The Best Episodes Directed By Bob Sweeney

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   10.0/10(3 votes)

   #1 - The Pickle Story

   S2:E1112/18/1961

   Andy and Barney are horrified when Aunt Bee decides to enter her prized pickles -- with a taste described as "kerosene cucumbers" -- in a county fair contest, hoping to claim first prize over the competition's perennial winner.

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   9.8/10(4 votes)

   #2 - Barney and the Choir

   S2:E202/19/1962

   Things hit a sour note when Barney joins the Mayberry choir -- and it's quickly determined that his singing voice isn't exactly harmonious to the other members of the group.

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   9.5/10(4 votes)

   #3 - Barney's First Car

   S3:E274/1/1963

   Barney learns that the car he's spent his life savings on is a lemon, and the little old lady he bought it from may have put one over on him. When Barney and Andy set out to return the car and arrest her, however, they find the hardest part may be just getting there.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #4 - Bringing Up Opie

   S1:E325/22/1961

   After being scolded by Aunt Bee, Opie decides to run away from home -- a plan that quickly turns into a series of eye-opening, and sometimes dangerous, adventures for Opie and a scare for both Aunt Bee and Andy.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #5 - The Bank Job

   S3:E1312/24/1962

   Barney becomes convinced the Mayberry bank is ripe for a robbery and tries to prove his point by staging a fake one. When he discovers a weak spot in the security system, he unknowing relays this information to a couple of actual robbers.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #6 - Man in a Hurry

   S3:E161/14/1963

   Malcolm Tucker, a business tycoon from Charlotte, has the unfortunate luck of having his car break down in Mayberry on a Sunday. Now he's willing to do just about anything to be on his way, including stealing Gomer's truck. Andy invites the man over for Sunday dinner to try and teach him the importance of relaxation before he does something he'll really regret.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Praise the Führer and Pass the Ammunition

   S2:E191/20/1967

   Hogan and his men are determined to create chaos during staged war games a ruthless Nazi colonel has scheduled near Stalag 13.

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   9.3/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Drums Along the Dusseldorf

   S3:E303/30/1968

   A German truck carrying an experimental jet fuel is the latest target for Hogan and the gang. But when all efforts to sabotage the shipment fail, Carter decides to get down to business with the remaining weaponry at hand—a bow and arrow!

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   9.3/10(4 votes)

   #9 - The Merchant of Mayberry

   S2:E223/5/1962

   Weaver's Department Store in Mayberry has some new competition -- in the form of Bert Miller, a traveling salesman who sets up shop in the town with a little help from Andy.

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    9.3/10(4 votes)

    #10 - Convicts-at-Large

    S3:E1112/10/1962

    Barney and Floyd stumble upon a cabin in the woods where three dangerous female convicts are hiding out. They are taken prisoner and it's Andy to the rescue when he manages to capture two of them. But it's up to Barney to get the third using all the charm he can muster, along with his best Rudolph Valentino impression.

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    9.2/10(5 votes)

    #11 - Christmas Story

    S1:E1112/19/1960

    Mayberry's local "Scrooge," storeowner Ben Weaver, manages to have harmless bootlegger Sam Muggins thrown into jail on Christmas -- but the Mayberry folks manage to celebrate Christmas with Sam in a most unusual way.

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    9.2/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Those Gossipin' Men

    S1:E151/16/1961

    Aunt Bee, accused by Andy of being a hopeless gossip, sets out to prove that the men of Mayberry are even bigger rumormongers than the women.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Killer Klink

    S2:E242/24/1967

    The bumbling Sergent Schultz has unwittingly been conned into making a trip to Heidelberg as courier for the underground, but after upsetting Colonel Klink, the sergeant is ordered to remain grounded at the camp. How will Hogan and the gang win him a new weekend pass?

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - The Reluctant Target

    S2:E304/7/1967

    Klink becomes convinced that he is marked for assassination by a mysterious "Mr. X" after a series of close calls at the stalag.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Everybody Loves a Snowman

    S3:E1412/9/1967

    An American military captain and his crew hiding out at Stalag 13 face capture when Major Hochstetter and his search party zero in on the POW camp, and its elaborate tunnel system to freedom is threatened with exposure.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Monkey Business

    S3:E293/23/1968

    Carter returns from an unsuccessful mission with a new pal in tow—a runaway chimpanzee from the local bombed-out zoo.

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    9.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - It's Dynamite

    S6:E1011/22/1970

    Hogan's plot to hijack a dynamite truck takes a different tack when the truck makes an unscheduled stop.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Barney Gets His Man

    S1:E305/8/1961

    Barney's reputation as a deputy soars when he inadvertently helps capture Eddie Brooke, an escaped convict. But Brooke vows to escape again and head straight back to Mayberry to exact his revenge.

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    #19 - Opie and the Bully

    S2:E110/2/1961

    Sheriff Andy Taylor must decide whether to intervene or let the problem work itself out when a bully harasses his son Opie at school.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - The Clubmen

    S2:E1012/11/1961

    Both Andy and Barney are offered membership in an exclusive men's club, but Barney manages to alienate the entire group by trying too hard to fit in -- an endeavor that threatens his chances at joining the elite organization.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Sheriff Barney

    S2:E1212/25/1961

    When Barney gets an offer to become the sheriff of nearby Greendale, Andy decides to let him be the sheriff of Mayberry for a day to give him a taste of what the top law-enforcement spot entails.

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    #22 - The Keeper of the Flame

    S2:E141/8/1962

    Opie joins a secret club known as The Wildcats and is subsequently suspected of being the guilty party when the barn that the club meets in catches fire and burns to the ground.

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Mr. McBeevee

    S3:E110/1/1962

    Opie tells Andy about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, who Andy believes to be a figment of Opie's imagination. But when Andy begins to suspect Opie is using his new-found friend as an excuse to lie, he decides to set the record straight and prove Mr. McBeevee doesn't really exist. Or does he?

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    9.0/10(3 votes)

    #24 - The Mayberry Band

    S3:E811/19/1962

    When Mayor Stoner decides not to cover the expense of sending the Mayberry Marching Band to their annual competition in Raleigh because he thinks they're terrible, Andy helps out by having a few of his friends from "Freddy Fleet And His Band With A Beat" step in.

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    #25 - High Noon in Mayberry

    S3:E171/21/1963

    Andy gets a letter from a criminal he had wounded years before and learns the man is coming to Mayberry to see him. Barney becomes convinced the man wants revenge and enlists Gomer and Otis to secretly protect Andy, which ends up wreaking more havoc than any criminal ever could.

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