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Opie competes with Billy Crenshaw for a job as a box boy at Foley's Market, and
 
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after a weeklong trial, wins the position. Opie learns Billy wanted the job to
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help pay family medical bills, so he cleverly gets himself fired by telling
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Foley he'd rather be playing baseball. When Andy finds out secondhand that Opie
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didn't want to work he scolds him and then, hearing his explanation, realizes
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his son has become a man.
  
 
== Odd Facts Known by Few ==
 
== Odd Facts Known by Few ==

Revision as of 22:23, 13 April 2006

Episode Info

Opie's Job

  • Filmed: 161
  • Aired: 160
  • Original Air Date: 1965/09/13
  • Writer(s): Ben Joelson and Art Baer
  • Director: Larry Dobkin

Plot Summary

Opie competes with Billy Crenshaw for a job as a box boy at Foley's Market, and after a weeklong trial, wins the position. Opie learns Billy wanted the job to help pay family medical bills, so he cleverly gets himself fired by telling Foley he'd rather be playing baseball. When Andy finds out secondhand that Opie didn't want to work he scolds him and then, hearing his explanation, realizes his son has become a man.

Odd Facts Known by Few

  • None at this time.

Character List

  • Andy Griffith - Andy Taylor