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The Andy Griffith Show Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
Opie the Birdman
Mon, Sep 30, 196330 mins
Opie is having a grand old time with his new slingshot. His father warns him to be careful with it, but when he inadvertently kills a bird, he is genuinely heartbroken. He reluctantly confesses to Andy what he has done but the real problem is that there are now three motherless hatchlings in the nest. Opie decides that he's going to raise them and he meticulously takes care of them, but eventually comes to the realization that he will soon have to let them go free.
Episode 2
The Haunted House
Mon, Oct 7, 196330 mins
When Opie and his friend Arnold accidentally send a baseball crashing through the window of The Rimshaw House, they're too afraid to go in and retrieve it. The house has a reputation for being haunted but Barney admonishes Andy for not making the boys retrieve the ball anyways. The cowardly Deputy balks however when Andy suggests that he get it for them. Even Otis the town drunk suggests that they stay away from the place. Soon, Andy and Barney, with Gomer in tow, are in the place. They hear strange sounds, see a painting, of Old Man Rimshaw, with eyes that seem to follow you across the room and find a secret chamber. There's definitely an earthly explanation to everything, however.
Episode 3
Ernest T. Bass Joins the Army
Mon, Oct 14, 196330 mins
Andy and Barney break up a fight outside the Army recruitment center only to find Ernest T. Bass in the middle of it all. He tells them he's there to enlist. Andy tries to warn the Recruiting Sergeant about his odd behavior, but to no avail. It doesn't take the Sergeant long to realize Andy was right and throws Bass out. He now blames Andy for his plight and takes to breaking windows. Even putting him in a cell doesn't seem to work as he has his own way of getting out whenever he wants to. When Andy finally learns exactly why Ernest T. wanted to join up in the first place, the solution is quite simple.
Episode 4
The Sermon for Today
Mon, Oct 21, 196330 mins
A visiting preacher tells the town to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures of life. He inspires everyone to have an old-time band concert. With all the stress of rebuilding the broken-down bandstand and getting ragged uniforms ready, they wear themselves out.
Episode 5
Briscoe Declares for Aunt Bee
Mon, Oct 28, 196330 mins
Briscoe Darling and his boys come to Mayberry and after being thrown out of the diner, accept an invitation to Andy's house for dinner. He is mighty impressed with Aunt Bee's cooking and the cleanliness of the her house and kitchen. Misunderstanding something she says, he suddenly declares his love for her and asks her to be his bride. She turns him down of course but the next day when Opie comes home for lunch, he finds a note from the Darling patriarch saying he's taken her. Andy goes to their mountain cabin and finds that she is okay and decides the only way to get Briscoe to change his mind will be to show him exactly what it would be like to have Aunt Bee running his household.
Episode 6
Gomer the House Guest
Mon, Nov 4, 196330 mins
Gomer's boss Wally is getting just a bit fed with his constant chatting with customers while others are waiting to be served and suddenly, he finds himself out of a job. He asks Andy if he could sleep at the jail for a few nights but Andy has an even better idea: Gomer can stay at his house until he gets settled. Unfortunately, things don't go quite well. The first night, Gomer can't sleep and is all over the house trying to do chores to compensate for his stay. He's sawing wood, fixing the vacuum and otherwise keeping them up at all hours. By the second night, Gomer's regular customers start showing up at the house with all kinds of car problems which gives Andy the solution to their mutual problem.
Episode 7
A Black Day for Mayberry
Mon, Nov 11, 196330 mins
Andy and Barney have to protect a shipment of gold which will be going through Mayberry on the way to Fort Knox. It's critical that they keep it a secret, but Barney spills the beans immediately and within minutes all of Mayberry knows. A carnival-like atmosphere soon takes hold. The plot thickens when Barney discovers there's no gold in the truck.
Episode 8
Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain
Mon, Nov 18, 196330 mins
Opie has always been an average student and while he doesn't ignore his studies completely, he also doesn't work as hard as he could. He's convinced however that his teacher, Miss Crump, likes him and that he'll do all right in his upcoming report card. Andy tells him it doesn't quite work that way but Opie's confidence is re-affirmed when he gets straight A's. Andy is so proud of him that he's bragging all over town about what Opie's done and even buys him a new bicycle as a reward. The only problem is the report card is a mistake and Opie, despite trying, can't quite bring himself to tell his father the truth.
Episode 9
Up in Barney's Room
Mon, Dec 2, 196330 mins
When Barney's landlady, Mrs. Mendelbright, catches him cooking in his room she asks him to leave. He's lived there for several years and considers the boarding house his home but he has no choice but to move out. He sets himself up in the back room at the courthouse but that clearly isn't going to work so Andy convinces him to go see Mrs. Mendelbright and apologize, hoping she will take him back. They do make up but she tells them she is selling her house and is to marry her new boarder, Oscar Fields, who has just moved in to Barney's old room. When Barney hears that she is about to give the man her life savings so they can buy a house elsewhere, he's sure the man is a crook.
Episode 10
A Date for Gomer
Mon, Dec 9, 196330 mins
Thelma Lou's cousin, Mary Grace Gossage, is in town visiting. Thelma Lou asks Barney to get Mary Grace a date for the Chamber of Commerce dance or Thelma Lou won't go. Barney tells Thelma Lou that he can't get Mary Grace a date because she is a "dog." Andy and Barney ask Gomer to go to the dance with Mary Grace, and when Gomer asks the guys to describe her, all they tell him is, "she's nice."
Episode 11
Citizen's Arrest
Mon, Dec 16, 196330 mins
Gomer makes a citizen's arrest of Barney for committing the same traffic violation that Barney just ticketed him for. This causes Barney to overreact, resigning as deputy and demanding a jail sentence in lieu of paying the fine. When Gomer finds out how far it has gone, he tries to come up with a solution.
Episode 12
Opie and His Merry Men
Mon, Dec 30, 196330 mins
Opie and his friends are fascinated by the story of Robin Hood and his Merry Men and have taken to playing in the woods with their bows and arrows. They come across a hobo who convinces them that, if they really want to be like Robin Hood, they should be robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, in other words, people like him. Opie is having some trouble making sense of it all, especially the part about the Sheriff being the bad guy. That notwithstanding, the boys are soon taking food from their homes - Opie an apple pie, another takes a ham and so on - and the hobo is eating quite well. When Andy finally catches on to what is going on, he has to find a way to do his job and make it look like he's trying to be helpful.
Episode 13
Barney and the Cave Rescue
Mon, Jan 6, 196430 mins
After Andy and Helen go exploring in a cave, it collapses behind them. They find another way out, but hear on the radio that Barney has mobilized the town to rescue them. They go back into the cave to save Barney from becoming a laughingstock.
Episode 14
Andy and Opie's Pal
Mon, Jan 13, 196430 mins
Opie makes a new friend, Trey, a fatherless boy who is visiting Mayberry with his mother. Trey is a good boy and he and Opie get along fine. That is until Andy also takes an interest in the boy and asks him to join them fishing. A jealous Opie then shuns his new friend and Andy tries to teach him the cost of just dropping friends. Barney becomes the object of the exercise.
Episode 15
Aunt Bee the Crusader
Mon, Jan 20, 196430 mins
When Aunt Bee learns that their egg man of many years, Mr. Frisby, is being forced off his land, she decides to do something about it. The land is to be used for a new highway but she gets little sympathy from Andy who may be the one to have to force him off of his property. As far as he's concerned, it was all done properly and the egg farmer is going to be well compensated. Soon, there are protesters outside the courthouse and it's obviously not going to go away. When the protesters shift to his farm however, Andy comes across something very interesting.
Episode 16
Barney's Sidecar
Mon, Jan 27, 196430 mins
There seems to be little Andy can do about the complaints they continue to receive about speeding on the nearby highway. Barney would love to get out there and set up a speed trap but they have only the one squad car. Without telling Andy, Barney goes off to an army surplus store and buys an old World War I motorcycle and side car. Andy isn't too sure about it all and against his better judgment lets Barney keep it. Soon he is roaring up and down the street and just generally being a menace. Realizing that something has to be done about it, he finds a very useful purpose for Opie's new wood burning kit.
Episode 17
My Fair Ernest T. Bass
Mon, Feb 3, 196430 mins
Ernest T. Bass is back in Mayberry and is again looking for a wife. He's taken to throwing rocks through windows to get attention and Andy realizes there is only one thing to do: teach him manners and how to behave in polite society. The transformation in Bass is quite remarkable and he's soon attending a party. He doesn't quite make through the evening but he may have met his soul mate in any event.
Episode 18
Prisoner of Love
Mon, Feb 10, 196430 mins
Neither Andy nor Barney are too keen on working the evening shift - until they get a load of the prisoner the State Police has just brought. She's a con artist and a thief and very, very attractive. Barney has a date with Thelma Lou so Andy spends some time with her and he seems to make a real connection. He's relieved by Barney and goes home but can't quite get her out of his mind so he decides to go back to the courthouse, only to find her coming out the door and Barney locked in the cell!
Episode 19
Hot Rod Otis
Mon, Feb 17, 196430 mins
Town drunk Otis comes in for his weekly night in jail and is insistent that they wake him up a 8 a.m. the next morning. They do so and he will only tell them he's been working a second job and saving his money to acquire the one thing he has always wanted but has never had. When he shows up later that day with his new car, Barney is convinced that they have a new menace in town. Andy thinks Otis is a little more responsible than that but gives Barney the okay to follow him and see what he wants. When they see him pass out behind the wheel, they put him in jail and devise an elaborate scheme to get his to swear off driving.
Episode 20
The Song Festers
Mon, Feb 24, 196430 mins
With a concert on the horizon, the Mayberry choir has been practicing a good deal. The problem is that Barney is the only tenor and the choirmaster, John Masters, would love to replace him with someone more suitable. Barney, egged on by his voice teacher Miss Eleanora Poultice, thinks he may have a shot at the big time. Despite John and Andy's best efforts however, they simply haven't been able to find anyone. During a lunchtime practice however, they hear a tenor whose voice is just perfect: and it turns out to be Gomer. Having found his new tenor John wants Andy to give Barney the bad news. When Gomer hears just how much it means to Barney to sing the solo however, he decides to take action himself.
Episode 21
The Shoplifters
Mon, Mar 2, 196430 mins
Department store owner Ben Weaver begins to suspect theft when he realizes that a good amount of his stock has gone missing. Andy believes it's due to shoplifting, but Barney suspects that it may be an after-hours burglar so he breaks a date with Thelma Lou to explore the premises when the store is closed. Weaver decides to do the same, but all they manage to do is scare each other half to death prowling around the store at night. Andy finally gets Barney to patrol the store during regular working hours to keep his eyes open for shoplifters, but when the bumbling deputy attempts to arrest a gentle old lady, he appears to have messed up yet again.
Episode 22
Andy's Vacation
Mon, Mar 9, 196430 mins
Andy has become quite irritable of late and he finally agrees with Barney's suggestion that he take a week's holiday and relax. He plans on sitting at home and just catch up on some reading but the calls never stop and Barney - with more than a bit of help from temporary Deputy Gomer - seems to be getting into trouble right and left so he finally decides to go off into the woods for a bit of camping. Back at the jail, Barney and Gomer soon find themselves caring for a prison escapee in their custody who has little trouble getting away from them. It's left to Andy to resolve the situation.
Episode 23
Andy Saves Gomer
Mon, Mar 16, 196430 mins
Andy stops by the filling station to show Gomer a letter he's just received from Barney who's vacationing in Raleigh with his cousin Virgil. He's surprised to find the gas-pumper asleep in a chair and a small fire burning in a nearby steel drum. Andy puts out the fire and a frantic Gomer declares that Andy has saved his life. In fact, the more time goes by, the more the story grows. However, the real problem is that Gomer feels so beholden to Andy that nothing is too good for the man who "saved his life", so he decides that he must wait on Andy hand and foot - cleaning the windows, cutting the grass, offering to drive him around - despite Andy's protests that it's just not necessary. Andy soon realizes that there is only one way to even things out between them and return to normalcy.
Episode 24
Bargain Day
Mon, Mar 23, 196430 mins
Aunt Bee has been on a cost-cutting binge of late including buying Opie some cheap shoes that are too large and sugar in bulk, all to save a few dollars. When she hears that the new butcher shop in town is selling beef at a saving of 10 cents a pound, she's immediately interested. The only catch is that, to get the discount, she has to buy a whole side of beef - 150 lbs. or so. That's fine with Bee since she has a freezer - mind you she hasn't used it for years and, when it breaks down, she refuses to call the repairman from Mount Pilot because of the cost. She's left with the embarrassing choice of going back to her old butcher, Mr. Foley, for help. That also leaves Andy with only one choice.
Episode 25
Divorce, Mountain Style
Mon, Mar 30, 196430 mins
Charlene Darling shows up in Mayberry alone and asking Andy for his help. He agrees and they go off into the woods where she buries something, finally announcing that she has divorced Dud Wash and is now free to marry - and that Andy is her intended. Soon, her father Briscoe and the entire Darling clan are in town to make sure Andy lives up to his obligations. Barney goes off to the library to find a book on local folklore and see if there's anything they can do to reverse what seems to be the inevitable. Sure enough, all it will take is the presence of a white horse with a black rider traveling east-west to curse the betrothed.
Episode 26
A Deal Is a Deal
Mon, Apr 6, 196430 mins
Opie and several of his friends are trying to sell a patent medicine as part of a contest to win a pony - it's all a scam of course. They're not having much luck selling the stuff and one of the boys returns what he has left. When he receives a letter from the company saying he is blacklisted, they ask Andy's advice. He tells them it's just a bit of intimidation and to just forget about it. Barney however can't keep his nose out of things and along with Gomer, pays a visit to the salve company in Mt. Pilot. They spin a yarn about the salve having a veterinary application but the con men don't quite react the way Barney had predicted
Episode 27
Fun Girls
Mon, Apr 13, 196430 mins
Two fun-loving girls from Mount Pilot interrupt Andy and Barney's late-night office work. When Helen and Thelma Lou see them together, they get upset and cancel their dates to the big dance. Barney decides he and Andy will take the fun girls instead.
Episode 28
The Return of Malcolm Merriweather
Mon, Apr 20, 196430 mins
Aunt Bee has been working really hard lately and Andy is wondering if it all just isn't too much for her when a solution presents itself in the form of Malcolm Merriweather, the traveling Englishman who had visited Mayberry the year before. Malcolm has worked as a cook and valet so Andy hires him to work around the house and give Aunt Bee a break. He effortlessly keeps the house clean, takes care of Opie and cooks wonderful meals. Everyone is enjoying it except for Aunt Bee, who feels useless and unneeded. Malcolm soon realizes the problem and decides to set things right.
Episode 29
The Rumor
Mon, Apr 27, 196430 mins
After seeing Helen and Andy in the jewelry store together, Barney begins to tell everyone they are obviously engaged. They decide to throw a big party for them and Aunt Bee decides on the perfect gift -to redecorate Andy's room from top to bottom including putting in a canopy bed. They manage to get all of the work done in a single day. Of course, Barney has got it all wrong as usual and the happy couple isn't at all engaged.
Episode 30
Barney and Thelma Lou, Phfftt
Mon, May 4, 196430 mins
Barney feels quite secure in his relationship with Thelma Lou. He even brags to Andy and Gomer that he can do whatever he likes because he has her in his hip pocket. When the dim-witted Gomer tells Thelma Lou what he said, she decides to teach him a lesson. For the first time in years, she breaks their regular Tuesday night date and asks Gomer to take her to the movies instead. Barney isn't so sure of himself at this point but Thelma Lou gets herself into a bit of pickle when Gomer starts to take it all seriously and asks her to marry him.
Episode 31
Back to Nature
Mon, May 11, 196430 mins
Andy, Barney, and Gomer take Opie and his friends camping. Barney, who claims to be a great outdoorsman, manages to get lost in the woods with Gomer.
Episode 32
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Mon, May 18, 196430 mins
Gomer joins the Marines to test himself as a man. Andy drives him to the base and stays around for a while to see how it works out. When he finds out the Sergeant plans to get Gomer sent home, he tries to find a way to get the Sergeant on Gomer's side.
