The Best Episodes Directed By Don Weis

Ed Sawyer, a mysterious stranger, arrives in Mayberry and disrupts the lives of the townspeople because he appears to know everyone's name, intimate details about their lives, and other startling facts about them.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Arthur Stander

Someone is using mystery buffs signed up to solve a make-believe case to find a murderous embezzler. (60 min)

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Michael Gleason

Doc's nephew is making a move on his girlfriend. A psychiatrist, who is on vacation is followed by four of his patients. An actor pursues the writer of a soap opera, who rejected for a role on her show.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: N/A

Hawkeye's quest for new boots turns into a never-ending game of horse trading.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Sheldon Keller

Henry's fitness for command is called into question when he's put on trial for charges stemming from the tomfoolery at the 4077th.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: McLean Stevenson

When Barney's bumbling law enforcement techniques are questioned, Andy and Ellie decide to stage a fake robbery -- a scheme that turns Barney into a real hero!

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Arthur Stander

Andy and his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife, offer to help track down an escaped convict, but the captain of the state police scoffs at the small-town sheriff's help.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Jack Elinson

A gifted guitar player (James Best) who has self-doubts about his musical talent gets a chance at stardom -- with a little push from Andy.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Jack Elinson

It's the annual church picnic, and when Andy invites Ellie to the event, he begins to suspect that she has marriage on her mind -- so he hastily arranges for three of Mayberry's most eligible bachelors to lavish attention on her.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Frank Tarloff

Andy hopes to finally bring peace to two of the county's longtime feuding families, the Carters and the Wakefields -- by arranging a duel between the two patriarchs of the quarreling clans!

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Frank Tarloff

A hard-nosed lieutenant tries to shape up CHP Central. Lieutenant ""Apple"" Bates has a hard time before he learns that he has the best troup all over L.A.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Frank Telford

Steele stops a distraught young man from killing himself then must find a missing girl and a ""borrowed"" $50,000 to keep him from trying again.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: N/A

Laura and Remington find themselves involved in a murder and the mysterious disappearance of some million-dollar jewels.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: N/A

Laura and Steele go undercover at a self-improvement spa to find out why there have been a series of mysterious accidents.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: N/A

Another letter from Hawkeye to his father tells about a bigoted soldier who wants the "right color" blood, a live grenade in the OR and Henry's home movies.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart

A wave of conservation hits the 4077th after a vital supply line is cut, creating a variety of shortages.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart

General 'Iron Guts' Kelly arrives for an inspection, and ends up dying in Margaret's tent. Hawkeye and Trapper help the General's aide smuggle him out of camp. The next day he is reported killed at the front, as that is where he would have wanted to die.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Sid Dorfman

The camp prepares for a visit from General MacArthur. Klinger dresses as the Statue of Liberty as the General's jeep drives through the camp. MacArthur is so impressed, he salutes!

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Laurence Marks

Madness strikes as B.J. and his old friend Bardonaro play a series of practical jokes on each other, just as Bardonaro is about to leave Korea. Hawkeye gets the last laugh. He sends Bardonaro off without his traveling papers, and in a jeep with too little gas.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: James Fritzell

When Mayberry's local pharmacist falls ill, his niece Ellie Walker steps in as a temporary replacement -- and creates turmoil with the town's resident hypochondriac.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Jack Elinson

Hawkeye and Frank argue over Frank's surgical ability. Hawkeye performs a difficult operation and the patient does not recover, as he should. Hawkeye begins to doubt his ability and moves out of The Swamp. He decides to open up his patients again, and discovers a nick in the colon that even Frank admits anyone could have missed.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart

Catwoman disguises herself as a wealthy recluse - Minerva Matthews - to exchange a quarter million dollars for two Stradivarius violins. Once the instruments are safely in her hands, the villain reveals her true identity and demands the cash back. But Catwoman is surprised to learn that her business partner - Zubin Zucchini - is also not who he appears to be.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Stanley Ralph Ross

As usual Frank's normal drone of verbal abuse upsets Ginger, so Hawkeye puts his arm in a cast while he is asleep. Frank puts in for a transfer, and after a broadcast goes out of Frank telling Margaret he's leaving, she decides to leave as well. As a result, Col. Blake puts both Hawk and Trap on double post-op duty until he finds replacements for Majs. Burns and Houlihan. Unwilling to lose their two favorite patsies, and to be worn to a frazzle from doing 2 shifts in O/R, Hawkeye and Trapper hatch a scheme to prevent Frank and Hot Lips from leaving. That night, Hawkeye and Trapper pretend they have found gold, letting Frank overhear them. Frank then withdraws his request when he thinks he's found gold himself, although the joke is on him when he finds, amongst other things, a gilded jeep!

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Sid Dorfman

Henry returns from Tokyo in love with a woman half his age, but he seems to have forgotten one thing--he's married.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Larry Gelbart

When spring arrives, Klinger gets word from home that his sweetheart back in Toledo wants to marry him. Henry arranges for Father Mulcahy to do this over short wave radio. Radar falls in love with a nurse, while a grateful patient won't leave Hawkeye alone, and even threatens Major Burns.

Director: Don Weis

Writer: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason