Bookie Barber, The (TAGS Episode)

Episode Info

The Bookie Barber

• Filmed: 60
• Aired: 60
• Original Air Date: 1962/04/16
• Writer(s): Ray Saffian Allen and Harvey Bullock
• Director: Bob Sweeney

Plot Summary

Floyd gets his chance at being a proprietor of a two-chair shop when semi-retired barber Bill Medwin arrives with a proposition of expansion. Floyd jumps at the chance since Medwin promises to supply the chair and the customers. As it turns out, the barber is a bookie, and Barney jumps in to bust the criminal.

Odd Facts Known by Few

• Tom Jacobs is seen twice - waiting in the barbershop and reading a tabloid newspaper on the bench outside the courthouse. Inconsistency: He is seen on the bench when Andy & Barney get out of the car, but the next shot in front of the courthouse he is gone.
• Barney's sideburns are uneven because one of his earlobes hangs lower than the other. He tells Andy that he and Floyd should team up and be Frick and Frack.
• Bill Medwin charges 80 cents for a shampoo and a dollar fifty for a facial.
• Barney talks about "Compelsion nuts".
• Opie and Joey think Barney looks like Mrs. Cox from the second grade.
• The bookmakers Lincoln Continental license plate is RD-757.
• Actor Herb Vigran appeared on several episdoe of "The Adventures Of Superman" as varoius veillian.

Inconsistency

• Barney's dress is different when he comes out of the Courthouse to when he is walking down the sidewalk to Floyd's.

Character List

• Andy Griffith - Andy Taylor
• Don Knotts - Barney Fife
• Ronny Howard - Opie Taylor
• Frances Bavier - Aunt Bee Taylor
• Howard McNear - Floyd Lawson
• Herb Vigran - Bill Medwin
• Taggart Casey - bookie with striped tie
• Harry Swoger - barbershop customer
• Tom Monroe - barbershop customer
• Joe Stannard - undetermined