The Andy Griffith Show: Season 3

1962 · 32 episodes · ★ 8.4

What Season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show

Season 3 of The Andy Griffith Show It has 32 episodes and aired October 1, 1962. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

32episodes

Oct 1, 1962aired

May 6, 1963latest episode

13.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Mr. McBeevee
Oct 1, 1962 · 25 min
Opie tells Andy about his new friend Mr. McBeevee, who Andy believes to be a figment of Opie's imagination. But when Andy begins to suspect Opie is using his new-found friend as an excuse to lie, he decides to set the record straight and prove Mr. McBeevee doesn't really exist. Or does he?
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock, R. Allen Saffian · Starring: Karl Swenson
3x02 Andy's Rich Girlfriend
Oct 8, 1962 · 25 min
Andy discovers Peggy comes from a wealthy family and starts to feel like he is unable to provide the kind of sophisticated company she is used to. He decides to stop seeing her and abruptly breaks it off, but without getting Peggy's Side of the story.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Betty Lynn, Joanna Moore, Warner Jones, Donald Lawton
3x03 Andy and the New Mayor
Oct 15, 1962 · 25 min
There is a new mayor in town who is immediately put off by Andy's laid back management style. When Andy lets a prisoner out of jail for a few days so he can harvest crops, he finds his job is suddenly on the line, especially when the prisoner doesn't return.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: Harvey Bullock, R. Allen Saffian · Starring: Parley Baer, Helen Kleeb, Roy Engel, Janet Stewart
3x04 Andy and Opie, Bachelors
Oct 22, 1962 · 25 min
Given Andy's habit of burning meals, Aunt Bee asks Peggy to look in on Andy and Opie while she's away visiting her aunt. When word gets around town, however, Andy is told Peggy's cooking may be her way of buttering him up to the idea of marriage.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Howard McNear, Joanna Moore, Ray Lanier
3x05 The Cow Thief
Oct 29, 1962 · 25 min
Two cows suddenly go missing in Mayberry and Mayor Stoner has decided to bring in a professional investigator to solve the crime. The investigator's conclusion goes along with what the rest of the town already suspects, but Andy has his own idea of what happened, an idea just crazy enough to be true.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock, R. Allen Saffian · Starring: Parley Baer, Jon Lormer, Malcolm Atterbury, Ralph Bell
3x06 Barney Mends a Broken Heart
Nov 5, 1962 · 25 min
When Andy and Peggy must break a date, Barney mistakenly sees this as the end of their relationship. He decides to play matchmaker to help Andy mend his broken heart, with disastrous results.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Starring: Joyce Jameson, Betty Lynn, Joanna Moore, Jean Carson
3x07 Lawman Barney
Nov 12, 1962 · 25 min
Barney loses his self-confidence when two unlawful bullies laugh off his attempt to run them out of town. Andy tells them Barney is actually a trigger-happy lawman out for vengeance, but the bullies quickly see through the ruse and Barney now must find the courage within himself to stand up to them.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Starring: Howard McNear, Allan Melvin, Robert McQuain, Norman Leavitt
3x08 The Mayberry Band
Nov 19, 1962 · 25 min
When Mayor Stoner decides not to cover the expense of sending the Mayberry Marching Band to their annual competition in Raleigh because he thinks they're terrible, Andy helps out by having a few of his friends from "Freddy Fleet And His Band With A Beat" step in.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Burt Mustin, Joseph Sirola
3x09 Floyd the Gay Deceiver
Nov 26, 1962 · 25 min
Floyd comes to Andy for help after telling his pen pal Ms. Grayson that he is wealthy and finding out she is coming for a visit. Andy helps Floyd keep up the appearance of wealth while she's in town and in the process learns just how deceiving appearances can be.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Starring: Howard McNear, Doris Dowling
3x10 Opie's Rival
Dec 3, 1962 · 25 min · ★ 5.7
When Andy starts seeing Peggy MacMillan, Opie feels like she's become more important to Andy than he is. He decides to sabotage Andy's dates and break them up and nearly succeeds, until Andy finds out.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Sid Morse · Starring: Joanna Moore
3x11 Convicts-at-Large
Dec 10, 1962 · 25 min
Barney and Floyd stumble upon a cabin in the woods where three dangerous female convicts are hiding out. They are taken prisoner and it's Andy to the rescue when he manages to capture two of them. But it's up to Barney to get the third using all the charm he can muster, along with his best Rudolph Valentino impression.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Howard McNear, Jane Dulo, Reta Shaw, Jean Carson
3x12 The Bed Jacket
Dec 17, 1962 · 25 min
With Aunt Bee's birthday fast approaching, she begins dropping hints about the pale blue bed jacket she's been eyeing in the store window. When Andy doesn't catch on and buys the jacket for Mayor Stoner's wife instead, she is crushed. Now the only way Andy can get the jacket back is to trade it for his most prized possession: Ol' Eagle-Eyed Annie, his beloved fishing rod.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock, R. Allen Saffian · Starring: Hope Summers, Parley Baer, Mary Lansing, Dabbs Greer
3x13 The Bank Job
Dec 24, 1962 · 25 min
Barney becomes convinced the Mayberry bank is ripe for a robbery and tries to prove his point by staging a fake one. When he discovers a weak spot in the security system, he unknowing relays this information to a couple of actual robbers.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Jim Nabors, Clint Howard, Charles Thompson, Warren Parker
3x14 One-Punch Opie
Dec 31, 1962 · 25 min
A new boy named Quincy moves into town and starts getting Opie and his friends into trouble. When Opie is dared to break a streetlight, he refuses and is teased mercilessly. Andy tries to help by telling the boy's parents, but Opie sees that it's up to him to stand up to Quincy once and for all.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Clint Howard, Scott McCartor, Stanley Farrar, Kim Tyler
3x15 Barney and the Governor
Jan 7, 1963 · 25 min
Barney believes his job is on the line when he accidentally gives the governor's car a parking ticket. When he learns the governor is coming to town to see him about it, his nervousness causes him to drink cup after cup of water from the water cooler, the very same cooler Otis has spiked with alcohol.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Bill Freedman, Henry Sharp · Starring: Parley Baer, Hal Smith, Carl Benton Reid, Burt Mustin
3x16 Man in a Hurry
Jan 14, 1963 · 25 min
Malcolm Tucker, a business tycoon from Charlotte, has the unfortunate luck of having his car break down in Mayberry on a Sunday. Now he's willing to do just about anything to be on his way, including stealing Gomer's truck. Andy invites the man over for Sunday dinner to try and teach him the importance of relaxation before he does something he'll really regret.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Jim Nabors, William Keene, Robert Emhardt, Norman Leavitt
3x17 High Noon in Mayberry
Jan 21, 1963 · 25 min
Andy gets a letter from a criminal he had wounded years before and learns the man is coming to Mayberry to see him. Barney becomes convinced the man wants revenge and enlists Gomer and Otis to secretly protect Andy, which ends up wreaking more havoc than any criminal ever could.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Jim Nabors, Hal Smith, Dub Taylor, Leo Gordon
3x18 The Loaded Goat
Jan 28, 1963 · 25 min
Cy Hudgins has a pet goat with a taste for dynamite and Andy and Barney are forced to put it in a padded cell until the danger "passes." But when Otis unknowingly lets their new prisoner out, it's up to Barney and his harmonica to safely lead the goat out of town.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Parley Baer, Hal Smith, Bing Russell, Forrest Lewis
3x19 Class Reunion
Feb 4, 1963 · 25 min
Andy and Barney reminisce about old flames and decide to throw a class reunion. When the big night finally comes, they both find they have a lot to learn about how much things have -- and have not -- changed.
Directing: Charles Irving · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Don Haggerty, Peggy McCay, Virginia Eiler, Frank Behrens
3x20 Rafe Hollister Sings
Feb 11, 1963 · 25 min
Rafe Hollister stops by the auditions for the Ladies League Musicale and shocks everyone with his beautiful voice. But Mayor Stoner and Mrs. Jeffries are aghast at his shabby appearance so Andy and Barney decide to give him a makeover, despite Rafe's objections.
Directing: Charles Irving · Writing: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Parley Baer, Olan Soule, Jack Prince, Kay Stewart
3x21 Opie and the Spoiled Kid
Feb 18, 1963 · 25 min
Opie's new friend Arnold is a spoiled brat used to getting his own way. He convinces Opie to try and get a raise in his allowance by throwing a temper tantrum, showing Andy that he must teach Arnold's father the importance of discipline before Opie picks up any more of Arnold's spoiled habits.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Harlan Warde, Ronnie Dapo, Mary Lansing
3x22 The Great Filling Station Robbery
Feb 25, 1963 · 25 min
Andy suggests to Gomer that he hire a troubled young man named Jimmy to help out at Wally's gas station. But everyone soon suspects Jimmy of being a thief after valuable items start disappearing from the station. Andy believes Jimmy is innocent but must prove it, even when all the evidence is against him.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Jim Nabors, Johnny Silver, Jack Shea, Pat Colby
3x23 Andy Discovers America
Mar 4, 1963 · 25 min
Opie complains to Andy about how his new history teacher Ms. Crump is a mean old woman who likes to assign extra homework. Andy tells Opie it's not important if he doesn't know every answer, which leaves Opie believing history isn't important. Now Andy has to show Opie, and his class, how much history matters before Ms. Crump decides to quit.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: John Whedon · Starring: Aneta Corsaut, Dennis Rush, Keith Thibodeaux, Joey Scott
3x24 Aunt Bee's Medicine Man
Mar 11, 1963 · 25 min
Aunt Bee becomes depressed about her age and falls for the charms of Colonel Harvey, a traveling medicine man selling a magic elixir to restore her youth. By the time Andy and Barney discover the secret behind the elixir, they find he has gotten the entire Ladies Aid Church Committee under his spell!
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: John Whedon · Starring: John Dehner, Mary Lansing, Mathew McCue
3x25 The Darlings Are Coming
Mar 18, 1963 · 25 min
A family of musicians who live in the mountains descend on Mayberry to await the arrival of their daughter Charlene's fiancee. When Andy tries to help by putting them up in the courthouse, he gets more than he bargained for when Charlene suddenly sets her sights on him.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Denver Pyle, Olan Soule, Hoke Howell, Maggie Peterson
3x26 Andy's English Valet
Mar 25, 1963 · 25 min
A tourist from England causes a traffic accident and finds himself unable to pay the damages, so Andy decides to let the man pay it off by being his valet. But it's not long before Andy finds his laid-back small-town lifestyle clashing with the man's strict, English ways.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Bernard Fox, Robert McQuain
3x27 Barney's First Car
Apr 1, 1963 · 25 min
Barney learns that the car he's spent his life savings on is a lemon, and the little old lady he bought it from may have put one over on him. When Barney and Andy set out to return the car and arrest her, however, they find the hardest part may be just getting there.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Jim Nabors, Betty Lynn, Allan Melvin, Ellen Corby
3x28 The Rivals
Apr 8, 1963 · 25 min
Opie develops a case of puppy love for a girl in his class, but is crushed to find she isn't interested. Barney tries to lift his spirits by letting Opie hang out with him and Thelma Lou awhile. It works great, until Opie forgets his crush and sets his sights on Thelma Lou.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Betty Lynn, Ronda Jeter
3x29 A Wife for Andy
Apr 15, 1963 · 25 min
Barney believes it's time for Andy to get married and sets Andy up with Opie's teacher, Ms. Crump. When Barney decides she's not right for him, he tries to set up a party for Andy to meet all the other eligible ladies of Mayberry. But Andy has other plans, and they all involve Ms. Crump.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Starring: Aneta Corsaut, Janet Waldo, Betty Lynn, Rachel Ames
3x30 Dogs, Dogs, Dogs
Apr 22, 1963 · 25 min
A pack of stray hunting dogs descends upon Mayberry at the same time that a state investigator has come to review Andy's request for more funds for the jail. Barney and Opie decide to bring the dogs to the courthouse to shelter them from a storm, not realizing that Mr. Somerset is already there.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Hal Smith, Roy Barcroft, Robert Cornthwaite
3x31 Mountain Wedding
Apr 29, 1963 · 25 min
The Darling clan is back and this time need Andy's help to wed their daughter Charlene to Dud Walsh before crazy old Ernest T. Bass makes good on his threats to kidnap her and take her for his own. Andy sets Barney up as a decoy bride while the real wedding takes place elsewhere. The plan works, until Ernest kidnaps Barney and decides he's just as good a bride as Charlene.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: James Fritzell, Everett Greenbaum · Starring: Howard Morris, Denver Pyle, Hoke Howell, Maggie Peterson
3x32 The Big House Season Finale
May 6, 1963 · 25 min
Andy is told to keep two big-time bandits in his jail until detectives from Tennessee come to get them. Knowing that the bandit's friends will try to break them out, Barney spots two suspicious men outside the jail and promptly arrests them. As it turns out, they are the detectives from Tennessee, giving the bandit's real friends the opportunity they've been waiting for.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Written by: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Jim Nabors, George Kennedy, Jack Lambert, Billy Halop