The Andy Griffith Show

- Season 3

(1962)

Opie starts talking about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, but his description is hard to believe.

When Andy finds out his new girlfriend's father is wealthy, Barney talks him into believing the relationship is doomed.

Mayberry's new mayor doesn't like Andy or the way he does his job.

Aunt Bee heads out of town for a few days, leaving Andy and Opie to take care of themselves. When Peggy volunteers to cook for them, Floyd tries to convince Andy that she's trying to catch a husband.

The mayor calls in an investigator from the state capital to help solve a string of cow thefts.

After Andy has an argument with Peggy, Barney tries to make things better by setting him up with another girl.

Two intimidating farmers test Barney's effectiveness as a lawman when they scare him off after refusing to obey his directive to stop illegally selling produce roadside.

Mayberry's town band is the worst in the state and Mayor Stoner refuses to allow them to go to the state capital to play. It looks like they will have to stay home until Andy gets a little help from Freddy Fleet and his band.

In pen-pal correspondences with a wealthy widow, Floyd has presented himself as equally well off. Her sudden decision to visit Mayberry leaves him in a tizzy and begging for Andy's help in maintaining the ruse.

Andy's new girlfriend is the new county nurse. Everyone likes her except Opie, who is jealous of all the time Andy spends with her.

Barney and Floyd are held hostage in a cabin by three escaped women convicts.

After making Andy promise to get nothing fancy for her birthday, an adorable bed jacket strikes Aunt Bee's fancy. Now if only she can undo Andy's promise.

Barney thinks the Mayberry Bank is a pushover for a robbery and sets out to prove it.

Opie must learn to fight when a new boy in town ridicules him and begins to lead his friends towards a life of crime.

After Barney tickets the governor's car for illegal parking, the governor, impressed, comes to Mayberry to congratulate him for doing a good job. Barney, not realizing this, thinks he is going to lose his job instead.

Car trouble strands a busy businessman in Mayberry on a Sunday, where the slow pace registers more as an infuriating dead stop.

A hard, wounded man with gun in hand comes to Mayberry looking for Andy. Barney, aiming to keep their sheriff alive, deputizes Otis and Gomer.

What do you do with a goat full of dynamite? Nobody in Mayberry seems to know, least of all Otis, who shows up even more 'loaded' than the goat.

At his high school class reunion, Andy finds that, while memories may fade over time, some connections are never completely broken, and some hearts never completely heal.

When image-conscious Mayor Stoner objects to a golden-voiced--but wardrobe-challenged--farmer chosen to represent Mayberry in the upcoming musicale, Andy must find a way to appease all sides.

Opie's friend Arnold seems to have it all--a new bike, fat allowance, and plenty of leisure time. When the pressure's on, though, Opie learns that these assets are actually Arnold's greatest weakness.

After a series of auto-related thefts, the shadow of suspicion looms ever longer over Jimmy--a youth with a troubled past. How long can Andy rush to Jimmy's defense before his own faith in the boy is shaken?

Opie's reinterpretation of Andy's encouragement lands Andy in hot water with Opie's new teacher, Miss Helen "Old Lady" Crump.

Andy must protect Aunt Bee from a charming traveling dishonest huckster whose 170-proof "tonic" provides temporary relief from mid-life crisis.

The Darlings, a musical mountain family, descend upon Mayberry.

When cultures clash, cars crash, and Andy's home becomes his castle as he engages the employment of a bicycle-touring Englishman who must work off an unfortunately-earned debt.

It's a red-letter day in Mayberry when Barney decides to join the motoring world, but things go sour when his cream-puff turns out to be a lemon.

When Opie's efforts fail to attract classmate Karen's personal interest, Thelma Lou steps in to boost Opie's confidence but destroys Barney's along the way. Can Andy realign this skewed love quadrangle?

Barney's ready for Andy to get married, but Andy is not. In the situations that follow, Andy may have found someone, unbeknownst to Mayberry's most meddlesome matchmaker.

It's pandemonium when eleven stray dogs invade the courthouse. The boys have do find out what to do with them before a state investigator arrives to do an audit.

The Darlings ask Andy to help them deal with wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass, who wants the already-married Charlene Darling/Wash for himself.

When the Mayberry jail is called upon to lodge two hold-up men captured by the state police, Barney finds himself with more than he can handle - especially when "assisted" by ad-hoc deputy Gomer.