Ellie Walker sets the men and women of Mayberry against each other when she runs for town council.

A Hollywood producer descends on Mayberry, and the town proceeds to make itself over.

A stranger disrupts the lives of the citizens of Mayberry because he knows everyone's name and business.

Andy and Barney give a Christmas party in the jail for a prisoner and his family.

Andy stops a feud between two mountain families, thus permitting the marriage of their children.

Andy attempts to get Opie to increase his gift to a local charity.

Andy encourages the romance between Barney and Miss Rosemary, a dressmaker.

Andy tries to convince Opie's friend, a runaway boy, to return home.

After a series of misunderstandings, Andy finally takes Ellie to the church picnic.

A young pharmacist moves to Mayberry to help her uncle in the local drugstore.

With a dance band in an adjacent cell, a hometown guitar player auditions from jail.

Andy displays his efficiency to the state police in capturing an escaped convict.

The Taylor's housekeeper leaves and is replaced with Aunt Bee.

A carnival's destitute banjo player is hired to take Barney's place.

Opie tries to win a birthday present for his father at a carnival.

Barney helps Opie with his schoolwork by using a teaching method of his own.

Andy tries to help out a traveling salesman who seems plagued by bad luck.

When two young women get a speeding ticket, they enjoy the attention from Andy and Barney.

Aunt Bee pretends that a married man is her boyfriend to avoid being a "third wheel."

Opie becomes a newspaper publisher and proceeds to put out a scandal sheet.

Barney divides Mayberry into two hostile camps when he looks into an old assault case.

Considered to be one of television's classics, "The Dick Van Dyke Show" centers on the personal and professional lives Rob Petrie, a writer on the fictional Alan Brady Show. He's happily married to former dancer Laura, and they have a young son, Ritchie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work -- where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley -- or at home.

A nightclub entertainer has his hands full trying to balance career and family.

The McCoys move from West Virginia to Northern California.