Great American Faith and Living

Judge Garth delves into psychology to comprehend a gentle, poetry-reading cowboy (Fabian) accused of two brutal murders; guests Ford Rainey, Elizabeth MacRae.

Andy uses common sense and Barney uses modern technology to solve several burglaries at a filling station.

Andy's knowledge of American history is put to the test by Opie and a new teacher.

Colonel Harvey, a traveling salesman, arrives at Mayberry and captivates Aunt Bee, who buys Harvey's dubious elixir and invites him for dinner. When Andy and Barney find Aunt Bee clearly drunk, they analyze Harvey's elixir.

Andy unexpectedly has his hands full as The Darlings, a family of musicians from the mountains, arrive in Mayberry to meet a bus due the next day.

Malcolm Meriwether, an English tourist, passes by Mayberry on a bicycle. After causing a traffic accident, he agrees to work off the damages as Andy's personal valet.

Barney spends his life savings to buy a used car. Unbeknownst to him, the car is actually a lemon and has several issues and defects.

After Opie is struck with puppy love, Barney tries to show him how to handle women.

Barney thinks it's time Andy got married, but Andy has a plan of his own.

A pack of hunting dogs overruns the Mayberry courthouse just as Andy is trying to impress a state official.

The Darling family returns to Mayberry and asks Andy for help in dealing with Ernest T. Bass, a mountain man who keeps pursuing Briscoe's married daughter Charlene.

Barney and Gomer are responsible for watching over two thieves who are temporarily jailed in Mayberry. Between the two of them, the criminals manage to escape three times.

Opie takes on the job of raising three baby birds after he accidentally kills the mother bird and learns important life lessons along the way.

Andy, Barney, and Gomer look for a lost baseball while exploring a supposedly haunted house and experience some strange events inside.

Mountain man Ernest T. Bass goes on a window-breaking ruckus around town after the army refuses to accept him in their ranks. When Andy and Barney arrest him, he explains to them that he wants a uniform to attract women.

A member of a powerful gang murders a shopkeeper; the deputized Cartwrights sentence a murderer to hang at dawn when the leader of the gang kidnaps Ben and holds him hostage.

A young bank robber gets a job on the Ponderosa to prevent the sheriff from finding the other members of his gang.

Hoss befriends Charlie Trent, a man who went from top Army scout to town drunk after he led his troops into a massacre.

A Deputy U.S. Marshal arrives to escort a man to California to testify against a gang; guest Dan Duryea.

Ben tries to help his paraplegic neighbor Tom by setting up a grain mill on his unused land; Tom's hired hand raises his suspicion about Ben's plan.

Outlaws plot to steal a trunk containing the savings of a religious group heading for a new life in the West.

The Cartwrights' neighbor (Franchot Tone), a former soldier and lawman, seeks security for his daughter.

Bigoted Ike Daggett takes action when Ben gives an Indian and his wife land after the Indian saves his life.

Hoss and Little Joe spend the most unforgettable night at the carnival when Little Joe's date disappears.

A sheriff's daughter runs off with her boyfriend (John Ericson), unaware he is a murderous bank robber.

For saving his life, Ben offers some Ponderosa farmland to an American Indian.