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Andy Griffith Gomer Episode Guide
Season 4:(17 Apperances by Gomer)

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97. The Haunted House

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Oct. 07, 1963 on CBS
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Ronnie Dapo (Boy with Baseball), Nestor Paiva (Big Jack Anderson), James Seay (Agent Boughton)
Global rating: 10.0

Opie knocks Arnold's baseball into the old Rimshaw House and the boys are scared off by what they think are ghosts. Andy sends Barney out to fetch the ball. Barney forces Gomer to come with him, and they are both scared away by what they, too, believe are ghosts. Andy takes the two of them to the house and after they see and hear peculiar things, Andy discovers the true spook is a moonshiner who has rigged up the house to keep people away.

99. The Sermon for Today

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Oct. 21, 1963 on CBS
Writer: John Whedon
Director: Richard Crenna
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Hope Summers (Clara Johnson), Forrest Lewis (Luther), William Keene (Rev. Hobart M. Tucker, D.D), Roy Engel (Trumpeter), Joe Hamilton (Clarinetist) , David Lewis (Dr. Harrison Everett Breen)
Global rating: 7.3

Dr. Harrison Everett Breen, a visiting minister from New York City, delivers a sermon at All Soul's Church, encouraging the members of the Mayberry congregation to "slow down." Some of the people in the Congregation take him a little too serious, Gomer Pyle actually falls asleep at one point and starts snoring. After eating a hearty meal at Andy's they take the message so seriously they spend the entire Sunday working themselves to exhaustion, trying to put together a concert for the entire town. Aunt Bee, & Clara set off to repair the Bands Uniform. Barney & Gomer attempt to rebuild the bandstand with disastrous results, it falls apart after Gomer thinks he got bit by a spider. They run themselves ragged all day and end up all exhausted, then they run into the Minister again, & he thinks that they took his sermon to heart.

101. Gomer the House Guest

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Nov. 04, 1963 on CBS
Writer: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Forrest Lewis (Willie Jack), Roy Engel (Luther), Joe Hamilton (Jase) , Trevor Bardette (Wally), Lee Krieger (Merle Dean)
Global rating: 8.9

Wally fires Gomer for talking too much and working too little, and since Gomer lives in the back of the filling station, the firing is also an eviction. Andy offers to take Gomer in, which is when the trouble starts. Gomer, on his own schedule, stays up late, does unnecessary chores, and makes noises all through the night. Before long, the Taylor house itself turns into another filling station, as Gomer's customers line up for repairs in Andy's driveway. Andy is able to prove to Wally that Gomer is the reason many of his customers come in, so Wally hires him back and Andy's life returns to normal.

102. A Black Day for Mayberry

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Nov. 11, 1963 on CBS
Writer: John Whedon
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Rance Howard (Treasury Agent), Clint Howard (Leon), Joe Hamilton (Spectator), Roy Engel (Spectator), Ronda Jeter (Crowd member) , Ken Lynch (FBI agent), Charles P. Thompson (Asa), Doodles Weaver (Regis), Phil Arnold (Hot dog vendor), Alex Barringer (Young boy on street), Leslie Barringer (Young boy on street)
Global rating: 7.6

A top-secret gold shipment from the Denver Mint to Fort Knox is scheduled to make a stop in Mayberry, and only Andy and Barney know about it. It turns out Barney can't keep a secret and everybody in town soon knows about the gold. The top-secret shipment is greeted with a carnival-like reception and Barney almost blows another secret when he discovers the gold is gone. What Barney did not know was that at the last minute, the real shipment was diverted and the truck was a decoy.

104. A Date for Gomer

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Nov. 25, 1963 on CBS
Writer: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Director: Richard Crenna
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump), Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) , Mary Grace Canfield (Mary Grace Gossage)
Global rating: 9.1

The big Chamber of Commerce dance is approaching, and Thelma Lou refuses to go with Barney unless he gets a date for her cousin Mary Grace Gossage, who is visiting from out of town. Both Andy and Barney are about to give up when Gomer appears. Just when all seems right, Gomer jumps up and leaves Mary Grace. After the entire evening is ruined, the four return to Thelma Lou's to find Mary Grace and Gomer dancing and having the time of their lives. Turns out the reason Gomer had left, was to find her a corsage. When Andy, Helen, Barney, and Thelma Lou come back, they see Gomer and Mary Grace dancing wildly in the living room.

106. Citizen's Arrest

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Dec. 16, 1963 on CBS
Writer: Everett Greenbaum, Jim Fritzell
Director: Richard Crenna
Guest star: Joe Hamilton (Crowd Member), Roy Engel (Crowd Member)
Global rating: 10.0

Barney gives Gomer a ticket for making an illegal U-Turn, but when Barney does it, Gomer yells "CITIZINS ARREST!" Gomer said Barney did something illegal himself. Andy agrees, and says that he'd be happy to pay the money for Barney's own ticket. Barney locks himself in jail, and decides to quit. Once Gomer finds out how serious the matter has become, he reports a fictitious robbery at the filling station in hopes of pressing Barney back into service. A Classic Epsiode in every sense.

108. Barney and the Cave Rescue

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Jan. 06, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Director: Richard Crenna
Guest star: Joe Hamilton (Choney), Roy Engel (Judd), Warren Parker (Mr. Meldrim), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)
Global rating: 9.5

Barney is made fun of by the town after he mistakes the owner of the Mayberry bank as a robber. Andy decides to cheer him up by taking him, Helen, and Thelma Lou on a picnic. Andy and Helen go into Lost Lovers Cave and get trapped when the entryway collapses behind them. Barney discovers what has happened and organizes a rescue party. Andy and Helen manage to find a safe exit through a hidden opening on the far end of the cave and catch a ride back to Helen's home. While there, the couple hears a special report on the radio about the accident. Andy and Helen dress back into their dirty clothes and go back to the cave. They climb back in so Barney can rescue them. Barney, having a hard day when accidentally believing Mr. Meldrim was breaking into his own bank, needed morale saving (he was already being laughed at and ridiculed); therefore Helen and Andy waited for Barney to save them in the cave. Barney was then a hero.

115. The Song Festers

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Feb. 24, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Director: Earl Bellamy
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Olan Soule (John Masters) , Reta Shaw (Eleanora Poultice), Barbara Griffith (Sharon), Delos Jewkes (Glenn Cripe)
Global rating: 8.6

Barney is the only tenor in the Town choir. When a tenor solo part is required and the choir director is desperate to find someone else to sing the part. Gomer becomes the replacement.

117. Andy's Vacation

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Mar. 9, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Guest star: Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle) , Allan Melvin (Convict), Dabbs Greer (Naylor), Molly Dodd (Maudie), James Seay (Sergeant)
Global rating: 8.3

Andy is at his wit's end with not only being the Sheriff, but he has even had enough of good ol Barn, so he takes a vacation. Leaving Barney and Gomer in charge, he soon realizes that he'll never get any rest at home, reading his National Geographic, so he finally listens to Aunt Bee & goes camping for a week in the woods. Trouble finds him when a prisoner held temporarily in the Mayberry jail sneaks away from Barney and Gomer and ends up finding Andy's campfire. Andy recognizes the prison garb and nabs him. He even has to capture him a second time after Barney and Gomer let him go again.

118. Andy Saves Gomer

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Mar. 16, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Howard McNear (Floyd Lawson)
Global rating: 8.5

Andy finds Gomer napping in the garage and snuffs out a small fire in a can full of oily rags. Gomer blows the whole incident out of proportion, and Andy must then deal with Gomer's indebtedness. Gomer offers himself to Andy as a slave for life. Desperate to get rid of Gomer, Andy tries to find a way to even the score by staging his own life-threatening mishap. Gomer screws it up and Andy must save his life again, but this time he is able to manufacture a story to get Gomer off his back.

119. Bargain Day

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Mar. 23, 1964 on CBS
Writer: John Whedon
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Guest star: Hope Summers (Clara Johnson), Frank Ferguson (Charlie Foley), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)
Global rating: 8.0

Aunt Bee's bargain shopping gets out of control. Diamond Jim's, a new butcher shop, opens and Aunt Bee heads there hunting for a bargain. She walks out with a side of beef to put in her "bargain" freezer that she discovers doesn't work. Now stuck with a freezer full of 150lbs of thawing beef, she must return to Mr. Foley for help, but even though Foley offers to store the meat, Andy won't allow it. Andy buys a brand-new freezer for Aunt Bee instead.

121. A Deal Is a Deal

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Apr. 6, 1964 on CBS
Writer: John Whedon
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Keith Thibodeaux (Johnny Paul Jason), Dennis Rush (Howie Pruitt) , George Petrie (Lenny), Lewis Charles (Salve dealer), David Alan Bailey (Tray Bowden)
Global rating: 7.5

Opie and his pals get suckered into selling useless salve. When one of the boys, Trey, quits and sends his salve back, he gets a letter from the Miracle Salve Company advising that he has been blacklisted. Barney and Gomer head to Mount Pilot to "fight fire with fire." Disguised as Dr. Pendyke, Barney fools the two Miracle Salve cons into buying all their salve back by convincing them it is a miracle cure for the mange. The plan backfires when a truckload of the salve arrives at the Taylors' front door addressed to Opie Taylor Sr., the name Gomer used as an alias.

122. Fun Girls

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Apr. 13, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Aaron Ruben
Director: Coby Ruskin
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump), Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou), George Lindsey (Goober Pyle) , Jean Carson (Daphne), Joyce Jameson (Skippy), Dick Winslow (Earl the bandleader)
Global rating: 7.4

Andy and Barney are forced to work late doing inventory and end up saddled with "The Fun Girls" from Mount Pilot--Skippy and Daphne. They end up in hot water when they are caught by Helen and Thelma Lou, who drop by for an unannounced visit. Now with no dates for the big dance, Barney decides they will take Skippy and Daphne, who dump our heroes for Gomer and cousin Goober.

124. The Rumor

Aired Monday 9:30 PM Apr. 27, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Jim Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum
Director: Coby Ruskin
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Aneta Corsaut (Helen Crump), Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou), Howard McNear (Floyd Lawson), Rance Howard (Party guest), Mary Lansing (Party guest), Ronda Jeter (Ethel) , Molly Dodd (Lillian), William Newell (Fred Sterling)
Global rating: 6.7

Barney starts a rumor that Andy and Helen are about to be married when he spots Andy sneaking a kiss in the jewelry store where Helen is shopping for a gift for her niece. Barney proceeds to alert the entire town, and Aunt Bee decides to redecorate Andy's room--to make it more appropriate for a bride. When Andy and Helen are brought by the house for the surprise, they surprise everyone with the truth. Barney is the goat again, but Andy calms the crowd by telling them he'll pay them all back and give Bee the room she has always wanted.

125. Barney and Thelma Lou, Phfftt

Aired Monday 9:30 PM May 4, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Bill Idelson, Sam Bobrick
Director: Coby Ruskin
Guest star: Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Betty Lynn (Thelma Lou)
Global rating: 9.7

Gomer drops the bomb on Barney and Thelma Lou's romance when, giving her a ride to Mount Pilot, he slips and repeats something Barney said about having Thelma Lou in his hip pocket. Thelma Lou turns the tables and starts flirting with Gomer to make Barney jealous. Barney becomes fighting mad, but matters get worse when Thelma Lou slips and kisses Gomer on the cheek, which to Gomer means she now has to marry him. Andy finally steps in and clears up the whole mess by getting Barney to apologize.

126. Back to Nature

Aired Monday 9:30 PM May 11, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Harvey Bullock
Director: Coby Ruskin
Guest star: Hope Summers (Bertha Johnson/Clara Edwards), Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle), Howard McNear (Floyd Lawson), Keith Thibodeaux (Johnny Paul Jason), Dennis Rush (Howie Pruitt) , Willis Bouchey (Fletcher Roberts), David Alan Bailey (Tray Bowden)
Global rating: 9.4

Andy, Barney, and Gomer take a group of boys camping in the mountains to show them some them the pioneer life. Opie leaves early in the morning to pick some berries, but doesn't tell anyone so when the group awakes they assume Opie is lost. Barney and Gomer set out to look for him. Barney, who had told the boys he's a regular pioneer when it comes to the wilderness, manages to get them lost in the woods. Later in the evening, Opie, Howie, and Trey are laughing at Barney because he got lost. Andy finds Barney and Gomer and tricks Barney into following a "Red Crested Web Footed Lake Loon" back to the camp, where he tells the tale of how Barney managed to ensnare, clean, and cook a wild pheasant, much to the delight of the boys.

127. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Aired Monday 9:30 PM May 18, 1964 on CBS
Writer: Aaron Ruben  Director: Aaron Ruben
Guest star: Frank Sutton (Sgt. Vincent Carter), Frank Albertson (Col. Watson), Eddie Ryder (Practical joker), Karl Lukas (Sergeant at table), Alan Reed Jr (Recruit), Charles Myers (Carter's corporal)
Global rating: 10.0

Gomer comes to the courthouse one day and announces that he has decided to join the Marines. He believes this is a test to see if he has what it takes to be a man. Andy tags along with Gomer for his first day at boot camp, and, realizing how important it is for Gomer to succeed, and plants the idea in the head of Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Vince Carter that Gomer is the son of Marine General Lucius Pyle. Carter, thinking he's being tested, takes Gomer under his wing and is stuck with him from that point on. He trains him personally until Gomer passes all his inspections. Sgt. Carter then realizes that Gomer isn't related to Lucius Pyle after all.


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