9.0/101 votes#1 - The Education of Ernest T. Bass
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1964
Ernest T. Bass returns to Mayberry to get an education so his girlfriend will marry him. But when he meets his new teacher Helen, he falls in love with her. Now Andy has to help Helen give Ernest all the facts he needs, including the one about the true object of his affection.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: James Fritzell
8.2/103 votes#2 - Tennis, Emily?
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1972
Bob experiences pangs of jealousy when Emily's handsome new tennis instructor comes to see him with an emotional problem, namely, his inability to turn down the women who are all uncontrollably attracted to him.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Lorenzo Music
8.0/101 votes#3 - Barney Runs for Sheriff
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1965
Andy is offered a job in Minnesota so Barney decides to run for sheriff in the upcoming election. But when Andy's job offer falls through, he returns to Mayberry to find Barney with a case of campaign fever, aiming to unseat Andy.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Richard M. Powell
8.0/101 votes#4 - If I Had a Quarter Million Dollars
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1965
Barney sets up a sting operation to catch a crook who may be returning to Mayberry for some stolen loot and ends up arresting an undercover FBI agent instead. But a suspicious Andy realizes Barney's operation may not have been as far off as he thought.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Bob Ross
8.0/102 votes#5 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1984
Jill and Stan Pembroke are a working couple whose uncertain schedules propel them into hiring a nineteen-year-old college student, Charles, to move in and help them with their three children: Lila 14; Douglas, 12; and Jason, 10.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
8.0/104 votes#6 - The General's Practitioner
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1977
General Korshak wants Hawkeye to be his personal practitioner, despite his constant snottiness. And Radar helps take care of a soldier's half-Korean baby after he is shipped back home.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
8.0/101 votes#7 - The Crash of 29 Years Old
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1973
Feeling unfulfilled as a woman, and having just passed her 29th birthday, Carol quits her job as Bob's receptionist. After having been gone for a while, Carol suddenly shows up at one of Bob's group-therapy sessions and creates a situation in which Bob finds himself more of a patient than a doctor.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#8 - Emily in for Carol
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1973
With Carol on vacation, Emily is elected to fill in as the receptionist. Everyone loves the idea—except Bob.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jerry Mayer
8.0/101 votes#9 - A Vision of Sugar Plums
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1964
The Kravitzes and Stephens participate in a program that allows orphaned children to stay with adults for the holidays. When the Stephens' young charge reveals that he does not believe in Santa Claus, Samantha takes him to the North Pole.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Herman Groves
7.5/104 votes#10 - Lt. Radar O'Reilly
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1976
Following an offer of promotion made by Master Sergeant Woodruff at a poker game, Radar is promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Finding this position awkward, Radar opts to return to his position as an enlisted man.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Everett Greenbaum
7.5/102 votes#11 - Don't Go to Bed Mad
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1972
Bob wants to watch football every Monday night. Emily feels this is unfair: their other activities allow the couple only two nights each week to be together, and she thinks they should do something that they both enjoy. This leads to an unresolved, all-night argument that ends only when the two participants become exhausted.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#12 - Man in the Middle
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1964
A lover's spat between Barney and Thelma Lou blows out of proportion and ends up involving Andy and Helen. Soon all four are not speaking and it's up to Barney to fix things, but he'll have to make up with Thelma Lou first.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Gus Adrian
7.0/101 votes#13 - Goober and the Art of Love
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1965
Goober starts to annoy Andy and Barney by hanging around during their dates with Helen and Thelma Lou. They decide to set him up with a girl he likes, only to find they now have twice the trouble.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Fred Freeman
7.0/102 votes#14 - Mom, I L-L-Love You
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1972
Bob finds it extremely difficult to tell his mother that he loves her.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Dick Clair
7.0/101 votes#15 - I Want to Be Alone
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1972
Bob decides that for his own mental well-being, he needs some peace and quiet. He moves into a hotel room by himself, leaving a confused Howard Borden thinking that Bob and Emily have split up.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jerry Mayer
7.0/101 votes#16 - I Owe It All to You... But Not That Much
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1972
Jerry decides there is something wrong with him because he never becomes serious about any of the girls he dates. He asks Bob if he can become one of his patients. Bob agrees, but they have to abandon the plan when it begins to interfere with their friendship.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#17 - The Man with the Golden Wrist
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1973
Bob refuses to wear the beautiful gold watch Emily gave him for his 40th birthday after he learns just how expensive it was.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#18 - Mind Your Own Business
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1974
At Jerry's urging, Bob hires a business manager to handle his money. He ends up living on a meager allowance that affords him only such luxuries as peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jay Tarses
7.0/101 votes#19 - The Battle of the Groups
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1974
Bob takes two of his therapy groups to a rustic retreat for a marathon session that never progresses further than everyone's complaints about the primitive conditions of their accommodations.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jay Tarses
- 7.0/101 votes
#20 - Dr. Ryan's Express
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1974
Bob's office routine becomes a wreck when Jerry hires a temporary receptionist. She's a very nice but very vague woman who can't even get Bob's name straight.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jay Tarses
- 7.0/101 votes
#21 - Brutally Yours, Bob Hartley
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1974
Having preached honesty in relationships to his patients, Bob decides to follow his own advice. Immediately he offends two dinner guests and starts an argument with Emily.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: John Rappaport
- 7.0/101 votes
#22 - Ship of Shrinks
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1974
Bob's first literary venture turns out to be less than triumphant. His embarrassment makes him reluctant to join a convention of psychologists on a flight to Hawaii, especially when he finds out that Howard is the navigator.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Geoffrey Neigher
- 7.0/101 votes
#23 - A Pound of Flesh
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1975
Bob and Jerry have a falling-out when Jerry demands that Bob lend him money for a new motorcycle.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jerry Mayer
- 7.0/101 votes
#24 - My Business is Shrinking
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1975
With his confidence fading as fast as his list of patients, Bob decides to follow Emily's advice and see a psychiatrist about his problem.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Arnie Kogen
6.5/102 votes#25 - Come Live with Me
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1972
Carol tries to get Bob to approve her moving in with her new boyfriend Roger, who has just separated from his wife. Bob refuses, telling her she will have to make her own decision.
Director: Alan Rafkin
Writer: Jerry Mayer
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"The Education of Ernest T. Bass" is the best rated episode directed by Alan Rafkin. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by James Fritzell. It aired on 10/12/1964 and is rated 0.8 points higher than their second-best episode, "Tennis, Emily?".