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.

Andy's girlfriend becomes jealous when a friend of the family stays at the Taylor home.

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

Barney finds $250,000 in cash from a bank robbery and decides to capture the robber himself.

Barney runs for sheriff when it seems Andy has found another job.

Andy and Barney hope they will have some privacy with their girlfriends after Goober finds a girl of his own.

Barney believes he is hexed when several accidents occur after he fails to continue a "lucky" chain letter.

Otis rides into town on a cow under the impression that it's a horse.

Left in charge for just a few days, Goober dismantles a car in Andy's office.

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

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

Barney demonstrates fortune telling to Opie, whose wishes appear to come true.

Barney's questions go unanswered when Andy and Helen take a day off.

Opie is the unwilling principal in a betrothal to Charlene Darling's new baby.

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.