Box set: The Andy Griffith Show: Seasons 1-5

The Andy Griffith Show: Season 3
CBS (1960)
TV Series  /  Comedy, Family
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IMDB   8.4
808 mins USA / English
DVD 
Andy Griffith Andy Taylor
Don Knotts Barney Fife
Ron Howard Opie Taylor
Colin Male Announcer
Frances Bavier Aunt Bee Taylor
Tom Jacobs Townsman
Parley Baer Mayor Roy Stoner
Jim Nabors Gomer Pyle
Howard McNear Floyd Lawson
Betty Lynn Thelma Lou
Hal Smith Otis Campbell
Willis Bouchey Charlie O'Malley
Mary Lansing Mrs. Rodenbach - Ladies' Aid Church Committee Member
Aneta Corseaut Helen Crump
Joanna Moore Peggy 'Peg' McMillan
Robert McQuain Fletch Roberts
Norman Leavitt Wally
Richard Keith Johnny Paul Jason
Clint Howard Leon
Dub Taylor Billy Ray / the Postman
Director
Bob Sweeney
Charles Irving
Producer Aaron Ruben
Sheldon Leonard
Danny Thomas
Richard O. Linke
Writer R.S. Allen
Harvey Bullock
Aaron Ruben
James Fritzell
Cinematography Sidney Hickox

Down-home humor and an endearing cast of characters helped make The Andy Griffith Show one of the most beloved comedies in the history of TV. The show centered around widower Andy Taylor, who divided his time between raising his young son Opie, and his job as sheriff of the sleepy North Carolina town, Mayberry. Andy and Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bee, who serves as a surrogate mother to both father and son. Andy's nervous cousin, Barney Fife, is his deputy sheriff whose incompetence is tolerated because Mayberry is virtually crime-free.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/1/1962  1.  Mr. McBeevee
While walking through the woods, Opie meets Mr. McBeevee, a telephone repairman. Opie, in describing his new friend to Andy and Barney, remarks McBeevee ""lives in the tress"" (climbs telephone poles to do his work) and ""jingles when he walks"" and ""has 12 extra hands"" (referring to the repairman's tools). Since Andy and Barney have not met McBeevee and are unable to track him down, they chalk Opie's enthusiastic description to childhood imagination. That is, until one day Opie comes home with a quarter McBeevee had given him. Andy immediately suspects Opie stole the quarter and takes him to the woods to return it. McBeevee, in the meantime, has been called away to assist fellow workers at another site and has left by the time Andy and Opie arrive. The sheriff takes Opie home to punish him, but backs off (to Barney's chagrin) when he believes his son. At the end of the episode, Andy goes to the forest and, having parked next to a telephone pole, fumes aloud, ""Mr. McBeevee!"" McBeevee immed
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock  / Ray Saffian Allen 
Guest starring:  Karl Swenson, Thurston Holmes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/8/1962  2.  Andy's Rich Girlfriend
When Andy finds out his new girlfriend's father is wealthy, Barney talks him into believing the relationship is doomed.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Joanna Moore, Donald Lawton, Warner Jones
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/15/1962  3.  Andy and the New Mayor
Mayberry's new mayor doesn't like Andy or the way he does his job.
Director:  Rob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Roy Engel, Janet Stewart,  Helen Kleeb
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/22/1962  4.  Andy and Opie-Bachelors
Aunt Bee leaves town for a few days, leaving Andy and Opie to take care of themselves. When Peggy volunteers to cook for them, Floyd tries to convince Andy that she is trying to catch a husband.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Joanna Moore, Ray Lanier
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/29/1962  5.  The Cow Thief
The mayor calls in an investigator from the state capital to help solve a string of cow thefts.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock  / Ray Saffian Allen 
Guest starring:  Jon LormerMalcolm Atterbury, Ralph Bell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/5/1962  6.  Barney Mends a Broken Heart
Andy shows up for a date with Peggy McMillan only to learn her old friend Don has arrived unexpectedly. Andy departs angrily when Peggy breaks their date and then encounters more problems when Barney decides to make things better by fixing him up with another girl. Andy ends up getting himself punched in the eye, but manages to fix things up with Peggy, and they live happily ... until the end of this episode ... and then we never see her again
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Aaron Ruben 
Guest starring:  Joanna MooreJoyce Jameson, Jean Carson, Josie Lloyd, Fred Beir, Michael Ross
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/12/1962  7.  Lawman Barney
Two farmers ignore Barney's warning to stop selling their vegetables on the street and make fun of him. Andy tells them a big story about Barney being a cold-hearted killer known as Barney the Beast and Crazy Gun Barney. When they find out the truth, they go right back to selling in the street.
Director:  Aaron Ruben  Writer:  Aaron Ruben 
Guest starring:  Allan Melvin, Orville Sherman,  Norman Leavitt, Bob McQuain
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/19/1962  8.  The Mayberry Band
Mayberry's town band is the worst in the state and Mayor Stoner refuses to allow them to go to the state capital to play. It looks like they will have to stay home until Andy gets a little help from Freddy Fleet and his band.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Thom Carney,  Norman Leavitt, William Eben Stephens,  Burt MustinSherwood Keith, Frank Levya, Joseph Sirola
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/26/1962  9.  Floyd the Gay Deceiver
Madeline Grayson, a rich widow that Floyd has been ""pen-palling"" with, announces in her next letter that she wants to meet him face-to-face. Of course, the whole time, Floyd has been pretending in his letters to be a wealthy entrepreneur. Upon news of the visit, Andy and Aunt Bee help Floyd in his masquerade by borrowing a house in town from the Devereauxs, who Andy is house-sitting for. Andy poses as Floyd's son who is home visiting from medical school, while Bee is Floyd's ""maid."" Floyd realizes he can't go on pretending, but can't bring himself to confess. Andy reveals to Mrs. Grayson that he's the town sheriff and, before he can explain about Floyd, gets her to reveal that she's really not a rich widow and goes around sponging off rich men.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Aaron Ruben 
Guest starring:  Doris Dowling
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/3/1962  10.  Opie's Rival
Andy's new girlfriend is the new county nurse. Everyone likes her except Opie, who is jealous of all the time they spend together.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Sidney Morse 
Guest starring:  Joanna Moore
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/10/1962  11.  Convicts at Large
Barney and Floyd are held hostage in a cabin by three escaped women convicts.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Reta ShawJane Dulo, Jean Carson,  Willis Bouchey
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/17/1962  12.  The Bed Jacket
Aunt Bee wants a pretty bed jacket for her birthday. A mix-up causes Andy to have to sell his favorite fishing pole to get it.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock  / Ray Saffian Allen 
Guest starring:  Hope SummersMary LansingDabbs Greer
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/24/1962  13.  The Bank Job
Barney thinks the Mayberry Bank is a pushover for a robbery and sets out to prove it.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Charles Thompson, Warren Parker, Lee Kreiger, Frances Osborn, Al Checco,  Mary Lansing
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/31/1962  14.  One-Punch Opie
Opie must learn to defend himself against a bully.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Scott McCartor, Kim Tyler, Stanley Farrar
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/7/1963  15.  Barney and the Governor
Barney is goaded into ticketing the governor's car and mistakenly believes Andy is setting him up for a dressing-down by the governor. In fact, the governor is coming to Mayberry to give him a personal commendation for performing a job without showing favorites. In the midst of all the action, Otis secretly spikes the water tank, giving both Barney and Mayor Stoner a surprise snootful.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Henry Sharp  / Bill Freedman 
Guest starring:  Burt Mustin, Joe Hamilton, Bob McQuain,  Carl Benton ReidRance Howard
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/14/1963  16.  Man in a Hurry
Big businessman Malcolm Tucker is stuck in Mayberry for the Sabbath when his car breaks down outside the city limits. He's soon driven to frustration when he finds there is no way to get anything done in this two-bit town until the follownig day. After finally getting Gomer's cousin Goober to fix the car, Tucker gives in to the mood and decides to stay the night.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Norman Leavitt, Robert Emhardt, William Keene
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/21/1963  17.  High Noon in Mayberry
Barney gets hysterical when Andy receives a letter from a man he arrested and sent to prison. The convict is to be released soon and says in the letter that he is coming to settle the score with Andy. Barney tries to protect Andy with humorous results..Andy remains calm and of course the ""score"" is settled by an understanding and remourseful convict.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Dub TaylorLeo Gordon
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/28/1963  18.  The Loaded Goat
An escaped goat eats a case of dynamite that was going to be used for blasting, and now Mayberry is in danger. Especially when Otis Campbell gets drunk.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Forrest Lewis,  Bing Russell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/4/1963  19.  Class Reunion
Andy sees his High School sweetheart at his high school reunion and realizes they don't want the same things.
Director:  Charles Irving  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Peggy McCayBarbara Perry, Don Haggerty, Frank Behrens, Molly Dodd,  Paul Smith, Virginia Eiler
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/11/1963  20.  Rafe Hollister Sings
When image-conscious Mayor Stoner objects to a golden-voiced--but wardrobe-challenged--farmer chosen to represent Mayberry in the upcoming musicale, Andy must find a way to appease all sides.
Director:  Charles Irving  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Jack Prince, Kay Stewart, Ottola Nesmith, Isabel Randolph
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/18/1963  21.  Opie and the Spoiled Kid
When a spoiled kid moves to town, he thinks he can walk all over the townsfolk, including Andy and Barney. Of course when his bike gets impounded and his dad wants to sell it, Arnold gets a rude awakening.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Ronnie Dapo,  Harlan WardeMary Lansing
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/25/1963  22.  The Great Filling Station Robbery
After a series of auto-related thefts, the shadow of suspicion looms ever longer over Jimmy--a youth with a troubled past. How long can Andy rush to Jimmy's defense before his own faith in the boy is shaken?
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Willis BoucheyPat Colby, Jack Shea,  Johnny Silver
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/4/1963  23.  Andy Discovers America
Opie doesn't like his new teacher ""Old Lady Crump"" because she gives too much homework. Andy says some things that Opie twists and tells to Miss Crump, who is furious. When she bursts into the Sherriff's Office, Andy realizes that ""Old Lady Crump"" is actually young and very attractive. Realizing that he has put his foot in his mouth, Andy straightens things out, and this is what seems to be a new beginning for Andy and Miss Crump.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  John Whedon 
Guest starring:  Joey Scott, Ronda Jeter
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/11/1963  24.  Aunt Bee's Medicine Man
Aunt Bee falls for a medicine man's speech.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  John Whedon 
Guest starring:  Noreen Gammill,  John DehnerMary Lansing, Ruth Packard, Kathryn Hart, Jewel Rose
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/18/1963  25.  The Darlings Are Coming
The musical mountain family descends upon Mayberry.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Margaret Ann Peterson, Hoke Howell, Doug Dillard, Dean Webb
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/25/1963  26.  Andy's English Valet
A tourist from England has to do chores to pay off a fine.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Bernard Fox, Bob McQuain
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/1/1963  27.  Barney's First Car
It's a red-letter day in Mayberry when Barney decides to join the motoring world, but things go sour when his cream-puff turns out to be a lemon.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Ellen CorbyAllan Melvin, Hallene Hill, Tom Allen
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/8/1963  28.  The Rivals
Barney tells Opie about how to handle women.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  Ronda Jeter
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/15/1963  29.  A Wife for Andy
Barney believes that Andy should be getting married.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Aaron Ruben 
Guest starring:  Barbara Perry, Janet Waldo, Rachel Ames, Janet Stewart
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/22/1963  30.  Dogs, Dogs, Dogs
When one of the top notch officials arrives, they find a courthouse full of dogs.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Roy BarcroftRobert Cornthwaite
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/29/1963  31.  Mountain Wedding
Andy and Barney visit the Darlings to rid them of Ernest T. Bass, who has his mind set on marrying daughter Charlene. In this debut for Ernest T, Barney ends up being the bride.
Director:  Bob Sweeney  Writer:  Everett Greenbaum  / Jim Fritzell 
Guest starring:  Margaret Ann Peterson, Hoke Howell,  Dub Taylor
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/6/1963  32.  The Big House
When the state police leave two captured bank robbers in the custody of the Mayberry police department overnight Barney is determined to show the prisoners that the Mayberry jail is a good as any other. Unfortunately he has problems keeping them from escaping.
Writer:  Harvey Bullock 
Guest starring:  George KennedyLewis CharlesBilly HalopJack Lambert, Bob McQuain, Richard Angarola, Arthur Kendall
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