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The Andy Griffith Show Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
32 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Opie Loves Helen
Mon, Sep 21, 196430 mins
Opie develops a crush on a secret girlfriend, and gets advice on what kind of present to get her. When he comes up with a pair of nylon stockings, Andy intercedes, suggesting something less personal, like flowers. Later, Andy discovers that the secret girl is Opie's teacher, Helen Crump. Andy informs Opie that he doesn't appreciate him cutting in on his girl, and Opie relents.
Episode 2
Barney's Physical
Mon, Sep 28, 196430 mins
Barney is more than a bit disappointed when he thinks everyone has forgotten the fifth anniversary of starting work as a Deputy Sheriff. They were just leading him on and have a cake and a nice gift waiting for him. Andy has just received bad news however: Deputies are now subject to regular height and weight requirements and Barney misses the minimum on both counts. Everyone is pretty sure they can put the extra weight on him but how do you make someone almost a full inch taller? Andy thinks he has the solution but still has to be creative come the day of the physical exam.
Episode 3
The Family Visit
Mon, Oct 5, 196430 mins
Aunt Bee decides that they have not spent enough time keeping in touch with their family and gets Andy to agree to inviting her sister Nora and her husband Ollie to visit for a weekend. They soon arrive with their two boys and while Bee enjoys seeing her sister again, the arrangements aren't very convenient with the three boys sharing a bed as are Andy and Ollie. They decide to put up with it for the weekend but when they invite themselves to stay on for the entire week, Andy isn't very happy. Fortunately, a prison escape provides him with the means to ensure that his uncle Ollie hits the road sooner than originally planned.
Episode 4
The Education of Ernest T. Bass
Mon, Oct 12, 196430 mins
Ernest T. Bass returns to Mayberry and again seeks Andy's help with his love life. Lately, he's been courting and, according to Ernest T., he asked the girl to marry him, but she turned him down because he has no education and doesn't know his letters. He wants Andy to help him get an education - in only 1 week, otherwise he'll start throwing rocks again and break every window in town. The solution Andy comes up with is for him to go to school, so the mountain man soon finds himself in Helen Crump's fifth-grade class. Andy helps him with his homework and realizes Ernest is not as ignorant as he thought. But it all goes awry when Ernest T. declares that he's in love with Ms. Crump.
Episode 5
Aunt Bee's Romance
Mon, Oct 19, 196430 mins
Aunt Bee is positively giddy when out of the blue she receives a letter from an old beau, Roger Hanover. She hasn't seen him for many years and decides to write and invite him for a weekend. Roger and Aunt Bee hit it off and seem to start off where they ended all those years ago. It's all a bit of a problem for Andy as no matter how hard he tries he just can't take a liking to the man. Roger has a strange sense of humor, always making jokes at the expense of others. When he makes a proposition to Andy however, the Sheriff decides to call his bluff.
Episode 6
Barney's Bloodhound
Mon, Oct 26, 196430 mins
Barney decides that to be a modern police force, the Mayberry Sheriff's office should have a tracker dog. The mutt he acquires for the task is a lovable thing but not exactly suited for the purpose. When he and Andy have to go off searching for an escaped prisoner, Barney insists on bringing the dog along. Leave it to Barney of course to not recognize the escapee when he comes across him and he's soon taken prisoner. Thanks to his mutt, his attempt at escape is thwarted and soon both he and Andy are prisoners. As it turns out, Barney's dog saves the day.
Episode 7
Man in the Middle
Mon, Nov 2, 196430 mins
When Barney and Thelma Lou have a big fight and Barney declares their relationship over, Andy tries to soothe things and says maybe it's all for the best. Barney and Thelma Lou reconcile and when he tells her what Andy said, she becomes incensed and refuses to speak to him. When she relays what Andy said to Helen, they end up having a fight and Helen breaks up with Andy. It all goes round and round until Barney and Thelma Lou decide they have to do something to get Andy and Helen back together again.
Episode 8
Barney's Uniform
Mon, Nov 9, 196430 mins
When Barney gives Fred Plummer a ticket for littering, Fred threatens to beat up Barney if he catches him out of uniform. Barney begins to wear the uniform all the time, and Andy gets suspicious. Once Andy finds out the truth, Barney tries to reassure Andy that he can handle himself against Fred Plummer by telling Andy he has been going to Judo class again. Andy takes it upon himself to speak to Barney's judo instructor to find out if Barney can handle himself. Once Andy discovers that Barney isn't much good at Judo, he tries to reason by telling Barney that they are both symbols of the law, whether they are wearing a uniform or a salt & pepper suit. Andy, however, has a plan in place, unbeknownst to Barney, to end the rift without Barney getting hurt.
Episode 9
Opie's Fortune
Mon, Nov 16, 196430 mins
Opie finds a wallet on the side of a dirt road with $50 cash in it and no identification. He learns that he can keep the money if nobody claims it in one week. A week passes and the money is his, but then Barney finds a 'Lost and Found' notice in the newspaper from the owner.
Episode 10
Goodbye Sheriff Taylor
Mon, Nov 23, 196430 mins
Andy considers taking a job in Raleigh, and lets Barney take over as sheriff for a day to prepare him for the office.
Episode 11
The Pageant
Mon, Nov 30, 196430 mins
There is a play in the upcoming town pageant, and Clara has the lead part as Lady Mayberry. Two weeks before opening, Clara is called out of town and can't play the part. Aunt Bea "hints" that she can do it and is encouraged to do so. She is accepted for the part by Mr. Masters, the director. At her first rehearsal, we discover that Bea is terrible as an actress, and Andy accepts the task of telling her she is out. While he is stumbling around trying to figure out how to break the news, Clara returns, and recites the soliloquy beautifully in front of all. Bea realizes the right thing to do, and gives the part back to Clara.
Episode 12
The Darling Baby
Mon, Dec 7, 196430 mins
The Darlings ride into town with Charlene toting her new baby. Briscoe announces they are searching for a young boy to become legally engaged to the little one. After some searching of the town, they show up at Andy's house to "do some picking," and discover Opie. They Darlings decide that Opie is the one and will not be convinced otherwise, no matter what Andy tries. Barney is over in the corner sipping on mulberry squeezins, and is getting so tipsy he is of no help. Finally Andy figures out a scientific trick to convince the Darlings that Opie would not be suitable.
Episode 13
Andy and Helen Have Their Day
Mon, Dec 14, 196430 mins
Andy and Helen are so busy that they can't find find any private time together. She has papers to mark and PTA meetings to attend while Andy has meetings and the like. Barney tries to make a number of suggestions as to how they can find the time but finally suggests to them that he will give them Saturday. In other words, they are both to take the day off and go to the lake and just have a nice time. Andy and Helen are very appreciative of Barney's efforts but their private time at the lake is anything but: Goober, who drove them out there, decides to stay for lunch; Barney has any number of excuses to be there including whether Opie should be allowed to go see a horror movie or that the TV repair man can't repair Helen's TV set.
Episode 14
Three Wishes for Opie
Mon, Dec 21, 196430 mins
Helen is incensed when rumors spread around town that she and Andy are engaged. She's sure Andy had something to do with it but its all news to him as well. It seems that Goober and Barney went to an auction where the Deputy bought an old game made up of an oil lamp and Tarot-like cards. As a result of a series of coincidences, Barney comes to believe that it can make your wishes come true. He gives Opie three wishes. His first is that he have a pocket knife and sure enough, Andy soon gives him one. His second is that he gets a B in arithmetic and sure enough, he gets it. When Barney thinks his third wish is for Andy and Helen to get married, it's a foregone conclusion as far as he is concerned. Only thing is, Opie didn't wish for them to be married but for something else.
Episode 15
Otis Sues the County
Mon, Dec 28, 196430 mins
After his usual weekly visit for drunkenness, Otis has a minor fall when exiting his cell. He wants to just forget about the incident and tells Barney and Floyd that he has an old football injury and has always had trouble with his knee. Barney however insists that they have to file a report and when Otis goes to a lawyer to get his statement notarized, the shady fellow suggests that he sue the County for $5,000. Needless to say, this doesn't sit well with Mayberry's law enforcement officers. Unfortunately, Floyd doesn't really remember what Otis said at the time and Otis himself wasn't completely recovered from the night before and can't quite remember how it happened.
Episode 16
Barney Fife, Realtor
Mon, Jan 4, 196530 mins
After speaking to the local real estate agent, Barney decides that selling houses would be the perfect sideline for him. He starts by targeting some of the families in Mayberry who may want to change houses and soon has a chain of four buyers and sellers lined up. Even Andy has gotten involved. Having recently admonished Opie for trying to sell his bicycle without revealing the problem with the brakes, Andy finds himself being less than honest with the prospective buyer of his house about the leaky roof or the noisy pipes. Opie practices what his father preaches and mentions these things to an interested buyer, much to Andy's annoyance. When Andy visits the house he's interested in buying, he finds that it may not be perfect as well.
Episode 17
Goober Takes a Car Apart
Mon, Jan 11, 196530 mins
While Barney is on vacation in Raleigh, Andy needs to find someone to fill in as a temporary deputy. When Andy himself has to go to a sheriffs safety conference for a few days, nobody is available, so he is stuck with Goober. Goober doesn't take the job seriously (still working at the filling station). It gets so bad that Goober begins to work on cars at the sheriff's office and even ends up completely dismantling a car and reassembling it right inside the courthouse.
Episode 18
The Rehabilitation of Otis
Mon, Jan 18, 196530 mins
When Otis shows up drunker than he has ever been - riding a cow no less - Barney decides that he will take it upon himself to try and reform Mayberry's town drunk. Andy begs him not to, but Barney has recently read a article about psychology and is convinced that he's the man for the job. Soon he is administering tests and asking Otis all kinds of questions but to no avail. When they find him drunk yet again, Barney feels betrayed and actually handcuffs Otis and runs him in. Insulted, Otis decides that he's going to take his business elsewhere and use a different jail to sleep it off. Andy and Barney have to travel to Mount Pilot to try and talk him into returning to Mayberry.
Episode 19
The Lucky Letter
Mon, Jan 25, 196530 mins
Barney gets a chain letter that predicts bad luck it he doesn't make copies and send them to friends. To prove to Andy that he's not superstitious, he doesn't send any. A constant stream of back luck is the result. Things look bad when he has a marksmanship test coming up, which he has to pass in order to keep his job.
Episode 20
Goober and the Art of Love
Mon, Feb 1, 196530 mins
Barney and Andy have a problem and his name is Goober. It seems that anytime they go out on a date with their girlfriends, Thelma Lou and Helen, Goober seems to suddenly appear and joins them. Wanting to be able to have some private time with their girlfriends, they decide that there's only one solution: for Goober to find himself a girlfriend. That proves to be somewhat of a challenge for the awkward and shy garage mechanic. He sets his sights on Lydia Crosswaith but when he calls on her he can barely say hello let alone have a conversation. It's left to Barney to teach him how to go out with a girl and on what to do on a date.
Episode 21
Barney Runs for Sheriff
Mon, Feb 8, 196530 mins
When Andy tells Barney that he's probably going to accept a job with a major international corporation, Barney thinks he's crazy - until Andy suggests that he should run for Sheriff. Suddenly, Barney isn't as concerned about Andy's departure and files his papers to run in the upcoming election. When Andy's new job falls through, he finds himself in the situation of not being on the ballot but Barney and several of the townsfolk start a write-in campaign to get him re-elected. Barney is somewhat humiliated however as it becomes obvious that Andy will beat him in a landslide so he decides to campaign and eventually challenges Andy to a debate.
Episode 22
If I Had a Quarter Million Dollars
Mon, Feb 15, 196530 mins
When Barney runs a hobo off the railroad's property he happens to find a briefcase - with a quarter of a million dollars inside. Andy contacts the FBI in Washington who confirm that there was a recent robbery and that they will send an Agent down to collect the money. Barney suggests that as the thief will likely return to Mayberry to look for his briefcase, so he should go around town and set himself up as a having new found wealth to flush him out. Andy is completely against the idea but that has never stopped Barney in the past. Soon Barney is approached by a stranger who Barney comes to believe is the FBI Agent - but is in fact the thief looking for his money!
Episode 23
TV or Not TV
Mon, Mar 1, 196530 mins
After Andy is profiled in a national sheriff's magazine as the 'Sheriff Without A Gun,' a television production team comes to town to research a possible TV show about Mayberry's sheriff department. Andy suspects something's up when they spend a lot of time checking out the bank.
Episode 24
Guest in the House
Mon, Mar 8, 196530 mins
The green-eyed monster gets the better of Helen Crump when Andy's very attractive cousin Gloria comes for a visit. She not really a cousin but the daughter of a very close family friend who has recently had an engagement broken. She comes to stay with Aunt Bee and the Taylors for a change of place and a change of environment. Helen is a little dubious about having her around and is downright angry when Andy asks her to join him and Helen at the movies and again at dinner the next night. To placate her, Andy agrees to arrange for Goober to come along with them as Gloria's date but things don't quite go as Andy planned or Helen hoped. Andy finds a solution however.
Episode 25
The Case of the Punch in the Nose
Mon, Mar 15, 196530 mins
Barney finds an old police file about an assault between Floyd and Charles Foley from 19 years before. He refuses to let it go and stirs up a hornet's nest by investigating the case.
Episode 26
Opie's Newspaper
Mon, Mar 22, 196530 mins
Opie and Howie start to produce their own school newspaper, the Mayberry Sun, but sales are pretty slow. Barney tells the boy that he knows exactly what's wrong: he needs to broaden the scope of his stories beyond his classroom and publish news articles that people want to read. He and his friend Howie decide they are going to publish all the gossip that's fit to print. Soon, they are eavesdropping on private conversation printing verbatim what they say and with full attribution. Soon, everyone in Mayberry will know exactly what Aunt Bee thought of the lunch at the social, that Andy thinks the Reverend Martin's sermons are dry as dust and comments about a local May-December romance. When they realize what has happened, Andy, Barney and Aunt Bee scour the town to try and retrieve all of the copies the boys have distributed.
Episode 27
Aunt Bee's Invisible Beau
Mon, Mar 29, 196530 mins
Opie goes off to spend the night with a friend, leaving Andy and Aunt Bee to fend for themselves. Andy and Helen decide to spend the evening with Bee so she won't be alone. Later, Clara convinces Bee that she is now the "third wheel" and could keep romance from blossoming between Andy and Helen. The next night, Andy again invites Aunt Bee to join him and Helen, but she declines, saying she has a date. Andy's surprise leads to questions and she makes up that Mr. Hendricks, the "Butter and Egg" man is her beau. All is happy and well until Barney discovers (through Mr. Hendricks' son) that Mr. Hendricks is married. Andy confronts the egg man and discovers the truth. Aunt Bee is then forced to admit the real reason for her invention. Andy assures her that everything is fine, and that he, she and Opie are a family, and if Helen some day joins that family, Aunt Bee will certainly not be in the way.
Episode 28
The Arrest of the Fun Girls
Mon, Apr 5, 196530 mins
Andy and Barney have to break a date with Helen and Thelma Lou because of work but panic sets in when the fun girls, Daphne and Skippy, drop in to see 'Doll' and 'Bernie.' Rather than just be up front with their girlfriends, Andy and Barney set up an elaborate plan where Barney will stay at the courthouse with the girls and Andy will go meet Helen and Thelma Lou. It doesn't quite work however and the girlfriends walk into the courthouse to find the boys and the fun girls apparently having a party. It takes awhile for them to eventually convince their girlfriends that they weren't cheating. Having patched things up, they all go out together but have a bit of a surprise when they get back to Andy's house.
Episode 29
The Luck of Newton Monroe
Mon, Apr 12, 196530 mins
Newton Monroe is a traveling salesman who sells whatever he can get a good deal on out of the trunk of his car. Andy is concerned at first that he's selling stolen goods but he's legitimate, if somewhat unlucky. Soon everything he's been selling starts to break down: Goober's transistor radio, Floyd's watch and the fox fur Barney bought for Thelma Lou is losing its fur in large clumps. Barney runs him in for peddling his wares without a permit and decides to keep him working around the courthouse. Problem is, almost everything he touches turns into a minor disaster. Andy decides that Newton needs a bit of confidence-building and gives him the task of painting his house. The result is in keeping with Newton's past experiences.
Episode 30
Opie Flunks Arithmetic
Mon, Apr 19, 196530 mins
When Helen tells Andy Opie isn't doing too well in math, he's pretty relaxed about it. She recommends that Opie should do a bit more homework and he agrees. Barney, however, thinks Andy's attitude is completely off base. Barney starts talking about how Opie may not get into college and the like and gets Aunt Bee all worried. Soon, Andy is just as stressed and he tells Opie to buckle down and cut out the play time. Helen soon reports to him that since they last spoke of Opie, he is actually doing much worse and not only in math. Andy can't understand since he's been quite strict with Opie who has done nothing but study. Helen suggests that that may just be the problem.
Episode 31
Opie and the Carnival
Mon, Apr 26, 196530 mins
There's a carnival in town and Opie is having a really good time. When two crooked carnies want to drum up more business for their shooting gallery, they pick Opie out of the crowd and give him a rifle that hasn't been tampered with. He soon wins a prize and they have plenty of customers, all using rifles with bent sights. Opie has also been wondering what to get his father for his birthday. He's been saving his allowance but doesn't have much money and wonders what he can him. He then gets a brilliant idea: seeing as he is such a great shot, why not try to win his father an electric razor. Of course, he loses all of his money. Goober, who is a pretty good shot, decides to help him win the prize but he too spends way too much money and all he has to show for it is a Kewpie doll. When Andie gets wind of all this, he pays the carnies a visit.
Episode 32
Banjo-Playing Deputy
Mon, May 3, 196530 mins
When Andy forces the harem-dancer show at the carnival to shut down, the owner decides to move on but leaves his one-man band, Jerry, behind. Andy takes pity on the jobless and penniless young man and invites him home for dinner. With Barney away, Aunt Bee suggests to Andy that he should hire Jerry to do some general work around the courthouse. Andy decides to try him out, but the somewhat inept Jerry has ideas about being a Deputy that don't quite work out. When Aunt Bee has her purse snatched at the carnival however, Jerry knows exactly who did it and shows his mettle to get it back.
