2024-09-26
The discovery of a strangled woman's body leads to a past Bronx case, in which the wrong man may have been convicted. Paz: Peter Greene. Hauser: Zach Grenier. John Robertson: Keith David. Judge: Michael Mulheren. Gibson: Rodd Partridge. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Green: Jesse L. Martin. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
The detectives investigate the death of an investigator whose body was fished out of a river. Alec Conroy: Nestor Serrano. Stan Gillum: Gerry Bamman. Alice Marner: Alexandra Neil. Judge Goldberg: Fran Lebowitz. Judge Callahan: Bernie McInerney. Green: Jesse L. Martin. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
The discovery of a murdered couple leads to a drug-smuggling case involving a military officer's wife (Charlotte d'Amboise). Col. Wyatt: Michael Gaston. Joe Pena: Louie Leonardo. Boles: Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Pat Conners: Michael Hobbs. Byrne: Thomas Lyons. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Green: Jesse L. Martin. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
The discovery of an illegal immigrant's body leads to a case involving an auto-insurance scam. Doug Lyle: Lee Shepherd. Dr. Jerome Raleigh: Matthew Sussman. Bill Reed: Doc Dougherty. Alan Petrie: Christopher Patrick Mullen. Paul Sanders: Michael J. Burg. Rosa Santiago: Adriana Sevan. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Carmichael: Angie Harmon. McCoy: Sam Waterston (Repeat).
The discovery of a young man's body leads to a case involving a wealthy man (Henry Woronicz) and a secret from his past. Joanna Wilder: Deirdre O'Connell. Jessie Lucas: Julianne Nicholson. Brenda Lucas: Kristin Griffith. Stephen Cromwell: Chip Zien. Karen Drucker: Tessa Auberjonois. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Carmichael: Angie Harmon. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
The investigation of a killing is complicated by FBI agents and the involvement of a suspect's sibling. Cally Lonegan/Donald Lonegan: Michael O'Keefe. Ron Innes: Robert John Burke. Scott Tobias: Bryan Scott Johnson. Jeff Washington: LeLand Gantt. Buddha: John Joseph Gallagher. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Green: Jesse L. Martin. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
Aunt Bee fabricates a romance with the butter-and-egg man (Woodrow Chambliss) because she thinks Andy is worried about her. Then Barney learns that the man is married. Evan: Bobby Diamond. Lyle: Farley Thurston. Clara: Hope Summers. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
Fun girls Daphne (Jean Carson) and Skippy (Joyce Jameson) speed through Mayberry so they'll get arrested by Andy and Barney, who just want to get the girls quietly out of town before Helen and Thelma Lou see them. This marked the third and last appearance of the so-called Fun Girls. Thelma Lou: Betty Lynn. Helen: Aneta Corsaut. Otis: Hal Smith. (Repeat).
Don Rickles is cast as inept peddler Newton Monroe, whom Andy tries to encourage by giving him odd jobs to do. Of course, Newton fails at all of them. Barney: Don Knotts. Goober: George Lindsey. Floyd: Howard McNear. (Repeat).
Andy overreacts when Opie starts doing poorly in math and begins constantly pressuring the boy to study. But Helen comes to Ope's rescue. Opie: Ronny Howard. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Helen: Aneta Corsaut. (Repeat).
Opie spends all of his money trying to win Andy an electric razor at a crooked carnival shooting gallery. When Andy finds out, he beats the hucksters at their own game. Pete: Lewis Charles. Charlie: Billy Halop. Opie: Ronny Howard. Goober: George Lindsey. Helen: Aneta Corsaut. (Repeat).
Andy hires an out-of-work banjo player (Jerry Van Dyke) as a part-time deputy, but he proves too incompetent to even fill Barney's shoes. Lee Van Cleef appears in a minor role. His appearance came a year before his big splash in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." This episode ended the series' fifth season and was the last one shot in black and white. Dancer: Sylvia Lewis. Miss Bedloe: Hope Summer
In the series' debut episode, which first aired on Oct. 10, 1960, the Taylor's housekeeper, Rose, leaves to get married. Andy then asks Aunt Bee to come live with them, but Opie refuses to accept her. In another major storyline, Andy hires Barney to be his deputy. Rose: Mary Treen. Emma: Cheerio Meredith. Wilbur: Frank Ferguson. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Opie: Ronny Howard. Barney: Don Knotts. And
Mayberry is swarming with state troopers hunting an escaped convict, but they won't allow Andy and Barney to help, so the two take matters into their own hands. Capt. Barker: Ken Lynch. Morgan: Mike Steen. Emma: Cheerio Meredith. Cal: Norman Leavitt. Dirksen: Frank Gerstle. Mrs. Fife: Lillian Culver. Loafer: Frank Challee. Barney: Don Knotts. Bee: Frances Bavier. Opie: Ronny Howard. (Repeat).
Andy arrests Bobby Fleet (Henry Slate) and his traveling dance band in order to force them to check out a local guitar player (James Best) who's in an adjacent cell. Talbot: Dub Taylor. Orville: Jonathan Hole. Waitress: Connie Van. Barney: Don Knotts. Opie: Ronny Howard. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
Mayberry's new pharmacist, Ellie May Walker (Elinor Donahue), gets off to a bad start when she refuses to fill hypochondriac Emma Brand's phony prescription. Emma: Cheerio Meredith. Barney: Don Knotts. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Opie: Ronny Howard. (Repeat).
Andy believes Ellie is trying to trap him into marrying her, so he sends three eligible bachelors her way to get her off his trail. Ellie: Elinor Donahue. Fred: Harry Antrim. Pete: Robert Easton. Charlie: Ray Lanier. Franklin: Bill Mulliken. Opie: Ronny Howard. Barney: Don Knotts. Andy: Andy Griffith. (Repeat).
Opie befriends a runaway boy (Pat Rosson) and then refuses to answer Andy's questions about him because Andy made him promise never to betray someone's trust. Tommy: Pat Losby. Steve: Dennis Holmes. Opie: Ronny Howard. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. Andy: Andy Griffith. (Repeat).
Andy stages a fake hold-up to boost Barney's courage in the hope that it will give his deputy the nerve to ask out a shy dressmaker (Amzie Strickland). Crawford: Jack Mann. Barney: Don Knotts. Ellie: Elinor Donahue. Opie: Ronny Howard. (Repeat).
Andy is disappointed when Opie only gives three cents to a children's charity drive, saving his money instead to buy a present for his girlfriend. Silby: Stuart Erwin. Anabelle: Lurene Tuttle. Opie: Ronny Howard. Barney: Don Knotts. Aunt Bee: Frances Bavier. (Repeat).
Carey Lowell returns as Jamie Ross to defend a student accused of killing four and wounding 12 others at a high school. Henry Semple: Timmy Reifsnyder. Bill Semple: Robert Emmet Lunney. Patricia Semple: Mia Dillon. Judge: Doris Belack. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Carmichael: Angie Harmon. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
After the attempted assassination of a tough judge (Roxanne Hart), the investigation leads to a plot devised by two inmates. Wylie: David Wohl. Danielle Melnick: Tovah Feldshuh. Det. Hill: John Roney. Driver: Matthew Del Negro. Janice Wylie: Carolee Carmello. McCoy: Sam Waterston. Lewin: Dianne Wiest. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. (Repeat).
A murder case involves mistaken identity and a possible link between the election of a state senator (Deborah Hedwall) and a crime family. Kate Pierce: Kate Jennings Grant. Linde: Joe Grifasi. Judge: Karen Shallo. Christian Coulter: Peter Jay Fernandez. Louis: Joe Ponazecki. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Green: Jesse L. Martin. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
Police search for the owner of a vicious pit bull that killed a teacher and her terrier. Sherri Quinn: Melissa Leo. Roger Quinn: Bruce McCarty. Judge Scholl: Robert Hogan. Ralph Carson: Joel Marsh Garland. Danny Miller: David Warshofsky. Serena Southerlyn: Elisabeth Rohm. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
A man's fatal stabbing leads to an incident that occurred in Vietnam and three former soldiers in his division. Nolan Tinsdale: Michael Murphy. Gardner: Kate Burton. Morehouse: Charles Brown. Fletcher: Jack Willis. Southerlyn: Elisabeth Rohm. McCoy: Sam Waterston. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. (Repeat).
The investigation of a parolee's killing leads to a case involving a wealthy widow (Cathy Moriarty) and her daughter. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. McCoy: Sam Waterston. Green: Jesse L. Martin. (Repeat).
The detectives investigate the daring daylight kidnapping of a diamond dealer that left two fatalities at the scene. Bernard Powell Sr.: John Cullum. Norman Rothenberg: Jeffrey DeMunn. Henri Girard: Michael Hayden. Capt. Gasana: Lance Reddick. Southerlyn: Elisabeth Rohm. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
The detectives investigate the death of a woman who had a rent-controlled apartment that blocked the sale of her apartment building. Martha Taylor: Linda Thorson. Havel: Conrad John Schuck. Charles Braden: George Demas. Leslie Dupree: Glynnis O'Connor. Southerlyn: Elisabeth Rohm. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
Gary Busey plays a former singer whose wife is found shot to death blocks from the restaurant where they had just finished dinner. Arthur Cahill: Joe Piscopo. Brad Feldman: Bruce Altman. Peter Vega: David Allen Case. Jason Vega: Nathan J. Wetherington. Briscoe: Jerry Orbach. Green: Jesse L. Martin. McCoy: Sam Waterston. (Repeat).
AJ struggles to balance his fashion empire, mafia ties and cocaine cartel when the police come knocking. (Repeat).
A murder investigation leads to one of Van Buren's cases from 12 years earlier, and calls into question a fingerprint expert's courtroom testimony that resulted in the conviction of two men. Bobby Campbell: James Colby. Lisa Russo: Diana Scarwid. Rowen: Larry Bryggman. Luke Campbell: Jeremy Davidson. Cordova: Andrea Navado. Van Buren: S. Epatha Merkerson. McCoy: Sam Waterston. Briscoe: Jerry Orbac