The Andy Griffith Show

Barney and his friends celebrate his 5th anniversary with the Sheriff's Department. However, Andy unfortunately puts a damper on things when he learns there are new requirements, one of which is a physical, that may keep Barney from staying on the job. As a result, Andy and Aunt Bee get to work to help him out.

Aunt Bee's younger sister and family comes for a visit. However, it doesn't take long for them to cause trouble when Uncle Ollie invites himself along to be an honorary deputy when Andy tries to do his job. After hearing on the radio that some escaped convicts might make their way through Mayberry, Andy realizes he found a way to get Uncle Ollie and Aunt Nora to cut their visit short, and as a result, asks Ollie for a little "help" in capturing the convicts.

Ernest T. Bass descends upon Mayberry with one thing in mind: get some learning, so he can impress his girl Ramona. However, when Andy suggests to Helen to let him sit in her fifth grade class, she is less than thrilled at the distraction he brings to the class. When after Helen disciplines him and Ernest T. decides to declare his love for her, Andy and Barney think of a way to get Ernest T. his diploma and back up to the mountains.

Aunt Bee's old beau, a practical joker, shows up in Mayberry and resumes his courtship.

Barney buys a bloodhound and tries to train it to track criminals.

When Barney and Thelma Lou get in a fight that threatens their relationship, Andy attempts to help them reconcile their differences. However as a result, things get somewhat terse between Andy and Helen when Barney misconstrues his comments after getting back together with Thelma Lou.

Otis slips and falls in jail and is convinced by a lawyer he should sue the county.

Barney becomes a part-time real estate agent, and needs Andy as a client.

When Andy is offered a job outside of Mayberry, he decides not to run for re-election and suggests to Barney he should run for the job of sheriff. However, after that job offer fails to materialize, he and Barney realize the bind he's in since Andy didn't fill out the paperwork for the upcoming election. As a result, Barney takes it upon himself to make sure everybody in town knows to write Andy in for the job of sheriff, forgetting that he'll be Andy's competition for the job.

A Hollywood writer wants Andy to star in a television series.

When a pretty family friend comes for a visit following her broken engagement, Helen gets jealous when it seems like Andy is going out of his way to make her feel welcome.

Barney starts a feud between Mr. Foley and Floyd and their family and friends when he comes across an old police report that involves the two men. As a result, both sides start punching one another in the nose when he tries to bring closure to the case.

Much to the dismay of Andy, Barney, and Aunt Bee, Opie and his friend Howie decide to turn their class newspaper into a town gossip sheet in an attempt to gain readers outside of their friends at school.

After sending Opie off on an overnight outing with a friend, Aunt Bee starts to feel like a third wheel in Andy's relationship with Helen, thanks in large part to a conversation with her friend Clara. As a result, when Andy and Helen invite her out to dinner, Bee surprises them by saying she has plans with a new beau – only she doesn't realize the man is actually married.

When Helen tells Andy that Opie received an unsatisfactory in arithmetic, he has a pretty relaxed attitude about that revelation. However, when Barney hears about it and gives his two cents about what should be done, Andy's tune changes and insists Opie spends all of his free time studying. As a result, things start to get worse, until Miss Crump intervenes and Barney gets put in his place.

Looking to get Andy a birthday present at a traveling carnival's shooting gallery, Opie gets cheated by the crooked pair running the booth. Later, when Opie turns to Goober for help in getting the present for Andy and ultimately causes Goober to get cheated as well. Later, a concerned Goober shares what happened to him at the carnival with Andy and Helen, fearing that he's not as good of a shot as he thought he was. As a result, a suspicious Andy thinks something fishy is going on and takes Helen to investigate.