The Andy Griffith Show: Season 1-8

Rose, the former housekeeper, gets married and Opie is unhappy at her departure. Aunt Bee comes to live with Andy and Opie, and Opie is not exactly thrilled with her.

The state police ask Andy and Barney to step aside while they search for an escaped convict in Mayberry.

Andy schemes to help a young local guitarist (James Best).

Andy is smitten by Mayberry's new ""pharmacy gal""--Miss Ellie Walker (Elinor Donahue).

Andy comes to believe that Ellie is a ""deadly female hunter"" out to marry him.

Opie befriends an eight-year-old runaway.

Andy, trying to lift Barney's spirits, stages a minor robbery and tries to match his deputy with a shy seamstress.

Andy becomes upset when Opie contributes a measly three cents to the Underprivileged Children's drive.

Andy strives to end a long-running feud between two neighboring families.

Ellie's decision to run for town council sparks a battle of the sexes.

A modern-day Scrooge (businessman Ben Weaver) causes trouble on Christmas Eve.

Mayberrians (especially Barney) become suspicious of a stranger who seems to possess knowledge about everyone.

Almost everyone puts on airs when a Hollywood film crew decides to use Mayberry as the backdrop for a movie.

Ignoring his own advice to Opie, Andy plays fast and loose with the facts when trying to sell the old town cannon.

After Andy teases the fairer sex about gossiping, Aunt Bee pulls a prank to prove that men are gossips, too.

Andy is chosen to be the sole judge of a local beauty pageant. The entrants include Floyd's niece, the mayor's daughter and Ellie Walker.

Andy and Barney, on a still-smashing spree, are surprised when a trail leads them to two spinster sisters.

Andy counsels a Mayberry couple who are constantly bickering with each other

Andy becomes suspicious when a record promoter comes to town to gather material for a folk music album.

Barney's overzealous policing enrages the people of Mayberry.

An infamous con artist, held temporarily in Mayberry, manages to enchant everyone except Andy.

Andy tries to help Barney express his lovestruck feelings for Thelma Lou.

Andy and Opie go to great lengths to show Aunt Bee what a mess they'd be without her.

A handsome new doctor arouses suspicion in Aunt Bee and Barney and jealousy in Andy.

Mayor Pike (Dick Elliott) and the townspeople are shocked to discover that the last living descendant of Revolutionary War hero, Nathan Tibbs, is Mayberry's town drunk, Otis Campbell.

A by-the-book courthouse inspector condemns Andy and Barney's lack of proper procedure.

Ellie encourages and helps a female farmhand to express her femininity.

Grumpy businessman Ben Weaver insists that Andy foreclose on a down-on-his-luck neighbor.

Barney is suspicious of Mayberry's mysterious new farmer (William Schallert).

An escaped convict vows revenge on the man who sent him back to prison--Barney Fife.

Mayberry guitarist Jim Lindsey (James Best), a success as a solo artist, returns to a hero's welcome. However, Andy suspects trouble.

Aunt Bee, believing that the jailhouse environment is adversely affecting Opie, forbids the lad to spend time at the courthouse.

A schoolboy bully makes life miserable for seven-year-old Opie.

Barney believes that Andy is grooming a new man to replace him as deputy.

A stubborn but charming lady speeder makes life difficult for Andy.

Mayberrian Frank Myers (Andy Clyde) and his neighbors are shocked when it becomes apparent that the township owes him nearly $350,000.

A scheming young couple victimizes Barney, after a tiff with Thelma Lou.

A ne'er-do-well vagrant (Buddy Ebsen) has a bad influence on Opie.

Andy and Barney are honored for achieving the lowest crime-rate in the country.

Andy learns a great deal about Thelma Lou's cousin.

Aunt Bee falls for traveling handyman Henry Wheeler. Andy soon realizes Wheeler is not as nice as he seems. So before things get out of hand, Andy explains patiently to Wheeler that he would not want his Aunt Bee hurt by any false promises. To emphasize the point, Andy holds the conversation on the porch while he cleans his shotgun. Wheeler prudently decides it is time to leave Mayberry.

One of Andy's big-city fishing buddies invites him to join the Esquire Club, an exclusive Raleigh men's organization. Barney is also asked to join and he, of course, overreacts and alienates the entire group by trying to hard to fit in. Andy is offered membership, but Barney is not. Andy tells his fishing buddy that he must decline because he does not feel right joining a club that wouldn't let in his best friend. Before Andy can break the news to Barney, Barney assumes Andy was the one rejected and sits down to write the club a scathing letter of rejection himself.

It's canning time again, and Aunt Bee has put up another batch of pickles. After realizing the only thing they're good for is killing flies brave enough to land on them, Andy and Barney decide to substitute store-bought for her homemade and hand the originals to travelers passing through Mayberry. After the switch, Bee decides to enter her pickles in the county fair. Unfortunately, the perennial winner is Clara Johnson, Bee's best friend, and she has her heart set on winning her 12th blue ribbon in a row. Andy and Barney have no choice but to destroy all eight jars before she can enter, so they eat night and day until all the pickles are gone. They do their work proudly, but Bee decides that since the boys liked them so much, she will make a double batch.

Barney gets an offer to become the sheriff of Greendale, and Andy tries to discourage him. Unsure how to handle matters, Andy gets an idea to let Barney be sheriff of Mayberry for a day. Given the opportunity to get a taste of what the office of high sheriff entails, Barney understands that he is not up to the job and calls Greendale to decline.

Jeff Pruitt, a farmer from the hills, comes to Mayberry in search of a wife. He expects to spend a single afternoon on his search.

Opie joins a secret club. The club meets in Jubal Foster's barn. When Jubal burns his own barn down he attempts to blame the group of boys.

Rich kid Ronald Bailey is jailed when he blatantly defies the law. As Bailey waits for his influential father to bail him out, Andy teaches him the lesson of self-responsibility. Bailey decides to stand on his own two feet and take care of his traffic violations himself.

A beautiful manicurist from the city comes to Floyd's to set up shop. She makes all the wives in town extremely nervous as she manicures their husbands.

After a series of mishaps, Henry Bennett gets a reputation in town as a jinx. The more Andy tries to dispel the rumor the deeper the hole gets. Eventually, Henry decides it would be best if left town altogether. This spurs the townfolk to rethink their unsympathetic attitude toward him.

The state police come to town to catch some payroll robbers. They want Andy and Barney to stay out of the way and let them handle it. The big boys end up needing Andy and Barney more than they thought.

Opie has his heart set on winning a medal in a foot race at the town picnic. When he loses, he exhibits poor sportmanship. Andy teaches him a lesson about being a good sport.

When the awful sound coming from the Mayberry choir is narrowed down to Barney, the members decide they must get rid of him. Since no one has the heart to do it, they set him up telling him he is singing into a supersensitive microphone, while someone else is actually singing the part back stage.

As a sort of publicity stunt, the town decides to pull over the first car that drives through Mayberry, and make its occupant the town's guest of honor. When Andy and Barney discover that the man is a recently released convict set on robbing the town blind they must act quickly to avert disaster.

Traveling salesman, Bert Miller, is getting tired of traveling. So partially to help Bert and partially to irritate Ben Weaver, the local department store owner, Andy and Barney concoct to help Bert set up a small general goods shop on a vacant lot.

When the Mayberry jail, is filled to capacity by a group of moonshiners who blame Otis for their capture, Andy must find a new place for Otis to serve his term. He takes Otis home and places him in Aunt Bee's care. Aunt Bee decides to take advantage of the situation to get Otis to change his ways.

Mary Simpson, the county nurse, wants to do the impossible. She wants to get all of the farmer's in the county to take their innoculations. Figuring everyone will follow suit if she can just get Rafe Hollister to do it, she enlists the help of Andy to convince Rafe of the necessity. Andy agrees hoping to impress Mary.

While staying in Raleigh, Barney believes he is witnessing a man casing the hotel clientelle. Barney, is right in believing that there is a crime about to be committed, but he is tailing the house detective and has hooked up with the real crook.

After Clara convinces Aunt Bee that Andy can find a wife as long as Aunt Bee hangs on, she begins searching for a man that she can marry. She ends up dating the annoying dry-cleaner Fred Goss.

Everytime Andy tries to be alone with Mary, Barney always shows up. After Andy explains that he wants to be alone with Mary, Barney takes it to mean that Andy is planning to propose.

A bookie from Raleigh sets himself up in Floyd's barbershop as an extra barber, trying to avoid the heat. Andy gets suspicious when the new barber has the same three clients.

A news mogul swears revenge on Andy after he is arrest for what he deems a minor infraction. In retaliation, he sends a reporter to Mayberry to dig up whatever dirt she can on Andy. She poses as a college student writing a paper on local law enforcement. Barney trying to impress her starts to spout off about how he would do things differently. These leads to a lawsuit against Andy for malfeasance.

Barney's slightly slow cousin Virgil comes to town. Barney sticks his neck out for him, trying to help him out. When Virgil makes one too many mistakes, Barney rails against him and storms out. Leave it to Andy, though, to discover Virgil's true ability and give him an opportunity to use it.

Otis, the town drunk, has been writing letters to his brother and sister-in-law for some time on courthouse stationary. Because of this, they have come to believe that he is a deputy. All is fine until they write that they are coming for a visit. Andy and a reluctant Barney step in to help Otis perpetuate the idea that he is a deputy.

While walking through the woods, Opie meets Mr. McBeevee, a telephone repairman. Opie, in describing his new friend to Andy and Barney, remarks McBeevee ""lives in the tress"" (climbs telephone poles to do his work) and ""jingles when he walks"" and ""has 12 extra hands"" (referring to the repairman's tools). Since Andy and Barney have not met McBeevee and are unable to track him down, they chalk Opie's enthusiastic description to childhood imagination. That is, until one day Opie comes home with a quarter McBeevee had given him. Andy immediately suspects Opie stole the quarter and takes him to the woods to return it. McBeevee, in the meantime, has been called away to assist fellow workers at another site and has left by the time Andy and Opie arrive. The sheriff takes Opie home to punish him, but backs off (to Barney's chagrin) when he believes his son. At the end of the episode, Andy goes to the forest and, having parked next to a telephone pole, fumes aloud, ""Mr. McBeevee!"" McBeevee immed

When Andy finds out his new girlfriend's father is wealthy, Barney talks him into believing the relationship is doomed.

Mayberry's new mayor doesn't like Andy or the way he does his job.

Aunt Bee leaves town for a few days, leaving Andy and Opie to take care of themselves. When Peggy volunteers to cook for them, Floyd tries to convince Andy that she is trying to catch a husband.

The mayor calls in an investigator from the state capital to help solve a string of cow thefts.

Andy shows up for a date with Peggy McMillan only to learn her old friend Don has arrived unexpectedly. Andy departs angrily when Peggy breaks their date and then encounters more problems when Barney decides to make things better by fixing him up with another girl. Andy ends up getting himself punched in the eye, but manages to fix things up with Peggy, and they live happily ... until the end of this episode ... and then we never see her again

Two farmers ignore Barney's warning to stop selling their vegetables on the street and make fun of him. Andy tells them a big story about Barney being a cold-hearted killer known as Barney the Beast and Crazy Gun Barney. When they find out the truth, they go right back to selling in the street.

Mayberry's town band is the worst in the state and Mayor Stoner refuses to allow them to go to the state capital to play. It looks like they will have to stay home until Andy gets a little help from Freddy Fleet and his band.

Madeline Grayson, a rich widow that Floyd has been ""pen-palling"" with, announces in her next letter that she wants to meet him face-to-face. Of course, the whole time, Floyd has been pretending in his letters to be a wealthy entrepreneur. Upon news of the visit, Andy and Aunt Bee help Floyd in his masquerade by borrowing a house in town from the Devereauxs, who Andy is house-sitting for. Andy poses as Floyd's son who is home visiting from medical school, while Bee is Floyd's ""maid."" Floyd realizes he can't go on pretending, but can't bring himself to confess. Andy reveals to Mrs. Grayson that he's the town sheriff and, before he can explain about Floyd, gets her to reveal that she's really not a rich widow and goes around sponging off rich men.

Andy's new girlfriend is the new county nurse. Everyone likes her except Opie, who is jealous of all the time they spend together.

Barney and Floyd are held hostage in a cabin by three escaped women convicts.

Aunt Bee wants a pretty bed jacket for her birthday. A mix-up causes Andy to have to sell his favorite fishing pole to get it.

Barney thinks the Mayberry Bank is a pushover for a robbery and sets out to prove it.

Opie must learn to defend himself against a bully.

Barney is goaded into ticketing the governor's car and mistakenly believes Andy is setting him up for a dressing-down by the governor. In fact, the governor is coming to Mayberry to give him a personal commendation for performing a job without showing favorites. In the midst of all the action, Otis secretly spikes the water tank, giving both Barney and Mayor Stoner a surprise snootful.

Big businessman Malcolm Tucker is stuck in Mayberry for the Sabbath when his car breaks down outside the city limits. He's soon driven to frustration when he finds there is no way to get anything done in this two-bit town until the follownig day. After finally getting Gomer's cousin Goober to fix the car, Tucker gives in to the mood and decides to stay the night.

Barney gets hysterical when Andy receives a letter from a man he arrested and sent to prison. The convict is to be released soon and says in the letter that he is coming to settle the score with Andy. Barney tries to protect Andy with humorous results..Andy remains calm and of course the ""score"" is settled by an understanding and remourseful convict.

An escaped goat eats a case of dynamite that was going to be used for blasting, and now Mayberry is in danger. Especially when Otis Campbell gets drunk.

Andy sees his High School sweetheart at his high school reunion and realizes they don't want the same things.

When image-conscious Mayor Stoner objects to a golden-voiced--but wardrobe-challenged--farmer chosen to represent Mayberry in the upcoming musicale, Andy must find a way to appease all sides.

When a spoiled kid moves to town, he thinks he can walk all over the townsfolk, including Andy and Barney. Of course when his bike gets impounded and his dad wants to sell it, Arnold gets a rude awakening.

After a series of auto-related thefts, the shadow of suspicion looms ever longer over Jimmy--a youth with a troubled past. How long can Andy rush to Jimmy's defense before his own faith in the boy is shaken?

Opie doesn't like his new teacher ""Old Lady Crump"" because she gives too much homework. Andy says some things that Opie twists and tells to Miss Crump, who is furious. When she bursts into the Sherriff's Office, Andy realizes that ""Old Lady Crump"" is actually young and very attractive. Realizing that he has put his foot in his mouth, Andy straightens things out, and this is what seems to be a new beginning for Andy and Miss Crump.

Aunt Bee falls for a medicine man's speech.

The musical mountain family descends upon Mayberry.

A tourist from England has to do chores to pay off a fine.

It's a red-letter day in Mayberry when Barney decides to join the motoring world, but things go sour when his cream-puff turns out to be a lemon.

Barney tells Opie about how to handle women.

Barney believes that Andy should be getting married.

When one of the top notch officials arrives, they find a courthouse full of dogs.

Andy and Barney visit the Darlings to rid them of Ernest T. Bass, who has his mind set on marrying daughter Charlene. In this debut for Ernest T, Barney ends up being the bride.

When the state police leave two captured bank robbers in the custody of the Mayberry police department overnight Barney is determined to show the prisoners that the Mayberry jail is a good as any other. Unfortunately he has problems keeping them from escaping.

Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new slingshot and takes it upon himself to raise the orphaned baby birds. After adopting them with the Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, Opie faces the difficult task of setting them free.

After Opie and his friend Arnold, hit a baseball into the window of the old Rimshaw house, they hear noises and run to Andy and Barney for help. Andy sends Barney up to the house to get the ball, with Gomer. They too, hear noises, and run away. Andy decides for all three of them to go together. The ghosts turn out to be Otis and his moonshiner friend.

Ernest T. wants to join the army to get a uniform that he can wear back to the hills to impress his lovely Romenna. When he is refused induction. Ernest goes on a window breaking rampage. Andy and Barney haul him in, but the jail can't hold him. After Ernest T. tells Andy his reason for coming to town, Andy settles the whole matter by giving him one of Barney's whiplash cord uniforms to take home.

A visiting preacher gives a sermon about taking time to relax. In trying to create an atmosphere of relaxation on a Sunday afternoon, the townfolk all end up running themselves ragged.

Briscoe Darling falls in love with Aunt Bee after she tells a poem about a rose, and gives him extra food. He plays a song for her while she's trying to sleep. She wakes up and tells him to go away. Briscoe kidnaps Aunt Bee and takes her to his place. Andy comes to rescue her.

Andy takes Gomer in after Wally fires Gomer for not doing his job right. Gomer drives Andy, Aunt Bee, and Opie crazy with all of the noise he makes.

Bricks of gold are bound for Fort Knox passes through the town of Mayberry from the Denver mint worth $7 million.

Opie is given a bike after achieving Straight As. He soon discovers that the marks were a mistake.

Gomer is asked by Andy and Barney to take Thelma Lou's cousin, Mary Grace Gossage to the Chamber of Commerce Dance. Gomer leaves the house, making everybody think he was leaving because he didn't like Mary Grace, but that's all wrong. He left to go get Mary Grace some flowers. When Andy, Helen, Barney, and Thelma Lou come back, they see Gomer and Mary Grace dancing wildly in the living room.

Barney is kicked out of his room by Mrs. Mendlebright because he was cooking when he wasn't supposed to. He stays at the court house, and tells Andy he doesn't trust the new guy who's living with Mrs. Mendlebright. Barney apologizes for cooking when he wasn't supposed to, Mrs. Mendlebright said she'd love to have Barney back, but she's marrying the new man who just moved in. It turns out the man is a con who just wants her money.

Barney gives Gomer a ticket for making an illegal U-Turn, but when Barney does it, Gomer yells ""CITIZENS ARREST!"" Gomer said Barney did something illegal himself. Andy agrees, and says that he'd be happy to pay the money for Barney's own ticket. Barney locks himself in jail, and decides to quit. Gomer thinks of a plan to get them back together.

Opie and his friends dash off to the woods to play Robin Hood when they find a person that is hungry. The person tells the story of Robin Hood to the boys and fills them in on stealing stuff. The boys starts taking food items to the woods for that person.

Barney is made fun of by the town after he mistakes the owner of the Mayberry bank as a robber. Andy decides to cheer him up by taking him, Helen, and Thelma Lou on a picnic. Andy and Helen go into Lost Lovers Cave and get trapped when it almost collapses. Barney gets a bunch of people to save them. Andy and Helen find another way out of the cage, and realize what would happen, if they didn't find Andy and Helen trapped in the cave, so they decide to go back in the cave so Barney won't be made fun of.

Andy pays more attention to a fatherless new boy in town and Opie gets jealous.

Aunt Bee and most of the women in town rally against Andy when Andy tries to evict a much beloved butter and egg man. In the end, of course, Andy is vindicated.

Barney comes back from a police auction with a motorcycle and sidecar. His intention is to use it for patrols. After he upsets the whole town, Andy has to find a way to convince Barney to give up the bike.

Andy tries to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear when he takes it upon himself to turn Ernest T. into a presentable gentleman. The big test comes at Mrs. Wiley's weekly reception when Andy tries to pass him off as his cousin. Even Andy is surprised at E.T.'s progress when Mrs. Wiley places his accent as being definitely Back Bay Bostonian, but the whole scheme blows up when Bass smashes a vase over the head of a man who won't allow him to cut in for a dance with his chosen woman.

A lady prisoner woos Andy and Barney.

Otis buys a car and puts Mayberry in danger.

Gomer's singing out does Barney's.

Barney poses as a mannequin to catch a thief.

A grumpy Andy agrees to take a few days off and heads up to the lake to relax. With Barney and Gomer in charge, they manage to capture--and lose--an escaped convict. When the criminal runs into Andy in the woods, he's recaptured by the sheriff. Naturally, Barney and Gomer mistakenly set him free again.

Andy 'saves' Gomer's life (or so Gomer thinks) by putting out a little trash can fire at Wally's Station. Gomer takes it upon himself to repay Andy by doing some outrageous and funny favors for him. Finally Andy sets up a plan for Gomer to save his life, therefore repaying his debt. A classic!!

To save money, Aunt Bee buys a side of beef from a discount butcher shop. When she gets it home, the freezer doesn't work right but she won't pay 'the man' from Mount Pilot to come and fix it.

Barney interferes in a strange mountain divorce.

Opie becomes involved in a sales scam.

Andy and Barney are working late at the courthouse, when they get a visit from two wild women. Out of pure kindness, they drive the ""fun girls"" home, but don't know that Helen and Thelma Lou saw them leaving town.

When Malcolm Merriweather returns to Mayberry, Andy hires him to help Aunt Bee with the housework so she can be a 'lady of leisure'. She goes from being overworked to feeling unneeded.

When Barney sees Andy kissing Helen in a jewelry store, he gets the idea that they are engaged. So he starts planning an engagement party and gets the whole town involved just to find out that Helen was buying a graduation present for her neice.

After Gomer naively tells Thelma Lou that Barney thinks ""he has her in his hip pocket."" Thelma Lou decides to teach Barney a lesson by flirting with Gomer. Things quickly get out of hand.

Andy, Barney, and Gomer take a group of boys camping in the mountains to show them some them the pioneer life. Barney winds up getting himself and Gomer lost in the woods. Andy finds them and tricks Barney into following a "Red Crested Web Footed Lake Loon" back to the camp.

Gomer comes to the courthouse one day and announces that he has decided to join the Marines. He believes this is a test to see if he has what it takes to be a man. Because of his naivete, Gomer at first does not fair well. After Andy has a little talk with the Drill Instructor, he leaves him with the impression that Gomer is related to a prominent Marine General. The DI takes Gomer under his wing and gets him in shape.

Opie develops a crush on his teacher, Helen Crump, at the school dance. He spends 74 cents to buy her a gift.

Barney learns that in order to pass the mandatory physical for the deputy's office, he must weigh more and be taller. Andy and Aunt Bee try to stretch him and fatten him up. When he's still two pounds underweight, Andy finds a unique solution to the problem and Barney passes the physical.

The Taylors quickly realize why they haven't invited Bee's sister and her husband Ollie for a visit in over a decade. When Uncle Ollie borrows Andy's squad car to go fishing, it's the final straw.

Ernest T. is back in Mayberry to get his diploma. He is so determined that Andy convinces Helen to allow him to attend class. E.T. is so out of control, she has to slap him across the knuckles to get his attention. Helen's discipline causes Ernest T. to fall in love with Andy's girl. Exasperated, Andy explains to Ernest T. that he loves Helen because she represents his ""motha figer."" Once that's all sorted out, Andy manufactures a diploma that Ernest T. receives in a touching graduation ceremony.

An old beau of Aunt Bee comes to town to court her.

Barney's attempts to train an old mutt (named Blue) as a police dog coincide with a manhunt for an escaped criminal.

Barney and Thelma Lou have an argument. They reconcile quickly, but it leads to other arguments between Andy and Barney, Thelma Lou and Helen, Andy and Helen, and another between Barney and Thelma Lou.

The grocery store clerk (Fred) repeatedly sweeps trash into the street, even after Barney writes him a citation. Fred threatens that if he ever sees Barney out of uniform, he'll pound him. Barney creates excuse after excuse as to why he always wears his uniform, even to the big town dance. Not surprisingly, Andy schemes a plot to get Fred off of Barney's back.

Opie stumbles upon a wallet with 50.00 dollars in it. He turns it into his father's office and waits the 7 day period that he is told he needs to wait before claiming the money as his own. He gets the money but not before the rightful owner has placed an ad in the newspaper that Barney sees.

Andy has the opportunity to perhaps move to Raleigh for another job. Barney is so upset by this that he tries to demonstrate to Andy just how bad Mayberry would be without him. He creates more problems than Mayberry has seen in a year in just one day just to show Andy how much he is needed.

Aunt Bee gets the lead role in the Centennial Pageant, as Lady Mayberry. She is, however, not up to the challenge, and Andy must find a way to tell her.

The Darlings come to Mayberry looking for a boy who could become engaged to Charlene's new baby. Opie becomes their prime target.

Andy and Helen are having a hard time finding quality time together. Barney volunteers to take over for a day, so that they can go to the lake for some "couple time". Barney, unfortunately, is not able to handle most of the tasks he has signed up for, and ends up interrupting them much to their frustration.

Barney acquires some fortunetelling cards and a secret box. The cards promise magical occurrences, and when his promised wish is granted almost immediately, he becomes convinced that the box has mystical powers.

Otis slips in the jail and when he meets up with an opportunistic lawyer, the man convinces him to sue the county. Andy and Barney are very upset by Otis's actions, which in the end prove not to be as mean as first appeared.

A classic. Andy lectures Opie about the importance of informing a potential buyer of the true condition of the item being sold. Meanwhile, Barney decides to dabble in the real estate field, and conjures up a deal where several families are selling their house and buying another house in town. When the Simms's consider buying Andy's house, Opie pipes up about problems that the Taylor house has, which angers Barney, who ends up losing ALL the commission money he WAS going to make from everyone selling their house.

Andy needs someone to answer the phone at the courthouse while he is in Mt. Pilot at a sheriff's conference and Barney is on vacation. Goober volunteers, but Andy isn't sure he's up to it. Grudgingly, Andy agrees after Goober begs. On the day Andy is supposed to leave, Goober fails to show at the courthouse due to being backed up with work at the filling station. Goober brings the car he's working on to the courthouse and works on it outside and, as a result, can't hear the phone ringing off the hook. Andy, late for the conference, threatens to pull Goober off the job until Aunt Bee vouches for him. Goober goes to the courthouse and proceeds to continue work on the car, but brings the car piece by piece into the courthouse while he's working on it! Andy returns from Mt. Pilot to find a completely assembled car on his courthouse floor. To make matters worse, the president of the state Sheriff's Association is coming for a visit! Can Andy save face in time?

Barney tries to use psychology to reform Otis of his drinking habit; trouble is that this eventually drives Otis to "take his business" elsewhere--by going to the jail in Mt. Pilot! Andy and Barney are very upset at having upset Otis and try to fix things.

Barney receives a chain letter, but Andy goads him into throwing it away. Suddenly everything goes wrong for Barney and he is convinced that he will fail at the qualifying shooting range for Deputies and ultimately lose his job.

The boys try to set Goober up with a woman.

Andy considers taking an out-of-town job, and with the election nearing, no one has yet filed to run for Sheriff. After Barney ""throws his hat in the ring"", Andy's out-of-town job deal falls through. Barney spearheads a write-in campaign to get Andy re-elected. When it appears that no one will vote for Barney, he decides to conduct a ""token campaign"" to make the election a real contest.

After Barney finds a suitcase with $250,000 in it, instead of waiting for the FBI, and against Andy's orders, he takes matters into his own hands.

Thieves act out as Hollywood producers and are wanting to rob the Mayberry Bank.

Andy's pretty young cousin comes for a visit, after breaking up with her boyfriend. Aunt Bee asks Andy to be nice to her. Andy invites Gloria to the movies with him and Helen, which makes Helen very jealous. Andy says he'll get her a date for tomorrow night, Helen wants Goober. Andy ends up dancing with Gloria which makes Helen even more jealous. Finally, Andy thinks of a plan and gets Gloria back with Frank.

In going through some of the courthouse paperwork, Barney discovers an open case involving Floyd and Charlie Foley where a fight had broken out. He goes out to try to close the books on this case, but the result is more anger and fighting than ever before.

Opie and his friends decide to start a newspaper. The early issues don't sell well at all (it's little more than a community bulletin board), so to increase sales, the young lads eavesdrop on local conversations and print the gossip in the paper. That starts no end of trouble, and it's up to Andy to set the boys straight.

Aunt Bee begins to feel that she is preventing Andy and Helen from pursuing their relationship, so she conjures up a beau for herself--trouble is that it's the butter and egg man and he's already married.

Andy and Barney arrest the ""fun girls""(see episode #123) for speeding. It turns out to be a big mistake because Helen and Thelma Lou become jealous.

An itinerant peddler comes to town (Don Rickles) and sells Barney, Floyd and Goober some items that prove to be defective. After he disregards Andy's warning about not selling any more things, they put him in jail--but he proves no better at odd jobs than at selling and bungles everything Andy and Barney give him to do.

When Opie brings home a bad mark in arithmetic, Andy, fearing the boy will not get into college, puts too much pressure on him to study, which makes things worse. In the end, Helen tells Andy to ease up and, with the pressure off, Opie brings up his grade

Opie goes to the carnivel and blows all his money on a game to win a birthday gift for Andy: The game, however, is rigged.

Jerry Miller once a carnival banjo player to a Belly Dancer (with a kazoo), then became a deputy to Sheriff Taylor. After Jeopardizing the town he must make a decision, either stay deputy or go back to the carnival.

Opie and another boy compete for a job at the Grocery store.

Frank, a teacher from Raleigh comes to Mayberry for a visit. He and Helen get along fine, and Andy suspects something is going on between them.

To get his mind off throwing rocks through windows, Ernest T. Bass is given the job of being a traffic cop. However, when Ernest T. begins throwing bricks through car windows, Malcom Merriweather is assigned Ernest T.'s task, causing Ernest T. to vow for revenge.

Aunt Bee and a retired politician experience a very fast-paced relationship.

Warren, enforcing a gambling ordinance to the letter of the law, arrests Aunt Bee and her women friends (meaning, most of Mayberry) for running a Bingo game. Everyone's furious at Warren, particularly Andy, who becomes even more frustrated when Warren resists pleas to drop the charges (in fact, the deputy really digs into his position). Aunt Bee and her friends soon demand a trial. Later, the men of Mayberry (with their children in tow, some of them crying) bother Andy and Opie at home when Warren still won't drop the charges. Eventually, the charges are dropped and Aunt Bee's good name is cleared once more.

Warren is convinced he has e.s.p. and feels that Andy and Helen are in grave danger if they go to the lake. He tries to warn them but they do not take him seriously. He takes it upon himself (with Goober's help) to "protect" them.

When Andy receives a $1000.00 dollars for the rights to a story about him "Sheriff without a gun" that will be filmed in Hollywood, he wants to put it in the bank. Opie, Aunt Bee and Helen all insist he do something fun with it. When they come up with the idea of a trip to Hollywood, the entire town gets involved in sending them off.

The Taylors visit Hollywood and get to see the making of Sheriff Without a Gun.

Andy has some explaining to do to Helen when photographs of him getting cozy with a famous and attractive Hollywood starlet make it back to Mayberry.

While the Taylors were in Hollywood, Aunt Bee won $4800 worth of prizes on a game show. She is the envy of Mayberry, until she her friends think that she's gloating about her winnings. The IRS comes to call, telling Andy that he'll have to pay over $1100 in taxes for the winnings. Aunt Bee sells most all of the prizes to pay the taxes. Worth noting in this episode is that Howard McNear (Floyd the barber), who had suffered a stroke, has a particularly shaky scene, when he's checking out Bee's new dishwasher.

I really hate knock this show, but as a big fan of TAGS, this really is one of the cornier episodes. The governor comes to town for founders day. The mobile state museum is brought to town for the event. Goober and that clown Warren are supposed to guard the museum and end up firing the old Civil War cannon at two crooks who are attempting to burglarize the museum. Pretty poor episode, I'm afraid.

Opie makes friends with Tommy, the new kid in town. Tommy is a bit mischevious, climbing up on the roof of Andy's building, and taking out a gun from Andy's gun rack even after Andy warns him TWICE not to. Goober gets a dog which he names ""Spot"" (because there are no spots). Tommy hides one of his walkie-talkies in Spot's collar and he and Opie lead Goober on to thinking that Spot can talk. The tables are turned, however, when Andy uses Tommy's love of horses to teach him a lesson.

Feeling bored and lonely in the afternoons, Aunt Bee asks Andy if it would be alright if she get an afternoon job. After looking through the want ads, she gets hired at a printing company, not knowing that her bosses are counterfeiters.

Clara pleads for a new church organ and Andy gets everyone to pledge money to help buy one, but when the pledges come due no one wants to pay up.

Warren is truly shy around women except when he is sleep walking. When he sleepwalks he turns into a Lothario of the first order--and his new conquest-to-be is Helen!

Warren decides that Otis needs some contructive rehabilitation acitivity-so he has him take up art. Otis works hard on a large mosaic of a cow that he is proud of-and he gives it as a gift to the Taylors. Much to Andy's embarrassment, Otis wants them to hang it up on their living room mantel!

Barney Fife returns home to Mayberry for a brief visit only to discover that his former girlfriend Thelma Lou has married. Fortunately for Barney, sweet Nettie Albright a secret admirer from days gone by shows up at Barney's high school reunion dance to save the day.

Warren gets to meet his idol Barney Fife. Barney is thrilled to have someone worship him (at long last!) but tries to sneak out of town when a real case needs to be dealt with involving an escaped convict.

Aunt Bee loses a piece of jewelry then turns it into the insurance office to collect a claim on it. Then she eventually finds the jewelry. She spends the money that the insurance gave her.

A wild west show comes to town featuring a wimpy man who is said to be related to Wyatt Earp.

Aunt Bee is frustrated at always having to rely on other people (notably Andy) for a ride. When she sees a car that Goober is selling she decides to finally learn how to drive and by this car!

Opie wants to attend his first dance but first must learn how to dance.

Andy orders a group of gypsies out of town after they bother the residents. They soon set up camp outside of Mayberry and place a "curse" on the area in the form of a drought. Everything's later revealed to be nothing more than a hoax, as the gypsies are using a radio to enact their scheme.

Poor Andy Taylor. What's he to do when Goober's new sweetheart starts making cow eyes at him? What else? HEAD FOR THE HILLS! Her name is Flora Mahlerbie, Mayberry's attractive new waitress. She charms the patrons all, serves fine pies and juggles her dishes admirably all while managing to remember what the daily blueplate special is. Goober goes for her in a big way but fickle Flora has her eye on anxious Andy. Head for the hills Andy!! "Flora if you wanna be stuck on someone PLEASE be stuck on Goober cause he's crazy over you! You gonna git me in ALL kinds of trouble..."

Aunt Bee is thrilled to be able to help out her niece by babysitting her infant baby. Unfortunately the baby cries only when Aunt Bee picks her up and not when anyone else does it. This makes Aunt Bee terribly upset until a minor crisis occurs and she finally understands what she was doing wrong.

Andy and Helen try to play matchmaker for Howard Sprague, the county clerk, but his mother wants to keep him close to home (and to her).

In search of a "real person" for his Foster Furniture Polish, Mr. Foster thinks Aunt Bee has what it takes to make his t.v. commercials memorable.

Goober goes on vacation and can't find anyone to replace him at Wally's Gas Station. His new sweetheart, Flora, who used to work at the diner is now available to fill in for him. Business booms while he is gone and she ends up with Goober's job after he quits. Flora becomes obssessed with increasing business at the station and doesn't notice that Goober hasn't been able to find anything else. It takes Andy's country logic to make her realize that she needs to have her priorities straight and make sure her sweetheart is happy!

Opie does some investigative reporting for an essay on the Battle of Mayberry but finds getting at the truth is harder than he imgagined.

When a famous singer visits Mayberry, Aunt Bee and Clara see their ticket to stardom!

Helen's niece comes for a visit and proves to be both very pretty and very talented in athletics. Trouble is that she beats Opie in almost every sport there is. She actually really likes Opie as a BOY and needs her Aunt Helen to help her to get Opie to like her.

Andy invites Howard to join ""The Regal Order of the Door to Good Fellowship"" lodge. Howard's mother doesn't like the idea of Howard being around the other men, so she concocts a scheme whereby Howard will be denied membership. It's all a big misunderstanding, and Howard eventually is allowed to join the lodge.

The Barbershop Quartet is missing one singer when Howard develops a sore throat. Andy, much to his dismay,must bring along a chicken thief who is a great singer. Andy has deep misgivings about this fellow and whether he will actually sing or try to break free.

Andy umpires the baseball game for Mayberry but when he calls the final strike for the opposing team, everyone in town is angry at him until Howard Sprague steps up and teaches everyone about being fair to Andy.

When a dignified-looking older preacher comes to town, all the older women want to impress him. Aunt Bee, after someone suggests it, buys a wig--a short blonde one. Later the preacher gives a sermon about having no pretenses. Aunt Bee finally tells the preacher about her wig.

The Darling Family comes back, suddenly rich. They want their sons to marry well, and decide they should pick from the women of Mayberry.

Goober is involved in a minor car accident and thanks to Floyd and Aunt Bee, he becomes convinced that he is truly injured and has whiplash. Aunt Bee feels sorry for him and takes him home to care for him--much to Andy's dismay!

Aunt Bee runs for a seat on the city council against the more qualified Howard, who is supported by Andy.

Helen and the students of the senior class put on a play but the principal objects to it--and to Helen's involvement with such "scandalous" things--until she figures out a way to show him that what is scandalous is all relative.

Opie and Arnold find an abandoned infant on the courthouse steps.

When Howard goes fishing with Andy, Opie, Goober, and Floyd, he catches the legandary rare carp "Old Sam". After he decides to put the legendary fish in a Raleigh museum, Howard learns a lesson from Opie that "Old Sam" is such an important part of the town's history that he brings the fish back to lakes surrounding Mayberry.

Aunt Bee is totally excited about her rose that she has been growing for over a year for the annual flower show. While Opie and Arnold are playing, however,they accidently destroy it.

Andy is captured by two escaped convincts and Otis and Howard ride to his rescue.

Goober grows tired of being the most ignorant one in town; he goes away fishing and accidentally grows a beard. The beard makes him believe he is smart--and he becomes an unbearable bore to everyone in Mayberry.

When Mayberry's long time physician retires the townfolk are reluctant to embrace his replacement.

A stranger comes to Mayberry promising to find the Ross Raiders treasure. Goober, Floyd, Helen and Bee all invest--much to Andy's irritation.

With Aunt Bee off visiting realtives and Opie away on a Scout trip, Andy is home alone. He is ready to spend a relaxing evening when Goober arrives to keep him company. He insists on making his special spaghetti recipe. Andy gives in, eats heartily, and then is reminded by Goober of an invitation to Howard's for dinner. Andy goes to see Howard, who did not actually invite Andy at all. They still whip up some spaghetti and eat, but then Andy realizes dinner was a Helen's. He rushes over, but is in hot water for being late so he must endure another dinner of spaghetti.

Andy visits Barney in Raleigh, and realizes that Barney isn't as successful as he has always claims. Andy is able to help Barney solve a series of supermarket robberies and help him save his job.

Barney returns to Mayberry and rediscovers an old girlfriend who has become a movie star.

Andy's old high school sweetheart moves back to town and has to stay with the Taylors while her house is being fixed. This creates tension between Helen and Andy.

Aunt Bee invests in a new Chinese restaurant and realizes she is not up for the stress of being a business owner.

Floyd gets a rent hike after Howard buys the barbershop.

When Howard suggests Mayberry erect a statue of Andy’s ancestor Seth Taylor in honor of all the work he did to make the town the quaint place it turned out to be. However, after a local artist completes the statue and earns the praise of the Taylor’s and everyone else in town, Andy and Aunt Bee get a big shock when Mr. Simmons lets them in on a secret that Seth Taylor worked with his ancestor to swindle the town out of a large amount of money. At first Andy and Bee want to keep this secret under raps, but she soon admits what Seth did during the unveiling speech. In the end, Floyd saves the day by saying that while Seth wasn’t the hero everybody thought he was; he still played a large part in making Mayberry the town what it is today.

Helen begins to write books for children.

After Dolly, a retired milk-wagon horse refuses to eat while her owner is out of town; Opie becomes really worried that something is wrong with her. Unsure of what to do, Opie turns to Goober, Howard and Andy for help in getting the horse to eat. It is only after Mr. Simpson returns home from his vacation that he and Opie discover that Dolly refuses to eat because she misses going to work every day.

Opie has to choose between piano lessons and football lessons.

Howard gets an opportunity to appear on television and demonstrate his comedic talents. He's a great hit --except with the people of Mayberry, who are upset that he mentioned them in his jokes.

Howard takes a liking to his Little Brother's sister.

Opie has a hard time finishing one of his homework assignments.

In order to boost business Goober has a contest at the gas station. The printer accidentally prints a ticket for $200 and Floyd wins the ticket--and Goober can't pay it.

Opie has a really big crush on classmate Mary Alice Carter, but she has her eyes on hunk Fred Simpson. When Opie asks her to the dance, she says yes, not thinking Fred will ask her. When Fred asks her, she immediately says yes and has to think of a way to tell Opie she can't go with him. At the dance, Mary Alice realizes that she really wants to be with Opie and they end up together.

Howard is on a bowling hot streak. When the lights go out during the final frame of the championship game, he gets the jitters but must still finish the game.

Aunt Bea and her friends go to Mexico. While there, their friendships gets strained.

Andy cancels a big date with Helen in order to confer with a lawyer in Raleigh, who turns out to be a beautiful women.

After Andy sends a reluctant Opie to a swanky boy’s camp over his summer vacation, he becomes fast friends with a boy from a rich family. As a result, Andy becomes worried that Opie has grown accustomed to living a rich lifestyle during his time away from the laid back way of life in Mayberry. It is after he comes home for lunch one day Opie has his friend over that he sees how lavish a lunch Aunt Bee prepared that he decides to sit them down to explain money doesn’t make life enjoyable, being yourself does.

Howard, dating Millie, is threatened by her husky former boyfriend

Aunt Bee, summoned for jury duty, disagrees with fellow jurors on her first case.

Opie disobeys Andy and tape-records a bank robber's confession.

Opie joins a rock-and-roll group and starts getting failing grades in school.

A visiting professor is attracted to Aunt Bee because she resembles his deceased wife.

Andy opens a coin laundry to save money for Opie's college education.

Howard proposes to Millie at the bakery where she works.

Andy learns the truth when he sees his cousin Bradford alight from a freight train but keeps quiet because Aunt Bee thinks he's a wealthy relative.

Andy catches the flu and Goober takes over as his deputy.

Howard quits his boring job as county clerk and becomes a Caribbean island beachcomber.

Goober buys the gas station with financial backing from Andy and Emmett.

The head of a local TV station enlists Aunt Bee to do a nightly cooking show, having heard about her cooking. Although she may not exude great professionalism, she has that extra ""naturalness"" that they're looking for. But her main concern is that someone suitable is cooking for Andy and Opie during her absence each evening. Unable to find someone, but not wanting Aunt Bee to back out of this opportunity, Andy (with Opie) maintains the pretense that a ""Mrs. Parkinson"" is on the job. Andy actually does the cooking -- to his and Opie's mutual gastric discomfort. After 2 days on the job, Aunt Bee shows unusual quickness of mind in seeing through the charade and finding a resolution.

Emmett's brother in law wants him to leave the fix it shop and join him in selling life insurance.

Opie placed an ad in the paper asking for a job. Andy explains to his friends that he's saving for an electric guitar. When Andy goes to the drugstore, Mr. Crawford told Andy he lost his hired hand who worked the diner. So Andy recommends Opie for the job because he's reliable & trustworthy. Three weeks into the job, Opie has saved $70. Mr. Crawford was impressed with Opie that he wanted him to run the store for awhile while doing some errands. Andy comes in & wants to order some perfume for his girlfriend. Opie looks up a price for the perfume he wanted & it was $64. After Andy left the store, Opie puts the perfume back & then the bottle shatters! Opie tells Arnold what had happened. Arnold gives him the idea of buying another bottle of perfume since he's going out of town with his dad. Opie pays Arnold the $64. When Arnold brought him the perfume, Opie places it in the shelf. Andy enters & tells Mr. Crawford that he wants to buy that $64 perfume. Mr. Crawford tells Andy that

The Church Members must decide what to purchase with the $500 that's willed to the church. The choice is between Choir robes and repairing the church's foundation.

An international summit is in the hands of Barney.

An old friend makes Goober feel worthless.

Aunt Bee decides that she wants to be more exciting, so she announces that she will learn to fly.

As Andy is looking through Helen's old newspaper clippings, he finds one of her being taken to jail by the police. He decides to keep his discovery secret until it leaks out to the school board which could destroy Helen's teaching career.

Emmett Clark cannot decide on a suitable anniversary gift for his spouse. Helpful friend Flora Mahlerbie {Alberta Nelson} finds a way and suggests her friend Bernie the wholesale fur man as the golden answer to Emmett's problem. Flora takes Emmett to Bernie's shop one night to haggle over furs and things. Ultimately, though, Cheapskate Emmett will not cough up the change for the pricey women's wear, even at 40% off, which leaves Flora a trifle sad.

Howard's mother decides to get married and move to Mt. Pilot. Howard is so glad to have the house to himself that he decides to throw a couples party, but Helen ends up being the only female there.

Sam runs against Emmett for office.

Opie sticks up for a young boy and must pay the price.

Sam and Andy call on modern technology to finally get Goober a steady girl.

Sam brings over one of his Italian friends from the war--but unbenowst to him the friend brings over his elderly father and sister--and this creates mayhem in his family and business.