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#33 Barney's Replacement 10-09-61
Barney's pride gets the best of him when Bob Rogers, a booksmart
rookie from the state attorney's office, is sent to Mayberry to get law
enforcement experience. Convinced Andy is out to replace him, Barney beats
him to the punch and resigns to enter the business world as a door-to-door
Miracle Sweep vacuum salesman. Andy tricks Barney into rejoining the force
by showing him that Rogers does not have the mettle for the job.
#34 Opie and the Bully 10-02-61
Andy learns Opie is being terrorized by a loca bully, who threatens
him with pulverization until he gets Opie's lunch money. Andy decides to
let Opie fight this battle on his own. Opie goes to face his nemesis, and
Andy suffers as he waits for his son to return. Opie returns to the courthouse
as the better man--he won the fight for his rights.
#35 Andy and the Woman Speeder 10-16-61
Andy arrest beautiful big-city woman Elizabeth Crowley. By the
time she reaches trial, Miss Crowley has used flattery and bribes to turn
the witnesses for the prosecution--Opie, Floyd, and Barney--against Andy.
After winning the case, Miss Crowley sees the error of her ways and promptly
speeds out of town intentionally so Andy can arrest her again and allow her
to pay the fine she deserved in the first place.
#36 Barney on the Rebound 10-30-61
Barney's head is turned by lovely young newcomer Melissa Stevens,
who proves to be the more attractive half of a team of con artists out to
trap naive young bachelors into breach-of-promise settlements. Andy saves
the day by calling the bluff of Melissa's suspiciously young "father", George
Stevens. In the middle of what the pair had hoped would be their payoff,
Andy begins the wedding vows, and the two back off.
#37 The Perfect Female 11-27-61
Once again the feminist theme is brought to the fore when Thelma
Lou arranges a blind date between her visiting cousin and Andy. To everyone's
surprise, they hit it off, but the relationship collapses when Karen Moore
takes up a shotgun and shows Andy thay she is not the usual delicate female.
After Andy gets a good dressing-down, he admits the error of his ways.
#38 Aunt Bee's Brief Encounter 12-04-61
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.
#39 Mayberry Goes Bankrupt 10-23-61
Andy teaches Mayberry exactly what "Love Thy Neighbor" means in
this episode. Andy is forced to evict Frank Myers from his home only to later
discover that he holds a century-old bond that is originally believed to
be worth $349,119.27. Since the Mayberry treasury holds just over $10,000,
the mayor and town council scramble to keep Frank happy by renovating his
run-down home. Later, the bond is discovered to be worthless because it was
paid for with Confederate currency. Once again the town turns on the old
man, but Andy is able to convince everyone that they have done something
nice and should leave it at that.
#40 Opie's Hobo Friend 11-13-61
Opie becomes fascinated with David Browne, a vagrant hobo who
uses his wits to live on the edge of the law. After realizing his son has
taken a liking to the wily wanderer, Andy tries to find David some honest
work. Andy's plan goes sour when Opie, at Dave's encourgement, is caught
playing hooky. Andy then has a long talk with the hobo. Dave sees his side
and arranges to get himself arrested in order to show Opie that he was not
the man he thought him to be.
#41 Crime-free Mayberry 11-20-61
Two crooks posing as an FBI man and a photographer comes to Mayberry
to congratulate the Sheriff's Department for achieving a crime-free record.
Andy gets suspicious after the supposed FBI agent allows his picture to be
taken. When the pair crack the Mayberry Bank's vault, Andy is inside waiting
for them--he had come in the back door. Always the gracious sheriff, Andy
thanks them for opening the vault that had been locked for almost fifteen
years after the combination was lost and the vault company had gone out of
business.
#42 The Clubmen 12-11-61
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.
#43 The Pickle Story 12-18-61
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.
#44 Sheriff Barney 12-25-61
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.
#45 The Farmer Takes a Wife 01-01-62
One of Andy's old pals, Big Jeff Pruitt, comes to Mayberry looking
for a suitable woman to be his wife. Andy and Barney give him a hand, but
Jeff just can find a woman who suits him. Finally he finds the perfect woman:
Thelma Lou. Andy instructs Thel to accept Jeff's proposal and then go about
trying to civilize him into being a city-dwelling house husband. That is
more than Jeff can abide, and heads back to the hills and his old gal, Big
Bertha, just as Barney comes to Thel's demanding Big Jeff either flee or
fight.
#46 The Keeper of the Flame 01-08-62
Opie is accepted as a member of a secret society called The Wildcats
after he takes a sacred oath never to reveal the club secrets. Given the
job of Keeper of the Flame, Opie is fingered as the guilty party when the
barn that the club meets in is burned to the ground. The fire was actually
started by the barn's owner, farmer and moonshiner Jubell Foster. Not knowing
this, Andy takes responsibility for the fire and is about to pay Foster for
the value of the barn when Barney, having stumbled upon and unkhoningly consumed
some of Foster's moonshine, staggers out drunk.
#47 Bailey's Bad Boy 01-15-62
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.
#48 The Manicurist 01-22-62
Shapely young Ellen Brown pops into Mayberry in search of a friendly
town where she can make a living as a manicurist. When she lays claim to
a corner of Floyd's Barbershop, the men of Mayberry aren't quite sure how
to act. It isn't long before they come around to liking the whole idea, and
it's the wives who become less than enthusiastic.
#49 The Jinx 01-29-62
Barney gets the whole town on guard when he declares Henry Bennett
to be a jinx. No matter how Andy tries to convince the town otherwise, Bennett's
mere presence seems to consistently coincide with disaster. Even Andy gives
up after a drawing fixed in Bennett's favor fails. Andy then explains to
him that a man with as many friends as he has must be lucky.
#50 Jailbreak 02-05-62
A team of convicts is on the loose, and the state police arrive
ridiculing Sheriff Taylor and Barney. Andy cracks the case by focusing on
the smallest details: a trailer hitch and an offhand remark by the dry cleaner
about a suit with dog hairs. This leads to the convict's accomplice, but
only after Barney somehow manages to let the one convict they have captured
escaped.
#51 A Medal for Opie 02-12-62
Opie has his heart set on winning a medal in the annual Sheriff's
Boys' Day race. Under the tutelage of legendary fifty-yard-dash winner Barney
Fife, Opie enters the race confident of a win. When the day is done, however,
Opie comes up empty. Andy finds Opie sulking at home, and the two have a
heart-to-heart about the value of good sportsmanship.
#52 Barney and the Choir 02-19-62
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.
#53 Guest of Honor 02-26-62
It's Founder's Day again, and thistime the celebrration centers
on honoring the first vistor to town with the key to the city. Unfortunately,
the first person to drive in is Sheldon Davis, an expert pickpocket and petty
thief. When Andy runs a check on him and finds the truth about their "Guest
of Honor" he decides not to tell anyone and just keep a close eye on him
until the day is over and he can run him out of town. Barney messes everything
up and ends up letting him have the keys to all the business in the city.
Andy foils his plan in the end and cathces him red handed.
#54 The Merchant of Mayberry 03-05-62
Mean old Ben Weaver goes on a rampage when Bert Miller, a traveling
salesman, stops in Mayberry. Weaver demands Miller be taken off the street
for not complying with a Mayberry law that prohibits anyone from selling
goods without a permant structure. Andy, out to have a little fun, decides
to settle the matter in his own way by helping Bert build a nice little stand
in a vacant lot down the street, setting off a trade war between Bert's and
Weaver's Department Store. Ben finally gives in and decides the best way
to eliminate the competition is to put him to work in his own store.
#55 Aunt Bee, the Warden 03-12-62
The Gordon boys are brought in for moonshining, and when Otis
arrives for his regular stay at the jail, there is no room at the inn. When
the Gordon boys accuse Otis of turning them in, Andy has no choice but to
take Otis home to let him sleep it off at the Taylor . Come morning, Otis
finds that he's been turned over to "Bloody Mary," aka Aunt Bee, who decides
to rehabilitate Otis once and for all.
#56 The County Nurse 03-19-62
Mary Simpson, the first of the county nurses, enlists Andy's help
in getting Rafe Hollister to submit to a tetanus shot. Rafe refuses until
Andy, using the old reverse psychology trick, gets Rafe to change his mind
after he serenades him with a song that Andy plans to sing at Rafe's funeral.
#57 Andy and Barney in the Big city 03-26-62
Andy and barney are involved in catching a jewel theif.
#58 Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee 04-02-62
Clara convinces Aunt Bee that she's the reason Andy isn't getting
married. In order not to feel that she is in the way, Bee invents an imaginary
beau. Andy misunderstands and becomes convinced that Bee is serious about
finding a husband. When Bee needs to produce a body, she grabs Fred Gross,
the Mayberry dry cleaner. When Andy finally figures out what has transpired,
he tells Bee that she is not in the way and is part of his family.
#59 Three's a Crowd 04-09-62
Andy tries to romance county nurse, Mary Simpson, but Barney
constantly interrupts. Finally, Andy becomes exasperated and tells Barney
he wants to be alone with Mary. Barney understands perfectly, and he gathers
everyone together for the first of several false wedding announcements involving
Andy and his current female love interest.
#60 The Bookie Barber 04-16-62
Floyd gets his chance at being a proprietor of a two-chair shop
when semiretired barber Bill Medwin arrives with a proposition of expansion.
Floyd jumps at the chance since Medwin promises to supply the chair and the
customers. As it turns out, the barber is a bookie, and Barney jumps in to
bust the criminal.
#61 Andy on Trial 04-23-62
J. Howard Jackson, a wealthy newspaperman, seeks revenge on Sheriff
Taylor after Andy tracks him down for failing to appear in Mayberry court
for a traffic violation. Unwittingly, Barney becomes a key witness in Jackson's
attempt to remove Andy from office, supplying female reporter Jean Boswell
with informationthat is eventually used as evidence against Andy. When Barney
is called to the stand, he is able to dispel all doubts that Andy is an honest
man of the law and a true public servant.
#62 Cousin Virgil 04-30-62
Virgil, Barney's awkward cousin from New Jersey, visits mayberry
and immediately makes a mess of everything he touches. Ater Virgil has dumped
a roast in Andy's lap, driven the squad car through his gate, and smashed
a pane of glass while sweeping up around the courthouse, Andy tries to get
him out of his hair by sending him to polish the cell keys. Virgil polishes
the teeth right off of them, making it impossible to let Otis out when he's
due to leave the cell. At his wit's end, Andy is shown a set of hand-carved
wood figures that virgil himself made. Andy realizes the best tonic for Virgil
is a good dose of self-confidence and leaves him alone to remove the door
of the cell.
#63 Deputy Otis 05-07-62
Andy helps his number one prisoner save face when Otis learns
his brother Ralph is coming to visit. Having told his brother he is a member
of the Mayberry sheriff's office, Andy makes an exception and deputizes his
favorite ward long enough to convince Ralph he's a member of Mayberry's finest.
As it turns out, Ralph isn't any better a man than Otis, coming in drunk
to lock himself in the Mayberry jail--just as he does at home.