4, 1961	Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter
Aunt Bee takes a shine to an itinerant handyman who has a way with the ladies. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Mr. Wheeler charges Aunt Bee $1.60 to spray her roses. Mr. Wheeler claims to have once owned and operated a hardware store, but says he gave it up when the pressure got to him. George Bricker is a mailman in Mayberry. "Goldbrick" Wheeler claims to suffer from a touch of lumbago, even though roofing is his specialty. When Aunt Bee was 18 years old, her family moved to Peoria, Illinois. She was quite skinny in those days.
039	036	October 23, 1961	Mayberry Goes Bankrupt
After the town council forces Andy to evict a poor elderly man for not paying back taxes, a 100-year old savings bond issued by the city of Mayberry is discovered among the man's possessions. Now the city apparently owes him $349,119.27. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Warren Parker makes his first appearance in the series as bank president and town treasurer Harlan Fergus. In later episodes, his name in the series will be changed to Mr. Meldrim. Frank Myers has a pet chicken named Hazel. He also has fifty boxes of different berries for women's hats. In a blooper, Frank states that his medallion is from the "1906 World's Fair in St. Louis" but that World's Fair occurred in 1904. Frank Meyers has a portrait showing his great-great-grandfather posing with Robert E. Lee.
040	038	November 13, 1961	Opie's Hobo Friend
Opie befriends a hobo who begins to affect Opie's ability to tell right from wrong. The hobo is played by Buddy Ebsen, who is best known for his role as Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies. Mr. Dave gives Opie his homemade "Gollywobbler Super Fish Catcher". Mr. Dave also shows Opie how to get free gumballs from a machine by using magic. He taps the machine twice, says "tuscarora" (named after Tuscarora Mountain outside of Binghamton, New York) and (with the help of a metal wire) gets all the free gumballs his heart desires. One of the strengths of the series was its realism. An excellent example of detailed realism is present in the Tuscarora scene. Mr. Dave and Opie are standing in front of a store window. A pedestrian walking on the sidewalk on the other side of the street can be seen in the window's reflection.
041	039	November 20, 1961	Crime-free Mayberry
A bogus FBI agent and his accomplice visit Mayberry to officially recognize the town's very low crime rate, and nearly make off with the Mayberry Bank money. Andy sings "John Henry" to Otis and offers to sing "Wreck of the Old 97" to Barney. Barney is envious of the new state police facility that recently opened in Mount Pilot. Actual real-life photos of Andy as a youngster are seen in this episode. Floyd's tour group consisted of folks from a New Orleans-bound bus. He refers to Andy as "Dead-Eye Andy", while Barney refers to himself as "Fast Gun Fife". In the presence of the tour group, Otis confesses to Barney that he committed a murder. He killed off a pint! Barney's version of "Oh My Darling, Clementine: In a jailhouse, down in Dixie, fightin' crime and risking life, Dwelt a sheriff and his buddy, pistol-packin' Barney Fife. Oh, my darin', oh my darin', oh my darin' Barney Fife. He's a deadly crime-stopper, what a copper Barney Fife. One day there came a-ridin' two bad men to rob a bank, But Fife was tricky, a dead-eye dicky. Now they're locked up in the tank. (Andy added the following couplet.) Oh, my Barney, oh, my Barney, had a jail and couldn't lock it. Had one bullet for his pistol, had to keep it in his pocket.
042	042	December 11, 1961	The Clubmen
Andy and Barney visit a posh men's club, but only one of them is asked to join. Trivia buffs will notice that Andy's sleeves are rolled down in some closeups of him sitting at his desk after giving Barney back his shoes while his sleeves are rolled up in the more distant shots in the scene. The prestigious and exculsive Esquire Club is in Raleigh. Club members Roger Courtney, Cliff Britton, Tom Wilson, Jim Baker, John Dandy, and George Bronson were all named after teachers who taught at the same school Andy Griffith did during his brief stint as a public school teacher. Barney is ecstatic about joining but on the other hand Andy couldn't care less. The Esquire Club meets on Thursdays at 8:00 PM. At the club Barney looks sharp in his salt and pepper suit, but he proceeds to make a fool of himself by making dumb remarks about golf scores and the stock market. The coup de grace occurs when the hapless deputy says that baked Alaska came into being after Alaska was admitted to the Union. Marie Simms is one of the biggest blabbermouths in Mayberry. In this episode it is implied that Raleigh is rather close to Mayberry. Remember, Andy and Barney planned to attend meetings every Thursday evening. The real-life town of Mount Airy, NC is 142 miles (229 km) from Raleigh.
043	043	December 18, 1961	The Pickle Story
Rather than eat Aunt Bee's horrible tasting home-made pickles (referred to as Kerosene Cucumbers), Andy and Barney secretly substitute them with store-bought pickles. Now they must eat them all when they discover that she intended to enter them in the county fair. Don Knotts selected "The Pickle Story" as his favorite episode. When Aunt Bee offers Barney one of her "kerosene cucumbers", he responds "I'll smoke it, I mean, I'll eat it later". A fly lands on one of Aunt Bee's pickles and dies. Barney tells Andy that Aunt Bee's pickles are scattered from Oregon to Nova Scotia. The music playing while Andy, Barney, and Opie gulp down eight quarts of pickles deserves special notice for how well it fits the scene.
044	044	December 25, 1961	Sheriff Barney
Andy receives a visit from another town's councilmen inviting Barney to come be Sheriff. Andy trades places with Barney, so Barney gets a trial run as Sheriff of Mayberry, and it convinces him that he is not quite ready to take over a similar job in a neighboring town. Greendale City Hall was erected in 1902. Barney describes Greendale as a "cesspool" and "another Dodge City." Otis' directions to Barney to the whereabouts of Rafe Hollister's still: Go out Route 22, past Waynesboro, Midville, Thorndyke, Upson, through Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio (he's making for Canada), then back through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, into Mayberry on Route 10, to 411 Elm St. (Barney's residence). Barney compares the Welch-Osgood dispute to the case of Willougby vs. Perkins. In this episode, Willow Street and Woods Way are said to be quiet and peaceful streets in Mayberry.
045	045	January 1, 1962	The Farmer Takes a Wife
A farmer comes to town looking for a wife and chooses Barney's girlfriend, Thelma Lou, much to Barney's chagrin. The farmer is played by Alan Hale Jr. who later played The Skipper on Gilligan's Island. This episode is the first time Barney says his famous catchphrase, "Nip It In The Bud" ("Nipped i' the bud" from The Tragedy of Brennoralt by Sir John Suckling, 1609–1642). The farmer calls Barney his "little buddy," a nickname that The Skipper often called Gilligan. Andy and Thelma Lou devise a plan to turn Jeff Pruitt into a city slicker. They teach him proper etiquette and make him buy the largest suit at the local men's clothier, Carroll's of Mayberry. (As Andy and Jeff arrive at Carroll's, a customer is seen exiting the store. This is Andy Griffith's real-life father, Carl, making a cameo appearance in the series). In this episode Andy gives Barney his first direct order.
046	046	January 8, 1962	The Keeper of the Flame
Opie is blamed for burning down Jubal Foster's barn when Andy and Aunt Bee begin to question in membership in a secret club upon finding a candle and some matches in Opie's bedroom. Everett Sloane guest stars. He also wrote the lyrics to the theme song of The Andy Griffith Show, "The Fishin' Hole", although the lyrics were never performed on the show. Andy states that Mayberry County has a volunteer fire department. Aunt Bee enjoys listening to an unnamed radio soap opera. Celia Gordon and a man named John are two of the characters. Andy enjoys poking fun at Aunt Bee for listening to the melodramatic program.
047	047	January 15, 1962	Bailey's Bad Boy
Spoiled rich kid Ronald Bailey is arrested in Mayberry for flouting the law. While waiting for his father to bail him out, Andy teaches him a lesson in taking responsibility for his own behavior. Note that in the episode "Andy and the Woman Speeder", involving an out-of-towner who gets a speeding ticket, Andy both issues the ticket and acts as justice of the peace at the hearing that same day. In this episode, aired just a few months later, no mention is made of Andy's status as justice of the peace (although the sign on the sheriff's office door still states it clearly). Instead, Ronald Bailey, arrested for speeding, must wait in jail for his trial until the circuit judge arrives "in a few days". Ronald Bailey is played by Bill Bixby. Bixby later played Tim O'Hara on My Favorite Martian, Tom Corbett on The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Dr. David Banner on The Incredible Hulk. Andy assigns Barney to watch the bicycles at the movie house. No reason is given as to why he is doing this. Maybe there is a bicycle thief in Mayberry. In this episode, Barney is living in the back room of the courthouse. The visiting hours at the Mayberry jail are 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM daily, except Sunday. While most of the vehicles used in the series are Ford's, Fletch Dilbeck's truck is a Chevrolet.
048	048	January 22, 1962	The Manicurist
When Floyd hires a pretty new manicurist for his barber shop, the men of Mayberry suddenly become interested in fingernail maintenance, and the women become jealous. The manicurist is played by Barbara Eden, who later played Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Mayor Pike, Barney, Floyd, Sam and Art the butcher describe what they did on Sunday, while gawking at Ellen Brown's shapely legs. Mayor Pike shot three rabbits; Barney did nothing; and Sam caught a half-dozen trout. Floyd and Art say nothing. They are too busy staring! Barney makes some very uncharacteristic remarks about Ellen Brown. For instance, when Floyd asks him how he would treat a girl like that, Barney responds, "a little rough" and he would "rough her up a little," because "women like her expect that type of treatment." It's a wonder that this type of dialogue made it through the production staff of the show, or the censors at CBS in 1962. This episode marks the final appearance of Mayor Pike.
049	049	January 29, 1962	The Jinx
After a string of bad luck, a Mayberry resident is convinced that he is a jinx until Andy helps restore his self-confidence. Floyd won't admit that his son Norman is a lousy baseball player. Barney says that Cole Porter records "have that certain effect" on Thelma Lou. To ensure good luck, Barney reads his grandmother's book Signs, Omens, Portents and Charms to Ward Off Bad Luck. Although he is unbilled in the credits and has no lines of dialogue, Clint Howard appears as the cowboy-clad youngster at the church social. In future episodes, Clint will return in the same outfit as Leon, the little cowboy who loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and wants to share them with everyone.
050	050	February 5, 1962	The Jailbreak
Barney's negligence allows a prisoner to escape, launching a manhunt to find him, but the small-town methods of Mayberry prove more effective than the attempts of the State Police in his capture. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney gives Andy's address as 24 Elm St. Andy wears a gun in this episode. Floyd Lawson owns a shaggy dog named Sam. When Barney was Malloy's cellmate, he said his nicknames were "Puddintane," "Fingers," "Chopper" and "Mad Dog." He makes sure that Malloy knows that he was never known as "Tattletale." The Half-Moon Trailer Park is located on River Road.
051	051	February 12, 1962	A Medal for Opie
Opie competes in a foot race held by the Sheriff's Department and learns an important lesson in how to be a good loser. Opie runs the 50 yard dash but finishes dead last. His friends Billy Johnson, Aaron Harrison, and Freddie Pruitt finish first, second, and third, respectively. Barney used to weigh around 120 to 125 pounds, before he fell off training. Barney poops out while riding his bike during one of Opie's training sessions. The Mayberry Diner's telephone number is given as 242.
052	052	February 19, 1962	Barney and the Choir
The town choir's tenor has to drop out and the choir desperately need a replacement. When the choir director finds out that Barney sings tenor, he asks Barney to join the choir, not knowing Barney is a terrible singer. Of course Barney manages to botch every practice and Andy must find some delicate way of telling Barney nobody wants him in the choir before the choir's big performance. The Mayberry choir sings "good old 14A" in the choir's songbook, (Anton Rubenstein's Melody In F) "Welcome Sweet Springtime." Thelma Lou tells Andy that Barney is a great person, "but he can't sing a lick." The choir secretly practices (without including Barney) at the home of John Masters, on Elm Street in Mayberry. Barney overhears their voices and shows up anyway. The choir's usual practice place is the Mayberry Town Hall. Hazel is the name of the lady who plays the piano for the Mayberry choir. Thelma Lou plays the piano in this episode.
053	053	February 26, 1962	Guest of Honor
A visitor to town is given the key to the city and prizes. However, Andy and Barney discover that those are not the only things he takes when it turns out their guest of honor is a pickpocket. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. A convicted thief and pickpocket named Sheldon Davis has just been tossed out of neighboring Pierce County. His alias is Thomas A. Moody. In a hilarious speech to the new deputies, Barney gets himself (and them) so fired up with emotion that even mild-mannered Floyd Lawson is screaming at the top of his lungs. Don Knotts recalled that he "laughed so hard at Howard McNear's screaming, the entire scene had to be reshot 20 times." Sheldon Davis stays in Room #81 at the Mayberry Hotel. Mayberry has a Founders Day song: "Mayberry'll shine tonight, Mayberry'll shine. When the moon comes up and the sun goes down, Mayberry'll shine." Crowley's Market is selected as the starting point for the tour of the town for the guest of honor.
054	054	March 5, 1962	The Merchant of Mayberry
Andy uses his wits to help a struggling salesman stay in Mayberry despite strong pressure from the competition, mean old Ben Weaver. The merchant is played by Sterling Holloway, who is best known as the voice of Winnie the Pooh. Barney purchases size 11 socks from Bert, even though he actually wears size 101⁄2. Andy buys razor blades and Aunt Bee buys an 87¢ apron from Bert. Weaver's Department Store has been located in Mayberry for almost 25 years. Opie sets up a 2¢-a-glass lemonade stand in Crowley's vacant lot.
055	055	March 12, 1962	Aunt Bee the Warden
When the jail is full, Otis the town drunk is forced to serve his sentence in a less hospitable place: the Taylor home, under Aunt Bee. Andy arrests the Gordon boys (Billy, Ike, Junior, and Sherman) for moonshining. Andy wears a gun in this episode. The equipment on his gunbelt changes from scene to scene. Mayberry has a previously unheard of physician: Doc Zack. Aunt Bee uses Roy's Laundry Service. The company makes home pickups and deliveries. There is an actual Roy's Laundry Service located in Andy Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy, NC. It is operated by Roy Hutchins and is located on Spring Street, directly across the street from the Andy Griffith Playhouse. In a blooper, as the delivery man opens the back doors of the truck for Aunt Bee who is looking for Otis, a microphone boom can be seen in the reflection of the driver side window. In a fit of rage Andy Griffith had punched a wall at his home with his right hand. This injury was worked into the script of this and the following episode. Aunt Bee is referred to as Bloody Mary and the Taylor home is referred to as The Rock.
056	056	March 19, 1962	The County Nurse
Andy is forced to exert all his persuasiveness to get local farmer Rafe Hollister to take a tetanus shot from the county nurse Mary Simpson (Julie Adams). Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Barney reads Karate The Art Of Unarmed Self-Defense and demonstrates three moves for Andy: the Hawk, the Bull Elk and the Rattlesnake. Rafe Hollister states that his daddy lived to be 100 years old.
057	057	March 26, 1962	Andy and Barney in the Big City
Andy and Barney are involved in the catching of a jewel thief while on a business trip to the state capital. Barney refers to the big city as "the asphalt jungle." When Barney signs the hotel register, he signs, "Bernard Fife, M.D." Questioned by Andy, he says the initials stand for Mayberry Deputy. Andy and Barney stay in Room #920 for $7.00 per night. The woman with the jewelry stays in Room #420. C.J. Halser's mug shots are dated September 15, 1959. He is listed as 59 years of age, 5'7" tall and weighing 132 pounds. He has brown eyes and gray hair. The mug shot number is 75249. Andy and Barney have dinner in a French restaurant. Not wanting to look like a hick, Barney points to the menu and orders escargot and cervelle de veau. Andy takes no chances and orders a steak, a baked potato, and green beans.
058	058	April 2, 1962	Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee
A misunderstanding leads Andy and Aunt Bee to believe that they are both anxious for her to get married. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Mayberry's Dry Cleaner is H. Fred Goss, an incessant gossip. While at the courthouse, Otis tells Andy about Goss sweet-talking Aunt Bee. As the two talk, a rare thing happens - Otis and Andy become equals, two adults. (Otis is usually childlike in relation to Andy.) In a rare occurrence in the series, Opie makes reference to his mother. The viewers get a rare glimpse of the Taylors' bathroom. On many occasions, Frances Bavier stated that "Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee" was her all-time favorite episode.
059	059	April 9, 1962	Three's a Crowd
Romance blossoms for Andy and Mary, the county nurse, but ever-present Barney remains blissfully unaware that three constitute a crowd. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Mary Simpson was back again - sort of. Though the name was the same, the actress was different. This time she was a blonde, played by actress Sue Ane Langdon. Barney's favorite pizza topping is mozzarella. He also loves pepperoni. Thelma Lou's telephone number is given as 247. Andy wants to take Mary to Franklyn Woods. It features a lake and a berry patch.
060	060	April 16, 1962	The Bookie Barber
Barber Floyd Lawson takes on an assistant who turns out to be a bookie running an illegal gambling operation on the side. Mr. Medwin charges customers 80¢ for a shampoo and $1.50 for a facial. This is the only episode that features Floyd's "Two chairs - no waiting" sign. Barney worries that Mayberry might become known as "the gateway to Monte Carlo." This is the first episode in which Barney wears a dress.
061	061	April 23, 1962	Andy on Trial
Andy faces charges of malfeasance in office when a disgruntled traffic offender seeks revenge. Jean Boswell was played by Ruta Lee, who is best known as Alex Trebek's model/sidekick on High Rollers. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. The view outside J. Howard Jackson's office window is the Hollywood Hills. J. Howard Jackson's article was titled, "Does The Sheriff Run The Town, Or Does The Town Run The Sheriff?" Barney tells Ms. Boswell the Mayberry Hotel is the town's only hotel, but in subsequent episodes, the Palmerton Hotel, the Gibson Hotel, and the Gem Hotel will be shown. This episode concluded with one of the strongest dramatic moments during the entire series. The genius of Don Knotts is displayed in his speech from the witness chair when he defends Andy as a friend and professional.
062	062	April 30, 1962	Cousin Virgil
Barney's cousin Virgil from New Jersey is given a job at the courthouse, but he can't manage to do anything right. He gets over his awkwardness as soon as he learns that people have confidence in his ability. Cousin Virgil is played by Michael J. Pollard. Otis's job interview is with Oscar Skinner at the Mayberry Feed and Grain Store. The business was established in 1890. Miss Gratham is the only person to exit the bus in Mayberry. The bus stop is located in front of Franklyn Pharmacy in Mayberry. Rance Howard, father of Ron and Clint Howard, appears as the bus driver.
063	063	May 7, 1962	Deputy Otis
Otis Campbell overcomes his weakness for moonshine and impresses his visiting relatives when Andy makes him a temporary deputy. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Barney gets all worked up when Andy deputizes Otis. He is against any kind of falsifying. Otis' brother Ralph is the town drunk in his hometown. The third and final correspondence from the Hubacher brothers comes in this episode when they write on the occasion of their second anniversary in the state pen. They mention in the letter a song sung by Junior to commemorate the occasion: "My Little Grey Home In The West." It made the warden cry.

Season 3 (1962–1963)

32 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
064	073	December 3, 1962	Opie's Rival
Opie becomes jealous when his father appears to be paying special attention to a pretty girl—even taking her fishing with them. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. According to Andy, the spirits of the fire, water, and air are Budjum Snark, Brillen Trant, and Grovely Barch, respectively. According to Andy, a man named Isaak Walton "wrote the book" on fishing. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, Walton also wrote a number of short biographies which have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives. Peggy's house number is 323.
065	067	October 22, 1962	Andy and Opie - Bachelors
Andy and Opie try to cope when Aunt Bee is away by letting Peggy cook and do chores. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Opie's pal Johnny Paul Jason claims the following: Chewing tar is good for the teeth; if you lick the point of an indelible pencil, you will die in a minute and a half; and eating burnt food will give you a good singing voice. Ollie is a customer of Floyd's. He makes a four o'clock appointment.
066	064	October 1, 1962	Mr. McBeevee
Andy and Barney don't believe Opie's tale about meeting Mr. McBeevee, "a man that walks around in the trees, blows smoke out of his ears, wears a shiny silver hat" and has "twelve extra hands". Opie has an invisible horse named Blackie. Mr. McBeevee's unseen co-workers are Mr. Travers and a man named Charlie. Previously unheard of Doc Harvey is referred to in this episode.
067	065	October 8, 1962	Andy's Rich Girlfriend
Andy has to deal with the wealthy upper-class upbringing of his girlfriend, Peggy McMillan. Andy and Barney once started on a trip to New Orleans, but Andy's Ford Model A burned out a bearing near DeQueen Junction. Andy ended up selling the car for $12.00. Both Andy and Barney became Boy Scouts second class in the same month. Barney once took second place, behind Andy, in a penmanship contest. Barney was best man at Andy's wedding and is Opie's godfather. Raleigh is said to be 55 miles (89 km) from Mayberry. While at dinner in Raleigh, Andy orders draft beer and Peggy orders a Sazerac. Peggy orders escargot for her and Andy but Andy refuses to eat it.
068	069	November 5, 1962	Barney Mends a Broken Heart
Andy and Peggy have a fight, and Barney tries to console Andy with dates with other girls. This episode is the first appearance of the Fun Girls. Skippy's telephone number is given as 327. Barney says Mount Pilot is 12 miles (19 km) from Mayberry, and he jokes that Mayberry rolls up the sidewalks at 9:00 PM. Barney had met the fun girls (Skippy and Daphne) at the Tip Top Cafe in Mount Pilot a few weeks earlier. Skippy suggests the foursome go to a place in Harnett that has dancing and everything, or to a pizza place near the county line. That place serves beer! Daphne suggests they go to the Gigolo Club in Yancey. They have a floor show there. Barney would be content to go to Daphne's and watch a George Raft movie on television.
069	066	October 15, 1962	Andy and the New Mayor
The new mayor of Mayberry, Roy Stoner (Parley Baer), is critical of Andy's work as Sheriff. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney tells Juanita he will bring a new Ted Weems record to her house. He claims the music "soothes the savage" in him. Barney's questionable aftershave is Nuit de Paris (Paris Nights). On the bottle it says: "Capture the fragrance of Riviera rose petals and the passion of the Mediterranean moon in a rugged he-man scent". Teasing him, Andy adds: "Caution: User should wear gloves." He and Opie think it smells like paint. Andy was an hour and six minutes late for his meeting with the mayor because he was fishing with Opie.
070	068	October 29, 1962	The Cow Thief
Mayor Stoner steps on Andy's toes as Sheriff by calling upon a crime expert from the city to help solve several cow thefts. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Luke Jensen had been recently released from the Asheville County jail. Barney refers to Luke as a "bad penny". Barney wrote a special report on safety procedures on country roads with a catchy slogan, "Walk on the left side after dark or you'll wind up playing harp." When nearsighted Luke Jensen is caught, he has mistaken Fletch's bull for a cow. The idea for this episode came from a comment made by Andy Griffith when he innocently mentioned in a story conference a memory he had of a farmer back home who used to put shoes on his cow.
071	072	November 26, 1962	Floyd, the Gay Deceiver
Floyd misrepresents his worldly goods to a wealthy widow pen pal, who suddenly decides to visit Mayberry. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Ms. Grayson claimed to own homes in Baltimore and Palm Beach. Floyd took a course in Latin while attending barber college. His teacher was fond of the phrase "Tempus edax rerum," which means "Time heals everything." As a girl in Sunday school, Aunt Bee played the queen in the play, Six Who Pass While The Lentils Boil. Floyd has blue eyes. He calls them azure.
072	071	November 19, 1962	The Mayberry Band
The Mayberry band, composed of more flats than sharps, gets ready for its annual trip to the state band competition. Unfortunately, Mayor Stoner won't let them go because they're terrible. Andy comes up with a clever way to fool the mayor into thinking the town band has improved. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. In the Mayberry band, Andy plays the sousaphone, Floyd plays the trombone, a man by the name of Carl plays first clarinet, and a man named Burley Peters plays the snare drum. Barney purchased a pair of cymbals (Andre Kostelanetz Marchers) from Cymbal City, a shop in Chicago that have leather handles and cost $18.50. Stars and Stripes Forever is song number 12 in the Mayberry band's brown book. The town band leaves Mayberry on a Mayberry School District school bus.
073	070	November 12, 1962	Lawman Barney
Barney loses his self-confidence when two farmers ignore his warnings to stop selling their produce illegally. Allan Melvin guest stars. One of the rare episodes where Don Knotts has a non-comedic scene. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Until the premiere of Hot in Cleveland in 2010, a 2000 airing of this episode was the most watched episode in the history of the TV Land network. Andy tells the farmers that Barney always does these things just before he turns violent: (1) clears his throat; (2) tugs at his collar; and (3) beats his fist against his holster. Floyd claims Wally has the best soda pop in town, in terms of variety. Two kinds are Nectarine Crush and Huckleberry Smash. Clips from this episode were used by the United States Department Of Transportation television commercials endorsing seat belt usage and safety. Future Mayberry deputy Warren Ferguson (Jack Burns) provided the voice for one of the test dummies.
074	074	December 10, 1962	Convicts at Large
Three women prisoners escape and are holed up in a remote cabin. Barney and Floyd stumble across them and are held prisoners. It is up to Andy to rescue them. This was Howard McNear's final episode for 1½ seasons as he suffered a massive stroke in 1963. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Charlie O'Malley's father-in-law owns the company Jenson's Orthopedic Loafers. They are well-to-do. Barney talks Pig Latin to Andy on the telephone: "Onvicts-kay ere-hay!" Floyd and Sally's grocery list includes one pound of sugar, two pounds of coffee, four dozen eggs, four loaves of bread, ketchup, fruit, and four pounds of hamburger. Where did Floyd get the gas to drive into town for groceries? The reason why Floyd and Barney went to O'Malley's cabin was to get gas for the car. They never mentioned whether they found any at O'Malley's.
075	075	December 17, 1962	The Bed Jacket
Andy must make a personal sacrifice to obtain a pretty bed jacket that Aunt Bee wants for her birthday. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. The bed jacket is pale blue with little flowers, a little bow at the neck, and puffed sleeves. Mayor Stoner once offered to pay $27.50 for "Eagle-Eye Annie." Andy and Opie keep their fishing poles on a rack in their living room. Andy does a "garbage report" for the mayor.
076	078	January 7, 1963	Barney and the Governor
Barney hangs a parking ticket on the Governor's car and refuses to tear it up. The Governor's chauffeur is played by Ron Howard's father, Rance. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. The license plate on the governor's car reads A1A Noth Capolnja. (Perhaps the strange spelling is to prevent any legal problems with a plate actually reading "North Carolina.") Mayor Stoner claims to be a good friend of the governor. A drunken Barney calls Andy "Mike." Otis tells Andy that Barney may appear to be drunk due to the fallout that has affected the milk supply.
077	079	January 14, 1963	Man in a Hurry
A car containing a high-powered businessman from Charlotte breaks down in the slow-paced town of Mayberry. The Mendelbright sisters are allowed to use the phone for three or four hours on Sundays. Malcolm Tucker is not related to the Buffalo Tuckers. Goober's telephone number is given as 371J. Charlotte Tucker married a lens-grinding man from Hutchison, Kansas who fell down a lot. Opie claims a penny is lucky if it's been run over by a train. Goober takes his motor boat out on the water every Sunday. William Keene appears for the first time as Reverend Hobart M. Tucker. (He is not related to Malcolm Tucker.)
078	076	December 24, 1962	The Bank Job
Barney, frustrated by Mayberry's careless overall attitude toward security, stages a phony bank robbery to prove his point. This episode marks the first appearance of Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors). Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Leon is played by Ron Howard's brother, Clint Howard. Barney cites two examples of carelessness in Mayberry: (1) Earl Johnson leaves his car keys in the ignition all the time; and (2) There is no night light on in the office at the Mayberry Ice House. A teasing Andy calls Barney "Glenn," in reference to Glenn Ford. The headline in the Mayberry Gazette after the attempted bank robbery reads "Bank Hold-Up Foiled Here" and "Sheriff Andy Talyor And Deputy Barney Fike Nip Robbery In The Bud."
079	077	December 31, 1962	One-Punch Opie
Opie must stand up to a bully by himself. Some gossip from Aunt Bee: The Quincy family has recently moved from Richmond to Mayberry. They are renting Charlie Eaver's home on Grove Street. Mr. Quincy is a traveling salesman who sells farm implements. Mrs. Quincy was previously married (to a serviceman) and, just prior to moving to Mayberry, had an operation on her foot. The five named members of Opie's group (of six) are Opie Taylor, Steve Quincy, Carter French, Billy Gray, and Johnny Paul Jason. This episode's theme is reminiscent of episode 34, "Opie and the Bully".
080	080	January 21, 1963	High Noon in Mayberry
Barney is convinced that an ex-con's visit to town is to take revenge on Sheriff Taylor. Andy wounded Luke Comstock in the leg in 1952. Barney owns 1/8 of a share of stock in the Amalgamated Oxidation and Aluminum Corporation of America, along with Floyd, Wally, and "some of the boys." He receives a dividend check in the amount of 27¢. Aunt Bee's bedroom is shown briefly. Andy keeps an unloaded revolver on top of Aunt Bee's china cabinet. The bullets are kept in a drawer. Luke Comstock owns a chain of television repair stores in Cleveland. The Deputy's Oath: "As a deputy of the county of Mayberry, I swear to uphold the laws and regulations therein, set to by statute 426 C, county rules and regulations, put there by this date, city of Mayberry, county of Mayberry, thereon."
081	081	January 28, 1963	The Loaded Goat
Andy and Barney must contend with a goat with a bellyful of dynamite before he goes "blooie". Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Cy Hudgins tells Mayor Stoner that folks are saying the main reason he pushed so hard to get an underpass for Mayberry is because the highway will run right past his brother's filling station. A rear entrance to Barclay's Jewelry Store in Mayberry is shown. Old Miss Vickers calls the courthouse after each blast. She worries it means that Yankee cannons are approaching.
082	082	February 4, 1963	Class Reunion
Andy and Barney organize a high school reunion and meet their old friends. Andy meets his old sweetheart and realizes why the relationship never worked out. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Mrs. Mendlebright got the idea about growing mushrooms from an ad in a magazine. Its headline read, "Grow Mushrooms At Home For Fun And Profit." It features testimonials as: "V.J. of Cincinnati reports earnings up to $600 a month," and "S.T. of Texarkana says 'My spare time is now a money-making proposition.'" The yearbook photos of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts are actual senior pictures from their respective high schools. The Mayberry Union High school song is introduced and sung in this episode. Mayberry Union High, Victory is yours well-nigh! We'll hit the line for points every time, The Orange and Blue will try, try, try, try! And when the victory’s won, You'll be our favorite son! Proud waves your banner in the sky, Mayberry Union High! The Cutlass was named after Jim Fritzell's high school yearbook, while the Mayberry colors of orange and blue are from Everett Greenbaum's high school in Buffalo, New York. Andy and Barney's classmates include (among others) Sharon Despain, Ramona Wiley Becktoris, Jarvis Eldred, Lillian Becker, Pearlie Mae Dubois, Mary Lee, Edna Thoake, Jack Sweet, Ralph Haynes, Nate Bracey, and Jack Egbert.
083	083	February 11, 1963	Rafe Hollister Sings
Rural farmer Rafe Hollister outshines Barney in singing tryouts but Mayor Stoner objects to his unsophisticated appearance. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney uses a honey-and-water spray for his throat. Andy calls it "bug spray." Barney claims that all the big singers, including Nelson Eddy, Tex Ritter, and Ferlin Husky, use it. Rafe says that when he greases his shoes, all the cats in town follow him. Rafe was arrested in April 1962 for moonshining. He spent 10 days in jail. His case number was 68456735. He lives on Willow Creek Road.
084	084	February 18, 1963	Opie and the Spoiled Kid
Opie meets a spoiled youngster, played by Ronnie Dapo as Arnold Winkler, and decides his own allowance should be tripled. Andy refuses, and Opie starts throwing tantrums to try and guilt his father into giving in. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Arnold Winkler always calls Opie "Taylor." The following men are featured in the new "Wanted" posters at the courthouse: Henry "Shopping Bag" Leonetti (wanted for grand larceny), $4,000 reward; Max "The Tongue" Rasmussen (wanted for grand theft auto), $1500 reward; and Benjamin Schuster, a.k.a. Benji Schuse or Benny Chute (wanted for forgery), $3000 reward. Arnold Winkler's new bike is an Intercontinental Flyer, a gift from his dad. It cost $70.00.
085	085	February 25, 1963	The Great Filling Station Robbery
Andy and Barney investigate a string of robberies at Wally's Filling Station. A young employee is blamed for the crimes but acts to uncover the true thieves. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney phones Juanita, the waitress at the Bluebird Diner. He greets her with "cock-a-doodle-do." Andy calls Barney "Mr. Marconi." Wally has gone to the Jefferson County seat for a week. Andy says Mr. Carter's truck battery would cost $12.95 to replace.
086	086	March 4, 1963	Andy Discovers America
Andy's advice to Opie about his American history homework gets Andy in hot water with the new school teacher, Miss Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut). This is the first appearance of Helen Crump, who eventually becomes Andy Taylor's wife in the first episode of Mayberry R.F.D.. Producers liked the chemistry between Corsaut and Griffith so decided to add the character to recurring cast. Barney claims that history was one of his best subjects and tries to explain the Emancipation Proclamation. This episode was the favorite of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
087	087	March 11, 1963	Aunt Bee's Medicine Man
After worrying about her age and health, Aunt Bee falls for the sales pitch of a fast-talking medicine man and his "Indian Elixir". Barney tries to make himself look like a publicity photo of Rock Hudson. This episode features Mayberry's first actual death: Augusta "Gussie" Finch at 10:30 AM. Aunt Bee gives the Taylor' address as 332 Maple Road. Colonel Harvey's "Indian Elixir" is 85% alcohol. Andy says Aunt Bee is such a teetotaler that she will not allow even a fruitcake in the house, on account of "a brother she had."
088	088	March 18, 1963	The Darlings Are Coming
The Sheriff has his hands full as a clan of mountain musicians descends on Mayberry. This is the first appearance of The Darlings. Trivia buffs will note that Andy's microphone cord is visible in his pants leg as he steps around the Darling's truck at the watering trough. This marks the first appearance of Denver Pyle, who would go on to play Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazzard The inscription on the trough reads: DAVID MENDELBRIGHT 1870-1933/LET NO HORSE GO THIRSTY HERE. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. The Darlings check into Room #27 at the Mayberry Hotel. The Darling boys aren't very talkative. Although they sing in most of the episodes in which they appear, this is the only episode in which they speak. In the jail cell Aunt Bee asks if everyone has had enough to eat one of the boys says "about to pop", and as she is leaving they all stand up and say "Thank You Aunt Bee/Good Night". Dud Wash spent three years in the Army. He brought back a "tiger eye" ring for Charlene. He bought it in Spokane, Washington. Dud Wash arrives on a Southern Buslines bus out of Macon, Georgia.
089	089	March 25, 1963	Andy's English Valet
English tourist Malcolm Merriweather works off his reckless driving fine by being a valet and chauffeur for Andy. This is the first appearance of Bernard Fox as "Malcolm Merriweather". Malcolm refers to Andy as "Constable." Malcolm tells Andy that he's from Heckmondwike. Although Malcolm says that it's in Derbyshire, it's actually in West Yorkshire. Opie enjoys Malcolm's magic tricks and roly-poly pudding. Malcolm can make paper trees and ladders. He also enjoys painting faces on eggs. Andy mistakenly refers to Clara Edwards as "Flora." Barney originally thought Malcolm was from Canada.
090	090	April 1, 1963	Barney's First Car
Barney invests his life's savings in buying a used car which turns out to be a lemon. Guest appearance by Ellen Corby as "Myrt". She went on to play Grandma Ellen on The Waltons. Years later, Don Knotts would be reunited with Andy Griffith on Matlock, where Knotts played Matlock's annoying neighbor who was accused of killing the salesman's partner, who also sold him a lemon. Andy Griffith selected this episode as his all-time favorite. Myrt's telephone number is given as MP3791. Andy claims it takes about an hour to drive from Mayberry to Mt. Pilot. Barney tells Andy that he once bought his mom and dad a septic tank as an anniversary present. Barney's lemon that he bought from Myrt is going to need plugs, points, bearings, valves, rings, starter switch, ignition wires, water pump, fuel pump, oil pump, clutch, clutch bearings, clutch plate, brake lining, brake shoes, brake drums, radiator hose, and a radiator hose cover. The car could use a good wash too. Also, sawdust was found in the differential and transmission.
091	091	April 8, 1963	The Rivals
Opie fails at romance so Barney attempts to show him how to handle women. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. The viewer gets a rare glimpse of Thelma Lou's kitchen in this episode. When showing Karen the courthouse, Opie points out the file cabinet, the gun rack, the jail cells, and the door he goes through when he takes the trash out.
092	092	April 15, 1963	A Wife for Andy
Barney tries to help find a wife for Andy and sets him up with Opie's teacher, Helen Crump. Andy and Helen like each other but Barney now disapproves of Helen after learning that she can't cook and wouldn't quit working if she got married. Guest star: Janet Waldo as Amanda. Clara injured herself while lifting her oven. She was trying to clean up some spilled bacon grease. Aunt Bee says Clara is walking crooked. Andy tries to read The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow to Opie. It's a favorite, and Opie refers to it as The Headless Horseman. Prospective women for Andy include Lavinia, Amanda, Rosemary, and Blanche.
093	093	April 22, 1963	Dogs, Dogs, Dogs
Opie brings in a stray dog, a minute later there is a whole pack of dogs, and just at the time as Andy is trying to impress a visiting state official. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Otis claims soda pop is bad for his liver. Among the items Andy and Barney would like to purchase for the sheriff's department: new cots, more guns, and Sam Browne belts. Barney recites the following quote: "The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven." The quote is from The Merchant Of Venice, a play by William Shakespeare.
094	094	April 29, 1963	Mountain Wedding
The Darling clan returns to Mayberry to seek Andy's help with a wild mountain-man who refuses to accept Charlene's marriage as valid. Andy and Barney share a song with the family. This episode is the first appearance of Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris). Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney meets the Darling family for the first time in this episode. He was on a bus trip to Charlotte with his mother when Andy married Charlene and Dud. Briscoe Darling and his boys considered killing Ernest T. Bass, but Briscoe said they "kinda hated to go that far". A continuity blooper occurs when Andy, Barney, and Briscoe are talking to Ernest T. Facing the camera is Andy on the left, Briscoe in the middle, and Barney on the right. The scene's concluding shot, following a cut-away of Ernest T. retreating into the woods, has Andy and Barney in reversed positions. Ernest T. Bass serenades Charlene: Old Aunt Mariah, jump in the fire Fire too hot, jump in the pot Pot too black, jump in the crack Crack too high, jump in the sky Sky too blue, jump in canoe Canoe too shallow, jump in the tallow Tallow too soft, jump in the loft Loft too rotten, jump in the cotton Cotton so white, she stay there all night.
095	095	May 6, 1963	The Big House
Barney treats the jailhouse as if it were Alcatraz after two thieves are jailed in Mayberry. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. The viewer gets to see much more of the courthouse exterior than usual in this episode. George Kennedy portrays an unnamed Memphis detective.

Season 4 (1963–1964)

32 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
096	100	October 28, 1963	Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee
While visiting in town, Briscoe Darling mistakes Aunt Bee's hospitality for something else, and he decides to court her. When he kidnaps her and takes her to his mountain cabin, Andy must come to the rescue. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Aunt Bee recites the poem "A Fading Flower Of Forgotten Love" by Agnes Ellicott Strong. When Andy praises Aunt Bee's cooking, she exclaims "Oh flibbertigibbet!" The Darling men wolf down Aunt Bee's supper, which includes pot roast with "pearly onions" and baked potatoes. Opie protests that when he has to stay with Miss Marker, a neighbor, she feeds him grits and prunes. Andy reminds him that "young'uns" in Norway have to eat hardtack and raw fish. (Hardtack is a cracker-like biscuit. It is sometimes called a sea biscuit). This is the only Darling family episode without Charlene.
097	101	November 4, 1963	Gomer the House Guest
After being fired from Wally's Filling Station for being "insufficient in his duties", Gomer must stay with the Taylors, who have difficulty adapting to his customs. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. On the fictional television show "Shep and Ralph," Ralph is a man and Shep is his dog. In this episode, young Dave is Ralph's cousin. Dave gets trapped in a mine shaft on Potter's Peak. Luther's car has been running "rough", Merle Dean's truck needs new shock absorbers, and Willie Jack's car has bad brakes.
098	097	October 7, 1963	The Haunted House
Andy, Barney and Gomer discover the "real" ghost in Mayberry's haunted house. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney refers to The Twilight Zone in this episode. Moonshiner Big Jack Anderson runs a still in the abandoned old Rimshaw house. Three years after this episode was made, Don Knotts starred in the movie The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. The projects share several similarities.
099	098	October 14, 1963	Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army
Determined to get into uniform, Ernest T. Bass attempts to enlist in the United States Army, but is rejected. Allan Melvin guest stars as the Army Recruiter. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Ernest T. calls the army doctor "Mr. Medico". Barney says that a #2 Amber Alert means that he or Andy will be awake at all times. Barney's deputy uniform came from Raleigh and is made of genuine whiplash cord.
100	099	October 21, 1963	The Sermon for Today
A visiting preacher urges the residents of Mayberry to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life — leading to more work for all. Andy guesses that the Little Orphan Annie comic strip is 42 or 43 years old, although Annie is probably Opie's age. According to Andy, preaching begins at 11 o'clock. Barney creates a poster that read "Concert tonight - Relax to music under the stars." Andy uses a nifty bit of logic to convince him that the sign is unnecessary. Nobody can expect Clara to do anything about mildew. The town band is horribly out of tune. Their version of The Skater's Waltz must be heard to be believed.
101	096	September 30, 1963	Opie the Birdman
Opie kills a bird with a slingshot and becomes foster-mother to her three young birds. Barney says keen, sharp eyes and a good set of pinching fingers made him a slingshot master. Some of his most successful shots were over-the-mountain, behind-the-barn, and under-the-bridge. Opie's bird names are Wynken, Blynken and Nod. Barney tells Opie that he should never take a wild bird into a house because it is scientifically and biologically wrong. Besides, a bird in the house means there is going to be a death in the family. Johnny Paul Jason told Opie, "If you touch a bird, it's gonna die." Barney rejects that notion as superstition. He claims it will only stunt the bird's growth.
102	102	November 11, 1963	A Black Day for Mayberry
Barney lets slip the secret about a gold shipment coming through Mayberry on its way to Fort Knox. It would seem strange that a gold truck traveling from Denver to Fort Knox would go anywhere near North Carolina. Guest appearances by Rance and Clint Howard (Ron Howard's father and younger brother). In a continuity blooper, two different men, wearing different clothes, play the same part in the same scene. At the beginning of the episode, Rance Howard and another actor portray T-Men from the Treasury Department waiting for Andy at the courthouse. As Opie walks in the courthouse and passes the T-Men sitting down, two different actors, wearing different clothes, are portrayed. No explanation for this is given. Opie, who is standing with Aunt Bee when first seen on Main Street, is later seen atop the squad car with Leon, who is holding a balloon. Look for this unusual brotherly scene when the gold truck comes to town and Andy orders the crowd to go home. Andy wears a gun in this episode.
103	103	November 18, 1963	Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain
Opie is rewarded for a perfect report card with a new bicycle, but his good grades turn out to be a mistake. Opie claims that Barbie Tyler gets good grades because she is Miss Crump's pet. At the Taylor house Barney has a personalized coffee cup with a "B" on it. Barney still has his history book from the eighth grade. Barney claims that kids are too pampered today. When he was young, there were no food breaks. Anyone caught chewing anything in school had to stay after school and clap erasers. Andy brags that he should photograph Opie's report card and show it off to Edgar Beasley, who is always bragging about his young'un.
104	105	December 2, 1963	Up in Barney's Room
Barney is evicted for cooking chili in his room at Mrs. Mendlebright's rooming house. He then sets about making the Sheriff's office back room "just like home". Meanwhile, Mrs. Mendelbright's new tenant and fiance turns out to be a con man. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. A sign in front of the Mendelbright Park Apartments declares: "No children, No pets, No cooking, No vacancies." Barney has bound volumes of True Blue Detective magazine, dating from 1959. They feature good stories such as "I Married A Fink," "How It Feels To Pull The Switch," and "I Picked A Pocket And Paid." The dresser that Barney scorched with his hot plate had been bussed to Mayberry all the way from Fort Lauderdale. Opie and Andy take in a Gregory Peck movie. (Although not mentioned, the movie was probably To Kill A Mockingbird). Barney comes close to tears as he recalls the time Mrs. Mendelbright washed his hair because he had such a bad sunburn he could not raise his arms. Mrs. Mendelbright withdraws her entire savings of $3,600.43 from the bank.
105	104	November 25, 1963	A Date for Gomer
Barney plays cupid for Gomer when Thelma Lou refuses to go to a dance unless he finds a date for her unattractive cousin. Guest appearance by Mary Grace Canfield as Thelma Lou's cousin, best known as "Ralph Monroe" on Green Acres. In the opening scene Andy and Opie are leaving Floyd's Barber Shop. A substitute actor can be seen portraying Floyd (due to Howard McNear suffering from a stroke). Thelma Lou's house number is 830. Barney buys Thelma Lou some West Indian Licorice Mocha Delight ice cream from Murphy's House of the Nine Flavors. Andy ran into Al Becker and a big collie dog at Norman's Groceteria where Ms. Speers works. None of Andy's friends seem to know Al. Barney isn't going to stand in the stag line at the dance with Old Mr. Perkins and a bunch of slumped-over teenage boys. For historical purposes, it is worth noting that this episode aired just three days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
106	106	December 16, 1963	Citizen's Arrest
Barney tickets Gomer for making an illegal U-turn, only to be arrested by Gomer for the same offense. A man named Pinkley was Mayberry's Sheriff in 1931. He was followed, chronologically, by Fred Paley, Dale Buckley, and Andy Taylor. In 1931, Purcell Branch, father of Tyler Branch, was arrested for disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor. He drove his REO Flying Cloud down Mayberry's Main Street with the cut-out open. A man named Freiburger once arrested Barney's father for speeding. Barney received his first revolver as deputy in August 1953. Otis took his first drink 27 years ago (1936). Jim Nabors picked this episode as his favorite.
107	127	May 18, 1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Gomer announces that he has enlisted in the Marines. Andy takes him to report for boot camp and gives the drill instructor the impression Gomer is related to General Lucius Pyle. Frank Sutton appears as Sergeant Vince Carter. This episode led to the spin-off series of the same name. Andy Griffith and Jim Nabors are the only actors from the regular cast to appear in this episode. The gate used for Camp Wilson was actually the Cahuenga gate at Desilu Studios. Nelson's Funeral Parlor printed the lyrics to the "Marine Corps Hymn" on the back of its calendar one year.
108	107	December 30, 1963	Opie and His Merry Men
Opie and his chums take their roles as Robin Hood and his men seriously as they steal food from their parents to feed a poor hobo living in the woods. The hobo is known to Barney as "Weary Willie." The deputy had twice before run him out of Crouch's Woods. Weary Willie had a fracture of the "petula obendala". When Barney gets mad, a vein on his neck sticks out.
109	108	January 6, 1964	Barney and the Cave Rescue
Barney organizes a rescue party when Andy and Helen are trapped in a cave by a landslide. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney claims that if a bat or a moth lays eggs in your hair, you will go crazy. Gomer said that his cousin Goober once got lost in a cave while chasing a skunk. The skunk's scent led him back out, and Goober made it into a pet. After the rescue, the headline of the Mayberry Gazette reads, "DEPUTY FIFE HERO IN CAVE RESCUE." A picture of Barney is featured. This front page will be seen framed on a courthouse wall for years to come.
110	109	January 13, 1964	Andy and Opie's Pal
Opie becomes jealous of the attention his father pays to Opie's new friend. Trey Bowden is from Erie, Pennsylvania. Gomer (and Barney) believe that Jesse Pearson, owner of Pearson's Sweet Shop, may be running an illegal contest. Andy escourted the queen of the state's Apricot Festival through Mayberry on June 23, 1952. Opie's football jersey sports the number 14. He is the quarterback. Johnny Paul and Howie are two of his teammates. When Opie calls, "55,66,77,88 and 99," it means everybody go out for a pass. Miss Moran was Andy and Barney's fourth grade teacher. That was when they first started hanging out together. Opie and Trey become blood brothers, using red barn paint to mark their arms.
111	110	January 20, 1964	Aunt Bee the Crusader
Aunt Bee leads a protest movement against what she sees as heavy-handed application of the law by Andy, when a chicken farmer's property is condemned to make way for a new road. Mr. Frisby gives Opie a rooster named Beauregard and Aunt Bee a mustache cup. It is decorated with her favorite flower, the rose. Barney gets caught up in Aunt Bee's anger at the county. He calls all county employees "a bunch of goldbrickers and deadheads." Andy reminds him that they themselves are county employees. Among the protest signs the women carry are "The County Has No Heart"; "Highways Are Killers"; "Is There No Mercy?"; Don't Patronize This Jail"; "Stop The Land Grab"; and Aunt Bee's sign, "Sheriff Taylor Is Unfair."
112	111	January 27, 1964	Barney's Sidecar
Barney adds a vintage motorcycle to the Sheriff's Department, finding many new police uses for the vehicle. Appearance made by Ray Kellogg. Mrs. Beggs nearly got run off of Highway 6 by a woman speeder. Mrs. Begg's sister, Tillie, was the victim of a bad dentist in Nashville as a child and, as a result, has very long teeth. In school she was nicknamed "The Beaver." Opie received a wood burning set as a birthday present. Neither Barney nor his mother can stand for anyone else to wear their hats. Andy calls Barney "Baron Von Richtofen." The plaque made by Andy found under the seat of the sidecar: "First motorcycle to cross the Marne River. Battle of Chateau-Thierry...6-12-18 Passenger, Black Jack Pershing...Driver - Corporal Nate Jackson A.E.F." Andy pulls over a tank on Highway 6, believing it to be another of Barney's outlandish purchases. However, the driver is Major Hobart of the Army's Twenty-Second division, on his way to a military display.
113	112	February 3, 1964	My Fair Ernest T. Bass
Andy undertakes a difficult task: refine Ernest T. Bass to the point where he would pass for a sophisticated gentleman. Guest appearance by Doris Packer. Barney refers to The Count of Monte Cristo. Barney claims that the ladies at the social are all "dogs." He tells Andy that "if you flew a quail through this room, every woman in it would point!" Ramona Ancrum is the granddaughter of "Rotten Ray" Ancrum. Mr. Ancrum came down from the hills in 1870 and burned the town of Mayberry down. Soon afterward, he opened the Ancrum Charcoal Company, which still exist. The mysterious Mr. Schwump makes his debut in this episode. Obviously, this episode was inspired by George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. It was made into a film of the same title in 1938, and set to music in the Broadway film My Fair Lady.
114	113	February 10, 1964	Prisoner of Love
A female prisoner (Susan Oliver) tries to use her "womanly wiles" on Andy and Barney to secure her release. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Shy Mayberrian Henry Gilley dated Tyla Lee Vernon for 16 years before he finally got the nerve to propose. She accepted, and they live in a little yellow house, two up from the corner (from the courthouse). Otis' doctor told him that moonshine would blind him sooner or later. The unnamed prisoner was given the name Angela Carroll in an unproduced script. Perhaps it was decided that the lack of a name added to the sense of mystery. This episode is very sensual and unique.
115	114	February 17, 1964	Hot Rod Otis
Otis Campbell acquires a car and threatens life and limb of Mayberry's pedestrian population. Andy, Barney, and Otis are the only characters to appear in this episode. Andy recites the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk to Otis to help him fall asleep. Otis loves fairy tales such as Rumplestilskin. Barney shakes down a gumball machine outside of the grocery store. Andy and Barney sing "The Vacant Chair," a song about family members mourning their loved one killed in the American Civil War. The subject of the song, Lt. John William Grout of Massachusetts, was killed at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, Virginia, on October 21, 1861. The following month, Henry S. Washburn wrote a poem about the Grout family's anguish. The words were set to music by noted songwriter George F. Root.
116	115	February 24, 1964	The Song Festers
Barney suffers an ego blow when he is replaced in the choir by the surprisingly-talented Gomer. Andy Griffith's wife, Barbara, appears as a member of the singing group. Her only line is "I'm sorry, Mr. Masters." Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. YLRB is a radio station in Mount Pilot. Miss Poultice has a portrait of a Saint Bernard over her fireplace. Barney tells Andy that Leonard Blush does all the vocals on the Ethel Page Organ Recital shows. Andy only recalls a canary singing in the background. About 10 years ago, Miss Page and her canary performed on Sunday afternoons at the Pot O'Honey restaurant. Mr. Masters states that the choir arrangement for their featured song, "Santa Lucia," came from New York.
117	116	March 2, 1964	The Shoplifters
After Weaver's Department Store experiences a series of thefts, Barney decides to go deep undercover (disguising himself as a mannequin) to get to the bottom of the situation. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Barney says there is a story going around about lingerie shop employee Myra Koonce. We never get to hear the full story, but it has something to do with "that fellow who came through from Chattanooga." Weaver's Department Store is located at 501 Main Street. Thelma Lou's telephone number is given as 596. The lady shoplifter manages to steal Barney's gun. Ben Weaver refers to Asa Breeney as Rip Van Winkle. When Barney and Ben are scuttling around in Weaver's store at night, Barney bumps into a talking Bozo the Clown doll. The toy's recorded voice says "Just keep laughin!" followed by kooky laughter. A sign above the employees' coffeepot at Weaver's says: "Don't Forget To Feed The Kitty."
118	117	March 9, 1964	Andy's Vacation
Andy takes a week off, leaving Barney and Gomer in charge. A prisoner also takes off in the resultant confusion. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. An irate Andy gives a combative husband and wife the following options: Pay a $10 fine or begin serving a 10-day jail sentence. Lentwood Federal Prison is over 400 miles (640 km) away from Mayberry. Hugo Hotflash is a German World War I veteran, and a good friend of Barney's. A man named Arthur wants to make sure that his place of business is checked daily while Andy is on vacation. Barney claims he has logged 10 years in law enforcement. The sign at Wally's Filling Station blew down at 4:00 AM during a wind storm.
119	118	March 16, 1964	Andy Saves Gomer
An appreciative Gomer is willing to do anything to show his gratitude for Andy's saving his life, and proceeds to make a pest of himself. (This was Howard McNear's first episode back after his stroke in 1963.) Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. The fire was caused by Wally. He carelessly tossed his cigar butt into a barrel of oily rags. Gomer brings Andy some freshly caught fish for breakfast. He also washes and waxes the patrol car, washes the courthouse windows, trims the Taylors' hedges, and picks some flowers. The Taylors use cell #1 as a temporary hideout from Gomer in order to have dinner without interference.
120	119	March 23, 1964	Bargain Day
Despite Andy's objections, Aunt Bee attempts to save money by buying an entire side of beef at a discount market, but finds her freezer isn't going to cooperate. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Andy had planned on buying some shoes for Opie at Finley's. However, Aunt Bee already got a pair. They were discounted from $6.50 to $4.89 at a Mount Pilot outlet store. Aunt Bee buys sugar in bulk. She also buys 150 pounds of beef at Diamond Jim's. In the freezer, Gomer finds a golf ball, a mousetrap, and an inspection tag. The tags says, "Serviced by Ed's Refrigeration, March 3, 1951." Andy purchases a new freezer from a Mount Pilot business. The brand name is Super Freeze.
121	120	March 30, 1964	Divorce, Mountain Style
Charlene Darling (Maggie Peterson) gets a mountain-style divorce and, according to mountain lore, must marry Andy. Andy and Barney try to find a way out of the situation. Bob Denver, best known for his role as Gilligan on Gilligan's Island, plays Dud Wash. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. The contents of the bag Charlene buried: one beak of an owl, four tail feathers from a chicken hawk, a piece of bacon, and a broken comb. Preacher Winslow is a minister in Mayberry. Barney hates to wear black. He believes it makes him look thin. As a child, Barney sat on the hood of his uncle's Hudson Terraplane and had his picture taken. Barney dances to the Darlings' music (some very fancy footwork by the way).
122	121	April 6, 1964	A Deal Is a Deal
Opie gets caught in a phony scheme to sell salve, so Gomer and Barney concoct a scheme to solve the problem. Andy and Barney used to sell flower seeds when they were kids. The flowers were guaranteed to bloom, night and day, for six months. Barney still has five packs of the seeds. Miracle Salve claims to cure crow's feet, poison ivy, athlete's foot, prickly rash, complextion and spring itch. According to Barney, you fight fire with fire, and you deal with a fox by outfoxing him. The Miracle Salve Company is located in an office building, Room #106, in Mount Pilot. The building also houses the offices of Ideal Construction Company (Room #110), the law firm of Lonas, Hill and Davison (Room #108) and R. Auda Enterprises, Inc. (Room #112). 946 jars of Miracle Salve are delivered to Andy's house.
123	122	April 13, 1964	Fun Girls
Two fun-loving blondes, Daphne (Jean Carson) and Skippy (Joyce Jameson), cause problems for Andy and Barney with their unwanted flirting. First appearance of Goober Pyle (George Lindsey). This is the only episode to feature both Gomer and Goober Pyle, who are cousins. Barney learned how to sew and crochet by watching his mother. Goober imitates Cary Grant by uttering quickly, "Judy Judy Judy Judy Judy." For Edward G. Robinson, he screws up his face and says "Okay you guys. Come on you guys. Alright you guys. Beat it you guys." When he imitates "Chester" of Gunsmoke, he walks around with a highly exaggerated limp. For his supper, Barney planned to order the following items from the diner: two chili-size burgers with chopped onions, ketchup, piccalilli and mustard, a side of French fries, a slab of rhubarb pie, and a chocolate malt. Skippy jokes that the son of a cop usually grows up to be a gangster. During the first dance, the band plays "Carolina in the Morning." During the switch-partners number, the song "When the Saints Come Marching In" is played. Andy calls the bandleader Earle. This was his way of recognizing Earle Hagen, who did such a tremendous job with the music throughout the series.
124	123	April 20, 1964	The Return of Malcolm Merriweather
The bicycling Brit who served as Andy's valet (episode #89) returns to Mayberry, leading Aunt Bee to feel unappreciated. Barney tells Malcolm that the U.S. won the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1776. Malcolm corrects him by telling him the British won, not only at Bunker Hill, but also at Lexington and Concord. Barney blurts out that at least the U.S. won the war. For a lunch at the courthouse, Malcolm serves Andy and Barney cornish pasty (meat and potatoes at one end and plum pudding at the other). Malcolm puts some hair tonic from England on Opie's hair. Barney compliments Malcolm on his tasty beef stew. Malcolm says his secret is using a double dollop of cooking sherry. This information alarms Barney because he is due to go on duty.
125	124	April 27, 1964	The Rumor
Andy kisses Helen in a jewelry store, and Barney interprets the kiss as tantamount to a secret engagement. The town gets the word and prepares a surprise party for the couple. Andy greets a woman named Miss Cleta on Main Street. He compliments her for wearing a pretty black oilcloth coat. The Friday night special at the diner is catfish casserole. Rance Howard appears as a guest at the surprise party. Barney lost the little blackbook containing the names of each contributor to the surprise party and the amount of money each spent. However, he claims he remembers who gave what.
126	125	May 4, 1964	Barney and Thelma Lou, Phfftt
Barney's fear of commitment leads Thelma Lou to use Gomer to make him jealous, and Barney becomes furious when he sees her kissing him. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. While walking home from the movies, Barney and Thelma gaze at a blue sofa and a green rug displayed in a store window. Thelma Lou comments, "It's smart," but Barney prefers to have a leather chair. He says he wants a den that smells like real leather and also smells of pipe tobacco. The den would contain good books and a dog. No ladies, including Thelma Lou, would be allowed in his den. Barney tells Andy that Mount Pilot is 12 miles (19 km) from Mayberry. Gomer says his Mount Pilot lunch, which included 3 eggs and 6 flapjacks, must have "set Thelma Lou back" over 70¢.
127	126	May 11, 1964	Back to Nature
Andy, Barney, and Gomer take Opie and several of his pals on a camping trip. Barney and Gomer succeed in getting themselves lost in the woods, giving Barney a perfect excuse to show off his knowledge of wilderness survival techniques. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney is upset because the new gas nozzle at the filling station scratched the squad car. Gomer wants to see a Preston Foster movie on television instead of going on the camping trip. Barney "starts" a fire and builds a snare. Barney and Gomer follow Andy's bird calls back to camp. Gomer shows the boys the snare Barney made. In a continuity blooper, as the two run through the woods, neither Gomer nor Barney was carrying the snare. Nevertheless, Gomer has it with him when he emerges into camp. This episode marks Jim Nabors' final filmed appearance in the series.

Season 5 (1964–1965)

32 episodes

Note: This is Don Knotts' last season.

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
128	133	October 26, 1964	Barney's Bloodhound
Barney attempts to train a bloodhound to aid in Mayberry law enforcement. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. The cabin in which Andy and Barney are held captive is owned by the Forbes family of Mayberry. Ralph Neal changes clothing with Barney at the cabin in order to look like he's the deputy and Barney's the crook. Andy and Barney enjoy listening to Leonard Blush's radio show on the "voice of Mt. Pilot", WMPD. Mr. Blush is known as the "Masked Singer".
129	130	October 5, 1964	Family Visit
Aunt Bee invites relatives to visit and Andy becomes concerned when Uncle Ollie borrows the patrol car to go fishing. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Four generations of the Beamon family attend church in Mayberry. The Mayberry Gas Works is mentioned. It has a blacktop parking lot. The Bears are a baseball team in Mayberry. Racine Tyler of Lake Charles' telephone number is 439-7123. This is the only "regular" 7-digit telephone number mentioned in the series. Andy's second cousin, Todd, is a wiper on an oil tanker. He will not return to America "because of a girl in Cleveland, Ohio". Although it is never stated, it is implied that the city of Lake Charles is in Louisana. In a goof, three members of the Felt Brothers Gang have escaped from the state prison in Meehawken, South Carolina. After their capture, in a telephone conservation, Andy states "caught both of them, huh." Kenneth Butts portrays Roger, and Billy Booth portrays Bruce. The cast credits have the children's roles reversed. This episode reunites as guest stars James Westerfield and Forrest Lewis. Together they played the confused police officers Hanson and Kelly in the Disney movies The Shaggy Dog, The Absent Minded Professor and Son of Flubber.
130	132	October 19, 1964	Aunt Bee's Romance
Aunt Bee's old flame, a practical joker, shows up in Mayberry and resumes his courtship. Andy has misgivings. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. Three of Aunt Bee's pen pals in Raleigh are Mrs. Deacon, Donna Forbes, and Rita Akin. Opie gets to go on a field trip to a bakery in Mt. Pilot. He and his classmates get to watch them make doughnuts. Andy can't stand Roger Hanover. Roger ruins one of Andy's electrical cords when he tries to repair it. This further endears Roger to Andy. Andy sarcastically tells Roger that he (Andy) is a giant when it comes to potting petunias. Roger tries to extort $400 from Andy.
131	129	September 28, 1964	Barney's Physical
A campaign to fatten and stretch Barney gets underway when it becomes apparent he doesn't match up to new Civil Service physical requirements. Barney joined the sheriff's office on May 16, 1959. Barney and Thelma Lou first met at Wilton Blair's funeral in 1960. Barney receives a stainless steel water-proof wrist watch from Andy, Aunt Bee, Thelma Lou, Floyd, and Opie in recognition of his five-year anniversary. The inscription on the back bears the numeral 5. There is a bent lamp post on the corner of Maple Street. In a rare scene, Andy wears a tie with his uniform. Opie charges his friends 5¢ to see Barney "hanging himself."
132	128	September 21, 1964	Opie Loves Helen
Opie develops a crush on his teacher, Miss Helen Crump, who happens to be his father's girlfriend. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy and Barney's nickname for one of their old schoolteachers, Mrs. Von Roeder, was "the beast of the fourth floor". The mischievous duo once put ink in her thermos bottle, a tack on her chair, and a garter snake in her desk drawer. Opie and his classmates hold a collection drive for the Red Cross.
133	131	October 12, 1964	The Education of Ernest T. Bass
Ernest T. goes back to school to earn a diploma after his girl spurns him as illiterate. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Ernest T. considers Helen Crump his "mother figure". Barney prefers not to eat lunch at the drugstore because everything there tastes like medicine. The lunch special at the Mayberry Diner is chicken wings, rice, and mixed vegetables. Barney claims the chickens must have done a lot of flying because their wings are so small. Ernest T. has shaved the back of his neck. Ernest T. has a unique way of adding 25 + 25.
134	134	November 2, 1964	Man in the Middle
Barney and Thelma Lou have a lovers' quarrel. Andy tries to help but only succeeds in getting caught in the middle. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. The movie playing in Mayberry during this episode is The Monster From Out Of Town. Andy likes Helen to wear her green dress when they go out. Mayberrian Jed McIntyre has lived alone for 25 years. He smiles a lot and talks to himself.
135	135	November 9, 1964	Barney's Uniform
Barney starts wearing his uniform all the time after being threatened with bodily harm if he's ever caught off-duty. Allan Melvin guest stars. The Mayberry Charity Dance is at 8:00 PM on Wednesday. The cost is $3.00 per couple. Fred Goss, Mayberry's dry cleaner, misplaces Barney's suit for a few days. It was accidentally sent to a Mr. Fitz in Siler City. Sunday's sermon was titled "The Dice Are Loaded Against the Evil-Doer." Mr. Izamoto is an instructor at the Mount Pilot Judo Society.
136	136	November 16, 1964	Opie's Fortune
Opie finds a wallet containing $50. Opie waits a week for the owner to claim the money but the owner shows up after Opie is given the money. Earl Pike purchased a new car for his son's birthday. His son is 57 years old. Rhoda Apple is getting married. It was announced in Mayberry After Midnight a regular feature of the Mayberry Gazette. This column is written by 16-year-old Red Akins. A Mayberry couple, Howard and Lorraine Felcher, are getting a divorce. Lorraine is a drinker. Bannertown is the real name of a North Carolina town, just two miles (3 km) from Mount Airy.
137	137	November 23, 1964	Goodbye, Sheriff Taylor
Andy goes to Raleigh for a job interview, and chaos prevails in Mayberry, with Barney Fife as acting Sheriff. George Lindsey returns to the show as Goober Pyle. He won't be a series regular until the beginning of the sixth season. This is the first episode in which Goober is seen wearing his trademark beanie. This episode features Otis when he is neither drunk or jailed. Andy delivers a gun permit to a man named Ben Lucas. There once was a big accident at the intersection of Fourth and Main streets. It involved a garbage truck and a hook and ladder truck. Floyd claims that the traffic jam created by Goober is the worst he has seen since the 1939 World's Fair.
138	138	November 30, 1964	The Pageant
Aunt Bee lands the starring role in the Mayberry Centennial Pageant, but she turns out to be a terrible actress. In the play, the town of Mayberry was originally known as Happy Valley. When Clara takes over the role of housekeeper at the Taylors', she promises to bake her famous apple pie for Andy and Opie every day of the week. When Aunt Bee was a child in West Virginia in the 1920s, she had the lead role of Alice in a church play called The Little Princess. It was directed by the Reverend Dargood, and Bee's performance received rave reviews. Barney knows the following tongue twisters: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." "She sells sea shells by the sea shore." "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" "With sturdy wrists and loudest boasts he thrusts his fists against the post and still insist he sees a ghost." He can't quite master "Rubber baby buggy bumpers."
139	139	December 7, 1964	The Darling Baby
The Darlings come to town and choose Opie to become the future husband of Charlene's infant daughter. Andelina's dowry included an 8' x 10' cottage on the back twenty. It needs a roof and fresh mud on the floor. The lucky husband will also get a cow and two acres of side hill (complete with good strong boulders). In this episode, Opie is 10 and Barney is 35. Barney gets tipsy on mulberry squeezings.
140	140	December 14, 1964	Andy and Helen Have Their Day
Andy and Helen are supposed to have a day off, but are continually interrupted at their secluded picnic spot by Barney's constant questions. Barney says that Myers Lake is in Stokes County. Howard Morris appears as George the TV repairman, instead of his recurring role as Ernest T. Bass. The game warden is played by Colin Male, who was also the announcer for the opening credits. Male was a former radio announcer in Cincinnati who moved to Hollywood to be part of the motion picture business. The cast credits list his character as "Wormser." Andy and Barney plan to attend the Peace Officers' Bowling Tournament in Mount Pilot. Evidently neither Andy nor Helen owns an automobile. Otherwise, they would not have had to rely on Goober to drive them to Myers Lake.
141	142	December 28, 1964	Otis Sues the County
Otis slips and falls in jail and is convinced by a lawyer that he should sue the county. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. In this episode, filmed following Howard McNear's recovering from a stroke, sound-effect footsteps are used to cover Floyd's entrance into the courthouse. Otis claims that he initially injured his knee while playing football with his wife. Mayberry does have a notary public, a bank employee named Mary Pleasance. However, she and a woman named Dixie Bell Edwards are out of town during this episode. Together, they are hunting black bears at Great Dismal Swamp. Neil Bentley's office number is 205.
142	141	December 21, 1964	Three Wishes for Opie
Barney buys old fortune-telling equipment which seem to be able to grant wishes. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Dr. Merle Osmond from Boise, Idaho wrote a book called Psychic Phenomena. Barney believes in Count Ist Van Telecky. Opie's three wishes: (1) a jackknife, (2) a "B" in arithmetic, and (3) having Miss Crump as his sixth-grade teacher. The bulk of this episode is seen in flashback, one of the few uses of the device on the show. Special credit must be given to music director Earle Hagen and music editor Ken Johnson for their tasteful use of the eerie music in this enjoyable episode.
143	143	January 4, 1965	Barney Fife, Realtor
Barney decides to dabble in real estate as a sideline and he tries convince Andy to sell his house. Mr. Slummer is a real estate agent in Mayberry who drives a death-trap of a car. The Clarks and the Mortons are real estate clients of Barney's. The Simses reside on Elmwood Street in Mayberry. Opie was going to sell Howie his bike for $5.00. Barney exclaims that Aunt Bee keeps her home in "apple pie order". Andy bought his house from Old Man Parmaley. Barney claims that, because of Opie's big mouth, he cost him $3,478. Barney decides to leave the real estate game and become a part-time used car salesman.
144	144	January 11, 1965	Goober Takes a Car Apart
Goober dismantles a car and rebuilds it inside the courthouse. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. In this episode, it was mentioned that while Barney was on vacation, Andy needed to find somebody to fill in for him temporarily. Andy promises a man named Warren that he will help him with an unspecified chore when he returns from Mount Pilot. A man named Don Yeltin calls Andy about some business papers. Gilly wants his car fixed quickly because he is in a hurry to get to Eastlake. Aunt Bee's friend Eleanor Schroder called to tell her about the car in the courthouse.
145	145	January 18, 1965	The Rehabilitation of Otis
Otis rides into Mayberry on a cow under the impression it is a horse. Barney takes on the task of curing Otis' moonshine habit. Luke who was played by Frank Cady, who is best known as Sam Drucker on Green Acres. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Barney tells Otis that he looks good in the color blue. Barney's telephone is on a three-party line. Floyd Lawson once helped Otis get out of a well that he had fallen into. Floyd explains that Otis was drunk at the time, and thought he had fallen in quicksand.
146	146	January 25, 1965	The Lucky Letter
Barney believes he's hexed when several accidents happen after he fails to continue a "lucky" chain letter. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Barney admits he's not crazy about the number 13. Goober mails two copies of his chain letter. One went to his cousin Gomer in the Marines, and the other one to his Aunt Floy. While looking for Barney's discarded chain letter at the trash dump, Andy finds a grille off Buzzy Leonard's car. He also finds the January edition of a magazine called Tales of Love. The subscriber is none other than Barney Fife. Andy and Barney also find a grocery list from a lady named Mrs. Hudgins, and a love letter written by Herbert Swindell. Barney carries a Four-leaf clover and a Rabbit's foot with him to the pistol shooting qualifications.
147	147	February 1, 1965	Goober and the Art of Love
Andy and Barney think they'll have some privacy with their girlfriends after Goober finds a girl of his own, but they discover Goober favors triple dates. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Viewers get a rare glimpse of Helen Crump's house and living room. Goober admires Maureen O'Sullivan, the actress who portrays Jane in the Tarzan movies. Barney once got scared watching one of those mummy movies. Lydia's house number is 598. Barney likes to cheat at bridge. While grooming for his first date with Lydia, Goober puts so much grease in his hair that it drips.
148	148	February 8, 1965	Barney Runs for Sheriff
Barney runs for Sheriff when Andy seems likely to accept another job. Andy's job falls through and he becomes a write-in candidate for re-election. Ed Crumpacker lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. Andy's job offer might have landed him in Europe or South America. The businesses in Mayberry that wouldn't allow Barney to put his poster in their windows are Floyd's Barbershop, Groceries and Meats, Dave's Coffee Shop, and the jewelry store. Barney charges Andy with 76 cases of malfeasance in the sheriff's office. Barney admits to Andy that he took about one hundred of his "Fife for Sheriff" posters and used them as wallpaper for his apartment.
149	149	February 15, 1965	If I Had a Quarter Million
Barney finds $250,000 in cash from a bank robbery and decides to capture the robber himself. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Barney's "expensive cigars" cost 35¢ each. He tells Floyd he plans to smoke eight of them a day. Floyd wonders out loud about how Barney acquired his money. He asks Barney if a relative passed away, or if he won the big prize on a television show.
150	150	March 1, 1965	TV or Not TV
Phony Hollywood filmmakers come to Mayberry, claiming to be researching the "Sheriff Without A Gun" for a TV show. This is the only episode in which Goober's last name is given as Beasley, rather than Pyle. Andy's usual bedtime is between 10:00 PM and 10:30 PM, while Barney's is usually 11:00 PM. Andy tells Miss Blake that the majority of law enforcement in Mayberry consists of giving parking tickets, helping young'uns across the street, and putting lids back on trash cans.
151	151	March 8, 1965	Guest in the House
Helen becomes jealous when a pretty friend of the family stays at the Taylor home. Jan Shutan appears as Gloria. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. There is a miniature golf course in Mount Pilot. It costs $1.50 for a twosome to play a round. Katherine Harney was a girlfriend of Andy's when he was in high school. She broke Andy's heart when she went to the prom with Vern Harris. According to Vern's mother, Andy spied on Vern and Katherine from a nearby tree as they were going to the prom.
152	152	March 15, 1965	The Case of the Punch in the Nose
Barney divides Mayberry into two hostile camps when he finds that an old assault case, involving Floyd and a friend, that was never resolved. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. One of the few episodes to make reference of a sheriff that preceded Andy (Sheriff Poindexter), although Andy didn't include him when he told Barney the names of the sheriffs that preceded him in episode 106, "Citizen's Arrest". Otis Campbell was first arrested for drinking at 2:00 PM on September 23, 1941. He was nabbed at the Mayberry Garden Club's flower show. Since it was his first arrest, his sentence was suspended. Barney states that Otis probably "passed out in somebody's poppies". An assault occurred in Mayberry at 11:25 a.m. on August 9, 1946. The two people involved were Floyd Lawson (Mayberry's then-new barber) and grocer Charlie Foley. Who threw punches? Floyd punched Charley Foley. Charley Foley punched Goober. Otis punched Floyd. (Otis and Foley are distant kin.) Goober punched Gilly Walker. Opie punched Johnny Paul Jason, Foley's nephew. Lamar Tuttle, Floyd's cousin, punched Otis. Betty Ann was punched by...someone. We don't know who. And finally Barney was punched by Foley or Floyd.
153	153	March 22, 1965	Opie's Newspaper
Opie becomes a newspaper publisher and proceeds to distribute free copies full of scandal and gossip. The Mayberry Sun cost three cents for adults and two cents for students. Andy mentions the name of one of Opie's friends as Troy Bowden. In previous episodes, young Mr. Bowden's name was Trey. William Keene returns as the preacher, unnamed in the episode even though the cast credits list him Reverend Martin. In other episodes, Mr. Keene's character's name was Reverend Tucker. Burt Mustin is listed in the cast credits as Sam Benson, even though his character's name is never mentioned in the episode. In Opie and Howie's print shop, an empty box of Frosted Flakes and Cheerios can be seen in the background. Opie and Howie ran out of the letters "D" and "E" when they were printing the Mayberry Sun. Barney blames the current rash of hot weather in Mayberry on "the bomb".
154	154	March 29, 1965	Aunt Bee's Invisible Beau
Aunt Bee invents a beau. When she's pressed for a name, she names the butter and egg man, who happens to be married. Andy, Helen, and Aunt Bee play Scrabble at the beginning of the episode. Clara has a son named Gale. She has dated a man by the name of Clark Cooper for the past five years. Both Orville Hendricks and Farley Thurston make their deliveries to the Taylor house on Saturday mornings. Aunt Bee's usual order is three dozen eggs, one pound of whipped butter, and one pound of salted butter. The cost is $2.42. In the second half of this episode Andy is sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper. The paper is an actual copy of Andy's hometown journal from Mount Airy, North Carolina.
155	155	April 5, 1965	The Arrest of the Fun Girls
The Fun Girls purposely get a speeding ticket to grab the attention of Andy and Barney. Helen and Thelma Lou become jealous and refuse to go to the town dance. The fun girls go 45 mph in a 20 mph zone. The special at Morelli's Restaurant on Monday is creamed chicken. Barney hates it. Another eatery, the Roadside Rest in Mayberry, charges extra for coffee and only gives one dinner roll per person. The Hofbrau Restaurant in Mount Pilot specializes in German food only. Andy and Barney had to work late because they were waiting for a telephone call from the highway department. When the call comes in, Andy speaks to two men named Wes and Monroe. Andy promises to send Monroe some sourwood honey in exchange for a ham. This episode is the final appearance of the fun girls.
156	156	April 12, 1965	The Luck of Newton Monroe
An itinerant peddler seems unable to do anything but anger Barney. Don Rickles guest-stars. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Goober states that Raleigh is sixty miles from Mayberry. Andy pays $17.00 to repair the water pipe that Newton destroyed. Newton gives a 10% discount on his wares to men in uniform. In a continuity blooper, Andy and Barney confront Newton about defective merchandise. The master shot of the confrontation shows Andy, Barney, and Newton standing in front of Dave's Coffee Shop but the medium shots and closeups place the three in front of a jewelry store.
157	157	April 19, 1965	Opie Flunks Arithmetic
Barney helps Opie with his schoolwork, using a teaching method all his own. This is Don Knotts's last episode (except for subsequent guest appearances). He left the show after he signed up with Universal Studios to star in motion pictures, though Andy Griffith relented to pressure from the network (CBS), keeping his show on for several more years. Knotts then said he strongly regretted leaving the show, because his movies prevented him from being a series regular. Aunt Bee received all A's in chemistry when she was in high school. She compared herself to Marie Curie. Opie keeps a picture of Aunt Bee on his bedroom dresser. Barney says that Mount Pilot has a good vocational school that is dedicated to meat cutting.
158	158	April 26, 1965	Opie and the Carnival
Opie tries to win a birthday present for his father at a carnival, not realizing that the shooting gallery is a scam. Don Knotts does not appear in this episode. The shooting gallery uses .22 rifles. Prizes at the shooting gallery include a Swiss watch, a pearl-handled carving set from the Orient, a genuine ceramic pelican, a razor, a napkin holder with a picture of a log cabin on it, a celluloid Cupid doll, a statue of a Siamese cat from the Orient, hair dryers, fishing poles, toasters, jackknifes, percolators, hunting knives, bookends, pencil sharpeners, ashtrays, thermometers, and an electric can opener.
159	159	May 3, 1965	Banjo-Playing Deputy
In the final black and white episode, Andy gives a destitute banjo player a job as a Deputy Sheriff. Jerry Van Dyke guest-stars. This episode is a rare example of a continuation of a previous episode. "Banjo-Playing Deputy" takes place at the same carnival used in episode 158, "Opie And The Carnival". Floyd tells Andy that he thought Calvin Coolidge said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." It was actually Theodore Roosevelt. Floyd agrees with Andy that Coolidge did say, "I do not choose to run". Andy told Jerry that he had business to attend in Mount Pilot. How and why did he wind up at the carnival so quickly to break up the fight that Jerry got into? Two cast note errors are (1) Hope Summers is listed in the credits as Miss Bedloe, even though Andy refers to her as Miss Edwards; and (2) Mary Lansing is listed as Miss Roundtree in the credits, even though Andy refers to her as Miss Lukens.

Color Episodes

Season 6 (1965–1966)

30 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
160	163	October 4, 1965	Aunt Bee, the Swinger
Aunt Bee and her new boyfriend aren't as young as they used to be - or as they first thought. This is the first color episode to be produced. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Viewers get a rare opportunity to see a color shot of Aunt Bee's bedroom. She keeps a Raggedy Ann doll on a chair. A gentleman named Mr. Branch lives directly across the street from the Taylors. He never speaks to Andy, but he always acknowledges him by nodding his head. The Mayberry Community Center is the site for the square dance that Aunt Bee and John Canfield attend with Andy and Helen.
161	160	September 13, 1965	Opie's Job
Opie gets a part-time job in a grocery store, but gives it up because another boy needs employment more. This is the first color episode to be broadcast. Also, a rescored opening theme (actually abridged from the closing credits) is used for the first time. George Lindsey is now a series regular. Events contributing to Andy's bad mood: (1) "That Leonard boy" got mad at his brother and stole his car. Then he drove it to the marsh, where he set it on fire. This set the marsh ablaze and it took all day to put it out. "That Leonard boy" is still at large. (2) Somebody kept calling the courthouse and asking for Ethel. (3) Otis got gassed and drove his car right through the Harper's rose garden, leveling it. When Andy arrested him, Otis wanted to fight. Floyd tells Andy that Mayberryian Craig Folger claims to have a cowlick, but it's actually a scar. It seems Craig's wife, Millie, hit him on the head with a broomstick handle after she caught him coming home late one night. Goober teaches Opie the proper way to apply for a job.
162	164	October 11, 1965	The Bazaar
Andy's new eager-beaver deputy, Warren Ferguson, jails Aunt Bee and her friends for gambling (bingo) at their charity bazaar. Jack Burns' first appearance as Warren Ferguson. Warren claims to have been born with compassion and Andy says he has an unusual way with words. The ladies of the auxiliary have operated a bazaar for the past 18 years without a permit. Andy says that Mayberry has a population of under 2,000 and that its biggest industry is making patchwork quilts. Andy tells Warren the Mayberry rules for a long, happy life, of which there are three: (1) Don't play leap frog with elephants. (2) Don't pet a tiger unless his tail's wagging. (3) Never, ever mess with the Ladies Auxiliary. An angry Andy storms out of the courthouse, grabs a rock and hurls it away. A second later, he is dismayed to hear the sound of breaking glass!
163	161	September 20, 1965	Andy's Rival
Andy becomes jealous when he realizes that a handsome new teacher is spending evenings with his girlfriend, Helen. Andy makes his Punch Supreme. Its ingredients include orange sherbet, tomato juice, root beer, and molasses. Andy was the valedictorian of his high school class. According to Frank, many of the houses along North Avenue in Mayberry date back to the early nineteenth century and are antebellum in style. Helen's house number is 895. Goober and Andy saw the film The Monsters From The Moon some time ago. Goober says that it was very similar to The Monster From Mars except the Mars monster has four sets of teeth, while moon monsters have only three. Goober would like to go to Jasper to see the new tractor display. (An interesting note: although presumably Goober is referring to a town in North Carolina, the actor George Lindsey was born in Jasper, Alabama).
164	162	September 27, 1965	Malcolm at the Crossroads
Andy hires Ernest T. Bass as a school crossing guard and compounds the problem by replacing him with British bicycler, Malcolm Merriweather. This is the last appearance of Ernest T. Bass. This is also the last appearance of Malcom Merriweather. This episode is also the only color episode these characters appear in. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Some background on Malcolm: He was a valet (or a gentleman's gentleman) to the colonel for the last six years. He can stock a wine cellar and has worked as a falcon keeper. He used to tinker with the colonel's family car, taking care of the "mechanism under the bonnet." Malcolm was a member of the Cold Stream Guard, serving as a valet to his commanding officer. For the record, Malcolm's mother was born in the heart of London, England, just two blocks off of Picadilly Circus. Ernest T. says that his fiancee, Ramona, is being given a shower by her girlfriends....a plain, hot water shower! Goober says he was a bully when he was a youngster.
165	169	November 15, 1965	Aunt Bee on TV
Aunt Bee wins a kitchen-full of new appliances on a TV show but loses all her friends. Opie had written Goober telling him he collected 22 autographs. Upon arriving home, he shows him his autograph book. Among the signatures he collected: Audie Murphy, Tony Curtis, Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dean Martin, and Dave Schneider. Mr. Schneider was a necktie salesman. He was wearing sunglasses, which fooled the Taylors into thinking he was a celebrity. Andy tells his friends that on a tour of movie stars' home, they saw houses belonging to Debbie Reynolds, Cesar Romero, and Jack Benny. Although we never learn what the grand prize question was on the "Win or Lose" game show, Aunt Bee's winning answer was "Cinnamon with custard filling." Mr. Heathcote's license plate reads, "U.S. Government IR-51957." Andy sarcastically remarks that the agent seems to enjoy his work. The value of Aunt Bee's prizes: $4,850.00. The tax based on Andy's income: $1,138.72.
166	166	October 25, 1965	Off to Hollywood
The Taylors leave for a Hollywood vacation. Andy receives a $1,000 check from Belmont Studios in Hollywood (signed by Art Spiegel). Goober tries to entice Andy into buying a 1958 convertible automobile from him for $600. Floyd owns two acres of swampland on the north side of Mayberry. He tells Andy he would sell it to him for $150 an acre. He encourages him to put on his wading boots and go check it out. Opie says he would like to see movie stars, such as John Wayne, Elvis Presley, and Fabian, during is Hollywood trip. Andy says Hollywood is 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from Mayberry, but Aunt Bee adds that it's only 5 1⁄2 hours traveling by plane.
167	167	November 1, 1965	Taylors in Hollywood
The Taylors start an exciting vacation in Hollywood, including a visit to the set of a movie based on Andy's life, "Sheriff Without a Gun". A.J. Considine was played by Hayden Rorke, who was best known as Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie. Brian Bender was played by Gavin MacLeod, who is best known as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Capt. Merrill Stubbing on The Love Boat. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. On the bus en route to the Piedmont Hotel, the Taylors see Dino's Lodge, Schwab's Pharmacy, the Whiskey A Go Go, and Blair House Motor Hotel. The Taylors stay in Room #403 at the Piedmont Hotel. Opie wants to see the La Brea Tar Pits and Marineland of the Pacific, while Aunt Bee inquires about the Brown Derby Restaurant. Aunt Bee wishes the film would depict the nice things that Andy does, such as distributing baskets at Christmas and giving safety lectures at the high school.
168	168	November 8, 1965	The Hollywood Party
Andy poses for a picture with a Hollywood starlet and his romance with Helen is jolted when it appears in the Mayberry paper. Pat Michaels, who was played by Sid Melton is best known as Alf Monroe on Green Acres. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Miss Mason's telephone number is given as 27399. Mr. Michaels, taking some biographical background on Andy, stretches a few facts. He credits Andy with an extra two inches of height, and he calls Mayberry "Blueberry" and places the town in South Carolina. Helen's telephone number is given as 2389. Aunt Bee and Opie go on a tour of Beverly Hills. Aunt Bee has heard that nowhere on earth do zinnias do better, and they say that the snapdragons also go crazy.
169	165	October 18, 1965	A Warning from Warren
Andy's Deputy upsets his weekend when he insists his ESP predicts a picnic will end in disaster. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Warren's mother is Floyd's sister. Floyd says Warren has her features: a high forehead and a pointy nose. Warren's been reading a book titled The Fundamentals of Extrasensory Perception. He also reads magazines on the subject. One of the magazines had the story of 12-year-old Sonya Wallachauka of Warsaw, Poland. In 1928, little Sonya foresaw an avalanche. She warned her family and friends of her premonition. During the next evening, an avalanche did occur. Her warnings saved the lives of four people. Floyd, seemingly oblivious to the passage of years, remarks, "I'd like to shake that little girl's hand!" Viewers get a rare glimpse of Andy's bedroom in this episode.
170	171	November 29, 1965	A Man's Best Friend
Goober has dreams of entering show business when he thinks he owns a genuine talking dog. When playing "secret agent," Opie's code number is TX4, Tommy's is X21, Goober's is XY27, and Spot is known as FBI Dog. Tommy's family moved from an unnamed larger town to Mayberry. Tommy's father is the chief accountant at the new shoe factory. Aunt Bee says that Opie is 11 years old.
171	172	December 6, 1965	Aunt Bee Takes a Job
Aunt Bee gets a job at the town print shop where the new proprietors are really counterfeiters. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Knigsley and Finch's print shop is located at 177 Main Street in downtown Mayberry. They took over the building that previously housed Hanson's Print Shop. In fact, Hanson's sign still appears on the front door. Aunt Bee's job pays $30.00 a week, and she works from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM on weekdays. Aunt Bee has a friend named Clara Cartwright who works three days a week at the bakery in Mayberry. Clara's birthday is on August 21. Aunt Bee's birthday is on March 17, but no year is given for either lady.
172	170	November 22, 1965	The Cannon
Warren captures a pair of thieves through sheer stupidity about the functions of a cannon. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. The governor of North Carolina is George C. Handley. Harry Bosworth is the head of the Mayberry Water and Power Company. Sharon Dobbins is the current Potato Queen of Mayberry. Goober is considering buying an imitation alligator wallet for $1.95 from an ad in Thrilling Stories magazine. Aunt Bee serves shrimp cocktail, chicken a la king, ladyfingers, and coffee at the governor's luncheon reception. Warren proposes the following slogan: "Mayberry's Founder's Day, May Mayberry Never Founder." It is not well received.
173	174	December 20, 1965	Girl-Shy
Girl-shy Warren turns into a sleep walking Casanova after watching his suave hero on television. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Warren is originally from Boston. Aunt Bee's first blind date was with a man named Orville Buck. They went ice skating, and Aunt Bee had to hold Orville up all through the evening because he had weak ankles. Aunt Bee said that they didn't get along very well and that some years later, Orville was killed in an explosion. When Warren is planning to leave Mayberry, he offers Goober the following items: an orange juice squeezer, a science fiction book called Moon Men Invade Venus On Giant Bats, a brick, and a portable television. He tells Goober that he has to ask $50.00 for the television.
174	173	December 13, 1965	The Church Organ
Andy struggles with the financial challenge of helping the All Souls Church buy a new church organ. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Before she got the new organ, Clara played "Love Lifted Me" (#256 in the hymn book) during church services because the song doesn't contain too many flats. Andy has to quiet a mischievous Opie for laughing at Clara's broken organ at church. Harlan Robinson lives on Oakmont Road in Mount Pilot. The first hymn sung after Clara receives the new organ is "Bringing In The Sheaves." In celebration of receiving the new organ, the entire church congregation sings "Leaning On The Everlasting Arms." Warren tells Andy that he used to be in the wholesale fish business. He lasted for over three months.
175	175	January 3, 1966	Otis, the Artist
Warren starts Otis, the town drunk, on a therapeutic art career. Otis has an imaginary dog, whom he calls Spot. He tries to sic it on Warren. Later, a real dog accompanies a drunken Otis as he stumbles into the courthouse, but he is apparently invisible to his master. When Otis threatens to do his drinking in Mount Pilot or Siler City, Warren threatens to blacklist him from every jail within a 500-mile (800 km) radius of Mayberry. This is how Warren coerced Otis to try mosaics. Otis's weekday job is at the furniture factory, where he is a glue-dipper. This is the only mention of his job in the series. Goober studied art in Bible School one summer.
176	176	January 10, 1966	The Return of Barney Fife
Barney makes a triumphal return to Mayberry to attend his high school reunion and is elated to find Thelma Lou will be attending, along with her new husband. Don Knotts guest stars in this episode. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. This episode marks the last appearance of Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou) in the series and also the only color episode in which she appeared. In episode 82, "Class Reunion," the graduating year is given as 1945. In this episode, the class graduated in 1948. Barney drives a blue 1960 Ford Edsel in this episode. The car has a 1961 grille. Nettie Albright has dyed her hair blonde and now lives in Asheville.
177	177	January 17, 1966	The Legend of Barney Fife
While visiting Mayberry, Barney is forced to display his "legendary courage" by going after an escaped convict. Don Knotts guest stars in this episode. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. When Barney was a youngster, his idol was Richard "Skeets" Gallagher. Skeets was the sidekick to Tailspin Tommy. In the early to mid 1930s, Tailspin Tommy and his friend Skeets were popular comic book heroes. The characters also appeared in live-action movie serials. Warden Hix is the director of the County Work Farm. Avery Noonan has vowed revenge against Barney.
178	178	January 24, 1966	Lost and Found
Aunt Bee collects insurance for the loss of an antique jeweled pin. After she spends the money she finds the missing heirloom. Aunt Bee promises to pay Opie a quarter for helping her paint the dresser. Sarah Smedley comes down with the flu, and Aunt Bee has to take over the job of running the cookie booth at the upcoming bazaar. Aunt Bee has operated the booth for the past three years. For this year's bazaar, she bakes 26 dozen cookies. Ed the insurance agent is played by Jack Dodson, who would later appear in the series as Howard Sprague. A contradiction occurs in this episode. In episode 165 "Aunt Bee On TV," Aunt Bee won a garbage disposal, among other game show prizes. She sold most of her prizes to pay the IRS, but retained the garbage disposal and a television. In this episode, however, she claims to have given up the disposal that she won in Hollywood.
179	179	January 31, 1966	Wyatt Earp Rides Again
The supposed descendant of the famous Wyatt Earp rides into Mayberry. He demands a duel with Andy after he considers his family honor to be insulted. Jack Burns' last appearance as Warren Ferguson. The character was dropped from the series after only 11 episodes, due to unfavorable reviews. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Fred Gibson and Clarence Earp have made 15 tours across the United States. The last traveling show that passed through Mayberry featured a fire-eater known as the Great Mandrake. Floyd recalls that the show didn't last long because the fire department had to keep putting the Great Mandrake out. Warren won a month's supply of mint jelly for being the arm wrestling champion at last year's Founder's Day picnic. Warren ends up losing a 50¢ bet to Clarence when he beats the Mayberry deputy two consecutive times at arm wrestling. A man from Mayberry named Harvey Kester used to repair Gloria Swanson's radio set.
180	180	February 7, 1966	Aunt Bee Learns to Drive
Andy faces some problems when Aunt Bee buys a second-hand car. The car Aunt Bee buys a previously owned by Jed Coontz. Its seats are broken in well, because Jed weighs over 290 pounds. Aunt Bee pays $295.00 for the black Ford Sunliner convertible. Andy orders a boy to ride his bicycle closer to the curb. This was the distraction that led to Andy bumping into Aunt Bee's car. According to Floyd, the dingo dog is indigenous to Australia.
181	181	February 14, 1966	Look Paw, I'm Dancing
Reluctant Opie attends his first dancing party, and discovers dancing with girls is fun. Johnny Paul has an unnamed sister. Opie is a washroom monitor at school. A man named Arnold Pruitt works at the record store in Mayberry. Opie's classmate named Bruce, who is shown getting a haircut from Floyd on credit, is not listed in the cast credits. Floyd declares that as a youngster, Andy was a real stick-in-the-mud and that he hid in a barn during his school dance.
182	183	February 28, 1966	Eat Your Heart Out
Goober falls in love with a new waitress in town but she becomes infatuated with Andy. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Goober claims that the Mayberry Diner has the best mashed potatoes in town. When Andy meets Flora for the first time, he and Goober both order the meatloaf plate. Flora gives Andy the larger portion. The next day, Andy and Goober have the diner deliver their pot roast special to the courthouse. Flora personally makes the delivery and ignores Goober completely. Instead, she sets up Andy with a red checkered tablecloth and gives him the larger portion of roast beef. Andy and Helen go to a movie in which an irate wife shoots her unfaithful husband. After the movie, they go to the diner. A spiteful and jealous Flora serves Andy a large and perfectly cut piece of apple pie. On the other hand, she literally throws a small and botched-up piece of pie to Helen. The music that plays throughout this episode during the diner sequences is similar to music composed by Max Steiner for the 1959 motion picture A Summer Place.
183	182	February 21, 1966	The Gypsies
Andy has a problem when a band of Gypsies come to town armed with old-world hocus-pocus and modern science. The gypsies are Murrillos, the leader of the group; Queen La Farona, Murrillos's booze-guzzling mother; Sabella, Murrillos's pretty sister; and Sylvio, Murrillos's best friend. Jamie Farr appears as Sylvio, even though the cast credits incorrectly list his character's name as Grecos. Mr. Farr is well known for his role as the cross-dressing Corporal Max Klinger on the sitcom M*A*S*H* Soda pop costs 10¢ a bottle at the filling station. CQL is an advance weather radio station in Greenland.
184	184	March 7, 1966	A Baby in the House
Aunt Bee agrees to a week of baby-sitting for her niece and finds the adorable infant adores everyone but her. Goober claims that he didn't talk until he was five years old. Aunt Bee used to correspond by mail with an unnamed lady from Buffalo, New York. Dr. Walker's baby book, From The Cradle To Junior College has sold more than 65,000 copies, according to Aunt Bee. Andy keeps a picture of Aunt Bee on his bedroom dresser. On one of the days that Evie Joy cries constsntly, Andy had to stay up the previous night breaking up a fight between two brothers, Jed and Carl Darling. The fight started when Jed told Carl there is no Santa Claus. It is not mentioned whether Jed and Carl are related to Briscoe Darling and his clan. Opie's first class of the day is gym.
185	185	March 14, 1966	The County Clerk
Andy and Helen run into trouble when they promote a romance between the County Clerk, Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson) and the county nurse. This is the first appearance of Jack Dodson as Howard Sprague. Frances Bavier and George Lindsey do not appear in this episode. As county clerk, Howard asks Andy to provide him with Mayberry's accident reports for the past 20 years. Howard is preparing a statistical study on how accidents relate to population growth. Andy provides the reports, however, 1953's report is missing. Opie claims the Howard throws a baseball like Aunt Bee. Irene Fairchild took over Howard's old office in Room #201 at the Mayberry County Building. He moved to larger office in Room #203. Irene discovered a t-shirt that Howard had put in a file cabinet in his old office. Embarrassed, he explained that he had taken off the shirt on a particularly hot day. Mrs. Sprague always refers to Andy as "Andrew." Miss Fairchild refers to Howard as "Howie." Dr. Burnside is Mrs. Sprague's physician.
186	187	March 28, 1966	Goober's Replacement
Goober's girlfriend fills in for him at the filling station and proves so efficient that the boss wants her as Goober's permanent replacement. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Horace Flood couldn't fill in for Goober at Wally's because he was studying electronics. Louis Jordan was considered, but he was going on the fishing trip with Goober. Wally sells Acme regular and super gasoline. A quart of premium motor oil costs 45¢. Wally also owns and operates a laundry business in Mayberry. In this episode, Goober drives a light blue pickup truck. Flora orders a tuna salad sandwich, hold the mayo, and a cup of coffee at the Mayberry Diner. No reason is given as to why Flora is no longer working as a waitress at the Mayberry Diner. According to the cast credits, Burt Mustin appears as the "Old Geezer."
187	186	March 21, 1966	The Foster Lady
Aunt Bee almost becomes a star of a television commercial before she decides stardom is not for her. According to Andy, Mr. Foster's car went into the ditch about one and a half miles from the lake on the Juniper Road. Mr. Foster's mobile telephone number is KG62114. He car's license plate number is SD-561. His address is 403 Elm Street in Raleigh. Goober's service station's telephone number is given as 363. Real-life staffers from The Andy Griffith Show - hair stylist Eva Kryger, director of photography Sid Hickox, and crewman Burt Taylor - appear as part of the commercial crew. Kryger plays a makeup artist. Floyd tells Mr. Foster that he has used Foster's Furniture Polish for years. He says that he would like to be "the Foster man," should the need ever arise. The Foster Furniture Polish Company sponsors the television series "The Rex Benson Show." The series features Rex Benson and the Sing Songers. Martha Carruthers of Pleasantville becomes the Foster Lady. She even sings Aunt Bee's jingle.
188	188	April 4, 1966	The Battle of Mayberry
Opie upsets the whole town when he discovers that the famous Battle of Mayberry was not the glorious victory that everyone thought it was. A Raleigh newspaper edition of May 18, 1762 describes the Battle of Mayberry. Opie speaks to a Mayberrian named Mr. MacGruder about the Battle of Mayberry. The title of Opie's paper is "The True Story of the Battle of Mayberry." Tom Strongbow is a farmer who resides at Rural Route 3, Box 222, in Mayberry. The cost of admission to the Grand Theater in Mayberry is 25¢ for balcony seats and 35¢ for the orchestra area.
189	189	April 11, 1966	A Singer in Town
Aunt Bee's original song about Mayberry is a hit when a Rock 'n' Roll star plays it on his television show. The singer, Keezy Hazelton, is played by Jesse Pearson, who played teen rock idol Conrad Birdie in the film version of Bye Bye Birdie. Floyd says that he wears long underwear even when the temperature reaches 70°. Keevy Hazelton had a million-seller with a song called "Texarkana In The Morning". Some of his other songs include "Abilene" and "Mobile". Opie gets Keevy Hazelton to accept Aunt Bee's pot roast dinner invitation by telling him that the special at the Mayberry Diner is chicken croquettes, which are terrible. The words and music to "My Hometown" were written by "Andy Griffith Show" musical director Earle Hagen. Keevy was either the first known "air" guitarist or the worst person to ever pretend he was playing guitar on TV. If his fingers even made it near the guitar strings, it was surely by accident. Keevy introduces Aunt Bee and Clara to his television audience as "a couple of ladies who are going to make Tin Pan Alley sit up and take notice." After the success of "My Hometown," Aunt Bee and Clara receive fan mail and begin writing a song about Venice, Italy.

Season 7 (1966–1967)

30 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
190	190	September 12, 1966	Opie's Girlfriend
Opie's friendship with an athletically superior girl blossoms when she follows the advice of an older female and adopts the clinging vine approach. Helen's niece, Cynthia, is from Wheeling, West Virginia. Opie reminds Andy of the time he was forced to go to a school dance. This is a reference to episode 181, "Look Paw, I'm Dancing." Opie is president of his seventh-grade class. Cynthia's favorite subject in school is history. Opie's is lunch.
191	192	September 26, 1966	The Barbershop Quartet
The Mayberry barbershop quartet loses its tenor when Howard can't go to the singing contest so Andy drafts a prisoner with a beautiful voice. Hamilton Camp guest stars as Jeff Nelson. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. The Mayberry Barbershop Quartet performs "Beautiful Isle Of Make Believe" at the contest. In practice, they sing "In The Gloaming," in case they are called upon to do an encore. The Mayberry Quartet is scheduled to perform at 8:30 PM., as the final contestants in the Mount Pilot contest. The Mayberrians use dressing room F. Floyd tells Sheriff Wilson that Jeff Nelson is a famous singer who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Ken Mayer appears as Sheriff Blake Wilson, although the cast credits list him as "Sheriff Blake."
192	191	September 19, 1966	The Lodge
Goober blackballs Howard when he applies for membership in the Mayberry men's lodge. The secret password at the lodge is "Geronimo." As the Keeper of the Door, Goober wears a red turban with green tassels and a large gold key and chain around his neck. Howard tells Andy that in the past 23 years, girl births have outnumbered boy births by 94%, practically 2 to 1. Howard's first words after becoming a lodge member: "I sure could use one of those root beers." The lodge serves beer, root beer, and soft drinks. Howard enjoys drinking the lodge's root beer. Floyd tells Howard that root beer was invented by the Indians and is a very healthy drink. He mentions that "you don't see many sick Indians."
193	195	October 17, 1966	The Darling Fortune
Andy and the town of Mayberry undergo a trying experience when the hillbilly Darling family comes into a fortune of $300 and shows up in town looking for brides for the boys. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Briscoe refers to Goober as "Big Ears" because he is nosy. The Darling boys are finally named. On guitar: Rodney On mandolin: Dean (aka Other) On the bass: Mitch On banjo: Doug (aka Jebbin) No mention is made as to whether Charlene is still married to Dud Wash, or the whereabouts of her daughter, Andelina. This is the final appearance of Briscoe Darling, the Darling boys and Charlene.
194	194	October 10, 1966	Aunt Bee's Crowning Glory
A visiting pastor's message, ("Be yourself") causes Aunt Bee to don a blonde wig, upsetting Andy and the rest of Mayberry. Reverend Leighton is from Raleigh. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Floyd claims that he knows all of Reverend Tucker's sermons by heart. Helens says that Aunt Bee is the best cook in Mayberry. Opie shows Reverend Leighton some card tricks. Clara serves chopped-egg canapes among her hors d'oeuvres at the reception.
195	193	October 3, 1966	The Ball Game
Andy is concerned about the appearance of favoritism when he decides to umpire a crucial junior baseball game for Opie, but ends up angering the town when one of his decisions loses the game for Mayberry. The Mayberry Giants' team colors are orange and white. The Mount Pilot Comets' colors are navy blue and white. Floyd says that being the manager of the Mayberry Giants has made Goober "power mad." Goober's baseball signals to his players are as follows: (1) Wiping his hands across his chest means a hit, (2) Tugging at the bill of his cap means to bunt, (3) Grabbing his belt buckle means to take a pitch. Johnny Adams is the lead-off hitter for the Mount Pilot Comets. Ron Howard stated that this episode was his favorite. This episode was appropriately aired just two days prior to the 1966 World Series, between the Baltimore Orioles and the Los Angeles Dodgers. For the record, the Orioles won the series, four games to none.
196	203	December 19, 1966	Goober Makes History
After growing a beard, inarticulate Goober suddenly becomes a verbose philosopher, and shares his new-found "wisdom" with all his friends. Howie Forman had a bad habit of chewing on Opie's pencils at school. Floyd trims Goober's beard for no charge. Goober promises to give him a free radiator flush in return. Opie asks Andy about the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the Stamp Act. Shorty Watson once owned and operated a grocery store in Mayberry. One time, Goober, Shorty and a few others went on a fishing trip to Troublesome Creek. Sandy Kenyon appears as Bill Lindsey. The cast credits incorrectly list Richard Bull in this role.
197	198	November 14, 1966	The Senior Play
Helen Crump and her teenaged students find themselves at odds with the crotchety old school principal over the content of a play, but eventually convince him that today's youngsters are not that different from his own generation's. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Helen appeared in a few plays during her college days. Howard is the treasurer of the high school. The budget for the play is only $38.00. Miss Vogel is in charge of all the costumes in the play. She suggested that the play should be a series of skits depicting great moments in history. Mr. Hampton and Howard liked her idea. Helen and the students hated it. While in high school, Floyd appeared in The Mikado. He claims to have been the backbone of the drama club. He sings "A Wandering Minstrel" from the afore-mentioned operetta. Goober joins in on a pitiful duet. Andy and Goober assist in painting the sets for the play.
198	200	November 28, 1966	Big Fish in a Small Town
Fishing season begins, and the town's sportsmen are all eager for a chance to catch "Old Sam", the biggest fish in the lake. Howard, a non-fisherman, tags along and antagonizes everybody by catching him. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy uses size #6 fish hooks. Goober's cousin tells him to use a piece of banana peel with red yarn as bait. Goober claims that Tucker's Lake is also loaded with rainbow and bluegill. Opie has been fishing since he was four years old. According to Opie, the deepest spot in Tucker's Lake is ten feet. Howard states that 90% of lake fish are caught when the water temperature is between 60° and 68°. Goober also likes to fish at a place called Warrior River.
199	196	October 31, 1966	Mind Over Matter
Goober's injuries cause his friends to convince him he has a severe case of whiplash and he promptly becomes a helpless invalid. Goober borrows mercurochrome from Floyd. It can be found next to the bay rum. Andy tells Goober that his injury is psychosomatic. Floyd neglected to tell Goober that Johnny Harris was kicked in the head by a mule. Aunt Bee left out the fact that Willis Cundiff is 91 years old. Goober claims that he was once a star football player. Andy has to sleep on a cot in the spare room while Goober is a house guest.
200	197	November 7, 1966	Politics Begin at Home
Aunt Bee runs against Howard for the office of town councilman. Floyd spent 4 years on the town council, years ago. He says they were four of the stormiest years in Mayberry's political history. The town was rife with corruption, including the famous drinking fountain scandal. It seems that someone hooked up a hot water line to the fountain and then tried to cover it up. Clara arranges for Aunt Bee to speak at the Booster Club Luncheon as well as before the Literary Guild. Lillian Hartzell has offered to accompany Aunt Bee and play her saxophone. Aunt Bee believes that Lillian's version of "Flight of the Bumblebee" livens up an audience. Tillie Kincaid suggests that Elm Street would look nicer if only the Wallravens would paint their home. Aunt Bee would like to see a dam and a water wheel installed, once the bridge on Baker Street is completed. Opie gets a high D on his history test.
201	204	December 26, 1966	A New Doctor in Town
Nobody in Mayberry wants to be the first to see if the town's new doctor is qualified, until Andy shows his faith in the young doctor by letting him remove Opie's tonsils. The doctor is played by William Christopher who later played Father Mulcahy on the television version of M*A*S*H. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Dr. Peterson is 25 years old and drives a convertible. His license plate is SR-490. He also has another license plate affixed to his car. This license plate number is MBB-624. The Taylors' address is given as 14 Maple. Opie's bedtime is now 9:00 PM. Andy states that youngsters need a good 10 hours of sleep. Dr. Peterson likes to joke about his tender age. When folks ask him if he is old enough to have a doctor's license, he responds, "No, I only have a learner's permit." Floyd and Clara do not find this amusing.
202	199	November 21, 1966	Opie Finds a Baby
Opie and his friend Arnold find an abandoned baby. They run into trouble when they innocently try to find it some new parents. Jack Nicholson plays the baby's father. Arnold tells Andy that when he grows up, he also wants to be a sheriff who doesn't carry a gun. Arnold plans to use an Australian bullwhip instead. Arnold also tells Opie that he caught a shark while fishing at Hopkins Creek. Opie tells him that he's nuts. Arnold deduces that the baby is a boy because of the blue blanket in the basket. Other than Helen and Goober, Opie and Arnold ask Sarah the telephone operator, a lady named Miss Cripps, an unnamed young woman with five children, and an unnamed elderly gentleman (who appreciated the thought) if they would like to have a baby.
203	201	December 5, 1966	Only a Rose
Opie accidentally ruins Aunt Bee's prize rose entry on the eve of the Annual Mayberry Flower Show. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Floyd wins the blue ribbon for his pansies. Snails and bugs, particularly aphids, are the bane of any flower grower. Clara advises, "Spray, spray, spray!" She also says that the Simmons Seed catalog has been the Mayberry Garden Club's planting bible for many years. Aunt Bee and Clara played basketball together at Sweetbriar Normal School. Aunt Bee was the backbone of the team, while Clara was the best dribbler. While preparing Aunt Bee for the bad news about her rose, Andy reminds her that the really important things in life are one's health, having enough money to live on, good friends, a sound mind, good weather, and pep. Andy suggests that he, Opie, and Aunt Bee could dine at the Copper Kettle in Mount Pilot.
204	202	December 12, 1966	Otis the Deputy
Otis and Howard bunglingly attempt to rescue Andy who has been taken prisoner by a pair of desperate bank-robbers. This episode was Otis's last series appearance. Otis states that Andy is his best friend. Howard quotes the theories of Dr. Emile Sharlock to Fred and Larry. Dr. Sharlock wrote that any criminal can be rehabilitated into becoming a good citizen. Initially, Fred tells Howard to "shut up" about Dr. Sharlock's theories. At the conclusion of the episode, Howard tries one more time to convince Fred about the theories. This time, Fred punches him in the stomach. Observant viewers should note that after Otis gets doused by the two cups of water and wakes up, his shirt is still wet, but his pants are bone dry.
205	205	January 2, 1967	Don't Miss a Good Bet
Andy and four of his level-headed friends and relatives are taken in by a con man's get-rich-quick scheme. According to Andy, Ross's Raiders were a group of men during the Civil War who showed allegiance to neither Union nor Confederate troops. They stole valuables from both sides. Once, they robbed a Union payroll train and took away over $100,000 in gold, which they promptly buried. They were later caught and sentenced to life in prison. Some believe that the ill-gotten booty is still buried. Floyd, who was named after his mother's brother, is secretary of the Downtown Businessman's Club. Goober and Floyd talk about what they'd do if they got a share ($10,000) of the treasure. Goober would likely buy his own gas station and hire someone to run it. Floyd would renovate his barbershop. He'd push out the shop in back and turn it into a five-chair affair.
206	206	January 9, 1967	Dinner at Eight
Andy looks forward to spending an evening alone in the house. However, due to Goober's error, he has a filling evening when he must eat three spaghetti dinners cooked by thoughtful friends. Aunt Bee's sister, Ellen, planned ahead for Aunt Bee's visit. First, she'll host a luncheon, then they'll attend a handicraft exhibit at the old people's home. After resting for an hour or two, they'll dine at the Armenian restaurant She-Bobs in Raleigh. Ellen wants Aunt Bee to make a return visit when it's time for the Strawberry Festival. Scoutmaster Stevens leads troop #44 (Opie's troop). He shows the boys how to keep warm by putting hot rocks in their sleeping bags. He was going to demonstrate how to make pancakes out of powdered eggs, oatmeal mix, and water over an outdoor fire, but it rained. Andy purchases the following foods at the market: wild mushrooms, canned oysters, chili sauce, pickled avocados, chocolate syrup, and shrimp enchiladas. Aunt Bee packs five pairs of socks in Opie's scout pack, just in case the ground is damp. The secret ingredient in spaghetti sauce: oregano. George Lindsey selected this episode as his favorite.
207	209	January 30, 1967	Andy's Old Girlfriend
Andy's perennial romance with Helen is jolted a bit when Andy's high school sweetheart moves back to town. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Andy and Alice remember the first time they went to the fair together and rode the ferris wheel. They got stuck on the very top, and a frightened Andy began screaming. Howard brushes his teeth with an electric toothbrush for 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. When he sleeps. it's usually on his stomach. Andy says he has known Helen for about five years and that she came from Kansas. Goober had been reading spicy romantic stories, but he gave them up for science fiction.
208	212	February 20, 1967	The Statue
Andy and Aunt Bee learn their ancestor was the state's biggest swindler, just before the town of Mayberry unveils his statue as a hero. Mayberrians believe their town is the garden spot of the state. Before the group decides on a statue, Clara suggests using the money to plant flowers in flower boxes and put them along the railings of the bridge over Parker Creek. This is on the main road from Raleigh. Andy says he'd like to rezone the property at the end of Main Street for commercial stores and development. Floyd opposes Andy's idea. He thinks there would be too much confusion and traffic. Andy has Seth Taylor's chin and Opie has Seth's eyes, according to Aunt Bee and Clara. According to Howard, Mr. Jackson creates over 90% of the tombstones used in the community. Clara and Howard decide to declare an annual Seth Taylor Day. Floyd claims that all the children in Mayberry (population 1,800) have good teeth.
209	210	February 6, 1967	Aunt Bee's Restaurant
Aunt Bee has a brief fling as co-owner of a Chinese restaurant in Mayberry, but her superstitions stand in the way of her success. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. When the Spare Ribs Tavern closed, Charlie Lee had planned to go back to his hometown of Pittsburgh and work at Wong Soo's Canton Palace. "Aunt Bee's Canton Palace" is located on Main Street in downtown Mayberry. Howard is particularly fond of water chesnuts in his Chinese food. On opening night at Aunt Bee's Canton Palace, Andy and his friends order the following dishes: Andy, Helen, and Goober go for the $1.95 Chow Mein dinner. Goober was going to opt for the smaller $1.65 Chow Mein dinner, until Andy said that he was picking up the tab. Howard orders the Ling Chi Chi (with only one Chi - a printer's error on the menu) chicken plate and a bowl of what Jack Lee refers to as a Chinese matzoth ball soup.
210	211	February 13, 1967	Floyd's Barbershop
Floyd decides to give up his Mayberry barbershop when Howard buys the building and raises the rent $15 a month. Harry Walker, who was played by David Ketchum, is best known as Agent 13 on Get Smart. Harry Walker's company is the Harry Walker Real Estate Company. Harry is a typical high-pressure salesman. He makes such dubious statements as "The aircraft industry has its eye on Mayberry." Floyd has cut Andy's hair since Andy was a youngster. Floyd fondly recalls that young Andy used to mistake shaving cream for ice cream. Howard's telephone number is given as 397. Floyd's Barbershop uses red and purple ceramic tile in the back room. On the lease Howard has drawn up for Floyd, the rent increase is stated in clause #6. Goober states that there has not been any bad blood in Mayberry since "that Ferguson girl" beat up Harold Lovett. Desperate to avoid getting a haircut from Aunt Bee, Opie threatens to ride his bike to a barbershop in Mount Pilot. After all, it's only a six-hour ride from Mayberry. (Unless Opie's mightily slow on his bike, this suggests an inconsistency with the distance established in previous episodes. Both 68 and 126 place the distance at 12 miles.)
211	207	January 16, 1967	A Visit to Barney Fife
Andy visits Barney, now with the Raleigh police department, and makes a hero out of his bumbling former deputy when he assists him in solving a string of supermarket robberies. Don Knotts guest stars in this episode. Frances Bavier, Ron Howard and George Lindsey do not appear in this episode. From his boarding house room window, Barney can get a glimpse of City Hall. His room features a private sink, a double bed, a real leather chair, and two pieces of art: "Laughing Cavalier" and "The Blue Boy." Barney's walls also feature his Mayberry High pennant and his framed Mayberry Gazette headline and story about his heroic cave rescue. Barney once arrested a minister for loitering. The minister is currently threatening to sue the Raleigh police department.
212	208	January 23, 1967	Barney Comes to Mayberry
Detective Barney Fife pays a visit to his old hometown. At the same time, a now-famous movie star who used to date Barney has returned to Mayberry for a motion picture premiere, and Barney is her escort. Don Knotts guest stars in this episode. The Mayberry Band plays "The Mayberry Theme" as Barney's train pulls into the depot. Barney wears a double-breasted tuxedo to the movie premiere. He rented it from Giggleheimer's. KNC is a television station in Raleigh. According to Andy, the train only comes through Mayberry once daily. Miss Andrews stays in Room #7 at the Mayberry Hotel. While making dinner reservations, Barney ask the maitre d' to put a bottle of the restaurant's best red wine on ice. He is informed that red wine is traditionally served at room temperature.
213	213	February 27, 1967	Helen, the Authoress
Helen writes a children's book that is accepted for publication and Andy faces the disquieting prospect of being the fiance of a celebrity. Guest star Elaine Joyce. Helen takes the pen name of Helene Alexion Dubois. Andy states that the name of Crump carries a lot of class in the state of Kansas. Goober says that Potter's Cave is a tourist site in Mayberry. The high school is being sandblasted. Howard enjoys putting raw eggs in his malted milkshakes. A full page ad about Helen and her book appears in the Mount Pilot Bugle And Sun. In Best Bets, a television magazine, Andy spots a documentary about forest rangers that he and Helen plan to watch. After that, they plan on watching an Eddie Bracken movie.
214	214	March 6, 1967	Goodbye Dolly
Andy and Opie face the difficult problem of helping an old milk-wagon horse find contentment in retirement. Goober claims that a horse can live off its fat for seven days. Goober tells Opie that when he was a boy, a day's work consisted of rising before daylight, chopping the neighbors' kindling, feeding chickens, slopping hogs, delivering groceries for the general store, sweeping up, and pumping gas at his daddy's gas station. He was paid a quarter per day. He quit after the first day. Aunt Bee took Clara's advice and put just a touch of nutmeg in her apples as they cooked. This made for a tasty apple pie. One of the Taylors' next door neighbors is Fred Hartley. Opie refuses to accept any payment from Mr. Simpson. Howard is looking forward to retirement. He has an annuity that pays off when he is 60 years old.
215	215	March 13, 1967	Opie's Piano Lesson
Opie insists on studying piano until he finds out that football practice and piano practice are incompatible. Mr. Jackson was played by Richard Bull, who is best known as Nels Oleson on Little House on the Prairie. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Aunt Bee says that the first requirement of a piano player is that he must have clean hands. The Taylors' piano needs to be tuned. Aunt Bee hopes to catch piano tuner Mr. Higby the next time he passes through town. Flip Conroy played college football before playing for ten years with the New York Giants. Opie is both the quarterback and captain of his football team. Black performers had been cast as extras in other episodes of The Andy Griffith Show, but this episode is the first and only one to feature a black actor. Flip Conroy plays the piano. He selection is "Grand Valse Brillante" by Frederic Chopin.
216	216	March 20, 1967	Howard, the Comedian
Howard Sprague becomes a comedian and appears on television with jokes about his hometown, and inadvertently rubs his friends the wrong way with his routine. Howard appears on "Colonel Tim's Talent Time" originating live from TV station WASG in Raleigh. A CBS "eye" logo appears on one of the cameras. Goober refers to Howard as "Mayberry's #1 comedian." Howard says that his Uncle Carl had a good sense of humor. Before Howard leaves for Raleigh, Floyd gives the comedian a trim, while Goober waxes his blue station wagon. After the program, Floyd tells Howard he should get his next haircut from "that poodle trimmer in Mount Pilot."
217	217	March 27, 1967	Big Brother
Howard volunteers to become the Big Brother of a high school boy, which brings a reward he didn't expect. Betty Parker was played by Elizabeth MacRae, who is best known as Gomer Pyle's girlfriend on its spin-off show, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. Ron Howard does not appear in this episode. Goober says he was an only child. Floyd and Goober think the Big Brother program is a good idea. In fact, they offer to volunteer. The Embassy Dance Hall is located in Mount Pilot. Howard mistakenly refers to the St. Louis Dodgers, meaning to say the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then, he refers to the St. Louis Orioles, meaning to say the St. Louis Cardinals. Later, he reads a sports magazine and discovers that former St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial had a lifetime batting average of .334.
218	218	April 3, 1967	Opie's Most Unforgettable Character
Opie has trouble coming up with a subject for his writing assignment, and Andy gets distressed when Opie eventually chooses someone else as the subject. Prior to suggesting Andy as an interesting subject for Opie, Aunt Bee suggest he write about egg man Mr. Bristol or Howard Sprague. (Mr. Bristol talks to his chickens as if they were people. Howard single-handedly reorganized Mayberry's entire sewer system.) Andy suggested that Goober might make a good subject. (Opie started a paper on Goober, but its 43 words fell short of the required 500-word essay.) As Andy commented about having done some living in his time, Goober thinks out loud, "You can say that again". Goober recently enjoyed his finest weekend of fishing. He caught 7 perch and 6 large-mouth bass.
219	219	April 10, 1967	Goober's Contest
Goober faces disaster when a printing error awards Floyd a large cash prize in his filling station contest. This was Howard McNear's final episode on the show. Rob Reiner plays Joe, the printer's apprentice. Goober suggests calling the contest "Goober's Gusher of Gold," but Wally nixes the idea. Andy strikes out with his three envelopes. When Aunt Bee wins $5.00, she states that she has never won anything in her life. Apparently she has forgotten the truckload of prizes she won on the "Win or Lose" game show in episode 165, "Aunt Bee On TV." According to Andy, a tornado hit Mayberry about 12 years ago. Goober refers to the 1955 tornado, too. Before Goober breaks the bad news to Floyd, he is offered a free haircut and a shampoo. Floyd promises to use a sweet-smelling shampoo that will make him smell like "Morris" (Maurice) Chevalier. Opie congratulates his father for his wisdom in scheming to resolve the contest problem. He compares Andy to the biblical King Solomon.

Season 8 (1967–1968)

30 episodes

Production #	Broadcast #	Airdate	Title
220	220	September 11, 1967	Opie's First Love
Mary Alice Carter (Morgan Brittany) accepts Opie's invitation to a party then decides to go with another boy at the last moment. The Monroe Nursery recently burned down. It was located in Mount Pilot. Aunt Bee says they used to feature some of the best azalea's she's ever seen. Miss Crump's classroom is Room #10. Andy asks Aunt Bee not to have Mr. Perkins make Opie's sleeves and pants 4 inches too long so the suit will fit him "seven years from now." Arnold tells Opie that the party was almost ruined when his parents suggested that the kids dunk for apples. Arnold asked his folks to retreat to the kitchen for the rest of the evening. Opie asks Andy if he can borrow his tie that has horses on it to wear at the party. It would go well with his new suit. Andy agrees and offers to loan him his key chain. It's the one that hooks onto the belt and hangs down, leading to the hip pocket. Opie declines.
221	235	December 25, 1967	Goober the Executive
Goober buys the gas station with financial backing from Andy and Emmett. Guest star Bo Hopkins. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. A sign (attached to a thermometer) reads, "Treat yourself to the best." Goober has been working at Wally's Service Station for 11 3⁄4 years. Two signs in Emmett's Fix-It Shop read, "We don't loan tools" and "No guarantee on parts sold." Fred Michaels is the vice-president in charge of regional sales of northeastern North Carolina for the Emblem Oil Company out of El Paso, Texas. Goober decides on using the declining balance method of bookkeeping. His reason? He and Opie like the sound of it.
222	225	October 16, 1967	Howard's Main Event
Howard is threatened by his girlfriend's bully ex-boyfriend. Allan Melvin guest stars. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Arlene Golonka appears for the first time as Millie Hutchins. Goober would like to learn Swedish, because he once had a customer who spoke only Swedish. Goober does not own a record player. Clyde Plaunt calls Howard "Ace." Goober is dating a girl named Gloria. He claims he is only shy around women when the woman is a member of the Mayberry Softball Team. According to Goober, "They think they're so much." By the way, Gloria refuses to ride in Goober's truck.
223	226	October 23, 1967	Aunt Bee the Juror
Aunt Bee is summoned for jury duty and disagrees with her fellow jurors. The defendant is played by Jack Nicholson. Opie once made a drawing of a horse and sent it off to an art school to have it evaluated. The reply said that he had talent, and they asked him to build on that talent by enrolling in their 12-lesson course by mail. The cost was just $98.50. Later, the art school writes him again, offering a newly developed short course for only $37.00. Opie smartly declines both offers. Aunt Bee and Andy watch a courtroom drama on television at home. Aunt Bee claims she can always pick out the crooks on television very easily, because they're always mean and squinty-eyed and have scars. The truly damning piece of evidence against Mr. Granger is that his cigarette lighter was found at the scene of the crime. Aunt Bee's homemade brownies are apparently a hit with her fellow jurors. Even Judge Cranston writes and asks for her brownie recipe after the trial. This episode has the most actors with specific speaking parts in the series.
224	221	September 18, 1967	Howard the Bowler
Howard, a last minute substitution on the bowling team, astonishes everyone by bowling a perfect game. Guest star Norman Alden. Emmett paid $8.00 apiece for the team bowling shirts. Andy estimates that as many as 50 to 60 people come to see a bowling match. Goober's right eye usually twitches when he gets nervous. During the first half of the bowling match, the team from Mayberry bowls on lane number 9. They switch to lane 10 to complete the match. During his sleepless night, Howard reads from the poems of Rudyard Kipling and Ernest L. Thayer. The odds against someone bowling a perfect game are stated to be 348,000 to 1.
225	224	October 9, 1967	Opie Steps Up in Class
Opie goes to summer camp with a rich boy, and Aunt Bee attempts to elevate the Taylor's social standing. Guest star Joyce Van Patten. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. In a conversation with Emmett, Andy states that Emerson said, "Be yourself." Emmett thinks he is referring to Fletcher Emerson, a man who used to run a hardware store in Mayberry. This Fletcher used to say things like, "Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?" Andy is referring to Ralph Waldo Emerson. According to a brochure, Camp Winokee offers "200 acres of untrammeled loveliness, bordering crystal clear Lake Winokee. Rugged riding trails, tennis, water skiing, a fun place!" According to Emmett, the Hollander home as copper pipes throughout. He tells Andy that George Hollander is the director of five banks. Mr. Hollander's peers are all big shots, too. Frank Glendon owns a chain of Glendon's Grocery Stores, and Martin Breckenridge is the biggest real estate operator in the state. Hole number 4 at the Walnut Hills golf course is 162 yards long. As Aunt Bee drives up to the Hollanders to pick up Opie, several palm trees are seen on the right side of the house. There are no palm trees in North Carolina.
226	223	October 2, 1967	Andy's Trip to Raleigh
Andy cancels a big date with Helen in order to confer with a lawyer in Raleigh, who turns out to be a beautiful woman (Whitney Blake). Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. At the beginning of this episode Andy is reading a newspaper from his hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina. Goober purchases a new suit in Mount Pilot for this year's Harvest Ball. The musical entertainment will be provided by Casper Tice and His Latin Rhythms. According to Andy, Raleigh is more than 100 miles (160 km) from Mayberry. It is Judge Conley who assigns Andy to work with Lee Drake on the court case. Alvin Barrows and George Brookfield are two prominent Raleigh attorneys with whom Howard Sprague is acquainted. According to Goober and Emmett, the preacher is taking seven Sundays and giving a sermon on each one of the seven deadly sins. This week the topic was sloth. Next week's sermon is on gluttony.
227	222	September 25, 1967	A Trip to Mexico
Aunt Bee enters a contest and wins a free trip to Mexico. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Aunt Bee wins the grand prize in the "Tampico Tamale Lucky Number Contest." Emmett once went on a business trip to Akron, Ohio. He claims that Akron is a wide-open town. Aunt Bee, Clara, and Myrtle's departure flight is #17. They board at gate #12. Aunt Bee mails Opie a sombrero and a serape. Myrtle gives maracas to Andy, Howard, and Emmett. Myrtle tells the leader of the mariachi band that Clara is Ginger Rogers.
228	227	October 30, 1967	The Tape Recorder
Opie disobeys Andy and tape-records a bank robber's confession. Myles Bentley practices law and lives in Jonesboro. Eddie Blake stoled $25,000 from a bank in Raleigh. He hid the money in a dry well at Ferguson's abandoned farm on Orchard Road in Mayberry. Andy swears in Goober as an acting deputy while he goes to pick up Eddie Blake from the state police. Eddie Blake brags about wearing a $200.00 suit.
229	228	November 6, 1967	Opie's Group
Opie joins a rock and roll group and his school grades begin to slip. The Sound Committee practices in the Taylors' garage. Aunt Bee warns Opie not to get electrocuted by his amplifer. Andy and Aunt Bee have their hearts set on Opie becoming a Supreme Court judge when he grows up. Emmett enjoys listening to the beautiful music of the Raleigh Philharmonic Orchestra. Opie orders a bright red shirt to wear when the band plays. He ordered it COD. This doesn't please Andy, who complains that Opie has only been a musician for a few days and is already in debt. Viewers may note that despite the lack of a bass guitar player, the Sound Committee has an awfully good bass sound.
230	229	November 13, 1967	Aunt Bee and the Lecturer
Aunt Bee goes picnicking and dining with a charming lecturer. After his lecture, Professor St. John autographs copies of his book. According to the professor, Beatrice, in Latin, means "she who makes happy." Beulah Albright's son, Harold, was fishing at Myers' Lake when he saw Aunt Bee and the professor picnicking. Ethel Montgomery St. John died 10 years ago. Aunt Bee is the "carbon copy" of her. Aunt Bee and the professor dine at Morrelli's Restaurant. Aunt Bee asks "Hubert, what do you think of the situation in Asia?" This is clearly a reference to the Vietnam War. While impersonating a swinger, Aunt Bee suggests that she and the professor should patronize a recently opened nightclub in Mount Pilot called the Bombo Pod. She tells him her motto is "live a little!" She plans an evening at the races and a visit to a little roadhouse called Patty's Place. Clara informs Aunt Bee that she has scheduled another lecture. This one will feature an expert on Outer Mongolia.
231	230	November 20, 1967	Andy's Investment
Andy opens a coin laundry to save money for Opie's college education. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Aunt Bee purchased a collegiate dictionary to send to Willis Spooner, the son of her friend Louise Spooner. Willis lives in Hartford, Connecticut, and is attending a small college there. According to gossip from another friend of Aunt Bee's (Harriet Cleaver of South Bend, Indiana), the college has very low requirements. Opie has an Aunt Martha who lives near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Howard Sprague went to Bradbury Business College, located on the third floor of the Essex Bank Building in Mount Pilot. Howard is a proud graduate, having taken the entire year-and-a-half course. Emmett says the campus is "wall to wall linoleum." He cites Cyrus Whitley as an example of the average Bradbury graduate. Cyrus is now doing five years in prison for embezzlement. Andy was told by Mr. Giddings that he could earn up to $200 a month running Laundercoin. Alpha Porter drops off her laundry at the courthouse.
232	233	December 11, 1967	Suppose Andy Gets Sick
Andy catches the flu and Goober takes over as his deputy. Vince Barnett would later play Elmo in the spin-off series, Mayberry R.F.D.. A boy named Rodney takes over for Goober at the gas station while he's acting deputy. Goober issues Elmo a ticket for turning without using a signal. Emmett's shoelaces are 27 inches long. In Andy's absence, Howard, Goober, and Emmett form the Police Emergency Committee. Andy tickets Harvey for making an illegal U-turn on Main Street.
233	231	November 27, 1967	Howard and Millie
Howard proposes to his girlfriend Millie at the bakery where she works. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Cinnamon buns cost 7¢ a piece at Boysinger's Bakery. Opie buys a dented cake for Aunt Bee for $1.00. Millie tells him that the normal price is $1.25. Howard treats Andy, Helen, and Millie to dinner in the dining car of the train. In order to save Howard money, Andy and Helen order the fish cake special. On the other hand, Millie orders shrimp cocktail, a porterhouse steak, au gratin potatoes, celery hearts, and fudge layer cake. Howard believes that his mustache makes him look like a young Tom Dewey or Teddy Roosevelt. Millie thinks it makes him look like one of the Keystone Cops. Howard loves the Smoky Mountains.
234	232	December 4, 1967	Aunt Bee's Cousin
Andy learns the truth about his cousin Bradford but keeps quiet because Aunt Bee is proud of her wealthy relative. Aunt Bee has a cousin named Bradford J. Taylor. Bradford claims to own copper mines in Mexico, a plantation in Brazil, a 41,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia, a racetrack in Africa, and a paper mill in Canada. He also claims to be the personal financial advisor to the crown prince of Denmark. Aunt Bee and Bradford both grew up in West Virginia. Bradford sneaks into Mayberry in a freight car. He claims that he is ready to ship 10,000 head of longhorn cattle. Bradford says that Mayberry reminds him of the northern part of Mozambique. Aunt Bee's homemade strawberry ice cream won first prize at the county fair.
235	234	December 18, 1967	Howard's New Life
Howard quits his boring job as county clerk and becomes a Caribbean island beachcomber. Guest star Harry Dean Stanton. Goober is a big fan of the actress Dorothy Lamour. As part of his job as Mayberry's county clerk, Howard issues business licenses, building permits, dog licenses, sales tax permits, and bicycle licenses. After watching "Travelogue" on TV, Howard quits his job and buys a one-way ticket to St. Benedict, "the Pearl of the Caribbean". The island is four miles (6 km) long and about four miles (6 km) wide. It is reached by boat from Trinadad. Howard meets four Americans on the island: the general store proprietor, Grover, Wes, and Norman. This episode features the first dream sequence: Howard dreams Aunt Bee and Andy come to the island and find him tearing newspapers into strips at the general store. A gentleman by the strange name of Sir Lancelot also appears (cast credits list him as the "man").
236	237	January 8, 1968	Emmett's Brother-in-Law
Emmett is needled into becoming an insurance salesman by his wife and brother-in-law. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. Ben Beacham drives a Continental with a 340 horsepower engine. Ben addresses Goober as "Mr. Goober." Ben claims that Emmett could make $15,000 per year selling insurance. Emmett's Fix-It Shop income is just shy of $7,500 per year. Mayberry's wealthier citizens live on the north side of town. As Emmett's first customer, Andy purchases a policy for Opie that will pay the boy $1,000 when he turns 21. Goober purchases a life insurance policy that will cost him $9.00 per month. Andy's life insurance is paid by the state, and he gets hospitalization insurance through the Sheriff's Association. It is stated that Raleigh is a five-hour drive from Mayberry.
237	236	January 1, 1968	The Mayberry Chef
Aunt Bee is given her own cooking show on the local television station. Siler City is a 25-minute drive from Mayberry. Television station WZAZ Channel 12 is located in Siler City. In order to film "The Mayberry Chef," Aunt Bee will be gone every week night from 5:00 PM till 8:00 PM. A man named Mr. Harkinson used to be Aunt Bee's butcher in Mayberry. She says that he was always a gentleman. Aunt Bee prepared the following dishes on "The Mayberry Chef": beef casserole, chicken in a pot (not shown) and rib roast.
238	239	January 22, 1968	The Church Benefactors
A $500 bequest to the Mayberry church provokes debate over how to best spend the money. George Lindsey does not appear in this episode. Opie usually tithes a quarter at weekly church services. In this episode he attempts to sell a Canadian quarter to another boy in the congregation for 15 cents. Reverend Tucker doesn't always wear a high collar. He confesses to Andy that he has a short neck and sometimes, the collar kind of gets to him. The reverend visits his flock on Thursday. The new choir robes are blue with a detachable white collar made of Poplin. The robes themselves consist of heavy polished cotton and are guaranteed to be wrinkle-proof. The church is out of plumb about 5 inches. Howard's idea was inspired by the Book of Genesis, chapters 6 through 10.
239	238	January 15, 1968	Opie's Drugstore Job
Opie breaks a bottle of expensive perfume at his new job. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. The Taylors' telephone number is given as 426. Andy's first real job was as a popcorn popper at the movie house. Old Man MacKnight was his boss. Howard's first job was as a truck driver for the Mayberry Transfer Company. He only lasted a few days because it just wasn't for him. A banana split cost 35¢ at Crawford's Drugstore. While Opie is anxiously waiting for Arnold to bring him the replacement bottle of "Blue Moonlight," he accidentally puts a pickle on Goober's sundae. When Opie broke the water-filled "Blue Moonlight" bottle, how come he didn't notice that the contents had no fragrance?
240	240	January 29, 1968	Barney Hosts a Summit Meeting
Barney gets Andy to let him use the Taylor home at the last moment for a summit meeting between the United States and Soviet Union. Don Knotts guest stars in his final appearance in this episode. Mr. Ruskin was played by Alan Oppenheimer, who later played Dr. Rudy Wells on The Six Million Dollar Man. Barney suggest the following Mayberry buildings as possible locations for the summit: the Kiwanis Club Meeting Hall, the basement of the Moravian Church, and the banquet room of the Blu-Vue Motel. Barney used to steal apples from Mr. McCabe's orchard when he was a boy. He would play "Run, Sheep, Run", "Early, Early, Urchin Free", and "1,2,3 Red Light" in his yard. Mr. McCabe used to call him a "scamp". In a blooper, a microphone boom can be seen in the reflection in the windshield of the squad car as Andy and Barney are leaving the McCabe residence. Sarah must be on vacation, as both Andy and Barney address the operator simply as "operator." Aunt Bee claims that her mother always said, "If you eat standing up, it goes right to your legs." Don Knotts' final words on The Andy Griffith Show: "Those of us who chart the course of world events shall forever remain nameless." This was the highest-rated episode in the entire series. It garnered a 33.4 audience share.
241	249	April 1, 1968	Mayberry R.F.D
Sam Jones invites a buddy from Italy to help him work his land. This episode was the series finale during the show's original broadcast order, setting up the spin-off show, Mayberry R.F.D.. Goober refers to his Ivy League jacket as "Ivory League." Mario and Sophia speak broken English, while Papa Vinchenti speaks none at all. Sam's farm has been in his family for over 100 years. Mario refers to North Carolina as "North California" during his speech to the Mayberry Civic League. The Mayberry Civic League sings "'O Sole Mio". A sign at the Mayberry train depot states that Mayberry's elevation is 671 feet (205 m) above sea level, and the town's population is 5,360. (In previous episodes the population has been much less. Episode 162 places it at "under 2,000," and 208 gives it at 1,800). The last line of The Andy Griffith Show: "Rosso? Si, Si. Yes!"
242	241	February 5, 1968	Goober Goes to an Auto Show
Goober tries to impress an old mechanics' school friend by treating him to a lavish dinner and claiming to own a chain of gas stations. The Counterboy was played by Howard Hesseman, who later played Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and is Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. Goober tells Andy that when he was in the service, he once let a guy have it for referring to him as a "hayseed." Goober hires a boy named Norris to mind the service station while he is in Raleigh. Andy states that the Norris boy is not too bright. Goober and the Taylors stay in suites #416 and #418 at the Commodore Hotel in Raleigh. The rooms cost $15.00 a day. In a minor goof, viewers can plainly see that Goober's suite is actually #421. Roy Swanson's wife, the former Ruthie Matthews, once dated Goober. At the Golden Palace, Aunt Bee orders lobster, Roy gets a roast beef, Andy gets a big steak, and Opie gets a small steak. Viewers do not get to see what Goober ate. In a blooper, Goober and the Taylors stop and get gas in Raleigh before heading back to Mayberry. As they are waiting, a truck from the Coors Brewing Company is seen driving past the service station. Coors Beer was illegal east of the Mississippi River until the mid-1980s. At the service station, Andy has bought a bottle of soda pop and has just taken his first sip when he sees Roy. After he points out Roy's actual occupation to Goober, Andy walks off, inexplicably leaving the full bottle of soda pop.
243	242	February 12, 1968	Aunt Bee's Big Moment
Aunt Bee does well with her flying lessons until the instructor tells her she is ready to solo. Big moments include: Hors d'œuvre was the word Helen spelled to win the state spelling championship in Kansas. Goober won the pancake-eating contest at the county fair by consuming 57 pancakes with butter and syrup. Howard lived on a Caribbean island (Episode 235). Andy caught the winning touchdown pass against Mount Pilot High School and was carried off the field by his teammates. Goober's normal order of pancakes varies between 12 to 15 per sitting. While under the dryer at the beauty parlor, Aunt Bee reads the magazine Aviation Journal while two other ladies read Lady Beautiful and Home Decor. A demonstration flight at MacDonald's Flight School cost $5.00. The number of the plane that Aunt Bee practices and solos in is N5955B.
244	243	February 19, 1968	Helen's Past
Andy discovers secrets from Helen Crump's past. He learns that his girlfriend was once arrested for carrying a gun, gambling and keeping company with a notorious gangster. Helen has an unnamed cat. Maynard Myers was an old boyfriend of Helen's back in Kansas City. Wallace Crenshaw backs his pickup truck into Mr. Benson's vegetable stand. The two Mayberrians then proceed to get into a fight. Howard tries to explain to Goober you don't get warts from frogs. The Kansas City newspaper is The Chronicle. In order to make Helen feel comfortable, Aunt Bee admits that her great uncle was a cattle rustler, and Opie admits that he and Arnold once sneaked into the movie theater without paying. Helen was arraigned on August 4, 1959. Howard Sprague is a member of the Mayberry School Board. Helen has a master's degree in journalism. Guest star Connie Sawyer.
245	244	February 26, 1968	Emmett's Anniversary
Emmett buys his wife a mink coat for their 25th anniversary, but goofs in his attempt to keep it a secret. Guest star Ronnie Schell. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Martha grows begonias and suffers from bursitis. Flora Mallerby is once again working at the Mayberry Diner. She works with a lady named Dorothy. Martha and Ethel Pendleton take in a Greer Garson movie. In an odd scene, Martha is shown drinking alcoholic beverages with Ethel when she thinks Emmett is being unfaithful. The best ranch mink that Bernie has for sale costs $1800.00, even with the 40% discount. Flora has changed her hairstyle in this episode to a 1967 Grace Kelly look. It looks very nice.
246	245	March 4, 1968	The Wedding
Howard's mother remarries and moves away, so Howard remodels their home into a bachelor pad and tries to throw a swinging party. Guest star Teri Garr. Frances Bavier and Ron Howard do not appear in this episode. George Watkins proposed to Mrs. Sprague as they were eating rice pudding at Morelli's Restaurant. Howard bought his abstract paintings from an out-of-the-way shop in Mount Pilot. In his quest for a date, Goober is turned down by a girl named Jenny (she's engaged), a woman named Irene (she went into the operating room at 5:00 PM), a female customer at his gas station (she gives him a blank look), and Sally Marsh, whom he refers to as "the end of the line." Howard is rejected by Dorothy (who is visiting her folks), Marion (who is busy), and Shirley (who barely remembers him).
247	246	March 11, 1968	Sam for Town Council
Sam Jones is urged by Andy and his other Mayberry neighbors to run for City Council. Ken Berry joins the cast as Sam Jones for the last four episodes of the series. Howard Hesseman plays Harry the fisherman. Sam Jones is a military veteran. He earned a sharpshooter's medal in the service. Goober's campaign slogans for Sam are "Fair And Square Sam", "Sam's The Best, To Heck With The Rest", and "Tippecanoe And Sam, Too". In a attempt to solicit votes for Sam, Andy and Howard visit Mr. Perkins, and Aunt Bee and Helen visit Mr. Calvin. Aunt Bee promises the elderly Mr. Calvin that Helen will pick him up and take him to the polls on election day. This excites Mr. Calvin. Emmett greets an unseen Mayberrian named Mr. Linke. This could be an acknowledgment to Andy Griffith's long-time friend, partner, and manager, Richard O. Linke. Sam wins the election by 405 votes. Roy Engel appears as Mr. Perkins, though the cast credits incorrectly list him as Mrs. Perkins. Gil Lamb is listed in the cast credits as Lou, but his character is never seen or heard.
248	247	March 18, 1968	Opie and Mike
Sam Jones' son Mike has a problem with bullies at school and Opie helps out. The Mayberry City Council building is shown. Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington adorn the walls of the building. Mike imitates Opie by putting his comb in his shirt pocket. L & B Movers are the company that transports the Campbells' belongings from West Virginia to Mayberry. Opie and Heather Campbell are both in the eighth grade. Heather Campbell takes piano lessons.
249	248	March 25, 1968	A Girl for Goober
Goober uses a dating service and is paired up with a woman with whom he has nothing in common. This was the last episode filmed, but it was not the series finale. The episode "Mayberry R.F.D." (production #241) was aired as the finale. Maggie Peterson, who had previously played "Charlene Darling" on The Andy Griffith Show, plays the part of "Doris" near the beginning of this episode. Frances Bavier does not appear in this episode. Goober states that he is 33 years old. The cost of the dating service is $5.00. Edith Gibson's telephone number is given as 4872. It took Edith Gibson three weeks to read The Rise And Fall Of The Roman Empire. During the dinner date, Edith refers to the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Edith Gibson has a Ph.D. in psychology. Sam's girlfriend, Doris, plays the piano. Mayberry has a new unnamed barber. The song that the gang sings at the beginning and end of the episode is entitled, "You and I". Dr. Gibson mentions the town of Toast as a possible test site for the dating service. The real town of Toast, North Carolina is located just a few miles from Mount Airy. This was the only episode to use a "Teleplay By" and "Story By" billing.

Public Domain Episodes

The last 16 episodes of the third season are in the public domain because of an error back in the 60s. The theme song still has a copyright and can only be used with permission. Most public domain copies have other music during the opening credits. These are the episodes: "High Noon in Mayberry", "The Loaded Goat", "Class Reunion", "Rafe Hollister Sings", "Opie and the Spoiled Kid", "The Great Filling Station Robbery", "Andy Discovers America", "Aunt Bee's Medicine Man", "The Darlings Are Coming", "Andy's English Valet", "Barney's First Car", "The Rivals", "A Wife for Andy", "Dogs, Dogs, Dogs", "Mountain Wedding", "The Big House".

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