A Feud is a Feud (TAGS Episode)
Episode Info
A Feud is a Feud
- S1.E9
- Filmed: 8
- Aired: 9
- Original Air Date: 1960/12/05
- Writer(s): David Adler
- Director: Don Weis
Plot Summary
Andy is caught in the middle of two feuding mountain families when one's son and the other's daughter show up at the Taylor house to be married. Andy brings the feud to an end by bluffing the heads of the families into settling the matter once and for all with a duel.
Plot
When Andy has shotguns pointed at him while attempting to let a son and daughter of two feuding families get married, he decides the best way to help the youngsters is to find out what caused the feud in the first place and end it.
After explaining to Opie and Aunt Bee the dangers inherent in getting caught between feuding families by telling his version of Romeo and Juliet, Andy sets off to end the long-running feud.
Despite his efforts, Andy is unable to discover the cause of the feud because the families don't know either. Furthermore, Andy discovers that despite decades of so-called feuding, no one from either family has ever been injured or shot.
Andy brings the feuding parties together, explaining how bad it makes them look to have a feud where no one has ever been killed. He then tries to egg on the two feuding fathers into a half-hearted duel, which sends both running for the hills.
When it becomes clear that their two youngsters have enough courage and are willing to stand up for each other, the feuding fathers realize the potential of their offspring, embrace the marriage, and end the feud.
Odd Facts Known by Few
- In the first scene of the episode, Aunt Bee's hair is down and not in a bun as we normally see her. This is because the Taylor household was awakened in the middle of the night for Andy (Mayberry's Justice of the Peace) to marry Josh and Hannah.
- Andy wears a nightshirt and nightcap to marry couples who come to the house in the middle of the night to be wed.
- The Taylor's home has a doorbell (not a very common convenience, especially in the rural south, circa 1960).
- Andy comments that he learned some French when he was there for "the war."
- Andy wears a gun in this episode.
- During the dueling scene, about 18:30 into the show, Andy takes the men's shotguns, unloads them, and returns each gun to the wrong man.
- Actor Chubby Johnson was a true jack-of-all trades. At different times of his life, he was a reporter, columnist, journalist, radio announcer and even a butcher.
- Actress Tammy Windsor has in the past been erroneously identified as Karyn Kupcinet and was believed for years to be the actress who played Hannah Carter. Tammy Windsor is not Karyn Kupcinet. This information was confirmed by the family of Karyn Kupcinet who wrote to say:
- Thanks for sharing your interest in Karyn. I can tell you that she was not Tammy Windsor. The researcher who came up with that notion, and even got IMDB and Wikipedia to go along with it, has since herself reversed her opinion.
- Information about the true identity of Tammy Windsor was found by WBMUTBB Chapter member, Janet Anderson. The reference information can be found here.
- Actor Arthur Hunnicut co-starred with Edgar Buchanan in a pilot for a CBS sitcom called "Lum and Abner" in 1962. It was about a pair of Ozark storekeepers. The series wasn't picked up by CBS.
- Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Wakefield do not appear in the episode.
- Don Knotts (Barney) does not appear in this episode, despite being credited.
- One of four episodes in which the Mayberry patrol car had the tag number DC-269 rather than the usual license plate JL-327. ( Opie's Charity, Ellie Comes to Town, Andy the Matchmaker, A Feud is a Feud)
Character List
- Andy Griffith - Andy Taylor
- Ronny Howard - Opie Taylor
- Frances Bavier - Aunt Bee Taylor
- Arthur Hunnicutt - Mr. Wakefield
- Sandra De Bear (as Tammy Windsor) - Hannah Carter
- Claude Johnson - Josh Wakefield
- Chubby Johnson - Mr. Carter
