The Andy Griffith Show Searchable Episode Guide

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 22: Cyrano Andy

Originally Aired on Mar 6, 1961.   Average User Rating: 7.5 out of 10  (41 entries).

Andy is caught in the middle of a misunderstanding between Barney and Thelma Lou. The victim of Thel's scheme to make Barney jealous, Andy is cast as a rival for Thelma Lou's affections. Andy finally manages to work his way out of the mess and brings the two lovebirds back together.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 41: Crime-free Mayberry

Originally Aired on Nov 20, 1961.   Average User Rating: 6 out of 10  (142 entries).

Two crooks posing as an FBI man and a photographer comes to Mayberry to congratulate the Sheriff's Department for achieving a crime-free record. Andy gets suspicious after the supposed FBI agent allows his picture to be taken. When the pair crack the Mayberry Bank's vault, Andy is inside waiting for them--he had come in the back door. Always the gracious sheriff, Andy thanks them for opening the vault that had been locked for almost fifteen years after the combination was lost and the vault company had gone out of business.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 62: Cousin Virgil

Originally Aired on Apr 30, 1962.   Average User Rating: 5.6 out of 10  (78 entries).

Virgil, Barney's awkward cousin from New Jersey, visits mayberry and immediately makes a mess of everything he touches. Ater Virgil has dumped a roast in Andy's lap, driven the squad car through his gate, and smashed a pane of glass while sweeping up around the courthouse, Andy tries to get him out of his hair by sending him to polish the cell keys. Virgil polishes the teeth right off of them, making it impossible to let Otis out when he's due to leave the cell. At his wit's end, Andy is shown a set of hand-carved wood figures that virgil himself made. Andy realizes the best tonic for Virgil is a good dose of self-confidence and leaves him alone to remove the door of the cell.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 74: Convicts-at-Large

Originally Aired on Dec 10, 1962.   Average User Rating: 9.5 out of 10  (19094 entries).

Barney and Floyd are held hostage by a gang of escaped female convicts who have been hiding in O'Malley's cabin outside of town. Andy, who spots Floyd in town buying groceries (with one of the convicts), thinks they have a little part going on until O'Malley arrives back in town on the bus. Andy and O'Malley engineer a cleaver scheme and capture all but the ringleader, Big Maude, whom Barney manages to tango out the door and into the cuffs.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 82: Class Reunion

Originally Aired on Feb 4, 1963.   Average User Rating: 8.4 out of 10  (743 entries).

Andy and Barney decide to organize their twentieth high school reunion, and all the excitement centers on the return of Andy's old flame Sharon Despain. It looks like the torch may be relit when Sharon shows up and she and Andy pick up right where they left off, in the garden outside. Both wonder what ever happened when it finally occurs to them both that what separated them in high school is what seperates them now. Sharon wants the bright lights and big city, and Andy is happy to stay where he is.