2024-08-17
Maria makes a desperate escape with the killer in pursuit. A frantic search ensues for Jessie. (Repeat).
Popular country-western take on "Saturday Night Fever" about a good ol' boy looking for love from atop a mechanical bull in a Houston honky-tonk. Based on a magazine article by Aaron Latham, who co-wrote the script. (Repeat).
Barney and Andy nudge Gomer into a blind date with Thelma Lou's homely cousin (Mary Grace Canfield) by telling him "she's nice, real nice." Thelma Lou: Betty Lynn. Barney: Don Knotts. Helen: Aneta Corsaut. Opie: Ronny Howard. (Repeat).
Barney is booted out of Mrs. Mendlebright's boarding house for violating her rules against cooking and using high-wattage bulbs, so he moves into the courthouse. This episode contains the hilarious scene in which Andy finds Barney covered with lipstick kisses. Mrs. Mendlebright: Enid Markey. Thelma Lou: Betty Lynn. Opie: Ronny Howard. Fields: J. Pat O'Malley. (Repeat).
Gomer makes a citizen's arrest on Barney when the deputy makes an illegal U-turn. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Barney: Don Knotts. Otis: Hal Smith. Opie: Ronny Howard. (Repeat).
Opie and his pals play Robin Hood and steal from so-called rich Mayberry folks so they can feed a hobo (Douglas Fowley) who tells them that lawmen can't be trusted. Johnny: Richard Keith. Howie: Dennis Rush. Opie: Ronny Howard. Barney: Don Knotts. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
It's Barney to the rescue after a landslide traps Andy and Helen in a cave. What he doesn't know, however, is that the two have already escaped. Helen: Aneta Corsaut. Thelma Lou: Betty Lynn. Gomer: Jim Nabors. (Repeat).
Opie's new best friend (David A. Bailey) becomes his foe when Andy starts giving the boy some attention, which leads Andy to teach his son a lesson in sharing. Barney: Don Knotts. Johnny: Richard Keith. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
Aunt Bee and her friends stir up support for a small farmer (Charles Lane) who is being forced to sell his land to make way for a new road. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Barney: Don Knotts. Opie: Ronnie Howard. Otis: Hal Smith. (Repeat).
Barney buys a World War I motorcycle with a sidecar for patrol work---and proceeds to put everyone at risk with his dangerous new toy. The episode contains one of the show's funniest moments: Barney speeding off, leaving Andy in the unattached sidecar. Mrs. Beggs: Virginia Sale. Carl: Rodney Bell. Jase: Joe Hamilton. Driver: Ray Kellogg. Brock: Hal Landon. Opie: Ronny Howard. Barney: Don Knotts. (
Ernest T. Bass (Howard Morris) returns to Mayberry seeking a sweetheart, and Andy tries to turn him into a gentleman. The big test: a social being attended by a bevy of single women. Of course, things don't go quite as planned. Mrs. Wiley: Doris Packer. Ramona: Jackie Joseph. Barney: Don Knotts. (Repeat).
Andy and Barney are attracted to a seductive female prisoner (Susan Oliver) who tries to use her charm to help her escape. Otis: Hal Smith. Police Sergeant: James Seay. Barney: Don Knotts. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
Andy and Barney are staggered by the news that town drunk Otis has bought a car. Now they have to figure out how to make him sell it before he hurts someone. Otis: Hal Smith. Barney: Don Knotts. (Repeat).
Barney gets bent when the choral director gives Gomer the solo instead of him for an upcoming concert. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Eleanora: Reta Shaw. John: Olan Soule. Barney: Don Knotts. (Repeat).
Barney goes undercover as a mannequin in Weaver's department store to catch a shoplifter. Clint Howard guest stars as Leon, the little boy who spots Barney in his duck-hunting disguise. Weaver: Tol Avery. Asa: Charles P. Thompson. Shoplifter: Lurene Tuttle. (Repeat).
Andy takes a much-needed vacation and leaves Barney and Gomer in charge, but they allow a prisoner to escape---twice. Convict: Allan Melvin. Naylor: Dabbs Greer. Maudie: Molly Dodd. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Barney: Don Knotts. (Repeat).
Gomer pesters Andy with too much gratitude after Andy puts out a small fire in the garage where Gomer was napping. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Opie: Ronny Howard. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Floyd: Howard McNear. (Repeat).
Aunt Bee buys a bargain side of beef at a new butcher shop, but then her bargain freezer breaks down and she has to seek out her old butcher's help. Foley: Frank Ferguson. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Opie: Ronny Howard. Gomer: Jim Nabors. (Repeat).
In an appearance post-"Dobie Gillis" and pre-"Gilligan's Island" (the series started six months later), Bob Denver plays Charlene's husband---the one she's leaving for Andy, just as soon as she gets her mountain-style divorce. Briscoe Darling: Denver Pyle. Charlene: Margaret Ann Peterson. Floyd: Howard McNear. (Repeat).
A family host their dysfunctional relatives for the holiday as the dad contends with spontaneously combusting Christmas lights and temperamental trees while anticipating the arrival of his annual bonus. (Repeat).
A family led by a maladroit man win an all-expense-paid trip overseas, and bumble their way through Europe leaving a path of destruction in their wake. (Repeat).
Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo lead the Griswold clan on another vacation adventure---and this time their unsuspecting target is Las Vegas, where Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy, and some serious disasters await them. The cherished Vegas traditions of gambling, hustling and go-go dancing are mere child's play to Clark Griswold and family. Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Flynn.
An ad exec named Clark Griswold becomes consumed with taking his family cross-country to Wally World, a California amusement park. Less a vacation than a descent into a peculiarly American kind of hell, the Griswolds suffer through an endless series of catastrophes, culminating in a run-in with the law. (Repeat).
A family led by a maladroit man win an all-expense-paid trip overseas, and bumble their way through Europe leaving a path of destruction in their wake. (Repeat).
Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo lead the Griswold clan on another vacation adventure---and this time their unsuspecting target is Las Vegas, where Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy, and some serious disasters await them. The cherished Vegas traditions of gambling, hustling and go-go dancing are mere child's play to Clark Griswold and family. Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Flynn.