9.0/102 votes#1 - Stranger In Town
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1960
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
9.0/101 votes#2 - Elementary Steele
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/22/1984
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
9.0/101 votes#3 - The Audition/The Groupies/Doc's Nephew
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1982
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
9.0/102 votes#4 - For Want of a Boot
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1974
Hawkeye's quest for new boots turns into a never-ending game of horse trading.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Sheldon Keller
8.6/105 votes#5 - The Trial of Henry Blake
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1973
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
8.5/102 votes#6 - Andy the Matchmaker
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1960
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
8.0/103 votes#8 - The Manhunt
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1960
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
8.0/103 votes#9 - The Guitar Player
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1960
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
8.0/103 votes#10 - Irresistible Andy
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1960
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
8.0/102 votes#11 - A Feud is a Feud
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1960
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
8.0/102 votes#12 - The Watch Commander
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1979
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
8.0/104 votes#16 - Dear Dad... Three
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1973
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
8.0/102 votes#17 - Crisis
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1974
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
8.0/104 votes#18 - Iron Guts Kelly
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1974
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
8.0/103 votes#19 - Big Mac
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1975
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
8.0/103 votes#20 - Last Laugh
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1977
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
7.7/103 votes#21 - Ellie Comes to Town
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1960
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
7.6/107 votes#22 - The Joker Is Wild
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/26/1966
The Joker decides to fight fire with fire against Batman with a utility belt of his own.
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Robert Dozier
7.5/104 votes#23 - Sticky Wicket
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1973
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
7.5/106 votes#24 - Major Fred C. Dobbs
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1973
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
7.5/102 votes#25 - Henry in Love
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1974
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
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Don Weis Ratings Summary
"Stranger In Town" is the best rated episode directed by Don Weis. It scored 9/10 based on 2 votes. It was written by Arthur Stander. It aired on 12/26/1960 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Elementary Steele".
