A schoolboy bully makes life miserable for seven-year-old Opie.

Barney believes that Andy is grooming a new man to replace him as deputy.

A stubborn but charming lady speeder makes life difficult for Andy.

Mayberrian Frank Myers (Andy Clyde) and his neighbors are shocked when it becomes apparent that the township owes him nearly $350,000.

A scheming young couple victimizes Barney, after a tiff with Thelma Lou.

A ne'er-do-well vagrant (Buddy Ebsen) has a bad influence on Opie.

Andy and Barney are honored for achieving the lowest crime-rate in the country.

Andy learns a great deal about Thelma Lou's cousin.

Aunt Bee falls for traveling handyman Henry Wheeler. Andy soon realizes Wheeler is not as nice as he seems. So before things get out of hand, Andy explains patiently to Wheeler that he would not want his Aunt Bee hurt by any false promises. To emphasize the point, Andy holds the conversation on the porch while he cleans his shotgun. Wheeler prudently decides it is time to leave Mayberry.

One of Andy's big-city fishing buddies invites him to join the Esquire Club, an exclusive Raleigh men's organization. Barney is also asked to join and he, of course, overreacts and alienates the entire group by trying to hard to fit in. Andy is offered membership, but Barney is not. Andy tells his fishing buddy that he must decline because he does not feel right joining a club that wouldn't let in his best friend. Before Andy can break the news to Barney, Barney assumes Andy was the one rejected and sits down to write the club a scathing letter of rejection himself.

It's canning time again, and Aunt Bee has put up another batch of pickles. After realizing the only thing they're good for is killing flies brave enough to land on them, Andy and Barney decide to substitute store-bought for her homemade and hand the originals to travelers passing through Mayberry. After the switch, Bee decides to enter her pickles in the county fair. Unfortunately, the perennial winner is Clara Johnson, Bee's best friend, and she has her heart set on winning her 12th blue ribbon in a row. Andy and Barney have no choice but to destroy all eight jars before she can enter, so they eat night and day until all the pickles are gone. They do their work proudly, but Bee decides that since the boys liked them so much, she will make a double batch.

Barney gets an offer to become the sheriff of Greendale, and Andy tries to discourage him. Unsure how to handle matters, Andy gets an idea to let Barney be sheriff of Mayberry for a day. Given the opportunity to get a taste of what the office of high sheriff entails, Barney understands that he is not up to the job and calls Greendale to decline.

Jeff Pruitt, a farmer from the hills, comes to Mayberry in search of a wife. He expects to spend a single afternoon on his search.

Opie joins a secret club. The club meets in Jubal Foster's barn. When Jubal burns his own barn down he attempts to blame the group of boys.

Rich kid Ronald Bailey is jailed when he blatantly defies the law. As Bailey waits for his influential father to bail him out, Andy teaches him the lesson of self-responsibility. Bailey decides to stand on his own two feet and take care of his traffic violations himself.

A beautiful manicurist from the city comes to Floyd's to set up shop. She makes all the wives in town extremely nervous as she manicures their husbands.

After a series of mishaps, Henry Bennett gets a reputation in town as a jinx. The more Andy tries to dispel the rumor the deeper the hole gets. Eventually, Henry decides it would be best if left town altogether. This spurs the townfolk to rethink their unsympathetic attitude toward him.

The 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.

Opie has his heart set on winning a medal in a foot race at the town picnic. When he loses, he exhibits poor sportmanship. Andy teaches him a lesson about being a good sport.

When the awful sound coming from the Mayberry choir is narrowed down to Barney, the members decide they must get rid of him. Since no one has the heart to do it, they set him up telling him he is singing into a supersensitive microphone, while someone else is actually singing the part back stage.

As a sort of publicity stunt, the town decides to pull over the first car that drives through Mayberry, and make its occupant the town's guest of honor. When Andy and Barney discover that the man is a recently released convict set on robbing the town blind they must act quickly to avert disaster.

Traveling salesman, Bert Miller, is getting tired of traveling. So partially to help Bert and partially to irritate Ben Weaver, the local department store owner, Andy and Barney concoct to help Bert set up a small general goods shop on a vacant lot.

When the Mayberry jail, is filled to capacity by a group of moonshiners who blame Otis for their capture, Andy must find a new place for Otis to serve his term. He takes Otis home and places him in Aunt Bee's care. Aunt Bee decides to take advantage of the situation to get Otis to change his ways.

Mary Simpson, the county nurse, wants to do the impossible. She wants to get all of the farmer's in the county to take their innoculations. Figuring everyone will follow suit if she can just get Rafe Hollister to do it, she enlists the help of Andy to convince Rafe of the necessity. Andy agrees hoping to impress Mary.

While staying in Raleigh, Barney believes he is witnessing a man casing the hotel clientelle. Barney, is right in believing that there is a crime about to be committed, but he is tailing the house detective and has hooked up with the real crook.

After Clara convinces Aunt Bee that Andy can find a wife as long as Aunt Bee hangs on, she begins searching for a man that she can marry. She ends up dating the annoying dry-cleaner Fred Goss.

Everytime Andy tries to be alone with Mary, Barney always shows up. After Andy explains that he wants to be alone with Mary, Barney takes it to mean that Andy is planning to propose.

A bookie from Raleigh sets himself up in Floyd's barbershop as an extra barber, trying to avoid the heat. Andy gets suspicious when the new barber has the same three clients.

A news mogul swears revenge on Andy after he is arrest for what he deems a minor infraction. In retaliation, he sends a reporter to Mayberry to dig up whatever dirt she can on Andy. She poses as a college student writing a paper on local law enforcement. Barney trying to impress her starts to spout off about how he would do things differently. These leads to a lawsuit against Andy for malfeasance.

Barney's slightly slow cousin Virgil comes to town. Barney sticks his neck out for him, trying to help him out. When Virgil makes one too many mistakes, Barney rails against him and storms out. Leave it to Andy, though, to discover Virgil's true ability and give him an opportunity to use it.

Otis, the town drunk, has been writing letters to his brother and sister-in-law for some time on courthouse stationary. Because of this, they have come to believe that he is a deputy. All is fine until they write that they are coming for a visit. Andy and a reluctant Barney step in to help Otis perpetuate the idea that he is a deputy.