![]() ![]() The routine, released as a single in 1953, became a novelty hit. In it he portrayed a country bumpkin who stumbles upon a college football game and tries to figure out what he's seeing. He first found fame with What it Was, Was Football. That image would define him, despite the occasional foray into playing against type. The actor began on stage as a comic storyteller-jovial, self-effacing, and filled with folksy wisdom. That's because Griffith's public persona was anything but dark. It's a dark, brooding, quietly scary performance. In 1957's A Face in the Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg, Griffith-who died today at age 86-plays a backwoods drifter who becomes a TV host and uses the show to gain political power. Anyone who has seen Griffith's film début can attest to that. Gomer leaves Mayberry to join the United States Marine Corps.Andy Griffith was a great villain. Thelma Lou uses Gomer to make Barney jealous.Īndy and Barney take Opie and his friends on a camping trip. Helen and Thelma Lou catch Andy and Barney with The Fun Girls.Īunt Bee feels unneeded when Malcom Merriweather pays a visit.īarney, Aunt Bee, and Thelma Lou believe Andy and Helen are engaged. Opie and his friends get involved in a scheme selling a worthless product called 'Miracle Salve'. Gomer believes Andy has saved his life, so he continuously tries to repay him.Īunt Bee stores a side of beef in a faulty freezer.Ĭharlene Darling uses a mountain ritual to divorce Dud Wash and marry Andy. While Andy investigates, Barney decides to go undercover to catch the crook(s).īarney continuously interrupts Andy's vacation plans. ![]() Note: Ronny Howard does not appear in this episode.īen Weaver complains to the Mayberry sheriff's office that merchandise has been disappearing from his department store. When a tenor solo part is required and the choir director is desperate to find someone else to sing the part. Otis surprises everyone when he purchases a car.īarney is the only tenor in the choir. as a sophisticate at a swanky party.Ī female prisoner tries to work her magic on Andy and Barney. Opie is jealous of the attention his father pays to a friend.Īunt Bee stages a protest when a farmer is threatened with eminent domain.īarney invests into a motorcycle, which quickly becomes a town nuisance.Īndy tries to pass off Ernest T. When Barney tickets Gomer, Gomer decides turnabout is fair play.Ī hobo gets Opie and his friends to provide him with food.Īfter a landslide traps Andy and Helen in a cave, all Mayberry sets off to the rescue. Gomer has a date with Thelma Lou's cousin Mary Grace. Opie gets a new bicycle as a reward for his good report card. Gomer moves into the Taylor House after losing his job at Wally's Filling Station.Ī shipment of gold passes through Mayberry on its way to Fort Knox. Opie hand-raises three orphaned baby birds, after accidentally killing the mother bird.īarney and Gomer try to retrieve a baseball from a supposedly haunted house and find some strange goings on inside.Ī visiting minister advises the people of Mayberry to relax.īriscoe Darling woos Aunt Bee and carries her off to his mountain cabin. Bass Joins the Army") and Denver Pyle as Briscoe Darling, patriarch of the Darling clan, and Maggie Peterson as Charlene Darling, but of course, the crux of the show remains Andy and son Opie (Ron Howard), who do stand-out work in the well-loved " Opie the Birdman," which addresses serious topics-death and responsibility-in the series's typically warm and humane manner. Other supporting characters get a spotlight or two in season 4, including Howard Morris's Ernest T. By season's end, Gomer would depart for his own series (season 4's final episode, " Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.," would serve as the pilot for that program), but before then, he enjoyed some fine episodes, including " Andy Saves Gomer" from a fire at the filling station and " Citizen's Arrest" (a knockout showcase for Nabors and Don Knotts, who is topnotch, as always, as Barney Fife). Lindsey as Goober Pyle (cousin to Jim Nabors's Gomer) makes his debut in one of the season's funniest episodes, " The Fun Girls," which is also the only time Gomer and Goober appeared together on screen. ![]() Goober fans, rejoice-the arrival of George Lindsey's popular character is just one of the homespun joys of The Andy Griffith Show's fourth season. ![]() The Andy Griffith Show returned with their fourth season on September 30, 1963. ![]()
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