In his book "The Boys", Ron Howard wrote of an anecdote about his 5-year-old self being told by the director (in this case, Sheldon Leonard) to cup his hands around a toy turtle he was carrying as he ran to his sheriff father's office so the camera wouldn't pick up on how fake it looked. Yes, this was a backdoor pilot of "The Andy Griffith Show" in which Griffith played Andy Taylor and Ronny, as he was known at the time, was his son Opie. Frances Bavier was also in this one though not as Aunt Bee but as a woman named Henrietta Perkins who complains to Andy about having to continually pay a fine for a suit someone she loved was buried in! Oh, the actual plot of this ep is Danny Williams is arrested for passing a stop sign and so he agrees to pay the fine after some haggling with the sheriff but then Andy keeps upping the price! There's also the town drunk, played here by Frank Cady who'd later become Sam Drucker in "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres", and another character involved in Bavier's storyline. I'll just say this was a funny pilot for that most classic of sitcoms "The Andy Griffith Show". Oh, and Ron's father Rance also appears near the end saying a couple of lines.