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The Best Episodes Directed By Jeffrey Hayden

Every TV Episode Directed by Jeffrey Hayden Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain

    S4:E8

    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.

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  2. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Bargain Day

    S4:E24

    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.

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  3. 8.3/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Diamonds Aren't a Girl's Best Friend

    S2:E13

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

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  4. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - A Black Day for Mayberry

    S4:E7

    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.

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  5. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Up in Barney's Room

    S4:E10

    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.

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  6. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Andy's Vacation

    S4:E22

    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.

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  7. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Andy Saves Gomer

    S4:E23

    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.

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  8. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Divorce, Mountain Style

    S4:E25

    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.

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  9. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - A Deal Is a Deal

    S4:E26

    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.

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  10. 7.7/10(3 votes)

    #10 - K.I.T.T. the Cat

    S2:E6

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

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  11. 7.5/10(4 votes)

    #11 - Hearts of Stone

    S1:E13

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

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  12. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Escape from Los Santos

    S2:E10

    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  13. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Like a Brother

    S2:E13

    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.

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  14. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Kindred Spirits

    S2:E19

    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.

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  15. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Buy Out

    S3:E14

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

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  16. 6.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Blind Rage

    S3:E2

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

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    Writer:N/A
  17. 6.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Puzzles Are Coming

    S2:E31

    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.

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  18. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Mr. White Death

    S3:E9

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

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  19. 5.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - The Duo Is Slumming

    S2:E32

    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.

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  20. 5.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Run Like a Thief

    S6:E26

    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.

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    Writer:Sam Hall

Jeffrey Hayden Ratings Summary

"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".