Danny Williams is arrested by Sheriff Andy Taylor for going through a stop sign in the town of Mayberry.

After the Taylors' old housekeeper, Rose (Mary Treen), gets married and moves away, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) moves in to take care of Andy (Andy Griffith) and Opie (Ron Howard). However, Opie refuses to accept her.

Andy and Barney (Don Knotts) decide to take action when the state police leave them out of a manhunt for an escaped criminal. First appearance of Otis the town drunk, played by Hal Smith.

Andy helps guitarist Jim Lindsey (James Best) get a chance at stardom by arresting a band passing through town and having Jim audition for them.

Pharmacist Ellie Walker (Elinor Donahue) comes to Mayberry to help her ailing uncle run his drugstore, but she has to adjust to the town's unusual ways and people, including Emma the hypochondriac.

Andy suspects that Ellie is thinking about marriage when he invites her to the annual church picnic.

Andy teaches Opie about keeping promises, then must figure what to do with a friend of Opie's who has run away from home and sworn Opie to secrecy.

Andy and Ellie stage a fake robbery at the pharmacy to boost Barney's self-confidence. Andy also encourages Barney to date shy Rosemary, whom he had only been walking to church on Sundays.

Andy is disappointed in Opie for giving so little to a charity drive, until he learns the reason. Meanwhile, a former Mayberry resident who was presumed dead unexpectedly returns to town.

Andy seeks to end a long-running family feud before joining two lovers (one from each family) in marriage.

Ellie starts a battle of the sexes when she decides to run for town council.

Despite being forced by a Scrooge-like store owner (Will Wright) to arrest bootlegger Sam Muggins on Christmas Eve, Andy still manages to have the most wonderful Christmas in Mayberry. This is the only Christmas episode in the eight-year series.

The citizens of Mayberry are suspicious of a young stranger (William Lanteau) who seems to know everything about them. First appearance of Floyd the barber, played for the only time by Walter Baldwin.

Mayberry is chosen as the setting for an upcoming movie, and the whole town (except Andy) gets carried away with all the glamour. First appearance of Howard McNear as Floyd Lawson, the barber.

Andy makes up a story about an old useless cannon in order to sell it to an antique dealer (Casey Adams aka Max Showalter) – even though he had just told Opie about honesty.

Aunt Bee sets out to prove that men are bigger gossips than women. The men spread a rumor that a visiting shoe salesman (Jack Finch) may actually be a talent scout. The salesman is puzzled when townspeople individually come to his hotel room to perform for him.

Andy is made sole judge of a beauty contest, and the townspeople pester him by promoting their favorite contestants. He ends up choosing an unlikely woman.

Two spinster sisters point Andy and Barney in the direction of local moonshiners, eliminating competition for their own moonshining operation.

A bickering couple (Jesse White) and (Claudia Bryar) are always disturbing the peace with their arguing, so Andy tries an experiment to make them act nicely to each other.

A stranger comes to town to produce a record of Andy and a local bluegrass band, but Andy suspects he's a con artist.

Andy goes out of town leaving Barney in charge for the day, but when he returns, he finds that Barney put the whole town in jail.

'Gentleman' Dan Caldwell (Dan Tobin), a notorious con man being held in the Mayberry jail, becomes a hero to everyone but Andy, who is not fooled.

Andy tries to help Barney win over Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn), but Barney thinks Andy is trying to steal her away.

Andy and Opie try to break their habit of making the house a mess while Aunt Bee is away tending to a sick cousin. First appearance of Hope Summers's character Clara Edwards, called Bertha Edwards in this episode.

Andy suspects that the handsome new doctor (George Nader) is trying to steal Ellie away from him.

The Women's Historical Society has discovered that a descendant of a Revolutionary War hero is living in Mayberry, but that person turns out to be Otis, the town drunk.

Ralph Case (Tod Andrews) a by-the-book state inspector, intends to impeach Andy and Barney for running the courthouse carelessly.

Ellie decides to give a shy farm girl a beauty makeover, despite the protests of the girl's overbearing father.

Andy tries to help a financially strapped family keep their home, in spite of having to give them a foreclosure notice initiated by heartless old mortgage holder Ben Weaver. First episode in which Juanita Beasley, a waitress Barney sometimes dates, is mentioned.

Barney is suspicious of reticent farmer Sam Becker (William Schallert) and his strange behaviors, believing Sam may be either harboring a criminal or growing illegal crops. Andy soon discovers the real trouble when Sam calls him to attend to his wife Lily, who is in labor.

Barney accidentally helps capture Eddie Brooke (Barney Phillips), an escaped convict. Brooke vows revenge before escaping again, and Andy must deal with a terrified Barney.

Jim Lindsey returns to Mayberry after supposedly making it big in show business, but it turns out he's out of work and flat broke. Last appearance of Ellie Walker.

Andy and Aunt Bee forbid Opie from visiting the courthouse after school; with nothing else to do, Opie wanders away from home and falls asleep in the back of a delivery truck.

When Andy finds out a bully is repeatedly taking Opie's milk money, he encourages Opie to stand up for himself.

Barney thinks that a state's attorney (Mark Miller), who's been sent to Mayberry for law enforcement training, has been sent to replace him.

Andy gives a woman from Washington (Jean Hagen) a fine for speeding, but she refuses to pay and is locked up in the Mayberry jail, playing on Barney's sympathy until her trial.

Andy is forced to evict an old man (Andy Clyde) for failing to pay back taxes, but he finds a century-old savings bond among the man's possessions which has apparently grown to an enormously high value.

After an argument with Thelma Lou, Barney finds a new girlfriend, who turns out to be a visiting con artist (Beverly Tyler) with her husband-associate (Jackie Coogan).

Opie befriends a drifter (Buddy Ebsen), who proves to be a bad influence.

Two crooks posing as an FBI agent and a reporter pretend to be doing a story on Mayberry's low crime rate, so they can rob the town bank. Andy is not fooled.

After Barney and Thelma Lou set Andy up on a blind date with Karen Moore (Gail Davis), Thelma Lou's visiting cousin, Andy tries to find out if she is "the one." Karen surprises Andy by besting him at skeet-shooting.

Aunt Bee falls for Mr. Wheeler (Edgar Buchanan), a handyman who has a way with women. He temporarily moves into their house, while Andy has to finish most of the chores that Wheeler starts.

Roger Courtney (George N. Neise) invites Andy and Barney to a posh gentlemen's Esquire Club in Raleigh, as potential new members. However, at the club's get-acquainted party, the members are impressed enough by Andy to offer him membership, but don't want Barney. Andy tells Barney that the club only wanted one of them, and Barney immediately assumes it's Andy they didn't approve of.

Andy and Barney replace Aunt Bee's bad-tasting homemade pickles with store-bought pickles, but find themselves in a real one when she decides to enter her pickles in a contest at the county fair. (This episode was voted by fans as their favorite of the entire series).^[9]

When Barney is offered the sheriff's post in a neighboring town, he and Andy trade places for the day to see if Barney is up to the job.

A farmer (Alan Hale, Jr.) comes to Mayberry looking for a wife in an unconventional manner, and chooses Barney's girlfriend Thelma Lou, much to Barney's distress.

Opie is put in charge of bringing a candle and matches to a secret club, and soon after is accused of burning down Jubal Foster (Everett Sloane)'s barn, where the club met.

A spoiled rich teenager (Bill Bixby) is arrested for speeding and sideswiping a farmer's truck. Andy helps him learn to take responsibility for his behavior.

A manicurist (Barbara Eden) sets up shop in Floyd's barber shop, but ends up unintentionally causing trouble when the men of Mayberry start flocking to her for manicures, making their wives jealous. Last appearance of Mayor Pike.

Andy tries to help a Mayberry resident (John Qualen) end his apparent bad luck and convince him that he is not hexed, as many of the townspeople believe.

Barney clumsily lets a prisoner (Allan Melvin) escape, so Andy and Barney have to recapture him.

Opie must learn the value of good sportsmanship when he comes in last in a footrace he was sure he would win.

Barney joins the Mayberry choir, but proves to be a terrible singer. Not wanting to hurt Barney's feelings, Andy must find a way to keep him in the choir but neutralize his singing.

A pickpocket (Jay Novello) is ironically chosen as the random "guest of honor" during the Mayberry Founder's Day celebration.

Andy helps a struggling traveling salesman (Sterling Holloway) stay in business, against the wishes of crusty store owner Ben Weaver (Will Wright).

With the courthouse jail full of moonshiners, Otis has to serve his time in the Taylor house, under the supervision of Aunt Bee who keeps him busy with chores.

Andy tries to talk defiantly unwilling Rafe Hollister (Jack Prince) into getting a tetanus shot from county nurse Mary Simpson (Julie Adams).

Andy and Barney travel to Raleigh for a meeting with the Commissioner, but are told they will not be receiving any financial assistance due to lack of arrests. Barney decides to stake out a suspected "Jewel Thief", inadvertently alerting a real thief to the presence of emeralds in the hotel. Arte Johnson has a small role as the hotel clerk.

Andy and Aunt Bee each think the other is anxious for her to marry the town dry cleaner, Fred Goss (Fred Sherman) who talks incessantly about his work.

Barney keeps interfering with the romance between Andy and county nurse Mary (Sue Ane Langdon), preventing them from being alone.

Floyd lets an out-of-town barber (Herb Vigran) rent space in his shop, but the new tenant turns out to be running an illegal gambling operation.

Big-city newspaper publisher J. Howard Jackson (Roy Roberts) is charged with a traffic violation. He uses his attractive reporter (Ruta Lee) to trick Barney into giving her some 'dirt' on Andy, so they can publish a story that will get Andy fired.

Barney's bumbling cousin Virgil (Michael J. Pollard) visits Mayberry and ends up causing trouble for Andy.

Andy makes Otis a temporary deputy, so he can impress his visiting brother Ralph (Stanley Adams), and Ralph's wife (Amzie Strickland).

Opie's description of his new friend Mr. McBeevee (Karl Swenson) is hard to believe.

Andy tries to comprehend the upper-class wealth of his girlfriend Peggy McMillan (Joanna Moore), whom Barney insists is incompatible.

Mayor Roy Stoner (Parley Baer) does not like the way Andy does his job. In his overzealousness to find a harmless man released early from jail, the Mayor is treed by a bear.

Andy and Opie have Peggy take care of them while Aunt Bee is away. Floyd teases Andy, warning him that she has serious intentions.

Mayor Stoner goes over Andy's head and calls in an expert to solve a string of cow thefts, in which strange shoeprints are the only clue.

After Andy and Peggy have a fight, Barney tries to fix Andy up with other girls, who are a poor match, including the eccentric Lydia Crosswaithe. First episode with "The Fun Girls".

Barney loses his self-esteem when two farmers ignore his order to stop illegally selling produce from their truck.

Andy is determined to get the Mayberry band into the state band competition, no matter how bad they sound. The mayor is reluctant to finance their trip, so Andy employs a clever trick.

Floyd has pretended to be a rich man in letters to his female pen pal, who then suddenly decides to visit. Andy hastily arranges a deception so that Floyd can continue the ruse.

Opie feels threatened by Andy's relationship with Peggy. Last appearance of Peggy.

Barney and Floyd are taken hostage by three escaped female convicts in a country cabin. Last appearance of Floyd until episode 118 due to Howard McNear's stroke.

Andy tries to get a one-of-a-kind bed jacket that Aunt Bee wants for her birthday, while Mayor Stoner tries to mend a disagreement with his wife using the same jacket.

Barney sets out to prove that the Mayberry bank can be easily robbed because of lax security measures. Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) makes his debut.

Opie learns to stand up to an older new boy in town, who likes to cause trouble. Richard Keith who formerly played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy, appears in this episode as Carter French.

Barney issues a parking ticket on the governor's car and refuses to tear it up. The governor (Carl Benton Reid) visits Mayberry to congratulate Barney's devotion to duty, but Barney mistakenly believes he is in trouble.

Businessman Malcolm Tucker (Robert Emhardt) suffers a car breakdown in Mayberry on a Sunday, and he is impatient to get it fixed in time for his meeting in Charlotte. Wally the mechanic does not work on Sundays, so Andy's family welcomes Malcolm to stay with them, and helps him remember how to slow down. (This story was voted by fans as their second-favorite of the entire series).^[9]

Barney fears a revenge plot is afoot when Andy gets a letter from Luke Comstock (Leo Gordon), an ex-con whom Andy crippled in a shootout years earlier. Elements of this episode were based on Leo Gordon's real-life story.^[10]

Andy and Barney must deal with a farmer's goat that has eaten several sticks of dynamite.

Andy meets an old sweetheart at a high school reunion, and their romance briefly rekindles. (The yearbook has actual high school pictures of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts.)

Rafe Hollister (Jack Prince), an uncouth but golden-voiced farmer, wins a contest to sing at a Ladies' Society Musicale. Mayor Stoner puts Andy in charge of making sure Rafe does not embarrass Mayberry. Last appearance of Parley Baer as Mayor Stoner.

A spoiled kid gives Opie bad advice about how Opie should manipulate Andy to get what he wants.

Andy gets a troubled youth a job at Wally's Filling Station, but wonders if he made the right choice when items start disappearing from the store.

Andy's advice to Opie and his schoolmates about history homework gets him in trouble with the new schoolteacher, Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut), so he tells Opie and his friends a story about Paul Revere's ride to resolve the situation.

Aunt Bee is charmed by "Indian Elixer" (really disguised moonshine) salesman Col. Harvey (John Dehner). Andy struggles with how to run him out of town without hurting Aunt Bee's feelings.

Andy has his hands full when a musical hillbilly family called the Darlings (Denver Pyle, Maggie Peterson, The Dillards) comes to Mayberry. Things become worse when the only daughter, Charlene, falls for Andy, as her father has betrothed her to another man.

English tourist Malcolm Merriweather (Bernard Fox), a "gentleman's gentleman", goes to work as Andy's valet to pay his traffic fine.

Barney spends his three hundred dollars worth of life savings on a car from the elderly Mrs. Lesch (Ellen Corby), only to find out he's been hustled.

Opie has a crush on his schoolmate Karen, so Barney tries to teach Opie about women, until Opie ends up "dating" Thelma Lou.

Barney tries to set up Andy with a potential wife, having a crowd of puzzled, single women come to Andy's home one evening, but Andy has his mind on Helen Crump.

A pack of stray dogs comes into the courthouse, causing problems just as a state official is visiting.

The Darlings ask Andy to help them deal with wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris), who wants to stop Charlene Darling and Dud Wash from getting married. First episode with Ernest T. Bass. Only episode with both Bass and the Darlings. Hoke Howell plays Dud. Dub Taylor plays the preacher who performs the wedding.

Barney and Gomer are in charge of guarding two criminals out of a gang of four, while Andy is out pursuing the other two. George Kennedy plays a state police detective.

Opie accidentally kills a mother bird with his new slingshot, and decides to care for the three baby birds left behind.

In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #24 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.^[11] In 2009, it moved to No. 18.^[12]

Andy, Barney and Gomer go into the old abandoned Rimshaw House to retrieve a baseball, and discover the truth behind the house's ghostly reputation.

Ernest T. Bass tries to enlist in the Army so he can get a uniform to impress his girlfriend. When he's rejected, he takes it out on Mayberry.

A visiting preacher (David Lewis) encourages the congregation to relax and enjoy life – which is not as easy as they thought, as they frantically rehearse the town's out-of-tune band and try to repair the broken bandstand and worn uniforms.

Briscoe Darling, after enjoying a hearty meal and music session at the Taylors, proposes marriage to Aunt Bee. When she won't accept his repeated advances, he kidnaps her.

Gomer is fired from Wally's Filling Station and moves in with the Taylors. Customers then drive into the Taylors' yard at all hours to have Gomer diagnose their cars' problems, disturbing the Taylors' sleep.

A gold shipment is coming through Mayberry and Barney accidentally leaks the news, causing a crowd to turn out to welcome the armored car. Ron Howard's (Opie) real father appears as one of the Treasury Agents.

Andy rewards Opie with a new bicycle for his perfect grades, which then turn out to be a grading mistake.

Despite a longstanding friendship with his sweet elderly landlady Mrs. Mendelbright (Enid Markey), Barney is evicted for cooking in his room. He soon finds Mrs. Mendelbright is under the influence of a con man (J. Pat O'Malley) .

Barney sets Gomer up with Thelma Lou's homely, shy cousin as a date for a dance. This episode, originally scheduled for November 25, was pre-empted due to CBS News' extended coverage of President John F. Kennedy's assassination and funeral.^{[citation needed]}

Barney gives Gomer a ticket for making a U-turn, then the tables are turned when Gomer "arrests" Barney for the same violation.

Opie and his friends play Robin Hood and his Merry Men, when they steal food from their parents to give to a hobo (Douglas Fowley).

Barney is mocked by the town for doing his duty too zealously. When Andy and Helen are trapped in a mine, they find their way out the back, but learn Barney has mounted a full-scale rescue and secretly return to save Barney further humiliation.

Opie gets jealous when Andy pays extra attention to Opie's new friend Trey Bowden (David Alan Bailey) .

Aunt Bee leads a ladies' protest against Andy and Barney when a chicken farmer is about to be evicted to make way for a new highway. They are shocked, however, when Mr. Frisby (Charles Lane), the evictee they are sympathetic for, is found to be a moonshiner.

Barney gets a motorcycle for the Sheriff's Department and finds many uses for it.

Andy tries to turn wild hillbilly Ernest T. Bass into a sophisticated gentleman, taking him to a society party.

An attractive female jewel thief (Susan Oliver) attempts to seduce Andy and Barney so she can escape from the Mayberry jail.

Otis, the town drunk, has Andy and Barney worried when he buys a car.

Barney's pride is hurt when he is replaced in the town choir by Gomer, who is discovered to have a beautiful singing voice. Andy Griffith's wife had a cameo in this episode.^[13]

Barney goes undercover as a mannequin to find a shoplifter at Weaver's Department Store.

Andy takes a vacation at home, leaving Barney and Gomer in charge of the courthouse. They then continually pester Andy for help with problems that arise.

Gomer is overly grateful to Andy for putting out a fire at Wally's, and pesters Andy by wanting to help him in gratitude. Howard McNear returns as Floyd, after suffering a stroke during the third season.

Aunt Bee buys a 150-pound side of beef at a discount market, but the Taylors' old freezer (also a "bargain") doesn't work. However, she refuses to call the handyman because he is "too expensive".

After an argument, Charlene Darling Wash impulsively leaves Dud (Bob Denver) and determines to marry Andy, forcing Andy and Barney to simulate "supernatural interference" to drive Charlene back to Dud.

Opie and his friends get involved in a deal to sell salve door-to-door. Barney and Gomer pose as a veterinarian and Opie's father to try to get the distributors to buy the salve back from the boys.

Two fun-loving but overbearing women from Mount Pilot cause problems by being amorous to Andy and Barney, which makes Helen and Thelma Lou needlessly jealous. First appearance of Goober (George Lindsey). Only episode with both Goober and Gomer together.

Malcolm Merriweather returns to Mayberry, doing housework and cooking for Andy and making Aunt Bee feel unneeded.

Barney starts a rumor that Andy and Helen are engaged after he sees them kissing in a jewelry store. He then holds a surprise party for the bewildered couple.

Feeling that Barney takes her for granted, Thelma Lou starts dating Gomer to purposefully make Barney jealous.

Andy, Barney and Gomer take Opie and his friends on a camping trip, where Barney and Gomer manage to get themselves lost in the woods.

In this backdoor pilot for the spin-off series Gomer Pyle-USMC, Gomer enlists in the Marine Corps and Andy comes along to make sure things go well with Sergeant Carter (Frank Sutton).

Opie develops a crush on Helen and wants to buy a gift for her.

Andy and Aunt Bee help Barney hurriedly grow to meet the new Civil Service height and weight requirements for law enforcement officers.

Aunt Bee's sister and her overbearing, obnoxious family come to visit from out of state. James Westerfield and Maudie Prickett guest star.

Ernest T. Bass tries to earn his diploma after his girl calls him illiterate. His antics badly disrupt Helen's classroom.

Aunt Bee resumes her romance with an old flame, Roger Hanover (Wallace Ford) – a practical joker with a suspicious background.

Barney tries using a dog to catch an escaped convict.

Andy tries to settle a lovers' quarrel between Barney and Thelma Lou, only to get himself caught in the middle.

Barney starts wearing his uniform all the time, after a grocery employee, Fred (Allan Melvin) threatens to beat him up the next time he sees him in plain clothes.

Opie finds a wallet containing $50 and must wait one week to see if anyone claims it - if not, the money is his.

Andy makes Barney acting Sheriff when he goes to Raleigh for a job interview.

Aunt Bee gets the lead in the Mayberry Centennial Pageant, but she proves to be a terrible actress.

The Darlings choose Opie as the future husband of Charlene's baby girl and insist that Andy sign a marriage contract.

Andy and Helen try to have a nice private picnic, but Barney keeps interrupting them.

Barney buys fortune-telling paraphernalia that seem to really grant wishes, and tests their power by asking Opie to make three wishes.

Otis is talked by an unscrupulous lawyer (Jay Novello) into suing the county after he suffers a fall in the Mayberry jail. Ironically, Otis had thought the fall trifling until Barney insisted he fill out an injury form.

Barney decides to sell real estate as his second job and tries to get Andy to sell his house.

After Andy puts Goober in charge of the courthouse, he dismantles a car and rebuilds it inside the courthouse.

Barney tries to cure Otis of his drinking habit.

Barney thinks he's received bad luck after tearing up a chain letter.

Andy and Barney get Goober to ask out wallflower Lydia Crosswaithe (Josie Lloyd) so he doesn't have to tag along on their dates.

Barney ends up running against Andy for Sheriff when a new job offer for Andy falls through.

Barney finds $250,000 from a recent bank robbery and sets out to catch the culprit.

Three crooks posing as TV producers attempt to take advantage of Mayberry's "Sheriff Without a Gun" by robbing the bank. Gavin MacLeod played one of the crooks. In a season 6 episode ("Taylors in Hollywood"), MacLeod played an actor playing Andy in a movie based on "Sheriff Without a Gun".

Helen gets unnecessarily jealous of a pretty girl (Jan Shutan), a friend of the Taylor family who is staying with them for a few days after an argument and break-up with her fiancé.

Barney discovers a file of an old forgotten assault case between Floyd and grocer Charles Foley (Frank Ferguson) that was never resolved. Barney reopens the case and his insistence on following through with the case causes old feelings to flare up as Mayberry divides into rival camps.

Opie publishes local gossip in his newspaper, embarrassing Andy, Barney and Aunt Bee who had made unflattering comments about fellow townspeople.

Aunt Bee invents a story that the butter and egg man (Woodrow Chambliss) is her new boyfriend....but he happens to be married.

The Fun Girls get themselves arrested on purpose, once again disrupting the romantic lives of Andy and Barney when Helen and Thelma Lou become unnecessarily jealous after discovering them at the courthouse at night with the girls.

A peddler (Don Rickles) keeps having bad luck, and Andy and Barney try to help.

Opie needs to improve in his arithmetic, and Andy gets pressure from Barney to help him. Last appearance of Barney Fife as a regular character.

Opie tries to win a birthday present for Andy at a carnival, unaware that the shooting gallery is a scam.

Andy hires a shy, timid carnival banjo player (Jerry Van Dyke) as a temporary deputy.

Opie wins a competition for a grocery delivery job, then gives it up to his competitor who needs the job a lot more.

Andy gets jealous of a handsome new teacher Frank Smith (Charles Aidman) spending time working with Helen.

Malcolm Merriweather replaces Ernest T. Bass as school crossing guard, and Ernest T. wants to fight Malcolm to get even. Last appearance of both Malcolm Merriweather and Ernest T. Bass.

Aunt Bee and her new beau John Canfield (Charles Ruggles), a recently retired Congressman, attempt to recapture their youth.

Andy's new deputy, Warren Ferguson (Jack Burns), Floyd's nephew, arrests Aunt Bee and her friends for "gambling" at the church bazaar.

Warren, who thinks he has ESP, believes a picnic will not go so well for Andy and Helen.

The Taylors decide to take a trip to Hollywood after Andy is given a check from a studio that wants to make his life story into a movie.

The Taylors visit the studio where Andy's biopic, Sheriff Without a Gun, is being filmed. Gavin MacLeod plays the actor portraying Andy in the movie.

Andy poses with a Hollywood starlet, Darlene Mason (Ruta Lee), jeopardizing his relationship with Helen.

While in Hollywood, Aunt Bee wins several new appliances on a TV quiz show, but when she returns home she loses her friends as a result. William Christopher plays the IRS agent who visits the Taylors to collect taxes on the prizes.

Through sheer luck, Warren catches a pair of art thieves with his supposed "knowledge" of cannons.

Opie and his friend Tommy (Michel Petit) use walkie-talkies to fool Goober into thinking he really has a talking dog.

Aunt Bee gets a job at the print shop where her employers turn out to be counterfeiters.

Andy starts a fundraising drive to help the church buy a new organ, but problems arise when church members go back on their pledges.

Warren becomes a sleepwalking Casanova, pursuing Helen after watching his suave hero on TV.

Warren tries to get Otis to start a career in art.

Barney Fife returns to Mayberry for a high school reunion and so does Thelma Lou, who has recently married someone else. This is Thelma Lou's final appearance on the series.

Barney has to demonstrate his "legendary courage" to Warren when Avery Noonan (Ted White) a vengeful convict escapes from prison.

Aunt Bee collects insurance money for the loss of her jeweled pin, then finds it after she spends the money on a garbage disposer. Jack Dodson, later cast as Howard Sprague, makes his first appearance in the series as insurance man Ed Jenkins.

Clarence Earp (Richard Jury), a supposed descendant of Wyatt Earp, comes to Mayberry with Wild West show promoter Fred Gibson (Pat Hingle). Last appearance of Warren Ferguson.

Andy has a big problem when Aunt Bee buys a car and takes driving lessons from Goober.

Opie learns to enjoy his first dance party.

A band of gypsies causes trouble for Andy with their supposed magic and weather predicting abilities. Jamie Farr and Vito Scotti played two of the gypsies.

Goober falls for Flora, the diner's new waitress (Alberta Nelson), but she has her eye on Andy.

Aunt Bee agrees to babysit her niece for a week, but the infant doesn't seem to like her.

Andy and Helen try to set up county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson) with Irene Fairchild (Nina Shipman), the new county nurse.

Aunt Bee is picked to star in a TV commercial for furniture polish.

Goober's girlfriend Flora fills in for him at Wally's and attracts a long line of male customers.

Opie causes an uproar when he discovers and publishes the truth about the Battle of Mayberry.

Rock-n'-Roll singer Keevy Hazelton (Jesse Pearson) performs a song about Mayberry written by Aunt Bee and Clara Edwards.

Opie makes friends with Helen's niece Cynthia, who is athletically superior to him.

Howard applies for membership in the Mayberry men's lodge, but is blackballed when his controlling mother (Mabel Albertson) interferes.

A prisoner (Hamilton Camp) replaces Howard as tenor in the Mayberry barbershop quartet.

Andy reluctantly agrees to umpire an important youth league baseball game between Mayberry and Mount Pilot, in which Opie is playing.

Aunt Bee wears a blonde wig to impress a visiting pastor (Ian Wolfe) .

The Darlings come into a windfall of $300, so they stop by Mayberry to find brides for Briscoe's sons. Last appearance of the Darlings.

Goober is convinced he has whiplash, so he acts like an invalid, making Andy's family care for him.

Aunt Bee runs against Howard for city council, then withdraws during a debate after realizing Howard has more expertise with the issues. (This storyline was also used in episode 143 of the Dick Van Dyke Show, and later in episode 72 of the Partridge Family Show).

Helen and her teenage students try to put on a play, but the principal objects over its content.

Opie and his friend Arnold find an abandoned baby and try to find him a home. Jack Nicholson plays the baby's father.

Howard is the envy of Mayberry when he catches "Old Sam", a famously elusive silver carp in Tucker's Lake on his very first fishing trip.

Opie accidentally destroys Aunt Bee's special rose just before the annual Mayberry flower show.

Otis and Howard take action to rescue Andy from a pair of bank robbers. Last appearance of Otis.

Goober fancies himself a philosopher when he joins a night class and grows a beard.

The citizens of Mayberry are skeptical of the new town doctor (William Christopher). Andy convinces them to give him a chance, but then has misgivings of his own when Opie gets sick.

George Jones (Roger Perry), a man claiming to have a map to a legendary lost treasure, convinces Mayberry's citizens to invest in his operation.

Due to communication failures, Andy has to endure three spaghetti dinners in one evening.

Andy visits Barney in Raleigh and helps him solve a rash of supermarket robberies.

Barney returns to Mayberry at the same time as an old girlfriend turned Hollywood actress, whose movie is having its world premiere in town.

Alice Harper (Joanna McNeil), an old girlfriend of Andy's, comes back to Mayberry, putting a strain on his relationship with Helen.

Aunt Bee becomes a partner in a new Chinese restaurant, but her superstitions make her question her investment.

Floyd angrily decides to leave his barbershop after Howard buys the building and raises the rent.

Andy discovers that his ancestor was the biggest swindler in the state just as Mayberry is about to unveil a statue of him.

Helen becomes a successful author of children's books, but Andy has a difficult time with her new-found celebrity.

When a dairy company plans to replace their horse-drawn delivery wagon with a modern truck, Opie takes on the job of caring for the horse.

Opie decides to take up the piano, but piano practice soon conflicts with his football practice. Note: this is the only episode to feature a black actor (Rockne Tarkington) in a speaking role.^{[citation needed]}

Howard appears on a local TV amateur hour and tells jokes about his friends in Mayberry, which they take as insults.

Howard volunteers to be a Big Brother of a high school student, but neglects tutoring the boy while taking a romantic interest in the boy's older sister.

Opie tries to pick a subject for his writing assignment and eventually picks someone other than Andy.

Goober gets into trouble when a printing error awards Floyd with an overly large cash prize in a filling station contest. Last appearance of Floyd. Rob Reiner had a small role in the episode. Halfway through the program, when Goober is talking to Floyd at the outside gas pumps, a hut from the tv show Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is clearly visible. ^{[citation needed]}

Mary Alice Carter (Morgan Brittany) accepts Opie's invitation to a party, then decides to go with another boy she likes better.

Howard is a last-minute substitute on Emmett's bowling team, but he comes within one strike of a perfect game before the lights go out. First appearance of Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman).

Aunt Bee wins a trip to Mexico and takes along her two closest friends....but they don't get along.

Andy must cancel a date with Helen to meet with a lawyer named Lee (Whitney Blake) in Raleigh, who's actually a very attractive woman.

Opie makes friends with a boy from a rich family at summer camp, leading Aunt Bee to try improving the Taylors' social standing.

Howard makes friends with Millie Hutchins (Arlene Golonka), the new girl at the bakery, but her ex-boyfriend, Clyde Plaunt (Allan Melvin) constantly threatens him.

Aunt Bee serves jury duty on a seemingly open-and-shut case of theft. Jack Nicholson plays the defendant.

Opie tape records a bank robber confessing where he hid the stolen money, against Andy's strict orders.

Opie joins a rock-and-roll band, which starts to affect his behavior and his grades.

Aunt Bee dates a charming lecturer (Edward Andrews), who is convinced she is the exact image of his late wife.

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

Howard proposes to Millie Hutchins at the bakery. But on the train ride to get married in her West Virginia hometown, they have a series of spats and on arrival in Wheeling decide to break the engagement.

Andy learns the sad truth about Aunt Bee's supposedly wealthy cousin (Jack Albertson), who spins many tall tales during his visit to Mayberry.

Andy is bedridden with the flu, so Goober acts as deputy to take care of things. Chaos ensues.

Howard decides to quit his job as county clerk and start a new life on a tiny Caribbean island, only to become incredibly bored.

Goober buys the filling station with financial support from Andy and Emmett.

Aunt Bee gets her own cooking show on a local TV station.

Emmett's wife pushes him to be an insurance salesman like his brother-in-law, but he doesn't want to leave his fix-it shop.

Opie gets a job at the drugstore, where he accidentally breaks an expensive bottle of perfume.

Church members debate over whether to spend a $500 gift to the church on choir robes or to fix a drainage problem with the church building.

Barney Fife returns to Mayberry and helps arrange a conference between American and Soviet officials at the Taylors' house. The plot was inspired by the actual USA-USSR summit meeting in Glassboro, NJ. The final appearance of Barney Fife on the show. This was the highest rated episode in the history of the series.

While attending an auto show in Raleigh, Goober tries to impress an old schoolmate who seems to be financially well-off.

Aunt Bee takes flying lessons to achieve a big moment like everyone else.

Andy discovers that Helen apparently was arrested years ago for associating with a notorious gangster.

Emmett wants to buy his wife a mink coat for their 25th anniversary.

Howard's controlling mother remarries and moves away, allowing him to turn the Sprague house into a bachelor pad. Teri Garr has a small role.

Sam Jones (Ken Berry) is urged by Andy and Howard to run for head of town council - against Emmett.

Opie helps out Sam Jones' son Mike (Buddy Foster) with bullies at school, and Mike starts to tag after him.

Goober tries a computer dating service to find the right girl, and is matched with the PhD graduate who runs it. Maggie Peterson makes an appearance as Sam Jones' date, not as Charlene Darling.

In this set-up for the sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., Andy runs into Sam at the train station. Sam tells Andy that his friend Mario Vincente (Gabriele Tinti), who he met while stationed in Italy during the war, is coming to help out on the farm. The train arrives, and apparently Mario brought his father and sister Sophia (Letícia Román) along without telling Sam first. Sam reluctantly agrees to let the family stay with him. Sam stops in town to pick up groceries and the family meets Goober and Howard. At the farm, Papa drives Sam's tractor into the barn door, destroying the door. Sam's housekeeper, Mrs. Fletcher (Almira Sessions), is not happy about Sophia being in the kitchen and quits. The family are constantly yelling at each other in Italian and it's driving Sam crazy. Sam tells Andy that there are a lot a farms run by Italians in Ciler City and maybe they'd be happier there. Goober tries to teach Papa checkers, but it doesn't go to well. Aunt Bee, Helen and Clara come to meet Sophia and have a nice time. That night Andy takes Sam to the Town Hall meeting. Aunt Bee introduces the Vincente family to the towns people. Mario tells the people how happy they are to be in Mayberry and everyone applauds. Sam is asked to speak and he winds up saying that he knows things will work out with the family staying with him.

Andy Taylor returns to Mayberry after 18 years to hook back up with old friends, but finds himself in the middle of suspicious events surrounding the sheriff's election.