Guitar Player, The (TAGS Episode)

Episode Info

The Guitar Player

• Filmed: 3
• Aired: 3
• Original Air Date: 1960/10/17
• Writer(s): Jack Elinson and Charles Stewart
• Director: Don Weis

Plot Summary

Andy helps local guitar player Jim Lindsey find a job with "Bobby Fleet and His Band with a Beat." When Fleet's band arrives for a lunch stop in Mayberry, Andy arrests them for a parking violation and forces them to listen to Lindsey while jailed in the courthouse.

Odd Facts Known by Few

• James Best, Jim Lindsey on this episode, is a painter. He creates many oil paintings and has his own website.

Much has been said about whether the buildings on the 40 acres backlot had interiors. In this episode Freddy Fleet's band is in a restaurant situated where the drugstore will be in the next episode. A plain view out the window shows that this set is really where it purports to be. What's funny, is that it was never used again.

Character List

• Andy Griffith - Andy Taylor
• Ronny Howard - Opie Taylor
• Don Knotts - Barney Fife
• Frances Bavier - Aunt Bee Taylor
• Jonathan Hole - Orville Monroe
• Connie Van - waitress
• Dub Taylor - Talbot, the postman
• Henry Slate - Bobby Fleet
• James Best - Jim Lindsey