The Best Episodes Directed By Jeffrey Hayden

Opie finally gets a good grade in math, and Andy is so proud he tells everyone in town. But when Opie's teacher tells him she made a mistake and his grade is actually an F, he goes home to tell Andy the bad news, only to find Andy has bought him a shiny new bicycle.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: John Whedon

Aunt Bee decides to buy 150 pounds of beef at a discount from a new butcher in town. She stores in in her "discount" freezer, which immediately breaks down. With her beef about to go bad, she learns that the only one in town with a freezer bug enough to save her beef is her original butcher.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: John Whedon

Michael heads for Mexico to trap a talent agent who's using beautiful models to smuggle diamonds into the U.S.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Robert Foster

All of Mayberry turns out to welcome a truck carrying gold to Fort Knox as it passes through town. When Barney sneaks a closer look at the loot, he sees that there may not be as much to celebrate as everyone thought.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: John Whedon

Barney has an argument with his landlady Mrs. Mendelbright and gets evicted. After moving into the courthouse and having no luck finding a new place, he decides to mend fences with Mrs. Mendelbright, only to find she has decided to sell the house and run away to get married.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: James Fritzell

Andy decides to take a vacation in the mountains and leaves Barney to guard a prisoner the state police have brought in. Inevitably, the prisoner escapes Barney's grasp and flees into the mountains -- the very same mountains Andy is vacationing in.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: James Fritzell

After Andy extinguishes a small fire that started at the filling station while Gomer was napping, Gomer believes Andy saved his life and makes a pest of himself trying to repay the debt. Andy decides to stage an accident and let Gomer "rescue" him, but it's Gomer that ends up needing the rescuing.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Harvey Bullock

Charlene Darling returns to Mayberry and announces that she has divorced her husband and now, according to folklore, must marry Andy. Desperate for a way out, Andy reads up on mountain folklore and finds a peculiar ritual that will void the marriage, if only he can get Barney to ride the horse.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: James Fritzell

When Opie and his friends are scammed into selling a useless skin ointment, Barney and Gomer try to help convince the company their product is more valuable than they think. When the scheme backfires, however, the whole gang learns a lesson in the art of the deal.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: John Whedon

Michael tries to catch a Robin Hood-style cat burglar before an obsessed cop does.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Janis Hendler

Michael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Robert Foster

David 'Brown' and a young widow he has never met before are framed for the murder of her husband by a corrupt sheriff and his men. Handcuffed together, the two of them make their escape.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: N/A

David 'Butler' works at a car-wash in a black neighborhood run by a drug dealer with a black panther. He tries to help two orphans, the youngest of which is a diabetic.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: N/A

David 'Barton' joins an expedition that has found evidence of a pre-historic Hulk and is recognized by a young doctor who was inspired by him. Together they try to find out if the earlier Hulk might have found a cure.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: N/A

To catch a saboteur, Michael volunteers to drive an armor- plated limousine during a company's missile-defense demonstration.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Gregory S. Dinallo

An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: N/A

The Puzzler, a villain with a fondness for both Shakespeare and aviation, indicates he is after the fortunes of Artemus Knab. He convinces the billionaire to invest in his puzzle balloon business, but when the Dynamic Duo find that Knab seems too intelligent to fall for a phony scheme, they look deeper for the criminal's true intentions. Their search leads them to Knab's airplane monopoly, but unknown to them, the Puzzler has plans to halt their investigation - permanently.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Fred De Gorter

Earl Gianelli, an aged wrestler who hires Magnum to find his long lost son, puts the private investigator on a bloody trail of revenge.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Reuben Leder

The Puzzler continues with his plan to hijack Artemus Knab's new airplane, the Retsoor, all the while leaving puzzles behind for Batman and Robin to ponder. He familiarizes himself with the jet's designs, then prepares to fly his prize to a foreign country where he will hold it for ransom. But the Dynamic Duo have an easier time with his clues than he expected, resulting in a climactic confrontation at the airplane hanger.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Fred De Gorter

Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden

Writer: Sam Hall