The Andy Griffith Show Searchable Episode Guide

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 1: The New Housekeeper

Originally Aired on Oct 3, 1960.   Average User Rating: 5.2 out of 10  (591 entries).

In the premiere, Andy asks Aunt Bee to come to Mayberry and help raise his son, Opie, after Rose, their old housekeeper, gets married. Opie refuses to accept Aunt Bee because she does things differently than Rose. Just as Aunt Bee is about to leave the Taylor home, Opie stops her because he realizes that she needs him.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 2: The Manhunt

Originally Aired on Oct 10, 1960.   Average User Rating: 5.2 out of 10  (338 entries).

Andy and Barney are the brunt of jokes by state troopers who come to Mayberry to capture an escaped convict. Andy is able to prove that he is not the country bumpkin the troopers think he is when he captures the convict himself by allowing him to steal his leaky fishing boat.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 3: The Guitar Player

Originally Aired on Oct 17, 1960.   Average User Rating: 3.8 out of 10  (232 entries).

Andy helps local guitar player Jim Lindsey (James Best) find a job with "Bobby Fleet and His Band with a Beat." When Fleet's band arrives for a lunch stop in Mayberry, Andy arrests them for a parking violation and forces them to listen to Lindsey while jailed in the courthouse.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 11: The Christmas Story

Originally Aired on Dec 19, 1960.   Average User Rating: 8.7 out of 10  (246 entries).

Andy and barney keep the spirit of Christmas alive for Sam Muggins and his family after the town Scrooge, Ben Weaver, demands Andy keep Muggins icarcerated for running a still. After being accidently inoculated with a little of the courthouse's Christmas spirit, Weaver comes around and manages to get himself arrested so he can bring gifts for all.

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 14: The Horse Trader

Originally Aired on Jan 9, 1961.   Average User Rating: 4.3 out of 10  (550 entries).

Andy proves fallible when he cons a traveling antique dealer into buying the town's old cannon with a fabulously fictional story of the cannon's glorious past. Opie follows his father's example and cons a friend of his into trading roller skates for some "licorice seeds" that Opie got in a bad trade for his cap pistol. Andy, again seeing his own actions mirrored by his son, turns around and makes ammends for his bad dealings.