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3 October 1960Rose, Opie's beloved housekeeper, is leaving to get married and Andy's aunt Bee, who raised him, is coming to replace her. Opie refuses to even give her a chance and after a few mishaps by Bee she decides to leave. Opie realizes she can't do anything right without him so he tells her to stay.
10 October 1960The state police notify Barney about an escaped prisoner heading toward Mayberry and plan to use the courthouse as their headquarters for the big manhunt. Captain Barker and his men arrive, make their plans, which don't include Andy or Barney, and leave to set up their roadblocks. Not willing to be left out, the two spring into action and Barney is caught off guard by the criminal, who takes his gun and ties him up. Stung by Barker's words after reporting the turn of events, Andy comes up with a plan to capture the escapee, earn the respect of the state police, and regain the townsfolk's confidence.
17 October 1960Andy arrests Jim Lindsey, a talented young street musician, and tries to steer him to New York where he can make his music pay off. Jim declines, saying he's not ready yet and Andy can't convince him otherwise. When a tour band stops in Mayberry for lunch, Andy sees his chance and arrests both the band and Jim and his guitar. After some arguing and a little wisdom from Andy, Jim plays a tune, a deal is made, and Jim joins the band.
24 October 1960New pharmacist Ellie Walker comes to town to help out her ailing uncle and quickly incurs the wrath of Emma Brand, and the town, by refusing to sell Emma her pills without a prescription. Emma, a hypochondriac, takes to her sickbed and milks it for all it's worth. Ellie relents and Emma survives, but with an upset stomach from eating all the food her friends and neighbors brought over.
31 October 1960Andy is tickled after Ellie accepts his invitation to the church picnic and dance but soon comes to think that it is a scheme by Ellie and Fred, who talked Andy into asking his niece, to get her a husband. To put the "desperate, determined hunter" onto other "game", Andy tells several other men that Ellie finds them attractive. Opie spills the beans and Ellie breaks the date and decides to go with Barney. Andy talks Barney out of going and winds up chaperoning Ellie and her other date.
7 November 1960After giving Opie a lesson on trust, loyalty and keeping promises, Andy learns that "Tex", one of his son's playmates, is a runaway from a nearby town who Opie promised he wouldn't tell on. Opie is confused when Andy expects him to break his word and give him the boy's last name. Andy must find a way to reunite the boy with his worried parents and show a disappointed Opie that sometimes breaking your word is the best thing to do.
14 November 1960After being teased about not having anything to do, Barney's self-esteem is at its lowest and he is ready to quit the force. In order to build his confidence so he will ask Miss Rosemary to be his steady girlfriend, Andy and Ellie stage a fake robbery at the drugstore. The man Barney catches turns out to be wanted in Chattanooga and Barney becomes a hero. With a swelled head he decides to "look around first" before committing to Miss Rosemary, until Andy shows an interest in her.
28 November 1960Andy is upset when he finds out that Opie gave only three cents to a charity drive and starts to teach the boy about sharing with others less fortunate. When he finds out the reason Opie can't contribute more is because he is saving up to buy his girlfriend Charlotte something, Andy thinks he's going to squander it on toys and calls him a playboy. Aunt Bee scolds Andy for not having more faith in his son and he must eat crow when Opie tells him he is going to buy Charlotte a new coat for next winter because her mother cannot afford to.
5 December 1960A young couple wakes the Taylors late at night and wants to get married. Andy barely gets started when Hannah's father bursts in and stops the wedding at gunpoint, followed by Josh's father, who has the same intention. It seems that the Carters and Wakefields have been feuding for years and the patriarchs ain't about to let one o' theirs marry one o' them, so Andy backs down. In the morning Andy decides the best course of action is to end the feud before marrying the couple and visits both fathers. He learns that neither knows how the feud started and that no one has been killed in the 87 years of fighting. Andy proposes a duel to end the feud but both men run off rather than take the chance of getting killed. In the end, Andy marries Josh and Hannah at gunpoint.
12 December 1960When Ellie wonders why there are no women running for the city council and doesn't like Andy's answers, especially his use of the word silly, she decides to run herself. The town quickly divides into two camps, with the men cutting off their wives charge accounts and the women refusing to cook and clean for their husbands. Ellie decides to quit the race when she sees the uproar she has caused but Andy, realizing he was wrong, tells everyone there is no good reason for her not to run.
19 December 1960Mean old Ben Weaver catches Sam Muggins moonshining and insists Andy lock him up, even though it's Christmas eve. In order to keep Ben off his back and still have the party they had planned, Andy arrests Sam's wife and children as "accessories before, during, and after the fact", and deputizes Ellie, Opie, and Aunt Bee to help watch the prisoners. Everyone is having a good time except Ben, who spies on them and tries to get himself arrested because he's too ornery to admit he wants to participate. Andy finally arrests him after he figures it out, but lets Ben stop by his store to pick up a few things he might need - presents for the others.
26 December 1960When a stranger comes to town and knows people's name and all about them, folks become scared and suspicious and want Andy to do something about him. Since Ed Sawyer has broken no laws, Andy refuses. Things get even more curious when he tells Andy that Mayberry is his hometown, even though he has never been there before. After being rejected by everyone, Lucy Matthews in particular, Ed asks Andy for help and tells him how Mayberry became his hometown. As Andy is calling the newspaper with the story, Ed is confronted by a group of townsfolk who want to run him out of town. Andy steps in and tells his story to the crowd, which backs down and welcomes him to town.
2 January 1961When a Hollywood producer wants to make a picture in Mayberry, some on the town council think he might ridicule the town or its people. Andy takes Mr. Harmon on a tour of Mayberry and satisfies himself that the man has no intention of poking fun at anything. The Mayberry Gazette prints the story under a banner headline and the whole town goes crazy decorating businesses and themselves ala Holywood. Despite Andy's objections, Barney, the council, and even Aunt Bee and Opie are caught up in the hysteria. When Mr. Harmon returns he cannot believe what he sees and pleads that things return to normal so he can make his movie.
9 January 1961After Opie gets cheated in a trade and intends to cheat another boy in return, Andy reminds him of "The Golden Rule" and tells him that honesty is the best policy. When the town council appoints Andy and Barney to sell an old cannon, they have no luck until an antique dealer comes through town. He is hesitant at first, but Andy makes up a history for the old gun and the man agrees to buy it for $175. When Opie follows Andy's example and trades a broken cuff link as a button off General George Washington's uniform for a pair of roller skates and money, Andy realizes he broke the golden rule himself and tries to make amends. The dealer still wants the cannon so Andy cuts the price to $20.
16 January 1961Irritated that Andy is teasing her and her friends because their latest round of gossip has Barney's cut finger ending with him shooting himself dead in just a few hours, Aunt Bee decides to turn the tables on him by hinting that there might be more to a traveling shoe salesman from New York than meets the eye. Andy, Barney, and the rest of the men in town start to speculate about his real occupation and when Wilbur Finch requests a TV for his room at the hotel, the men soon believe he's a talent scout for a television show. They call on him, one by one, to order shoes, but really to audition themselves or their children. Mr.Finch sells 67 pairs of shoes, a new record, and leaves Mayberry renewed, while the men stand there pointing fingers at each other. Bee and Emma smile and wave from across the street.
23 January 1961After Andy is picked to be the judge of the beauty contest at the upcoming Founder's Day celebration, the townsfolk drive him crazy by parading their sweethearts, daughters, and nieces in front of him to try to influence his vote. Ellie, Andy's natural choice, is angry with him and will not enter the contest, so he will have to choose from the others. When the time comes, Ellie is in the contest, entered by Aunt Bee, but if Andy votes for her she will never speak to him again. Andy, unable to vote for Ellie, and unwilling to vote for any of the others, makes an unusual choice.
30 January 1961Sisters Jennifer and Clarabelle Morrison give Andy and Barney the locations of a still the lawmen haven't had any luck tracking down on their own, and another they don't even know about. After arresting the lawbreakers and smashing up their stills, POW, POW, POW, the lawmen are congratulating themselves for getting rid of moonshining in Mayberry when Otis staggers in drunk. Otis refuses to tell where he got the liquor so Andy and Barney are making plans to mount a posse when Opie tells them about the "flower-making machine" he saw in the Morrison sisters' hothouse. Turns out the sisters were just getting rid of competition so they could raise the price of their own "elixir."
6 February 1961After being warned for the last time about fighting and disturbing the peace, Fred and Jenny Boone are at it again the next morning when Barney hears them and brings them in. Since nothing else has worked, Andy tries a little experiment - he makes them come in every morning for fifteen minutes to sit and speak politely to one another - which seems to work. At home, he tells Opie and Billy they will earn five cents each for playing nice after he catches them fighting. Well, the Boones learn to be polite to each other but start snapping at everyone else. Fred assaults his card-playing buddies and Jenny almost takes Aunt Bee's head off over an innocent remark. Billy stops coming over to play because it's no fun anymore. Andy realizes that "what looks like 'rasslin' to one is dancin' to another" and calls off the experiment after ten days.
13 February 1961Barney's unhappy with his meager paycheck and thinks about investing in the stock market. Andy warns him about con men and shows him how easy it would be to swindle someone. Just then Ellie comes in with Mr. Maxwell, a producer who needs Andy's help in rounding up local talent to make a record album of folk music. When folks find out how much money there is to be made if the record is a hit, they invest in it. Andy finds out and thinks they have all fallen for the oldest con game in the world. Maxwell continues to record music and take folks' money for a time then unexpectedly leaves town. Investors are up in arms and clamoring for the lawmen to find Maxwell when he walks in with a signed contract and a certified check.
20 February 1961Barney is acting sheriff when Andy goes to Centerville, and he's just itching to throw his weight around. When Andy returns eight hours later, half the townsfolk are in jail on flimsy charges. Andy dismisses every charge and sends them all home and Barney becomes the town's laughingstock and his morale is soon so low that even Hilda Mae fails to raise it. Andy starts hinting that he can't have a deputy who folks make fun of and is going to fire Barney. When Barney tries to quit, the folks he arrested put themselves back in jail and praise him for upholding law and order in Mayberry. Barney feels vindicated and his confidence returns.
27 February 1961The state police call and want to leave "Gentleman Dan" Caldwell in the Mayberry jail for a day or two pending his extradition to Atlanta. Barney quickly cleans up the place and kicks Otis out in preparation for their important prisoner. Caldwell soon arrives and in no time has Barney and Aunt Bee eating out of his hand with his compliments and polite manner, and Opie would rather listen to the crook's stories than his own father's. While playing cards with Barney, Caldwell takes his gun and when he is about to lock Aunt Bee and Opie in the cell with Barney in an attempt to escape Andy walks in and foils his plan.
6 March 1961Barney just can't seem to loosen up on his dates with Thelma Lou; he's ill at ease and can't put two words together unless he's talking shop. He has no trouble telling Andy how he feels about Thelma Lou - she's the cats - but he just can't tell her. After Andy tells Thelma Lou how Barney feels, she decides to make him jealous and tells him that Andy came calling on her. Barney's ready to fight; he won't listen to Andy's explanation and makes a play for Ellie. When Ellie tells Andy what happened he wishes he'd never got involved but Ellie figures out how the two of them can set the other two straight and things work out.
13 March 1961After scolding Opie and Andy for being so messy around the house, Aunt Bee gets a call from cousin Edgar to help out with Maude, who got the "versitis." Bee leaves for Mt. Pilot, reluctantly, the next morning but worries that Andy and Opie won't be able to survive without her. In just a couple of days the house becomes a pig sty. Bee calls to say she will be returning by the afternoon bus so Andy and Opie hurry to clean up the house and finish with time to spare. When Opie says Aunt Bee will be happy when she finds out they can get along without her, Andy realizes they made a terrible mistake and they mess up the house again. Miss Edwards sees the mess and cleans everything up while Andy and Opie are picking up Aunt Bee. Returning home and seeing how neat it is, Bee does think they can get along without her and is on the verge of tears. Andy and Opie quickly start messing up the house again and she catches them and thinks they are trying to clean up and scolds them, puts on her apron and goes to work.
27 March 1961Andy assumes Ellie will be going to the social with him even though he hasn't asked her until Bee tells him girls do not like being taken for granted. He goes to the drugstore to ask her, but instead is introduced to Dr. Benson, who's new in town, and unmarried. As they are drinking sodas, Barney starts worrying Andy about Ellie and the doctor becoming attracted to one other. After Bee scolds him and Opie says he's scared, Andy finally calls on Ellie one evening and asks...well, orders her to the social with him. She agrees as Dr. Benson arrives and she invites him to go with them. The next day Andy sends Barney to the drugstore to spy on Bob and Ellie and he thinks they are planning their wedding. Andy rushes over to "fight for what's mine" and inadvertently proposes to Ellie. Bob says let's make it a double ceremony. It turns out that Dr. Benson's fiancée is arriving next week.
3 April 1961Members of the Women's Historical Society think that the direct descendant of a Revolutionary War hero may be living in Mayberry and borrow town records for their research. Barney uses the library and deduces that he, himself, is the person they are looking for. When the women announce that town drunk Otis Campbell is the real descendant, the mayor and town council have a fit and want Andy to get Otis out of town and bring in a substitute to accept the award. Andy refuses, saying it wouldn't be fair to Otis. Somewhat late for the ceremony, Otis and his wife show up dressed in their Sunday best. The women present the plaque to Otis who says he can't take credit for being born and gives the plaque to the mayor for the town of Mayberry.
10 April 1961With the state inspector coming, Barney rushes out to get a prisoner and returns with Otis, who's drunk. Ralph Case arrives, doesn't like what he sees and starts writing down violations. Andy, who was out, comes in with a birthday cake for Otis and Case questions his methods and leaves ready to recommend impeachment. Case returns and goes with the lawmen to arrest a moonshiner who has locked himself in his house and is shooting at people. Brady, Case's boss, arrives just as Andy is arresting the man and is impressed by his courage. Case starts to list the violations he saw earlier at the courthouse, without much success, and drops the matter. The sheriff's department gets a clean bill of health.
17 April 1961When a farmer's daughter won't buy cosmetics for herself because her father wouldn't approve, Ellie decides to give the girl a few of the items, contrary to Andy's warning about meddling. Andy and Ellie go to Flint's place to deliver the items, but he refuses to let Frankie keep them and offers no explanation. Barney talks to Flint, to no avail, then takes Frankie into custody and delivers her to Ellie at home. When Frances returns, her father doesn't even recognize her at first, and, although he thinks she's "right pretty", he still needs her to help work the farm because he has no sons like Jenkins, his neighbor, whose sons are working just beyond the fence. There's disappointment all around until Andy tries an experiment to show Flint what the most efficient use of his one asset, his daughter, might be.
24 April 1961Businessman Ben Weaver wants Andy to serve a foreclosure notice on the Scobeys after Lester Scobey misses a payment. Andy and Barney come up with the money themselves, but Ben refuses it, saying he is now owed the entire balance, and threatens Andy if he doesn't serve the paper. Barney starts the "Save the Scobey House Fund" while Andy finds legal ways to stall the process. Andy takes Lester's eyeglasses so he can't read the notice and they even hold a rummage sale, at which Ben gives Andy an ultimatum, and he decides to show Ben how mean he really is. At noon the next day, Andy, with Ben in tow, ruthlessly confronts the Scobey's and practically forces them out the door. The bewildered couple tries to move out in an orderly way but Andy will have none of it and reduces Mrs. Scobey to tears. It's even too much for Ben, who calls off the foreclosure, and Andy returns Lester's eyeglasses with a wink and a smile.
Season 1, Episode 29: Quiet Sam
1 May 1961Barney thinks that taciturn Sam Becker is hiding something. He investigates and comes to the conclusion that Sam is tending someone with a bullet wound. With a storm coming, the lawmen drive up to Sam's place to satisfy Barney's curiosity and find him out disking his field well after dark. Back in the courthouse, with the storm raging and Barney on patrol, Andy gets a call from Sam to come to his place. Barney gets the message from Otis and, assuming the worst, calls Floyd to raise a posse then heads out to rescue Andy. Turns out Sam's wife is about to give birth, Doc Winters is out of town and Andy is going to deliver the baby. Barney keeps Sam occupied while Andy successfully delivers a baby boy. Floyd's posse gets there in the morning when it's all over.
8 May 1961Barney catches a man littering and starts to write him a ticket when the man sees a state police car and tries to flee. He and Barney get tangled up and fall to the ground and the policemen credit Barney with the capture. "I'll get you for this, deputy," Eddie Brooke threatens a befuddled Barney as they lead him away. With a gathering crowd congratulating him, Barney quickly recovers and swaggers away, spending the rest of the day basking in the limelight. Before a party at Andy's that night, they find out Brooke has escaped again. He heads toward Mayberry so Andy and Barney, who's edgy now, join the manhunt. The woods are quiet and Barney tries to tell Andy what really happened the day before. They rendezvous with the state men at an old barn where Andy thinks the criminal is hiding out so he sets Barney up in the barn to recapture Brooke.
15 May 1961The town gives a big "Welcome Home" to Jim Lindsey, a local boy who became "prosperous and famous" playing guitar with Bobby Fleet's band. He's out on his own now and bragging about all the offers he's getting. Andy becomes suspicious, though, when he finds out Jim is not paying any of his bills and borrowing money, and when he finds out Jim's not getting any mail either he asks Bobby Fleet to come to town. Bobby tells him the whole story and is ready to take Jim back. Andy catches Jim as he's about to leave town and has to arrest him to get him to see Bobby, who pays his debts and offers him a raise to rejoin the band. Jim agrees and they shake on it.
22 May 1961After an incident at school, Aunt Bee decides that the jail is a bad influence on Opie and Andy has to tell him the courthouse is off limits from now on. Bee gives Opie the job of planting "spinish" but his heart's just not in it. He misses his father, and Andy misses him just as much. Tired of watering his garden, Opie walks to the courthouse but Andy sends him home where he wanders off again, this time kicking a can, which takes him first to the old Johnson mine, which caves in while he's trying to enter, then to a house where he trades the can for apples. He eats his fill and promptly falls asleep in the back of a pickup truck and winds up in Elm City after dark. In the meantime, Bee has noticed his absence and called Andy, who starts searching. After a call, Andy retrieves Opie and after he tells Aunt Bee of his adventures she decides that he needs to see more of his father at the courthouse.
2 October 1961Opie is being bullied and intimidated on his way to school by Sheldon. He's forcing Opie to pay a nickel to pass by his street. As Opie asks Andy, Barney and Aunt Bee for nickels Andy becomes aware something is wrong. Barney tails him and discovers the truth. Andy must help Opie stand up for his rights without appearing to interfere.
9 October 1961The State's Attorneys Office sends Bob Rogers to Mayberry to work with Andy as a deputy and learn about law enforcement. This doesn't sit well with Barney who feels that Andy has been displeased with his performance and picking on him lately. It isn't long before Barney begins to feel useless and unwanted around the office and offers up his resignation.
16 October 1961Andy, Barney, Opie and Floyd are finishing up a day of fishing when a convertible whizzes past them doing at least 70 on a 45 MPH road. When Andy pulls the car over it is a woman driver from Washington DC. She thinks the Sheriff is just pulling a 'small town speed trap' routine on her. Her attitude winds her up before the Justice of the Peace and in contempt of court. She finds herself in jail and will use all of her feminine wiles to sway the witnesses.
23 October 1961Frank Myers is a kindly old man who lives in a rundown house which the town council feels is an eyesore. He is also delinquent on back taxes and they decide to evict him. Andy is opposed but is forced to serve papers. The Taylors decide to take him in until he can find a permanent place to live. While looking through his valuables Andy finds a 100 year old bond which is redeemable for the face value plus 8 1/2% interest compounded annually. The council panics when they find out the town of Mayberry owes Frank Myers over $349,000 dollars.
30 October 1961Barney is taken with a new girl in town and he and Thelma Lou have a lover's quarrel and declare their freedom from each other. Barney decides he is going to play the field and begins seeing the new girl. Things move a little too fast for him and before you know it he's engaged. He'll need Andy's help to get out of it and back into the good graces of Thelma Lou.
13 November 1961Andy and Opie are going fishing when they come across a wanderer who impresses Opie with his good humor and 'magic fish talk'. The man's name is Dave Browne and it isn't long before Barney hauls him before Andy for vagrancy. Dave isn't booked and he continues to form a bond with Opie. Opie soon begins to pick up his bad habits such as avoiding work and playing hooky to go fishing. This concerns Andy who must break up this friendship and get Opie back on the right track.
20 November 1961The town of Mayberry is awarded with having the lowest crime rate in the country. Two men posing as an FBI agent and press photographer come to Mayberry to congratulate the town. Andy, Barney, and the rest of the town do not realize that the two are actually imposters and partners in crime preparing to rob the Mayberry Bank. Andy discovers during the award ceremony that all is not what it seems, and catches the photographer in the act of opening the vault. Barney, naturally agrees with Andy's findings after first gleaming in the glory of his and Andy's sharp police work.
27 November 1961Barney and Thelma Lou want to set Andy up on a blind date with her cousin Karen. Andy is somewhat skeptical of Barney's matchmaking skills but after some clumsy maneuvering on Barney's part agrees to meet Karen. Much to every one's delight they really hit it off with each other. However, Barney's interference could cause more trouble than good.
4 December 1961Aunt Bee has hired Mr. Wheeler to help with the flowers around the Taylor home. Andy's not to sure about him but Aunt Bee is quite taken with him. When Andy notices how taken with him Aunt Bee is he relaxes and agrees to let him stay on and help around the house. Once he's in good his easy going manner seems to become more of a 'lazy going' manner and Andy is stuck doing most of the work.
11 December 1961Roger Courtney invites Andy to come up to the state capital and meet the membership committee of The Esquire club and be considered for membership. Andy accepts the offer but tells him he'll be bringing Barney along also. Barney is very excited at the prospect of joining this exclusive club but he's worried that Andy may need a bit of polishing. Andy wants to be himself when meeting the club but Barney insists on putting on airs to impress them...which of course backfires.
18 December 1961Aunt Bee and Clara Johnson are both jarring homemade pickles. The only difference is that Clara's are good enough to have won the blue ribbon at the fair eleven years counting while Aunt Bee's taste like they've been floating in kerosene. The boys are too polite to tell Aunt bee the truth about her pickles and come up with a plan to switch Aunt Bee's pickles with store bought pickles. The plan backfires when Bee decides to enter her pickles in the contest.
25 December 1961When Barney is offered the job of Sheriff in a nearby town, he and Andy trade jobs for a day to see what what kind Sheriff he would be.
1 January 1962Local farmer 'Big' Jeff Pruitt comes to town to pick a wife. Unfortunately for Barney, he chooses Thelma Lou.
8 January 1962Opie joins a secret club and is in charge of the candle they use in their meetings. After the barn where they meet burns down, he is accused by the owner of starting the fire.
15 January 1962Andy teaches self-reliance and responsibility to the spoiled son of a rich man.
22 January 1962When a pretty young manicurist starts working in Floyd's Barbershop. The men are uneasy about it at first, but eventually take to the idea in a big way. Their jealous wives, however, do not.
Season 2, Episode 17: The Jinx
29 January 1962Barney, Floyd, and other townspeople are convinced that local resident Henry Bennett is responsible for many mishaps that have occurred in Mayberry. Andy attempts to convince Henry that he is not a jinx by having him join himself and Barney in their boat for the opening day fishing sweepstakes. When this idea backfires, Andy must come up with the perfect plan to convince Henry once and for all that he is not a jinx before he thinks of moving out of Mayberry.
Season 2, Episode 18: Jailbreak
5 February 1962The 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.
12 February 1962Opie decides that he's going to enter the 50 yard dash at the Sheriff's Day boys' races and he convinces himself that he's going to win. For Opie, nothing would be greater that winning that medal. He dreams about winning and even prays for a win. Barney doesn't help things by telling him about the time he won a medal in a footrace as a boy and offers to train him for the race, guaranteeing him a win. When Opie comes in last, he is despondent and goes home in a grump. Andy tries to explain to him the meaning of being a good loser but Opie won't hear of it; that medal was his and the winner took it away from him. Once again, Barney suggests a solution.
19 February 1962The choir director invites Barney to join the choir before he realizes Barney can't sing.
26 February 1962The town decides to celebrate Founders' Day by picking a stranger at random to be the town's 'Guest of Honor'. Unfortunately the person they choose turns out to be a thief whose just been kicked out of the neighboring county.
5 March 1962Andy helps a struggling salesman stay in town.
12 March 1962With the jail full after the arrest of the four Gordon brothers for moonshining, Andy is faced with what to do with Otis when he shows up after his weekly drunk. The Gordons are angry with Otis for having changed liquor suppliers so leaving him with them is out of the question. Left with little choice, he takes Otis home with him to serve his sentence. Aunt Bee is a little disconcerted at first but when Andy tells her that she's in charge of the prisoner, she takes to making him do chores around the house like washing floors and windows, cutting the grass and chopping wood. Otis takes to calling her the Warden and has worked so hard that he swears off liquor.
19 March 1962When local farmer Rafe Hollister refuses to take his Tetanus shot, Andy and Barney try to convince him he should.
26 March 1962Andy and Barney travel to Raleigh on business and help catch a jewel thief in their hotel.
2 April 1962Clara convinces Aunt Bee that her presence is keeping Andy from finding a wife. When Mr. Goss shows interest in her, she pretends to be interested in him and nearly ends up married.
9 April 1962Barney interferes with Andy's new romance.
16 April 1962When business gets too hectic, Floyd hires a second barber who turns out to be a bookie. Barney goes undercover as an old lady to catch them.
23 April 1962Andy is accused of official misconduct by a big-shot newspaper publisher who he arrested on a traffic violation.
30 April 1962Barney's awkward cousin visits and makes a mess of everything he tries. When Andy finds something that Virgil is good at, he finds a way to teach him self-confidence.
7 May 1962Otis is made a temporary deputy so he can impress his visiting older brother.
1 October 1962Opie starts talking about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, but his description is hard to believe.
8 October 1962When Andy finds out his new girlfriend's father is wealthy, Barney talks him into believing the relationship is doomed.
15 October 1962Mayberry's new mayor doesn't like Andy or the way he does his job.
22 October 1962Aunt 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.
29 October 1962The mayor calls in an investigator from the state capital to help solve a string of cow thefts.
5 November 1962After Andy has an argument with Peggy, Barney tries to make things better by setting him up with another girl.
12 November 1962Two 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.
19 November 1962Mayberry'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.
26 November 1962Floyd has been posing as a rich man in letters to a wealthy widow. He panics when she decides to visit him in Mayberry. With Andy and Aunt Bee's help, he successfully plays the rich man. Andy finds out Floyd's lady friend has not been quite honest, either.
3 December 1962Andy's new girlfriend is the new county nurse. Everyone likes her except Opie, who is jealous of all the time they spend together.
10 December 1962Barney and Floyd are held hostage in a cabin by three escaped women convicts.
17 December 1962Aunt 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.
24 December 1962Barney thinks the Mayberry Bank is a pushover for a robbery and sets out to prove it.
31 December 1962Opie must learn to fight when a new boy in town ridicules him and begins to lead his friends towards a life of crime.
7 January 1963After Barney ticket's the governor's car for illegal parking, the governor is impressed and comes to Mayberry to congratulate him for doing a good job. Barney doesn't realize this and thinks he is going to lose his job instead.
14 January 1963A businessman's car breaks down two miles from Mayberry on a Sunday. He has a business appointment in Charlotte the next morning. He walks to town and finds it deserted until church lets out. The garage is also closed on Sunday. Gomer is working but can only pump gas and Wally refuses to repair the car until Monday. The stranger can't believe the pace of life in Mayberry and everyone's lack of urgency. Andy tries to talk him into spending the night and getting the car fixed on Monday. He will hear of no such thing...at first.
21 January 1963Andy receives a letter from an ex-con that he shot in the leg, years ago, in a gas station robbery attempt. He has lost most of the function of that leg. The ex-con writes that he is coming to Mayberry to set things straight. Barney assumes the worst. When Andy won't take a vacation or at least carry a gun, Barney deputizes Gomer and Otis to keep watch and protect Andy 24 hours a day.
28 January 1963A local construction crew is blasting for an underpass near Mayberry. The rumor is that the mayor wants to bring the highway past his brother's gas station. A farmer brings his goat uptown to experience his weekly shopping trip, and partly because of the blasting making the goat nervous. The goat frees itself from a bench on main street and wanders into a storeroom. The goat eats a half of a case of dynamite. Andy and Barney treat the goat with kid gloves and place him in Otis's cell. The fun starts when Otis lets himself into the locked jail using his own key and kicks the goat out of "his" cell.
4 February 1963At his high school class reunion, Andy finds that while memories may fade over time, some connections are never completely broken, and some hearts never completely heal.
11 February 1963When 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.
18 February 1963Opie's friend Arnold seems to have it all--a new bike, fat allowance, and plenty of leisure time. When the pressure's on, though, Opie learns that these assets are actually Arnold's greatest weakness.
25 February 1963After 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?
4 March 1963Opie's had it with his history homework, and misinterprets Andy's empathy as an excuse to skip it and lead his friends in revolt against their teacher, "Old Lady" Crump. When Miss Crump holds Andy responsible, he must find a way to motivate Opie and his pals.
11 March 1963Andy must protect Aunt Bee from a charming traveling snake-oil huckster whose 170-proof "tonic" provides temporary relief from mid-life crisis.
18 March 1963The musical mountain family descends upon Mayberry.
25 March 1963When cultures clash, cars crash, and Andy's home becomes his castle as he engages the employment of a bicycle-touring Englishman who must work off an unfortunately-earned debt.
1 April 1963It'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.
Season 3, Episode 28: The Rivals
8 April 1963When Opie feels too shy to ask classmate Karen to the movies, Thelma Lou tries to boost Opie's confidence--but destroys Barney's along the way. Can Andy realign this skewed love quadrangle?
15 April 1963Everybody's ready for Andy to get married--everybody but Andy, that is! But could it be that Andy has his own agenda, unbeknownst to Mayberry's meddlesome matchmakers?
22 April 1963It's pandemonium when the courthouse is invaded by eleven stray dogs. They boys have do find out what to do with them before a state investigator arrives to do an audit.
29 April 1963Briscoe Darling comes to town seeking the sheriff's help to solve a problem with Ernest T Bass, who has decided to court Briscoe's daughter Charlene and is making a pest of himself by throwing rocks through the windows of the Darling's cabin to get her attention. Charlene is already married to Dud Wash but Ernest T doesn't recognize the marriage because it wasn't performed by a preacher. Reluctantly, Andy agrees to help out and he and Barney make the long drive up to the mountains the next day. Ernest T is not impressed by the lawmen and continues breaking windows. Andy decides the best solution is another wedding, this time with the circuit preacher presiding. When Ernest T threatens to kidnap the bride Andy dresses Barney up as a decoy and Dud and Charlene are remarried while Ernest T is trying to figure out who Barney is. In the end Dud and Ernest T shake hands and they all celebrate at the cabin.
6 May 1963When the Mayberry jail is called upon to lodge two hold-up men captured by the state police, Barney finds himself with more than he can handle--especially when "assisted" by ad-hoc Deputy Gomer.
30 September 1963After Opie kills a mother bird with his new slingshot, he takes on the job of raising her babies himself. He grows very attached to them, but then has to set them free when they get big.
7 October 1963Barney and Gomer try to retrieve a baseball from a supposedly haunted house and find some strange goings on inside.
14 October 1963Ernest T. Bass causes a ruckus when he decides to join the army. When Andy and Barney find out why, the are able to solve his problem - with a little help from Barney.
21 October 1963A visiting preacher tells the town to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. He inspires everyone to have an old-time band concert. With all the stress of rebuilding the broken-down bandstand and getting ragged uniforms ready, they wear themselves out.
28 October 1963After being treated to Aunt Bee's hospitality and home cooking, Briscoe Darling decides he is going to marry her. He even resorts to kidnapping her. Andy comes up with a clever solution to the whole mess.
4 November 1963After Gomer gets fired from the filling station (losing his room there), he moves in with Andy. When people come by the house at all hours of the night to get their cars looked at, Andy knows he has to do something.
11 November 1963Andy and Barney have to protect a shipment of gold which will be going through Mayberry on the way to Fort Knox. It's critical that they keep it a secret, but Barney spills the beans immediately and within minutes all of Mayberry knows. A carnival-like atmosphere soon takes hold. The plot thickens when Barney discovers there's no gold in the truck.
18 November 1963A mistake by Opie's teacher causes him to get all A's on his report card. He finds out the truth, but everyone is so proud of him (he even receives a new bike) he can't figure out how to break the news without disappointing them all.
25 November 1963Barney has to play matchmaker for Thelma Lou's homely, visiting cousin Mary Grace, and sets her up with Gomer Pyle.
2 December 1963Barney's landlady evicts him and he has to move into the back room of the courthouse. When she withdraws all her money and decides to marry someone she just met, Barney suspects she is the victim of a con man.
16 December 1963Gomer makes a citizen's arrest of Barney for committing the same traffic violation that Barney just ticketed him for. This causes Barney to overreact, resigning as deputy and demanding a jail sentence in lieu of paying the fine. When Gomer finds out how far it has gone, he tries to come up with a solution.
30 December 1963After watching a movie about Robin Hood, Opie and his pals befriend a hobo who encourages them to steal from those who have and give to him.
6 January 1964After Andy and Helen go exploring in a cave, it collapses behind them. They find another way out, but hear on the radio that Barney has mobilized the town to rescue them. They go back into the cave to save Barney from becoming a laughingstock.
13 January 1964Opie's new friend Trey is liked by everyone, but Opie becomes jealous when he thinks Andy likes Trey more than him.
20 January 1964Aunt Bee organizes a crusade to keep a local man from being evicted because of a highway project. She doesn't realize he has something to hide.
27 January 1964Barney buys an old surplus army motorcycle and sidecar to use on patrol, then becomes a menace to the whole town.
3 February 1964In order to help Ernest T. Bass find a girl, Andy and Barney attempt to teach him some manners and get him dressed up. Then they try to pass him off at a party as Andy's cousin from Raleigh.
10 February 1964A beautiful young prisoner manages to charm both Barney and Andy.
17 February 1964Otis has Andy and Barney worried when he buys a car.
24 February 1964Barney is the only tenor in the choir. When a tenor solo part is required and the choir director is desperate to find someone else to sing the part. Gomer becomes the replacement.
2 March 1964Ben Weaver complains to the Mayberry sheriff's office that merchandise has been disappearing from his department store. While Andy investigates, Barney decides to go undercover to catch the crook(s).
9 March 1964Andy takes a much-needed vacation, leaving Barney and Gomer in charge. Unfortunately, nobody will let him get any rest.
16 March 1964After Andy wakes up Gomer to put out a small fire at the filling station, Gomer dedicates himself to repaying Andy in return for saving his life.
23 March 1964To 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.
30 March 1964Charlene Darling uses a mountain ritual to divorce Dud Wash and marry Andy.
6 April 1964Opie and his friends get involved in a scheme selling a worthless product called 'Miracle Salve'.
Season 4, Episode 27: Fun Girls
13 April 1964Two fun-loving girls from Mt. Pilot interrupt Andy and Barney's late night office work. When Helen and Thelma Lou see them together, they get upset and cancel their dates to the big dance. Barney decides he and Andy will take the fun girls instead.
20 April 1964When 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.
Season 4, Episode 29: The Rumor
27 April 1964Barney sees Andy and Helen in the jewelry store sneaking a kiss and tells everyone they are engaged. Aunt Bee redecorates Andy's room for a bride and throws a big surprise party for them.
4 May 1964After Gomer mentions to Thelma Lou that Barney said he 'has her in his hip pocket', she gets angry and starts dating Gomer.
11 May 1964Andy, Barney, and Gomer take Opie and his friends camping. Barney, who said he was a great woodsman, manages to get lost in the woods with Gomer.
18 May 1964Gomer joins the Marines to test himself as a man. Andy drives him to the base and stays around for a while to see how it works out. When he finds out the Sergeant plans to get Gomer sent home, he tries to find a way to get the Sergeant on Gomer's side.
21 September 1964Opie develops a crush on a secret girlfriend, and gets advice on what kind of present to get her. When he comes up with a pair of nylon stockings, Andy intercedes, suggesting something less personal, like flowers. Later, Andy discovers that the secret girl is Opie's teacher, Helen Crump. Andy informs Opie that he doesn't appreciate him cutting in on his girl, and Opie relents.
28 September 1964Barney has to gain weight and somehow grow taller in a week's time in order to meet new guidelines for sheriff's deputies or lose his job. Can he do it?
5 October 1964The Taylors find that a visit from relatives comes with complications.
12 October 1964Ernest returns to school to win a girl's affection.
19 October 1964An old beau of Aunt Bee's returns to court her, but he has an annoying sense of humor.
26 October 1964Barney tries to train a mutt, then wants to use him to help capture an escaped convict, despite Andy's objections.
2 November 1964Barney 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.
9 November 1964When a tough guy threatens to beat up Barney if he catches him out of uniform, Barney begins to wear the uniform all the time.
16 November 1964Opie finds a change purse and almost gains $50.
23 November 1964Andy considers taking a job in Raleigh, and lets Barney take over as sheriff for a day to prepare him for the office.
30 November 1964When Clara has to suddenly go out of town Aunt Bee gets the leading role in Mayberry's Centennial Pageant, but her acting skills aren't quite up to the task.
7 December 1964The musical Darling family descends upon Mayberry again. This time they are looking for a husband for Charlene's new baby daughter. Things get complicated when they choose Opie and refuse to take no for an answer.
14 December 1964Andy and Helen go on a picnic but are plagued by constant interruptions from Barney, Goober and others.
21 December 1964Barney buys a fortune-telling game and lets Opie try it out.
28 December 1964After Otis falls down in the sheriff's office, a sleazy lawyer convinces him he would be helping Andy and Barney if he were to sue the county.
4 January 1965Barney decides to try his hand at the real estate business. He has a plan that will net him commissions on three sales. Crucial to the deal is Andy selling his house and buying another.
11 January 1965While Barney is on vacation in Raleigh, Andy needs to find someone to fill as a temporary deputy. When Andy himself has to go to a sheriff safety conference for a few days. Nobody is available, so he is stuck with Goober. Goober doesn't take the job seriously (still working at the filling station). It gets so bad that Goober begins to work on cars at the sheriff's office and even ends up completely dismantling a car right inside the courthouse.
18 January 1965Barney tries to rehabilitate Otis after he rides a cow, thinking it is a horse. Barney arrests Otis when it happens again, even using handcuffs. Otis leaves town and vows to never return.
25 January 1965Barney gets a chain letter that predicts bad luck it he doesn't make copies and send them to friends. To prove to Andy that he's not superstitious, he doesn't send any. A constant stream of back luck is the result. Things look bad when he has a marksmanship test coming up, which he has to pass in order to keep his job.
1 February 1965When Andy and Barney get tired of Goober tagging along on their dates, they decide to try teaching him how to act around women and then get him to ask a girl on a date. It proves to be quite a project.
8 February 1965Barney decides to run for sheriff when he thinks Andy is leaving Mayberry. When Andy ends up staying, Barney ends up running against him.
15 February 1965Barney finds $250,000 from a bank heist, then goes undercover to find the robber.
1 March 1965After Andy is profiled in a national sheriff's magazine as the 'Sheriff Without A Gun', a television production team comes to town to research a possible TV show about Mayberry's sheriff department. Andy suspects something's up when they spend a lot of time checking out the bank.
8 March 1965Helen gets jealous when a very attractive friend of the family visits the Taylor household for a few days.
15 March 1965Barney finds an old police file about an assault between Floyd and Charles Foley from 19 years before. He refuses to let it go and stirs up a hornet's nest by investigating the case.
22 March 1965When nobody buys Opie's newspaper, Andy and Barney encourage him to print more interesting stories. Opie solves his circulation problem by publishing all the scandalous gossip from around town.
29 March 1965After Clara gives Aunt Bee the idea that her presence is preventing Andy and Helen from getting married, Aunt Bee names a married man as her imaginary beau.
5 April 1965Two flashy girls from Mount Pilot get a speeding ticket and cause romantic complications for Andy and Barney.
12 April 1965A traveling salesman is plagued with bad luck.
19 April 1965When Helen tells Andy Opie isn't doing too well in math, he's pretty relaxed about it. She recommends that Opie should do a bit more homework and he agrees. Barney however thinks Andy's attitude is completely off base. He starts talking about how the boy may not get into college and the like and get Aunt Bee all worried. Soon, Andy is just as stressed and he tells Opie to buckle down and cut out the play time. Helen soon reports to him that since they last spoke of the boy, he is actually doing much worse and not only in math. Andy can't understand since he's been quite strict with the boy who has done nothing but study. Helen suggest that that may just be the problem.
26 April 1965Opie tries to win Andy a birthday present at the carnival's shooting gallery but gets ripped off for all his money by a pair of hucksters using guns with crooked sights.
3 May 1965A destitute banjo player fills in for Barney.
Season 6, Episode 1: Opie's Job
13 September 1965Opie tries to get a job delivering groceries to pay for getting his bike fixed. He competes with another boy for it, but finds out the other boy needs the money to help his family.
20 September 1965Andy gets jealous when a big-city teacher arrives to work with Helen and ends up spending several evenings with her.
27 September 1965Malcolm Merriweather returns to Mayberry, announcing that he plans to live there permanently. Andy gives him the job of school crossing guard after firing Ernest T. Bass from the job for throwing rocks at cars. Ernest T. challenges Malcolm to a fight which he accepts, even though he can't fight.
4 October 1965Aunt Bee and her new beau go out on the town.
Season 6, Episode 5: The Bazaar
11 October 1965Andy's eager new deputy jails Aunt Bee and her friends for illegal gambling when they have a bingo game at their church bazaar.
18 October 1965Warren's ESP warns that a picnic will be a disaster for Andy and Helen.
25 October 1965A movie company is going to make film about Andy, and the Taylors take a trip to Hollywood to see the production.
1 November 1965The Taylors arrive in Hollywood and meet the production team that is making the movie 'Sheriff Without A Gun'.
8 November 1965After Helen gets upset about a publicity picture of Andy and a pretty actress from the movie, Andy tries to get back at Helen by going on a date with the actress. When Helen calls to apologize, Opie tells her about the date.
15 November 1965Aunt Bee wins big on a TV quiz show.
Season 6, Episode 11: The Cannon
22 November 1965Warren's ignorance about cannons helps catch two thieves.
29 November 1965Opie and his new friend Tommy are having fun with the new boy's miniature walkie-talkies. They listen in on conversations and the like but Tommy has a sense of humor that not everyone appreciates. When Goober adopts a stray dog, they hide one of the walkie-talkies in the animal's collar and soon the gullible mechanic thinks he has a talking dog. Goober soon makes a fool of himself and the boys think it's quite funny. Andy tries to impress upon them that humiliating people is not funny and teaches Tommy a lesson in what it feels like to be the butt of someone's practical joke.
6 December 1965Aunt Bee takes a part-time job at a printing shop that has just opened in town. When Andy notices, among other things, that they print business cards with green ink, he figures out just what they're in the business of printing!
13 December 1965When the old organ in the church heaves it's last sour note, Andy finds a used one and gets pledges from local businessmen to pay for it. When it comes to collecting, all he gets are excuses. The solution to the problem comes from a very unexpected source.
Season 6, Episode 15: Girl Shy
20 December 1965After watching a TV show about a suave adventurer, Warren becomes like the character while sleepwalking and tries to romance Helen. When he wakes up, he doesn't remember a thing.
3 January 1966Warren meets Otis for the first time and tries to cure his alcoholism by introducing him to mosaic art. Surprisingly, Otis takes to it well, and even stops drinking. The only problem is that he has no artistic talent.
10 January 1966Barney comes back to town for the high school reunion and meets everyone, including Thelma Lou, who has also returned to Mayberry.
17 January 1966While Barney is back in Mayberry, a convict escapes and heads to Mayberry to get even with him for sending him to prison the year before.
24 January 1966Aunt Bee finds a lost antique pin after spending the insurance money she got for it. She feels like she has stolen from the insurance company, but Warren and Goober end up helping clear her conscience.
31 January 1966A wild west show comes to town featuring a wimpy man who is said to be related to Wyatt Earp.
7 February 1966Aunt Bee takes driving lessons from Goober. Although she isn't licensed to drive by herself, she moves the car for a tree trimmer and runs it into the tree.
14 February 1966Opie is really looking forward to the school party this year - that is until he learns that, for the first time, it's going to be a dance. The problem is that Opie can't dance. He quickly loses interest in the party and Andy doesn't think much of it until Floyd reminds him that the same happened to Andy when he was Opie's age. Aunt Bee's attempt to teach Opie a few steps proves to be just a bit outdated however. Opie is convinced he will just plain embarrass himself, but it turns out not to be so bad after all.
21 February 1966When a band of Gypsies comes to town and starts selling junk to people, Andy tries running them off. They put a curse on the town, saying it will not rain again until they are allowed to come back. When there is no rain for over a week, the town turns against Andy.
28 February 1966Goober falls hard for the new waitress at the diner, but she only has eyes for Andy.
7 March 1966When Aunt Bee gets a call from her niece Martha asking if she would take take care of their baby for a week while they attend a wedding, she gladly accepts. She also assures Andy that the baby will be no trouble at all. She's somewhat taken aback however when the baby cries every time she picks her up. Others seem to have no problem, including Andy. She soon finds herself asking anyone who is handy to stop by the house at feeding times, as she's convinced herself that the baby hates her. An emergency of sorts convinces her otherwise.
14 March 1966Andy and Helen try their matchmaking skills on Howard Sprague and the pretty new county health officer, Miss Fairchild. They find out Howard's mother keeps him on a very short leash.
21 March 1966Aunt Bee is asked to star in a commercial for Foster's Furniture Polish.
28 March 1966Goober's girlfriend Flora fills in for him at the gas station when he goes on a fishing trip. When Wally sees how she brings in the customers, he fires Goober and hires Flora.
4 April 1966Opie causes a stir in town when he writes a school paper on the historic Battle of Mayberry. He finds that the truth does not match the legend.
11 April 1966A pop singer stops in town and ends up performing a song that Aunt Bee and Clara wrote on his TV show. Unfortunately, his version of the song does not meet their approval.
12 September 1966Helen's visiting niece Cynthia feigns helplessness to charm Opie, even though she is athletically superior to him.
Season 7, Episode 2: The Lodge
19 September 1966When Andy nominates Howard for membership in the local lodge, Howard's mother tries to prevent it by spreading a false rumor.
26 September 1966When Howard becomes unavailable to sing in a Barbershop Quartet contest, Andy reluctantly drafts a prisoner to fill in.
3 October 1966Andy us drafted to umpire a baseball game and then is shunned by the entire town when his call causes Mayberry to lose.
10 October 1966Aunt Bee shocks the town with her new blonde wig and becomes the object of a visiting minister's attention.
17 October 1966The Darlings sell some land to the county for $300. Briscoe decides it's time to get his boys married off and they spend the day in town looking for brides. After they can't find anyone, they're ready to leave when they see an omen that says the next woman they see will be a bride. Then they see Helen coming down the sidewalk.
31 October 1966After Goober is involved in a minor traffic accident, Floyd and Aunt Bee convince him he has whiplash.
7 November 1966Aunt Bee and Howard Sprague both run for the same seat on the town council.
14 November 1966Helen and her students students try to close the generation gap by showing that today's kids are no different than yesterday's.
21 November 1966Opie and Arnold find an abandoned baby on the courthouse steps. Afraid that it will be sent to an orphanage, they try to find a home for it.
28 November 1966After beginner angler Howard lands legendary carp "Old Sam", he discovers he has spoiled fishing for everyone by catching The Big One.
5 December 1966Aunt Bee has a rose that she thinks will finally win her first place in the annual Garden Club contest until Opie accidentally destroys it.
12 December 1966Otis and Howard try to rescue Andy when he is held captive by two desperate bank robbers on the run.
19 December 1966Goober annoys everyone when he becomes convinced his new beard makes him an intellectual.
26 December 1966Mayberry has a new doctor in town who runs into difficulty being accepted because no one wants to be his first patient.
2 January 1967A slick con man comes to town and dupes several people, including Andy.
9 January 1967Three friends cook three different dinners for Andy in one night.
16 January 1967Andy takes a trip to Raleigh to visit Barney and ends up making him a hero by solving a series of robberies.
23 January 1967Barney visits the same time as a movie star who's also from Mayberry. When her PR man learns she and Barney dated in school, he has Barney escort her to her new movie's premiere. Unfortunately, Barney thinks he has rekindled an old romance.
30 January 1967Helen gets jealous when an old girlfriend of Andy's returns to Mayberry.
6 February 1967Aunt Bee enters the business world when she becomes part owner of a Chinese restaurant.
13 February 1967Floyd decides to close the barbershop after Howard buys the building and raises the rent.
Season 7, Episode 23: The Statue
20 February 1967After the town has a statue made honoring a heroic Taylor ancestor, the find out he was a swindler.
27 February 1967Andy gets jealous when a publisher buys Helen's book for children.
6 March 1967When the milkman gets a truck to do his deliveries, Opie is asked to care for his old delivery horse, Dolly. After she refuses to eat for several days, they figure out what's wrong.
13 March 1967Opie's piano lessons clash with football practice.
20 March 1967Howard does a successful comedy act on a TV amateur hour telling jokes about the people in Mayberry. Everyone in town gets upset when they take the jokes seriously.
27 March 1967Howard volunteers to be a boy's 'Big Brother' but gets distracted by his pretty older sister.
3 April 1967Andy's feelings are hurt when Opie doesn't pick him as the subject of his high-school paper.
10 April 1967Goober holds a contest at the filling station. An error at the printer's causes one coupon to be worth $200 instead of $10 or less.
11 September 1967Opie's date for Arnold's big birthday party cancels at the last minute to go with a 'cooler' guy.
18 September 1967Howard fills in on the bowling team and amazes everyone with his skill.
25 September 1967Aunt Bee wins a trip to Mexico and takes Clara and Myrtle. When they get back, they aren't even speaking to each other.
2 October 1967Andy has to break a date with Helen and go to Raleigh to meet with a lawyer who turns out to be a pretty blonde. Andy lies to Helen about it, but she finds out.
9 October 1967Andy sends Opie to a fancy camp where he makes friends with a rich boy. Later, when they attend a father-son get-together, Andy finds himself acting high-class just like he told Opie not to do.
16 October 1967Howard finds romance with a new girl in town, Millie Hutchins. However, her former boyfriend Clyde threatens to beat him up if they don't stop dating.
23 October 1967Aunt Bee serves jury duty.
30 October 1967Opie and Arnold record a prisoner telling where the money from a bank robbery is.
6 November 1967After Opie joins a rock band he starts to stay out late and gets F's in all of his schoolwork. Aunt Bee has Clara talk to him about the situation.
