Skip to content
Home » The Andy Griffith Show » Page 4

The Andy Griffith Show

A Date for Gomer — happy ending. Note the handkerchief that Barney is holding for the bloody nose that Thelma Lou gave him

A Date for Gomer

  • by

A Date for Gomer, an episode from The Andy Griffith Show season 4, originally aired November 25, 1963

In A Date for Gomer, Barney Fife (Don Knotts) and Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) are frustrated in their dating lives. Every time they try to be alone with their respective girlfriends, Gomer (Jim Nabors) show up uninvited and, being Gomer, doesn’t catch the obvious hints that the couples would like to be alone.

Read More »A Date for Gomer
Ellie for Council - The Andy Griffith Show

Ellie for Council

  • by

Synopsis of Ellie for Council – The Andy Griffith Show season 1

Ellie and Andy on a park bench in The Andy Griffith Show episode, Ellie for Council

Buy from Amazon When Ellie wonders why there are no women running for the city council and doesn’t like Andy’s answers, especially his use of the word silly, she decides to run herself. The town quickly divides into two camps, with the men cutting off their wives’ charge accounts and the women refusing to cook and clean for their husbands. Ellie decides to quit the race when she sees the uproar she has caused but Andy, realizing he was wrong, tells everyone there is no good reason for her not to run. Original airdate: December 12, 1960

Read More »Ellie for Council