Banjo-Playing Deputy
- Episode aired May 3, 1965
- 30m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
351
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A destitute banjo player fills in for Barney.A destitute banjo player fills in for Barney.A destitute banjo player fills in for Barney.
Ron Howard
- Opie Taylor
- (as Ronny Howard)
Don Knotts
- Barney Fife
- (credit only)
Walter Bacon
- Carnival Patron
- (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
- Carnival Patron
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Bob Ross
- Sheldon Leonard(uncredited)
- Aaron Ruben(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaLast episode shown in black and white.
- GoofsThe character played by Hope Summers is listed in the credits as 'Miss Bedloe.' However, when she goes into the courthouse to complain to Andy about the dancing at the carnival, he greets her as 'Ms Edwards.' Her character's name in some previous and later episodes was Clara Edwards.
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The beginning of the end...and a darn painful episode.
Ugghh!!! Rarely can you look back at a TV series and pinpoint the point at which a great show fell off the abyss, so to speak. This episode marks a point after which "The Andy Griffith Show" that many of us loved died. While the show DID continue for a few more seasons (with, oddly, decent ratings) and eventually morphed into the insipid "Mayberry RFD", it never again had the wonderful chemistry it used to have because 5.32 marks the first episode after Don Knotts left the show as a regular. Sure, he'd return for a few 'guest appearances' (where the chemistry was not quite right), but the show now was about to undergo a series of painful new characters playing the deputy--until ultimately the writers and producers decided not to even bother filling this role! The show was dead...and the post-mortum wouldn't come for half a decade later.
This episode stars the ever-annoying Jerry Van Dyke--Dick's brother. Jerry was to comedy what Edgar Allen Poe was to comedy...in other words, absolutely nothing. His awkward guy routine wore very thin here and about three minutes into the show I wanted Andy to give up his policy of not carrying a gun...and shoot Jerry to put us out of our misery. And, sadly, even though he did not (thankfully) linger, it only got worse with the god-awful Jack Burns coming on to the show next season as the world's most obnoxious deputy.
A very poor episode from start to finish. It's painful and annoying--and like a migraine. Avoid it at all costs.
This episode stars the ever-annoying Jerry Van Dyke--Dick's brother. Jerry was to comedy what Edgar Allen Poe was to comedy...in other words, absolutely nothing. His awkward guy routine wore very thin here and about three minutes into the show I wanted Andy to give up his policy of not carrying a gun...and shoot Jerry to put us out of our misery. And, sadly, even though he did not (thankfully) linger, it only got worse with the god-awful Jack Burns coming on to the show next season as the world's most obnoxious deputy.
A very poor episode from start to finish. It's painful and annoying--and like a migraine. Avoid it at all costs.
- planktonrules
- Oct 23, 2010
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Details
- Runtime30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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