10.0/101 votes#1 - The Pickle Story
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1961
Andy and Barney are horrified when Aunt Bee decides to enter her prized pickles -- with a taste described as "kerosene cucumbers" -- in a county fair contest, hoping to claim first prize over the competition's perennial winner.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
10.0/101 votes#2 - Opie the Birdman
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1963
Opie decides to raise a nest of baby birds after accidentally killing their mother with his new slingshot and ends up learning one of the hardest lessons of motherhood in the process.
Director: Richard Crenna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
10.0/101 votes#3 - Back to Nature
Season 4 Episode 31 - Aired 5/11/1964
While on a camping trip with Opie and his friends, Barney brags to Gomer about his outdoor skills and promptly gets them lost in the woods. When Andy finally does find them, he and Gomer hatch a plan to save Barney the embarrassment and prove to everyone what a mountain man he really is.
Director: N/A
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#4 - Opie's Hobo Friend
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/13/1961
Andy is wary when Opie becomes fascinated by a wily hobo (Buddy Ebsen) who begins to influence the boy with his carefree, conniving ways.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#5 - Jailbreak
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1962
Barney must attempt to salvage his reputation after he inadvertently allows a criminal to escape from the Mayberry jail and the state police are called in to assist in the manhunt.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/102 votes#6 - Andy and Barney in the Big City
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1962
While on a trip to Raleigh, Andy and Barney find themselves swept into an adventure involving a jewel thief being watched by a hotel detective.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#7 - Mr. McBeevee
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1962
Opie tells Andy about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, who Andy believes to be a figment of Opie's imagination. But when Andy begins to suspect Opie is using his new-found friend as an excuse to lie, he decides to set the record straight and prove Mr. McBeevee doesn't really exist. Or does he?
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#8 - The Loaded Goat
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1963
Cy Hudgins has a pet goat with a taste for dynamite and Andy and Barney are forced to put it in a padded cell until the danger "passes." But when Otis unknowingly lets their new prisoner out, it's up to Barney and his harmonica to safely lead the goat out of town.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#9 - The Great Filling Station Robbery
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/25/1963
Andy suggests to Gomer that he hire a troubled young man named Jimmy to help out at Wally's gas station. But everyone soon suspects Jimmy of being a thief after valuable items start disappearing from the station. Andy believes Jimmy is innocent but must prove it, even when all the evidence is against him.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#10 - The Haunted House
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1963
Barney is sent into a reputed "haunted" house to retrieve Opie's baseball and sees things that make even the skeptical Andy wonder if there really are ghosts, until Andy discovers who's really doing the haunting.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#11 - Barney and the Cave Rescue
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/6/1964
The day of the town picnic, Barney watches as Andy and Helen go wandering into a cave just before the entrance collapses. He quickly rallies the town to their rescue, not realizing Andy and Helen have already found a way out.
Director: Richard Crenna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#12 - Andy and Opie's Pal
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1964
After becoming jealous of the attention Andy give to the new boy in town, Opie comes to Andy wrapped in bandages and tells him he and the new boy got into a vicious fight. One peek under Opie's bandages, however, tells Andy the fight may not have been as bloody, or as real, as Opie says.
Director: Richard Crenna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#13 - Hot Rod Otis
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1964
Andy and Barney are horrified to learn that Otis, the town drunk, has just bought a new car. After he passes out one night after a party, Andy and Barney put him in his usual jail cell and pretend that he is dead to teach him a lesson. Little do they know Otis may have already learned it.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Harvey Bullock
9.0/101 votes#14 - Killer Klink
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/1967
The bumbling Sergent Schultz has unwittingly been conned into making a trip to Heidelberg as courier for the underground, but after upsetting Colonel Klink, the sergeant is ordered to remain grounded at the camp. How will Hogan and the gang win him a new weekend pass?
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#15 - Wedding Bells for Aunt Bee
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/2/1962
Aunt Bee invents an imaginary beau so that Andy can be free to concentrate on finding a wife for himself. But when it comes time to produce her boyfriend in person, Bee must scramble to find an actual contender.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#16 - Andy and the New Mayor
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1962
There is a new mayor in town who is immediately put off by Andy's laid back management style. When Andy lets a prisoner out of jail for a few days so he can harvest crops, he finds his job is suddenly on the line, especially when the prisoner doesn't return.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#17 - The Cow Thief
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1962
Two cows suddenly go missing in Mayberry and Mayor Stoner has decided to bring in a professional investigator to solve the crime. The investigator's conclusion goes along with what the rest of the town already suspects, but Andy has his own idea of what happened, an idea just crazy enough to be true.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#18 - One-Punch Opie
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1962
A new boy named Quincy moves into town and starts getting Opie and his friends into trouble. When Opie is dared to break a streetlight, he refuses and is teased mercilessly. Andy tries to help by telling the boy's parents, but Opie sees that it's up to him to stand up to Quincy once and for all.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#19 - The Rivals
Season 3 Episode 28 - Aired 4/8/1963
Opie develops a case of puppy love for a girl in his class, but is crushed to find she isn't interested. Barney tries to lift his spirits by letting Opie hang out with him and Thelma Lou awhile. It works great, until Opie forgets his crush and sets his sights on Thelma Lou.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#20 - The Big House
Season 3 Episode 32 - Aired 5/6/1963
Andy is told to keep two big-time bandits in his jail until detectives from Tennessee come to get them. Knowing that the bandit's friends will try to break them out, Barney spots two suspicious men outside the jail and promptly arrests them. As it turns out, they are the detectives from Tennessee, giving the bandit's real friends the opportunity they've been waiting for.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#21 - 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#22 - Opie's Newspaper
Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1965
Opie and his friend decide to spice up the newspaper they've started with a gossip column, which works great until Andy and Aunt Bee realize it's mostly about them.
Director: Coby Ruskin
Writer: Harvey Bullock
8.0/101 votes#23 - The General Swap
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/6/1967
Colonel Hogan is less the thrilled when he is assigned to help an obnoxious American general flee Stalag 13 --- and the secret escape plan, involving a prisoner swap, winds up as trying and difficult as the arrogant escapee himself.
Director: Gene Reynolds
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.0/101 votes#24 - The Bookie Barber
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/16/1962
Floyd's dreams of expanding his haircutting business seem to be coming true when semi-retired barber Bill Medwin offer to come on board. But what Floyd doesn't realize is that his new barber is actually a bookie.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.0/101 votes#25 - The Bed Jacket
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/17/1962
With Aunt Bee's birthday fast approaching, she begins dropping hints about the pale blue bed jacket she's been eyeing in the store window. When Andy doesn't catch on and buys the jacket for Mayor Stoner's wife instead, she is crushed. Now the only way Andy can get the jacket back is to trade it for his most prized possession: Ol' Eagle-Eyed Annie, his beloved fishing rod.
Director: Bob Sweeney
Writer: Harvey Bullock
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"The Pickle Story" is the best rated episode written by Harvey Bullock. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Bob Sweeney. It aired on 12/18/1961 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Opie the Birdman".