9.0/101 votes#1 - Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1963
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
9.0/101 votes#2 - Bargain Day
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/23/1964
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
9.0/102 votes#3 - Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/15/1984
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
8.0/101 votes#4 - A Black Day for Mayberry
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1963
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
8.0/101 votes#5 - Up in Barney's Room
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963
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
8.0/101 votes#6 - Andy's Vacation
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/9/1964
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
8.0/101 votes#7 - Andy Saves Gomer
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/16/1964
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
8.0/101 votes#8 - Divorce, Mountain Style
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/30/1964
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
8.0/101 votes#9 - A Deal Is a Deal
Season 4 Episode 26 - Aired 4/6/1964
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
8.0/102 votes#10 - K.I.T.T. the Cat
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1983
Michael tries to catch a Robin Hood-style cat burglar before an obsessed cop does.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Janis Hendler
7.7/103 votes#11 - Hearts of Stone
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/14/1983
Michael infiltrates a ring of gunrunners selling advanced-design rifles in Central America, "Corazon de Piedras".
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: Robert Foster
7.0/101 votes#12 - Escape from Los Santos
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1978
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
7.0/101 votes#13 - Like a Brother
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1979
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
7.0/101 votes#14 - Kindred Spirits
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/6/1979
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
7.0/102 votes#15 - Buy Out
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1985
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
6.5/102 votes#16 - Blind Rage
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1979
An accident at a chemical warfare research station causes blindness for both David and a friend.
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Writer: N/A
6.0/102 votes#17 - The Puzzles Are Coming
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 12/21/1966
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
5.5/102 votes#18 - Run Like a Thief
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 9/5/1954
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
5.5/102 votes#19 - The Duo Is Slumming
Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 12/22/1966
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
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"Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain" is the best rated episode directed by Jeffrey Hayden. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by John Whedon. It aired on 11/18/1963 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Bargain Day".